Bod-Inc: D-058
Dictys Cretensis
Historia Troiana (ed. Masellus Venia Beneventanus).
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Venia Beneventanus, Masellus: [Letter to] Bartholomaeus Chalcus. Incipit: ‘[C]um videam, vir magnifice et praestantissime . . .’ Saxius 466.
[a2r] Septimius, [Lucius]: [Letter to] Quintus Aradius. ‘Ephemeris Dictys Cretensis'. Edited by Masellus Venia Beneventanus. Dictys Cretensis, ed. Eisenhut, 1-2.
[a2v] Dictys Cretensis [pseudo-]: Historia Troiana. Edited by Masellus Venia Beneventanus. Dictys Cretensis, ed. Eisenhut, 3-133.
[g6v] ‘Ad lectorem'. Incipit: ‘Troica qui cupies paucis cognoscere facta'; 3 elegiac distichs.
[g6v] ‘Item ad lectorem'. Incipit: ‘Si placet noster studiose sudor'; 2 sapphic strophes.
[g6v] [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: [Archangelus Ungardus], 19 May 1477. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–f8 g6.]
References
ISTC: id00185000
GW: GW 8326;
Hain: HCR 6156;
Goff: Goff D‑185;
BMC: BMC VI 735;
Proctor: Pr 5857;
Others: Rhodes 678; Sheppard 4912.
LCN: 14815844
Copies
Copy number: D-058(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for the Bodleian Library; older blue wrappers are bound in (Weigel's?).
Size: 243 × 168 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 235 × 155 mm.
Early marginal annotations extracting key words, mainly names, and providing brief summaries or captions.
Initials and paragraph marks are partly supplied in (oxydized) red and ink; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: On [g6v] an inscription: ‘Emi mediolanj xxvij die maij 1484. h. hug.' Weissenau, Württemberg, diocese of Konstanz, Premonstratensians, SS. Petrus et Paulus; an erased inscription on [a1r] and ‘Monasterij Weissenau'. Purchased for £3. 6. 0; via Parker, from Theodor Weigel; number in Weigel's catalogue: 417; see Library Bills (1856-8), 130v and Books Purchased (1856), 17.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.72.
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