tif00214000

Text-inc Id:

tif00214000

Bod-inc Id:

F-073

Headings:

Flores Legum Flores legum secundum ordinem alphabeti.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r Flores legum secundum ordinem alphabeti. Incipit: ‘  “[A]nte primum nihil est”. In prohemio ff ss nos vero . . .’ See Stintzing 122-3.

Imprint:

Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, for Lazarus de Suardis, [c.1496-8]. 8°. Format is 8°, not 4°, as in BMC; privilege as GW Anm. 1.

Collation:

a–f⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: if00214000 GW 10057 (Anm. 1); HC *7169; Goff F‑214; BMC V 376; Pr 4901; BSB‑Ink F‑152; Essling 1280; Sack, Freiburg, 1458; Sander 2795; Sheppard 4000. LCN: 14124780

Copies:

1. F-073(1) Copy Wanting f1. Binding: Twentieth-century brown cloth, bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 216 × 138 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 130 mm. On a1r: ‘Mi pila subripuit puerum glaucique salaces | Nunc Veneris puer est; Palladis ante fuit', an elegiac distich here ascribed to [Antonius] Mancinellus; also two legal extracts, incipit: ‘Quando quis amisisset feudum ut alium uere immobilem et uellet agere rei vindicationem . . .' ‘Committens homicidium sine dolo non punitur tamquam homicidium . . .' Further legal extracts among the copious early marginal notes and pointing hands. On f8v an extract on the nature of man, ascribed to Hiero, incipit: ‘[Nihil] homo est nisi daemonis imago qui omnia ad sui commodum refert . . .’ On a2r a four-line initial ‘A' is supplied in faded black ink. Provenance: Cesare Saluzzo (1778-1853); book-plate, c.1835: see Bragaglia III, no. 1827. Purchased in Sept. 1924, from Oppenheim & Co. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.5.