Bod-Inc: P-379
Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius (Pliny the younger)
Epistolae (ed. Pomponius Laetus).
Analysis of Content
a1v Laetus, Pomponius: [Letter addressed to] Vasinus Gamberia. Incipit: ‘Commoditatis causa ut certiores faceremus . . .’
a2r Plinius Secundus, Gaius Caecilius: Epistolae. Edited by Pomponius Laetus. 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 u2r begins with 8.8 (8.8.1-3) and ends with 8.18 (8.18.11-12).
u6v [Colophon.]
u7r ‘Quaedam in volumine corrigenda'.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Eucharius Silber, [between 19 Mar. and 3 Apr.] 1490. 4°.
Remarks: The date in the colophon reads ‘poſt diem. xiiii. Calen | darum Aprilis.’
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d6 e–q8.8.6 r–u8.
References
ISTC: ip00809000
Hain: HC *13114;
Goff: Goff P‑809;
BMC: BMC IV 111;
Proctor: Pr 3841;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑617; CIBN P‑476; Rhodes 1445; Sheppard 3040.
LCN: 14017009
Copies
Copy number: P-379(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) gold-tooled (fillet only) red morocco, with gilt title on a square green leather label at head of the spine. Gilt-edged leaves. Azure silk bookmark. ‘215' in manuscript on a circular label at tail of the spine; above, ‘35' printed on a square label.
Size: 208 × 140 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 133 mm.
An early pointing hand on i8v.
Provenance: Castiglione, Tuscany, Chierici regolari poveri delle Scuole pie; ‘Bibliothecae Castilionensis Scholarum Piarum' on a1r in an eighteenth-century(?) hand. Purchased for £0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 31.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.35.
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