Bod-Inc: H-138
Homerus
Batrachomyomachia [Latin].
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Marsupinus] Aretinus, Carolus: [Letter addressed to] Marassius Siculus. Incipit: ‘[S]uper, suauissime Marassi, qum apud quosdam prestantissimos iuuenes . . .’
[a2r] Homerus: Batrachomyomachia. Translated by Carolus Marsupinus Aretinus. Incipit: ‘[R]anarum murumque simul crudelia bella | Quaeque super genibus descripsi carmina nuper . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Printer of Datus (H 5969), c.1475]. 4°.
Remarks: As assigned by CIBN; unassigned in BMC.
Collation
Collation: [a8].
References
ISTC: ih00302000
Hain: H *8784;
Goff: Goff H‑302;
BMC: BMC V 583;
Proctor: Pr 5686;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑236; CIBN H‑175; Sheppard 4740.
LCN: 14461935
Copies
Copy number: H-138(1)
On [a1r], l. 3: ‘ . . . qum . . .'; l. 25: ‘ . . . om̄iū poetarū p̄stātiſſi | . . .'; not as BMC; [a8v], l. 25: ‘ . . . qum . . .'; as Hain.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled pasteboards.
Size: 196 × 136 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 188 × 129 mm.
A few marginal notes, correcting the text, in an Italian humanist hand.
Provenance: Acquired between 1835 and 1847; see Catalogus (1843), Appendix, 450.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.48.
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