Bod-Inc: P-279
Philelphus, Johannes Marius
Novum epistolarium (ed. Ludovicus Mondellus).
Analysis of Content
A1v Mondellus, Ludovicus: [Letter addressed to] Octavianus Ubaldinus, prince of Mercatello. Incipit: ‘Vellem Octauiane princeps illustris et doctorum uirorum praesidium ac decus . . .’ Dated Paris, 29 Apr. 1481. On this and the following letters see L. Michelini Tocci, ‘Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda e una inedita testimonianza della battaglia di Varna (1444)', in Mélanges Eugénie Tisserant, VII, Studi e Testi, 237 (Vatican City, 1964), 98-130, at 109.
A3r Ubaldinus, Octavianus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Mondellus. Incipit: ‘Amabam te antea Lodouice Mondelle . . .’ Dated Urbino, 5 July 1481.
a1r Philelphus, Johannes Marius: Novum epistolarium. [Preface addressed to] Ludovicus Mondellus. Incipit: ‘[D]ecreueram iandudum aliquid aedere . . .’
a1v Philelphus, Johannes Marius: Novum epistolarium. Edited by Ludovicus Mondellus. ‘Praecepta artis rhetorices et primo de exordio cum beniuolentia ab auditoribus'. Incipit: ‘[I]n tali exordio siue per orationem siue per epistolas . . .’
t4v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui cupis in paucis uersari et multa uidere | Hoc lege quod Marius utile prompsit opus'; 7 elegiac distichs. Saxius 580.
t4v ‘Ordo contentorum'.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeler, 29 Apr. 1484. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A4 a–i K l–s8 t6.
References
ISTC: ip00616500
Hain: HR 12969;
BMC: BMC VI 751;
Proctor: Pr 5949;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑452; Sheppard 4953.
LCN: 14492095
Copies
Copy number: P-279(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) gold- and blind-tooled (fillets only) diced russia, with yellow-edged leaves.
Size: 206 × 150 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 140 mm.
Bibliographical note in pencil on front endleaf signed ‘WR' [William Roscoe].
Provenance: William Roscoe (1753-1831); ‘Mr. Roscoe's copy' in pencil on verso of front endleaf; sale (19 Aug. 1816), lot 734. Purchased from G. & J. Robinson, Liverpool, for £0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 31.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.17.
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