tis00616000

Text-inc Id:

tis00616000

Bod-inc Id:

S-244

Headings:

Solinus, Gaius Iulius Polyhistor, siue Collectanea rerum memorabilium.

Subjects:

history

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Solinus, Gaius Iulius: [Preface addressed to] Adventus. ‘Cai. Iulii Solini rerum memorabilium collectanee. Solinus Aventino salutem.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um et aurium clementia et optimarum artium ...’ [a2r] Explicit: ‘... in pectus tuum velim ac scribere.’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. Mommsen, 1-2; on this preface see S‑243. View entry in Person Index
2. [a2r] [Table of contents]. Incipit: ‘I. De origine urbis Rome.’ [a4v] Explicit: ‘... Hesperidesque atque fortunate. Laus Deo.’
3. [b1r] [Solinus, Gaius Iulius: Polyhistor, sive] Collectanea rerum memorabilium. ‘De origine et temporibus urbis Rome et mensibus et diebus itercalaribus. Capitulum primum.’ Incipit: ‘[S]unt qui videri velint urbis Rome vocabulum ...’ [n10r] Explicit: ‘... Ideoque non penitus ad nuncupationem suam congruere insularum qualitatem.’ Collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. Mommsen, 3-216; see S‑243, and CTC VI 75 for this edition.

Imprint:

[Rome] [Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia?] 4° and 8° Secundo folio: [a2r] cohandi nos quoque a capite orbis [1474-5].

Collation:

[a⁴ b–i¹⁰ k-l⁸ m-n¹⁰]. Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters. 120 ll.

References:

Source: Bodleian; British Library (IA.17771); Torino, Archivio di Stato (J A VII 20(2 ) ISTC: is00616000 HC 14874; Goff S‑616; BMC IV 59; Pr 3490; BSB‑Ink S‑481; CIBN S‑304; Oates 1410; Sheppard 2801. LCN: 14124853

Copies:

1. S-244(1) Copy The second sheet of gathering [l] is quarto. Variant setting of heading on [b1r]: ‘Capitulum primum De origine | et tēporibus urbis Rome et men | ſibus et diebus intercalaribus'. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf; the title in gilt on a tan leather label on the spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; red-edged leaves and a few gilt-edged leaves ([c2-7]); marbled pastedowns; two green silk bookmarks. Size: 203 × 145 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 123 mm. Some marginal notes in a contemporary Italian hand (some washed), extracting key words and supplying brackets. Vertical manuscript catchwords at the end of each quire. ‘Emptus Viterbij 69.90' on [n9v]. Three- to five-line initials are supplied in red. Provenance: Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 38; the copy of Suetonius' De grammaticis, noted as bound after the Solinus, has been removed. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 300; purchased for £4. 4. 0; see the Bodleian's annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1821), 13. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.19.