Bod-Inc: P-239
Phalaris
Epistolae [Greek] (ed. Bartholomaeus Justinopolitanus).
Analysis of Content
ΑΑ1r Bartholomaeus [Pelusius] Justinopolitanus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Contarenus, patritius venetus. Incipit: ‘Cum omnium atque adeo quotidianis querelis rei litterariae calamitas deploretur . . .’
ΑΑ2r Phalaris [pseudo-]: Ἐπιστολαὶ . ‘ Φαλαρίς Ἁλκιβόω .’ Incipit: ‘[ Π] Π . . .’
ΖΖ1r Apollonius [Tyanensis, pseudo-]: Ἐπιστολαὶ . ‘ Ἀπολλώνιος Εὐφράτη .’ Incipit: ‘ Ἐμοὶ πρὸς φιλόσοφους ἐστὶ φιλία . . .’ Epistolographi graeci, 110-30, letters nos 1-42, 98-105, 43-77, letter 62 omitting the Ψήφισμα Λακεδαιμονίων , 106-9, 111-12.
θθ1r Mithridates: [Preface to Brutus' letters addressed to his nephew Mithridates.] Incipit: ‘ Τὰς Βρούτου ἐθάυμασα πολλάκις ἐπιστολὰς . . .’ Epistolographi graeci, 177-8, preface to the collection of Brutus' letters.
θθ1v Brutus, Marcus Junius [pseudo-]: Ἐπιστολαὶ . ‘ Βρου̂τος Περγαμηνοι̂ς .’ Incipit: ‘ Ἀκούω ὑμα̂ς Δολοβέλλα δεδωκέναι χρήματα . . .’ Epistolographi graeci, 177-91, letters 1-70.
θθ10v [Privilege.] Incipit: ‘Priuilegio multa indicta uetatur . . .’ See Fulin no. 76.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Bartholomaeus Pelusius, Gabriel Bracius, Johannes Bissolus, and Benedictus Mangius, 18 June 1498. 4°.
Collation
Collation: αα–δδ8 εε4 ζζ8 ηη4 θθ10.
References
ISTC: ip00545000
Hain: HC *12871;
BMC: BMC V 578;
Proctor: Pr 5638;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑409; CIBN P‑280; Rhodes 1391; Sheppard 4715-16.
LCN: 14490662
Copies
Copy number: P-239(1)
In this copy the pine-cone printers' device on θθ10V is printed stalk upwards, as BL, IA.24703 (see BMC).
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards.
Size: 209 × 148 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 205 × 137 mm.
Provenance: Cardinal Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727-1794): possibly the copy described by Laire, Index, 2 (1791), 241 lot 22. Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744-1811); bought at the sale of Cardinal de Loménie for Fr. 177 according to MacCarthy Reagh's sale catalogue; sale (1815), lot 3799. Purchased for £4. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1817), 7 and ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 34r.
SHELFMARK: Auct. K 4.31.
Copy number: P-239(2)
The pine-cone printers' device is as in copy 1.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco stamped with the arms of Baron A. de Seillière (`Bibliothèque de Mello'); gilt-edged leaves and pink silk bookmark.
Size: 205 × 145 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 134 mm.
Occasional corrections in Greek and translations into Latin in an early hand.
Provenance: Dôle (Jura), Jesuits; inscription on ΑΑ1r in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Coll. Dol. Soc. Jesu cat. inscrip.' Achille de Seillière (1813-1869): Bibliothèque de Mello [Oise]; see binding; not found in sale catalogue (1887). Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), book-plate. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased from Quaritch, Catalogue (1890), no. 500 for £3. 3. 0 (see note dated 27 June 1890 on the verso of the front endleaf, and cutting from bookseller's catalogue attached to the recto of the same leaf); Elenchus, no. 2465. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. R 1.13.
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