tip00421000

Text-inc Id:

tip00421000

Bod-inc Id:

P-176

Headings:

Petrobonus Alexandrinus, Hieronymus Bentivola.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r Petrobonus Alexandrinus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bentivolus II. ‘Hieronymus Alexandrinus Petrobonus Caesarei ac Pontificii iuris scolasticus illustrissimo patriae patri Iohanni Bentivolo secundo s.d. plurimam.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ummi phylosophi, excellentissime princeps, qui rerum omnium et actuum naturam ...’ A2v Explicit: ‘... altiori stilo decantaberis. Vale, et me tuorum mancipiorum ascribas numero.’
2. A3r Petrobonus Alexandrinus, Hieronymus: Bentivola. ‘Hieronymi Alexandrini Petroboni Caesari iuris ac Pontificii scolastici Bentivola foeliciter incipit.’ Incipit: [C]ara uerecundo folianos pectore musa | I pete et ingenti fusa rubore genas ... C4v Explicit: ‘... Perpetua hanc serram Iupiter auctet ope. [distichs]’
3. C4v Colophon: ‘Bentivolae opus finit, impressioni datum anno M.cccclxxxxiiii. quintodecimo callendas Iulias.’

Imprint:

[Bologna Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis] 17 June 1494. 4°. Secundo folio: A2r toris insistit. Qui saluberrimam animi moderatio

Collation:

A B⁸ C⁴. Type: 112 R. Capital spaces with guide-letters. 20 leaves. 25 lines (A2r). Type area: 140 ×88 mm (A2r).

References:

Source: Bodleian; Venezia N ISTC: ip00421000 H *12840; Goff P‑421; Pr 6601; BSB‑Ink P‑291; CIBN P‑198; Pellechet MS. 9313 (9137); Sheppard 5346. LCN: 14488490

Copies:

1. P-176(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) quarter calf with paper boards covered with red cloth; gold-tooled spine. Size: 206 × 150 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 200 × 142 mm. Note in a sixteenth-century(?) hand on a piece of parchment now pasted onto the front pastedown; formerly part of a legal document, with the scar of a seal and the slit for its attachment, also the name ‘Caspar Pfister L[ ] 50^lb.' The printed text is preceded by 8 leaves containing the following Latin verses in manuscript in black ink with red initials, in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century humanist hand:
   (1) ‘Hilarionis monachi poema ad eruditissimum virum Matthaeum Bossium Veronensem canonicum regularem', with incipit, ‘Matthæe æonidum princeps et gloria Phoebi | Salue iam summis annumerande viris' [14 lines]; (2) ‘Egloga in natalem Christi. Corydon, Tityrus, Meliboeus pastores tres', with incipit, ‘Forte dies sollemnis erat qua rustica multo | Fessa labore manus requiem captabat in vmbra' [92 lines]; (3) ‘Ad eundem', with incipit, ‘Inclyta prodigium celi regina quod egit | Hunc nostre cecine pater Matthee camoene' [7 lines]; (4) ‘Carmen de quodam Virginis Marie prodigio', with incipit, ‘Confingunt alii lasciua poemata vates | Bella canunt alii reserataque limina iani' [172 lines]; the verses are followed by a further concluding verse in the same hand in red ink, with incipit, ‘Si quid habes plausum uel quid mereatur honorem | Sit summi totus omnipotentis honos' [4 lines]. Provenance: Legnago, Verona, S. Maria Gratiarum, Dominicans; see heavily erased inscription on the recto of the first front endleaf, partly visible under ultraviolet light: ‘Iste libellus est sancte Marie de gratiis de memoria [ ] ad usum o[rdinis?] [?] Lenaciensis.' Heavily cancelled note or inscription on the verso of the last front endleaf; unread under ultraviolet light. Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); sale, 1 Aug. 1859, lot 2014. Purchased for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 68. SHELFMARK: Auct. S 7.3.