Copy number: B-050(1)

Bound with:
1. Johannes Antonius Campanus, Oratio in conventu Ratisponensi anno 1471 habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1487] (C‑038);
2. Ludovicus Imolensis, Oratio in die Stephani habita. [Rome: Georgius Teutonicus (Lauer?) and Sixtus Riessinger, c.1483] (L‑198(1));
3. Stephanus Tegliatius, Sermo contra Turcorum persecutionem. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 27 Dec. ‘1481' i.e. 1480] (T‑017);
4. [Removed as a duplicate and exchanged with the British Museum, 1913: note by F[alconer] M[adan] on endleaf];
5. Thomas ex Capitaneis, de Colleonibus, Oratio in die Omnium Sanctorum habita, 1483. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 1 Nov. 1483] (C‑057);
6. Bernardinus Carvajal, Oratio in die Circumcisionis habita, 1484. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 1 Jan. 1484] (C‑094);
7. Ludovicus Donatus, Oratio pro S. Augustini solemnitate habita. [Rome: Johannes Schoemberger, after 28 Aug. 1482?] (D‑156);
8. Lippus Aurelius Brandolinus, Oratio pro S. Thoma Aquinate. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1485-90] (B‑503);
9. Andreoccius de Ghinucciis, Oratio pro Senensibus ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Johannes Schoemberger, after 30 Oct. 1484] (G‑157A(2));
10. Antonius Lollius, Oratio Circumcisionis dominicae coram Innocentio VIII habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 1 Jan. 1485] (L‑140(1));
11. [Removed as a duplicate and exchanged with the British Museum, 1913: note by F[alconer] M[adan] on endleaf];
12. [Removed as a duplicate and exchanged with the British Museum, 1913: note by F[alconer] M[adan] on endleaf];
13. Antonius Lollius, Oratio Passionis dominicae coram Innocentio VIII habita contra Judaeorum perfidiam. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 24 Mar. 1486] (L‑143(2));
14. Guilelmus Bodivit, Sermo habitus in die Trinitatis, 1485. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 29 May 1485] (B‑381(1));
15. Hieronymus Scoptius, Oratio de trinitate. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 14 June 1489] (S‑116(1));
16. Ludovicus Imolensis, Oratio de nomine Iesu. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 1492] (L‑196);
18. Antonius Geraldinus, Oratio in obsequio nomine Ferdinandi et Elisabeth Innocentio VIII exhibito, 19 Sept. 1486. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, before 1488] (G‑075(2));
19. Helias de Bourdeille, Contra pragmaticam Gallorum sanctionem. Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1486 (B‑494);
20. Marianus de Genazano, Oratio coram Innocentio VIII dominica tertia adventus habita. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 19 Dec. 1487] (G‑062(2));
21. Petrus Marsus, Panegyricus in memoriam S. Johannis Evangelistae. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 27 Dec. 1484] (M‑109(2));
22. Leonellus Chieregatus, Propositio coram Henrico VII facta. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 29 Mar. 1490] (C‑183(1));
23. Stephanus Thegliatius, Oratio de passione Domini. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 20 Apr. 1492] (T‑016(1));
24. Leonellus Chieregatus, Oratio in funere Innocentii VIII. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 28 July 1492] (C‑185(1));
25. Bernardinus Carvajal, Oratio de eligendo summo pontifice, ed. Johannes Valesius. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 6 Aug. 1492] (C‑096).

Binding: Netherlandish(?) parchment.

Size: 203 × 145 × 35 mm.

Size of leaf: 198 × 132 mm.

Manuscript table of contents on the front endleaf in a seventeenth-century(?) hand.

Provenance: Avila, Jesuits; cancelled inscription on pastedown: ‘Collegii Albicellensis'. Michael Vosmer (sixteenth century); signature on [a2r] of item 18: ‘Michaelis Vosmeri'. Cornelius Vosmer (seventeenth century); name on front pastedown. Given its former shelfmark, possibly acquired between 1650 and 1668 (see G. W. Wheeler, ‘Bodleian Press-marks in Relation to Classification', BQR 1 (1914), 288), but not found in Hyde, Catalogus (1674) or Fysher, Catalogus; in Catalogus (1843), I 181, with the former shelfmark crossed out and the present one inserted instead. See, however, bill from Albert Cohn, 9 Apr. 1886, referring to Catalogue 175 no. 506: ‘(Roma) Orationes. 25 pieces. 4°', purchased for 25 Marks; the list on the front endleaf indicates 25 items.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4° E14 Th. BS.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.68(17).

Copy number: B-050(2)

Boxed with A‑212; see there for details of binding and provenance.

Size of leaf: 194 × 133 mm.

Early marginal notes and underlining in black ink.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.1(11b).

Copy number: B-050(3)

Bound with:
1. Pius II, Pont. Max., Oratio coram Calixto III de obedientia Friderici III. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, 1488-90] (P‑332);
2. Johannes Antonius Campanus, Oratio in conventu Ratisponensi anno 1471 habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1488-90] (C‑039);
3. Nicolaus vel Cola Montanus, Oratio ad Lucenses. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, not after 1492] (M‑312(2));
4. Bernardus Justinianus, Oratio habita apud Sixtum IV contra Turcos. [Rome: Johannes Gensberg, c.1474] (J‑285(1));
5. Franciscus Patritius, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 29 Dec. 1484] (P‑040);
6. Vasco Fernandes, Oratio de obedientia ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Andreas Freitag, after 9 Dec. 1485] (F‑016);
7. Robertus Guiba, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII in obedientia praestanda. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 10 June 1485] (G‑271);
8. Robertus Guiba, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII in obedientia praestanda. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 10 June 1485] (G‑269);
9. Johannes de Targowissko, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 26 May 1486] (T‑011);
10. Titus Vespasianus Strozza, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 28 June 1485] (S‑331(1));
11. Titus Vespasianus Strozza, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 28 June 1485] (S‑330(1));
12. Bartholomaeus Scala, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 15 Dec. 1484] (S‑105);
13. Andreoccius de Ghinucciis, Oratio pro Senensibus ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Johannes Schoemberger, after 30 Oct. 1484] (G‑157A(1));
14. Jacobus de Moretis, Oratio in laudem suae religionis. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1483-7] (M‑324);
15. Petrus Cadratus, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII habita, 11 Feb. 1485. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 11 Feb. 1485] (C‑002);
15A. Guilelmus Caorsin, Ad Innocentium papam VIII oratio. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 28 Jan. 1485] (C‑052);
16. Hector Fliscus, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 27 Apr. 1485] (F‑065(2));
17. Hector Fliscus, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. Titus Veltrius, Disticha ad Fliscam domum. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 27 Apr. 1485] (F‑066(1));
18. Johannes Franciscus Marlianus, Oratio habita apud Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 29 June 1485] (M‑099(1));
19. Johannes de Dalberg, Gratulatio Innocentio VIII dicta. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 6 July 1485] (D‑002(1));
20. Johannes de Dalberg, Gratulatio Innocentio VIII dicta. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 6 July 1485] (D‑001(2));
22. Antonius Geraldinus, Oratio in obsequio nomine Ferdinandi et Elisabeth Innocentio VIII exhibito, 19 Sept. 1486. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, before 1488] (G‑075(1));
23. Leonellus Chieregatus, Sermo in publicatione confoederationis inter Innocentium VIII et Venetos. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 2 Feb. 1487] (C‑180(2));
24. Leonellus Chieregatus, Propositio coram Henrico VII facta. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 29 Mar. 1490] (C‑183(2));
25. Petrus de Vicentia, Oratio pro capessenda expeditione contra infideles. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 25 Mar. 1490] (P‑217(2));
26. Stephanus Thegliatius, Oratio de passione Domini. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 20 Apr. 1492] (T‑016(2));
27. Leonellus Chieregatus, Oratio in funere Innocentii VIII. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 28 July 1492] (C‑185(2)).

The volume formerly contained a copy of Christopher Columbus, Epistola de insulis nuper inventis [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 29 April 1493] (GW 7173); see manuscript list of contents on front endleaves, no. 29. It was removed and sold separately at the Sykes sale, as lot 234; see pencil note below list of contents.

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf. On both covers double fillets form a frame and an inner rectangular compartment, both of which are undecorated. Rebacked and with new corners.

Size: 210 × 148 × 42 mm.

Size of leaf: 201 × 131 mm.

Manuscript list of contents on front endleaves(?) in an eighteenth-century hand.

Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823); sale (1824), lot 230, purchased by Heber for £6. 12. 6 (catalogue £5. 15. 6, plus £0. 17. 0 commission for Thorpe; note on front endleaf, in Heber's hand). Richard Heber (1773-1833); notes in his hand on front endleaves; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 4325 (this individual lot being sold for £7. 7. 0). Purchased for £16. 1. 6, together with five other volumes of orationes (lots 4323-6); see Books Purchased (1834), 21, under Orationum variarum collectio.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.54(21).

Copy number: B-050(4)

Bound with:
1. Victorius Marianus, Chaldeae seu Aethiopicae linguae institutiones. Rome: Valerius Doricus Brixiensis, 1552;
2. Modus baptizandi, preces et benedictiones quibus ecclesia Ethiopum utitur. Rome: Antonius Bladus, Apr. 1549;
3. Thomas de Vio Caietani, De communione. De confessione. De satisfactione. De inuocatione sanctorum. Aduersus Luteranos tractatus. Rome: Antonius Bladus, 1531;
4. Lucas Gauricus, De eclypsi solis miraculosa in passione Domini celebrata, etc. Rome: Antonius Bladus, Jan. 1539.

Binding: Old parchment, with two small fragments of thirteenth/fourteenth-century(?) manuscript used to strengthen binding.

Size: 227 × 153 × 23 mm.

Size of leaf: 220 × 147 mm.

‘Brug[es] 1486' in lower margin of a1r.

Provenance: William Watts (1590?–1649); inscription on front endleaf and on manuscript fragment strengthening the binding: ‘William Watts minister of St Albans in Woodstreete'. John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44, as ‘Aethiopicæ linguæ institutiones . . .’ Presented in 1659.

SHELFMARK: 4° A 64(5) Art. Seld.