Bod-Inc: F-035
Festus, Sextus Pompeius
De verborum significatione.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Festus, Sextus Pompeius: [De verborum significatione.] Fest.
[k7v] [Valedictory blessing.] Incipit: ‘Laudetur Christus per quinque foramina lesus'.’
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: [Pamfilio Castaldi with Antonius and Fortunatus Zarotus], 3 Aug. 1471. 4°.
Remarks: As assigned by GW.
Collation
Collation: [a–k8].
References
ISTC: if00141000
GW: GW 9864;
Hain: HC *7038;
Goff: Goff F‑141;
BMC: BMC VI 699;
Proctor: Pr 5767;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑106; Ganda 1; Oates 2249; Sheppard 4796.
LCN: 14387865
Copies
Copy number: F-035(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [k8].
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves. Dutch watermark in endpapers: at the front: ‘J. Honig' and at the back: crowned lion rampant, with scimitar. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 268 × 202 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 257 × 181 mm.
On the first leaves some early marginal annotations, expanding and supplementing the text; Greek words are supplied, also on the first leaves only.
Provenance: Perhaps Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 18. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 247; purchased for £3. 0. 0: see Books Purchased (1821), 6 and the annotated sale catalogue.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 5.8.
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