Bod-Inc: R-043
Regius, Raphael
Epistolae Plinii enarrationes, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed] to Cardinal Dominicus Grimanus. Incipit: ‘[C]um inter loquendum de quorundam expositionibus in illam Plynii maioris elegantem elegantissimamque epistolam mentionem fecissemus . . .’ See C. G. Nauert, ‘Caius Plinius Secundus', CTC IV 297-422, at 337. Dated Padua, 7 Mar. 1490.
a2r Regius, Raphael: Epistolae Plinii enarrationes. ‘In Plinii maioris epistolam ad Titum Vespasianum enarrationes'. Incipit: ‘[I]n operis huius inscriptione Plynius Aristotelem imitatus esse uidetur . . .’ See Nauert, ‘Caius Plinius Secundus', 337. See Paola de Capua, ‘Fortune esegetiche della Praefatio alla Naturalis historia tra quattro e cinquecento', in Filologia umanistica per Gianvito Resta I, ed. V. Fera and G. Ferraú, Medioevo e umanesimo, 94 (Padua, 1997), 495-526; at 495-7 she corrects Nauert's description and view that the work was an attack on Georgius Merula in ‘Caius Plinius Secundus', 377.
b2v Regius, Raphael: [Letter addressed] to Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[D]isputationem quam nihi nuper et ineptiae et conuicia et foedissimi cuiusdam Calphurnii errores . . .’ See Dorothy M. Robathan and F. Edward Cranz, ‘Persius Flaccus', CTC III 201-312 at 269. Dated Padua, 15 May 1488.
b3r Regius, Raphael: Disputatio in errores Calphurnii de locis Persii, Valeri Maximi et Ciceronis. ‘De quattuor Persii locis, uno Valerii Maximi, duobus Tulli de officiis ac tribus oratoriis quaestionibus disputatio'. ‘Conclusiones et quaestiones in nonnullos errorum cuiusdam Calphurnii Bestiae'. Incipit: ‘Polidamanta pro Nerone et Troiades pro Romanis inepte nimium acceperunt . . .’ See Robathan and Cranz, ‘Persius Flaccus', 269.
b4r Regius, Raphael: Disputatio in errores Calphurnii de locis Persii, Valeri Maximi et Ciceronis. ‘De quattuor Persii locis, uno Valerii Maximi, duobus Tulli de officiis ac tribus oratoriis quaestionibus disputatio'. ‘In nonnullos errorum cuiusdam Calphurnii Bestiae Disputatio'. Incipit: ‘[T]ametsi gravissimo clarissimae huius Academiae iudicio poteram esse . . .’ See Robathan and Cranz, ‘Persius Flaccus', 269.
c8v Regius, Raphael: [Letter of dedication addressed] to Hieronymus Donatus, Marcus Dandulus, and Paulus Pisanus. Incipit: ‘[E]tsi scio uos maioribus distringi negotiis, quam ut commode nostras nugas aut legere aut audire possitis . . .’ Dated Padua, 15 Mar. 1489.
d1r Regius, Raphael: ‘In nonnullas fatuarum cuiusdam Calfurnii Bestiae expositionum conclusiones'. Incipit: ‘Ora in epistola Fabii ad Tryphonem pro fune dumtaxat quo naues terrae alligantur . . .’
d1v Regius, Raphael: Dialogus cum Calphurnio de quattuor locis Quintiliani. ‘De quattuor Quintiliani locis cum quodam Calfurnio Bestia Dialogus'. Incipit: ‘[H]eri puerorum turba stipatus Calfurnii citra omnem professionis tuae rationem . . .’ See Winterbottom, ‘In Praise of Raffaele Regio', 100, 103-6; also Perosa, ‘L'edizione veneta di Quintiliano', 604-7.
e3r Regius, Raphael: Enarratio loci cuiusdam Quintiliani ac Ciceronis ad Atticum epistolae. ‘Locis cuiusdam Quintiliani ac eius Ciceronis ad Atticum epistolae cuius initium est “Epistolam hanc convicio efflagitarunt codicilli tui” enarratio' [in the form of a letter addressed] to Sigismundus Hungarus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uae superiore hyeme a Calfurnio quodam Bestia subornatus uel proposito aureo nummo postulasti . . .’ Dated Padua, 6 July 1489.
e5v [Regius, Raphael: Correction of errata.] Incipit: ‘Deprauationum in hoc libello admisarum correctiones. Niserere pro inserere . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis, 23 May 1490. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d8 e6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initial.
References
ISTC: ir00116000
Hain: HC 13810;
Goff: Goff R‑116;
BMC: BMC V 411;
Proctor: Pr 5111;
Others: BSB‑Ink R‑85; CIBN R‑72; Oates 2007; Sheppard 4102.
LCN: 14064391
Copies
Copy number: R-043(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century half parchment over paper boards; the title printed on the spine.
Size: 217 × 159 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 210 × 152 mm.
Page numbers (67-104), supplied in pencil in an eighteenth-/nineteenth-century hand, show that this copy was formerly bound with another item.
Provenance: Albergotti family (eighteenth century); ‘Albergotti' in pencil on front pastedown. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); shelfmark no. 449, see Catalogue (1831). Wrongly stamped as a Douce bequest. Purchased for £0. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 36.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.15.
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