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tip00809000
- Text-inc Id:
- tip00809000
- Bod-inc Id:
- P-379
- Headings:
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Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny the younger)
Epistolae (ed. Pomponius Laetus).
- Subjects:
- rhetoric
- Analysis of content:
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a1v Laetus, Pomponius: [Letter addressed to] Vasinus Gamberia. ‘Vasino Gamberiae Innocentii pont. max. ministro a cubiculo Pomponius Laetus.’ Incipit: ‘Commoditatis causa ut certiores faceremus absentes epistolas inventas esse credimus . . .’ Explicit: ‘... siquid succisivi temporis a caelestis cubicula cura, ita tam frugifeeae [sic] lectioni esse traditurum. Bene vale.’
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a2r Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius: Epistolae. Edited by Pomponius Laetus. ‘C. Caecili Plini Secundi Epist. Lib. Primus.’ Incipit: ‘C. Plin. Septicio Sec. | [F]requenter hortatus es ut epistolas sicut Paolo cura maiore scripsissem ...’ u6v Explicit: ‘... Neque enim periculum est ne sit nimium quod esse maximum debet. Vale. Finis.’ 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 u2r begins with 8.8 (8.8.1-3) and ends with 8.18 (8.18.11-12).
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u6v Colophon: ‘Impressum Romae per Eucharium Silber alias Franck, natione Alemanum, anno DOmini MCCCCLXXXX post diem XIIII calendarum Aprilis.’
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u7r ‘Quaedam in volumine corrigenda.’ Incipit: ‘Libro primo pagina prima frugifeeae pro frugiferae, III reponetur pro reponatur ...’ u7v Explicit: ‘... Est offerunrut pro offeruntur. Praeter haec si qua sunt facillime quilibet emendabit.’
- Imprint:
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Rome
Eucharius Silber
4°
The date in the colophon reads ‘poſt diem. xiiii. Calen | darum Aprilis.’
Secundo folio: a3r humiles et sordidas curas
[between 19 Mar. and 3 Apr.] 1490.
- Collation:
- a–c8 d6 e–q8.8.6 r–u8. Spaces left blank for initials with printed guide letters.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ip00809000
HC *13114;
Goff P‑809;
BMC IV 111;
Pr 3841;
BSB‑Ink P‑617; CIBN P‑476; Rhodes 1445; Sheppard 3040.
LCN: 14017009
- Copies:
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P-379(1)
Copy
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) gold-tooled (fillet only) red morocco, with gilt title on a square green leather label at head of the spine. Gilt-edged leaves. Azure silk bookmark. ‘215' in manuscript on a circular label at tail of the spine; above, ‘35' printed on a square label.
Size: 208 × 140 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 133 mm.
An early pointing hand on i8v.
Provenance: Castiglione, Tuscany, Chierici regolari poveri delle Scuole pie; ‘Bibliothecae Castilionensis Scholarum Piarum' on a1r in an eighteenth-century(?) hand.
Purchased for £0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 31.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.35.
