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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