tis00818000

Text-inc Id:

tis00818000

Bod-inc Id:

S-339

Headings:

Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius De Vita Caesarum, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: De XII caesaribus.] ‘Suetonii operis commendatio'. See S‑337.
2. [a2v] [Table.]
3. [a3r] Suetonius Tranquillus, C[aius: De Vita Caesarum]. ‘De duodecim Caesaribus. C. Iulii Caesaris uita'. See S‑336.
4. [l7r] [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Aspicis illustris lector quicunque libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse lege'; 3 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 1610.

Imprint:

Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 17 Sept. 1472. Folio. BMC suggests that this is a reprint of Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [after 30 Aug.] 1470.

Collation:

[a–k¹⁰ l⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00818000 HCR 15118; Goff S‑818; BMC IV 16; Pr 3329; CIBN S‑486; Oates 1368; Rhodes 1648; Sheppard 2642. LCN: 14007650

Copies:

1. S-339(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [l8]. Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment; the title on a red and green leather label on the spine; blue-edged leaves. Size: 343 × 241 × 22 mm. Size of leaf: 336 × 223 mm. Some marginal notes in two Italian hands: one round, the other a sloping cursive, providing ‘nota' marks, brackets, and extracting key words. A few notes in a sixteenth-century Italian hand, supplying comments on and corrections to the text. A cross within a zigzag frame in a seventeenth-century hand on [a2r]. ‘C. Collation complet' in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand on front pastedown. Provenance: Naples, Domus professae S. Mariae Portae Coeli E[ ] R[ ] M[ ]; inscription: ‘Domus Professae S. Mariae Portae Caeli E R M^a Infirmis Neapolit.' Possibly Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 3708, marked down for £1. 11. 0. Purchased for £2. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1835), 26. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.7.