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tin00246000

Text-inc Id:
tin00246000
Bod-inc Id:
N-110
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 Romani regni . . .’ Explicit: sumatur exordium
  4. a2v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: Modus epistolandi [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[S]cribendarum epistolarum initium licet multi uariis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi
  5. d7v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’
  6. d8r Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’
  7. d8r [Colophon.]
Imprint:
Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, [c.1495.] 4°. As dated by Sheppard from use of type 81 RB.
Collation:
a–d8. Type: 81 RB. 32 leaves. 40 lines (a2r). Type area: 161 ×121 mm (a2r). Leaf a1r, title-page: ‘FRANCISCVS NIGER DE | MODO EPISTOLANDI'. a1v: ‘Opuſculum epiſtolarum familiarium & artis . . .'; a2r: ‘Opuſculum ſcribendi Epiſtolas Franciſci Nigri incipit fœliciter. | Franciſcus Niger: Venetus: Doctor: . . .'; l. 5: ‘[N]Vma Ponpilius: [qui] poſt Romulū . . .'; a2v, l. 11: ‘ . . . Præfatio. | [S]Cribendarum epiſtolarū initiū licet . . .'; d8r, colophon: ‘Impreſſum Venetiis per Simonem | papienſem dictum Beuilaqua.’
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00246000 HR 11862; Goff N‑246; Pr 5417; Sheppard 4472. LCN: 14537964
Copies:
  1. N-110(1) Copy Leaf a1v, l. 1: ‘ . . . familiarium', not as HR. Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) half purple morocco; marbled paper boards. Size: 217 × 152 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 211 × 139 mm. Early marginal and interlinear notes, including comments on and corrections to the text. Some paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. Provenance: Purchased for £0. 1. 0: see Books Purchased (1858), 78. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.27.