tim00125000

Text-inc Id:

tim00125000

Bod-inc Id:

M-044

Headings:

Mancinellus, Antonius De poetica virtute.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Mancinellus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Petrica. Incipit: ‘[P]oetas Veliternorum et Latii . . .’ Dated 1 Aug. 1495.
3. a2r [Table of contents.]
4. a3r Mancinellus, Antonius: De poetica virtute. Incipit: ‘[A]t qui sic a summis . . .’
5. b6v Quatrassus Sermonetanus, Ascanius: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quod te uita docet quam sit castissima uatum | Per Mancinellum suscipe lector opus'; 1 elegiac distich.

Imprint:

[Rome: Eucherius Silber, c.1495]. 4°. As assigned and dated by IGI.

Collation:

a b⁶. Leaf a2 signed a_iii. Type: 111 R. 12 leaves. 30 lines (a2r). Type area: 168 ×91 mm (a2r). Leaf a1r, TITLE: ‘DE POETICA VIRTVTE.' a1v: ‘¶Antonius Mancinellus Artiū & Medi | cinȩ Doctori eximio Philoſopho item am | pliſſimo Antonio Petricȩ. | POetas Veliternorum & latii . . .' a3r: ‘¶Poetarū laus·tit·i· Cicero pro Archia· | AT qui ſic a ſummis . . .' b6v, l. 21: ‘Mite & gnatum eſt homini deus. | ¶Aſcanius Quatraſſus Sermonetanus. | ¶Quod te uita docet . . . | . . . ſuſcipe lector opus.’

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00125000 R 243; Goff M‑125; not in Pr; IGI 6082; not in Sheppard; Incunabula Typographica: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century (1460-1500) in the Library of Henry Walters (Baltimore, 1906), 266. LCN: 14478525

Copies:

1. M-044(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century stiff paper wrappers, lower wrapper lost. Size: 200 × 140 × 3 mm. Size of leaf: 197 × 137 mm. Occasional annotations. Provenance: Solomon Pottesman (1904-1978); purchased at his sale, lot 270, for £385; see ledger (1979/80), no. 437. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I2.3.