Bod-Inc: P-240
Phalaris
Epistolae [Latin] (trans. Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus).
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Directions to the rubricator.] Incipit: ‘Incipit Tabula super Epistulas . . .’
[a1r] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: ‘Proemium' [addressed to] Malatesta Novellus. Incipit: ‘[V]ellem Malatesta Nouelle princeps illustris tantam mihi dicendi facultatem dari . . .’
[a3v] Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus. ‘Phalaris Alciboo'. Incipit: ‘[P]olicletus Messenius quem prodicionis apud ciues . . .’ Epistolographi graeci, 409-59, nos 1, 70-1, 21, 84, 2-3, 6, 9, 11-12, 14, 13, 16-20, 69, 40, 67, 118, 4-5, 53, 112, 96, 85, 8, 23-4, 26, 105, 27-30, 104, 32, 35, 120, 38, 61, 98, 41-2, 44-51, 55-6, 74, 77, 95, 110, 75, 148, 137, 81, 86-7, 83, 117, 90-1, 97, 99-102, 89, 34, 106, 124, 107, 111, 114, 25, 62, 36-7, 59, 125-6, 10, 123, 129-30, 132-4, 138-9, 39, 140, 119, 122, 66, 115-16, 113, 82, 136, 127-8, 141, 43, 142-3, 135, 131, 80, 121, 109, 94, 92, 108, 88, 93, 145-7, 22, 63, 78, 144, 79, 65, 103, 15, 31, 33, 54; on the Latin translation and early Latin editions see Tudeer 115-23.
[f7r] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: [Dedication of the translation of four further letters to] Alphonsus I (V), king of Aragon. Incipit: ‘[Q]uatuor Phalaridis epistolas quas nuper in alio libro inuentas . . .’ Epistolographi graeci, 409-59, nos 64, 68, 72-3.
Imprint
Imprint: [Rome: Ulrich Han, c.1468-9]. 8°.
Remarks: H's description under no. 12876 appears to confuse the present issue and the later undated issue (BMC).
Collation
Collation: [*4 a–f8].
References
ISTC: ip00546000
Hain: H 12874 = HC Addenda, 12883;
Goff: Goff P‑546;
BMC: BMC IV 19;
Proctor: Pr 3340;
Others: CIBN P‑281; Sheppard 2656. Microfiche: Unit 8: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part II.
LCN: 14490616
Copies
Copy number: P-240(1)
Wanting gathering [*].
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind- and gold-tooled calf; gilt-edged leaves and blue silk bookmark.
Size: 209 × 150 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 137 mm.
Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in two sixteenth-century hands, one probably German.
Heading on [a1r], names of addressees, and initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Thomas Saltzing (sixteenth century); inscription in the lower margin of [f8r]: ‘est possesor huius libri Thomam Saltzing'. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue (1834), pt 2, no. 2828 for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1834), 22.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.29.
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