Bod-Inc: B-357
Blondus, Flavius
Roma instaurata (ed. Johannes Antonius Pantheus).
Analysis of Content
[*2v] ‘Index'.
[*6r] Broianicus, Hieronymus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui Romam Latium Venetos lustrauit abunde'; 4 elegiac distichs.
[*6v] Pantheus, Johannes Antonius: [Versified preface addressed to] Paulus Ramusius Ariminensis. See C. Perpolli, ‘L'Actio Panthea e l'Umanesimo Veronese', Atti dell'Accademia di Agricoltura, Scienze e Letteratura di Verona, 4th ser., 16 (1915), 55.
a1r Blondus, Flavius: ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] Eugenius IV, Pont. Max. Incipit:`[V]rbis Romae rerum dominae ruinarum potius quam aedificiorum . . .’
a1v Blondus, Flavius: Roma instaurata. Edited by Johannes Antonius Pantheus. Incipit:`[R]omam in Latio ad Tiberim amnem sitam . . .’
e6r Blondus, Flavius: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Foscari, Doge of Venice, and the Venetian senate. Incipit:`[M]agnum, Francisce Foscari princeps serenissime uosque amplissimi senatores ac uiri patricii, negotium an omnium magis . . .’
e6v Blondus, Flavius: ‘De origine et gestis Venetorum'. Edited by Johannes Antonius Pantheus. Incipit:`[V]enetam urbem ad annum salutis sextum quinquagesimum et quadringentesimum condi coepisse . . .’
g3v [First colophon dated 20 Dec. 1481.]
A1r Blondus, Flavius: ‘In Italiam illustratam prefatio'. Incipit:`[Q]uom multi historiam uariis extollant celebrentque sententiis tum maxime eam Alexander Antonius . . .’
A1v Blondus, Flavius: Italia illustrata. Edited by Johannes Antonius Pantheus. Incipit:`[I]taliam describere exorsi prouinciarum orbis primariam a laudibus suis incipere debemus . . .’
M5v Broianicus, Hieronymus: [Poem.] Incipit: ‘Itala quam debet Saturno turba latenti | Iliadae tantum martia turba suo'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Verona: Boninus de Boninis, 1481-2. Folio.
Remarks: In two parts, dated: (I) 20 Dec. 1481; (II) 7 Feb. 1482.
Collation
Collation: [*6] a–f8 g4 A–L8 M6.
References
ISTC: ib00702000
GW: GW 4423;
Hain: HC *3243 + *3247;
Goff: Goff B‑702;
BMC: BMC VII 951;
Proctor: Pr 6920;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑554; Rhodes 382; Sheppard 5701. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography Part I, CH 4; Unit 6: Image of the World: Travellers' Tales, TT 6.
LCN: 13962401
Copies
Copy number: B-357(1)
Wanting the leaves [*1.6] and M6, two being blank, [*6] containing the verse by Broianicus and the preface by Pantheus.
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, with gold-tooled spine; bound for the Bodleian Library; parchment index tabs; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers.
Size: 310 × 215 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 303 × 193 mm.
Initials are supplied in red.
Manuscript annotations in an early hand. On [*4v], M5r, and V3v are extracts on Blondus from Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo, Supplementum chronicarum. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 23 Aug. 1483; on leaf BB4v is a further extract with some supplementary information. Manuscript copies of the verses found in the edition from Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 16 July 1483; Johannes Antonius Campanus, incipit: ‘Blonde, pio uiuo moreris nil morte dolendum est'; [Johannes Antonius Campanus, verse dedicated to Pius II, Pont. Max.], incipit: ‘Romam instauratam cœpit conscribere Blondus'; [Johannes Antonius Campanus], Epitaphium, incipit: ‘Hic situs est Blondus Priami cui forma, Catonis'. On M1r a manuscript copy of the epitaph of Robertus, King of Naples, by Franciscus Petrarcha, incipit: ‘Hic sacra magnanimi requiescunt ossa Roberti'.
Provenance: Ghent, Discalced Carmelites, S. Maria de Monte Carmelo. Adrianus de Eenhoute (fl. 1483). Petrus Brunus (fl. 1483); inscription on M5v: ‘Iste liber pertinet bibliothece conuentus gandavij sacri ordinis gloriosissime dei genitricis Marie de monte Carmelo, et aduenit eadem anno domini 1483 reverendo patre fratre Petro Bruno perornate ex procuratione reverendissimi magistri Adriani de eenhoute sacre theologie professoris. Orate pro eis.’ Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1822), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.20.
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