tip00914000

Text-inc Id:

tip00914000

Bod-inc Id:

P-434

Headings:

Poncius Rhetorica, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A2r Poncius: Rhetorica [or] Modus dictandi. Incipit: ‘[C]irca modum dictandi sciendum est quod epistola sic describitur . . .’
3. C6v [Colophon.] ‘Explicit modus dictandi'.
4. D1r Copia latinitatis. ‘Libellus de latinitatis copia'. Incipit: ‘[N]ota quod diuersa negocia non possunt exprimi nisi per diuersa verba . . .’
5. F3r Rinucius Aretinus: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 82-3.
6. F3v Mithridates [pseudo-: Prefatory letter addressed to Mithridates, his nephew.] Incipit: ‘[B]ruti epistolas iterum et sepius sum admiratus . . .’ Explicit: facilia dicuntur’ See Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 83.
7. F4v Brutus, Marcus Junius [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Rinucius Aretinus. Incipit: ‘Audio uos Dolobelle dedisse pecunias . . .’ Explicit: denegare necesse est’ See Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 83.
8. G4v Athanasius Constantinopolitanus: [Letter addressed to] Carolus ‘Arogonum primogenitus' (i.e. de Aragona). Incipit: ‘[C]um superioribus diebus me illustrissime princeps Panhormum cum tuis litteris commendatitiis ad excellentissimum Sicilie proregem pro mei capiendi monosterii(!) possessione contulissem . . .’
9. G5r Crates [pseudo-]: Epistulae cynicae. Translated by Athanasius Constantinopolitanus. Incipit: ‘Fugite non solum fines malorum . . .’
10. H1r De arte notariatus. ‘Capitulum primum, quid sit ars notariatus'. Incipit: ‘[A]rs notariatus est ars scribendi et dictandi per quam fragilitatis humane negotia roborantur . . .’

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], 1486. 4°.

Collation:

A B⁸ C⁶ D–G⁸ H⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00914000 HC *13255; Goff P‑914; BMC I 104; Pr 445; BSB‑Ink P‑689; CIBN P‑563; Sack, Freiburg, 2943; Sheppard 360. LCN: 14087940

Copies:

1. P-434(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards, covered with marbled paper. Size: 212 × 158 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 204 × 145 mm. Initials and underlining of chapter headings are supplied in red; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes and underlining in red. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' in pencil on front pastedown and various shelfmarks on the front pastedown and endleaf and on A1r, including ‘Inc. c. a. 410', ‘Inc. c. a. 410a'; ‘Inc. s. a. 1496^h’ in black ink on a square paper label at head of the upper cover and on the verso of the front endleaf. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.. SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.21.