Bod-Inc: O-015
Oppianus
Halieutica, sive De piscatu, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r Lippius, Laurentius: Vita Oppiani [dedicated to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[O]ppianus poeta patre Agesilao . . .’ See Laurentii Lippii Collensis opuscula tria, ed. Karl Müllner, Jahresbericht des k.k. Staats-Ober-Gymnasiums zu Wiener Neustadt 1900/1 (Vienna, 1901).
a1v Lippius, Laurentius: ‘Prohemium' [to the translation of Oppianus' Halieutica, dedicated to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[L]ydorum spes una uirum, in quo tota recumbit Tuscia . . .’
a2v Lippius, Laurentius: ‘Argumentum totius libri'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet coitus proles, et pascua ponti | Ostendit fraudes, coedes et bella secundum; 5 hexameters.
a2v Lippius, Laurentius: ‘Argumentum super interpretatione primi libri'. Incipit: ‘[I]n primo ueniunt ad pascua loeta cohortes | Aequoris, et scarus pallentes ruminat herbas; 14 hexameters.
a2v Oppianus: Halieutica, sive De piscatu. Translated by Laurentius Lippius. Incipit: ‘[D]ispersas ponti gentes aciesque natantum | Squamigeras almae uarium genus amphitrutes'; hexameters. Each of the five books is introduced by an ‘argumentum' and is dedicated to Lorenzo I de' Medici.
h2v Lippius, Laurentius: ‘Distica' [dedicated to] Laurentius de' Medici. ‘Ad Laurentium Medicem'. Incipit: ‘Fastidit magnus numerosa uolumina lector | Post coenam loeta distica fronte legit'; elegiac distichs. Laurentii Lippii Collensis opuscula tria, ed. Müllner, 1-42.
h7v Lippius, Laurentius: [Verse, dedicated to] Petrus Carbonellus. Incipit: ‘Non arcere meos intra uiuaria pisces | Possum, ceruleis iam spatiantur aquis'; 8 elegiac distichs.
h7v Poscus, Philippus: [Epigram dedicated to] Laurentius Lippius. Incipit: ‘Exprimis Oppianum facundo carmine Lippi | fidus es interpres, gratus es eloquio'; 6 elegiac distichs. V. R. Giustiniani, ‘L'orazione di Lorenzo Lippi per l'apertura dell'Università di Pisa', Rinascimento, ser. II, IV (1964), 265-84, at 284.
h8r Poscus, Philippus: [Address to] the reader [with colophon]. Incipit: ‘Laurentius Lippius Collensis . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Colle di Valdelsa: Bonus Gallus, 12 Sept. 1478. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h8.
References
ISTC: io00065000
Hain: HC *12015;
Goff: Goff O‑65;
BMC: BMC VII 1079;
Proctor: Pr 7242;
Others: CIBN O‑30; Hillard 1487; L. S. Olschki, ‘Monumenta typographica', Bibliofilia, 6 (1905), 377-88, at 378 no. 77; Sheppard 5994.
LCN: 14538574
Copies
Copy number: O-015(1)
In this copy signature d1 is correctly signed.
Binding: Early nineteenth-century Italian gold-tooled red morocco; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 215 × 148 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 137 mm.
Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate; Catalogue (1831), no. 215. Purchased at his sale for £3. 10. 0; see sale catalogue (1839), lot 997, and Books Purchased (1840), 23. This item was stolen from the Bodleian by Bruno Pagano (b. c.1942), using the name ‘C. B. Poli' on 12 June 1978, and was recovered on 14 Sept. 1978. The note ‘Venduto 11. 11. 77. Sotheby 101/ £3500' was pencilled in on the front pastedown by the thief.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 4.38.
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