Bod-Inc: V-031
Valla, Laurentius
Elegantiae linguae latinae, et al.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Alphabetical list of contents.]
a2r Valla, Laurentius: ‘Epistola' [addressed to] Johannes Tortellius. Incipit: ‘Libros de linguae latinae elegantia . . .’ See V‑026.
a3v Valla, Laurentius: Elegantiae linguae latinae. [Preface to book I.] See V‑026.
a5v Valla, Laurentius: Elegantiae linguae latinae. See V‑026; Ijsewijn–Tournoy 36 [group B].
&7v Valla, Laurentius: De reciprocatione ‘sui' et ‘suus' [dedicated to] Johannes Tortellius. ‘De pronomine sui'. ed. Sandström 4-74, 77: this edition belongs to the Venice tradition.
[rum10r] [Colophon.]
[rum10r] Calphurnius [Brixiensis, Johannes: Verse addressed to] Antonius Pasqualinus de Sancto Germano Campaniae. Incipit: ‘Restituit quondam patriae uexilla Camillus | Et raptas gallis solus ademit opes'; 5 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Jacobus Rubeus, [after 5 Mar.] 1476. Folio.
Collation
Collation: A a–m8 n O6 o–z &8 [rum]10.
References
ISTC: iv00055000
Hain: HC *15806;
Goff: Goff V‑55;
BMC: BMC V 216;
Proctor: Pr 4245;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑29; CIBN V‑40; Oates 1697; Sheppard 3424.
LCN: 14801894
Copies
Copy number: V-031(1)
Wanting the preliminary gathering A.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; red lower edge.
Size: 281 × 210 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 190 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, numbering the paragraphs, providing running book numbers and manuscript foliation, in both arabic and roman numerals: ‘1-cc6' in a sixteenth-century hand in brown ink.
Provenance: Purchased from Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Catalogue (1830), no. 3735, for £2. 2. 0: see Books Purchased (1830), 23.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.13.
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