tib00699000

Text-inc Id:

tib00699000

Bod-inc Id:

B-355

Headings:

Blondus, Flavius Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Blondus, Flavius: Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades. Incipit:`[R]omanorum imperii originem incrementaque cognoscere . . .’
2. I8r [Colophon.]
3. I8r Campanus, [Johannes Antonius: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Blonde, pio uiuo moreris nil morte dolendum est | Tu famae, domui consulit ille tuae'; 2 elegiac distichs.
4. I8r [Campanus, Johannes Antonius: Verse dedicated to Pius II, Pont. Max.] Incipit: ‘Romam instauratam cœpit conscribere Blondus | Multa illum instaurans contulit Eugenius'; 3 elegiac distichs.
5. I8r [Campanus, Johannes Antonius]: ‘Epitaphium'. Incipit: ‘Hic situs est Blondus Priami cui forma, Catonis | Vita, Titi Liuii fama decusque fuit'; 2 elegiac distichs.
6. AA1r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Abbreviationes supra Decades Blondi. Incipit: ‘[F]uit autem in urbe Constantinopoli Romanum imperium magna cum gloria . . .’ Aeneas Silvius, Opera quae extant omnia (Basel, 1571), 144-281.

Imprint:

Venice: Thomas de Blavis de Alexandria, 28 June 1484. Folio.

Collation:

a–g⁸ h¹⁰ i–u⁸ x¹⁰ A⁸ B¹⁴ C–I AA–EE⁸ FF¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00699000 GW 4420 (Blondus only); HC *3249; Goff B‑699; BMC V 317; Pr 4758; BSB‑Ink B‑552; Oates 1875; Sheppard 3815.

Copies:

1. B-355(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1. Binding: Contemporary English blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two clasps lost. Formerly chained; staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover. On both covers triple fillets form a frame, in which is a triangular floral stamp; triple fillets form an intersecting double frame; in the frame a rectangular floral stamp; the inner rectangle is divided by triple fillets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments with triangular and lozenge-shaped floral stamps; circular rosette on spine; see Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xviii, nos 182, 184, 189, 190: ‘Fruit and Flower Binder'. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 325 × 215 × 60 mm. Size of leaf: 303 × 208 mm. Endleaves and pastedowns from Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquitates romanae, Treviso: B. Celerius, 25 Feb. 1480, books 9-10; see D‑096(3); partly covered by fragment of a fifteenth-century manuscript of terminist logic. Author and title in an early hand on fore-edge. Early marginal notes in books I–V of the Abbreviatio. Provenance: Thomas Herrison (seventeenth century?); signature on a2r. John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18. Presented in 1659. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: B 1.11 Art. Seld.; Auct. N 1.11. SHELFMARK: S. Seld. c.1.