[Historia Romana].

BEIN Zi +4367: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. First leaf of each volume blank, that of v. 2 wanting. Bound in fairly old stamped leather. Manuscript notes: on fol. 2a of v. 1: "Simonis [surname illegible] sum"; on fol. 1a of v. 1: "Ex Libris Johannis Baptistæ Serrarij An[n]o [15]63"; inside front cover "WIM [i.e., William Inglis Morse] 1946."
Title from Incunabula short title catalogue, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke and other sources.
Translated from Greek by Pier Candido Decembrio.
Imprint from colophon, v. 1 and 2, where the words "Laus Deo" precede the date.
"Pars I comprises the Proemium Appiani, Punica, Syriaca, Parthica (Pseudo-Appianus) and Mithridatica. Pars II comprises the five books of De bellis civilibus, Illyrica and Celticorum epitomen"--Incunabula short title catalogue, citing CIBN.
Preface of v. 1 addressed to Pope Nicholas V, who commissioned the translation; v. 2 was completed after his death, and the preface is addressed to Alfonso V, King of Aragon.
Collation: folio: pt. 1. a-i¹⁰ k-n⁸ o¹⁰ [$5(-klmn5) signed]; 132 leaves, unnumbered (leaves a1, c2r, o10 blank) -- pt. 2. a-c¹⁰ d¹² e-x¹⁰ [$5(+d6) signed]; 212 leaves, unnumbered (a1, x10v blank).
With two woodcut borders (v. 1, leaf a2r, 4-sided; v. 2, leaf a2r, 3-sided), and 9-line (48 x 43 mm) and 5-line (26 x 24 mm) initials, all with white-vine interlacing. Borders are printed in black in some copies, in red in others. In Redgrave's lists of borders and initial sets (pages 26-27), borders are no. 2-3 and initials are set 2 (A C P R, C D I P S) and set 3 (L, 4 designs). See also Hind, Arthur. An introduction to a history of woodcut. London, 1935, v. 2, pages 459-462.
Roman type (Proctor 4367-4368); 32 and 33 lines (176 x 110 mm; with marginalia 176 x 150 mm). Printed marginalia. Type (British Museum catalog): 109 R.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00928000
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, page 244 (IB. 20486, IB. 20487)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2290
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-928
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 1307*
Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 482
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0199: Imperfect: v. 1 leaves a2 (incipit) and a3, and v. 2 leaf a4 only. The incipit leaf with full woodcut border printed in black. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.