til00312000

Text-inc Id:

til00312000

Bod-inc Id:

L-165

Headings:

Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus Lucain, Suetone, et Salluste [French].

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[S]elon le dict du philozophe tous hommes naturelement desirent scauoir . . .’
3. a2v [Preface by the translator.] ‘Le translateur.’ Incipit: ‘[E]t pour ce que Lucan fist son liure en langue Latine et termes rhetoriques . . .’
4. a3r Lucain, Suetone et Salluste [French]. Incipit: ‘[P]remierement fut come gouuernee par roys et ainsy que dit Paul Orose Romulus en fut premier roy . . .’ A life of Julius Caesar, partly based on the Pharsalia.
5. A1r ‘Le table de ce present liure.’
6. A4r [Colophon.]

Imprint:

Paris: Pierre Le Rouge, for Antoine Vérard, 22 Dec. 1490. Folio.

Collation:

a–z [et]⁸ [con]⁸⁺¹ A⁴. Types: 117 B, text; 236 G, headings. 2 columns. 205 leaves. Leaves numbered i–cci. 48 lines, plus headlines (a4r, col. 2). Type area: 282 (296) ×180 mm (a4r, cropped very close to headlines). Woodcuts: see Macfarlane, and Henri Monceaux, Les Le Rouge de Chablis. Calligraphes et miniaturistes, graveurs et imprimeurs, 2 vols (Paris, 1896), I 245-6.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00312000 H 10244; Goff L‑312; Pr 8094; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xliv, no. 216; CIBN L‑224; Claudin I 479-80; Macfarlane 12; Oates 3009; Pellechet MS. 7268 (7210); Sheppard 6295. LCN: 14500824

Copies:

1. L-165(1) Copy Gathering f bound in the following order: f_{4, 1-3, 6-8, 5}. With variant colophon: ‘Cy finiſt Lucan Suetoine [et] Sa | luſte en francoys Imprime a paris Le | xxij^e iour de decēbre miliiij^CC.iiij^xx.[et] x. | . . . no| ſtreſire . . . | . . . lymage | . . .’ The device of Le Rouge below the colophon has been cut away, and one of Bocard's inserted later. On the verso of the leaf is a modern reproduction of a device of Vérard. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine and marbled pastedowns. Size: 357 × 260 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 350 × 249 mm. Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); sale, 1 Aug. 1859, lot 1469. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 68. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 2.15.