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The Resource Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni, tradotto per M. Tomaso Porcacchi ; con alcune annotationi, dichiarationi, & auuertimenti, & con una lettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele, del sito dell'India, & con la tauola copiosissima delle cose notabili

Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni, tradotto per M. Tomaso Porcacchi ; con alcune annotationi, dichiarationi, & auuertimenti, & con una lettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele, del sito dell'India, & con la tauola copiosissima delle cose notabili

Work
Publication
Extent
[72], 249, [3] pages
Note
  • Translation of: Historia Alexandri Magni
  • Colophon dated 1558. Bongi, who lists this title as a 1558 imprint, notes that some copies have title-pages dated 1559. See EDIT 16, CNCE 13885 for image of title page dated 1558
  • Signatures: *-4*8 5*4 A-P8 Q6
  • Last [2] pages blank
  • Woodcuts: a Giolito phoenix device on title page, featuring phoenix standing amidst flames spouting from the top of an urn bearing initials "GGF," flanked by a pair of seated griffins and two pairs of cherubs; two ribbons display mottoes "Semper eadem" and "Dela mia morte eterna vita i vivo;" another device on last page, featuring the phoenix atop a flaming winged orb, facing towards the blazing sun; large historiated white initials; head- and tail-pieces
  • Text printed in italic type; marginal references in small roman type.
  • Dedicatory preface by Thomaso Porcacchi is addressed to Federigo Gonzaga, and dated Sept. 8, 1558 in Bologna
  • Errata: verso of leaf 3*8
  • Includes index
Instance
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Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni
Title
Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni
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tradotto per M. Tomaso Porcacchi ; con alcune annotationi, dichiarationi, & auuertimenti, & con una lettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele, del sito dell'India, & con la tauola copiosissima delle cose notabili
Title variation
  • Q. Cvrtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni
  • De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni
Creator
Contributor
Printer
Translator
Subject
Genre
Language
  • ita
  • lat
  • ita
Member of
Cataloging source
AN#
Citation location within source
  • II:62-64, 81
  • page 207
  • CNCE 13886
Citation source
  • Bongi, S. Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari
  • 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, 1465-1600
  • EDIT 16
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Label
Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni, tradotto per M. Tomaso Porcacchi ; con alcune annotationi, dichiarationi, & auuertimenti, & con una lettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele, del sito dell'India, & con la tauola copiosissima delle cose notabili
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Translation of: Historia Alexandri Magni
  • Colophon dated 1558. Bongi, who lists this title as a 1558 imprint, notes that some copies have title-pages dated 1559. See EDIT 16, CNCE 13885 for image of title page dated 1558
  • Signatures: *-4*8 5*4 A-P8 Q6
  • Last [2] pages blank
  • Woodcuts: a Giolito phoenix device on title page, featuring phoenix standing amidst flames spouting from the top of an urn bearing initials "GGF," flanked by a pair of seated griffins and two pairs of cherubs; two ribbons display mottoes "Semper eadem" and "Dela mia morte eterna vita i vivo;" another device on last page, featuring the phoenix atop a flaming winged orb, facing towards the blazing sun; large historiated white initials; head- and tail-pieces
  • Text printed in italic type; marginal references in small roman type.
  • Dedicatory preface by Thomaso Porcacchi is addressed to Federigo Gonzaga, and dated Sept. 8, 1558 in Bologna
  • Errata: verso of leaf 3*8
  • Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
23 cm (4to)
Extent
[72], 249, [3] pages
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Note
  • Spec. Coll. copy 1: bound in 18th-century tan calf boards; gilt fillet; ornamental corner-pieces; medallion center-pieces on upper and lower boards featuring a floral ornament (the center-piece on lower board partially wormed); edges stained red. Purchase, Samuel W. Katz, 1995.
  • Spec. Coll. copy 2: contemporary limp vellum binding; fore-edges turned in; two sewing holes along fore-edges of covers indicate earlier presence of two pairs of ties; old manuscript spine title "Quinto Curzio 1539. Giolito." Purchase, Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1996.
Other control number
PML 150527
System control number
  • (OCoLC)270814877
  • ucoclc270814877
Label
Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, re de' Macedoni, tradotto per M. Tomaso Porcacchi ; con alcune annotationi, dichiarationi, & auuertimenti, & con una lettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele, del sito dell'India, & con la tauola copiosissima delle cose notabili
Publication
Note
  • Translation of: Historia Alexandri Magni
  • Colophon dated 1558. Bongi, who lists this title as a 1558 imprint, notes that some copies have title-pages dated 1559. See EDIT 16, CNCE 13885 for image of title page dated 1558
  • Signatures: *-4*8 5*4 A-P8 Q6
  • Last [2] pages blank
  • Woodcuts: a Giolito phoenix device on title page, featuring phoenix standing amidst flames spouting from the top of an urn bearing initials "GGF," flanked by a pair of seated griffins and two pairs of cherubs; two ribbons display mottoes "Semper eadem" and "Dela mia morte eterna vita i vivo;" another device on last page, featuring the phoenix atop a flaming winged orb, facing towards the blazing sun; large historiated white initials; head- and tail-pieces
  • Text printed in italic type; marginal references in small roman type.
  • Dedicatory preface by Thomaso Porcacchi is addressed to Federigo Gonzaga, and dated Sept. 8, 1558 in Bologna
  • Errata: verso of leaf 3*8
  • Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
23 cm (4to)
Extent
[72], 249, [3] pages
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Note
  • Spec. Coll. copy 1: bound in 18th-century tan calf boards; gilt fillet; ornamental corner-pieces; medallion center-pieces on upper and lower boards featuring a floral ornament (the center-piece on lower board partially wormed); edges stained red. Purchase, Samuel W. Katz, 1995.
  • Spec. Coll. copy 2: contemporary limp vellum binding; fore-edges turned in; two sewing holes along fore-edges of covers indicate earlier presence of two pairs of ties; old manuscript spine title "Quinto Curzio 1539. Giolito." Purchase, Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1996.
Other control number
PML 150527
System control number
  • (OCoLC)270814877
  • ucoclc270814877

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