Oratio de laudibus Helenae [trsl. Joannes Petrus Lucensis] [And] Herodotus: Historiae [trsl. Laurentius Valla. Ed. Antonius Mancinellus].

Folio: [8]-cxxxiiii ff., 44 ll. (esp. marginal waterstains and wormhole to the first quires, inner margins of 2 first ff. strengthened).

18th-c. overl. vellum, blind orn. covers, flat spine with red leather label, red edges (scratch on front cover, lower cover sl. rubbed).

Translation from the Greek of Isocrates' Helen by Joannes Petrus Lucensis, professor of "belles lettres" in Lucca. The Herodotus is a reprint "frequently page-for-page", of De Gregoriis' 1494 edition. The letter of Mancinellus to Nicolaus Rubeus is at the end in our edition. Roman type. Capital spaces, with guide-letters. One large initial on f. I. Ref. ISTC ii00212000. - GW 12325. - Goff I-212. - BMC V:475. - BSB-Ink I-645. Prov. "Fontana" (ms. entry). - Unidentified painted coat-of-arms on f. I. - "Ignatius" (?), Franciscan (ms. entry). - Occ. ms. marginalia. - [Georges Petit].