tio00097500

Text-inc Id:

tio00097500

Bod-inc Id:

O-028

Headings:

Orosius, Paulus Historiae adversos paganos (ed. Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis).

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. [Prologus addressed to] Augustinus. See O‑026.
2. a2v Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. Edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis. See O‑026.
3. n10r [Paiellus, Bartholomaeus: Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Vt ipse titulus margine in primo docet | Orosio nomen mihi est'; 12 lines of verse. Reprinted from Liechtenstein's edition (Bod-inc. O‑027), the name of the author of the colophon being omitted and the name of Leonardus de Basilea substituted for that of Hermannus de Colonia in the colophon itself; see BMC.

Imprint:

[Vicenza]: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, [c.1489]. Folio. As dated by Sheppard; CIBN dates [c.1482], BSB‑Ink [c.1480-1].

Collation:

a–i K l m⁸ n¹⁰. Type: Sheppard notes that type 114 here measures 112 and appears to have been reduced about this time.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: io00097500 HC *12[1]00; Goff O‑99; BMC VII 1032; Pr 7125; BSB‑Ink O‑83; CIBN O‑60; Oates 2670; Sheppard 5888. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography: Part II. LCN: 14537275

Copies:

1. O-028(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red sheep over marbled pasteboards. Size: 276 × 213 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 270 × 103 mm. Collated by Jacobus Philippus D'Orville with a ‘Geneu[a?]' manuscript. On a2r an initial ‘P' is supplied in gold on a maroon ground with white pen-work decoration edged in black; the area defined by the letter is supplied in blue with white pen-work decoration. Other initials are supplied in red or blue, sometimes interlocked; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Text enclosed by a single red rule. Provenance: Jacobus Philippus D'Orville (1696-1751); see SC 17194 and p. 37. The collection, sold by D'Orville's grandson Jean to J. Cleaver Banks, was purchased from him by the Bodleian in 1805 for £1025; see Books Purchased (1805), 4. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 2X 1.13. SHELFMARK: MS. D'Orville 316.