11 - [FLORUS (Lucius Annaeus)].

[FLORUS (Lucius Annaeus)]. Lutii Flori gestorum Romanorum // Epithoma incipit. [At the explicit:] Finis // Printed by me, [master] Sigismund Rot de Bitz, in Siena, n.d. [Siena, Sigismund Rodt, circa 1486/1489]. In-8° (144 x 202 mm), brown half-shagreen, decorated ribbed spine (mid-19th-century binding). 56 ff. signed: a-g8. Title page following the epistle, in the center of the recto of the second folio. Text in Gothic type, single-column. 30 lines per page. Numerous initials in red and blue ink. Numerous handwritten inscriptions from the period in the margins and between the lines (especially in the second half of the volume). A work to which Béroalde contributed, as indicated by the epistle, which occupies the verso of the first folio (the recto of which is blank) and half of the recto of the second, and which begins with these words: “To the illustrious Count Peter Mariam Ru//beum of Parma: A Letter from Philip B[e]roald of Bologna. ” A few foxing spots and stains; a small, restored tear in the margin of the first folio; and the last folio, which is damaged in the margin and has been restored by lamination. Hain, 7200 for the 1473 edition.