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tih00087000
- Text-inc Id:
- tih00087000
- Bod-inc Id:
- H-053
- Headings:
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Herodianus
Historia de imperio post Marcum.
- Analysis of content:
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a1r [Title-page.]
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a1v Politianus, Angelus: [Introductory letter addressed to] Andreas Magnanimus. Incipit: ‘Efflagitari scribis istic ab iis qui libros excudunt formis Herodianum meum . . .’
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a2r Politianus, Angelus: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[C]um Romae abhinc triennium ferme in comitatu essem Florentinae legationis . . .’
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a3r Herodianus: Historia de imperio post Marcum. Translated by Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui res antiquas posteris prodiderunt uteremque(!) historiae memoriam . . . [I]mperator Marcus filias quidem suscepit complures mares autem duos . . .’
- Imprint:
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Bologna: Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, 30 Sept. 1493. 4°.
- Collation:
- a–h8.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ih00087000
HC *8468;
Goff H‑87;
BMC VI 834;
Pr 6581;
BSB‑Ink H‑119; CIBN H‑53; Oates 2486; Sheppard 5365-6.
LCN: 14509332
- Copies:
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H-053(1)
First copy
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; bound for the Bodleian Library c.1825; gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers.
Size: 215 × 147 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 136 mm.
‘Nota' marks in black ink.
Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823); sale (1824), pt 1, lot 1495.
Purchased for £2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1824), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.25.
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H-053(2)
Second copy
Binding: Parchment.
Size: 203 × 150 × 18 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 143 mm.
Irregular manuscript foliaton: 2–xv.
Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), II no. 2515; ‘2515' in black ink on the verso of the front endleaf; sale (1789), lot 7416; the annotated sale catalogue gives no name of purchaser, but a price of £0. 5. 6.
William Herbert (1718-1795); anonymous armorial book-plate: per pale, azure and gules, three lions rampant argent; crest, a wyvern holding in its mouth a sinister hand; not found in Herbert sales for 1795, 1796.
Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 126.
