Bod-Inc: V-043
Valturius, Robertus
De re militari [Italian] Opera dell' arte militare (trans. Paulus Ramusius).
Analysis of Content
[*2r] Ramusius, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Roberto Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno. Incipit: ‘[I] raggi de linclita et eterna virtu, illustrissimo signor . . .’ See V‑041, and Rodakiewicz, ‘De re militari', 25.
[*6v] Dante Alighieri: [Verse]. Incipit: ‘Qui son depinte le Roman historie | Et le barbarice e civil bataglie'; 14 tetrameters.
a2r Valturius, Robertus: [Preface dedicating the work to] Sigismundus Pandulphus Malatesta. ‘Opera de facti e precepti militari di Misier Roberto Valturio Ariminese gia inscripta in Latin'. Translated into Italian by Paulus Ramusius, as stated in the colophon on O8v. Incipit: ‘[C]redo certamente ne a mi e occulto, o glorioso e inclyto capitanno Sygismondo Pandolpho . . .’ See V‑042.
a6r [Valturius, Robertus: De re militari.] ‘Dil primo et sicondo principio di larte militare apresso quale gente sia nata primermente.’ Translated into Italian by Paulus Ramusius, as stated in the colophon on O8v. Incipit: ‘Donque quando fra tutti di lanticha auctoritate homeni . . .’
O8v [Colophon.] ‘Di Roberto Valturio di Arimio opera de larte militare finisse translata per el spectabel doctor misier Paulo Ramusio de Arimino'.
O9r [Registrum.]
Imprint
Imprint: Verona: Boninus de Boninis, 17 Feb. 1483. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*6] a–d8 e6 f g8 h10 i–u8 x y6 z &8 [con] [rum] A B6 C–E8 F G6 H I8 K10 L–N8 O10.
Illustrations: Woodcuts; see Sander.
References
ISTC: iv00090000
Hain: HC 15849;
Goff: Goff V‑90;
BMC: BMC VII 952;
Proctor: Pr 6922;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑54; CIBN V‑59; Antal Lőkkös, Les incunables de la Bibliothèque de Genève (Geneva, 1982), no. 441; Sander 7483; Sheppard 5705.
LCN: 14800973
Copies
Copy number: V-043(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century tree calf. Title in gilt on red and green paper labels on the spine. Marbled pastedowns. In manuscript, author's name along the lower edge, title along the fore-edge.
Size: 314 × 221 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 307 × 201 mm.
Some notes in Italian in two sixteenth-century Italian hands, supplying brackets and extracting key words. A few marginal notes in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century Italian hand, supplying brackets, underlining, and headings. On [*1v] an eighteenth-century Italian hand supplies 2 hexameters: ‘Quid facis o mi[ ]be plange uel ora | Et fac quod nulla sine fructu transeat hora'. The sum ‘6. 6. 0' pencilled on recto of front endleaf. The number ‘1650' pencilled on verso of front endleaf.
Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 2702. Purchased for £3. 19. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 109.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 3.26.
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