tio00100000

Text-inc Id:

tio00100000

Bod-inc Id:

O-030

Headings:

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

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. [Prologus addressed to] Augustinus. See O‑026.
3. a2r Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. Edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis. See O‑026.
4. m4r [Paiellus, Bartholomaeus: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Vt ipse titulus margine in primo docet | Orosio nomen mihi est'; 8 lines of verse. The verse, here anonymous, is abridged from Scotus' 1483 edition (Bod-inc. O‑029), the archetype of this edition, the 4 lines containing the name of the author of the colophon being omitted; see BMC.
5. m4r [Colophon.]
6. m4r ‘Registrum'.
7. m4v ‘Tabula'.

Imprint:

Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, for Octavianus Scotus, 18 July 1499. Folio.

Collation:

a–m⁶. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: io00100000 HC *12103; Goff O‑100; BMC V 473; Pr 5249; BSB‑Ink O‑85; CIBN O‑62; Sack, Freiburg, 2621; Sheppard 4323-5. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography: Part II. LCN: 14537359

Copies:

1. O-030(1) First copy Bound with:
   1. Eusebius, Chronicon. Basel: Heinrich Petri, Mar. 1529;
   2. Beda, De natura rerum. Basel: Heinrich Petri, Mar. 1529;
   3. Philo Judeus, Antiquitates. Basel: Adam Petri, Aug. 1527. Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with metal corner-pieces and catches; two clasps lost. Triple fillets form a quadruple frame. Within the outer frame, a floral and foliate-staff roll; within the following one, a floral roll. Triple fillets divide the inner rectangle into four rectangular compartments, each decorated with the same foliate and decorative roll. Size: 318 × 222 × 75 mm. Size of leaf: 306 × 200 mm. On m6v an inscription in humanist hand in red ink: ‘Anno M. D. XXVIII. die XV Maii [ ]'; the same hand has annotated item 3. Provenance: Hector Pömer (fl. 1525); large woodcut book-plate pasted on the front pastedown, dated 1525; see Leiningen-Westerburg, 110; Warnecke no. 1593. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 1564; purchased for £0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 10. SHELFMARK: V 2. 18(4) Th.
2. O-030(2) Second copy Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment, with title in gilt at head of spine and sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 316 × 225 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 307 × 212 mm. Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand in brown ink. On the front pastedown there is biographical information on Orosius by M. Berry, signed: ‘MB. Rome Feb^ry 1823'. Provenance: M. Berry (fl. 1823); armorial stamp: a cross within the lower part of a lozenge, in black ink. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.f.22': see Lee, Royal Book-plates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 2323. Purchased for £0. 3. 0; see Books Purchased (1844), 35. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 4.1.
3. O-030(3) Third copy Bound with:
   1. Arrianus, Historia de rebus gestis Alexandri Macedonis. [Venice: B. de Vitalibus, c.1503]; see GW II col. 704. Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) quarter plain calf (or sheep?) over wooden boards, with two metal catches and remains of clasps. Title in gilt at head of the spine. Size: 320 × 222 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 309 × 207 mm. A few marginal notes, extracting key words, in an early humanist hand. Provenance: Purchased in 1907 from James Tregaskis, Catalogue 640, no. 166; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 12 May 1908, 633. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1(2).