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Libellum hunc de aqueductibus.

Accession number
PML 19576.2
Creator
Frontinus, Sextus Julius.
Object title

Libellum hunc de aqueductibus.

Published

[Rome] : [Eucharius Silber], [before 16 August 1487]

Description

[16] leaves ; 29 x 21 cm (fol.)

Notes
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves.
Edited by Pomponius Laetus and Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus.
Incipit (leaf [1]/1r): SEXTI jULII FRONTINI VIRI CONSULARIS: DE AQUIS QUE IN URBEM INFLUUNT: LIBELLUS MIRABILIS.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20 cm
Printed in type 3:112R (leaded to 114).
Proctor assigned to Herolt. GW, following H. Degering, Festgabe Haebler (1919), pp.175-202, assigns to the Printer of Vitruvius (Goff V-306, with which this book is often bound).
The copy at Corpus Christi, Oxford was bought in Rome on 16 Aug. 1487. Dated about 1483-90 in Goff.
Title from explicit (leaf [2]/8v): Libellum hunc de aqueductibus cu[m] esset mendosissimus: Pomponius & Supitius tanto studio sic emendaru[n]t: ut perpauco[rum] in eo loco[rum] crorectio [sic] desideretur. ... Vale candide lector: & siquis ingratus esse voluerit lib[rum] depromat & cum hoc cigno noctuam conferat.
Variant title
De aquaeductibus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations on first 3 leaves (also in Virtuvius), identified as Marcus Musurus by Hoskier.
Classification
Century
Department