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Baptista Mantuanus

Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria, et al.

 

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A1r [Title-page.]

A1v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[B]eatissime virginis et martyris Katharine vitam nuper Rome . . .’

A2r [Baptista Mantuanus(?)]: ‘Argumentum'. Incipit: ‘Catharina virgo Egyptia, Alexandrie nata . . .’

A2v Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda, [dedicated to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[C]ostidis aggressi pugnam tormenta rotasque | Atque triumphato nutricia bella tyranno'. See Walther, Initia, 3392a and Coccia 143.

G6r [Colophon.]

G6v Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘Carmen', [addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘[I]nuide quod tantum iuuat excandescere, lector | Et Rhodiis linguax ponere sacra focis'; 11 elegiac distichs.

H1r Baptista Mantuanus: In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum carmen, dedicated to Ludovicus Gonzales Hispanus. Incipit: ‘[S]emideum ueteres insignia facta poete | Meoniis usi fidibus grandique cothurno'. See Coccia 141.

K2v Baptista Mantuanus: Somnium Romanum dedicated to Andreas Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘[M]axime iustitie cultor, qui clara parentum | Facta nouis uite meritis et honoribus auges'. See Coccia 144.

M5r Baptista Mantuanus: Epigrammata ad Falconem. Incipit: ‘[D]ebeo (sed cure prohibent) tibi carmina, Falco | Aegraque mens uariis sollicitudinibus'. See Coccia 141.

P5r Baptista Mantuanus: In divum Albertum Carmelitam carmen. Incipit: ‘[M]ensis Augusti redeunt honores | Fulget auleis paries et are'. See Coccia 141.

P8r Baptista Mantuanus: De vita divi Ludovici Morbioli, dedicated to Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[M]axime pontificum triplicem qui fronte coronam | Et duo sacrata qui geris arma manu'. See Walther, Initia, 10810a and Coccia 142.

R2v Baptista Mantuanus: De contemnenda morte dedicated to Jason Castellus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid meres fatumque times, oblita tui mens? | Stulta, quid hoc tantum debile corpus amas'. See Coccia 140.

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: [Georg Wolf and Johann Philippi, for] E., J. and G. de Marnef, and Jean Petit, 1497. 4°.

Collation

Collation: A–C⁸ D–G⁶ H I⁸ K–N⁶ O–Q⁸ R⁶.

References

ISTC: ib00068000

GW: GW 3294;

Hain: C 838;

Goff: Goff B‑68;

BMC: BMC VIII 149;

Proctor: Pr 8240;

Others: Sheppard 6378.

LCN: 14123339

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