78/2691 [Incunabula and early 16th cent. books]. Jornandes./ Diaconus Foroiuliensis, P. De rebus Gothorum./ De gestis Longobardum. Ed. C. Peutinger. Augsb., Joh. Miller, 1515, 2 parts in 1 vol., (25); (44) lvs., full-p. title-woodcut by H. BURGKMAIR and printer's device by D. HOPFER, contemp. limp vellum, sm. folio.

- Lacks the blank after fol.25 in first part; first few leaves sl. fingersoiled in lower blank corner; one leaf restored in blank margin; one leaf w. tiny hole (loss of letters) in text; num. contemp. manuscript annots. (including several tiny drawings of heads/ doodles), in margins and foliation in contemp. hand in top margin. Lacks ties. Fine copy.

= Provenance: two early 17th cent. owner's entries in lower blank margin of woodcut title i.a. of Jacob Rossius (the other owner's entry is crossed out). The work by the sixth century historian Jordanis (Jornandes), here in the first printed edition by Conrad Peutinger, is an important and very early source on the history of the Goths. Jornandes based his work on the Gothic history by his friend Cassiodorus Senator (a work that has not survived). Enea Silvio Piccolomini rediscovered a manuscript of Jornandes' text in 1442 and Peutinger was the first to publish it. The second work on the history of the Longobards was first published at Paris in 1514, also from a newly discovered manuscript. The wonderful woodcut title of the first work shows Athanaric, King of Goths and Alboin, King of the Longobards, both in full armour and seated in a hall, engaged in (almost relaxed) conversation. Fairfax Murray (German) I, 229; Adams J320; BM STC German p.463; Hollstein (Burgmair) 305.