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tib00320420

Text-inc Id:
tib00320420
Bod-inc Id:
A-165
Headings:
Alexander Benedictus De observatione in pestilentia.
Analysis of content:
  1. A1r [Title-page.]
  2. A1v Cimbriacus, [Elius] Quintius Aemilianus: ‘Hendecasyllabicon', dedicated to the reader. Incipit: ‘Qui non volt Stygiis fata sub umbris | Saeua pestilitate disperire'; 11 hendecasyllabic verses.
  3. A2r Alexander Benedictus: [Letter addressed to] Giacomo Contarini. Incipit: ‘[G]alenus qui post diuinum Hippocratem secundum . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 578.
  4. A4r [Table of contents.]
  5. A4v Alexander Benedictus: De observatione in pestilentia. Incipit: ‘[D]iximus de iis febribus in putridae materiae . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 445 and Pesenti 50 no. 1.
  6. D3r [Colophon.]
  7. D3v ‘Errores sparsim collecti.’
Imprint:
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 29 July 1493. 4°.
Collation:
A–C8 D4. Running heading ‘Liber Quintus': according to Benedictus's dedication to Jacobus Contarenus (A3r lines 27-9), this is the fifth book out of twelve on fevers promised by Benedictus to Contarenus.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00320420 GW 864; H *807; Goff A‑390; BMC V 344; Pr 4530; BSB‑Ink B‑276; CIBN B‑215; Sheppard 3897. LCN: 13932546
Copies:
  1. A-165(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled covers. Size: 208 × 150 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 205 × 142 mm. Provenance: White label inside the upper cover: ‘Press G176; shelf A; no. 44'. According to Sheppard purchased in 1939, but this has not been verified. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.1493.1.