Bod-Inc: S-003
Sabinus, Angelus
Paradoxa in Juvenali.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Sabinus, Angelus: Paradoxa in Juvenali. [First preface addressed to] Nicolaus Perottus. Incipit: ‘[N]on indignum esse arbitror reuerende domine ad te ipsum scripta nostra dirigere . . .’ See G. Mercati, ‘Le notizie del Sabellico e di Matteo Herben circa Angelo Sabino ed il poema De excidio civitatis Leodiensis’, in Ultimi contributi alla storia degli umanisti, II, Studi e Testi, 91 (Vatican City, 1939), 17-23, at 23. The author states that he has written this work for a Franciscan called Praxiteles, a pupil of Guarinus Veronensis and Carolus [Marsupinus] Aretinus.
[a2v] Sabinus, Angelus: Paradoxa in Juvenali. [Second preface addressed to] Nicolaus Perottus. Incipit: ‘[S]cripseram olim tibi R[euerende]. D[omine]. notum est paradoxa in Iuuenale(!) . . .’
[a3r] Sabinus, Angelus: Paradoxa in Juvenali. Incipit: ‘[S]emper ego. Non possum non mirari pater optime istius Cornuti quem ais . . .’
[o6v] [Colophon.]
[o6v] ‘Tabula foliorum'.
[o7r] Sabinus, Angelus: Paradoxa in Juvenali. [Epilogue addressed to] Nicolaus Perottus. Incipit: ‘[S]tatueram R[euerende]. D[omine]. nec amplius aliquid de amico scribere . . .’ The author mentions that Johannes Alovisius Tuscanus, ‘legibus iurique pontifitio deditus et in aduocatorum sic enim hodie dicunt ordine non minori contencione quam laude adscitus', had the book printed.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Georgius Sachsel and Bartholomaeus Golsch, for Johannes Alovisius Tuscanus, 9 Aug. 1474. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a10 b8 c–e10 f8 g h10 i8 k10 l m8 n10 o8].
References
ISTC: is00013000
Hain: H *14063;
Goff: Goff S‑13;
BMC: BMC IV 55;
Proctor: Pr 3481;
Others: BSB‑Ink S‑7; CIBN S‑8; Hillard 1781; Sheppard 2789.
LCN: 14029113
Copies
Copy number: S-003(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [o8].
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled mottled calf, with sprinkled red- and blue-edged leaves. Marbled pastedowns.
Size: 340 × 240 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 331 × 222 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words in Latin and Greek, but also providing corrections to the text and pointing hands, in fifteenth-century and sixteenth-century hands.
On [a3r] a seven-line Italian (Roman) initial ‘S' is supplied in shades of blue within a square gold ground edged in black; the area defined by the letter is decorated with red, pink, and green foliate decoration. On the same leaf a border in the shape of a pole is supplied in gold and runs down the inner margin, with floral and foliate decoration in purple, blue, and green, and gold dots at each end; see Pächt and Alexander II, 107 no. pr. 30. Elsewhere initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Della Rovere family(?) (fifteenth century); in the lower margin of [a2r] a wreath with the arms of a bishop: azure, between two barrulets or, three crosses bottonnée argent, over all an oak with two acorned branches vert, crossed saltirewise. Como, Lombardy, Jesuits; early inscription in light brown ink on [a2r] with, below, a circular stamp of the sacred monogram: ‘Collegi Societatis Jesu Comensis'. Purchased for £6. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1834), 26.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.12.
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