Bod-Inc: N-113
Niger, Franciscus
Modus epistolandi.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[N]uma Pompilius qui post Romulum secundus Rhomani regni . . .’ Explicit: sumatur exordium
a2v ‘In laudem compositoris hexastichon'. Incipit: ‘Franciscus Niger hic que carpsit numine diuo | Palladis ex adito perspice quisquis ades'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a2v Niger, Franciscus: Modus epistolandi [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[S]cribendarum epistolarum initium licet multi variis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi. Vale
f4r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’
f4r Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’
f5r ‘Tabula epistolarum'.
f5v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 4 Sept. 1495. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–f6.
References
ISTC: in00245000
Hain: HC 11874;
Goff: Goff N‑245;
Proctor: Pr 9078;
Others: Campbell 1293; HPT II 413; ILC 1652; Oates 3562; Polain 2889; Sheppard 6979.
LCN: 14538005
Copies
Copy number: N-113(1)
Wanting the blank leaf f6.
The date in the colophon is ‘M.ccccxcv', not ‘M.cccccxv' as Polain.
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) white paper boards. Remains of a leather index tab on a2.
Size: 215 × 154 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 205 × 140 mm.
Two-, three-, and five-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.
Provenance: ICB (nineteenth century); initials in pencil on the rear pastedown. Circular white bookseller's label on the upper cover: 1159. Purchased for £0. 2. 0: see Books Purchased (1854), 43.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.29.
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