tio00097000

Text-inc Id:

tio00097000

Bod-inc Id:

O-027

Headings:

Orosius, Paulus Historiae adversus paganos (ed. Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis).

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] Vulpes, Aeneas: [Address to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Scias velim humanissime lector . . .’ Acknowledging the contribution of Laurentius Brixiensis.
2. [a2r] Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. ‘Prologus' [addressed to] Augustinus. See O‑026.
3. [a2v] Orosius, Paulus: Historiae adversus paganos. Edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis. See O‑026.
4. [n6r] Paiellus, Bartholomaeus: [Verse colophon.] ‘In P. Orosium'. Incipit: ‘Vt ipse titulus margine in primo docet | Orosio nomen mihi est'; 12 lines of verse.

Imprint:

[Vicenza]: Hermannus Liechtenstein, [c.1475]. Folio.

Collation:

[a–g⁸ h⁶ i–m⁸ n⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: io00097000 H *12099; Goff O‑97; BMC VII 1035; Pr 7144; BSB‑Ink O‑82; CIBN O‑59; Hillard 1497; Sheppard 5898-9. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography: Part II. LCN: 14540166

Copies:

1. O-027(1) First copy Binding: Eighteenth-century English brown calf; on both covers a single gold fillet forms a frame; single gold fillet on edges of boards; Greek-key tool on turn-ins; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns, and green silk bookmark; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Probably bound for the Bodleian Library shortly after acquisition; for a similar binding see A‑522. Size: 292 × 206 × 26 mm. Size of leaf: 282 × 192 mm. A few ‘Nota' marks in brown ink. On [a2r] a large initial ‘P' is supplied in red with reserved white decoration and red pen-work decoration extending into the margin. Other initials are supplied in red, sometimes with reserved white decoration. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: ‘V. C.' in brown ink on [a1r]. Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), II 2896; apparently not in the sale (1789); purchased in 1791 for £3. 3. 0: see Books Purchased (1791), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 3.12.
2. O-027(2) Second copy Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled (double fillets only) diced russia; marbled edges and pastedowns. ‘1600' on a circular bookseller's label at tail of the spine. Size: 303 × 205 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 294 × 188 mm. Provenance: Daniel Pratensis, Dominican; inscription in humanist hand on [a1v]: ‘H[ab]itus a fratre Daniele Pratensi ordinis predicatorum'. Venice, Dominicans, S. Dominicus; inscription on [a2r]: ‘Conventus sancti Dominici Ven[ ]i'. Richard Heber (1773-1833); presented by Heber in 1819; see Books Purchased (1819), 10. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.53.