tim00447000

Text-inc Id:

tim00447000

Bod-inc Id:

M-175

Headings:

Mela, Pomponius Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Mela, Pomponius: Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. Piergiorgio Parroni, Pomponii Melae De chorographia libri tres, Storia e Letteratura, 160 (Rome, 1984), 111-72; see CTC V 257-85.

Imprint:

Milan: [Pamfilo Castaldi], 25 Sept. 1471. 4°.

Collation:

[a–d⁸ e⁸⁺¹ f g⁸ h⁴]. See BMC note on collation (Sheppard).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00447000 HCR 11014; Goff M‑447; BMC VI 699; Pr 5768; CIBN M‑279; Oates 2250; Sheppard 4797. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmography. LCN: 14453872

Copies:

1. M-175(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [h4]. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; the spine tooled with urns and fleurons (similar tool on spine of Auct. L 5.27, Bod-inc. F‑106), triple fillets on both covers; gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt-edged leaves previously red, azure silk bookmark, and marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both pastedowns; both covers stamped with the arms of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, impaling Bingham quartered with Turberville, motto: ‘Dieu defend le droit'. Size: 190 × 140 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 187 × 130 mm. On [a1r] a four-line initial ‘O' is supplied in gold within a square blue ground with white pen-work decoration, with foliate extensions of various colours into the margins and gold dots to form a border. The area defined by the letter is decorated with a coat of arms: azure, six billets in pile or, on a chief argent a lion passant (or statant) gules, for which see below. A three-line initial is supplied in blue on [c5v]. Provenance: unidentified member of the Rochefort family(?); coat of arms, see above; cf. https://www.flickr.com/photos/oxford_csb/6963704256/ (identification of arms ex informatione Robert MacLean, Glasgow University Library). George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); cancelled accession number ‘3550'; purchased at his sale (1821), lot 250, for £3. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 10. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 4.20.