tiv00030000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00030000

Bod-inc Id:

V-014

Headings:

Valerius Maximus, Gaius Facta et dicta memorabilia (ed. Bonus Accursius).

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Accursius, Bonus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Simoneta. ‘Magni equiti aurato et sapientissimo ac ducali secretario Ciccho Simonetae'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uo magis de te ac tuis praestantissimis summisque uirtutibus cogito . . .’ See V‑011. View entry in Person Index
2. a3r [Table.] ‘Rubricae.’ Incipit: ‘Capitula primi libri. De religione. Capitulum i . . .’
3. a5r Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: ‘Prologus' [dedicating the work to] Tiberius Caesar. Edited by Bonus Accursius as stated in his letter. V. Max. Proem.
4. a5r Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: Facta et dicta memorabilia. ‘De cultu deorum capitulum primum.’ Edited by Bonus Accursius as stated in his letter. V. Max. See V‑006 and CTC V 302.

Imprint:

Venice: P. F., B. R., S. F., Z. F., 1 July 1478. Folio.

Collation:

a-h⁸ i⁶ k l⁸ m-s⁶ t⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00030000 HCR 15781; Goff V‑30; BMC V 266; Pr 4471; Rhodes 1785; Sack, Freiburg, 3615; Sheppard 3608. LCN: 14802563

Copies:

1. V-014(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1. Leaf a4 backed. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; bound by Richard Weir. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Gilt-edged leaves. Marbled pastedowns. Green silk bookmark. Size: 272 × 202 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 263 × 178 mm. On a4r and a5r copious marginal notes, now washed, in a contemporary hand, supplying comments on the text. Elsewhere a few notes in the same hand, mainly supplying brackets and pointing hands. On a5r north European (French?) three-quarter stem borders in black ink, with gold dotting, leaves, flowers, and two birds with [play] masks for heads outlined in black ink and coloured in blue, green, red, indigo, and yellow, incorporating a seven-line epigraphic initial ‘U' painted in blue with reserved white decoration, on a ground of gilt, the area within the body of the letter decorated in indigo with a white pen-work flower pattern. Principal initials are supplied in gold on a ground of red and/or blue. the area within the body of the letter coloured in indigo and/or blue with white pen-work. Elsewhere initials are supplied in red or blue or interlocked red and blue, with black or red pen-work decoration. Paragraph marks and headlines are also supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Unread inscription in a seventeenth century hand of name on leaf used to back a4. Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744-1811); sale (18 May 1789), lot 1531. Purchased for £1. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1789), 7. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.2.