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tid00222000

Text-inc Id:
tid00222000
Bod-inc Id:
D-078
Headings:
Diogenes Laertius Vitae et sententiae philosophorum (ed. Benedictus Brognolus).
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.]
  2. a1v Benedictus Brognolus: [Letter to] Laurentius Georgius [Zorzi] and Jacobus Baduarius [Badoer]. Incipit: ‘[T]imonem ferunt, optimi iuuenes . . .’ Dated Venice, 12 Aug. 1475.
  3. a2r [Traversarius], Ambrosius: [Letter to] Cosimus de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[V]oluenti mihi quaedam Graeca volumina . . .’ See D‑076.
  4. a2v ‘Tabula secundum ordinem librorum'.
  5. a3r Diogenes Laertius: Vitae et sententiae philosophorum. Translated by Ambrosius Traversarius. Incipit: ‘[P]hilosophiam a barbaris initia sumpsisse . . .’ See D‑076.
Imprint:
Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 18 Dec. 1490. 4°.
Collation:
a–o8. Woodcut initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: id00222000 GW 8381; HC *6202; Goff D‑222; BMC V 438; Pr 5024; BSB‑Ink D‑157; Hillard 733; Oates 1959; Sheppard 4184. LCN: 14817757
Copies:
  1. D-078(1) Copy Binding: Sixteenth-century(?) pasteboards; stitched onto two leather ties which have been stabbed through the spine and the covers. Size: 221 × 167 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 217 × 159 mm. Copious early marginal notes in a humanist hand, extracting key words and providing captions. Provenance: Purchased either in 1858 for £0. 8. 6 (Books Purchased (1858), 32); or in 1860 for £0. 7. 0 (Books Purchased (1860), 23). Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 1Q 5.84. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.65.