TEXT-inc
a corpus of texts printed in the 15th century

TEXT-inc

tin00232000

Text-inc Id:
tin00232000
Bod-inc Id:
N-108
Headings:
Niger, Franciscus Modus epistolandi.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1v [List of types of letter.]
  2. a2r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus Styrus Cnitelfeldensis. Incipit: ‘[N]uma Pompilius qui post Romulum secundus Rhomani regni . . .’ Explicit: sumatur exordium
  3. a2v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: Modus epistolandi [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[S]cribendarum epistolarum initium licet multi uariis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi
  4. e4v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’
  5. e5r Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’
Imprint:
Venice: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 5 Feb. 1488. 4°.
Collation:
a–d8 e6.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00232000 HC *11863; Goff N‑232; BMC V 357; Pr 4791; Rhodes 1251; Sheppard 3939-40. LCN: 14537945
Copies:
  1. N-108(1) First copy Bound with A‑093; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 193 × 137 mm. Early marginal notes, including extraction of key words and ‘nota' marks. On e5v a note written in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand, with incipit, ‘[ ] tua digna me merita . . .'; and on e6r a letter(?), in the same hand, with incipit, ‘[ ] tue digna me . . .'. SHELFMARK: 4° C 1(2) Art. Seld.
  2. N-108(2) Second copy Wanting the blank leaf e6. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half green morocco; marbled paper boards. Size: 197 × 142 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 192 × 133 mm. Provenance: Thomas Thorpe, Catalogue (1832), pt. 1, no. 1782. Purchased from Thorpe for £0. 6. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 345, and Books Purchased (1832), 17, with the date given as ‘1481', in error. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.19.