Bod-Inc: V-008
Valerius Maximus, Gaius
Facta et dicta memorabilia.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] [Table.] ‘Rubricae'. Incipit: ‘Primi libri. De religione . . .’
[a3r] Valerius Maximus, [Gaius: Preface dedicating the work to Tiberius Caesar]. V. Max. Proem.
[a3r] Valerius Maximus, [Gaius: Facta et dicta memorabilia]. ‘De cultu deorum'. V. Max. On the transmission see V‑006.
[o7r] [Distich on the edition.] See BMC.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1471. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a10 b8 c12 d–f8 g4+1 h–k8 l10 m12 n10 o8].
References
ISTC: iv00024000
Hain: HCR 15775;
Goff: Goff V‑24;
BMC: BMC V 156;
Proctor: Pr 4035;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑11; CIBN V‑16; Sheppard 3200. Microfiche: Unit 10: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part IV PI 30, PI 31.
LCN: 14801215
Copies
Copy number: V-008(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [o8].
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; bound by H. Walther for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; emerald silk bookmark.
Size: 346 × 242 × 33 mm.
Size of leaf: 335 × 218 mm.
Occasional marginal notes in a contemporary German hand, extracting key words and providing pointing hands, brackets, ‘nota' marks, comments summarizing passages of the work, gathering signatures, and book numbers in the upper margins.
On [a3r] a six-line initial ‘U' is supplied in blue ink with reserved white decoration. Elsewhere initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue ink.
Provenance: Probably Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); Morelli (1787), II 3033 (‘exemplar integerrimum atque splendidissimum'); sale (1789), lot 7934. Purchased, probably through Peter Elmsley, for £23; see the annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1789), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.12.
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