Bod-Inc: V-071
Vergilius, Polydorus
Proverbiorum libellus.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Prouerbiorum libellus'.
a1v Vergilius, Polydorus: ‘Epigramma' [addressed to] his book. Incipit: ‘[V]ade liber genio Guidi suffultus et aura | Rectus ad Feltranos tramite curre lares'; 11 elegiac distichs.
a2r Vergilius, Polydorus: ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[T]roezeni Atticae regionis (sicuti a Plutarcho accepimus) . . .’ expl: obtestor. Vale
i6v [Correction to the text]. Incipit: ‘In Prouerbio sapientia uino obumbratur . . .’
i6v [Notice of privilege.] Incipit: ‘Cum priuilegio libellus hic impressus est . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 10 Apr. 1498. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h8 i6.
References
ISTC: iv00147000
Hain: HC *16009;
Goff: Goff V‑147.
BMC: BMC V 471;
Proctor: Pr 5243;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑140; Rhodes 1797; Sheppard 4318. Microfiche: Unit 24: Italian Humanism: Part I, IH 77.
LCN: 14695267
Copies
Copy number: V-071(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled maroon morocco; bound by J. Mackenzie and Son. Gilt-edged leaves. Marbled pastedowns.
Size: 214 × 160 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 151 mm.
Frequent marginal notes in a contemporary Italian hand, extracting proper names and supplying brackets. On a1r and i5v –i6v notes, now washed out, in a seventeenth-century Italian hand ‘calendas Graecas ibi . . . moribus procreantur . . . quod Polluci ibi [ ] Nasturtius ibi . . .’
Provenance: Purchased for £2. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1848), 42.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.62.
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