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Preclarissimi viri Georgii Valle Com[m]entationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitu[m] inq[ue] Ciceronis Partitiones [et] Tusculanas questio[n]es ac Plinij Naturalis historie librum secundu[m]
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The item Preclarissimi viri Georgii Valle Com[m]entationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitu[m] inq[ue] Ciceronis Partitiones [et] Tusculanas questio[n]es ac Plinij Naturalis historie librum secundu[m] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Preclarissimi viri Georgii Valle Com[m]entationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitu[m] inq[ue] Ciceronis Partitiones [et] Tusculanas questio[n]es ac Plinij Naturalis historie librum secundu[m] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.
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- Summary
- Posthumously published first edition of commentary on Ptolemy, Cicero and Pliny by Giorgio Valla, one of the leading Hellenists at Venice, scholarly advisor to Aldus, teacher of many in the Aldine circle (Bembo, Gabriel, Leoniceno, Alessandro Benedetti), and one of a relatively small number of Italian humanists to concern themselves with ancient scientific texts.
- Language
- lat
- Extent
- [80], [88] pages
- Note
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- Imprint from second colophon on page [86] (for In Ciceronis Partitiones Commentaria; In Tusculanas Ciceronis Quaestiones Commentaria; In Plinii Praefationis primi libri Naturalis historiae obscuriores locos interpraetatio); first colophon on page [79] (for Commentationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitum) has identical wording with the exception of date, which reads: anno Domini milesimo quingentesimo secundo die tertio mensis Nouembris [3 Nov. 1502]
- Signatures: A-F6 G4, a-f6 g8
- Woodcuts: text illustrated with numerous geometrical and astronomical diagrams
- Title printed in gothic type; text printed in roman type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters
- Dedicatory preface on page [2] of first sequence by Giovanni Pietro Valla, addressed to Gianstefano Ferrero, cardinal of Bologna (1474-1510); Valla's dedication to second part addressed to Venetian admiral Vittore Pisano
- Label
- Preclarissimi viri Georgii Valle Com[m]entationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitu[m] inq[ue] Ciceronis Partitiones [et] Tusculanas questio[n]es ac Plinij Naturalis historie librum secundu[m]
- Title
- Preclarissimi viri Georgii Valle Com[m]entationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitu[m] inq[ue] Ciceronis Partitiones [et] Tusculanas questio[n]es ac Plinij Naturalis historie librum secundu[m]
- Title variation
- Commentationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitum
- Language
- lat
- Summary
- Posthumously published first edition of commentary on Ptolemy, Cicero and Pliny by Giorgio Valla, one of the leading Hellenists at Venice, scholarly advisor to Aldus, teacher of many in the Aldine circle (Bembo, Gabriel, Leoniceno, Alessandro Benedetti), and one of a relatively small number of Italian humanists to concern themselves with ancient scientific texts.
- Cataloging source
- MBB
- Citation location within source
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- page 709
- V-151
- 7462
- pages 181-184
- CNCE 36423
- Citation source
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- Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum
- Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries
- Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530
- Lowry, M. World of Aldus Manutius
- EDIT 16
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- Q155
- LC item number
- .V4 1502
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Summary expansion
- Valla's library of Greek scientific manuscripts was well-known, and was purchased after his death by Alberto Carpi. The texts most likely derive from lectures Valla gave as public lecturer in the humanities at Venice, a post he assumed in 1485
- Label
- Preclarissimi viri Georgii Valle Com[m]entationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitu[m] inq[ue] Ciceronis Partitiones [et] Tusculanas questio[n]es ac Plinij Naturalis historie librum secundu[m]
- Note
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- Imprint from second colophon on page [86] (for In Ciceronis Partitiones Commentaria; In Tusculanas Ciceronis Quaestiones Commentaria; In Plinii Praefationis primi libri Naturalis historiae obscuriores locos interpraetatio); first colophon on page [79] (for Commentationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitum) has identical wording with the exception of date, which reads: anno Domini milesimo quingentesimo secundo die tertio mensis Nouembris [3 Nov. 1502]
- Signatures: A-F6 G4, a-f6 g8
- Woodcuts: text illustrated with numerous geometrical and astronomical diagrams
- Title printed in gothic type; text printed in roman type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters
- Dedicatory preface on page [2] of first sequence by Giovanni Pietro Valla, addressed to Gianstefano Ferrero, cardinal of Bologna (1474-1510); Valla's dedication to second part addressed to Venetian admiral Vittore Pisano
- Dimensions
- 29 cm (folio)
- Extent
- [80], [88] pages
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: bound in 18th-century remboitage of brown calf over paper boards; ornamental gilt lozenge centerpiece enclosed within blind-tooled inner border in the Greek key pattern, and gilt outer border composed of alternating leaves and lotus; brown marbled paper endpapers. Purchase, Martayan Lan, 1999.
- Other physical details
- illustrations (woodcuts)
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)08135374
- ucoclc8135374
- Label
- Preclarissimi viri Georgii Valle Com[m]entationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitu[m] inq[ue] Ciceronis Partitiones [et] Tusculanas questio[n]es ac Plinij Naturalis historie librum secundu[m]
- Note
-
- Imprint from second colophon on page [86] (for In Ciceronis Partitiones Commentaria; In Tusculanas Ciceronis Quaestiones Commentaria; In Plinii Praefationis primi libri Naturalis historiae obscuriores locos interpraetatio); first colophon on page [79] (for Commentationes in Ptolomei Quadripartitum) has identical wording with the exception of date, which reads: anno Domini milesimo quingentesimo secundo die tertio mensis Nouembris [3 Nov. 1502]
- Signatures: A-F6 G4, a-f6 g8
- Woodcuts: text illustrated with numerous geometrical and astronomical diagrams
- Title printed in gothic type; text printed in roman type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters
- Dedicatory preface on page [2] of first sequence by Giovanni Pietro Valla, addressed to Gianstefano Ferrero, cardinal of Bologna (1474-1510); Valla's dedication to second part addressed to Venetian admiral Vittore Pisano
- Dimensions
- 29 cm (folio)
- Extent
- [80], [88] pages
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: bound in 18th-century remboitage of brown calf over paper boards; ornamental gilt lozenge centerpiece enclosed within blind-tooled inner border in the Greek key pattern, and gilt outer border composed of alternating leaves and lotus; brown marbled paper endpapers. Purchase, Martayan Lan, 1999.
- Other physical details
- illustrations (woodcuts)
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)08135374
- ucoclc8135374
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