Bod-Inc: S-362
Summaripa, Georgius
Epitoma regni Parthenopaei [Italian].
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Title-page.] ‘Chronica uulgare in terza rima de le cose geste nel Regno Napolitano . . .’
[a1v] Summaripa, Georgius: [Verse addressed to] the readers. Incipit: ‘Chi non sa di Parthenope le clade | uarie et externe ele guerre cruente'; 16 lines of verse.
[a1v] Summaripa, Georgius: [Verse addressed to] Johannes Baptista Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘Se non ti ho scrito molti de mie carmi | Seghante(?) illustre questa e la cagione'; 52 lines of verse.
[a2r] Summaripa, Georgius: Epitoma regni Parthenopaei [addressed to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. ‘Epitoma regni Parthenopei . . . carmine rithmico in uernaculum sermonem traductum'. Incipit: ‘Parthenope gentil citta morale | Napoli signoril poi noncupata'. V. Mistruzzi, ‘Giorgio Sommariva rimatore veronese del secolo XV', Archivio Veneto-Tridentino, 6 (1924), 115-202, at 185; 7 (1925), 112-97, at 147-56.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis, de Monteferrato, 26 Sept. 1496. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a] b–e4.
Illustrations: Woodcut border.
References
ISTC: is00627000
Hain: HC Addenda R 14887;
Goff: Goff S‑627;
BMC: BMC V 504;
Proctor: Pr 5365;
Others: Essling 896; Sander 7119; Sheppard 4426. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography, Part I, CH 92.
LCN: 14008388
Copies
Copy number: S-362(1)
On [a1r], l. 4: ‘ . . . coſe', not as BMC (` . . . coe').
Binding: Paper wrappers. ‘28' in pencil on the front cover; ‘2563' in black ink on a circular paper label at the tail of the same.
Size: 195 × 145 × 5 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 141 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly providing references to the sources, in a sixteenth-century hand in light brown ink. On [a1r] a small rectangular piece of paper with the eighteenth/nineteenth-century(?) note: ‘Incognita a Maffei' [i.e. Scipione Maffei 1675-1755] in brown ink.
Half the border is coloured in brown. Capital strokes in brown.
Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); purchased at his sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 2563, for £3. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 104.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.28.
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