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til00334000
- Text-inc Id:
- til00334000
- Bod-inc Id:
- L-183
- Headings:
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Lucretius Carus, Titus
De rerum natura.
- Subjects:
- literature, philosophy-natural
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page]. ‘Lucretius.’
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a2r Lucretius Carus, Titus: De rerum natura. ‘T. Lucretii Cari poetae philosophici antiquissimi de Rerum natura liber primus incipit foeliciter.’ Incipit: [A]eneadum genetrix hominum divumque voluptas | Alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa ... q9r Explicit: ‘... Sub debant fauces multo cum sanguine saepe | Rixantes potius quam corpora deferentur. [hexameters]’ ‘[q9v] T. Lucreti Cari, poetae philosophique antiquissimi, | De rerum primordia natura ad Memmium | Liber sextus et ultimus explicit foeliciter.’ The ‘capitula' of books 1-3 follow each book, whilst those of books 4-6 precede the book in question.
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q9v [Compilation of extracts from Lucr. 1, with gloss]. Incipit: Non te animus fallit graiorum obscura reperta | Difficile inlustrare Latinis uersibus esse ... Explicit: ‘... Ratio enim neminem decipit nec nedipitur numquam. Finis. [26 hexameters]’
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q10r Lycinius, C: [Verse addressed to] Nicolaus Priolus. Incipit: Vnice Nicoleos Venetae noua gloria gentis | Quique sacrum referas ex Helicone melos ... Explicit: ‘... Et mea sint cordi munera parva tibi. [8 elegiac distichs]’ ‘Ex foelicissima tua Murani Academia | virtuti ac posteritati datum.’
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q10r Colophon: ‘Impressum Venetiis per Theodorum de Ragazonibus de Asula dictum Bresanum. Anno Domini M.CCCC.LXXXXV. die iiii. Septembris.’ ‘Registrum.’
- Imprint:
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Venice
Theodorus de Ragazonibus
4°
Secundo folio: a3r Disserere incipiam, et rerum primordia pandam
4 Sept. 1495.
- Collation:
- a–p8 q10.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: il00334000
HC *10283;
Goff L‑334;
BMC V 478;
Pr 5271;
BSB‑Ink L‑253; CIBN L‑257; Hillard 1245; Sack, Freiburg, 2278; Sheppard 4349-50.
LCN: 14502654
- Copies:
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L-183(1)
First copy
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco, with gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 201 × 141 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 128 mm.
Provenance: Marks of a book-plate on the inside of the upper cover.
Erased inscription on a2r.
Karl Emerich Reviczky, Freiherr von Revisnye (1737-1793); see Bibliotheca Graeca et Latina.
Catalogue de la bibliothèque du comte de Rewiczky, 2nd edn (Berlin, 1794), p. 98.
George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); cancelled accession number ‘3355'; sale (1821), lot 184, where it is described as coming from Reviczky's library; the annotations in the Bodleian copy give a price of £4. 0. 0.
Richard Heber (1773-1833); note on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘March 1821. Spencer Dupl. sale by Evans £4-5-0'; see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 2127.
Purchased for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 19.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.23.
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L-183(2)
Second copy
Bound with C‑354(2); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 211 × 148 mm.
Some early notes, including corrections to the text and marginal annotations. Running book-numbers in black ink in books 1-5. Manuscript foliation in black ink: 128, 1-128.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.1495.1(2).
