Isidori Etymologiarum opus idem de summo bono.

Etymologiae

Etymologiarum opus idem de summo bono

[Venice] : [Bonetus Locatellus], [between 1501 and 1510?]

8, 7-75 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 21 leaves : illustrations (woodcut) ; folio (31 cm)

Goff, I-188

Hain-Copinger, *9277

Proctor-Isaac, 12508

Title from first leaf.

Goff gives imprint as: Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, after 1500. BM 15th cent. does not include this work, but states that Scotus died on Christmas Eve 1498 after which time Locatellus worked for Scotus' heirs and other patrons and his press was active throughout the first decade of the 16th cent. Cf. BM 15th cent., V, p. 435.

Signatures: 2a⁸2b-2m⁶2n⁴a-c⁶d⁴(-d4).

Numbers 7-8 repeated in foliation of first numbered section.

Text in double columns; woodcut initials; woodcut illustration (tree of consanguinity) on verso of leaf 35.

"In Christi nomi[n]e i[n]cipit liber p[ri]mus Sancti Isidori Hispalensis episcopi De summo bono": head of recto of leaf 1 of 21 leaf section.

"Aetymologiaru[m] tabula": verso of leaf 75 and recto and verso of following unnumbered leaf.

Copy 1. Bound in 16th century parchment. Manuscript autographs on title page: 'Joannis Baptistae Sforzani Hief (?) ... [defaced, illegible] 1599'; 'Jo: Carneof (?) de Luca' (17th cent.); another defaced, dated 1727; 'Conies a Valperga 1773'; 'A. G. Feviers Howell' (20th cent.). Bookplate on front pastedown: 'Il Conte Valperga di Cisirone'.