tim00191000

Text-inc Id:

tim00191000

Bod-inc Id:

M-061

Headings:

Manfredis, Hieronymus de Liber de homine [Italian] Libro del perchè.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] [Manfredis, Hieronymus de: Letter addressed to] Johannes II Bentivoglio. Incipit: ‘Mea interest magnifice ac generose miles . . .’
2. [a2r] [Table of contents.]
3. [c1r] [Manfredis, Hieronymus de: Libro del perchè.] Incipit: ‘[P]erchè el soperchio ne le cose che noi uiuemo . . .’ See A. Serra-Zanetti, ‘I Pronostici di Girolamo Manfredi', in Studi Riminesi e bibliografici in onore di C. Lucchesi (Faenza, 1952), 193-213, at 201.

Imprint:

Bologna: Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, 1 July 1474. Folio.

Collation:

[a b⁶ c–h⁸ i k⁶ l–p⁸], not as BMC.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00191000 HR 10689; C 2623; Goff M‑191; BMC VI 805; Pr 6529; CIBN M‑74; Hillard 1307; Osler, IM 59; Sheppard 5308-10. LCN: 14477688

Copies:

1. M-061(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaves [p7-8]. Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment with manuscript title at the head of the spine. Size: 300 × 210 × 28 mm. Size of leaf: 295 × 208 mm. On [p5v], two recipes dated 1507, in the same hand that added the dedication on [a1r]: ‘Rimedio preciosissimo almale de pendi(ce?)' and ‘Rimedio(?) che non potesse orinare'. Early folio numbering: 1-98, in the same hand. Provenance: Cosimo d'Antonio (early sixteenth century); dedicatory inscription on [a1r]: ‘Chosimo dantonjo nostro gharzon[e]'. Purchased from Payne and Foss for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford. Transferred in 1938. Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: G. 161.I.14; 79.C.22; 21 D 28^a; RR.x.184. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I11.1474.2.
2. M-061(2) Second copy Wanting leaves [p6-8]. Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment, the title gold-tooled at the head of the spine. ‘[ ]24' printed on label at the head of the spine. Sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 305 × 205 × 29 mm. Size of leaf: 295 × 199 mm. Manuscript foliation: 1-97, in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. On [c1r] an 11-line initial ‘P' is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration; other initials supplied in blue or red. Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789) II, lot 2588. Purchased for £8. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1847), 22. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.57.
3. M-061(3) Third copy Wanting leaves [p6-8]. Sheet [a3.4] is duplicated. On the blank [a1r] is pasted a leaf bearing in type-facsimile the title as printed at the head of the table of contents on [a2r]. Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) half parchment over pasteboards covered in Buntpapier. Title gold-tooled at the head of the spine and sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 280 × 204 × 26 mm. Size of leaf: 235 × 165 mm. A few notes, in Italian, and pen-trials in a contemporary hand. Early folio numbering: i–xcvii'. ‘3. 3. 0.' in brown ink on the upper left-hand corner of front pastedown. On [a1r] a bibliographical note in Italian in an eighteenth-century hand. On [c1r] an 11-line initial is supplied in blue with red pen-work decoration extending into the margin. Other initials are supplied in blue. Provenance: Petrus de Laurentiis (sixteenth century?); inscription on [a1v]: ‘Humilissimus seruus Petrus de Laurentiis'. Stamped monogram on [a2r]: ‘FGR'. Marco Lazzari; armorial book-stamp on [a1r]. Robert Finch (1783-1830). Bequeathed to the University by Finch; see Finch catalogue 179. Taylor Institution, University of Oxford; book-plate with shelfmark in blue ink: ‘V 198'. Transferred to the Bodleian in 1921. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I11.1474.1.