Bod-Inc: B-146
Benignus Salviatus, Georgius
De natura angelica (ed. Ubertinus Risalitus).
Analysis of Content
[*1r] Cervinius, Aelius Lampridius: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quid nisi conspicuus summo uersabere Caelo | Visure Angelicum Candide lector opus'; 2 elegiac distichs.
[*1r] Cervinius, Aelius Lampridius: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Legerat hec oculis quibus omnia maximus Aether | Aspicit Angelici Mystica scripta chori'; 3 elegiac distichs.
[*1r] Cervinius, Aelius Lampridius: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Esse uidebantur nobis aenigmata nuper | Quae super angelico scripta fuere choro'; 7 elegiac distichs.
[*1r] Puteus Ragusinus, Carolus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Angelos quicunque choros celsamque cateruam | Naturamque cupit noscere celicolum'; 6 elegiac distichs.
[*1v] Risalitus, Ubertinus: [Introductory letter, addressed to the Senate of Ragusa (Dubrovnik).] Incipit: ‘[G]eorgius Benignus Saluiatus De angelica natura preclarum opus cum nuper ad me misisset . . .’
[*2r] Benignus Salviatus, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Ubertinus Risalitus. Incipit: ‘[M]itto ad te, suauissime Vbertine, De angelica natura opus, quod quidem ita a nobis descriptum est . . .’
a1r Benignus Salviatus, Georgius: ‘Prohemium'. Incipit: ‘[A]ngelica dignitas post summam illam optimi uniuersorum conditoris dei maiestatem, patres conscripti Rhacusaneque . . .’
a1v [List of Dalmatian nobles, who appear in ‘De natura angelica'.]
a1v ‘Primi libri capita'.
a2r ‘Argumentum operis'. Incipit: ‘Kalendis Maii, anno salutis octauo et nonagesimo supra mille quadringentos totus senatus quem rogatorum uocant Rhacusane . . .’
a2v Benignus Salviatus, Georgius: De natura angelica. Edited by Ubertinus Risalitus. Incipit: ‘[A]ngelica natura (ut primum de substantia ipsius perscrutemur) uiri ornatissimi non est . . .’
q8r [Colophon.]
q8r Bonifatius Gorgeus, Sigismundus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quicumque Angelicos optabat noscere cetus | Et quantum excellat ille, uel ille chorus'; 5 elegiac distichs.
q8r Benessius, Damianus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Cognitus etrusce prius ille Georgius urbi | Incipit (ecce uides) notior esse modo'; 2 elegiac distichs.
q8r Benessius, Damianus: [Verse, addressed to] Georgius Benignus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘Ecce quod extremis Scotus fuit ille Britannis | Doctus quod mauris Aureliusue suis'; 8 elegiac distichs.
q8r Benessius, Damianus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Disce quot iste bonis ornatur, lector, honestas | Seruit honor, pietas, gloria, forma sibi; 1 elegiac distich.
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: [Bartolommeo di Libri], 20 July 1499. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*2] a–q8.
References
ISTC: ib00324000
GW: GW 3843;
Hain: HC *2783;
Goff: Goff B‑324;
BMC: BMC VI 654;
Proctor: Pr 6232;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑278; CIBN B‑225; Sheppard 5145.
LCN: 13932518
Copies
Copy number: B-146(1)
Binding: Contemporary (c.1500) Italian (Milan) brown sheep over limp pasteboards. Four pairs of ties wanting. Tooled in blind with multiple two-line frames. Some corners mitred; at others the frame lines are continued to create small squares and rectangles. Border of a palmette tool, not carried to the corners owing to the prolongation of the frame lines. Multiple impressions of a four-lobed interlaced knotwork tool, inside a border of ‘roof-top' tools, in the centre. Plain edges. Double blue and pink headbands. Sewn on three (split?) thongs. Spine covered with later parchment. Pastedown and one free endpaper, wrapped round the first and last gatherings, at each end; watermark, a bull's head (resembling Briquet 14950; Milan 1499, Ferrara 1505). From the same shop: (1) Christie's: London, 17 Nov. 1976, lot 276: Aegidius Columna, Expositio super libros elenchorum Aristotelis, Venice: S. de Luere for A. Torresano, 1500; ‘Liber M. Pauli Zobii [Giovio]'. (2) London, BL, Henry Davis Gift, P. 903: A. Janus Parrhasius, Comentarii in raptum Proserpinae Cl. Claudiani, Milan: Guillaume Le Signerre fratres, 1501. (3) Christie's Giovio sale, 1 June 1977, lot 176, Raimondo Marliani, Opuscula geographica antiqua (sixteenth-century manuscript).
Size: 277 × 220 × 32 mm.
Size of leaf: 269 × 209 mm.
Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851); purchased ‘At Wise's 1st auction of Thorpe's Books', lot 1345, for £0. 4. 6; see Books Purchased (1832), 3, and Financial Statements (1828-32; 1837-40, Library Records b. 4), no. 16, ‘Books purchased by the Librarian'.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 1Q extra 2.10.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 4.25.
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