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tis00616000
- Text-inc Id:
- tis00616000
- Bod-inc Id:
- S-244
- Headings:
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Solinus, Gaius Iulius
Polyhistor, siue Collectanea rerum memorabilium.
- Subjects:
- history
- Analysis of content:
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[a1r] Solinus, Gaius Iulius: [Preface addressed to] Adventus. ‘Cai. Iulii Solini rerum memorabilium collectanee. Solinus Aventino salutem.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um et aurium clementia et optimarum artium ...’ [a2r] Explicit: ‘... in pectus tuum velim ac scribere.’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. Mommsen, 1-2; on this preface see S‑243. View entry in Person Index
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[a2r] [Table of contents]. Incipit: ‘I. De origine urbis Rome.’ [a4v] Explicit: ‘... Hesperidesque atque fortunate. Laus Deo.’
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[b1r] [Solinus, Gaius Iulius: Polyhistor, sive] Collectanea rerum memorabilium. ‘De origine et temporibus urbis Rome et mensibus et diebus itercalaribus. Capitulum primum.’ Incipit: ‘[S]unt qui videri velint urbis Rome vocabulum ...’ [n10r] Explicit: ‘... Ideoque non penitus ad nuncupationem suam congruere insularum qualitatem.’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. Mommsen, 3-216; see S‑243, and CTC VI 75 for this edition.
- Imprint:
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[Rome]
[Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia?]
4° and 8°
Secundo folio: [a2r] cohandi nos quoque a capite orbis
[1474-5].
- Collation:
- [a4 b–i10 k-l8 m-n10]. Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters. 120 ll.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian; British Library (IA.17771); Torino, Archivio di Stato (J A VII 20(2 )
ISTC: is00616000
HC 14874;
Goff S‑616;
BMC IV 59;
Pr 3490;
BSB‑Ink S‑481; CIBN S‑304; Oates 1410; Sheppard 2801.
LCN: 14124853
- Copies:
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S-244(1)
Copy
The second sheet of gathering [l] is quarto. Variant setting of heading on [b1r]: ‘Capitulum primum De origine | et tēporibus urbis Rome et men | ſibus et diebus intercalaribus'.
Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf; the title in gilt on a tan leather label on the spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; red-edged leaves and a few gilt-edged leaves ([c2-7]); marbled pastedowns; two green silk bookmarks.
Size: 203 × 145 × 32 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 123 mm.
Some marginal notes in a contemporary Italian hand (some washed), extracting key words and supplying brackets. Vertical manuscript catchwords at the end of each quire. ‘Emptus Viterbij 69.90' on [n9v].
Three- to five-line initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 38; the copy of Suetonius' De grammaticis, noted as bound after the Solinus, has been removed.
George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 300; purchased for £4. 4. 0; see the Bodleian's annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1821), 13.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.19.
