Bod-Inc: A-212
Almeida, Ferdinandus de
Oratio ad Alexandrum VI.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Almeida, Ferdinandus de: [Introductory letter to] John II, King of Portugal. ‘Ioanni secundo Portugallie regi invictissimo ac pientissimo Ferd. de Almeida electus septin. dicatissima sue maiestatis creatura perpet. foelicitatem.’ Incipit: ‘[M]agnum et mee omnino professioni inusitatum munus illudque ornatissumum . . .’ [a1v] Explicit: ‘... ac te, invictissime rex, apostolice sedis filium obsequentissimum commendarunt.’
[a2r] Almeida, Ferdinandus de: Oratio ad Alexandrum VI. ‘Ad Alexandrum vi. pont. max. Ferd. de Almeida electi ecclesie Septin. et sereniss. Io. II regis Portugallie oratoris Oratio.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ocratem sapientissimum illum hominem (si homo ille applandus (!) est qui universe philosophie parens omnium philosophorum deus atque mentis diuine interpres ac nuncius habitus) . . .’ [a4v] Explicit: ‘... cui sit omnis laus, honor, virtus, et potestas per immensa seculorum secula. | Dixi.’
Imprint
Imprint: [Rome Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer 1493?] 4°.
Secundo folio: mio legatos quanto potuit apparatu, ad tuam desti [a3r]
Remarks: BSB dates [after 19 July 1493], following Accurti I 121 no. 1553, this being the date of Almeida's election as Bishop of Ceuta.
Collation
Collation: [a4].
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ia00523000
GW: GW 1553;
Hain: H *863;
Goff: Goff A‑523;
Proctor: Pr 3986;
Others: Accurti I 121 no. 1553; BSB‑Ink A‑431; CIBN A‑272; Sheppard 3165.
LCN: 14424954
Copies
Copy number: A-212(1)
Boxed with:
1. Leonellus Chieregatus, Oratio in funere Innocentii VIII. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 28 July 1492] (C‑185(3));
2. Franciscus de Toleto, Oratio in funere Leonardi de Robore. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1483-93] (F‑103);
3. Andreas Brentius, In Pentecosten oratio. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 18 May 1483] (B‑523);
4. Johannes Lucidus Cataneus, Oratio ad Alexandrum VI. [Rome: Andreas Freitag, after 5 Nov. 1492] (C‑117);
5. Johannes de Dalberg, Gratulatio Innocentio VIII dicta. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 6 July 1485] (D‑002(2));
6. Leonellus Chieregatus, Sermo in publicatione confoederationis inter Innocentium VIII et Venetos. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 2 Feb. 1487] (C‑180(1));
7. Bernardinus Carvajal, Oratio in die Circumcisionis habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 1 Jan. 1484]. This copy is now in the British Library by exchange; see BMC IV 83;
8. Bernardinus Carvajal, Oratio in die Circumcisionis habita, 1484. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1488-90] (C‑095);
9. Philippus Chevrerius, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 4 Feb. 1485] (C‑178);
10. Ambrosius de Cora, Oratio de conceptione Virginis. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1481-7] (C‑441(1));
11a. Ambrosius de Cora, Oratio de conceptione Virginis. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1481-7] (C‑441(2)) [bound with 12a];
11b. Hermolaus Barbarus, Oratio ad Fridericum III et Maximilianum I. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, not before the end of Aug. 1486] (B‑050(2));
12a. Alexander Cortesius, Oratio habita in Aede D. Petri in Epiphania [6 Jan. 1483]. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 25 Jan. 1483] (C‑465) [bound with 11a];
12b. Johannes de Dalberg, Gratulatio Innocentio VIII dicta. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 6 July 1485] (D‑001(1));
13. Leonellus Chieregatus, Propositio coram Carolo VIII facta. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 20 Jan. 1488] (C‑182);
14. Leonellus Chieregatus, Oratio in funere Innocentii VIII. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 28 July 1492] (C‑184);
15. Rodericus de Sancta Ella, Oratio in die Parasceue anno 1477. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, 1481-7] (F‑017(1));
16. Thomas ex Capitaneis, de Colleonibus, Oratio in die Omnium Sanctorum habita, 1483. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 1 Nov. 1483] (C‑058(2));
17. Nicolaus Maria de Este, Oratio pro Hercule Estensi, Ferrariae duce, ad Alexandrum VI. Rome: Andreas Freitag, [after?] 5 Jan. 1493 (E‑032);
18. Sebastianus Baduarius, Oratio ad Alexandrum VI in praestanda Venetorum obedientia. [Rome: Andreas Freitag, after 17 Dec. 1492] (B‑003);
19. Franciscus de Toleto, Oratio in funere Leonardi de Robore. [Rome]: Ulrich Han, [after 11 Nov. 1475] (F‑102);
20. Antonius Galeazius Bentivolus, Oratio ad Alexandrum VI nomine Bononiensium habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, not before Sept. 1492] (B‑151);
22. Hermolaus Barbarus, Oratio ad Fridericum III Imperatorem et Maximilianum I Regem Romanorum. [Venice: Antonius de Strata, end of Aug. 1486] (B‑049);
23. Petrus Antonius Viterbiensis, Oratio ad ducem et senatum Venetum. Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus and Paganinus de Paganinis, 1486 (P‑181);
24. Cassandra Fidelis, Oratio pro Bertucio Lamberto, etc. [Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, after 22 Nov. 1489] (F‑055);
25. Hermolaus Barbarus, Oratio ad Fridericum III Imperatorem et Maximilianum I Regem Romanorum. [Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, after 2 Apr. 1490] (B‑051);
26. Petrus Cara, Oratio ad Maximilianum Caesarem. Lyons: Nicolaus de Benedictis and Jacobinus Suigus de Suico, [after 13 Sept. 1496] (C‑059).
Binding: Nineteenth-century paper wrappers for Kloß.
Size: 207 × 141 × 2 mm.
Size of leaf: 207 × 141 mm.
Manuscript pagination 37-44.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 2768, one of the ‘Orationes variae'. Purchased for £7. 17. 6; see Books Purchased (1835), 20.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.1(21).
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