Gellius, Aulus

Chancery folio (308 x 205mm.), 198 leaves, a¹⁰ b-x⁸ y-z⁶; A-B⁸, 36 lines, roman type with some passages in Greek, 2- to 6-line initial spaces, early annotations in different hands, manuscript note "Ad lectorem" and list of chapters on initial blank leaf, manuscript index of subjects at end, contemporary Austrian half stamped calf over wooden boards, two clasps, title lettered across bottom of text block, some deckle edges, light foxing and a few small wormholes towards end, straps repaired, spine repaired at head and foot

Sebastian Raussman of Reutlingen, bought at Hall in Tirol (near Innsbruck), 11 Kalends December 1537, inscription on inside front cover, with his notes about Gellius on verso of flyleaf, annotations in text and index of subjects at end (Raussman is recorded as the editor of a book by Evandrus Cordatus in 1530)

Goff G121; HC 7520; BMC v 251; BSB-Ink G-64; Bod-inc G-057; GW 10596

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A CRISP TALL COPY of the fourth edition of Noctes Atticae, Aulus Gellius's compendium of miscellaneous knowledge composed in the mid-second century. The tools on the binding are also found on a late fifteenth-century manuscript now in Graz (UB MS 465) and the workshop is recorded as EBDB w003302.