Bod-Inc: V-150
Vitruvius Pollio
De architectura, et al.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page as list of contents.]
[*1v] ‘Index'.
A1r Vitruvius Pollio: De architectura. Dedicated to Emperor Augustus. See V‑149. In this edition the author's name is given as L[ucius]. On this edition see Ciapponi, ‘Fra Giocondo', 73.
L4r [First colophon.]
a1r Politianus, Angelus: Panepistemon. ‘Praelectio cui titulus Panepistemon'. Maïer I 462-73.
a6v [Second colophon.]
b1r Politianus, Angelus: Lamia. ‘Praelectio in priora Aristotelis Analytica, Titulus Lamia'. Maïer I 451-61; Angelo Poliziano, Lamia, ed. A. Wesseling, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 38 (Leiden, 1986).
aa1r Frontinus, Sextus Julius: De aquis urbis Romae. ‘De aquis quae in urbem influunt libellus mirabilis'. Edited by Pomponius Laetus and Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, as stated in the explicit note. Front. Aq.
bb4r [Explicit with note on the editors.] Incipit: ‘Libellum hunc de aquaeductibus cum esset mendosissimus . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice/Florence: [Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello], 13 Nov. 1495/1496. Folio.
Remarks: Pr assigns to [Antonius Francisci, Venetus]. This issue has two colophons reading respectively ‘Florence, 1496', and ‘Venice, 13 Nov. 1495'; for a discussion of these conflicting imprints see BMC V p. xlii.
Collation
Collation: [*2] A–I6 K L4 a b aa6 bb4.
Illustrations: Woodcut diagrams.
References
ISTC: iv00307000
Hain: C 6269;
Goff: Goff V‑307;
BMC: BMC V 474;
Proctor: Pr 6403;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑271; Sack, Freiburg, 3694; Sander 7693; Sheppard 4332.
LCN: 14766310
Copies
Copy number: V-150(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century grey paper boards. Strips from a twelfth-century noted manuscript are visible in the binding. Leather index tab on L4.
Size: 316 × 221 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 307 × 204 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a German humanist hand, in brown and red ink.
Provenance: A contemporary erased inscription on L4v: ‘Hic liber possidetur ab Bo[ ] Ing[ ]k[ ]'. Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1841), 40.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 3.11.
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