Bod-Inc: L-165
Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus
Lucain, Suetone, et Salluste [French].
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[S]elon le dict du philozophe tous hommes naturelement desirent scauoir . . .’
a2v [Preface by the translator.] ‘Le translateur.’ Incipit: ‘[E]t pour ce que Lucan fist son liure en langue Latine et termes rhetoriques . . .’
a3r Lucain, Suetone et Salluste [French]. Incipit: ‘[P]remierement fut come gouuernee par roys et ainsy que dit Paul Orose Romulus en fut premier roy . . .’ A life of Julius Caesar, partly based on the Pharsalia.
A1r ‘Le table de ce present liure.’
A4r [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Pierre Le Rouge, for Antoine Vérard, 22 Dec. 1490. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–z [et]8 [con]8+1 A4.
Types: Types: 117 B, text; 236 G, headings. 2 columns.
Leaves: 205 leaves. Leaves numbered i–cci.
Line number: 48 lines, plus headlines (a4r, col. 2).
Type area: Type area: 282 (296) ×180 mm (a4r, cropped very close to headlines).
Illustrations: Woodcuts: see Macfarlane, and Henri Monceaux, Les Le Rouge de Chablis. Calligraphes et miniaturistes, graveurs et imprimeurs, 2 vols (Paris, 1896), I 245-6.
References
ISTC: il00312000
Hain: H 10244;
Goff: Goff L‑312;
Proctor: Pr 8094;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xliv, no. 216; CIBN L‑224; Claudin I 479-80; Macfarlane 12; Oates 3009; Pellechet MS. 7268 (7210); Sheppard 6295.
LCN: 14500824
Copies
Copy number: L-165(1)
Gathering f bound in the following order: f4, 1-3, 6-8, 5. With variant colophon: ‘Cy finiſt Lucan Suetoine [et] Sa | luſte en francoys Imprime a paris Le | xxije iour de decēbre miliiijCC.iiijxx.[et] x. | . . . no| ſtreſire . . . | . . . lymage | . . .’ The device of Le Rouge below the colophon has been cut away, and one of Bocard's inserted later. On the verso of the leaf is a modern reproduction of a device of Vérard.
Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 357 × 260 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 350 × 249 mm.
Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); sale, 1 Aug. 1859, lot 1469. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 68.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 2.15.
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