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tim00498900

Text-inc Id:
tim00498900
Bod-inc Id:
M-197
Headings:
Merlinus, Jacobus Invectiva in Faustum Balbi calumniatorem.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.]
  2. a2r M[erlinus], J[acobus]: Invectiva in Faustum Balbi calumniatorem. Incipit: ‘[D]ecreueram viri doctissimi ab his concertationibus . . .’ Explicit: elucescat scintilla The text by one ‘I.M.' attacks Publius Faustus Andrelinus and his De fuga Balbi; it was attributed to Jacobus Merlinus by A. Renaudet, Préréforme et humanisme à Paris pendant les premières guerres d'Italie, 1494-1517, Bibliothèque elzévirienne, nouv. sér. Études et documents (Paris, 1953), 123-4.
  3. a7v [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Si quibus inuisi displicent nomina Fausti | Et tumor, et techne, verbaque supposita'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint:
[Paris: Étienne Jehannot or Pierre Le Dru, c.1494-5]. 4°.
Collation:
a8.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00498900 C 802; R 223; BMC VIII 198; Pr 8354; CIBN M‑303; Hillard 1370; Oates 3145; Polain 2043 (var.); Sheppard 6489-90. LCN: 14479221
Copies:
  1. M-197(1) First copy Bound with A‑274; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 196 × 130 mm. The issue described by Polain: a7v, last line of verse: ‘Hunc compenſabit holus inunctus ſemel'. Provenance: No. 181 in Bywater, Elenchus. SHELFMARK: Byw. J 4.21(5).
  2. M-197(2) Second copy Bound with A‑139; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 190 × 125 mm. Wanting a1, supplied in photostat from the copy in the British Library, and the blank leaf a8. The issue described by Polain: a7v, last line of verse: ‘Hunc compenſabit holus inunctus ſemel'. SHELFMARK: Douce O 126(4).