Frontinus, De aquaeductibus
[Rome, Eucharius Silber, 1483-before 16.08.1487], IGI 4104
The colophon states that Pomponio edited Frontinus' De aquaeductibus together with Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli (for literature on Sulpizio, see Blasio 1986, 495 n. 72 and ead. 1992, 291 n. 8).
"[sig. B8v] Libellum hunc de aquaeductibus cum esset mendosissimus, Pomponius et Sulpitius tanto studio sic emendarunt, ut perpaucorum in eo locorum crorectio [sic!] desideretur. Perquamrara sunt que librarius corrupit aut pretermisit. In quibus in prima charta et facie post intolerabile deest quam. In octaua emendentur cognominatur, erogant, quinarie, inueni. In spatiis in ordine passim relictis, ubi nam aliquando uerba, aliquando quinariarum et fistularum figuræ desint, facile quisque poterit iudicare. Vale candide lector, et siquis ingratus esse uoluerit, librum suum depromat et cum hoc cigno noctuam conferat."
The colophon is transcribed from Vol. Inc. 222/2 of the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, where the Frontinus is bound with Sulpizio's edition of Vitruvius, De Architectura [Rome, Eucharius Silber, c. 1490], IGI 10346. For the Frontinus edition, see Scapecchi 2005, 121.
Marianne Pade
16.10.2008, corr. 27.10.2008
This entry can be cited as follows:
Marianne Pade, "Frontinus, De aquaeductibus [Rome, Eucharius Silber, 1483-before 16.08.1487]," Repertorium Pomponianum (URL: www.repertoriumpomponianum.it/works/frontin_aq_silber.htm,
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