Bod-Inc: L-183
Lucretius Carus, Titus
De rerum natura.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Lucretius Carus, Titus: De rerum natura. The ‘capitula' of books 1-3 follow each book, whilst those of books 4-6 precede the book in question.
q9v [Compilation of extracts from Lucr. 1, with gloss.] Incipit: ‘Non te animus fallit graiorum obscura reperta | Difficile inlustrare Latinis uersibus esse'; 25 hexameters.
q10r Lycinius, C: [Verse addressed to] Nicolaus Priolus. Incipit: ‘Vnice Nicoleos Venetae noua gloria gentis | Quique sacrum referas ex Helicone melos'; 8 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 4 Sept. 1495. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–p8 q10.
References
ISTC: il00334000
Hain: HC *10283;
Goff: Goff L‑334;
BMC: BMC V 478;
Proctor: Pr 5271;
Others: BSB‑Ink L‑253; CIBN L‑257; Hillard 1245; Sack, Freiburg, 2278; Sheppard 4349-50.
LCN: 14502654
Copies
Copy number: L-183(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco, with gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 201 × 141 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 128 mm.
Provenance: Marks of a book-plate on the inside of the upper cover. Erased inscription on a2r. Karl Emerich Reviczky, Freiherr von Revisnye (1737-1793); see Bibliotheca Graeca et Latina. Catalogue de la bibliothèque du comte de Rewiczky, 2nd edn (Berlin, 1794), p. 98. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); cancelled accession number ‘3355'; sale (1821), lot 184, where it is described as coming from Reviczky's library; the annotations in the Bodleian copy give a price of £4. 0. 0. Richard Heber (1773-1833); note on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘March 1821. Spencer Dupl. sale by Evans £4-5-0'; see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 2127. Purchased for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 19.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.23.
Copy number: L-183(2)
Bound with C‑354(2); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 211 × 148 mm.
Some early notes, including corrections to the text and marginal annotations. Running book-numbers in black ink in books 1-5. Manuscript foliation in black ink: 128, 1-128.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.1495.1(2).
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