• Leonardi Aretini De bello Italico adversus Gothos

Language:

• Latin

Creator:

• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Call number:

• EXKA Incunabula 1470 Bruni
• 40.1

Extent:

• [74] leaves (leaves [1], [74] blank) ; 27 cm. (fol.)

Format:

• Book

Description:

• Translated with abridgments from Procopius, De bello Gotico.
• Colophon: Hunc libellum Emilianus de Vrsinis Eulginas & Iohannes Numeister theutunicus, eiusq[ue] sotii feliciter impresserunt. Fulginei in domo eiusde[m] Emiliani anno domini millesimoquadringe[n]tesimoseptuagesimo feliciter.
• Princeton copy 1 imperfect: first blank leaf wanting.

Publisher:

• [Foligno : Emiliano Orfini and Johann Neumeister, 1470]

Title sort:

• Leonardi Aretini De bello Italico adversus Gothos.

Author:

• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Created:

• 1470-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1470

Collections:

• Incunabula at Princeton
• In Principio
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• Italy Grouping
• The Scheide Library
• Treasures of Rare Book Division

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/fj2366427

Range label:

• Logical

Printer:

• Neumeister, Johann, active 1470-1495
• Orfini, Emiliano

Former owner:

• Chandelier, Jacques le
• Crevenna, Pietro Antonio, known also as Bolongaro-Crevenna, -1792
• Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816
• Girardot de Préfond, Paul
• Crawford, William Horatio, 1815?-1888
• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943

References:

• Hain-Copinger, 1558.
• Proctor, 5721.
• Goff, B-1234.
• GW, 5600.
• BM 15th cent., VI, 599 (IB.25403).
• Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2762.
• ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ib01234000.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939846663506421

Provenance:

• Princeton copy 1 has inscription on recto of leaf [1]: Jacques le Chandelier, 1550.
• Princeton copy 1 from the Crevenna collection, according to note by Michael Wodhull.
• Princeton copy 1 has signature of Michael Wodhull, with his annotations.
• Princeton copy 1 has bookplates of Paul Girardot de Préfond, William Horatio Crawford and Grenville Kane.
• Princeton copy 2: Purchased 5 December 2003, Sotheby's NY, lot 518, post-sale.

Binding note:

• Princeton copy 1 in red goatskin with floral borders profusely tooled in gold; inner dentelles tooled in gold; blue moiré silk endpapers; all edges gilt.

Uniform title:

• De bello Italico adversus Gothos

Location:

• HSVR EXKA Incunabula 1470 Bruni
• HSVR 40.1
• WHS EXKA Incunabula 1470 Bruni
• WHS 40.1

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