Bod-Inc: B-230
Beroaldus, Philippus
Orationes et poemata.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Burellus. See B‑229.
a3r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter in verse, addressed to the readers.] Incipit: ‘Palladiae mentes, melior pars aetheris alti | Aspicite hec oculis aurea dona bonis'; 10 elegiac distichs. See B‑229.
a3v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Martinus ‘Boemus'. Incipit: ‘Collegi nuper oratiunculas nonnullas variis a me temporibus . . .’
a4v Beroaldus, Philippus: Orationes. [Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius.] Incipit: ‘Prudentis litterarum professoris officium est, viri prestantissimi . . .’
d8v 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'.
e1r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus Chalcus. Incipit: ‘ “Opusculum de nuptiis Bentiuolorum”, quod nuper excucudi tibi . . .’
e1v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Nuptiae Bentiuolorum'. Incipit: ‘[G]entem Bentiuolorum multos iam annos Bononiae florentissimam . . .’
f1r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon' [addressed to the book.] Incipit: ‘Quo tuo(!) quo properas recens, libelle? | Extra limina cur cupis vagari?'; hendecasyllables. Poem located among ‘Orationes'.
f3v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to Minus Roscius.] Incipit: ‘[J]ohannes Boccatius homo in lingua vernacula disertissimus centum fabulosas . . .’ Letter located among ‘Orationes'.
f4r [Historia ex Boccatio conversa. Translated by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uo tempore Octauius Caesar nundum(!) cognominatus Augustus . . .’
g3v ‘Mythica hystoria'. [Translated by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘Cyprus insula est quondam nouem regnorum sedes . . .’ Located among the ‘Orationes'.
h1v Beroaldus, Philippus: Poemata. [Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius.] Incipit: ‘Qualia lasciuo dedit oscula saepe tonanti | Dardanius Phrygia raptus ab arce puer'; elegiac distichs. Se B‑228.
h8v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[S]uperrime(!) cum feriatus essem, vir prestantissime . . . Letter located among ‘Poemata'.
k6v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Epiramma(!) Ascensii ad lectores'. Incipit: ‘Nunc Beroaldus studiosi quaerite merces | Lugdunum appulsas dexteritate noua'; 4 elegiac distichs. See B‑229.
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: [Michel Tholoze, for] Denis Roce (or Jean Du Pré), 12 Oct. 1499. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h8 i k6.
References
ISTC: ib00494000
GW: GW 4147;
Hain: HC *2954;
Goff: Goff B‑494;
BMC: BMC VIII 209;
Proctor: Pr 8402;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑383; Hillard 366; Oates 3164-6; Renouard, Badius, II 161; Sheppard 6519.
LCN: 14005753
Copies
Copy number: B-230(1)
Binding: English twentieth-century diced brown morocco, with gold-tooled centre-piece and gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 203 × 140 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 130 mm.
A marginal note on i3v in a contemporary hand: ‘Murena the fish - called the lamprey'. On k6r in a contemporary hand: ‘[ ]a [ ] cutle[fish?].’
Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912); book-plate; pencil inscription ‘G D Aug. 1902'; see Jenkinson (1923), 71, no. 1193. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased by Bywater at Dunn sale, Feb. 1914, lot 832; Elenchus, no. 622b. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. K 7.20.
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