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tih00153000
- Text-inc Id:
- tih00153000
- Bod-inc Id:
- H-079
- Headings:
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Hierocles Alexandrinus
In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.
- Analysis of content:
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a2r Aurispa, Johannes: [Preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. ‘Ad Nicolaum pontificem V. Aurispae in Hieroclem praefatio.’ Incipit: ‘[M]irabar sepe et quidnam cause fuisset mecum ipse dubitabam quod neque in litteris neque in edificiis . . .’ a3r Explicit: ‘... Rem enim Pythagorei quesiverunt et utilitatem, non verba.’
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a3r [Title] ‘Hiercolis philosophi stoici et sanctissimi in aureos versus Pithagorae opusculum praestantissimum et religioni christiane consentaneum incipit.’
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a3v Hierocles Alexandrinus: In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum. [Translated by] Johannes Aurispa. Incipit: ‘[S]apientiae studium est quod in purgatione et perfectione humanae . . .’ h8r Explicit: ‘... ut ipsorum utilitatem consequamur, et quamvis tarde eam tamen acquiramus.’ [The translator is identified in his preface].
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h8r Colophon: ‘Impressum Rome per Iohannem Besicken et Sigismundum Mayer, anno M.cccc.xciii. die xix. Decembris.’
- Imprint:
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Rome
Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer
4°.
Secundo folio: posus et in mundus res nimium lucentes discerne (a4r)
19 Dec. 1493
- Collation:
- a–h8. First leaf blank. Woodcut initials.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian; Venezia N
ISTC: ih00153000
HC *8547;
Goff H‑153;
BMC IV 139;
Pr 3978;
BSB‑Ink H‑236; CIBN H‑90; Sheppard 3163-4.
LCN: 14511817
- Copies:
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H-079(1)
First copy
Binding: Nineteenth-century grey paper boards. Scar of an index tab on a2.
Size: 208 × 150 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 203 × 137 mm.
Two- and three-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; some underlining in red. Author, title, and date of edition on a1r in a sixteenth-century(?) hand.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1851), 34.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.36.
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H-079(2)
Second copy
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 211 × 147 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 203 × 135 mm.
Occasional early marginal annotations and pointing hands.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 1642.
Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. O 2.26.
