tiv00024000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00024000

Bod-inc Id:

V-008

Headings:

Valerius Maximus, Gaius Facta et dicta memorabilia.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] [Table.] ‘Rubricae'. Incipit: ‘Primi libri. De religione . . .’
2. [a3r] Valerius Maximus, [Gaius: Preface dedicating the work to Tiberius Caesar]. V. Max. Proem.
3. [a3r] Valerius Maximus, [Gaius: Facta et dicta memorabilia]. ‘De cultu deorum'. V. Max. On the transmission see V‑006.
4. [o7r] [Distich on the edition.] See BMC.

Imprint:

[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1471. Folio.

Collation:

[a¹⁰ b⁸ c¹² d–f⁸ g⁴⁺¹ h–k⁸ l¹⁰ m¹² n¹⁰ o⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00024000 HCR 15775; Goff V‑24; BMC V 156; Pr 4035; BSB‑Ink V‑11; CIBN V‑16; Sheppard 3200. Microfiche: Unit 10: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part IV PI 30, PI 31. LCN: 14801215

Copies:

1. V-008(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaf [o8]. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; bound by H. Walther for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; emerald silk bookmark. Size: 346 × 242 × 33 mm. Size of leaf: 335 × 218 mm. Occasional marginal notes in a contemporary German hand, extracting key words and providing pointing hands, brackets, ‘nota' marks, comments summarizing passages of the work, gathering signatures, and book numbers in the upper margins. On [a3r] a six-line initial ‘U' is supplied in blue ink with reserved white decoration. Elsewhere initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue ink. Provenance: Probably Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); Morelli (1787), II 3033 (‘exemplar integerrimum atque splendidissimum'); sale (1789), lot 7934. Purchased, probably through Peter Elmsley, for £23; see the annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1789), 6. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.12.
2. V-008(2) Second copy Fragment: portions of conjugate leaves [c3] and [c10] are bound as endleaves in S‑324(1). Initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlining are supplied in red ink. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 7.65.