Bod-Inc: A-502
Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis
Dialogus in defensionem poetices.
Analysis of Content
Subject: rhetoric
[a1r] [Title-page] ‘Dialogus in defensionem poetices.’
[a1v] Augustinus [Käsebrod] Moravus Olomucensis: [Epigram to his work] ‘Ad libellum.’ Incipit: I liber et nitidas celerem te confer ad arces | Presulis et docti principis ante fores ... Explicit: ‘... Presulis, et docti principis ante fores. [14 elegiac distichs]’ Augustinus Olomucensis, Dialogus in defensionem poetices, ed. K. Svoboda, Sbírka pramenů k poznání literárního života ҫeskoslovenského, 2/29 (Prague, 1948), 11.
[a2r] Augustinus [Käsebrod] Moravus Olomucensis: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Roth, Bishop of Wrocław. ‘Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis r.d. Ioanni episcopo Vratislaviensi s.p. dicit.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on inutilem a maioribus nostri consuetudinem observatam invenio ...’ [a3r] Explicit: ‘... Vale, presul doctissime. Ex gymnasio Patavino, idibus Novembribus.’ Augustinus Olomucensis, Dialogus, ed. Svoboda, 12-14. Dated Padua, 13 Nov. [1492].
[a3r] Augustinus Käsebrod Moravus Olomucensis: Dialogus in defensionem poetices. ‘Laelius Augustinus Bassareus interlocutores.’ Incipit: ‘LAE. Salve Augustine. AV. Hem quamexoptate qui mihi seculum abfuisse videbare ...’ c3r Explicit: ‘... LAE. Indeque festivis iungamur nos quoque pratis. Lusibus ingenuis. | Finis.’ Augustinus Olomucensis, Dialogus, ed. Svoboda, 15-40.
c3v Augustinus [Käsebrod] Moravus Olomucensis: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Stiborius. Incipit: ‘Non me latet, Andrea Stibori amice beneficentissime, complures futuros, qui presens hoc metum consilium ...’ c4v Explicit: ‘... studiorum nostrorum tyrocinio exegimus, meliora in dies augurato. Vale.’ [Dated Padua, 19 Nov. 1492].
c4v Colophon: ‘Impressione complectum anno salutis M.cccc.lxxxx.iii., calen. ix. Aprilis, in ora Divi Pantaleonis Venetiis. | Laus bonorum et gloria Deo Christo altitonanti.’
[d1r] [Errata corrige] ‘Annotantur mende librarii negligentia commisse per singulas chartas.’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: [Paul Fridenperger], 24 Mar. 1493. 4°.
Secundo folio: [a4r] recta transmittitur. AV. Optime. LAB. Hoc mihi preter cete-
Remarks: BMC assigns doubtfully to [Bernardinus Benalius]. GW assigns to [Fridenperger].
Collation
Collation: [a4] b8 c4 [d2].
Remarks: Space left blank for initial, without printed guide letter (a2r).
Illustrations: Woodcut initial (a3r).
References
ISTC: ia01371000
GW: GW 3057;
Hain: HC *11613; C 4361;
Goff: Goff A‑1371;
BMC: BMC V 378;
Proctor: Pr 5667;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑847; Oates 1926; Sack, Freiburg, 337; Sheppard 4570-1.
LCN: 13956518
Copies
Copy number: A-502(1)
Variants of setting on [d1r].
Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards for Kloß.
Size: 223 × 156 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 216 × 145 mm.
Number ‘III' on title-page.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 369. Purchased for £0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.48.
Copy number: A-502(2)
Wanting the blank leaf [d2].
Variants of setting on [d1r].
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter morocco.
Size: 216 × 153 × 6 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 144 mm.
Early marginal annotations.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1917); Elenchus, no. 533. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. K 5.23.
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