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Text-inc Id:

til00241000

Bod-inc Id:

L-119

Headings:

Livius, Titus Historiae Romanae decades (ed. Petrus Justinus Philelphus).

Analysis of content:

1. A2r Bussis, Johannes Andreas de: [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Bussi 29-34.
2. A4r Florus: [Periochae.] See L‑114.
3. C6r ‘Capita operum.’
4. D1r Livius, Titus: Historiae Romanae decades. ‘Ab urbe condita.’ [Edited by Petrus Justinus Philelphus.] Liv. 1-32, 34-40. 37. 3. Liv. 33 not included in this edition.

Imprint:

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, for Johannes de Legnano, 23 Oct. 1480. Folio.

Collation:

A¹⁰ B⁸ C⁶ D–Q¹⁰ R⁸ a B c–n¹⁰ o T–X¹⁰ Y Z⁶ & [con] [rum] AA BB¹⁰. Leaf A2 signed A1, etc.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00241000 HC 10133; Goff L‑241; BMC VI 716; Pr 5805; BSB‑Ink L‑190; CIBN L‑181; Rhodes 1098; Sheppard 4855. LCN: 14501612

Copies:

1. L-119(1) Copy Bound in one volume. Wanting the blank leaves A1, R8, and BB10. Leaves A2 and BB1 cut out and mounted. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled olive morocco, with marbled pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 394 × 287 × 76 mm. Size of leaf: 382 × 262 mm. Some early ‘nota' marks. At the beginning of each book seven- to ten-line Milanese initials are supplied in gold on a maroon ground with white, grey, and occasionally green, foliate and floral decoration: see Pächt and Alexander II, 114 no. pr. 138; other two- to three-line epigraphic initials in gatherings A–C are supplied in gold on maroon or blue grounds with white filigree decoration. The text on A2^r-v is enclosed within double red rules. Provenance: Antoine Pâris (1668-1733), comte de Sampigny; armorial book-plate: or, on a fess azure an apple slipped, surmounted by a count's coronet; book-plate inscribed ‘Liverlos fecit 1721', with the initials ‘A. P.' in the lower corners. Jean Pâris de Monmartel (1690-1766), marquis de Brunoy, comte de Sampigny; in the lower margin of A2r an ornamental ‘P' beneath a marquis's coronet drawn in red. Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); catalogue 3 (1783), lot 4856, for 400 livres. Antoine Marie Pâris d'Illins (1746-1809); ‘Bibliotheca Parisiana'; sale, lot 521. Purchased at that sale for £16. 16. 0, through Peter Elmsley (ex informatione Roger Middleton): see annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1791), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 1.10.