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Bod-Inc: B-223

Beroaldus, Philippus

De felicitate.

 

Analysis of Content

[*1r] [Title-page.]

[*2r] Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jakob II von Baden, Archbishop of Trier.

a1r Beroaldus, Philippus: De felicitate. Incipit: ‘[M]agna res est, viri ornatissimi, et omnibus horis omnium uotis expetita felicitas . . .’

d7r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Distichon ad auditores extemporaliter effusum'. Incipit: ‘Felix cui constant bona corporis et bona mentis | Nec non fortunae munera parca deae'; 1 elegiac distich.

d7r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Endecasyllabon' [addressed to] Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Incipit: ‘Felix o nimis et beate princeps, | Cuius presidio est beata felix'; 10 hendecasyllables.

d7r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Eiusdem endecasyllabon' [addressed to] Germania. Incipit: ‘O Germania muneris repertrix | Quo nil utilius dedit uetustas'; 28 hendecasyllables.

Imprint

Imprint: Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1 Apr. 1495. 4°.

Collation

Collation: [*4] a–d8.

References

ISTC: ib00482000

GW: GW 4132;

Hain: HC 2969;

Goff: Goff B‑482;

BMC: BMC VI 828;

Proctor: Pr 6606;

Others: BSB‑Ink B‑365; CIBN B‑345; Sack, Freiburg, 594; Sheppard 5350.

LCN: 14003640

Copies

Copy number: B-223(1)

Wanting gathering [*].

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; marbled pastedowns.

Size: 218 × 162 × 13 mm.

Size of leaf: 210 × 153 mm.

Manuscript foliation, perhaps by Ulisse Aldrovandi.

Provenance: Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605); inscription on d8r: ‘Tum perlegi die 23 August 1571 | Ego Ulisses Aldrovandus in . . .' John Benjamin Charles Heath, Baron Heath (1790-1879); sale, Sotheby's, 24 Apr. 1879, sold for £0. 9. 0. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 619. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. K 7.16.


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