Shelfmark
Fe.8.23
Author
Title
Operum cl. v. Nicodemi Frischlini Balingensis, d. oratoris et poetæ ... pars paraphrastica: qua continentur, P. Virgilii Maronis: Bucolica, ex Plauto & Terentio: Georgica, ex Catone, Varrone, Columella, & Plino: Æneidos libri duo priores, ex Liuio, Cæsare & Cicerone. Q. item Horatii Flacci Venusini, Episolarum libri duo: tum a A Persii Flacci Volaterrani, Satyræ sex: erudita et eleganti, maximeque perspicua paraphrasi quæ lectoribus vice commentarij esse poterit luculenter expositæ & enucleata. Liber non tàm scholis, quàm academijs, longè vtilissimus.
Varying form of title
Operum Nicodemi Frischlini Balingensis
Varying form of title
Opervm cl. v. Nicodemi Frischlini Balingensis
Publication, distribution, etc.
Francofurti ad Moenum, : Typis & sumptibus Iohannis Spiessij & Hæredum Romani Beati., M D CII. [1602]
Physical description
3 pts. in 1 v. (376; 181, [3]; 414, [2] p.. [1] folded leaf of plates) : ill. (geneal. table) ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
The second and third parts have separate, dated title-pages reading ""P. Virgilii Maronis Æneidos libri duo, priores, ... paraphrasi, expositi à ... Nicodemo Frischlino ..." and "Nicodemi Frischlini cum in Q. Horatii Flacci Venusini Epistolarum libros duo: tum A. Persii Flacci Volaterrani Satyras sex ... praphrases; ..." respectively; pagination and register also separate.
Note
Also includes two other works by Frischlin (p. 320 ad fin.): "Oratio de exercitationibus oratoriis et poeticis ad imitationem veterum, recté vtiliterq[ue] instituendis: ..." and "Carmen pangyricum de quinque Saxoniæ ducibus ...".
Note
Final leaf in pts. 2 and 3 blank.
Note
Colophon reads: Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum apud Iohannem Spies. M.D.XCVI.
Note
Folded letterpress genealogical table inserted in pt. 3 to face p. 376.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed side-notes.
Provenance
Ms. ownership inscription on front flyleaf "Alberti Mortonij liber vsurarius.", possibly Sir Albertus Morton (1584?-1625), kinsman of Sir Henry Wotton, at Eton 1596-1602, or his nephew Albert Morton, at Eton 1634-39. See ODNB s.v. Morton, Sir Albertus, and Sterry, Eton College Register, p. 238-9.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso.
Binding
Contemporary limp vellum laced case binding laced at head and tail and four sewing supports; yapp edges; 18th-century black morocco spine-label over earlier ms. spine-title; traces of two pairs of ties; red text block edges.
Copy-specific note
Previously Cb.7.06.
Added entry--name
Spiess, Johann, active 1571 - 1610 printer.
Added entry--name
Morton, Albert. former owner.
Added entry--name
Haeredes Romani Beati printer.
Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt am Main.
Identifier
B32359