Bod-Inc: N-112

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 Rhomani regni . . .’ Explicit: sumatur exordium

a2v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: Modus epistolandi [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[S]cribendarum epistolarum inicium licet multi variis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi. Vale

e4v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’

e5r Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’

e5r [Colophon.]

e5v ‘Ars epistolandi Francisci Nigri in laudem hexasticou(!)'. Incipit: ‘Franciscus Niger hic que cerpsit numine dio | Palladis ex adito perspice quisquis ades'; 3 elegiac distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: Pierre Levet, [between 1494 and 1497.] 4°.

Remarks: As dated by CIBN from the address and the state of the types. Sheppard dates [c.1491].

Collation

Collation: a–d⁸ e⁶.

Types: Types: 113 G; 81 G (later state 79).

Leaves: 38 leaves.

Line number: 39 lines (a2r).

Type area: Type area: 158 ×93 mm (a2r).

Remarks: Leaf a1r, title-page: ‘Epiſtole Franciſci nigri.'; [device]; a1v. ‘Opuſculū epiſtolaꝝ familiariū [et] artis earundem . . .'; a2r. ‘Opuſculum scribendi epiſtolas franciſci | nigri incipit feliciter. | Franciſcus niger / Venetus doctor . . .'; l. 6: ‘[N]Vma pompilius qui poſt romulū | . . .'; a2v, l. 25: ‘Prefatio. [S]Cribendarum epiſtolarum iniciū | . . .'; e5r: colophon: ‘Opuſculū hoc de ſcribendis epiſtolis . . . | . . . Imp̄ſſū ſuburbiis ſācti germani de pratis | In interſignio crucis auree [per] ꝑ Petrum Leuet Finit.'; e5v. ‘Ars epiſtolandi Franciſci nigri in laudem hexaſticou | Franciſcus niger hic que cerpſit numine dio | . . .'; l. 10: ‘ . . . quibus | nunc vtimur ſpecies reducūtur.’

References

ISTC: in00243500

Proctor: Pr 8077;

Others: @{CIBN} N‑144; Oates 2997; Pellechet MS. 8569 (8458); Sheppard 6279.

LCN: 14538029

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