[Historiae Romanae decades].

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [42]/12v): .M.CCCC.LXX. Proderat haud multum Livi abs te scripta fuisse / Maxima si romȩ facta pari eloquio: / Q[ue] seu desidiis: alio seu crimine quovis: / Sive & temporibus cuncta fere occiderant: Queq[ue] superfuerant opera: hec tam rara videri: / Ut pene ipsorum copia nulla for[et]: / Et Vindelino debebis tu qoqu[ue]: formis / Egregie impressit has modo qui decadas: Atq[ue] ipsas iisdem scevis velut hostibus acri / Bellow oppugnatas fortiter eripuit. ...
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [Dec. I: 1-2¹²; 3-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰(+1*: bella opti[m]e) 13-15¹⁰ 16-17⁸; Dec. II: 18-24¹⁰; Dec. III: 25-31¹⁰; Dec. IV: 32-34¹⁰ 35-36⁸ 37-41¹⁰ 42¹⁴]: 421 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [17]/8, and [42]/14 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
A copy is known (formerly in the collection of W.H. Crawford, sold at Sotheby's 12 March 1891, lot 1905, again 30 Nov. 1995, lot 280) with a colophon date 1469, which is an eighteenth-century forgery: see M. Castellana in Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire 1891, confirmed by more recent observation.
The outer sheet of quire [c] was reprinted to include a portion of text omitted from the original printing (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38 x 26 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy has additional quires (*⁴ and **⁴) bound at front of each volume with epitomes of each book, leaves *1r-*2r written in alternating gold and blue with blue and gold headings, **1r written in gold with blue headings.
PML copy is Decades I and IV only, in two volumes. Quires [1-2¹²] bound at end of Volume III.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: leaf [1]/1 and [17]/8 (blank) and Dec. II and III: quires 18-24¹⁰; 25-31¹⁰.