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Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c.28-c.103 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1471
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069893
Summary
Bibliographic description
[180] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6922. Worm holes through leaves [1]-[41] and [162]-[180]. Blank leaf (eighteenth-century?) bound-in between leaves [71] and [72]. Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication. Catchwords "Spectat[us] ferro" written in contemporary fifteenth-century hand in black ink at foot of leaf [78] verso; remnants of written catchwords (cropped off by binder) visible at foot of leaves [84] verso, [94] verso and [124] verso. Provenance: manuscript inscription in a fifteenth-century hand at foot of leaf [1] recto: "Loci sancti Mari[a]e gratiarus[?] sancti seuerini". Manuscript inscription in contemporary fifteenth-century hand beneath colophon on leaf [180] verso: "Mari[?] Vi. cale[n]d. mai Rome c[a]put mundi". Manuscript manicule and marginal note on leaf [127] verso, the book otherwise devoid of marginalia. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Manuscript inscriptions on fly-leaf facing first printed page: "Silius Italicus" and "Editio omnium rariss." [i.e. catalogue entry and note on rarity, both written by John Mitchell]. Slip of paper with inscription on one side (remains of black wax seal on other side), loosely inserted at front: "The lines not filled up in this page are supplyed in the edition of Joannes Aleriensis, Romae 1471. thus - revocentque Sagunto Sidonias flammas; nunc ite, impellite puppim. Bur Modius, &c have made three lines of them. vid. Drakenburgij Notas ad h. l. lib. I. v. 566". This note was written by John Mitchell and refers to the blank space in lines 28-29 on leaf [9] recto (lines 565-566 in book 1 of the Punica) where some of the text is missing, with a reference to the Utrecht 1717 edition of Silius ltalicus edited by Arnold Drakenborch; the missing text was included in the other edition of Silius Italicus printed in Rome 1471, a copy of which was also owned by Sir Richard Ellys. Note referring to printed text written by John Mitchell on scrap of paper inserted at leaf [78]: "[T]his place, at the +, this copy wants from lin. Ænea conjunx &c to lin. 225. Explicat. haud [text lost] &c. They are also wanting in the edition of Joan. Aleriensis, Romae, 1471". Pencil number on front pastedown: "42". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; single gilt fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillet decoration on spine; gilt title 'Syllius Italicus' on brown goatskin label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c.28-c.103 AD), author Giulio Pomponio Leto (1428-1497), editor Printer of Silius Italicus, printer