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tip00078500

Text-inc Id:
tip00078500
Bod-inc Id:
P-023
Headings:
Papias Elementarium.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Papias'.
  2. a1v Mombritius, Boninus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quaeris grammatico librorum quanta suppellex | Sit satis impensa quam sibi nemo paret'; 16 elegiac distichs.
  3. a2r Papias: [Preface addressed to his sons.] Incipit: ‘[F]ilii utique charissimi debui si potuissem . . .’ Explicit: Christus ad astra See P‑021.
  4. a2v Papias: [Elementarium.] Incipit: ‘[A] littera in omnibus gentibus ideo prior est litterarum . . .’ Explicit: Zoroteros . . .uiuatior See P‑021.
  5. z9v Papias: [Prayer of thanks for the book.] Incipit: ‘[I]nfinitas et multiplices benedictionis gratias iam deo patri referimus . . .’ Explicit: seculorum. Amen
Imprint:
Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 17 Mar. 1491. Folio.
Collation:
a–t8 u16 x y8 z10.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00078500 H *12380; BMC V 477; Pr 5264; BSB‑Ink P‑12; CIBN P‑24; Sack, Freiburg, 2644; Sheppard 4342. LCN: 14440826
Copies:
  1. P-023(1) Copy A duplicate of sheet i1 is bound in place of sheet i2. Binding: Eighteenth-century Netherlandish(?) gold-tooled russia with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 305 × 216 × 48 mm. Size of leaf: 295 × 197 mm. Provenance: Gerard Meerman (1722-1771); manuscript catalogue (MMW S 145 III, fol. 2v). Johan Meerman (1753-1815); note on the recto of the front endleaf; purchased at his sale, vol. II, p. 4, lot 37, for fl. 19, note on the recto of the front endleaf; see Books Purchased . . . at the Sale of M. Meerman, p. 18. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.26.