Bod-Inc: V-022
Valerius Maximus, Gaius
Facta et dicta memorabilia (comm. and ed. Oliverius Arzignanensis).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Valerius Maximus cum commento Oliuerii Arzignanensis Vicentini'.
a1v Brutus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Oliverius Arzignanensis. Incipit: ‘[L]ectis litteris tuis, doctissime Oliueri, mecum coepi animo uolutare . . .’ See V‑019.
a2r Oliverius Arzignanensis: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Brutus, Bishop of Kotor. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam mihi negatum erat ocium, Reverendissime Pater . . .’ Oliverius introduces both his editing of the text and his commentary. On this preface see V‑017.
a3r [List of 120 ancient authors referred to in the commentary.] ‘Quos . . . sum auctores imitatus . . . numero supra centum et uiginti omnes hic breuiter collecti'. Incipit: ‘Plinius de historia naturali, Plinus de uiris illustribus . . .’
a3r ‘Compendiosa Vita Valerii Maximi.’ Incipit: ‘Valerius Maximus ciuis Romanus patricio genere natus . . .’ expl: potest afferri.
a3v [Table.] ‘Rubricae'. Incipit: ‘Primi libri. De seruata religione . . .’
a4r [Oliverius Arzignanensis: Commentary on Facta et dicta memorabilia.] Incipit: ‘ “[U]rbis Romae exterarumque gentium facta simul ac dicta memoratu digna . . .” [V. Max. 1. 1. 1] In hac praefatione Valerius seruat quod proprium est exordii . . .’ See V‑019.
a4r Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: ‘Prologus' [dedicating the work to] Tiberius Caesar. V. Max. Proem.
a4v Valerius Maximus, [Gaius: Facta et dicta memorabilia]. ‘De cultu deorum'. V. Max. See V‑006.
[rum]9v ‘Registrum'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 30 Apr. 1493. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–z & [con]8 [rum]10.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: iv00040000
Hain: HC *15792;
Goff: Goff V‑40;
BMC: BMC V 441;
Proctor: Pr 5042;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑22; CIBN V‑28; Rhodes 1788; Sheppard 4199.
LCN: 14800434
Copies
Copy number: V-022(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [rum]10.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Blue-edged leaves. Pale blue pastedowns.
Size: 304 × 209 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 295 × 192 mm.
Some marginal notes in a sixteenth-century hand, some cropped, mainly extracting key words and phrases from the text in brown or red ink and supplying underlining. On a1r in another sixteenth-century hand the hexameter: ‘Virtus laborque uiros decet mundus . . .’
On a4r the two woodcut initial ‘V's are coloured in red, yellow, and blue. Elsewhere German initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red; the text is enclosed within red rules. Pencilled bookseller's number ‘2588-372' on front pastedown.
Provenance: Johannes Casparus Estbrok (late sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘Johannes Casparus Estbrok'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 3801. Purchased for £0. 4. 6; see Books Purchased (1835), 28.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 5.27.
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