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Bod-Inc: H-224

Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas

In epistolas ad familiares Ciceronis commentum.

 

Analysis of Content

A1v Accursius Pisanus, Bonus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Turrianus. Incipit: ‘Cum omnes homines ut stoicorum sententia est . . .’

A2r Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas: [Letter addressed to] Bonus Accursius Pisanus. Incipit: ‘Cum iam multos et eosdem utiles libros . . .’ Dated 10 Aug.

A3r Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas: In epistolas ad familiares Ciceronis commentum. Incipit: ‘[H]uius uoluminis epistolas etsi omnes communi appellatione Ciceronis dicuntur . . . “[E]go omni officio”. Cicero. Sensus est: ego omnes officium meum aut . . .’ Commentaries on Cic. Fam. 1. 1-2; 1. 4-10; 2. 1-2; 2. 4-16; 2. 18-19; 3. 1-2; 3. 4-6; 3. 8-13; 4-7; 8. 1-7; 8. 9-17; 9-10; 11. 1-26; 11. 28; 11. 27; 11. 29; 12. 1-25; 12. 27-30; 13. 1-50; 13. 52-79; 14; 15. 1-6; 15. 9; 15. 7-8; 15. 10-21; 16. 5; 16. 7; 16. 1-2; 16. 3-4; 16. 6; 16. 8-9; 16. 11-12; 16. 10; 16. 15; 16. 14; 16. 13; 16. 16-27. See G. Vinay, L'umanesimo subalpino nel secolo XV, Biblioteca della società storica subalpina, 148 (Turin, 1935), 134-42.

gg3v [Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas: Valedictory letter addressed to] Bonus Accursius Pisanus. Incipit: ‘Habes, doctissime atque optime Bone Accursi Pisane, opus longe maius atque huberius . . .’ Explicit: ut audacius prodeat. Vale Saxius 484.

gg4v Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas: [Verse addressed to the book.] ‘Hubertinus Clericus Crescentinas librum suum alloquitur.’ Incipit: ‘Vade, liber, nobis propere dimissus et acris | Inuidiae telis saepe petendus abi'; 23 elegiac distichs.

gg5r Platinus, Petrus Antonius: [Verse, dedicated to] Octavianus Vicomercatus, jurisconsult. Incipit: ‘Ingeniis antiqua suis ne saecula tantum | Illustrata putes inclyta nostra uide'; 8 elegiac distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 27 Feb. 1479. Folio.

Collation

Collation: A10 B–D8 E10 a–ſ s–z & aa–ff8 gg6.

References

ISTC: ic00747015

Hain: HCR 5462;

Goff: Goff H‑496;

BMC: BMC VII 1037;

Proctor: Pr 7156;

Others: Oates 2677; Sheppard 5907.

LCN: 14462318

Copies

Copy number: H-224(1)

Binding: English (c.1800) gold-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns and yellow silk bookmark. ‘7277' on a square label at the head of the spine.

Size: 310 × 200 × 46 mm.

Size of leaf: 301 × 192 mm.

Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in an Italian humanist hand.

On A3r a nine-line Italian initial ‘H' is supplied in gold, surrounded by white vine-stems edged in yellow on a red, blue, and green ground, and decorated with white dots. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: Giovanni Giacomo Griffoni (fifteenth century); inscription on original parchment front pastedown: ‘Iste liber est mei qui uocor Joanes rev. siue Jacobus suus frat[er?] Si quis inue[ni]t prebeat mihi pro amore dei'; inscription on gg6v: ‘Questo libro sie de mi zuano Iacomo f[ili]us de mis[er] facino di griffoni'. Coat of arms over erasure in the lower margin of A3r: or a griffin segreant, flanked by initials ‘.Z. .I.'; see Pächt and Alexander II, 113 no. pr. 112. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘VII.D.g.9': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; not identified in sale catalogues. Willam Parr Greswell (1765-1854). Purchased via Charles J. Stewart at Greswell's sale (London: Sotheby's, 10 Mar. 1855), lot 633, for £3. 0. 0; see Library Bills (1851-5), 418; Books Purchased (1855), 14.

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 4.29.


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