Bod-Inc: R-138
Romanus, Jacobus
Congratulatio pro patria.
Analysis of Content
Subject: current affairs
[a2r] Romanus, Jacobus: Congratulatio pro patria [addressed to] Nicolaus Tronus, Doge of Venice. ‘Iacobi Romani utriusque iuris doc. ac equitis Brixiensis’ Incipit: ‘[G]ravissimi moeroris qui nostro iam pectori insidere coeperat, illustrissime partim rerum novarum timore, partim crassante improborum ...’ [b6v] Explicit: ‘... Id omne ad res gerendas Imperii tibi ac populo Veneto polliceor ac devoveo. Laus Deo. | Finis.’
[b6v] Colophon: ‘Impressum per magistrum Florentinum de Argentina .M.CCCC.LXXII. die vero .XX. mensis Marcii.’
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice] Florentius de Argentina 20 Mar. 1472. 4°.
Secundo folio: [a2r] neque de Imperio timere licebit. Haec mens
Collation
Collation: [a8 b6].
Remarks: Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters.
References
ISTC: ir00317000
Hain: H *13963;
Goff: Goff R‑317;
BMC: BMC V 204;
Proctor: Pr 4207;
Others: BSB‑Ink R‑264; CIBN R‑215; Oates 1684; Sheppard 3380.
LCN: 14028544
Copies
Copy number: R-138(1)
Sheet [a4.5] is bound after [b3], a mistake already noted and indicated in brown ink by a sixteenth-century Italian reader.
Binding: Nineteenth-century brown cloth. Blue-edged leaves.
Size: 193 × 140 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 187 × 131 mm.
‘3' in pencil on [a1r]. A few textual corrections in the hand of the early reader.
Provenance: Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue (1830), part III no. 11384, for £0. 7. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 156, and Books Purchased (1830), 20.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 1.13.
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