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Statii Papinii Neapolitani Syluarum libri quinque, Thebaidos libri duodecim, Achilleidos libri duo : orthographia et flexus dictionum Gracarum omnium apud Statium cum accentibus & generibus, ex uarijs utriusq[ue] linguae authoribus.

Accession number
PML 125284
Creator
Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
Published
Basileae : Excudebat Henricus Petrus, mense Martio anno 1531.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Signatures: A-2P⁸ (X4 not numbered, 2P4 numbered 2P5).
Colophon same as imprint.
Italic type; woodcut initials.
PML copy lacks part of title page, lacks leaves G1.8.
Description
306, [1] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Drawings of faces (portraits) inside upper cover and throughout; drawing on page 161 is labeled "Ramey." Contemporary annotations and numbers in margins. "ST" inscribed on fore-edge.
Provenance
"Ramey" inscriptions inside upper cover and within text, with drawings. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled calf over paperboards; manuscript waste; manuscript at head; evidence of paper spine label; sewing structure visible.
Classification
Department