tip00669000

Text-inc Id:

tip00669000

Bod-inc Id:

P-310

Headings:

Pius II, Pont. Max. Dialogus de somnio quodam.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Piccolomini, Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Johannes Carvajal. Incipit: ‘Superioribus diebus cum parum per ocii(!) nactus essem ingressus . . .’ Dated Rome, 31 May [14?].
2. [a2v] Piccolomini, Aeneas Sylvius: Dialogus [de somnio quodam, in the form of a letter addressed to] Cardinal Johannes Carvajal. Incipit: ‘Medicorum ut aiunt somnia est haud parum intendere somniis oportere . . .’ Explicit: Mauritium tradunt

Imprint:

Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, 11 Sept. 1475. Folio and 4°.

Collation:

[a¹⁰ b–e⁸ f g⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00669000 HC Addenda, *193; Goff P‑669; BMC IV 57; Pr 3487; BSB‑Ink P‑502; CIBN P‑368; Rhodes 1406; Sheppard 2794. LCN: 14017261

Copies:

1. P-310(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter red morocco with diced calf over pasteboards; marbled pastedowns and green silk bookmark. Size: 289 × 202 × 22 mm. Size of leaf: 281 × 185 mm. On [a2r] a seven-line epigraphic initial ‘A' is supplied in red decorared with blue palm leaves and ribbons; on [a2v] a four-line epigraphic initial ‘A' is supplied in blue, with a red ‘e' within the body of the letter. Provenance: Jean Baptiste, chevalier de Bearzi (nineteenth century); sale (1855), lot 2966. Purchased at his sale for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1855), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.30.