Bod-Inc: P-247
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 illustris tantam mihi dicendi facultatem dari . . .’
[a3r] Phalaris [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus Aretinus. ‘Phalaris Alciboo'. Incipit: ‘[P]olicletus Messenius quem proditionis apud ciues . . .’ See P‑240.
[f6v] [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 libello inuentas . . .’ See P‑240.
[f8r] [Griffolinus] Aretinus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Pellatus Patavinus. Incipit: ‘[S]cripsisti ad me Francisce Patauine uir eximie . . .’
[f8r] [Gerardus de Lisa?: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui modo notus erat nulli penitusque latebat | Nunc Phalaris doctum protulit ecce caput'; 1 elegiac distich.
Imprint
Imprint: Messina: Henricus Alding, [c.1478]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a b8 c–f6.8].
References
ISTC: ip00556000
Hain: HCR 12887;
Goff: Goff P‑556;
BMC: BMC VII 1076;
Proctor: Pr 6938;
Others: C. Bianca, Stampa, cultura e società a Messina alla fine del Quattrocento, 2 vols, Bollettino (Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani). Supplementi, 5 (Palermo, 1988), 5; A. Boselli, ‘La produzione tipografica di Enrico Alding in Messina', Gb Jb (1931), 122-38, at 132; CIBN P‑291; Sheppard 5988.
LCN: 14489925
Copies
Copy number: P-247(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf (one fillet only), with sprinkled red-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 200 × 141 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 134 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a contemporary hand.
Provenance: Purchased for £3. 3. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 39.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.45.
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