Bod-Inc: I-045
Isocrates
Praecepta ad Demonicum, et al.
Analysis of Content
a2r Augustinus Tactensis: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Venturinus. Incipit: ‘[C]um nonnulla scripta diuersis ab auctoribus . . .’ L. Gualdo Rosa, ‘Niccolò Loschi e Pietro Perleone e le traduzioni dell'orazione pseudo isocratea “A Demonico"', Atti dell'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 131 (1972-3), 825-56, at 851-3.
a3r Isocrates [pseudo-]: Praecepta ad Demonicum. ‘Libellus de adolescentium institutione Demonico Iponici filio conscriptus.’ Translated by Nicolaus Luschus. Incipit: ‘[P]luribus quidem in rebus, o Demonice, valde differentes . . .’ A translation of Isocrates' oratio 1. See Gualdo Rosa, ‘Niccolò Loschi', 829-40.
2a1r Guarinus Veronensis: [Preface dedicated to] Angelus Corbinellus. Guarinus Veronensis, Epistolario, ed. Remigio Sabbadini, 3 vols, Miscellanea di storia Veneta, Serie 3, t. 8-11-14 (Venice, 1915-19), I 15-16.
2a1v Plutarchus [pseudo-]: De liberis educandis. Translated by Nicolaus Luschus and Guarinus Veronensis. Edited by Johannes Calphurnius, as stated in the explicit; see Gualdo Rosa, ‘Niccolò Loschi', 836. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid nam est quod de ingenuorum educatione liberorum dicere quispiam possit . . .’ See W. Speyer, Die literarische Fälschung im heidnischen und christlichen Altertum. Ein Versuch ihrer Deutung, Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, I, 2 (Munich, 1971), 136-42.
b7r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: De officiis liberorum erga parentes. [Also known as Epistola de honorandis parentibus.] Edited by Johannes Calphurnius. PL XXX 145-7.
b8v [Explicit.] Incipit: ‘Plutarchus de liberis educandis a Calphurnio Brixi. Peroptime correctus finit feliciter.’
c1r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes [Antonius]: De moribus puerorum. Incipit: ‘[Q]uos decet in mensa mores seruare docemus | Virtuti vt studeas litterulisque simul'.
[d1r] [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-]: De vino et Venere. Riese, 1/2, 99-100, no. 633, where the authorship is attributed to Vitalis.
[d1r] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: De littera Y. Riese, 1/2, 98-9, no. 632, where the authorship is attributed to Maximinus.
[d1v] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: De Musarum inventis. Riese, 1/2, 134-5, no. 664, with variations, and with the authorship attributed to Cato.
[d1v] Martialis, [Marcus Valerius]: Carmen ad seipsum. Mart. 10. 47.
Imprint
Imprint: [Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, de Ragusia, c.1490]. 4°.
Remarks: As assigned by IGI VI, Veneziani and Accurti. Sheppard disputes this and assigns to [Siena: Sigismundus Rodt, c.1486-87] as does BSB‑Ink, adding ‘with the types of Henricus de Colonia'. IGI originally assigned to [Venice: Nicolaus Jenson].
Collation
Collation: a8 2a b8 c [d]2.
Types: Type: 93 G.
Leaves: 28 leaves.
Line number: 29 lines (a2r).
Type area: Type area: 134 × 82 mm, as in the Florus printed by Rodt (F‑079).
Watermarks: The watermark of cross bottony(?) in a circle is that of Colle di Valdelsa; for reproduction see R. Ridolfi, ‘Nuovi contributi alla storia della stampa nel sec. XV', Bibliofilia, 57 (1955), 94, though here it is within a double circle.
References
ISTC: ii00214500
Hain: H *9318;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Accurti I 128 (Plutarchus and Hieronymus only); BSB‑Ink I‑647; IGI 5424; Sheppard 6045; Veneziani, Brescia, 85.
LCN: 14016131
Copies
Copy number: I-045(1)
Plutarchus and Hieronymus only (a1 to b8).
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red morocco over marbled pasteboards. Gilt-edged leaves on the upper edge only.
Size: 216 × 150 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 143 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, and pointing hands in two different early hands, one of which is humanist Italian.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2604. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. R 5.21.
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