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 [ecus?]; `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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