tin00243500

Text-inc Id:

tin00243500

Bod-inc Id:

N-112

Headings:

Niger, Franciscus Modus epistolandi.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v [List of types of letter.]
3. a2r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[N]uma Pompilius qui post Romulum secundus Rhomani regni . . .’ Explicit: sumatur exordium
4. a2v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: Modus epistolandi [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[S]cribendarum epistolarum inicium licet multi variis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi. Vale
5. e4v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’
6. e5r Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’
7. e5r [Colophon.]
8. e5v ‘Ars epistolandi Francisci Nigri in laudem hexasticou(!)'. Incipit: ‘Franciscus Niger hic que cerpsit numine dio | Palladis ex adito perspice quisquis ades'; 3 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Paris: Pierre Levet, [between 1494 and 1497.] 4°. As dated by CIBN from the address and the state of the types. Sheppard dates [c.1491].

Collation:

a–d⁸ e⁶. Types: 113 G; 81 G (later state 79). 38 leaves. 39 lines (a2r). Type area: 158 ×93 mm (a2r). Leaf a1r, title-page: ‘Epiſtole Franciſci nigri.'; [device]; a1v. ‘Opuſculū epiſtolaꝝ familiariū [et] artis earundem . . .'; a2r. ‘Opuſculum scribendi epiſtolas franciſci | nigri incipit feliciter. | Franciſcus niger / Venetus doctor . . .'; l. 6: ‘[N]Vma pompilius qui poſt romulū | . . .'; a2v, l. 25: ‘Prefatio. [S]Cribendarum epiſtolarum iniciū | . . .'; e5r: colophon: ‘Opuſculū hoc de ſcribendis epiſtolis . . . | . . . Imp̄ſſū ſuburbiis ſācti germani de pratis | In interſignio crucis auree [per] ꝑ Petrum Leuet Finit.'; e5v. ‘Ars epiſtolandi Franciſci nigri in laudem hexaſticou | Franciſcus niger hic que cerpſit numine dio | . . .'; l. 10: ‘ . . . quibus | nunc vtimur ſpecies reducūtur.’

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00243500 Pr 8077; @{CIBN} N‑144; Oates 2997; Pellechet MS. 8569 (8458); Sheppard 6279. LCN: 14538029

Copies:

1. N-112(1) Copy Bound with A‑138; see there for details of binding, decoration, and provenance. Size of leaf: 207 × 140 mm. Sheets c3.6, c4.5 and d3-4 are printed in Denidel's types 99 G and 75 G. Occasional early marginal annotations, including extraction of key words. Two- to five-line initials are supplied in red or in interlocked red and blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. SHELFMARK: Douce 129(7).