tin00263000

Text-inc Id:

tin00263000

Bod-inc Id:

N-119

Headings:

Nonius Marcellus De compendiosa doctrina (ed. Julius Pomponius Laetus, Antonius Volscus, and others).

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] [Laetus, Julius] Pomponius: [Letter addressed to] Gaspar Blondus. Incipit: ‘Pomponius Gaspari Blondo salutem. Rogauit me Georgius Laur de Herbipoli . . .’
2. [a2r] Nonius Marcellus: [De compendiosa doctrina.] Edited by Julius Pomponius Laetus, Antonius Volscus, and others; see CTC III 381. Non. 1-2; 4 (wanting the last two lines); 5-6; 7 (wanting the last three lines); 8-15; 17-20; see L. D. R[eynolds], Texts and Transmission, 248-52.
3. [o8v] [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Ex scriptis rerum, ut fertur, cognoscitur omnis | Causa patent illis oppida bella duces'; 4 elegiac distichs.
4. [o9r] [Register.]

Imprint:

[Rome]: Georgius Lauer, [c.1474-6.] Folio. As dated by CIBN from the state of the types; Sheppard dates [c.1475].

Collation:

[a–g¹⁰ h⁸ i–o¹⁰]. Type: 102 R. Capital spaces. 138 leaves, the last blank. 40 lines ([a3r]). Type area: 205 ×122 mm ([a3r]). Leaf a1r, blank; a1v: ‘Pomponi[us] ꝰ Gaſpari blondo Salutem rogauit me Geor- | gius laur ď . . .'; a2r: ‘[ ]ENIVM EST TEDIVM ET ODIVM. | dictum a ſenectute . . .'; o8v, l. 4: ‘Ex ſcriptis rerum. ut fertur. cognoſcitur omnis | . . .'; o9r, register: ‘Senium eſt | Tangere | . . .'; o9v and o10, blank.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00263000 HC 11899; Goff N‑263; Pr 3421; CIBN N‑153; Sheppard 2739. Microfiche: Unit 10: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part IV. LCN: 14540244

Copies:

1. N-119(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [o10]. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; gilt-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, green silk bookmark; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 280 × 210 × 25 mm. Size of leaf: 276 × 197 mm. A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and names of authors, and correcting the text, in a humanist hand. The name of the author and the title of the work on [a1r] in a sixteenth-century hand. Provenance: Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); sale (1783), lot 2184, for either 181. 19 or 174 [Écus?] (both prices are given in the Bodleian's annotated copy of the sale catalogue); ‘V 2184' on the recto of the rear endleaf. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III lot 3050; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Thomas Payne for Fl. 40. Purchased [through Payne?] for £3. 10. 0: see Books Purchased (1790), 7. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.14.