Bod-Inc: P-375
Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny the younger)
Epistolae.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius: Epistolae. Plin. Ep. 1-5.8, 5.21, 5.15, 5.10-14, 5.16-20, 5.9, 6.1-7.33, 9.1-2, 9.6-7, 9.9, 9.12, 9.17, 9.21, 9.24-5, 9.30-2, 9.3-5, 9.8, 9.10-11, 9.13-15, 9.18-20, 9.22-3, 9.26-9, 9.33-40, 8.1-8, 8.19-24. The letter on [o6v] begins with 8.8 (8.8.1-3) and ends with 8.18 (8.18.11-12). The text of letter 9.26 contains only the Latin; the space for the Greek text has been left blank.
Imprint
Imprint: [Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, not after 1 June 1474]. 4°.
Remarks: A copy at Paris BnF has manuscript date ‘1 June 1474'.
Collation
Collation: [a–o10].
Types: Type: 101 R1.
Leaves: 140 leaves.
Line number: 29 lines ([a1r]).
Type area: Type area: 147 ×85 mm ([a1r]).
Remarks: Capital spaces. The long hyphen is used in this book, unlike other copies.
References
ISTC: ip00805000
Hain: HCR 13108;
Goff: Goff P‑805;
Proctor: Pr 3523;
Others: CIBN P‑472; Oates 1411.5; Sheppard 2807.
LCN: 14014970
Copies
Copy number: P-375(1)
Wanting [a1] containing the first three letters.
Binding: Early nineteenth-century(?) brown morocco; gold-tooled spine; covers stamped with the arms of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, alone, surrounded by the Garter, and surmounted by an earl's coronet. Gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 227 × 170 × 29 mm.
Size of leaf: 221 × 153 mm.
On front endleaf, nineteenth-century manuscript bibliographical note signed ‘E B'. Modern folio numbering in brown ink: 3-140.
Initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: George John (1758-1834), 2nd Earl Spencer; see binding; cancelled accession number ‘18434' on the front pastedown; bookseller's circular label ‘489' at tail of the spine (sale not identified). Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1849), 38.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.19.
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