til00320000

Text-inc Id:

til00320000

Bod-inc Id:

L-171

Headings:

Lucianus Samosatensis Dialogi (ed. Janus Lascaris?) [Greek].

Analysis of content:

1. Α2r Lucianus Samosatensis: ‘ Διάλογοι .’ Probably edited by Janus Lascaris. Opera, ed. M. D. Macleod, 4 vols (Oxford, 1972-87); for the order of the dialogues in this edition, see Lucianus, Zeus tragodos: Überlieferungsgeschichte, Text und Kommentar, ed. Jürgen Coenen, Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, 88 (Meisenheim am Glan, 1977), p. cxliii; for the manuscript used as printer's copy, Paris, BnF, MS. gr. 2954, see Coenen pp. xxii–xxiii; this manuscript was previously owned by Janus Lascaris; for the editorship of Janus Lascaris see M. Fantuzzi, ‘La coscienza del medium tipografico negli editori greci di classici dagli esordi della stampa alla morte di Kallierges', in Dotti bizantini e libri greci nell'Italia del secolo xv, ed. Mariarosa Cortese and Enrico Maltese (Napoli, 1992), 37-60, at 50-1 n. 39.
2. ηη6r Lucianus Samosatensis [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘ Λουκιανὸς τάδ ’ ἔγραψα παλαιά τε μωρά τε εἰδών ‘; 2 elegiac distichs. ed. Macleod, 85, 1.
3. ηη6r [Colophon.]
4. ηη6r ‘ Πίναξ .’

Imprint:

Florence: [Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus], 1496. Folio.

Collation:

Α Β α–θ Ι κ–ω αα–ηη⁸. Leaf Α2 is signed Α1, etc.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00320000 HC (+ Addenda) *10258; Goff L‑320; BMC VI 667; Pr 6408; BSB‑Ink L‑243; CIBN L‑245; Oates 2441; Rhodes 1113; Sheppard 5200-2. LCN: 14503547

Copies:

1. L-171(1) First copy The first leaf is blank; the last leaf (blank) is wanting. Binding: Nineteenth-century calf. Size: 355 × 250 × 60 mm. Size of leaf: 338 × 222 mm. The text is enclosed within modern(?) double purple rules. Provenance: Johannes Guerra (fl. c.1500); inscription on Α2r: ‘Joannis Guerræ & amicorum'. Basilius Paravicinus (†1602); inscription on Α2r: ‘Basilius Parauicinus Nouocomensis medicus 1558'. Como, Lombardy, Jesuits; inscription on Α2r: ‘Coll. Comens. Soc. Jesu'. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.e.2': see Lee, Royal Book-plates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt IV, lot 1363. William Horatio Crawford (1815-1888); book-plate; sale, lot 1948; slip from sale catalogue annotated ‘42/--', probably 42 shillings, i.e. £2. 12. 0. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2031. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. D 5.2.
2. L-171(2) Second copy With the title-page printed for the 1517 reissue. Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century English calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; parchment strips containing the text of Gregorius I, Moralia in Job VIII 31-32, PL LXXV 833 c.6–834 B.14 abd 834 c.11–835 B.12 in an English twelfth-century hand. Size: 345 × 245 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 332 × 223 mm. Some key words, mainly names, extracted in a late sixteenth-century hand, also summarizing the moral of some passages, a few in English; a seventeenth-century English hand extacting key words and providing Latin glosses; foliation until p. 233; running headings in black ink. On front endleaf a late seventeenth-century(?) note describing the sigla used for classifying the marginal manuscript annotations, referring to notes made in pencil and now largely erased. Provenance: James St Amand (1687-1754); manuscript catalogue, fol. 15 no. 259. Bequeathed in 1754. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.8.
3. L-171(3) Third copy Bound with:
   2. Philostratus, Icones. Florence: Philippus Iunta, 1517. With the title-page printed for the 1517 reissue. Binding: Gold-tooled diced russia; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 340 × 245 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 329 × 222 mm. Early marginal notes, mainly glosses, now washed out. Provenance: Acquired by 1795; see Notitia (1795), p. 17. SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.9(1).