tie00118000

Text-inc Id:

tie00118000

Bod-inc Id:

E-047

Headings:

Eusebius Caesariensis De evangelica praeparatione.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Georgius Trapezuntius: Preface addressed to Nicolaus V, Pont. Max.] Collectanea Trapezuntiana, 291-3, no. 91.
2. [a1v] [Eusebius Caesariensis: De evangelica praeparatione. Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uum quid sit Christianismus nescientibus aperire statuerim . . .’ Explicit: magno risu omnium explosi sunt
3. [o10r] Cornazanus, Antonius: ‘In laudem artificis epigramma'. Incipit: ‘Artis hic et fidei splendet mirabile numen | Quod fama auctores auget honore deos'; 4 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1470. Folio.

Collation:

[a–f¹⁰ g¹² h–o¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ie00118000 GW 9440; H *6699 = 6701; Goff E‑118; BMC V 167; Pr 4066; BSB‑Ink E‑115; Essling 71; Collectanea Trapezuntiana, 722 no. 1; Sack, Freiburg, 1380; Sheppard 3238. LCN: 14864575

Copies:

1. E-047(1) Copy Binding: Gold-tooled russia; bound, by C. Kalthoeber (ticket on verso of front endleaf), for the Bodleian Library; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. The upper cover detached. Size: 354 × 250 × 34 mm. Size of leaf: 340 × 218 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations. Initials are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Probably Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), I, no. 369; sale (1789), lot 5281, marked down at £0. 11. 0. Probably bought in by James Edwards, the auctioneer; and bought by the Bodleian from his Catalogue of a Select Collection of Ancient and Modern Books (London, 1780), no. 23, priced at £3. 3. 0. Purchased for £3. 3. 0: see Books Purchased (1790), 2. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 3.15. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 2.1.