Bod-Inc: M-066
Manilius, Marcus
Astronomicon.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Manilius, Marcus: Astronomicon. Man.; for this edition see also Cramer 9-10, 24, and Astronomicon, ed. Garrod, pp. lxxvi–lxxvii.
[k7r] [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Ridetur merito sciolorum insana caterua | Vulgo qui natum nomina surripiunt'; 3 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 16810.
[k7r] [Table of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Naples: Jodocus Hohenstein, [c.1476]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–k8].
References
ISTC: im00203600
Hain: HCR 10704;
BMC: BMC VI 866;
Proctor: Pr 6712;
Others: CIBN M‑87; Fava–Bresciano 153; Oates 2519; Sheppard 5447. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmography.
LCN: 14477677
Copies
Copy number: M-066(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Leaf [k8] is backed and slightly mutilated. The lower margin of [a2], and the inner margin of [k1] have been repaired.
Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) parchment; manuscript title on the spine, and remains of a paper shelfmark label; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 203 × 147 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 143 mm.
A pointing hand and pen-trial in black ink on [g1r].
Provenance: Purchased for £7. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 17.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.35.
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