Bod-Inc: S-329
Strabo
Geographia (trans. Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tifernas, ed. Antonius Mancinellus), et al.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*2r] [Table.] Compiled by Antonius Mancinellus, as stated in his preface.
[†8v] Mancinellus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Justinus Carosius. Incipit: ‘[S]trabonis geographia poematum . . .’ Dated Venice, 3 May 1494.
a1r Niger, Christophorus: Carmen de miseria uitae saecularis [addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Dandulus. Incipit: ‘[D]andule da tanto quam te cognomine dignum | Auxilium uati sponte ferendo pium'; 75 elegiac distichs.
a1v [Niger, Christophorus: Carmen addressed to] Antonius Boldus. Incipit: ‘O per quem leges decretaque sacra Lycurgi | Viuunt et summus cum Cicerone Maro'; 15 elegiac distichs.
a1v Niger, [Christophorus: Carmen addressed to] Berardinus Anconitanus. Incipit: ‘Hanc Niger ille tibi dat Berardine salutem | Quoi non plebeius te modo uinxit amor'; 19 elegiac distichs.
a1v Niger, Christophorus: [Carmen addressed to] Michael Bempensus. Incipit: ‘[A]urae quem sacrae cinxerunt baltea leges | Et quoi uix similem curia maior habet'; 7 elegiac distichs.
a2r [Bussis], Johannes Andreas [de]: Epistola [addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. ‘Epistola in qua inuehitur in Georgium Trebezontium Cenotimonem id est nouum Timonem'. See S‑325.
a3r Guarinus Veronensis: [Dedicatory preface addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. ‘In traductionem epistola'. See S‑326.
a3v Guarinus Veronensis: [Dedicatory preface addressed to] Jacobus Antonius Marcellus. ‘In absolutionem Strabonis inchoati prohemium alterum'. See S‑326.
a4r Strabo: [Geographia.] ‘Strabonis Gnossi Amasini de situ orbis libri xvii e graeco traducti Gregorio Typhernale ac Guarino Veronese interpretibus'. Edited by Antonius Mancinellus, as stated in his preface. Books I–X are translated by Guarinus Veronensis; books XI–XVII by Gregorius Tifernas. Incipit: ‘[S]i ad Philosophum alia pertineat ulla tractatio . . .’ See S‑325.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 28 Jan. 1494/5. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*] [†]8 a–r ſ s–z &6.
Remarks: Gathering [*] is numbered ‘i–iii', gathering [†] ‘v–viii', but neither is signed. Leaf [*1] unnumbered, [*2] is numbered ‘i'; the first leaf of gathering [†] is numbered ‘v'. BMC observes that this edition agrees with Rubeus' 1480 Venice edition (S‑327), apart from a few variants.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: is00798000
Hain: C 5661;
Goff: Goff S‑798;
BMC: BMC V 418;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Sheppard 4126.
LCN: 14008639
Copies
Copy number: S-329(1)
Leaf [†8v], l. 1: ‘Ant. Mancinellus', not as BMC.
Bound with:
1. Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentaria, ed. L. Panaetius (Venice: Agostino de Zanis, 1511).
Binding: Late eighteenth-century calf; the spine gold-tooled; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; red-edged leaves.
Size: 310 × 215 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 301 × 203 mm.
Some marginal notes in brown ink in the hand of Mandenesse, extracting key words, and supplying initials, brackets, underlining, ‘nota' signs, and summarizing comments.
Many initials are supplied in gold.
Provenance: J. Mandenesse (fl. 1500); inscription ‘J Mandenesse' on a1r and a1r of item 1. James St Amand (1687-1754); manuscript catalogue, fol. 11 no 183; ‘St. Am. Cat. n. 183' and ‘fo S. Am 100' on a1r of item 1; see paper labels at the head and tail of the spine. Bequeathed in 1754.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 1.5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 3.32(2).
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