Bod-Inc: N-114
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 initium licet multi variis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi. Vale
i2r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’
i2r Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’
i2v ‘In laudem compositoris hexastichon'. Incipit: ‘Franciscus Niger hic que carpsit numine diuo | Palladis ex adito perspice quisquis ades'; 3 elegiac distichs.
i3r [Table of contents.] ‘Tabula epistolarum'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Freiburg im Breisgau]: Friedrich Riedrer, 1499. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h6 i4.
References
ISTC: in00251000
Hain: H *11879;
Goff: Goff N‑251;
BMC: BMC III 697;
Proctor: Pr 3221;
Others: Sheppard 2260.
LCN: 14538000
Copies
Copy number: N-114(1)
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century marbled paper boards with paper spine dyed pink.
Size: 191 × 142 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 185 × 129 mm.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dpl' in pencil on the verso of the front endleaf; shelfmark on a slip of paper ‘Inc. 1939', and ‘1939' attached to the rear pastedown. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.9.
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