tif00142000

Text-inc Id:

tif00142000

Bod-inc Id:

F-032

Headings:

Festus, Sextus Pompeius De verborum significatione (ed. Pomponius Laetus).

Analysis of content:

[a1r] Festus, Sextus Pompeius: De verborum significatione. ‘De interpretatione lingue Latine'.’ Edited by Pomponius Laetus, as stated in the colophon. Fest.; P. K. M[arshall], ‘Sex. Pompeius Festus', Texts and Transmission, 162-4 does not refer to this edition.

Imprint:

[Rome: Georgius Lauer, 1471-2]. 4°. The initials ‘H. G.' at the end are probably those of Hans (Johannes) Glim: see BMC VII p. lx.

Collation:

[a–f¹⁰ g–i⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: if00142000 HR 7037; Goff F‑142; BMC IV 37; GW 9861; Pr 3408; Sheppard 2728. LCN: 14383760

Copies:

F-032(1) Copy Bound with:
1. Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina. Analogia. [Rome: Georgius Lauer, c.1471-2] (V‑045). Wanting the blank leaf [i8]; [a1] and [i7] are wanting with the missing text being supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile; this was noted in the Spencer sale catalogue (1821). Binding: Parchment; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 276 × 208 × 36 mm. Size of leaf: 270 × 193 mm. Copious marginal annotations in a number of hands, one contemporary, mainly extracting key words; also underlining in the text. Some early notes in both items in the same hand. Manuscript pagination: 3-164. Epigraphic initials are supplied in blue. Provenance: Boccaccio family, of Florence; coat of arms on [a1r] of item 1: within a wreath, or, a leopard's head sable within a bordure indented of the tinctures, with motto ‘Dii meliora ferant'. Perhaps Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 41. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 314; purchased for £1. 7. 0: see Books Purchased (1821), 14 and the annotated sale catalogue. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.22(2).

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