Bod-Inc: L-171
Lucianus Samosatensis
Dialogi (ed. Janus Lascaris?) [Greek].
Analysis of Content
Α2r Lucianus Samosatensis: ‘ Διάλογοι .’ Probably edited by Janus Lascaris. Opera, ed. M. D. Macleod, 4 vols (Oxford, 1972-87); for the order of the dialogues in this edition, see Lucianus, Zeus tragodos: Überlieferungsgeschichte, Text und Kommentar, ed. Jürgen Coenen, Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, 88 (Meisenheim am Glan, 1977), p. cxliii; for the manuscript used as printer's copy, Paris, BnF, MS. gr. 2954, see Coenen pp. xxii–xxiii; this manuscript was previously owned by Janus Lascaris; for the editorship of Janus Lascaris see M. Fantuzzi, ‘La coscienza del medium tipografico negli editori greci di classici dagli esordi della stampa alla morte di Kallierges', in Dotti bizantini e libri greci nell'Italia del secolo xv, ed. Mariarosa Cortese and Enrico Maltese (Napoli, 1992), 37-60, at 50-1 n. 39.
ηη6r Lucianus Samosatensis [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘ Λουκιανὸς τάδ ’ ἔγραψα παλαιά τε μωρά τε εἰδών ‘; 2 elegiac distichs. ed. Macleod, 85, 1.
ηη6r [Colophon.]
ηη6r ‘ Πίναξ .’
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: [Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus], 1496. Folio.
Collation
Collation: Α Β α–θ Ι κ–ω αα–ηη8.
Remarks: Leaf Α2 is signed Α1, etc.
References
ISTC: il00320000
Hain: HC (+ Addenda) *10258;
Goff: Goff L‑320;
BMC: BMC VI 667;
Proctor: Pr 6408;
Others: BSB‑Ink L‑243; CIBN L‑245; Oates 2441; Rhodes 1113; Sheppard 5200-2.
LCN: 14503547
Copies
Copy number: L-171(1)
The first leaf is blank; the last leaf (blank) is wanting.
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf.
Size: 355 × 250 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 338 × 222 mm.
The text is enclosed within modern(?) double purple rules.
Provenance: Johannes Guerra (fl. c.1500); inscription on Α2r: ‘Joannis Guerræ & amicorum'. Basilius Paravicinus (†1602); inscription on Α2r: ‘Basilius Parauicinus Nouocomensis medicus 1558'. Como, Lombardy, Jesuits; inscription on Α2r: ‘Coll. Comens. Soc. Jesu'. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.e.2': see Lee, Royal Book-plates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt IV, lot 1363. William Horatio Crawford (1815-1888); book-plate; sale, lot 1948; slip from sale catalogue annotated ‘42/--', probably 42 shillings, i.e. £2. 12. 0. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 2031. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. D 5.2.
Copy number: L-171(2)
With the title-page printed for the 1517 reissue.
Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century English calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; parchment strips containing the text of Gregorius I, Moralia in Job VIII 31-32, PL LXXV 833 c.6–834 B.14 abd 834 c.11–835 B.12 in an English twelfth-century hand.
Size: 345 × 245 × 65 mm.
Size of leaf: 332 × 223 mm.
Some key words, mainly names, extracted in a late sixteenth-century hand, also summarizing the moral of some passages, a few in English; a seventeenth-century English hand extacting key words and providing Latin glosses; foliation until p. 233; running headings in black ink. On front endleaf a late seventeenth-century(?) note describing the sigla used for classifying the marginal manuscript annotations, referring to notes made in pencil and now largely erased.
Provenance: James St Amand (1687-1754); manuscript catalogue, fol. 15 no. 259. Bequeathed in 1754.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.8.
Copy number: L-171(3)
Bound with:
2. Philostratus, Icones. Florence: Philippus Iunta, 1517.
With the title-page printed for the 1517 reissue.
Binding: Gold-tooled diced russia; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 340 × 245 × 70 mm.
Size of leaf: 329 × 222 mm.
Early marginal notes, mainly glosses, now washed out.
Provenance: Acquired by 1795; see Notitia (1795), p. 17.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 2.9(1).
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