tim00205000

Text-inc Id:

tim00205000

Bod-inc Id:

M-068

Headings:

Manilius, Marcus Astronomicon (ed. Stephanus Dulcinius).

Analysis of content:

1. [*1r] Dulcinius, Stephanus: [Letter addressed to] Rolandus Pallavicinus. Incipit: ‘Plaudendum Latinis Camoenis uel potius nostris temporibus quibus principes . . .’ Explicit: principatum perpetuo obtine
2. [*3v] [Table of contents.]
3. a1r Manilius, Marcus: Astronomicon. [Edited by Stephanus Dulcinius.] Man.; for this edition see also Cramer 13-14, 25-6, and Astronomicon, ed. Garrod, pp. lxxix–lxxx. Dulcinius is recorded as editor in a note before the colophon (see below).
4. I8r [Note on Dulcinius as editor.] Incipit: ‘P. Stephanus Dulcinius elegantissimum hoc Manilii opus pro ingenii . . .’ Explicit: candide lectror desyderabis; Ganda reads: ‘lecttor’

Imprint:

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 9 Nov. 1489. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁴] a–h⁶ I⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00205000 HC 10705; Goff M‑205; BMC VI 721; Pr 5827; CIBN M‑89; Hillard 1310; Sheppard 4873. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmography. LCN: 14477748

Copies:

1. M-068(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch gold-tooled red morocco; see Foot, ‘Incunable Collector', no. 35; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on a leather patch pasted over the centre-piece on both covers. Size: 289 × 195 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 276 × 183 mm. Washed early marginal and interlinear annotations. Provenance: Johan Meerman (1753-1815); purchased at his sale, vol. I, p. 308, lot 746, for fl. 40; see Books Purchased . . . at the Sale of M. Meerman, p. 15, with number on label at the head of the spine: 746/1; ‘40 Gu.' given as the price on the recto of the front endleaf. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.21.