Bod-Inc: A-437
Ars Epistolandi
Analysis of Content
a1r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui petis absentis animum tibi iungere verbis | hanc lege que breuibus plurima summa docet. | Statu quenque suo deponit in ordine et illum | nomine virtutis qua valet ipsa vocat'; 2 elegiac distichs.
a1r [Ars epistolandi.] Incipit: ‘[L]ectitanti mihi Marci Tulii Ciceronis preclaram egregiamque sententiam . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Antoine Caillaut, c.1485]. 4°.
Remarks: On a5r one of the model epistles is dated 1484.
Collation
Collation: a b6.
References
ISTC: ia01085500
GW: GW 2564;
Proctor: Pr 7929;
Others: Sheppard 6187.
LCN: 13978388
Copies
Copy number: A-437(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century French(?) marbled pasteboards.
Size: 208 × 145 × 5 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 140 mm.
Early interlinear and marginal notes.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes, underlining, and marks.
Provenance: Purchased at an anonymous sale (25 Feb. 1886), lot 898, for £0. 7. 0.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 7.37.
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