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Censorinus

De die natali (ed. Philippus Beroaldus).

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Table of contents.]

a1v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter to] Bartholomeus Blanchinus. Incipit: ‘[P]ulchrum est congerere nomismata illustrium uirorum . . .’

a2r Censorinus: De die natali. Dedicated to Quintus Caerelius. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus. Censorinus, De die natali liber, ed. Nicolaus Sallmann (Leipzig, 1983), 1-60. On the text see Censorinus, Le Jour natal, trans. Guillaume Rocca-Serra, Histoire des doctrines de l'antiquité classique, 5 (Paris, 1980), pp. v–xi.

c1r [Fragmentum Censorino adscriptum.] Censorinus, De die natali liber, ed. Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867), 55, lines 2-18, 60, lines 22-73, line 23. Censorinus, De die natali liber, ed. Nicolaus Sallmann (Leipzig, 1983), 61, lines 2-14, and pp. 68-86.

c4r Cebes [pseudo-]: Tabula [Pinax]. Translated by Ludovicus Odaxius Patavinus. Incipit: ‘[C]asu euenerat ut in Saturni sacello deambularemus . . .’ On the translation see Cora E. Lutz, ‘Ps. Cebes', CTC VI 3-4 and Reinhard Schleier, Tabula Cebetis oder ‘Spiegel des Menschlichen Lebens | dariñ Tugent und untugent abgemalet ist'. Studien zur Rezeption einer antiken Bildbeschreibung im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1973), 14-16.

d4r Lucianus [pseudo-; Albertus, Leo Baptista]: De virtute conquerente. [Also known as Virtus Dea.] Stated to be translated by Carolus (Marsupinus) Aretinus, but see Leo Baptista Albertus, Opera inedita et pauca separatim impressa, ed. Hieronymus Mancini (Florence, 1890), 132-5; Ludwig Bertalot, review of Giovanni Aurispa, Carteggio. Ed. Remigio Sabbadini (1931), in Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 54 (1933), col. 1702.

e1r Politianus, Angelus: [Letter to] Laurentius de' Medici. Maïer I 393-4.

e1v Epictetus [pseudo-; Arrianus, Flavius]: Enchiridion. Translated by Angelus Politianus. Maïer I 394-405; see R. P. Olivier, ‘Era plagiario il Poliziano nelle sue traduzioni di Epitteto e di Erodiano?', in Il Poliziano e il suo tempo: Atti del IV convegno internazionale di studi sul Rinascimento, Firenze 23-26 settembre 1954 (Florenze, 1957), 253-71, with the use of Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS. 766 at 356-7; G. Boter, ‘The Greek Sources of the Translations by Perotti and Politian of Epictetus “Encheiridion”  ’, Révue d'histoire des textes, 23 (1993), 159-188.

g1r Basilius Magnus: De liberalibus studiis et ingenuis moribus. [Also known as De legendis antiquorum libris.] Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. Basilio di Cesarea, Discorso ai giovani. Oratio ad adolescentes. Con la versione latina di Leonardo Bruni, ed. Mario Naldini (Rome, 1984). Saint Basil on the Value of Greek Literature, ed. N. G. Wilson (London, 1975), with remarks on Bruni's translation, 14. On the humanist reception see Luzi Schucan, Das Nachleben von Basilius Magnus «ad adolescentes». Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des christlichen Humanismus, Travaux d'humanisme et renaissance, 133 (Geneva, 1973), 57-76 (on Bruni's translation) and 142-4 (this edition).

g6r Basilius Magnus: De invidia. [Homilia XI.] Translated by Nicolaus Perottus. Incipit: ‘[B]onus est deus, et bonorum merentibus largitor . . .’ See Niccolò Perotti's Version of the Enchiridion of Epictetus, ed. Revilo Pendleton Oliver (Urbana, Ill., 1954), 139; Iréna Backus, Lectures humanistes de Basile de Césarée: Traductions Latines (1439-1618) (Paris, 1990), 146-8, discusses the translation, but is unaware of this edition. For the Greek text see Migne, PG XXXI 371 ff.

h1r Plutarchus: De invidia et odio. ‘De differentia inter odium et invidiam'. Incipit: ‘[N]ihil fere ab odio differe inuidia . . .’ Plut. Moralia 47.

Imprint

Imprint: Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 12 May 1497. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a b6 c–f4 g8 h2.

References

ISTC: ic00376000

GW: GW 6471;

Hain: HC *4847;

Goff: Goff C‑376;

BMC: BMC VI 843, XII 60;

Proctor: Pr 6633;

Others: BSB‑Ink C‑6; Rhodes 535; Sheppard 5384-5.

LCN: 14837768

Copies

Copy number: C-164(1)

Binding: Eighteenth-century English calf, for the Bodleian Library; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers.

Size: 290 × 205 × 16 mm.

Size of leaf: 280 × 194 mm.

Occasional early marginal notes.

Occasional underlining in red.

Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); sale (1789), lot 2050; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne, with lot 2049, for Fl. 9. Purchased through Payne for £0. 15. 6; see Books Purchased (1790), 6.

SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.19.

Copy number: C-164(2)

A blank leaf has been pasted over a1r, with a rectangular gap being left for the title.

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; the spine gold-tooled.

Size: 308 × 210 × 13 mm.

Size of leaf: 300 × 194 mm.

Provenance: Paulus Schayder (fifteenth/sixteenth century); on a1r an early inscription: ‘Domino Paulo Schayder hungaro Ferrariensis', now covered. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); name on front pastedown and note on front endleaf; Elenchus, no. 870. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. B 5.2.


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