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tip00806000
- Text-inc Id:
- tip00806000
- Bod-inc Id:
- P-376
- Headings:
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Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny the younger)
Epistolae (ed. Junianus Maius).
- Analysis of content:
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[a1v] Maius, Junianus: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Carafa. Incipit: ‘C. Pli. secundum superioris nepotem iam pridem emendatio rem efficere cupiebam . . .’
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[a2r] Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius: Epistolae. Edited by Junianus Maius. Plin. Ep. 1-5.8, 5.21, 5.15, 5.10-14, 5.16-20, 5.9, 6.1-7.33, 9.1-2, 9.6-7, 9.9, 9.12, 9.17, 9.21, 9.24-5, 9.30-2, 9.3-5, 9.8, 9.10-11, 9.13-15, 9.18-20, 9.22-3, 9.26-9, 9.33-40, 8.1-8, 8.19-24. The letter on m7r begins with 8.8 (8.8.1-3) and ends with 8.18 (8.18.11-12).
- Imprint:
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Naples: Mathias Moravus, July 1476. Folio.
- Collation:
- [a12] b8 c10 d–f8 g10 h8 i10 k l8 m10.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ip00806000
HCR 13111;
Goff P‑806;
BMC VI 862;
Pr 6695A;
CIBN P‑473; Fava–Bresciano 115; Hillard 1661; Sheppard 5432.
LCN: 14015038
- Copies:
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P-376(1)
Copy
The first unsigned gathering is of 12 leaves, the seventh blank. Wanting [a1] containing the dedication.
Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch gold-tooled red morocco; see Foot, ‘Incunable Collector', no. 21 [but not, as suggested here, the Meerman copy; personal communication from Jos van Heel]. The gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Sprinkled red- and azure-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and azure silk bookmark.
Size: 288 × 203 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 275 × 185 mm.
A few marginal notes in a humanist hand, washed. Also a few early pointing hands and ‘nota' marks. On the front endleaf is pasted a letter of Victor Scholderer to R. H. Hill, dated 13 Feb. 1929, regarding this edition.
Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792): printed label of the Crevenna sale (1789), part III, lot 5597; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Schuring for Fl. 71.
George John (1758-1834), 2nd Earl Spencer; sale (2 Mar. 1821), lot 231; purchased for £1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1821), 11 and the annotated sale catalogue.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 3.21.
