Bod-Inc: V-148
Vitellius, Cornelius
In defensionem Plinii et Domitii Calderini contra Georgium Merulam ad Hermolaum Barbarum epistola.
Analysis of Content
a2r Vitellius, Cornelius: In defensionem Plinii et Domitii Calderini contra Georgium Merulam ad Hermolaum Barbarum epistola. Incipit: ‘[H]ac proxima aestate Hermolae doctissime cum Xenia et apophoreta Martialis opus sane difficile . . .’ See C. G. Nauert, ‘Caius Plinius Secundus', in CTC IV 329-32, with text partly edited at 331-2; see also Paola de Capua, ‘Fortune esegetiche della Praefatio alla Naturalis historia tra quattro e cinquecento', Filogia umanistica per Gianvito Resta, ed. Vincenzo Fera and Giacomo Ferraú, 3 vols, Medioevo e umanesimo, 94-6, (Padua, 1997), I 495-526, at 496.
f1r Vitellius, Cornelius: ‘De dierum mensium annorumque obseruatione . . . praefatio' [addressed to] Pylades Brixianus. Incipit: ‘[H]esterna vespera in foro diui Marci ultro citroque deambulantes . . .’
f10r ‘Hic notantur quae ab impressoribus praetermissa sunt'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 1481-2]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–e8 f10.
References
ISTC: iv00305000
Hain: CR 6267;
Goff: Goff V‑305;
BMC: BMC V 321;
Proctor: Pr 4618;
Others: CIBN V‑253; Hillard 2080; Sheppard 3824. Microfiche: Unit 25: Italian Humanism: Part II, IH 181.
LCN: 14766348
Copies
Copy number: V-148(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) paper boards; title gilt on the spine on a rectangular green leather label.
Size: 199 × 150 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 191 × 143 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and names of authors, in a sixteenth-century hand in light brown ink.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 3543. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. U 2.26.
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