tiv00090000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00090000

Bod-inc Id:

V-043

Headings:

Valturius, Robertus De re militari [Italian] Opera dell' arte militare (trans. Paulus Ramusius).

Analysis of content:

1. [*2r] Ramusius, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Roberto Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno. Incipit: ‘[I] raggi de linclita et eterna virtu, illustrissimo signor . . .’ See V‑041, and Rodakiewicz, ‘De re militari', 25.
2. [*6v] Dante Alighieri: [Verse]. Incipit: ‘Qui son depinte le Roman historie | Et le barbarice e civil bataglie'; 14 tetrameters.
3. a2r Valturius, Robertus: [Preface dedicating the work to] Sigismundus Pandulphus Malatesta. ‘Opera de facti e precepti militari di Misier Roberto Valturio Ariminese gia inscripta in Latin'. Translated into Italian by Paulus Ramusius, as stated in the colophon on O8v. Incipit: ‘[C]redo certamente ne a mi e occulto, o glorioso e inclyto capitanno Sygismondo Pandolpho . . .’ See V‑042.
4. a6r [Valturius, Robertus: De re militari.] ‘Dil primo et sicondo principio di larte militare apresso quale gente sia nata primermente.’ Translated into Italian by Paulus Ramusius, as stated in the colophon on O8v. Incipit: ‘Donque quando fra tutti di lanticha auctoritate homeni . . .’
5. O8v [Colophon.] ‘Di Roberto Valturio di Arimio opera de larte militare finisse translata per el spectabel doctor misier Paulo Ramusio de Arimino'.
6. O9r [Registrum.]

Imprint:

Verona: Boninus de Boninis, 17 Feb. 1483. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁶] a–d⁸ e⁶ f g⁸ h¹⁰ i–u⁸ x y⁶ z &⁸ [con] [rum] A B⁶ C–E⁸ F G⁶ H I⁸ K¹⁰ L–N⁸ O¹⁰. Woodcuts; see Sander.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00090000 HC 15849; Goff V‑90; BMC VII 952; Pr 6922; BSB‑Ink V‑54; CIBN V‑59; Antal Lőkkös, Les incunables de la Bibliothèque de Genève (Geneva, 1982), no. 441; Sander 7483; Sheppard 5705. LCN: 14800973

Copies:

1. V-043(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century tree calf. Title in gilt on red and green paper labels on the spine. Marbled pastedowns. In manuscript, author's name along the lower edge, title along the fore-edge. Size: 314 × 221 × 60 mm. Size of leaf: 307 × 201 mm. Some notes in Italian in two sixteenth-century Italian hands, supplying brackets and extracting key words. A few marginal notes in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century Italian hand, supplying brackets, underlining, and headings. On [*1v] an eighteenth-century Italian hand supplies 2 hexameters: ‘Quid facis o mi[ ]be plange uel ora | Et fac quod nulla sine fructu transeat hora'. The sum ‘6. 6. 0' pencilled on recto of front endleaf. The number ‘1650' pencilled on verso of front endleaf. Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 2702. Purchased for £3. 19. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 109. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 3.26.