Bod-Inc: D-073
Diogenes Laertius Cynicus
Epistolae [Latin].
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: ‘Prefacio', [addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[D]iogenis philosophi epistolas nuper a me e Greco . . .’ Explicit: ad ipsum Diogenem veniamus
[a1v] Diogenes [Laertius] Cynicus [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[A]udio quam iniquo animo feras quod pueri Athenienses . . .’ Explicit: polliceri autem perfacile
[b5r] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus [Pellatus] Patavinus. Incipit: ‘[ ]erfor, Francisce Patauine vir humanissime, ne plurimi mea facere . . .’ Explicit: vale amicorum optume
[b5v] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] John Tibetot (i.e. Tiptoft), Earl of Worcester. Incipit: ‘[H]anc Luciani de calumnia orationem princeps illustris . . .’ See Roberto Weiss, ‘The Library of John Tiptoft', BQR 8,89 (1936), 162, note 15.
[b6r] Lucianus Samosatensis: ‘De calumnia'. Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[R]es profecto grauissima est ignorantia et multorum . . .’ Explicit: illustratis inueniret
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, [c.1475]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a b10].
References
ISTC: id00216000
GW: GW 8395;
Hain: H *6192;
Goff: Goff D‑216;
BMC: BMC II 447;
Proctor: Pr 2166;
Others: BSB‑Ink D‑154; Rhodes 683; Sheppard 1563.
LCN: 14815837
Copies
Copy number: D-073(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 272 × 202 × 6 mm.
Size of leaf: 265 × 189 mm.
On [b10v] early notes in a German hand, including a list of 13 books, not before c.1517: ‘[1] Summa summarum que silvestrina dicitur [by Silvestro de Prierio Mazolini, first edition traced Strasbourg, 1517] | [2] Vocabularium theologie [Johannes Altensteig, Vocabularius theologie; first edition with this title traced Hagenau: H. Gran, 1517.] | [3] Sanctus Jeronimus Interpres biblie | [4] Sermones Nicolai de nisi | [5] Sermones Magistri Nicolai de Blonij [Nicolaus de Blony, Sermones; first edition traced Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinbburg (Georg Husner)], 23 Aug. 1494-5] | [6] Quatuor partes Bonaventure super sententiarum | 7 Rationale Diuinorum [Guilelmus Duranti, Rationale divinorum officiorum; first edition traced [Mainz]: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1459.] | 8 Vocabularius utriusque iuris [first edition traced [Basel: Michael Wenssler, not after 1473].| 9 Speculum humane v[ite] ipsius s[ecundi] pauli [Rodericus Zamorensis, Seculum humanae vitae; the dedication to Paulus II, Pont. Max. is prominent; first edition traced Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1468]. | 10 Homiliarius doctorum [Homiliarius doctorum a Paulo Diacono collectus; first edition traced [Southern Netherlands: Printer of the ‘Breviarium Sarum', c.1475]. | 11 Lampertica historia que et aurea legenda dicitur [Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea; first printed edition traced [Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after Apr. 1472].] | 12 Summa angelica de casibus conscientie [Angelus de Calvasio, Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae; first edition traced Chivasso: Jacobinus Suigus, 13 May 1486]. | 13 Sermones Gabrielis Spirensis de festivitatibus Christi et Beate marie [Gabriel Biel, Sermones; first edition with these sermons Tübingen: Johann Otmar, for Friedrich Meynberger, 1499-1500].
Provenance: Leonardus Stoller (fifteenth/sixteenth century); on [b10v]: ‘Ego Leonardus Stoller fateor hisce meis [ ] hos predictos [ ] iuxta canonum sanxiones proclamasse anno et die ut supra'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; see sale (1835), lot 1277. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, A Catalogue of Books . . . from the Library of Sir Francis Freeling and Other Collections (London, 1837), no. 637 for £0. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 11.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf.2.22.
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