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tip00603000

Text-inc Id:
tip00603000
Bod-inc Id:
P-271
Headings:
Philelphus, Franciscus Fabulae.
Subjects:
literature
Analysis of content:
  1. [a1r] Philelphus, Franciscus: Fabulae. [Title of the first fabula.] ‘De tempore et sene et puero mox senescente.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ulcher Ephebus iter per deuia solus agebat | Ecce capillatum respicit usque pedes'; elegiac distichs. [c7v] Explicit: ‘... Delitie patris est iuvenis virtutis amator | Qui similis magno nititur esse patri.’ ‘Finis.’ See C. Filosa, La favola e la letteratura esopiana in Italia dal Medio Evo ai nostri giorni (Milan, 1952), 82-3.
  2. [c8r] Colophon: ‘Expliciunt fabule clarissimi poete Philelphi, facte Venetiis expensis M.C. 1480.’
Imprint:
[Pavia: Antonius de Carcano], 1480. 4°. On the attribution of this work to Antonius de Carcano in Pavia see BMC VII 999. Also recorded as: ‘Venice: Expensis M.C.' Sheppard, ‘Fifteenth-century Humanist', 16, suggests the initials M. C. may belong to Mathaeus Cerdonis. Secundo folio: hanc premit illa prior semisepulta fugit
Collation:
[a–c8]. 24 ll.
References:
Source: Bodleian; British Library (IA.31365). ISTC: ip00603000 H *12955; Goff P‑603; BMC VII 999; Pr 4597; BSB‑Ink P‑442; CIBN P‑320; Sheppard 5832. LCN: 14383691
Copies:
  1. P-271(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled pastedowns; bound for Kloß. Size: 199 × 149 × 6 mm. Size of leaf: 196 × 142 mm. Early signatures partially visible. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label. Purchased for £1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1826), 13. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.41.