| Title | Plutarchi Historiographi gręci liber De viris clarissimis: | Translate |
| Author | Plutarch, | Translate |
| Type | Book | Translate |
| Imprint | [Strasbourg] : [The 'R-Printer' (Adolf Rusch)] | Translate |
| Year | [after 1470-1471] | Translate |
| Size | 40 cm (folio) | Translate |
| Annotation | Title and statement of responsibility from incipit main work (vol. 1, leaf [3] recto), which reads: Plutarchi Historiographi gręci liber E viris clarissimis: de gręco sermone in latinum Diuiersis plurimoru[m] interpretationibus viro[rum] illustrium translatus Publication statement from ISTC. Dated about 1473-1475 by P. Needham (Christie's, Doheny 16, Sotheby's Schøyen 6), who prefers to see Mentelin in association with Rusch as responsible for the work of the R-printer. Vol. 1, leaf 2a recto: dedication letter by Giannantonio Campano to Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, the latter pope Pius III, with first line: Campanus Francisco Piccolominio Cardinali Senensi meo Salutem. Collegi nuper dispersas gręcorum Latinorumq[ue] principu[m] vitas, à Plutarcho scriptas gręce: a diuersis inde int[er]pretibus latinas factas: Dedication is followed by a table of contents (vol.1, leaf [2] recto-[2] verso). Edited by Johannes Antonius Campanus. Translations by Lapo da Castiglionchio, Francesco Filelfo, Donato Acciaiuoli, Guarino Veronese, Antonio Pacini, Francesco Barbaro, Leonardo Bruni, Alamanno Rinuccini, Leonardo Giustiniani, Battista Guarini, Jacques Angeli, and Pellegrino Agli. Includes lives of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, and Carolus Magnus by Donatus Acciaiolus; of Agesilaus by Xenophon (attributed to Plutarch); of Cicero by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (attributed to Plutarch); of Evagoras by Isocrates; of T. Pomponius Atticus by Cornelius Nepos; of Plato by Guarinus Veronensis; of Aristoteles by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus; of Homer, ascribed to Herodotus [translated by Pellegrino Agli]; and of Virgil by Donatus. (ISTC). Includes also: De historia Romana by Sextus Rufus. Capital spaces without guide letters. Signatures vol. 1 according to BSB-Ink: [a¹² b¹⁰ c⁸ d-n¹⁰ o⁸ p-z¹⁰ A-C¹⁰ D⁸ E¹⁰] Signatures vol. 2 according to BSB-Ink: [aa¹⁰ bb¹² cc-mm¹⁰ nn⁶ oo-zz¹⁰ AA¹⁰] Incunabula short title catalogue, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Incunabula in Dutch Libraries, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, ip00831000 M34477 3748 P-625 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION WITHOUT LOCAL DATA OF ANY INSTITUTION. PLEASE DO NO MATCH OR MERGE WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF SAME MANIFESTION CONTAINING LOCAL DATA OF ANY INSTITUTION. | Translate |
| Location | Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht | Translate |
| Call number | W fol 125 (Rariora) | Translate |
| Place | Strasbourg | Translate |
| Publisher | Mentelin, Johann | Translate |
| Region | Greece | Translate |
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