Bod-Inc: L-115
Livius, Titus
Historiae Romanae decades (ed. Johannes Antonius Campanus).
Analysis of Content
Volume 1:
[a1r] Campanus, [Johannes Antonius: Preface dedicated to] Jacobus Ammannati Piccolomini, Cardinal of Pavia. Incipit: ‘[C]ampanus cardinali Papiensi meo salutem. Tres T. Liuii decades tot enim supersunt . . .’
[a1v] Florus: [Periochae.] See L‑114.
[b13v] ‘Capita operum.’
[b13v] Campanus, [Johannes Antonius: Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Anser Tarpeii custos Iouis unde quos alis | Constreperes; Gallus decidit ultor adest'; 3 elegiac distichs. Botfield 108.
[c2r] Livius, Titus: Historiae Romanae decades. ‘Ab urbe condita.’ [Edited by Johannes Antonius Campanus.] Liv. 1-10. On Campanus as an editor see Monfasani, ‘First Call', 1-31; and Di Bernardo, Gianantonio Campano, 233-44.
[t6r] Campanus, [Johannes Antonius: Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Anser Tarpeii custos Iouis unde quos alis | Constreperes; Gallus decidit ultor adest'; 3 elegiac distichs. Botfield 108.
Volume 2:
[v1r] [Livius, Titus: Historiae Romanae decades. Edited by Johannes Antonius Campanus.] Liv. 21-32, 34-40. 37. 3. Liv. 33 not included in this edition.
[Z8r] [Campanus, Johannes Antonius: Verse colophon.] Botfield 108.
Imprint
Imprint: [Rome]: Ulrich Han, [before 3 Aug. 1470]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: Vol. 1: [a10 b14 c–e10 f8 g6 h–o10 p8 q r10 s t8]; vol. 2: [v–z A–Z10].
References
ISTC: il00237000
Hain: HC 10129;
Goff: Goff L‑237;
BMC: BMC IV 20;
Proctor: Pr 3345;
Others: CIBN L‑178; Hillard 1232; Oates 1369; Scrittura, biblioteche e stampa I, 1.2, no. 41. Sheppard 2659. Microfiche: Unit 9: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part III.
LCN: 14503672
Copies
Copy number: L-115(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [b14], [l8], [t7-8], [Z9-10].
Bound in two volumes. The outer margins of gathering [t] repaired.
Binding: Vol. 1: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled dark blue morocco; marbled pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; vol. 2: eighteenth-century gold-tooled dark blue morocco (c.1790), marbled pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; bound for the Bodleian Library, probably by either Heinrich Kalthoeber or Samuel Walther, in imitation of volume 1.
Size: Vol. 1: 385 × 279 × 45 mm; vol. 2: 411 × 290 × 56 mm.
Size of leaf: Vol.1: 376 × 256 mm; vol. 2: 397 × 266 mm.
In volume 1 some early marginal annotations, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, ‘nota' marks, and occasional pointing hands, also corrections to, and underlining in, the text in black ink; in volume 2 frequent early marginal annotations in a different hand, mainly extraction of key words and ‘nota' marks.
On [c1r] a 12-line roman initial ‘F' is supplied in gold surrounded by vine-stems defined in pink, blue, and green, forming a three-quarter border, with extensions in black ink, and with gold dots, in the outer margin: see Pächt and Alexander II, 106 no. pr. 12; similar initials supplied elsewhere in vol. 1; running book numbers are supplied in black ink in vol. 1. At the foot of [c1r] within a green wreath, and a double circle of gold, a shield surmounted by a cross: three chevrons, tinctures indistinct, but probably sable, and therefore the arms of Cardinal Philippe de Lévis de Quélus; to the left of the shield, traces of an initial, to right, an initial ‘L.’
Provenance: Vol. 1: Cardinal Philippe de Lévis de Quélus (†1475); coat of arms on [c1r] (see above). Louis-Léon-Félicité Brancas, duc de Lauraguais (1733-1824); armorial book-plate with initials ‘B[rancas] C[omte] D[e] L[auraguais] in vol. 1; not identified in sale catalogue (1770). Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); sale (1789), part III lot 6233; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 250. Purchased though Payne for £21. 17. 6; see Books Purchased (1790), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 1.6-7.
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