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DIONYSIUS Halicarnassensis (fl. 30-8 B.C.). Antiquitates romanae. Translated from Greek into Latin by Lapus Biragus. Treviso: Bernardinus Celerius, 24 or 25 February 1480.
Chancery 2° (300 x 210mm). Collation: [110 2-78 8-96 10-378 386] (1/1 blank, 1/2r dedication, 1/4r text, 38/6r translator's postscript and colophon, 38/6v blank). 300 leaves. 37 lines, shoulder notes. Type: 1:113R. 6- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (1/1-3 slightly affected by offsetting from binding, 1/1-2 with small holes and brown stains at upper margin, 1/5-2/2 affected by large brown stain at foremargin, 1/10 strengthened at inner margin with manuscript strip, 38/1 also strengthened along inner margin, 31/1 torn at lower margin, occasional marginal soiling, last leaves slightly stained at margins.) Contemporary Veneto blindtooled brown half goatskin over bevelled wooden boards, covers with three rectangular panels enclosed by a repeated ropework tool, four spine compartments decorated with fillets forming a saltire pattern, four brass clasps, once chained, author's name inscribed on upper board (spine a little rubbed and wormed, a few small chips to wood, lower cover slightly damaged at bottom edge, two clasps defective and lacking leather thongs). Provenance: Johannes Protzer (c. 1450-1528, his 1493 purchase inscription on 1/1r noting that he bought the book in Italy and recording the price: 'Johannes Protzer I[uris] U[triusque] Doctor M cccc xciii conpat [conparavit] in Italia viii lib'; with a second inscription inside front board) -- 19th-century armorial bookplate with motto 'Virtus in haeredes.'
FINE, FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, with note of purchase by Protzer thirteen years after the date of publication. Books with the purchase note of this important early German book collector are characteristically in unrestored contemporary bindings and remarkably fresh condition. A native of Nördlingen in Bavaria, Johannes Protzer studied law at Ingolstadt and spent the years 1490-1497 in Italy, probably continuing his legal studies and acquiring many books which he inscribed with the date of purchase and often the price. He bequeathed 290 books, mostly incunables, to the Hospital of the Holy Ghost at Nördlingen. A large number were sold in 1859; but in 1927 over 100 incunables and 24 16th-century books still remained in the Nördlingen Stadtbibliothek (cf. A Schmid 'Die Bibliotheken der Stadt Nördlingen,' in Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben u. Neuburg, 47, 1927, pp. 106-178). Dennis Rhodes locates 14 books belonging to Protzer, all outside German libraries, in 'A fifteenth-century German book-collector in Italy: Johannes Protzer,' in [Wytze] Hellinga Festschrift, Amsterdam, 1980, pp. 435-39, and notes Protzer's evident interest 'in Roman history, philology, philosophy and Latin literature.' Another book from Protzer's library is Petrarch's 1496 Opera latina (Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1496), included as lot 91 in Christie's sale of the Helmut N. Friedlaender Library, New York, 23 April 2001.
The itinerant printer, Bernardinus Celerius, had printed at Venice and Padua in 1478 before producing the Dionysius at Treviso in 1480; the face of his bold text type is unchanged from his Venetian work, but the body is lengthened. Six variants of the final paragraph and colophon have been recorded; that in the Protzer-Seilern copy corresponds to BL copy IB. 28412b. This copy also has a variant reading of the dedication to Pope Paul II on 1/2r which corresponds to IB. 28412. HC *6239; BMC VI, 895 (IB. 28412b); GW 8423; Goff D-250.
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FINE, FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, with note of purchase by Protzer thirteen years after the date of publication. Books with the purchase note of this important early German book collector are characteristically in unrestored contemporary bindings and remarkably fresh condition. A native of Nördlingen in Bavaria, Johannes Protzer studied law at Ingolstadt and spent the years 1490-1497 in Italy, probably continuing his legal studies and acquiring many books which he inscribed with the date of purchase and often the price. He bequeathed 290 books, mostly incunables, to the Hospital of the Holy Ghost at Nördlingen. A large number were sold in 1859; but in 1927 over 100 incunables and 24 16th-century books still remained in the Nördlingen Stadtbibliothek (cf. A Schmid 'Die Bibliotheken der Stadt Nördlingen,' in Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben u. Neuburg, 47, 1927, pp. 106-178). Dennis Rhodes locates 14 books belonging to Protzer, all outside German libraries, in 'A fifteenth-century German book-collector in Italy: Johannes Protzer,' in [Wytze] Hellinga Festschrift, Amsterdam, 1980, pp. 435-39, and notes Protzer's evident interest 'in Roman history, philology, philosophy and Latin literature.' Another book from Protzer's library is Petrarch's 1496 Opera latina (Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1496), included as lot 91 in Christie's sale of the Helmut N. Friedlaender Library, New York, 23 April 2001.
The itinerant printer, Bernardinus Celerius, had printed at Venice and Padua in 1478 before producing the Dionysius at Treviso in 1480; the face of his bold text type is unchanged from his Venetian work, but the body is lengthened. Six variants of the final paragraph and colophon have been recorded; that in the Protzer-Seilern copy corresponds to BL copy IB. 28412b. This copy also has a variant reading of the dedication to Pope Paul II on 1/2r which corresponds to IB. 28412. HC *6239; BMC VI, 895 (IB. 28412b); GW 8423; Goff D-250.
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