tiv00041000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00041000

Bod-inc Id:

V-023

Headings:

Valerius Maximus, Gaius Facta et dicta memorabilia (comm. and ed. Oliverius Arzignanensis).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Valerius Maximus cum commento Oliuerii Arzignanensis Vicentini'.
2. a1v Brutus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Oliverius Arzignanensis. Incipit: ‘[L]ectis litteris tuis, doctissime Oliueri, mecum coepi animo uolutare . . .’ In this letter Brutus criticizes the commentary falsely ascribed to Leonicenus.
3. 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.
4. a3r [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 . . .’
5. a3r ‘Compendiosa Vita Valerii Maximi.’ Incipit: ‘Valerius Maximus ciuis Romanus patricio genere natus . . .’ expl: potest afferri.
6. a3v [Table.] ‘Rubricae'. Incipit: ‘Primi libri. De seruata religione . . .’
7. a4r [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.
8. a1r Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: ‘Prologus' [dedicating the work to] Tiberius Caesar. Edited by Oliverius Arzignanensis as stated in his preface. V. Max. Proem.
9. a1v Valerius Maximus, [Gaius]: Facta et dicta memorabilia. ‘De cultu deorum'. Edited by Oliverius Arzignanensis as stated in his preface. V. Max.
10. [rum]9r ‘Registrum Cartharum'.

Imprint:

Venice: [Philippus Pincius], 16 July 1494. Folio.

Collation:

a–z & [con]⁸ [rum]¹⁰. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00041000 HC Addenda *15793 (21 July); Goff V‑41; BMC V 496; Pr 5303; BSB‑Ink V‑23; Sheppard 4393. LCN: 14800533

Copies:

1. V-023(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [rum]10. Binding: Eighteenth-century calf, the spine gold-tooled. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Sprinkled red-edged leaves. Manuscript numbers ‘31' and ‘574'(?) on small square paper labels at head of spine. Size: 315 × 223 × 34 mm. Size of leaf: 310 × 205 mm. The number ‘1- 1- 6' in brown ink on torn stub of front endleaf. On a4r a five-line initial ‘U' is supplied in blue, on a ground of red pen-work, with extensions into the inner margin, the space within the body of the letter also filled with red pen-work. Paragraph marks and underlining are supplied in red; capital strokes in red; initials are coloured in red. Provenance: Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764); book-plate. Purchased for £0. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1792), where date given as 1484, 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.5.