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tiv00097000

Text-inc Id:
tiv00097000
Bod-inc Id:
V-047
Headings:
Varro, Marcus Terentius De lingua latina (ed. Julius Pomponius Laetus and Franciscus Rolandellus).
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Laetus, Julius] Pomponius: [Letter addressed to Bartholomaeus] Platina. Incipit: ‘M. Terentius Varro togatorum literatissimus . . .’ See V‑045.
  2. a1v [Index uerborum.] Incipit: ‘[A]ctus, Ambitus, Agrorum genera . . .’
  3. br Varro, M[arcus] Terentius: De lingua latina [addressed to Marcus Tullius] Cicero. Edited by Julius Pomponius Laetus and Franciscus Rolandellus, as stated in the letter and endnote. Var. L. Books 8-10 are presented as a separate work entitled ‘Analogiae liber primus quae dicantur cur non sit analogia'. For this edition and Rolandellus' contribution see CTC IV 457. On the work see V‑045.
  4. h4r [Note on Laetus and Rolandellus as editors.] Incipit: ‘Si quispiam tertio loco fragmentis Varronis . . ..’ Laetus appears to have edited book I, Rolandellus book II.
Imprint:
[Venice: Printer of Pomponius Mela, c.1478]. Folio. Often found with Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione (Goff F‑145) and Nonius Marcellus, De proprietate latini sermonis (Goff N‑266).
Collation:
a6 b–g8.6 h4.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00097000 HC *15854; Goff V‑97; BMC V 262; Pr 7412; BSB‑Ink V‑58; Sheppard 3589. LCN: 14800986
Copies:
  1. V-047(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century mottled calf. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 295 × 213 × 2 mm. Size of leaf: 288 × 198 mm. Pencilled number ‘46' on a1r. Provenance: Note on a1r in brown ink: ‘Purchased of Thorpe 1827'; not identified in Catalogue (1827). A Varro c.1478 was purchased in 1832; see ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 58r; not listed in Books Purchased (1832). SHELFMARK: Auct. L 5.22.