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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius (390 AD – 430 AD). Interpretatio in somnium scipionis. Venice: Joannes Tacuinus da Trino, 1521.
2° (300 x 203mm). Title in red and black with small woodcut all within decorative woodcut border, several woodcuts in the text including one map. (Minor dampstain to first 4 leaves, small tear to top margin of C2, stain to margin of F8, a few leaves including title lightly spotted.) 19th-century burgundy morocco, panelled in gilt with recurring fleur-de-lys and HDC monogram, gilt arms of Catherine de Medici to sides (small wormtracks to endpapers, minor wormholes to spine, upper hinge and head of upper joint just starting). Provenance: some contemporary underlining and annotation.
This commentary on Cicero by Macrobius, a fifth-century Roman philosopher, ‘includes, among many references to the pseudo-sciences, a geographic concept which is different to that of Ptolemy’. This is illustrated by a large woodcut in the text showing how ‘the inhabited world north of the Equator is balanced by a southern continent and divided from it by water’ (Shirley). BL/STC Italian Books, p.401; Shirley 13; this edition not in Adams.
2° (300 x 203mm). Title in red and black with small woodcut all within decorative woodcut border, several woodcuts in the text including one map. (Minor dampstain to first 4 leaves, small tear to top margin of C2, stain to margin of F8, a few leaves including title lightly spotted.) 19th-century burgundy morocco, panelled in gilt with recurring fleur-de-lys and HDC monogram, gilt arms of Catherine de Medici to sides (small wormtracks to endpapers, minor wormholes to spine, upper hinge and head of upper joint just starting). Provenance: some contemporary underlining and annotation.
This commentary on Cicero by Macrobius, a fifth-century Roman philosopher, ‘includes, among many references to the pseudo-sciences, a geographic concept which is different to that of Ptolemy’. This is illustrated by a large woodcut in the text showing how ‘the inhabited world north of the Equator is balanced by a southern continent and divided from it by water’ (Shirley). BL/STC Italian Books, p.401; Shirley 13; this edition not in Adams.
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