tim00448000

Text-inc Id:

tim00448000

Bod-inc Id:

M-176

Headings:

Mela, Pomponius Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Mela, Pomponius: Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. See M‑175.

Imprint:

Venice: [Printer of Pomponius Mela], 15 Nov. 1477. 4°.

Collation:

a–g⁸ h⁶. Leaf a2 signed a, a3 a_ii, etc.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00448000 H 11015; HC 11012 (var.); Goff M‑448; BMC V 261; Pr 5658; CIBN M‑280; Sheppard 3585-6. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmography. LCN: 14453866, 14453916

Copies:

1. M-176(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaves a1 and h6. The variant issue, without date or place of printing. Leaf g7v, l. 1: ‘per eā rara: & nō grādia flumina emanant | . . .’ Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half brown morocco with red pasteboards. Size: 205 × 135 × 12 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 125 mm. On b5r a marginal note, extracting a key word, in a humanist hand. In the upper margin of the front pastedown, a note in a nineteenth-century hand: ‘U. Benis(?) no. 5388 raris[sim]o'. Provenance: Vienna, Augustinian Hermits, SS. Sebastianus et Rochus; inscription on a1r in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand: ‘Convent: Generalis Viennen. Ord. Erem. S. P. Augustini as SS. Sebastia: et Rochi'. Date of acquisition unknown; most books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired during the 1840s. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.42.
2. M-176(2) Second copy Bound with A‑021(1); see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 199 × 131 mm. Another variant issue, without date or place of printing. g7v, l. 1: ‘ideoqƺ = “que” [per] ꝑ eā rara: & nō grādia fluīa emanāt | . . .’ SHELFMARK: S. Seld. e.1(1).