Bod-Inc: E-089
Eyb, Albertus de
Praecepta artis rhetoricae.
Analysis of Content
A2r Pius II, Pont. Max. [pseudo-; Eyb, Albertus de]: Praecepta artis rhetoricae. Dedicated to [Johann] von Baden, Archbishop of Trier. Incipit: ‘[B]ene esset, vir illustris . . .’ Although transmitted under the name of Pius II and later included in his Opera omnia (Basel, 1571), 991-1034, this is in fact by Albertus de Eyb and part of his Margarita poetica; see VL I 180-6, at 182-3 no. 5.
F6r [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Siluius Aeneas Hetruscae gloria gentis'; 2 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Toulouse: [Henricus Mayer, for] Johannes Parix, [c.1495]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–E8 F6.
References
ISTC: ie00185400
GW: GW 9543;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Sheppard 6762.
LCN: 14014645
Copies
Copy number: E-089(1)
Binding: Twentieth-century gold-tooled (fillets only) black morocco; bound by Zaehnsdorf, London, stamp at the tail of the verso of the front endleaf.
Size: 197 × 133 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 188 × 124 mm.
Provenance: James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871-1949); oval white leather book-plate, lettered in black, with crest and motto. Presented by him on 17 July 1944, through the Friends of the Bodleian; book-plate on front pastedown; undated letter (post July 1944) from J. V. Scholderer (BM, then based, during World War II, at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth) to H. R. Creswick, Deputy Bodley's Librarian.
SHELFMARK: Don. e.233.
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