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tiv00039000
- Text-inc Id:
- tiv00039000
- Bod-inc Id:
- V-021
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Valerius Maximus, Gaius
Facta et dicta memorabilia (comm. and ed. Oliverius Arzignanensis).
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a1r [Title-page.] ‘Valerio Maximo.’
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a2r Oliverius Arzignanensis: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Brutus, Bishop of Kotor. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam mihi negatum erat ocium, Reverendissime Pater . . .’ Oliverius introduces both his editing of the text and his commentary. On this preface see V‑017.
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a2v [List of 120 ancient authors referred to in the commentary.] ‘Quos . . . sum auctores imitatus . . . numero supra centum et uiginti omnes hic breuiter collecti'. Incipit: ‘Plinius de historia naturali, Plinus de uiris illustribus . . .’
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a3r Brutus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Oliverius Arzignanensis. Incipit: ‘[L]ectis litteris tuis, doctissime Oliueri, mecum coepi animo uolutare . . .’ See V‑019.
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a4r ‘Compendiosa Vita Valerii Maximi.’ Incipit: ‘Valerius Maximus ciuis Romanus patricio genere natus . . .’ expl: potest afferri.
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a4v [Table.] ‘Rubricae'. Incipit: ‘Primi libri. De seruata religione . . .’
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2a1r [Oliverius Arzignanensis: Commentary on Facta et dicta memorabilia.] Incipit: ‘ “[U]rbis Romae exterarumque gentium facta simul ac dicta memoratu digna . . .” [V. Max. 1. 1. 1] In hac praefatione Valerius seruat quod proprium est exordii . . .’ See V‑019.
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2a1r Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: ‘Prologus' [dedicating the work to] Tiberius Caesar. Edited by Oliverius Arzignanensis as stated in his preface. V. Max. Proem.
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2a1v Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: Facta et dicta memorabilia. ‘De cultu deorum'. Edited by Oliverius Arzignanensis as stated in his preface. V. Max.
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G4r ‘Registrum huius uoluminis'.
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Venice: Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis, 12 Aug. 1491. Folio.
- Collation:
- a4 2a–y Z & A–D8 E–F6 G4. Woodcut initials.
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: iv00039000
HC *15791;
Goff V‑39;
BMC V 412;
Pr 5114;
BSB‑Ink V‑21; CIBN V‑27; Oates 2009; Rhodes 1787; Sheppard 4105.
LCN: 14800537
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V-021(1)
Copy
Leaf a1 backed.
Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, rebacked. The title in gilt on the spine. Red-edged leaves.
Size: 312 × 215 × 42 mm.
Size of leaf: 298 × 199 mm.
A sixteenth-century hand supplies few corrections to the text of the ‘Vita', and sparse marginal notes, extracting key words from Oliverius' commentary. On the front pastedown the pencilled notes ‘qt/x' and £1. 1. 0.
Provenance: Inscription (of a religious institution?) erased.
Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1841), 39.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 2.19.
