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tin00252000

Text-inc Id:
tin00252000
Bod-inc Id:
N-115
Headings:
Niger, Franciscus Modus epistolandi.
Analysis of content:
  1. A1r [Title-page.]
  2. A2r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[N]uma Pompilius qui post Romulum secundus Rhomani regni . . .’ Explicit: sumatur exordium
  3. A2v ‘In laudem compositoris hexastichon'. Incipit: ‘Franciscus Niger hic que carpsit numine diuo | Palladis ex adito perspice quisquis ades'; 3 elegiac distichs.
  4. A2v Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: Modus epistolandi [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘[S]cribendarum epistolarum initium licet multi variis causis . . .’ Explicit: libentissime exequi. Vale
  5. E7r Niger, [Pescennius] Franciscus: ‘Peroratio' [addressed to] Jacobus Geroldus. Incipit: ‘Iam annuente deo, magnifice Jacobe, ad peroptatum finem . . .’
  6. E7v Jacobus Geroldus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Niger. Incipit: ‘Excogitabam mecum ipse diebus istis, Francisce charissime . . .’
  7. E7v [Table of contents, including list of types of letter.]
Imprint:
[Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger], 1499. 4°.
Collation:
A B8 C D4 E8. Title-page woodcut: see Schreiber–Heitz no. 58.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00252000 H *11883; Goff N‑252; BMC II 374; Pr 1803; BSB‑Ink N‑197; Schreiber V 4856; Sheppard 1307. LCN: 14540282
Copies:
  1. N-115(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century red cloth, bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 204 × 139 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 192 × 131 mm. Provenance: Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 143 (1884), no. 174. Purchased in 1884 for 5 Marks: see Library Bills, 7 May. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 5.32.