til00321900

Text-inc Id:

til00321900

Bod-inc Id:

L-172

Headings:

Lucianus Samosatensis Charon sive contemplantes.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r [Rinucius Aretinus]: ‘Prologus' [addressed to] Johannes, Cardinal-bishop of Thérouanne (Jean Le Jeune). Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 96-7.
2. a2v ‘Dyalogi argumentum.’ Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 97.
3. a2v Lucianus Samosatensis: Charon. ‘Luciani dyalogus qui inscribitur maior. Caron latinus . . .’ Translated by Phenicius [Rinucius Aretinus.] Incipit: ‘Mercurius. [Q]uid rides, o Caron, et quid apud superos cimba venisti . . .’ See Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 97; translation of ed. Macleod 26, Χάρων ἢ Ἐπισκοπου̂ντες . The translator, named ‘Phynicius' in the heading and colophon, is really Rinucius Aretinus: see Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 95, and Emilio Mattioli, ‘I traduttori umanistici di Luciano', in Studi in onore di Raffaele Spongano (Bologna, 1980), 205-14, at 208.

Imprint:

[Southern Netherlands?: Printer of Augustinus ‘Explanatio Psalmorum', c.1488]. 4°. On the location of the press see HPT I 75. As dated by HPT; Sheppard dates [c.1485?].

Collation:

a¹⁰. 10 leaves, the first blank. 30 lines (a3r). Type area: 136 ×83 mm (a3r). Type: 90 G.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00321900 H 10271; Pr 8808; Campbell–Kronenberg I 1176a; HPT I 75, II 452; ILC 1500; Oates 4010; Sheppard 7272. LCN: 14503562

Copies:

1. L-172(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 192 × 143 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 183 × 137 mm. Early marginal annotations (in an English hand?); extraction of key words. Some paragraph marks and early running headings supplied in black ink. Provenance: The upper right-hand corner of the front endleaf has been cut away, presumably to remove ownership details. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); see ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 122^v; ‘C&P' on the front pastedown. Bequeathed in 1755. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P. 3.8. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.8.