Bod-Inc: A-381
Aristeas
Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Palmerius Pisanus], Mathias: [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[C]um et antea, semper beatissime pontifex, intellexerim, sanctitatem tuam in perquirendis maiorum nostrorum splendidis gestis dignis mirifice oblectam . . .’ On the dedication see Giovanni Mercati, Codici Latini Pico Grimani Pio, Studi e Testi, 75 (Vatican City, 1938), 288 and Edoardo Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane del quattrocento e del cinquecento, 2 vols (Milan, 1992), I 200-1.
[a3r] Aristeas [pseudo-]: ‘Ad Philocratem fratrem.’ Translated by Mathias Palmerius Pisanus, as stated in the colophon. Incipit: ‘[C]um permagni semper feceris, Philocrates, eiusque rei cognitione mireque discendi amore tenearis . . .’ Marguerin de la Bigne, Biblotheca magna ueterum patrum, I (Cologne, 1618), 1-12. On the Greek text see J.-G. Février, La date, la composition et les sources de la lettre d'Aristée à Philocrate, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, 242 (Paris, 1924); see also TRE III 719-25 and O. Eissfeldt, Einleitung in das Alte Testament (Tübingen, 1964), 817-21.
Imprint
Imprint: Naples: Arnaldus de Bruxella, 8 Feb. 1474. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–e8].
References
ISTC: ia00956500
GW: GW 2331;
Hain: H 1654;
BMC: BMC VI 858;
Proctor: Pr 6687;
Others: Fava–Bresciano 84; Oates 2511; Sheppard 5425.
LCN: 14341622
Copies
Copy number: A-381(1)
Bound with:
2. Nicolaus Sagundinus, De epistolari dicendi genere. [Naples: Arnaldus de Bruxella, c.1472] (N‑066).
Wanting the blank leaf [e8].
Binding: Half red morocco, tooled with small upright floral gilt tools in the panels, the bands outlined with simple horizontal fillets; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 241 × 164 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 234 × 158 mm.
Faded sixteenth-century marginal notes.
Provenance: Giacomo Lucchesini (1753-1820); erased signature on front pastedown. Giuseppe Molini; oval ticket with the head of Dante on front pastedown. Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823); sale (1824), lot 274. Purchased for £10. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1824), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 4.37(1).
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