Title from leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h2r: Impressum Bononiae per me Benedictum hectoris bononie[n]sis adhibita p[er] uiribus solertia & diligentia. Anno salutis. M.cccclxxxxvii. quarto idus Maii Illustrissimo Io. Bentiuolo reip. bonon. habenas foeliciter moderante.
Printed in Hectoris's type 6:112R and a Greek type.
Signatures: a-b⁶ c-f⁴ g⁸ h²: 38 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
With some of the printed marginalia in Greek.
Edited by Filippo Beroaldo. Also contains Cebes of Thebes's Tabula, translated by Ludovicus Odaxius; Pseudo-Lucianus's De virtute conquerente [i.e. Virtus Dea by Leo Baptista Alberti]; the Enchiridion of Epictetus, translated by Angelus Politianus; De legendis antiquorum libris sive De liberalibus studiis by Basilius Magnus, translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus; De invidia, translated by Nicolaus Perottus; and Plutarch's De invidia et odio.
"De virtute conquerente is said in the book to be a translation by Carolus (Marsupinus) Aretinus of a work by Lucianus; it is in fact Leo Baptista Alberti's original Latin Virtus Dea." Cf. ISTC.
40 lines, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 227 (235) x 139 (169) mm. Initial spaces with guide-letters. Without foliation and catchwords; with signatures. Register and printer's device on recto of last leaf (h2).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 20.2 cm.
Censorinus de die natali
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary notations in Latin and Greek, predominantly in first-half of work.