Bod-Inc: B-229
Beroaldus, Philippus
Orationes et poemata.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Burellus. Renouard, Badius, II 159-60.
a3r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter in verse addressed to the readers.] Incipit: ‘[P]alladiae mentes, melior pars aetheris alti | Aspicite hec oculis aurea dona bonis'; 10 elegiac distichs. Renouard, Badius II 160. See Walther, Initia, 13578.
a3v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Martinus ‘Boemus'. Incipit: ‘[C]ollegi nuper oratiunculas nonnullas uariis a me temporibus . . .’
a4r Beroaldus, Philippus: Orationes. Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Incipit: ‘[P]rudentis litterarum professoris officium est uiri prestantissimi . . .’
e2r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epigramma' addressed to Ludovicus Sforza. Incipit: ‘Hesperios inter ductores Inclyte princeps | Principe quo status hic sospite, sospes erit'; elegiac distichs. Poem located among ‘Orationes'.
e2v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus Chalcus. Incipit: ‘ “Opusculum de nuptiis Bentiuolorum”, quod nuper excucudi tibi . . .’
e3r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Nuptiae Bentiuolorum'. Incipit: ‘[G]entem Bentiuolorum multos iam annos Bononiae florentissimam . . .’
f2v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon' addressed to the book. Incipit: ‘Quo tu quo properas recens, libelle? | Extra limina cur cupis uagari?'; hendecasyllables. Poem located among ‘Orationes'.
f5r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to Minus Roscius.] Incipit: ‘[J]ohannes Boccatius homo in lingua uernacula disertissimus centum fabulosas . . .’ Letter located among ‘Orationes'.
f5v [Historia ex Boccatio conversa. Translated by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uo tempore Octauius Caesar nundum(!) cognominatus Augustus . . .’
g6r ‘Mythica hystoria'. Translated [by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘Cyprus insula est quondam nouem regnorum sedes . . .’ Located among the ‘Orationes'.
h4r Beroaldus, Philippus: Poemata. Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Incipit: ‘Qualia lasciuo dedit oscula saepe tonanti | Dardanius Phrygia raptus ab arce puer'; elegiac distichs. See B‑228.
i3r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[S]uperrime(!) cum feriatus essem, vir prestantissime . . . Letter located among ‘Poemata'.
k6v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Epigramma Ascensii ad lectores'. Incipit: ‘Nunc Beroaldinas studiosi quaerite merces | Lugdunum appulsas dexteritate noua'; 4 elegiac distichs. Renouard, Badius II 160.
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 4 Sept. 1492. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–i8 k6.
References
ISTC: ib00492000
GW: GW 4145;
Hain: H 2951 = HC *2952;
Goff: Goff B‑492;
Proctor: Pr 8600;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑381; Renouard, Badius, II 158-60; Sack, Freiburg, 596; Sheppard 6661.
LCN: 14005852
Copies
Copy number: B-229(1)
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century(?) English mottled and plain calf, ‘Cambridge style'; blind-tooled; inside a border formed by double fillets an outer panel of mottled calf; within this a panel of plain calf and an inner rectangle of mottled calf; each panel defined by double blind rules.
Size: 207 × 142 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 133 mm.
List of contents on a1v, perhaps by Robert Burton. Early marginal annotations in various hands. Pen-work scribbles in black ink on h5v and i7r, probably by A. Condys.
Manuscript pagination is supplied in black ink.
Provenance: Nicolaus Rusticus (sixteenth century); the Nicolao di Gianandrea Rustici who, in 1526, received a grant from the Council of Lucca ‘pro se exercendo in curia Serenissimi Regis Angliae'; see Marino Berengo, Nobili e mercanti nella Lucca del Cinquecento, Biblioteca di cultura storica, 82 (Turin, 1965), 133 n. 1; name written twice on a1r in ex libris inscriptions. Johannes More (sixteenth century); name in upper margin of h5v. A. Condys (sixteenth century); signature on k6v. Robert Burton (1577-1640); signature on a1r; see Kiesling, Robert Burton, 28 no. 143. Bequeathed in 1640; see Benefactors' Register I 362.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4° C 97 Art.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.10.
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