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Baptista Mantuanus

Parthenice prima, sive Mariana.

 

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a1r [Title-page.]

a1v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter] addressed to Ludovicus Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. Incipit: ‘[F]rater Baptista Mantuanus Carmelita, Ludouico Fuscario ac Iohanni Baptistae Refrigerio viris integerrimis SPD. Libellum meum cui, quod Marie virginis historiam continet, Parthenice titulus . . .’

a3r Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Apologeticon' addressed to Ludovicus Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam fortasse complures rei (vt mos est) nouitate pellecti . . .’ See Coccia 138.

2a1r [Title-page.]

2a1v [Dedication to Ludovicus Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius.]

2a2r Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice prima. Incipit: ‘[S]ancta Palestine repetens exordia nymphae | Difficiles ortus et formidata profundo'. See Walther, Initia, 17209 and Coccia 142. Date of publication given as Bologna, 11 Feb. 1481, on h4r.

h4v Baptista Mantuanus: Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim accerimam. Incipit: ‘[A]d tua confugio supplex altaria uirgo | Et fero nocturnas in tua templa preces'. See Walther, Initia, 467 and Coccia 137.

h6v Baptista Mantuanus: Contra poetas impudice loquentes. Incipit: ‘[S]unt quibus eloquii datur aurea uena poetae | Sed cadit in sordes inficiturque luto'. See Walther, Initia, 18862 and Coccia 139.

Imprint

Imprint: [Paris]: Georg Wolf or Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, [c.1499]. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a^{10 2}a b–f⁸ g h¹⁰.

Illustrations: Woodcut on² a1v.

References

ISTC: ib00062000

GW: GW 3286 and 3286 (note);

Goff: Goff B‑62;

Proctor: not in Pr;

Others: Sheppard 6535.

LCN: 14123391

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