tic00742000

Text-inc Id:

tic00742000

Bod-inc Id:

C-378

Headings:

Cleonides Harmonicum introductorium [Latin].

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Title-page with table of contents.]
2. [a1v] Georgius Valla: [Letter to] Victor Pisanus. Incipit: ‘[P]ythagoreorum platonicorumque sententia . . .’
3. [a2r] Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Translated by Georgius Valla. Incipit: ‘[H]armonica scientia est inspectiua . . .’ A translation of the εἰσαγωγὴ ἁρμονική ; , in the manuscript tradition ascribed to Euclides, Pappos or Cleonides; see Karl von Jan, ‘Die Harmonik des Aristoxenianers Kleonides', Programm des Gymnasiums mit Realklassen zu Landsberg a. W. (Landsberg an der Warthe, 1870), 3-23, at 17-19.
4. [*1v] ‘Index' [to Vitruvius].
5. A1r Vitruvius Pollio: De architectura. Dedicated to Emperor Augustus. In this edition the author's name is given as L[ucius]. Vitr. See Lucia A. Ciapponi, ‘Vitruvius', in CTC III 399-403.
6. L4r [Colophon.]
7. 2a1r Politianus, Angelus: [Panepistemon.] Maïer I 462-73.
8. b1r Politianus, Angelus: Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis analytica. Titulus Lamia. Lamia: Praelectio in Priora Aistotelis analytica, ed. A. Wesseling (Leiden, 1986).
9. aa1r Frontinus, Sextus Julius: De aquis urbis Romae. ‘De aquis quae in urbem influunt libellus mirabilis'. Fron. Aq.

Imprint:

Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497. Folio.

Collation:

[a⁸] [*²] A–I⁶ K L^{4 2}a b aa⁶ bb⁴. Gathering [a] numbered but not signed. Woodcut diagrams and initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00742000 GW 7123; HC *5451; C 4804 (Politianus only); R 290 (Politianus only); Goff C‑742; BMC V 522, XII 37; Pr 5404; BSB‑Ink C‑461; Hillard 647; Rhodes 592; Sack, Freiburg, 1056-7; Sander 2017; Sheppard 4483-4. LCN: 14864905

Copies:

1. C-378(1) First copy Bound with:
   2. Isocrates, Oratio de laudibus Helenae. [Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, c.1498-1500] (I‑043(2)). Gatherings aa and bb bound after L4. Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) Italian parchment over pasteboards; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 312 × 220 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 306 × 207 mm. Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-85); see Morelli (1787), III lot 7614; ‘7614' in black ink on the front endleaf; sale (1789), lot 12520. Purchased for £1. 1. 0; the annotated sale catalogue gives no name of purchaser, but the same price as Books Purchased (1789), 5. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 1.10. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 3.31(1).
2. C-378(2) Second copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco with maroon cloth over paper boards; bound for Bywater. Size: 314 × 224 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 308 × 204 mm. Manuscript diagram in an early hand inserted on a single round leaf. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 944. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. B 5.8.