Bod-Inc: R-042
Regius, Raphael
Ducenta problemata in Quintiliani depravationes, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Regius, Raphael: [Preface dedicating the book] to Nicolaus, Viscount of Correggio, and Jacobus Trotus. Incipit: ‘[D]ucenta problemata in totidem Fabi Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae deprauationes mihi nuper inuicto . . .’
a2r Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed] to Ludovicus Sforza. Incipit: ‘Solent magnanimi benignique principes cum aliorum que ad publicam spectant utilitatem, tum studiorum ac eorum in primis . . .’ Dated Padua, 13 Aug. 1491.
a2v Regius, Raphael: Ducenta problemata in Quintiliani depravationes. ‘Ducenta problemata in totidem Quintiliani oratoriae institutionis depravationes'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est quod Fabius Quintilianus latinae elegantiae diligentissimus obseruator in illa periodo, qua opus Uictorio Marcello . . .’ On the ‘Problemata' and Regius as editor of Quintilian see M. Winterbottom, ‘In Praise of Raffaele Regio', in Antike Rhetorik und ihre Rezeption, ed. S. Döpp (Stuttgart, 1999), 99-116, at 100-1, at 105 for the view that the ‘Problemata' were a spin-off from Regius' lectures, at 105-6 for the relationship of the ‘Problemata' to the ‘Annotationes' (Q‑016); see also Alessandro Perosa, ‘L'edizione veneta di Quintiliano coi commenti del Valla, di Pomponio Leto e di Sulpizio da Veroli', in Miscellanea Augusto Campano (Padua, 1981), II 606-7.
e3v Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Calvus. Incipit: ‘[G]auisus sum, et quidem uehementer, Calue, quem a Caluo illo Romano clarissimo oratore originem . . .’
f1r Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Paschalicus. Incipit: ‘Gratulatus tibi antea fuissem, equestria insignia, quibus nuper ab inuictissimo Mediolani duce Johanne Galeazo . . .’ Dated Venice, 5 Nov. 1492.
f1r Regius, Raphael: In eloquentiam panegyricus. ‘De laudibus Eloquentiae, Panegyricus in Academia Patauina habitus'. Incipit: ‘[S]i quis unquam praeclari operis aliquid enarraturus faciundum sibi putauit, humanissimi auditores . . .’ For the first version see R‑044.
f8r Regius, Raphael: ‘Quaestio utrum ars rhetorica ad Herenium Ciceroni falso inscribatur' [addressed] to Cardinal Johannes Medicus (i. e. Medici). Incipit: ‘[R]elegenti mihi nuper accuratius et duos Ciceronis de inuentione rhetoricos et quattuor ad Herenium libros . . .’ Dated Venice, 14 Oct. 1491. On this contribution of Regius to the contemporary debate about the authorship of the Ad Herennium, see Winterbottom, ‘In Praise of Raffaele Regio', 100; John Monfasani, ‘Humanism and Rhetoric' in Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy (Aldershot, 1994), article I 171-235 at 185-6; idem, ‘Three Notes on Renaissance Rhetoric', in Language and Learning, article II 107-18, at 112-14.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, [Nov. 1492?]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d8 e4 f10.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ir00114000
Hain: HC 13809;
Goff: Goff R‑114;
BMC: BMC V 440;
Proctor: Pr 5037;
Others: BSB‑Ink R‑84; CIBN R‑71; Oates 1968; Sheppard 4195.
LCN: 14064449
Copies
Copy number: R-042(1)
Wanting leaves a3-6.
Previously bound with Johannes Piscator, Orationis M. T. Ciceronis pro rege Deiotaro analysis. Speier, 1582; see note in a sixteenth-century Italian(?) hand on verso of front endleaf.
Binding: Late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; the title on a black leather label on the spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 192 × 143 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 188 × 133 mm.
Provenance: Inscription: ‘Apres le No 7120' and bookseller's number ‘1773' in pencil on verso of the same leaf. Purchased for £1. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1819), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.10.
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