Bod-Inc: F-073
Flores Legum
Flores legum secundum ordinem alphabeti.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Flores legum secundum ordinem alphabeti. Incipit: ‘ “[A]nte primum nihil est”. In prohemio ff ss nos vero . . .’ See Stintzing 122-3.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, for Lazarus de Suardis, [c.1496-8]. 8°.
Remarks: Format is 8°, not 4°, as in BMC; privilege as GW Anm. 1.
Collation
Collation: a–f8.
References
ISTC: if00214000
GW: GW 10057 (Anm. 1);
Hain: HC *7169;
Goff: Goff F‑214;
BMC: BMC V 376;
Proctor: Pr 4901;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑152; Essling 1280; Sack, Freiburg, 1458; Sander 2795; Sheppard 4000.
LCN: 14124780
Copies
Copy number: F-073(1)
Wanting f1.
Binding: Twentieth-century brown cloth, bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 216 × 138 × 18 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 130 mm.
On a1r: ‘Mi pila subripuit puerum glaucique salaces | Nunc Veneris puer est; Palladis ante fuit', an elegiac distich here ascribed to [Antonius] Mancinellus; also two legal extracts, incipit: ‘Quando quis amisisset feudum ut alium uere immobilem et uellet agere rei vindicationem . . .' ‘Committens homicidium sine dolo non punitur tamquam homicidium . . .' Further legal extracts among the copious early marginal notes and pointing hands. On f8v an extract on the nature of man, ascribed to Hiero, incipit: ‘[Nihil] homo est nisi daemonis imago qui omnia ad sui commodum refert . . .’
On a2r a four-line initial ‘A' is supplied in faded black ink.
Provenance: Cesare Saluzzo (1778-1853); book-plate, c.1835: see Bragaglia III, no. 1827. Purchased in Sept. 1924, from Oppenheim & Co.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.5.
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