Bod-Inc: A-382
Aristeas
Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus.
Analysis of Content
a2r [Palmerius Pisanus, Mathias: Letter addressed to Bartolomeus Malipierus, Bishop of Brescia.] Incipit: ‘[H]ieronimus, cuius ingenium semper admiror, cum multa in ecclesia preclara egisset sanctitate et sapiencia . . .’ On the dedication see Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum, I 355, who describes Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, MS. A D X 3, and Mercati, Codici Latini Pico Grimani Pio, 288; also Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane, I 200-1.
a3r Aristeas [pseudo-]: ‘Tractatulus de lxxii interpretibus et de eorundem maxima sapientia ac nominibus.’ [Translated by Mathias Palmerius Pisanus.] Incipit: ‘[C]um permagnam semper feceris, Philocrates, cuiusque rei cognitionem miroque discendi amore tenearis . . .’ See A‑381.
d7v [Burlaeus, Gualterus]: De vita et moribus philosophorum. ‘In libro quodam qui describit vitam philosophorum sic inuenitur.’ Gualterus Burlaeus, Liber De vita et moribus philosophorum, ed. Hermann Knust, Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 177 (Tübingen, 1886), 296-302; but see J. Prelog, ‘Die Handschriften und Drucke von Walter Burleys Liber de uita et moribus philosophorum’, Codices manuscripti, 9 (1983), 1-18, and his edition of the section ‘De Pictagora phylosopho', Medioevo, 16 (190), 191-51; also M. Grignaschi, ‘Lo pseudo-Walter Burley e il Libro de uita et moribus philosophorum’, Medioevo, 16 (1990), 131-90; Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1902.
Imprint
Imprint: Erfurt: [Printer of ‘Aristeas', 14]83. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d8.
References
ISTC: ia00957000
GW: GW 2332;
Hain: HC *1655;
Goff: Goff A‑957;
BMC: BMC II 590;
Proctor: Pr 3102;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑672; Oates 1312; Sheppard 1988.
LCN: 14341574
Copies
Copy number: A-382(1)
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century cream pasteboards.
Size: 204 × 154 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 198 × 146 mm.
On a1r two recipes in Low German.
Provenance: Purchased in 1897; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 10 May 1898, 466.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. G25.1483.1.
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