[*1v] Laurinus, Bernardinus: [Letter addressed to] Nicolaus Corigiensis [i.e. da Correggio]. ‘Bernardinus Laurinus Brixianus illustri ac excelenti domino Nicolao Corigiensi moecenati suo obseruandissimo. S. P. D.’ Incipit: ‘Maiores nostri cum sapienter tum utiliter posteris consuluerunt . . .’
[*2r] Laurinus, Bernardinus: [Epigram.] ‘Eiusdem epigramma in eundem.’ Incipit: ‘Quamuis dira studet claros probitate potentes | Sors agitare, tamen non habet unde premat'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a1r Homerus: Ilias. ‘Homeri poetarum supremi Ilias per Laurentium Vallensem in latinum sermonem traducta foeliciter incipit.’ Translated by Laurentius Valla; see H‑141. Incipit: ‘[S]cripturus ego quantam exercitibus Graiis cladem excitauerit Achillis furens indignatio . . .’
Imprint:
Brescia: Baptista Farfengus, for Franciscus Laurinus, 6 Sept. 1497. Folio.
Collation:
[*2] a b8 c–o6.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ih00312000
H *8775;
Goff H‑312;
BMC VII 986;
BSB‑Ink H‑320; CIBN H‑177; Rhodes 929; not in Sheppard.
LCN: 11409433
Copies:
H-142(1)
Copy
Bound with: 2. Homerus, Odyssey. Strasbourg: Johann Schott, May 1510.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half blue morocco.
Size: 320 × 225 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 314 × 214 mm.
A few marginal notes, extracting key words, and pointing hands in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand. ‘3041' in an eighteenth-century hand, in the upper right-hand corner of [*1r].
Provenance: Thomas Howard (1586-1646), 2nd Earl of Arundel.
Henry Howard (1628-84), 6th Duke of Norfolk.
London, Royal Society; see Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society (London, 1825), 280; stamp on [*1r]: ‘Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis'.
Part of the collection was sold by the Society to Bernard Quaritch in 1873.
Frederick Warburton Dunston (1850-1915); he bought the volume from B.H. Blackwell, Ltd in 1903.
Emma Frederica Isabella Dunston (1886-1983).
Bequeathed by Emma Dunston; book-label.
SHELFMARK: Dunston A 2(1).
