Bod-Inc: H-068
Hesiodus
Opera et dies (trans. Nicolaus de Valle).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Liber Georgicorum Nicolai de Valle'.
a1v de Valle, Nicolaus: [Prefatory verse addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Si vacat Enea rerum, dignissime presul | Grataque sunt animo carmina nostra tuo'; 9 elegiac distichs.
a2r Hesiodus: Opera et dies. ‘Opera et dies Georgicon liber Nicolai de Vale e greco conuersio.’ Translated by Nicolaus de Valle. Incipit: ‘[P]ierides muse quarum viget inclita cantu | Fama ducum et vestri decus immortale parentis.’
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris]: Pierre Levet, [c.1497]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard from the state of Levet's device.
Collation
Collation: a–c8.
References
ISTC: ih00138500
BMC: BMC VIII 105-6;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Sheppard 6289.
LCN: 14509784
Copies
Copy number: H-068(1)
Bound with A‑040; see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 191 × 130 mm.
Early notes in red ink extracting key phrases, structuring the text; in black ink, marginal annotations, frequent interlinear corrections to the text, underlining, and ‘nota' marks. At c8r 1 elegiac distich: ‘Dedecus est natis claros habuisse parentes | Ne studeant claris parentibus esse pares.’
SHELFMARK: Buchanan e.66(1).
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