Macrobius, Aurelius Theodosius
IN SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS EXPOSITIO. SATURNALIA. VENICE: PHILIPPUS PINCIUS, 29 OCTOBER 1500
Chancery folio (313 x 213mm.), 122 leaves, a–f A–N6 O8, 45 lines plus headline, roman type with some sections in Greek, one white-on-black woodcut initial, 3- to 9-line initial spaces (some with printed guides), woodcut diagrams, woodcut map, early annotations in a fine humanist hand, old reused vellum with printed waste in binding, occasional light foxing or browning, a few small marginal tears
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Petrus Vasquies (Vasquez), inscription on rear flyleaf, stating that he bought this book for 4 and a half nummi in Alcalá in 1516, the year in which the founder of the Complutensian College, Cardinal Francisco Ximenes, died (though he died in 1517)
Goff M13; HC 10430; BMC v 499; BSB-Ink M-5; Bod-inc M-005; GW M19705; Campbell, Earliest Printed Maps 90; Klebs 638.5; Sander 4075