tip00548000

Text-inc Id:

tip00548000

Bod-inc Id:

P-242

Headings:

Phalaris Epistolae [Latin] (trans. Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus).

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: ‘Prohemium' [addressed to] Malatesta Novellus. Incipit: ‘[V]ellem Malatesta Nouelle princeps illustris tantam mihi dicendi facultatem dari . . .’
2. [a4v] Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus. ‘Phalaris Alciboo'. Incipit: ‘[P]olicletus Messenius quem proditionis apud ciues . . .’ See P‑240.
3. [f9v] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: [Dedication of the translation of four further letters to] Alphonsus I (V), king of Aragon. Incipit: ‘[Q]uattuor Phalaridis epistulae quas nuper in alio libello inuentas . . .’ See P‑240.
4. [f11v] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Pellatus Patavinus. Incipit: ‘[S]cripsisti ad me Francesce Patauine uir eximie . . .’
5. [f12r] Gerardus de Lisa?: ‘In laudem scriptoris epigramma'. Incipit: ‘Qui modo notus erat nulli, penitusque latebat | Nunc Phalaris doctum protulit ecce caput'; 2 elegiac distichs. The last distich contains the colophon.

Imprint:

Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 1471. 8°.

Collation:

[a–e¹⁰ f¹²].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00548000 HCR 12892; Goff P‑548; BMC VI 883; Pr 6456; BSB‑Ink P‑411; CIBN P‑283; Oates 2450; Rhodes, Treviso, no. 2; Sheppard 5489. Microfiche: Unit 10: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part IV. LCN: 14490594

Copies:

1. P-242(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco; gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns. Size: 195 × 138 × 16 mm. Size of leaf: 190 × 129 mm. Some underlining in brown ink. Initials are supplied in red. Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); purchased at his sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 2020, for £2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 84. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.21.