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- Text-inc Id:
- tip00564500
- Bod-inc Id:
- P-252
- Headings:
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Phalaris
Epistolae [Latin] (trans. Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus).
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.]
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a2r [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: ‘Prohemium' [addressed to] Malatesta Novellus. Incipit: ‘[V]ellem Malatesta Nouelle princeps illustris tantam mihi facultatem dari . . .’
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a5v Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus. ‘Phalaris Alabo(!)'. Incipit: ‘[P]olicletus Messenius (quem prodicionis apud ciues . . .’ See P‑240.
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h8r [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: [Dedication of the translation of four further letters to] Alphonsus I (V), King of Aragon. Incipit: ‘[Q]uatuor Phalaridis epistolas quas nuper in alio libello inuentas . . .’ See P‑240.
- Imprint:
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Valencia: Nicolaus Spindeler, 11 Nov. 1496. 4°.
- Collation:
- a–g8 h10. Woodcut initials.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ip00564500
H 12899;
BMC X 20;
Pr 9505;
CIBN P‑296; Haebler, Bibliografia ibérica, 548; Sheppard 7285; Vindel, Arte, III 136: 64.
LCN: 14489947
- Copies:
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P-252(1)
Copy
The woodcut title is cut out and mounted.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled blue morocco; gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 198 × 145 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 190 × 133 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, but also providing corrections to the text, in a sixteenth-century hand. An engraving from Phalaris, Epistolae, ed. Charles Boyle (Oxford, 1718) has been pasted onto the front endleaf.
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘VIII.C.d.9': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt IV, lot 1345.
Purchased for £1. 1. 0: see Books Purchased (1845), 24.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.87a.
