Bod-Inc: F-090
Fortunatianus, Chirius Consultus
Rhetorica, et al.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] Puteolanus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘Franciscus Puteolanns(!) reuerendissimo Jacobo Antiquario, ducali secretario et optimo patrono suo, salutem. Libros Chirii Fortunatiani Consulti de ratione dicendi . . .’ Explicit: aucta gloria superata inuidia. Vale.’ Saxius 549-50.
a2r Fortunatianus, Chirius Consultus: Rhetorica. Chirius Consultus Fortunatianus, Ars rhetorica, ed. Lucia Calboli Montefusco, Edizioni e saggi universitari di filologia classica, 24 (Bologna, 1979), 65-167.
f4r Fortunatianus, Chirius Consultus [pseudo-]: De officio oratoris. Incipit: ‘[O]ratoris officium est proposita quæstione ciuili . . .’ C. Halm, Rhetores latini minores (Leipzig, 1883-5); see CPL 1556; the work is sometimes also erroneously ascribed to Augustinus Hipponensis.
g8r [Fortunatianus, Chirius Consultus pseudo-; Martianus Capella: De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii.] Mart. Cap. 5. 508-25.
Imprint
Imprint: [Milan: Philippus de Mantegatiis, Cassanus, c.1493]. 4°.
Remarks: GW dates [c.1493], Sheppard to [1494]. In an unsigned note inserted at the beginning of the Bodleian copy, David Rogers suggests [1490-2], because the book is printed with type 1, without the initial letters, which are usual in and after 1493.
Collation
Collation: [*2] a–g8 h6.
References
ISTC: if00272900
GW: GW 10228;
Hain: HCR 7306;
Goff: Goff F‑275;
Proctor: Pr 5257;
Others: Hillard 826; IGI 4047; Sheppard 5027.
LCN: 14830763
Copies
Copy number: F-090(1)
On [*1r], l. 1: ‘ . . . Puteolanns', as GW.
Binding: Contemporary Italian grey paper boards, with a later parchment strip covering the spine.
Size: 227 × 166 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 223 × 161 mm.
Early notes inside the upper cover in gathering [*], on a1, a blank on h5v and h6 and on back endleaf, which is integral to the binding; the notes are mainly extracts from classical and later texts on rhetoric, one including a reference to Angelus Politianus. A few marginal notes in the main text, mainly key words extracted. Contemporary title inscription on the upper cover: ‘Fortunatianus CONSVLTVS'. Loosely inserted into the volume is a paper slip containing a fifteenth-century central Italian note relating to oil and linen bought and weighed: [recto] Marce filii, ho inteso de l'olio comparato sed | più caro soldi III el peso de quello chi me | dissi l' amico de Onofrio; transeat pur | che’l sia giaro: Item ho hauto li maroni | et’l lino facto per li Schisirolis e di li | pesi in su singulo die. In partirlo sarai quod agere perche Antonello lo mena | li tuto de impositione de madona | Catherina. Item mandote panelli | ma aviseme se ne debo comprar deli | altri et quanti. Item mandame libra | dua grossa de Savone perche l’ho | promiso, pondera lino sicut te disse | die lune libre xvi quartori | die martis libre xiiii quartori | die mercorii libre xiiii quartori | die jouis libre xvi quartori i | die veneris libre xv quartor iii | die sabbati libre xv quartori iii | summa lxxxxi quartori iii | solue et [ ] [verso] medium suprascripti est libre XLV‑+ quartori quinque | set detraho libre VIII di | lino mandato li a noy | credo martedi proxime passato | et sic resta la parte vostra | et quello che se manda de | presente (saluo errore si | iterum responderetur) de netto libre xxxvii quartori quinque. | Fallo repesar perche noi hauemo | facto grande peso et [si?] lo | lo trovaray de piu.
Provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp inside the lower cover; see Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 1704. Purchased for £0. 4. 6: see Books Purchased (1834), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.61.
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