Bod-Inc: C-048
Cantalycius, Johannes Baptista
Epigrammata.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Cantalycius, Johannes Baptista: [Introductory letter, addressed to] Polydorus Tybertus. Incipit: ‘[P]apinius Statius Neapolitanus poeta praestantissime equitum, mi Polydore, diu multumque . . .’ See Cesare Picci, Il ‘Liber epigrammatum' di G. B. Valentin detto il Cantalicio (Varallo, 1911).
a2v Cantalycius, Johannes Baptista: Epigrammata. Incipit: ‘[H]ic tecum loquitur primus, Polydore, libellus | Et de preturis disputat ille tuis'; elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca), 20 Jan. 1493/4. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–r8 ſ4.
Illustrations: Woodcut on a2r.
References
ISTC: ic00103000
GW: GW 5993;
Hain: H *4350;
Goff: Goff C‑103;
BMC: BMC V 485;
Proctor: Pr 4993;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑81; Essling 727; Sander 1601; Sheppard 4363.
LCN: 13888573
Copies
Copy number: C-048(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter red morocco over marbled paper boards with a gold-tooled border; the spine gold-tooled.
Size: 215 × 156 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 206 × 142 mm.
Copious marginal annotations in several humanist hands, repeating headings, extracting key words, and providing a few glosses.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 124.
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