tib00494000

Text-inc Id:

tib00494000

Bod-inc Id:

B-230

Headings:

Beroaldus, Philippus Orationes et poemata.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Burellus. See B‑229.
3. a3r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter in verse, addressed to the readers.] Incipit: ‘Palladiae mentes, melior pars aetheris alti | Aspicite hec oculis aurea dona bonis'; 10 elegiac distichs. See B‑229.
4. a3v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Martinus ‘Boemus'. Incipit: ‘Collegi nuper oratiunculas nonnullas variis a me temporibus . . .’
5. a4v Beroaldus, Philippus: Orationes. [Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius.] Incipit: ‘Prudentis litterarum professoris officium est, viri prestantissimi . . .’
6. d8v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epigramma' addressed to Ludovicus Sforza. Incipit: ‘Hesperios inter ductores Inclyte princeps | Principe quo status hic sospite, sospes erit'; elegiac distichs. Poem located among ‘Orationes'.
7. e1r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus Chalcus. Incipit: ‘  “Opusculum de nuptiis Bentiuolorum”, quod nuper excucudi tibi . . .’
8. e1v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Nuptiae Bentiuolorum'. Incipit: ‘[G]entem Bentiuolorum multos iam annos Bononiae florentissimam . . .’
9. f1r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon' [addressed to the book.] Incipit: ‘Quo tuo(!) quo properas recens, libelle? | Extra limina cur cupis vagari?'; hendecasyllables. Poem located among ‘Orationes'.
10. f3v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to Minus Roscius.] Incipit: ‘[J]ohannes Boccatius homo in lingua vernacula disertissimus centum fabulosas . . .’ Letter located among ‘Orationes'.
11. f4r [Historia ex Boccatio conversa. Translated by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uo tempore Octauius Caesar nundum(!) cognominatus Augustus . . .’
12. g3v ‘Mythica hystoria'. [Translated by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘Cyprus insula est quondam nouem regnorum sedes . . .’ Located among the ‘Orationes'.
13. h1v Beroaldus, Philippus: Poemata. [Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius.] Incipit: ‘Qualia lasciuo dedit oscula saepe tonanti | Dardanius Phrygia raptus ab arce puer'; elegiac distichs. Se B‑228.
14. h8v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[S]uperrime(!) cum feriatus essem, vir prestantissime . . . Letter located among ‘Poemata'.
15. k6v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Epiramma(!) Ascensii ad lectores'. Incipit: ‘Nunc Beroaldus studiosi quaerite merces | Lugdunum appulsas dexteritate noua'; 4 elegiac distichs. See B‑229.

Imprint:

Paris: [Michel Tholoze, for] Denis Roce (or Jean Du Pré), 12 Oct. 1499. 4°.

Collation:

a–h⁸ i k⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00494000 GW 4147; HC *2954; Goff B‑494; BMC VIII 209; Pr 8402; BSB‑Ink B‑383; Hillard 366; Oates 3164-6; Renouard, Badius, II 161; Sheppard 6519. LCN: 14005753

Copies:

1. B-230(1) Copy Binding: English twentieth-century diced brown morocco, with gold-tooled centre-piece and gilt-edged leaves. Size: 203 × 140 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 197 × 130 mm. A marginal note on i3v in a contemporary hand: ‘Murena the fish - called the lamprey'. On k6r in a contemporary hand: ‘[ ]a [ ] cutle[fish?].’ Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912); book-plate; pencil inscription ‘G D Aug. 1902'; see Jenkinson (1923), 71, no. 1193. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased by Bywater at Dunn sale, Feb. 1914, lot 832; Elenchus, no. 622b. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 7.20.