tiv00028000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00028000

Bod-inc Id:

V-012

Headings:

Valerius Maximus, Gaius Facta et dicta memorabilia, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: ‘Prefatio' [dedicating the work to] Tiberius Caesar. V. Max. Proem.
2. [a1v] Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: Facta et dicta memorabilia. ‘Tituli primi libri'. ‘Capitulum i de religione'. V. Max.
3. [z6r] [Titius Probus, Gaius]: ‘In Epithoma decimi libri Prefatio'. Incipit: ‘[D]ecimus huius operis liber qui et ultimus . . .’ Explicit: epithoma representabat See V‑007.
4. [z6v] [Titius Probus, Gaius]: De praenominibus. ‘Decimi libri de prenomine Epithoma'. Incipit: ‘[V]arro simplicia in Italia fuisse nomina . . .’ See V‑007.
5. [z8r] [De dignitatibus, magistratibus et officiis Romanorum compendium.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimum imperium Romanum reges habuere . . .’
6. [A1r] [Introduction to the table of proper names.] ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[C]irca tabulam Valerii de propriis nominibus est sciendum quod . . .’
7. [A2r] ‘Tabula super Valerium de propriis nominibus.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ccius poeta audax fuit, libro iii capitulum vii . . .’
8. [C8v] [Poem about the table of proper names.] Incipit: ‘Explicit ergo noua propriorum tabula lata | Et si non tota tamen est pars maxima nota'; 5 hexameters. The anonymous author of the poem, perhaps the editor, reveals that he was born in Bourges and studied in Paris.
9. [D1r] [Preface to subject table.] Incipit: ‘Ad intellectum tabule sciendum . . .’
10. [D1r] [Subject table.] ‘Tabula'. Incipit: ‘[A]bstinentia libro quarto capitulo tercio per totum . . .’

Imprint:

Paris: [Au Soufflet Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii)], 1475. Folio.

Collation:

[a–g¹⁰ h⁸ i–z A B¹⁰ C D⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00028000 HC 15778; Goff V‑28; BMC VIII 17; Pr 7905; CIBN V‑19; Oates 2900; Sheppard 6114. LCN: 14802608

Copies:

1. V-012(1) Copy Binding: Seventeenth-century north European calf, rebacked. Seventeenth-century label bearing title in gilt on the front pastedown. Most leaves repaired. Size: 254 × 194 × 62 mm. Size of leaf: 246 × 177 mm. One or two marginal pictographic notes in a contemporary hand, and the letters ‘SL' on [D8r]. In a late sixteenth-century French hand: ‘valerius maximus [ ]bus fin[ ] | quam [ ]ior'. The pencilled bookseller's number ‘3668-37' on front pastedown. Provenance: Stephen Huffam (†1629); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Stephanus Huffam'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 3795. Purchased for £1. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 28. SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.27.