Bod-Inc: D-060
Dictys Cretensis
Historia Troiana (ed. Franciscus Faragonius).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Faragonius, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Riccius Messanensis. Incipit: ‘[D]ictyn Cretensem gravem historicum . . .’
a3r Faragonius, Franciscus: ‘Epigramma'. Dedicated to Bernardus Riccius Messanensis. Incipit: ‘Ediderat mundo summum pia Creta tonantem'; 6 elegiac distichs.
a3r [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Hexastichon'. Incipit: ‘Vndeni versus partem si sumpseris imam'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a3r [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Tetrastichon'. Incipit: ‘Tarpaei montis templum Dictynna colossus'; 2 elegiac distichs.
a3r [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Distichon'. Incipit: ‘Vertice nata dei quondam velut aegide Sais'; 1 elegiac distich.
a3v [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Monostichon'. Incipit: ‘Ilion obsedit bello gens Graeca bilustri'; 1 hexameter.
a3v [Faragonius, Franciscus(?)]: ‘Appendiculae ad libri interpretationem'. Incipit: ‘Minos Iouis et Europae filius . . .’
a4v Faragonius, Franciscus: ‘Epigramma'. Dedicated to Bernardus Riccius Messanensis. Incipit: ‘Phoebigenam precibus mouit Dictynna sub orcum'; 11 elegiac distichs.
a5r Septimius, [Lucius]: [Letter addressed to] Quintus Aradius. ‘Prologus'. Edited by Franciscus Faragonius. See D‑059.
a5v Dictys Cretensis [pseudo-]: Historia Troiana. ‘Historia belli Troiani'. Edited by Franciscus Faragonius. See D‑059.
g8v [First colophon.]
h1r [Genealogical note.] Incipit: ‘[O]rigo Troianorum Dardanus fuit . . .’
h1r Cornelius Nepos [pseudo-]: [Letter addressed to] Sallustius Crispus. see D‑059.
h1v Dares Phrygius [pseudo-]: De excidio Troiae historia. see D‑059.
i10r Faragonius, Franciscus: ‘Ad lectorem'. Incipit: ‘Iam sunt plena malis haec tempora nostra nefandis'; 5 elegiac distichs.
i10r [Second colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 1 Feb. 1499 [first colophon]; 1 Mar. 1499 [second colophon]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h8 i10.
References
ISTC: id00187000
GW: GW 8328;
Hain: HC *6158;
Goff: Goff D‑187;
BMC: BMC V 472;
Proctor: Pr 5247;
Others: BSB‑Ink D‑130; Oates 2057; Rhodes 679; Sack, Freiburg, 1245; Sheppard 4321.
LCN: 14815868
Copies
Copy number: D-060(1)
Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century parchment over pasteboards; marbled edges; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 215 × 157 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 153 mm.
Copious early marginal notes in a humanist hand extracting names.
Provenance: Purchased in Dec. 1820 for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.21.
Copy number: D-060(2)
Bound with:
1. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, 1503.
Binding: Sixteenth-century English (Henry Jacobi) blind-tooled calf over pasteboards, four ties lost; staple-marks at the head of the front cover; title along the fore-edge. On both covers two panel stamps: at the head, a Tudor rose surrounded by a scroll lettered ‘hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno Eternū florens regia sceptra feret', supported by an angel on either side and with the shields of St George and the City of London above between the sun and moon, and below the mark and initials of Henry Jacobi; see Oldham, Blind Panels, 35 and pl. XXXIX RO.16; at the tail, the crowned arms of Henry VIII supported by a dragon and a greyhound; in the corners at the head are the shields of St George and the City of London between the sun and moon, and at the tail are the mark and the initials of Henry Jacobi; see Oldham, Blind Panels, 25 and pl. XXI HE.25, with slight differences.
Size: 212 × 155 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 210 × 153 mm.
Front pastedown: badly damaged fragment of a unidentified printed list of contents. Back pastedown: a fragment of a thirteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Digest 23.2.44pr. in med. to 23.2.45.1, with glossa ordinaria, glosses senatoris to Digest 23.2.44pr, si postea to Digest 23.2.44.6, and non habebit to Digest 23.2.45.2; commentary in a different, later hand.
Early marginal notes in a humanist hand, extracting names and providing short summaries or captions.
Provenance: On rear endleaf, ‘This is Thomas D[ ]' and the name ‘Robart'. Exeter Cathedral Library; stamp on i10r of item 2. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate and stamp on back pastedown; accession no. ‘R 100'; purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1942 for £40. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 29.17(2).
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