tib00703000

Text-inc Id:

tib00703000

Bod-inc Id:

B-358

Headings:

Blondus, Flavius Roma triumphans.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Blondus, Flavius: [Letter addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[Q]uotquot hactenus scriptores et uates opera sua principibus inscripsere . . .’
2. [a1v] Blondus, Flavius: ‘In Romae triumphantis libros Proemium'. Incipit: ‘[A]rdenti uirtute praestantique ingenio ferme omnes sermones quos de gestis rebus . . .’
3. [a2v] Blondus, Flavius: Roma triumphans. Incipit: ‘[R]eligionem deorum culturam esse Nonius Marcellus scribit. Eandem . . .’ On the passage omitted in the printing see BMC and also Luciano Capra, ‘Un tratto di “Roma triumphans” omesso dagli stampatori', Italia medioevale e umanistica, 20 (1977), 303-22.

Imprint:

[Mantua: Petrus Adam, de Michaelibus, c.1473]. Folio. For arguments for ascribing the book to Mantua see BMC; Pr and GW ascribe the book to [Brescia: Printer for Pietro Villa].

Collation:

[a–b¹⁰ c–l⁸ m⁶ n–o⁸ p⁶ q–y⁸ z⁴.]

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00703000 GW 4424; HCR 3244; Goff B‑703; BMC VII 927; Pr 6942; Sheppard 5616. LCN: 13962324

Copies:

1. B-358(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 342 × 240 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 332 × 228 mm. Early marginal notes with a few corrections to the text in two or three hands. Six leaves of fifteenth-century manuscript bound at the end, on fol. 1^r: Beda, De temporum ratione, extract from lib. I ch. 1, De computo vel loquela digitorum (see PL XC 296,7); on fol. 1^v: pseudo-Valerius Messala Corvinus, Ad Oct. Augustum de progenia sua: incipit: ‘Cum frequenter me digna moneat postulatio tua gentium, gloriosissime Imperator, ut . . . tui sæculi perenne ac immortale decus. Cæsar Aug.’ On [a1r] a contemporary north-east Italian eight-line epigraphic initial is supplied in gold on a blue, maroon, and green background and a white vine-stem ending in pink blossoms; in the inner margin a white vine-stem border touched in pink and incorporating a lamb, on a blue, maroon, and green background, edged in black, and with a single gold dot; six-line epigraphic initials supplied in gold on a green, maroon, and blue backgrounds with white or yellow filigree decoration; Pächt and Alexander II, 115 no. pr. 144. Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's, anonymous sale (23 Apr. 1857), lot 258, for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1857), 9. SHELFMARK: Auct 4Q 2.14.