Bod-Inc: L-094
Leonicenus, Omnibonus
De octo partibus orationis, et al.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Omnibonus Leonicenus: [Letter addressed to] Federicus Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. Incipit: ‘[E]n tibi, humanissime princeps, grammaticae libellus erudiendis liberis tuis . . .’
[a2r] Omnibonus Leonicenus: De octo partibus orationis. Incipit: ‘[L]itterarum aliae sunt uocales, aliæ consonantes. Vocales sunt quinque: a, e, i, o, u . . .’
[o7v] Omnibonus Leonicenus: De arte metrica. [Also known as De versu heroico.] Incipit: ‘[P]es in metro dicitur quod pedis officio fungatur. Metra enim per pedes . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Padua]: Albertus de Stendal, 14 May 1474. 8°.
Collation
Collation: [a–q8 r4].
References
ISTC: il00175000
Hain: HR 10025;
Goff: Goff L‑175;
BMC: BMC VII 912;
Proctor: Pr 6782;
Others: CIBN L‑150; Oates 2551; Sheppard 5575.
LCN: 14538685
Copies
Copy number: L-094(1)
Binding: Quarter calf; marbled paper boards.
Size: 169 × 123 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 165 × 113 mm.
Two notes in fifteenth/sixteenth-century hands on [r4v], one a note on the Hebrew letters with their symbolic meanings, the other a note on nomina and praenomina. Manuscript foliation in black ink: 1-1033 [133].
Provenance: Purchased by Heber for £0. 7. 6, according to the price in red ink in Heber's sale catalogue. Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Bibliotheca Heberiana'; see Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 3914(?), sold for £0. 11. 0. Thomas Thorpe, catalogue (1834), V, no. 1137. Purchased from Thorpe in 1834 for £1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1834), 17.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.69.
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