tid00186000

Text-inc Id:

tid00186000

Bod-inc Id:

D-059

Headings:

Dictys Cretensis Historia Troiana (ed. Franciscus Faragonius).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r Faragonius, Franciscus: [Letter to] Bernardus Riccius Messanensis. Incipit: ‘[D]ictyn Cretensem gravem historicum . . .’
3. a3r Faragonius, Franciscus: ‘Epigramma'. Dedicated to Bernardus Riccius Messanensis. Incipit: ‘Ediderat mundo summum pia Creta tonantem'; 6 elegiac distichs.
4. a3r [Faragonius, Franciscus?]: ‘Hexastichon'. Incipit: ‘Vndeni versus partem si sumpseris imam'; 3 elegiac distichs.
5. a3v [Faragonius, Franciscus?]: ‘Tetrastichon'. Incipit: ‘Tarpei montis templum Dictynna colossus'; 2 elegiac distichs.
6. a3v [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Distichon'. Incipit: ‘Vertice nata dei quondam velut egide Sais'; 1 elegiac distich.
7. a3v [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Monostichon'. Incipit: ‘Ilion obsedit bello gens Greca bilustri'; 1 hexameter.
8. a3v [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Appendiculae ad libri interpretationem'. Incipit: ‘Minos Iouis et Europe filius . . .’
9. a5r Faragonius, Franciscus: ‘Epigramma'. Dedicated to Bernardus Riccius Messanensis. Incipit: ‘Phoebigenam precibus mouit Dictynna suborcum'; 11 elegiac distichs.
10. a5v Septimius, [Lucius]: [Letter addressed to] Quintus Aradius. ‘Prologus'. Edited by Franciscus Faragonius. Dictys Cretensis, ed. Eisenhut, 1-2.
11. a6r Dictys Cretensis [pseudo-]: Historia Troiana. ‘Historia belli Troiani'. Edited by Franciscus Faragonius. Dictys Cretensis, ed. Eisenhut, 3-133.
12. h6v [First colophon.]
13. i1r [Genealogical note.] Incipit: ‘[O]rigo Troianorum Dardanus fuit . . .’
14. i1r Cornelius Nepos [pseudo-]: [Letter addressed to] Sallustius Crispus. Dares Phrygius, De excidio Trojae historia, ed. Ferdinand Meister (Leipzig, 1873), 1.
15. i1v Dares Phrygius [pseudo-]: De excidio Troiae historia. Dares, De excidio Trojae historia, ed. Meister, 2-52.
16. k11r Faragonius, Franciscus: ‘Ad lectorem'. Incipit: ‘Iam sunt plena malis hec tempora nostra nefandis'; 5 elegiac distichs.
17. k11v [Second colophon.]

Imprint:

Messina: Guilelmus Schonberger, 7 May 1498; 20 May 1498. 4°.

Collation:

a–f⁸ g h⁶ i⁸ k¹². Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: id00186000 GW 8327; HC *6157; Goff D‑186; BMC VII 1077; Pr 6939; Concetta Bianca, Stampa cultura e società a Messina alla fine del Quattrocento, 2 vols (Palermo, 1988), 18; BSB‑Ink D‑129; Oates 2613-4; Sheppard 5990. LCN: 14815913

Copies:

1. D-059(1) Copy Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century limp parchment; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 199 × 150 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 145 mm. Copious early marginal notes in a humanist hand, extracting key words and providing short summaries or captions. Provenance: Francesco Capecelatro (1595-1670); on a1r an inscription: ‘Don Francesco Capecelatro'. Probably acquired after 1738; not in Fysher, Catalogus; judging from the shelfmark acquired before c.1825; see Catalogus (1843), I 705. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.13.