Bod-Inc: N-109

Niger, Franciscus

Modus epistolandi.

 

Analysis of Content

A1r [Title-page.]

A1v [List of types of letter.]

A2r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[N]uma Pompilius qui post Romulum secundus Romani regni . . .’ Explicit: sumatur exordium

A2v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: Modus epistolandi [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[S]cribendarum epistolarum initium licet multi uariis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi. Vale

D7v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’

D8r Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’

D8r [Colophon.]

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca), 3 Aug. 1492. 4°.

Collation

Collation: A–D⁸.

Types: Types: 82 R, recast in 1492 as 79 R, the form in which it appears here; see BMC V p. 482.

Leaves: 32 leaves.

Line number: 40 lines (A2v).

Type area: Type area: 160 ×118 mm (A2v).

Illustrations: On A2r a four-sided woodcut border: above is a portrait of the author within the tympanum, flanked on each side by a mermaid and a vase with floral decoration; in the inner and outer margins is a putto standing in front of a column and holding a torch, with a shield behind him; below is a circlet containing a shield flanked on each side by a stylized dolphin and a putto riding a griffin, facing a stylized lion's head. BMC V p. 483, woodcut border (4), notes the appearance of this border in this edition, but identifies it as being the same as woodcut border (B) of Bernardinus Rizus (BMC V p. 400), which it is not. Woodcut capitals: see BMC V p. 483.

Remarks: Leaf A1r, title: ‘FRANCISCVS NIGER DE | MODO EPISTOLANDI'; A1v: ‘Opuſculum epiſtolarum familiarium & artis earundem ſcribendi: maxime in | generibus uiginti . . .'; A2r: ‘Opuſculum ſcribendi Epiſtolas Franciſci Nigri incipit | foeliciter. | Franciſcus . . . | . . . uirtutis culto | ri Foelicitatem. | [N]Vma Pōpilius: qui poſt Romulū ſecū | dus: Romaī regni . . .'; D8r, colophon: ‘Opuſculuɯ hoc de ſcribendi epiſtolas ratione qd̄diligentiſſime emendatū: Arte | & impenſis Mathei Capcaſæ Parmenſis: Impreſſum est. | Anno dominicæ incarnationis. M.cccc.lxxxxii.Tertio nouas Augusti. | Venetiis.’

References

ISTC: in00237000

Hain: HC *11867;

Goff: Goff N‑237;

Proctor: not in Pr;

Others: Essling 671; Sander 4978; not in Sheppard.

LCN: 14537984

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