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Valerius Max. Exempla quatuor et viginti nuper inventa ante caput de ominibus.

Accession number
PML 1651
Creator
Valerius Maximus.
Published
Venetiis : In Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri, mense Octobri, 1514.
Credit line
Purchase; Toovey collection; 1899.
Notes
Imprint from the colophon.
Italic type.
Leaf 6 is a blank.
Printer's device on the title page; verso of the final leaf.
Reprint of the 1502 edition, with the letters of October, 1502 and April 1503.
Texts of the first 2 quires revised in order.
The second Aldine edition described by Renouard. He discusses a 1503 and 1508 edition, and lists it as (edit. suppos.) in the index. Adams lists all three as Aldine counterfeits.
Description
216 numbered leaves ; 16 cm
Provenance
Toovey collection and Lord Gosford's copy.
Binding
Citron morocco.
Classification
Department