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- Text-inc Id:
- tip00800000
- Bod-inc Id:
- P-371
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Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the elder)
Historia naturalis (ed. Hermolaus Barbarus, rev. Johannes Baptista Palmarius).
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.]
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a1v Palmarius, Johannes Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Conssalus Ruitius De la Vega et Mendoza. Incipit: ‘[N]on quia magnum aliquid operosum . . .’ Acknowleding that the work was undertaken at the instigation of Antonius Moretus; see P‑370.
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a2v Palmarius, Johannes Baptista(?): [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Qui coelum, terras, aequor, genus omne animantum | Omne exors animae, quid ferat omnis ager'; 5 elegiac distichs. Dated 13 Feb. 1498.
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a3r Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius: [Letter addressed to] ‘Marcus' [Baebius Macrus]. Plin. Ep. 3. 5.
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a3r Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: De viris illustribus [extract]. ‘Svetonii Tranquilli in libro de viris illustribus'. See P‑358.
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a3v Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius: [Letter addressed to] Tacitus. Plin. Ep. 6. 16.
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a3v Tertullianus, Quintus Septimus Florentius: Apologeticum [exc. cap. 2.6-7]. ‘Item Tertulliani in apologetico'. Tert.
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a3v Eusebius Caesariensis: Chronicon. ‘Item ex libris de temporibus Eusebii Caesariensis'. See P‑359.
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a4r Plinius Secundus, Gaius: Historia naturalis. Edited by Hermolaus Barbarus and revised by Johannes Baptista Palmarius, as stated in the colophon. Plin. Nat. Book 37 ends with ‘ambitur mari' (37,13,77,203); see Sabbadini, ‘Le edizioni', 446 and Labarre no. 15.
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K6r ‘Registrum'.
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K6r [Colophon.] Acknowledging the editorial work of Hermolaus Barbarus. The edition incorporates textual readings taken from the Castigationes Plinianae of Hermolaus Barbarus.
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Venice: Johannes Alvisius, 18 May 1499. Folio.
Reprinted from the Benalius edition of 1497/8, Pr 4893A (BMC).
- Collation:
- a–e8 f6 g–z & A–I8 K6.
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ip00800000
HC 13104;
Goff P‑800;
BMC V 572;
Pr 5636;
BSB‑Ink P‑610; Hillard 1660; Sack, Freiburg, 2927; Sheppard 4695.
LCN: 14014354
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P-371(1)
Copy
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf with sprinkled red-edged leaves.
Size: 320 × 225 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 309 × 204 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and providing corrections to the text, mostly washed, in an early hand.
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘VII.D.g.17': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; not identified in sale catalogues.
Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 86.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.26.
