Copy number: A-277(1)

Bound with:
1. Publius Faustus Andrelinus, De Neapolitana victoria. [Paris]: Félix Baligault, [between 18 May 1497 and 30 Oct. 1499] (A‑278(1));
2. Robertus Gaguinus, Decertatio adversus Vincentium Bandellum de Castronovo de Mariae virginis conceptu. Paris: Félix Baligault, [c.1496] (G‑010);
3. Dominicus Mancinus, Carmen de passione Christi. Paris: Félix Baligault, [c.1495-6] (M‑048);
4. Baptista Mantuanus, In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum carmen. Paris: [Georg Wolf and Johann Philippi, for] E. J. and G. de Marnef and Jean Petit, 1497 (B‑037);
5. Publius Faustus Andrelinus, De moralibus et intellectualibus virtutibus. [Paris: Johann Philippi de Cruzenach, for] Jean Petit, [c.1497-8] (A‑280).

The last leaves of items 2, 3, and 6 all carry the blind impresssion of an astronomical illustration.

Binding: Seventeenth-century English limp parchment; 2 ties at fore-edges, now lost; yapp fore-edges; laced onto 4 supports; red-edged leaves; bound for the Bodleian Library.

Size: 192 × 131 × 31 mm.

Size of leaf: 186 × 127 mm.

Provenance: On title of item 1, a sixteenth-century capital ‘R', associated with books donated by Lord Hunsdon. The whole volume given in 1601 by George Carey (1547-1603), 2nd Lord Hunsdon; see Benefactors' Register, I 9: ‘Faustus de Neapolitana victoria.4. Decertatio gaguini contra Vincent. 4. Mancinus de Passione Domini. 4. Mantuani Versus Encomiastici. 4. Faustus de Moralibus intellectualibusque virtutibus. 4. Liuia Eiusdem. 4.'; see James, Catalogus (1605), 321 which gives the same shelfmark for the volume as it has today: ‘Faustus de Neapol. victoria cum aliis in 4°. F1'; see Jensen, ‘Benefactors' Register', no. 26.

SHELFMARK: 4° F 1(6) Art.