Bod-Inc: A-343
Antoninus Florentinus
Summa theologica. Pars IV.
Analysis of Content
a1v Franciscus Moneliensis: ‘Epistola' [addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘[E]st, mihi crede, hoc opus summis laudibus ac honore celebrandum . . .’
a2r Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Proemium.’ Incipit: ‘ “[B]enedictionem dabit legislator ibunt de uirtute in uirtutem” . . . [Ps 83,8]. Tota uita hominis supper terram est quoddam iter . . .’ See Bloomfield 635.
a3r [Table of contents.]
a4v [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit ipse Antoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus, Romane vrbis olim auditor . . .’
a4v [Epitaph for Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo | Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas'; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416.
a4v [Colophon.]
a5r Antoninus Florentinus: Summa theologica. Pars IV. Incipit: ‘[C]irca uirtutem in generali consideranda sunt sex . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 80-2 no. 239; Orlandi 297 (A) 1.
N9r [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit ipse Antoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus, Romane vrbis olim auditor . . .’
N9r [Epitaph of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia, pro quo | Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas'; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 18 April 1480. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a12 b–h10 i8 k–n8.10 o8 p–y8.10 z [et] [con] [rum] A–K10 L8 M N10.
Remarks: GW collation has second gathering of ten leaves signed ‘p', after the first one, presumably a mistake for ‘q.’
References
ISTC: ia00872000
GW: GW 2185 (4);
Hain: HC *1243 (4);
Goff: Goff A‑872;
BMC: BMC V 181;
Proctor: Pr 4124;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑595; CIBN A‑453; Lowry, Jenson no. 83; Sheppard 3295.
LCN: 14267796
Copies
Copy number: A-343(1)
Leaf s1 is signed r, but corrected in black ink.
Binding: English eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf, over bevelled wooden boards; marbled pastedowns; in imitation of earlier style.
Size: 307 × 225 × 70 mm.
Size of leaf: 294 × 202 mm.
Occasional early marginal annotations.
Three- to seven-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Initials with pen-flourishing counter-changed with the colour of the initial.
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; not found in sale catalogue. Purchased for £0. 7. 6.; see Books Purchased (1844), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.28.
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