tia00936000

Text-inc Id:

tia00936000

Bod-inc Id:

A-371

Headings:

Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius Opera.

Analysis of content:

1. [*1v] [Bussis, Johannes Andreas de: Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. See A‑369.
2. [*4v] Table of contents with incipits of each book.
3. a1r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: Metamorphoses sive De asino aureo. See A‑369.
4. i3r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: Florida. See A‑369.
5. k4r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: ‘Apologiae siue defensionis magiae ad clarissimum uirum Claudium Maximum proconsulem.’ See A‑369.
6. n5v Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: ‘De deo Socratis', prologue. See A‑369.
7. n6r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: ‘De deo Socratis.’ See A‑369.
8. o4r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: De Platone, first book. ‘De dogmate Platonis.’ See A‑369.
9. p1v Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: De Platone, second book. ‘De philosophia.’ See A‑369.
10. p6r Apuleius Madaurensis, Lucius: De mundo. ‘Cosmographia siue de mundo ad Faustinum.’ See A‑369.
11. q4v Hermes Trismegistus: [Asclepius.] Translated by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis [pseudo-]. Incipit: ‘[A]sclepius iste pro sole mihi est. Deus, deus te nobis, o Asclepi, ut diuino sermoni interesses adduxit . . .’ See A‑369.
12. r6r [Balbus, Petrus, Bishop of Tropea: Letter addressed to] Nicolaus de Cusa. ‘Episcopi Tropien[sis] ad Nicolaum Cunensem(!) cardinalem conuersio.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um te intelligam, sapientissime atque optime patrum . . .’
13. r6r Alcinous; [Albinus pseudo-]: ‘Disciplinarum Platonis epitoma id est breuiarium.’ [Translated by Petrus Balbus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uae sint propriissima Platonis documenta queue doctrina perbreuiter hinc ordinare . . .’ See A‑151.

Imprint:

Venice: Philippus Pincius, 30 Apr. 1493. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁴] a–t⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00936000 GW 2303; HC *1317; Goff A‑936; BMC V 495; Pr 5297; BSB‑Ink A‑660; Oates 2069; Rhodes 122; Sheppard 4391. LCN: 14268234

Copies:

1. A-371(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Paulus Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 30 July 1483 (O‑029(2));
   2. Pius II, Historia rerum ubique gestarum. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477 (P‑330);
   4. Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, De primo bello Punico. Brescia: Jacobus Britannicus, 24 Oct. 1498 (B‑569). Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; gilt chain type roll forms a border; gilt fillets on spine. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 290 × 215 × 55 mm. Size of leaf: 277 × 193 mm. On [*1r]: ‘Floruit ante Christum annis 335 aut post Christum 312' in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. Provenance: Not in Fysher, Catalogus, but probably in the Library before 1757, from which date books were no longer chained. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.8(3).