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Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny, the Younger):
Epistolae; Panegyricus Traiani; De viris illustribus

ISTC No.ip00811000
AuthorPlinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny, the Younger)
TitleEpistolae; Panegyricus Traiani; De viris illustribus
Imprint[Venice : Johannes Roscius, about 1492]
Imprint[about 1500]
Format4°
NotesIGI dates about 1500
Authorship of De viris illustribus unknown. Here attributed to Pliny, although Sextus Aurelius Victor was generally but erroneously preferred from the 16th century. (M. M. Sage, The De Viris Illustribus: authorship and date, Hermes 108, (1980), pp.83-100)
Printed after ip00812000 (collation of copies by M.D. Reeve)
Language of itemlat
Reference worksGoff: Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American libraries: a third census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973. (Reproduced from the annotated copy of the original edition (New York, 1964) maintained by Goff). (Supplement. New York, 1972.) P811
HCR: Reichling, Dietrich. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium Bibliographicum … Emendationes. 6 vols. & index. Monachii, 1905-11. (Supplement, Monasterii, 1914.) 13116
Pell Ms: Pellechet, Marie and Polain, M.L. Catalogue général … (MS of unpublished volumes, reproduced from the original now in the Bibliothèque Nationale.) 23 vols. Nendeln, 1970. (The MS number is quoted first, followed by the number added for the printed edition quoted in parentheses except after 10438 (10196), where the MS numeration ceases). 9556 (9380)
CIBN: Bibliothèque Nationale. Catalogue des incunables. T. I (Xylographes, A-G); T. II (H-Z). Paris, 1981-2014. P-477
Zehnacker: Zehnacker, Françoise. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France. Vol.XIII: Région Alsace (Bas Rhin). 2 tom. Paris, 1997. 1909bis
Polain(B): Polain, M.-Louis. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique. 5 vols. Bruxelles, 1932-78. 3204
IGI: Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d’Italia. Compilato da T.M. Guarnaschelli e E. Valenziani [et al.]. 6 vols. Roma, 1943-81. 7904
IBP: Incunabula quae in bibliothecis Poloniae asservantur. Moderante Alodia Kawecka-Gryczowa. Composuerunt Maria Bohonos and Eliza Sandorowska. 2 vols. Wrocław, 1970. (Addenda, Indices. Wrocław, 1993). 4495
Sajó-Soltész: Sajó, Géza and Soltész, Erszébet. Catalogus incunabulorum quae in bibliothecis publicis Hungariae asservantur. 2 vols. Budapestini, 1970. 2793
IDL: Incunabula in Dutch libraries. Editor-in-chief Gerard van Thienen. 2 vols. Nieuwkoop, 1983. (Supplement [in preparation]). 3738
Madsen: Madsen, Viktor. Katalog over det Kongelige Biblioteks inkunabler. 3 vols. København, 1935-63. (P.R. Jorgensen. ‘Nye inkunabler … ’. Fund og Forskning 30 (1991) pp.133-38.) 3319
Günt(L): Günther, Otto. Die Wiegendrucke der Leipziger Sammlungen und der Herzoglichen Bibliothek in Altenburg. XXXV. Beiheft zum ZfB. Leipzig, 1909. 3645
Voull(Bonn): Voulliéme, Ernst. Die Incunabeln der Königlichen Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Bonn. Leipzig, 1894. (XIII. Beiheft zum ZfB). 966
Voull(B): Voulliéme, Ernst. Die Inkunabeln der Königlichen Bibliothek (Preussischen Staatsbibliothek) und der anderen Berliner Sammlungen. Leipzig, 1906. (XXX. Beiheft zum ZfB; supplements: 1914, 1922, 1927). 4452
Walsh: Walsh, James E. A catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library. 5 vols. Binghamton NY, Tempe AZ, 1991-95. (Supplement ... , by David R. Whitesell. Harvard Library Bulletin 16 nos. 1-2 (2005)). 2590
Rhodes(Oxford Colleges): Rhodes, Dennis E. A catalogue of incunabula in all the libraries of Oxford University outside the Bodleian. Oxford, 1982. 1447
Bod-inc: A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library. 6 vols. Oxford, 2005. P-381
Sheppard: Sheppard, L.A. Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library. [Unpublished MS, 1954-71]. 4554, 4555, 4556
Pr: Proctor, Robert. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum from the invention of printing to the year MD, with notes of those in the Bodleian Library. 2 vols. London, 1898. 4 supplements, 1899-1902. (Part II, MDI-MDXX, Germany, London, 1903). 5492
BMC: Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum [British Library]. 13 parts. London, ’t Goy-Houten, 1963-2007. (Pts I-IX reproduced from the working copies of the original edition (London, 1908-62) annotated at the Museum). V 536
BSB-Ink: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog. Bd. 1-6. Wiesbaden, 1988-2005. P-618
GW: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Bd. I [etc.] Stuttgart, etc., 1968- [in progress]. (Vols. 1-7 reproduced with additions and corrections from the original edition (Leipzig, etc., 1925-38)). [See also GW Manuskript - GW M: http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de] M34358
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Digital reproductionsElectronic facsimile : Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
Electronic facsimile : Bibliothèque Universitaire, Liège, Belgique
Related resourcesMicrofiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 2010. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 88 - Printing in Venice Part VIII, VE 494

Holdings

AustriaGöttweig, Benediktinerstift (Ink 556f)
Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Ink 1.G.7)
BelgiumLiège, Bibliothèque de l'Université (imperfect, wanting leaves 111-126)
Czech RepublicPraha, Národni knihovna České republiky
DenmarkKøbenhavn, Det Kgl. Bibliotek (imperfect)
FranceParis, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Sélestat, Bibliothèque Humaniste
GermanyLeipzig PrivBWach (imperfect, copy lost)
Bonn, Universitäts und Landesbibliothek
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (2 copies, 1 wanting De viris illustribus, the other is De viris illustribus only.)
Zwickau, Ratsschulbibliothek
HungaryBudapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (imperfect)
ItalyArezzo, Biblioteca Città di Arezzo
Bergamo, Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai
Bologna C
Catania, Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria
Chiavari, Società Economica
Faenza, Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana
Faenza Cicognani
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Magl. K.5.46 imperfect, wanting f. a1)
Guastalla C
Jesi, Biblioteca Planettiana
Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Monza, Biblioteca Civica
Napoli, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (imperfect)
Padova, Pontificia Biblioteca Antoniana
Palermo, Biblioteca Comunale (2)
Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria di Pavia - MiBACT (II)
Roma, Biblioteca Angelica (Inc. 684)
Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II (70.2.F.16)
Sondrio C
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
The NetherlandsDen Haag, Huis van het Boek (003 F 030)
PolandWrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandLondon, British Library (IA.24196) (Imperfect, wanting the De viris illustribus)
Cambridge, Peterhouse College (De viris illustribus only)
London, Wellcome Collection
Longleat Library and Archive
Manchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (3549 wanting De viris illustribus)
Oxford, Bodleian Library (3, 1 imperfect)
Oxford, New College (imperfect)
United States of AmericaCambridge MA, Harvard University, Countway Library of Medicine
San Marino CA, Huntington Library
Bloomington IN, Indiana University, Lilly Library
Philadelphia PA, Library Company of Philadelphia
Chicago IL, The Newberry Library
Chicago IL, University of Chicago Libraries, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center (II)
Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Baltimore MD, The Walters Art Museum Library
Vatican CityCittà del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Inc.IV.861)
Number of holding institutions52
Last Edit2024-09-11 11:58:20
 
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Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny, the Younger):
Epistolae; Panegyricus Traiani; De viris illustribus

idip00811000
authorPlinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny, the Younger)
titleEpistolae; Panegyricus Traiani; De viris illustribus
imprint[Venice : Johannes Roscius, about 1492]
imprint[about 1500]
dimensions4°
notesIGI dates about 1500
Authorship of De viris illustribus unknown. Here attributed to Pliny, although Sextus Aurelius Victor was generally but erroneously preferred from the 16th century. (M. M. Sage, The De Viris Illustribus: authorship and date, Hermes 108, (1980), pp.83-100)
Printed after ip00812000 (collation of copies by M.D. Reeve)
languageofitemlat
referencesGoff: Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American libraries: a third census. Millwood (N.Y.), 1973. (Reproduced from the annotated copy of the original edition (New York, 1964) maintained by Goff). (Supplement. New York, 1972.) P811
HCR: Reichling, Dietrich. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium Bibliographicum … Emendationes. 6 vols. & index. Monachii, 1905-11. (Supplement, Monasterii, 1914.) 13116
Pell Ms: Pellechet, Marie and Polain, M.L. Catalogue général … (MS of unpublished volumes, reproduced from the original now in the Bibliothèque Nationale.) 23 vols. Nendeln, 1970. (The MS number is quoted first, followed by the number added for the printed edition quoted in parentheses except after 10438 (10196), where the MS numeration ceases). 9556 (9380)
CIBN: Bibliothèque Nationale. Catalogue des incunables. T. I (Xylographes, A-G); T. II (H-Z). Paris, 1981-2014. P-477
Zehnacker: Zehnacker, Françoise. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France. Vol.XIII: Région Alsace (Bas Rhin). 2 tom. Paris, 1997. 1909bis
Polain(B): Polain, M.-Louis. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique. 5 vols. Bruxelles, 1932-78. 3204
IGI: Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d’Italia. Compilato da T.M. Guarnaschelli e E. Valenziani [et al.]. 6 vols. Roma, 1943-81. 7904
IBP: Incunabula quae in bibliothecis Poloniae asservantur. Moderante Alodia Kawecka-Gryczowa. Composuerunt Maria Bohonos and Eliza Sandorowska. 2 vols. Wrocław, 1970. (Addenda, Indices. Wrocław, 1993). 4495
Sajó-Soltész: Sajó, Géza and Soltész, Erszébet. Catalogus incunabulorum quae in bibliothecis publicis Hungariae asservantur. 2 vols. Budapestini, 1970. 2793
IDL: Incunabula in Dutch libraries. Editor-in-chief Gerard van Thienen. 2 vols. Nieuwkoop, 1983. (Supplement [in preparation]). 3738
Madsen: Madsen, Viktor. Katalog over det Kongelige Biblioteks inkunabler. 3 vols. København, 1935-63. (P.R. Jorgensen. ‘Nye inkunabler … ’. Fund og Forskning 30 (1991) pp.133-38.) 3319
Günt(L): Günther, Otto. Die Wiegendrucke der Leipziger Sammlungen und der Herzoglichen Bibliothek in Altenburg. XXXV. Beiheft zum ZfB. Leipzig, 1909. 3645
Voull(Bonn): Voulliéme, Ernst. Die Incunabeln der Königlichen Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Bonn. Leipzig, 1894. (XIII. Beiheft zum ZfB). 966
Voull(B): Voulliéme, Ernst. Die Inkunabeln der Königlichen Bibliothek (Preussischen Staatsbibliothek) und der anderen Berliner Sammlungen. Leipzig, 1906. (XXX. Beiheft zum ZfB; supplements: 1914, 1922, 1927). 4452
Walsh: Walsh, James E. A catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library. 5 vols. Binghamton NY, Tempe AZ, 1991-95. (Supplement ... , by David R. Whitesell. Harvard Library Bulletin 16 nos. 1-2 (2005)). 2590
Rhodes(Oxford Colleges): Rhodes, Dennis E. A catalogue of incunabula in all the libraries of Oxford University outside the Bodleian. Oxford, 1982. 1447
Bod-inc: A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library. 6 vols. Oxford, 2005. P-381
Sheppard: Sheppard, L.A. Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library. [Unpublished MS, 1954-71]. 4554, 4555, 4556
Pr: Proctor, Robert. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum from the invention of printing to the year MD, with notes of those in the Bodleian Library. 2 vols. London, 1898. 4 supplements, 1899-1902. (Part II, MDI-MDXX, Germany, London, 1903). 5492
BMC: Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum [British Library]. 13 parts. London, ’t Goy-Houten, 1963-2007. (Pts I-IX reproduced from the working copies of the original edition (London, 1908-62) annotated at the Museum). V 536
BSB-Ink: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog. Bd. 1-6. Wiesbaden, 1988-2005. P-618
GW: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Bd. I [etc.] Stuttgart, etc., 1968- [in progress]. (Vols. 1-7 reproduced with additions and corrections from the original edition (Leipzig, etc., 1925-38)). [See also GW Manuskript - GW M: http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de] M34358
showshortrefs
relatedresources_digitalElectronic facsimile : Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
Electronic facsimile : Bibliothèque Universitaire, Liège, Belgique
relatedresourcesMicrofiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 2010. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 88 - Printing in Venice Part VIII, VE 494

holdings

AustriaGöttweig, Benediktinerstift (Ink 556f)
Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Ink 1.G.7)
BelgiumLiège, Bibliothèque de l'Université (imperfect, wanting leaves 111-126)
Czech RepublicPraha, Národni knihovna České republiky
DenmarkKøbenhavn, Det Kgl. Bibliotek (imperfect)
FranceParis, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Sélestat, Bibliothèque Humaniste
GermanyLeipzig PrivBWach (imperfect, copy lost)
Bonn, Universitäts und Landesbibliothek
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (2 copies, 1 wanting De viris illustribus, the other is De viris illustribus only.)
Zwickau, Ratsschulbibliothek
HungaryBudapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (imperfect)
Italy






(Magl. K.5.46 imperfect, wanting f. a1)
Guastalla C



(imperfect)

Palermo, Biblioteca Comunale (2)
Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria di Pavia - MiBACT (II)
Roma, Biblioteca Angelica (Inc. 684)
Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II (70.2.F.16)
Sondrio C
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
The NetherlandsDen Haag, Huis van het Boek (003 F 030)
PolandWrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (IA.24196) (Imperfect, wanting the De viris illustribus)
(De viris illustribus only)


(3549 wanting De viris illustribus)
(3, 1 imperfect)
(imperfect)
United States of America




(II)


Vatican CityCittà del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Inc.IV.861)
Number of holding institutions52
Last Edit2024-09-11 11:58:20