tid00251000

Text-inc Id:

tid00251000

Bod-inc Id:

D-097

Headings:

Dionysius Halicarnaseus Antiquitates Romanae.

Subjects:

history

Analysis of content:

1. a2r [Biragus Florentinus, Lampugninus?]: [Dedicatory introduction, addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. ‘Proemium. Clementissimo, ac santissimo Paulo secundo d. domino nostro papae.’ Incipit: ‘[E]tsi, Pontifex maxime et optime, ea est tua virtus eaque imperii ...’ a2v Explicit: ‘... videre potes hunc Dionysium, mutata veste, nec (ut scripsit) de rebus latinis graece nunc loquentem.’
2. a3r Dionysius Halicarnaseus: Antiquitates Romanae. Translated by Lampugninus Biragus Florentinus. ‘Dionysii Halicarnasei Originum sive Antiquitatum Romanarum liber primus.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um minime vellem rationes, quae reddi solent in proemiis . . .’ D10r Explicit: ‘... flagitiosissimi vero pravissimique sine censu relinquerentur, locumque alium perciperent, in quo liceret eis, ut vellent, vivere.’
3. D10r Biragus Florentinus, Lampugninus: [Editorial note on the transposition of certain passages, addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[E]st conuersum, sanctissime pater, id omne quod in ambobus tuis codicibus ...’ Explicit: ‘... Tu me oro pro tua egregia animi nobilitate magnificentiaque commendatum habe deditissimum tibi servulum. Lappus Biragus Flor.’
4. D10r Colophon: ‘Dionysii Alicarnasei Romanarum Antiquitatum explicit. Impressum Regii per me Franciscum de Mazalis, anno Domini Mcccclxxxxviii. die xii. Novembris.’
5. D10r [Printer's device and register].

Imprint:

Reggio Emilia Franciscus de Mazalibus Folio Secundo folio: a3r: DIONYSII HALICARNASEI 12 Nov. 1498.

Collation:

a–z⁸ &⁸ A–C⁸ D¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian; Subiaco Ben (III B 13) ISTC: id00251000 HC, Addenda *6240; Goff D‑251; BMC VII 1089; GW 8424; Pr 7256; BSB‑Ink D‑175; Rhodes 691; Sheppard 6015. LCN: 14887273

Copies:

1. D-097(1) Copy Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) parchment over pasteboards; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 303 × 213 × 57 mm. Size of leaf: 294 × 201 mm. Provenance: Martinus de Ghees (sixteenth century); a cancelled sixteenth-century(?) inscription on a1v: ‘Dominus Martinus de Ghees hunc librum [ ] Orate pro eo'. Gulielmus van Hamme (1602-1668); an inscription on front endleaf: ‘emptus 3 flor. 15ß. Ex libris Guilelmi van Hamme presbyteri et canonici Antwerp.' Petrus van Hove (1726-1790); an inscription on front pastedown: ‘Ad usum fratri Petri van Hove, Minor. Recoll.’ Purchased for £0. 13. 6; see Books Purchased (1822), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.24.