TEXT-inc
a corpus of texts printed in the 15th century

TEXT-inc

til00023000

Text-inc Id:
til00023000
Bod-inc Id:
L-018
Headings:
Laetus, Julius Pomponius Grammaticae compendium.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Letter addressed to] Ranalius, canon in Padua. Incipit: ‘Superioribus annis uolumina quaedam grammatices . . .’
  2. a1v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Noscere romanae qui uis primordia lingue | Huc fuge polliceor me duce doctus eris'; 3 elegiac distichs.
  3. a2r Laetus, Julius Pomponius: Grammaticae compendium. Incipit: ‘[G]rammatice est ars necessaria . . .’ See J. Ruysschaert, ‘Les manuels de grammaire latine composés par Pomponio Leto', Scriptorium, 8 (1954), 98-107, at 103-4.
  4. e7v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [First versified conclusion.] Incipit: ‘Iamque petit finem pueris sacer iste libellus | Cum sit pro pueris tam breuis esse cupit'; 2 elegiac distichs.
  5. e7v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Second conclusion, addressed to] Ranalius. Incipit: ‘Habes suauissime Ranali . . .’
Imprint:
Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 31 Mar. 1484. 4°.
Collation:
a–e8.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00023000 HCR 9834; Goff L‑23; BMC V 323; Pr 4624; CIBN P‑560; Hillard 1678; Rhodes 1074; Sheppard 3845. LCN: 14087969
Copies:
  1. L-018(1) Copy Bound with:
    1. Julius Pomponius Laetus, Romanae historiae compendium. Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, 23 Apr. 1499 (L‑019(2));
    2. Julius Pomponius Laetus, De Romanorum magistratibus. [Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, after 1497] (L‑022). Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled pasteboards; bound for Kloß. Partial manuscript title and shelfmark, ‘300', across the fore-edge and along the lower edge. Size: 221 × 158 × 25 mm. Size of leaf: 212 × 149 mm. A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, underlining, and manuscript foliation: 1-116, in Scheurl's hand. Provenance: Christoph Scheurl (1481-1542); inscription on a1r of item 1: ‘Iste liber est mei christoferi schewrlij nure[nbergensis] quod partim Emi rome Anno Iubilei partim bon[onie] et v[alet] totus cum ligatura bon[oninorum] 35. Laus deo.'; see Wagner 76-7, who lists on 77 the other items formerly bound with this volume. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; his sale (1835), lot 2153. Date of acquisition unknown; books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired in 1834 and 1835. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.31(3).