tie00120000

Text-inc Id:

tie00120000

Bod-inc Id:

E-049

Headings:

Eusebius Caesariensis De evangelica praeparatione.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] [Georgius Trapezuntius: Preface addressed to Nicolaus V, Pont. Max.] See E‑047.
2. [a2v] [Eusebius Caesariensis: De evangelica praeparatione. Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius.] Incipit: ‘Nuum(!) (corrected to Quum) quid sit Christianismus nescientibus aperire statuerim . . .’
3. [p8v] [Cornazanus, Antonius: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Artis hic et fidei splendet mirabile numen | Quod fama auctores auget honore deos'; 2 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

[Venice]: Leonhardus Aurl, 1473. Folio.

Collation:

[a¹² b–o¹⁰ p⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ie00120000 GW 9442; HC *6700; Goff E‑120; BMC V 207; Pr 4220; BSB‑Ink E‑116; Collectanea Trapezuntiana, 722 no. 3; Rhodes 746; Sack, Freiburg, 1381; Sheppard 3388. LCN: 14864596

Copies:

1. E-049(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [a1]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half russia over marbled paper boards; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 286 × 213 × 33 mm. Size of leaf: 279 × 195 mm. On [a2r] a 12-line initial ‘C' is supplied in blue within a red frame and with pen-work extending into the margin, a 12-line initial ‘C' is supplied in brown ink with elaborate pen-work infill and extensions into the margin, partly covered by a later ‘N' (erroneous); on [g10v] a seven-line blue ‘N' framed in red and inhabited by a monk's face; two-line initials are supplied in red, some in blue, sometimes with red pen-work infill and decoration, or in red, occasionally with pen-work infill and decoration in black ink. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), Catalogue (1833), pt I, no. 1189. Purchased for £2. 2. 0: see Books Purchased (1833), 8. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 4.17. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 2.10.