Research Catalog

Title

Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii

Author

Gellius, Aulus

Publication

Impressi Venetiis : Per Andream Iacobi Catharensem, MCCCCLXXVII [1477]

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Details

Additional Authors

Paltasichis, Andreas de, active 1476-1493

Description

[396] pages; 30 cm (fol.)

Alternative Title

• Avli Gelii Noctivm Atticarvm commentarii
• Noctium Atticarum commentarii
• Noctivm Atticarvm commentarii

Subjects

• Commonplace books > Early works to 1800
• Incunabula > Italy > Venice
• Civilization, Greco-Roman > Sources

Genre/Form

Incunabula – Italy – Venice.

Note

• Title from caption, leaf a2r.
• Colophon, leaf z6r, reads: Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii finis: Impressi Venetiis per Andream Iacobi Catharensem MCCCCLXXVII, Andrea Vendrameno duce Venetiarum inclyto.
• Signatures: a¹⁰ b-x⁸ y-z⁶ A-B⁸. $4 (+a5; -yz4) signed, roman; leaves a1, z6v, A1r, B8v blank.
• Roman and Greek types (112); leaf a4r: 36 lines, 199 x 124 mm. Initial spaces, without guide letters. For illustration of Greek type, see Proctor, Robert. The printing of Greek in the fifteenth century, 1900, page 126, fig. 23.
• Gatherings A-B: table of chapter headings; begins, leaf A1v: Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii, capitula primi libri. In some copies, bound at the beginning before gathering a.

Indexed In (note)

• Incunabula short title catalogue
• Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries
• Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum
• Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France
• Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique
• Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d'Italia
• Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library
• Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog
• Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
• Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy) via BSB/MDZ.

Language (note)

• In Latin, with some passages in Greek.

Provenance (note)

• Bibliothèque de Mello (superexlibris; library of Baron Achille Seillière; see Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge catalog, February 28, 1887 (La bibliothèque de Mello : catalogue of an important portion of the very choice library of the late Baron Seillière), lot 484). Henry E. Huntington (stamp "H.E.H. dupl." on back pastedown). Early manuscript gloss on leaf f4v. Modern booksellers' annotations on verso of free front endpaper and front flyleaf.

Binding (note)

• Red morocco, gilt, by Hardy (signed on lower front turn-in), with armorial superexlibris of the Bibliothèque de Mello on both boards.

Call Number

*KB 1477 17-31

OCLC

17421156

Author

Gellius, Aulus, author.

Title

Auli Gelii Noctium Atticarum commentarii

Publisher

Impressi Venetiis : Per Andream Iacobi Catharensem, MCCCCLXXVII [1477]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

NYPL copy: Gatherings A-B bound at the beginning before gathering a.

NYPL copy: Rubricated: Large ornamental painted and gilt capital P with floral ornaments supplied at beginning of text on leaf a2r; 18 others supplied in red, blue and black.

NYPL copy: Running titles and foliation in manuscript, in an early hand. Foliation, including the duplicate leaves but omitting the table: 1-69, 80-193.

NYPL copy: With a duplicate of conjugate leaves q2·q7.

Indexed In:

Incunabula short title catalogue, ig00121000 http://data.cerl.org/istc/ig00121000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-121

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 7520*

Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 5011

Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 1559

Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d'Italia, 4189

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 1744

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, G-057 http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/G-057

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 5, 251 (IB.20609)

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, G-64 http://inkunabeln.digitale-sammlungen.de/Ausgabe_G-64.html

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 4423

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 10596

Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins, 264

Additional Formats

Also available online (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy) via BSB/MDZ.

Language

In Latin, with some passages in Greek.

Binding

Red morocco, gilt, by Hardy (signed on lower front turn-in), with armorial superexlibris of the Bibliothèque de Mello on both boards. NN

Provenance

Bibliothèque de Mello (superexlibris; library of Baron Achille Seillière; see Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge catalog, February 28, 1887 (La bibliothèque de Mello : catalogue of an important portion of the very choice library of the late Baron Seillière), lot 484). Henry E. Huntington (stamp "H.E.H. dupl." on back pastedown). Early manuscript gloss on leaf f4v. Modern booksellers' annotations on verso of free front endpaper and front flyleaf. NN

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Place of Publication

Italy Venice.

Added Author

Paltasichis, Andreas de, active 1476-1493, printer.

Seillière, Achille, baron, 1813-1873, former owner.

Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927, former owner.

Hardy, C., active 1850-1880, binder.

Research Call Number

*KB 1477 17-31