Bod-Inc: P-244
Phalaris
Epistolae [Latin] (trans. Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus).
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: ‘Prohemium' [addressed to] Malatesta Novellus. Incipit: ‘[V]ellem Malatesta Nouelle princeps illustrissime tantam mihi dicendi facultatem dari . . .’
[a2v] Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus. ‘Alciboo'. Incipit: ‘[P]olicletus Messenius quem proditionis apud ciues . . .’ See P‑240, but with the following different order: nos 1, 7-1, 21, 84, 2-3, 6, 9, 11-12, 14, 13, 17-20, 67, 118, 4-5, 53, 112, 96, 85, 8, 26, 105, 28-30, 104, 32, 35, 120, 38, 61, 98, 41-2, 44-51, 55, 60, 77, 95, 110, 148, 114, 137, 86, 83, 117, 90-1, 100-1, 89, 34, 106, 124, 107, 111, 126, 10, 129, 39, 127-8, 94, 108, 88, 78.
[b7r] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Silvius: [Letter addressed to] Sigismundus, Duke of Austria. Der Briefwechsel des Eneas Silvius Piccolomini, ed. Rudolf Wolkan, Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Österreichische Geschichtsquellen, 61 (Vienna, 1909), I 245-7, no. 104.
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, [c.1472]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard; CIBN dates [not after 1471?].
Collation
Collation: [a b8].
References
ISTC: ip00550500
Hain: HC 12888;
BMC: BMC I 218;
Proctor: Pr 1020;
Others: CIBN P‑284; Sheppard 783; Voulliéme, Köln, 937.
LCN: 14490628
Copies
Copy number: P-244(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf, with the arms and crest of Wodhull in gilt on the upper cover; sprinkled red-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and green silk bookmark.
Size: 287 × 204 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 280 × 192 mm.
The four-line initial ‘V' on [a1r] is supplied in blue with red pen-work decoration; other initials in red or blue. Paragraph marks, chapter heading underlining, and capital strokes are supplied in red.
Provenance: Henricus Keddekin (†1492); inscription on [b8v]: ‘Hunc librum emit dompnus Henricus Keddekin vicesimus septimus abbas de capella thosan anno domini M.cccc.lxxx'. Ter Doest, West Flanders, Cistercians, S. Maria (1174-1624); inscription on [b8v]: ‘Iste liber pertinet ecclesie beate Marie de Capella Thosan in Flandria [erased] iuxta Brugis [erased] Cisterciensis dyocesis [cancelled] ordinis Tornacensis [erased] dyocesis'. Thomas Egerton (fl. 1784-1830). Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); coat of arms on the binding (see above); purchased by Wodhull at Egerton's sale for £0. 1. 6; inscription in Wodhull's hand on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Egerton's sale Lit: Cap: Color: - 7: 6 binding - 6. 6 / - 14: - M: Wodhull May 19th 1796'; further note by him on the recto of the rear endleaf: ‘Sept. 2nd 1806'. John Edmund Severne (1826-1899); shelfmark ‘T.3.4' (Severne's(?)) in pencil on the verso of the front endleaf; sale (1886), lot 1964; purchased for £0. 18. 0; see Library Bills.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.11.
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