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Bod-Inc: M-286

Modestus

De vocabulis rei militaris, et al.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1r] [Table of contents.]

[a1r] Modestus [pseudo-]: De vocabulis rei militaris [addressed to] Theodosius Emperor. See M‑285.

[b1v] [Laetus, Julius Pomponius]: De magistratibus. Incipit: ‘[U]rbis Rome et imperii Romani conditor Romulus Marte genitus fuit . . .’ Explicit: item et Salinus Julianus’

[d1r] [Laetus, Julius Pomponius]: De sacerdotiis. Incipit: ‘[F]aunus antiquissimus omnium regum in Latio fuit . . .’ Explicit: inditum est ab auibus’

[d7v] [Laetus, Julius Pomponius]: De legibus. Incipit: ‘Ius pluribus modis dicitur. Naturale quod est commune omnibus . . .’ Explicit: satis est placere suis. Vale’

[e1r] Tuscanus, Johannes Aloisius: [Letter addressed to] Johannes [Arcimboldus], cardinal-priest of S. Nereus and S. Archileus. Incipit: ‘Reuerendissimo domino domino Johanni tituli sanctorum . . . Latina et tersa Suetonii Tranquilli in depingendis duodecim Caesarum moribus . . .’ Explicit: in lucem prodiderit feli’

[e1v] Suetonius [Tranquillus, Gaius]: De grammaticis. Suet. Gram.

[f4r] [Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: De rhetoribus.] Suet. Rhet.

Imprint

Imprint: [Venice]: Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, 27 May 1474. 4°.

Collation

Collation: [a8 b c6 d10 e f8].

References

ISTC: im00737000

Hain: HC *11443;

Goff: Goff M‑737;

BMC: BMC V 209;

Proctor: Pr 4227;

Others: BSB‑Ink P‑681; Sheppard 3395.

LCN: 14513156

Copies

Copy number: M-286(1)

As the first copy in BMC (with the colophon naming Bartholomaeus Cremonensis alone), rather than the second (with the colophon naming Bartholomaeus Cremonensis and Bartholomaeus de Carlo Vercellensis).

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.

Size: 186 × 135 × 15 mm.

Size of leaf: 180 × 126 mm.

Extraction of key words on [a1r] in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand.

Provenance: Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); sale (1783), lot 2095, for 130 [ecus?]; `V 2095' on the recto of the back endleaf. Pietro Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III lot 6669; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Thomas Payne for Fl. 60, with lot 6668 [Paulus Manutius, Antiquitatum Romanarum liber de legibus (Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1557) [Auct. 2R 2.29]]. Purchased [through Payne?] for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1790),7.

SHELFMARK: Auct. L 4.7.


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