Bod-Inc: P-434
Poncius
Rhetorica, et al.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A2r Poncius: Rhetorica [or] Modus dictandi. Incipit: ‘[C]irca modum dictandi sciendum est quod epistola sic describitur . . .’
C6v [Colophon.] ‘Explicit modus dictandi'.
D1r Copia latinitatis. ‘Libellus de latinitatis copia'. Incipit: ‘[N]ota quod diuersa negocia non possunt exprimi nisi per diuersa verba . . .’
F3r Rinucius Aretinus: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 82-3.
F3v Mithridates [pseudo-: Prefatory letter addressed to Mithridates, his nephew.] Incipit: ‘[B]ruti epistolas iterum et sepius sum admiratus . . .’ Explicit: facilia dicuntur’ See Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 83.
F4v Brutus, Marcus Junius [pseudo-]: Epistolae. Translated by Rinucius Aretinus. Incipit: ‘Audio uos Dolobelle dedisse pecunias . . .’ Explicit: denegare necesse est’ See Lockwood, ‘Rinucius', 83.
G4v Athanasius Constantinopolitanus: [Letter addressed to] Carolus ‘Arogonum primogenitus' (i.e. de Aragona). Incipit: ‘[C]um superioribus diebus me illustrissime princeps Panhormum cum tuis litteris commendatitiis ad excellentissimum Sicilie proregem pro mei capiendi monosterii(!) possessione contulissem . . .’
G5r Crates [pseudo-]: Epistulae cynicae. Translated by Athanasius Constantinopolitanus. Incipit: ‘Fugite non solum fines malorum . . .’
H1r De arte notariatus. ‘Capitulum primum, quid sit ars notariatus'. Incipit: ‘[A]rs notariatus est ars scribendi et dictandi per quam fragilitatis humane negotia roborantur . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger], 1486. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A B8 C6 D–G8 H6.
References
ISTC: ip00914000
Hain: HC *13255;
Goff: Goff P‑914;
BMC: BMC I 104;
Proctor: Pr 445;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑689; CIBN P‑563; Sack, Freiburg, 2943; Sheppard 360.
LCN: 14087940
Copies
Copy number: P-434(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards, covered with marbled paper.
Size: 212 × 158 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 204 × 145 mm.
Initials and underlining of chapter headings are supplied in red; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' in pencil on front pastedown and various shelfmarks on the front pastedown and endleaf and on A1r, including ‘Inc. c. a. 410', ‘Inc. c. a. 410a'; ‘Inc. s. a. 1496h’ in black ink on a square paper label at head of the upper cover and on the verso of the front endleaf. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix..
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.21.
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