Bod-Inc: F-006
Facetus
Liber Faceti docens mores hominum.
Analysis of Content
a2r ‘Faceci morosi' [ethica]. Incipit: ‘[S]eneca in libro de quatuor virtutibus in capitulo de continentia dicit: “Sermones vtiles magis quam facetos et affabiles ama . . .” ‘
a2v [Facetus Cum nihil utilius.] ‘Liber Faceti'. See F‑005.
a2v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[H]ic autor ponit prohemium sui libri, in quo ipse ostendit que fuerit causa mouens ipsum ad hoc opus peragendum . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 7 Sept. 1494. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a b6 c4.
References
ISTC: if00036300
GW: GW 9678;
Hain: HC 6886; C 2414;
BMC: BMC IX 69;
Proctor: Pr 9072;
Others: Campbell 730; HPT II 413; ILC 985; Sheppard 6973.
LCN: 14381022
Copies
Copy number: F-006(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century English (London) gold-tooled green morocco by Fairbairn; name impressed inside the upper cover.
Size: 204 × 138 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 199 × 132 mm.
Provenance: Philipp Augustus Hanrott (1776-1856); sale (1833), lot 2154, described as ‘green morocco'; a book-plate seems to have been removed from the front pastedown. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1834; signature dated 1834 on the endleaf; sale (1837), lot 114, stating ‘formerly belonging to Mr. Hanrott'; purchased for £0. 13. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.83.
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