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tib01043000

Text-inc Id:
tib01043000
Bod-inc Id:
B-487
Headings:
Bossus, Matthaeus De instituendo sapientia animo.
Analysis of content:
  1. [a2r] Bossus, Matthaeus: [Letter addressed to] Severinus Chalcus. Incipit: ‘[M]ecum, mi Seuerine, saepe percogitans . . .’ See Giovanni Soranzo, L'umanista canonico regolare Lateranense Matteo Bosso di Verona (1427-1502). I suoi scritti e il suo Epistolario (Padua, 1965), 254 (dated 19 Sept. 1493). Dated Verona, 19 Sept. 1495.
  2. [a4v] [Note addressed to the reader.]
  3. A1r Bossus, Matthaeus: De instituendo sapientia animo. ‘Argumentum'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus incipit liber, in quo describitur . . .’ See Soranzo, Bosso, 55-8.
  4. Q2v [Note on errata to the reader.]
  5. Q3r Aldegatus, Marcus Antonius: ‘Ad lectorem epigramma'. Incipit: ‘Illustret quae uere animum sapientia nostrum'; 6 elegiac distichs.
Imprint:
Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 6 Nov. 1495. 4°.
Collation:
[a4] A–I8 k8 L–P8 Q4.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01043000 GW 4954; HC 3675 = *3677; Goff B‑1043; BMC VI 828; Pr 6609; BSB‑Ink B‑759; CIBN B‑731; Hillard 474; Sack, Freiburg, 789; Sheppard 5354. LCN: 13911289
Copies:
  1. B-487(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillets form a border; gilt floral tool in corners; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 202 × 144 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 132 mm. Early marginal notes in at least two different hands. Provenance: William Garbut (fl. 1588/9); on [a1r] a faded inscription: ‘Guilielmus Garbut'. Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725); sale (22 Nov. 1727), lot 270. Date of acquisition unknown; probably acquired after 1738 but before 1835; not in Fysher, Catalogus but in Catalogus (1843), 305. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.21.