Title from caption in capitals at beginning of the table of contents on leaf [pi1] verso.

Imprint derived from colophon (q8 recto): Diodori Siculi Bibliothece historiae libri: In quibus Prisce res: fabulae: & multa ac uaria de situ locoru[m] ac moribus gentium co[n]tinentur: Impressi Venetiis per Andrea[m] Iacobi Kathare[n]sem Andrea Vendramino Duce fortunatissimo .Mcccclxxvi. Pridie kal[endas]. febr[uarii].

Translated by Poggio Bracciolini.

Signatures: [pi]℗ø a℗£́ʻ b-ḱı ĺœ m-ńı óœ p-q́ı (a1=blank).

Chancery folio; 36 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 251

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D-211

Incunabula short title catalogue, id00211000

Cataloged 20170806 jmoschela

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century vellum. Maroon leather spine label stamped in gilt. Bookplate of the BPL Francis Skinner Fund, with two star-shaped ink stamps on front pastedown. Early/contemporary marginalia and rubrication heavily washed away and faded. Leaf dimensions: 293 x 204 mm. Purchased March 1936.