Bod-Inc: O-028
Orosius, Paulus
Historiae adversos paganos (ed. Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis).
Analysis of Content
a2r Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. [Prologus addressed to] Augustinus. See O‑026.
a2v Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. Edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis. See O‑026.
n10r [Paiellus, Bartholomaeus: Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Vt ipse titulus margine in primo docet | Orosio nomen mihi est'; 12 lines of verse. Reprinted from Liechtenstein's edition (Bod-inc. O‑027), the name of the author of the colophon being omitted and the name of Leonardus de Basilea substituted for that of Hermannus de Colonia in the colophon itself; see BMC.
Imprint
Imprint: [Vicenza]: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, [c.1489]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard; CIBN dates [c.1482], BSB‑Ink [c.1480-1].
Collation
Collation: a–i K l m8 n10.
Types: Type: Sheppard notes that type 114 here measures 112 and appears to have been reduced about this time.
References
ISTC: io00097500
Hain: HC *12[1]00;
Goff: Goff O‑99;
BMC: BMC VII 1032;
Proctor: Pr 7125;
Others: BSB‑Ink O‑83; CIBN O‑60; Oates 2670; Sheppard 5888. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography: Part II.
LCN: 14537275
Copies
Copy number: O-028(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red sheep over marbled pasteboards.
Size: 276 × 213 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 103 mm.
Collated by Jacobus Philippus D'Orville with a ‘Geneu[a?]' manuscript.
On a2r an initial ‘P' is supplied in gold on a maroon ground with white pen-work decoration edged in black; the area defined by the letter is supplied in blue with white pen-work decoration. Other initials are supplied in red or blue, sometimes interlocked; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Text enclosed by a single red rule.
Provenance: Jacobus Philippus D'Orville (1696-1751); see SC 17194 and p. 37. The collection, sold by D'Orville's grandson Jean to J. Cleaver Banks, was purchased from him by the Bodleian in 1805 for £1025; see Books Purchased (1805), 4.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 2X 1.13.
SHELFMARK: MS. D'Orville 316.
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