tir00114000

Text-inc Id:

tir00114000

Bod-inc Id:

R-042

Headings:

Regius, Raphael Ducenta problemata in Quintiliani depravationes, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Regius, Raphael: [Preface dedicating the book] to Nicolaus, Viscount of Correggio, and Jacobus Trotus. Incipit: ‘[D]ucenta problemata in totidem Fabi Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae deprauationes mihi nuper inuicto . . .’
3. a2r Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed] to Ludovicus Sforza. Incipit: ‘Solent magnanimi benignique principes cum aliorum que ad publicam spectant utilitatem, tum studiorum ac eorum in primis . . .’ Dated Padua, 13 Aug. 1491.
4. a2v Regius, Raphael: Ducenta problemata in Quintiliani depravationes. ‘Ducenta problemata in totidem Quintiliani oratoriae institutionis depravationes'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est quod Fabius Quintilianus latinae elegantiae diligentissimus obseruator in illa periodo, qua opus Uictorio Marcello . . .’ On the ‘Problemata' and Regius as editor of Quintilian see M. Winterbottom, ‘In Praise of Raffaele Regio', in Antike Rhetorik und ihre Rezeption, ed. S. Döpp (Stuttgart, 1999), 99-116, at 100-1, at 105 for the view that the ‘Problemata' were a spin-off from Regius' lectures, at 105-6 for the relationship of the ‘Problemata' to the ‘Annotationes' (Q‑016); see also Alessandro Perosa, ‘L'edizione veneta di Quintiliano coi commenti del Valla, di Pomponio Leto e di Sulpizio da Veroli', in Miscellanea Augusto Campano (Padua, 1981), II 606-7.
5. e3v Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Calvus. Incipit: ‘[G]auisus sum, et quidem uehementer, Calue, quem a Caluo illo Romano clarissimo oratore originem . . .’
6. f1r Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Paschalicus. Incipit: ‘Gratulatus tibi antea fuissem, equestria insignia, quibus nuper ab inuictissimo Mediolani duce Johanne Galeazo . . .’ Dated Venice, 5 Nov. 1492.
7. f1r Regius, Raphael: In eloquentiam panegyricus. ‘De laudibus Eloquentiae, Panegyricus in Academia Patauina habitus'. Incipit: ‘[S]i quis unquam praeclari operis aliquid enarraturus faciundum sibi putauit, humanissimi auditores . . .’ For the first version see R‑044.
8. f8r Regius, Raphael: ‘Quaestio utrum ars rhetorica ad Herenium Ciceroni falso inscribatur' [addressed] to Cardinal Johannes Medicus (i. e. Medici). Incipit: ‘[R]elegenti mihi nuper accuratius et duos Ciceronis de inuentione rhetoricos et quattuor ad Herenium libros . . .’ Dated Venice, 14 Oct. 1491. On this contribution of Regius to the contemporary debate about the authorship of the Ad Herennium, see Winterbottom, ‘In Praise of Raffaele Regio', 100; John Monfasani, ‘Humanism and Rhetoric' in Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy (Aldershot, 1994), article I 171-235 at 185-6; idem, ‘Three Notes on Renaissance Rhetoric', in Language and Learning, article II 107-18, at 112-14.

Imprint:

[Venice: Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, [Nov. 1492?]. 4°.

Collation:

a–d⁸ e⁴ f¹⁰. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00114000 HC 13809; Goff R‑114; BMC V 440; Pr 5037; BSB‑Ink R‑84; CIBN R‑71; Oates 1968; Sheppard 4195. LCN: 14064449

Copies:

1. R-042(1) Copy Wanting leaves a3-6. Previously bound with Johannes Piscator, Orationis M. T. Ciceronis pro rege Deiotaro analysis. Speier, 1582; see note in a sixteenth-century Italian(?) hand on verso of front endleaf. Binding: Late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; the title on a black leather label on the spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 192 × 143 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 188 × 133 mm. Provenance: Inscription: ‘Apres le N^o 7120' and bookseller's number ‘1773' in pencil on verso of the same leaf. Purchased for £1. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1819), 6. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.10.