tic00961000

Text-inc Id:

tic00961000

Bod-inc Id:

C-473

Headings:

Crastonus, Johannes Lexicon Graeco-latinum.

Analysis of content:

1. A2r Accursius Pisanus, Bonus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Turrianus. Incipit: ‘[N]emo potest, mea sententia, satis eruditus existimari apud nostros homines . . .’ Saxius 543. View entry in Person Index
2. A3r Crastonus, Johannes: [Lexicon Graeco-latinum.] ‘ Λεξικὸν κατὰ στοιχει̂ον ’. Incipit: ‘Alpha. cum A. [ Ἀ ] αγὴς έος . ὁ . ἡ . infrangibilis . . .’
3. 2a1r Ambrosius Regiensis: [Letter addressed to the] ‘studiosi'. Incipit: ‘[S]ententia illa celebratissima: homines non solum sibi natos uerum partim amicos partim patriam uendicare . . .’
4. 2a1v [Index of important cited authors.] ‘Auctorum loca quaeppiam scitu digna'. Incipit: ‘Ciceronis locus 190 . . .’
5. 2a2r Ambrosius Regiensis: [Index of Latin words.] Incipit: ‘Ab. 29. 67. 179. 238 . . .’
6. 2e6r Ambrosius Regiensis: ‘Errata reformanda'. Incipit: ‘Adhortor insacio 182. pro insanio . . .’
7. 2e6r Manius Regiensis, Lucius: ‘Scazon'. Incipit: ‘Laetare lector; en libellum quem dudum | Moraris, et politus et naeuos tersus'; 12 choliambics.

Imprint:

Modena: Dionysius Bertochus, 1499-1500. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 20 Oct. 1[4]99; (II) [not before 5 July 1500].

Collation:

A B⁸ C–F^6.8 G–Y⁶ Z⁸ [et]⁶ [con] ꝶ⁸ a b⁶ c⁸ d e⁶ f–h⁸ i–m⁶ n^{8 2}a–c^{8 2}d ²e⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00961000 GW 7815; H *5814; Goff C‑961; BMC VII 1067; Pr 7214; BSB‑Ink C‑692; Sack, Freiburg, 1189; Sheppard 5977-8.

Copies:

1. C-473(1) First copy The Latin index of Ambrosius Regiensis dated 1500 bound first. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf with gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 325 × 210 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 311 × 198 mm. A few contemporary marginal notes, mainly noting the Latin authors which are employed, but also making a few lexicographical observations; in continuation of the printed foliation, foliation in arabic numerals, from folio 128. Provenance: Purchased at Joseph Sams (10-15 Nov. 1830), lot 364, through Payne and Foss for £0. 17. 0; see Bills (1829-32), no. 289 and Books Purchased (1831), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.15.
2. C-473(2) Second copy Wanting the blank leaf A1, leaf n8 and all from² a; leaf n7 slightly defective. Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco by Kalthoeber, with his label inside front endleaf; a narrow, a wide, and a narrow fillet form a frame; in the centre, stamped with the arms of Spencer impaling Bingham quartering Turberville; single fillets on edges of boards; Greek key tool on turn-ins; edges of leaves gilt; marbled pastedowns. Size: 320 × 210 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 188 mm. In continuation of the printed foliation, foliation in roman numerals, from folio 128. Provenance: George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); accession number possibly covered by Kalthoeber's label. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘XI.M.j.2': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt V, lot 1717. Sir Edward Sullivan (1822-1885); book-plate; cutting from his sale (1890), lot 1711; annotated with the price £3. 10. 0. Johannes Gennadius (1844-1932); sale (28 Mar. 1895), lot 867; cutting from the catalogue annotated with the price £2. 15. 0. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 995. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. B 5.11.