Bod-Inc: B-345
Biffus, Johannes Vincentius
Epistolae et carmina.
Analysis of Content
a1r Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Galeaz Sforza, Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘[M]aiorum laudes olim citharedos frequenti conuiuio . . .’
a2r Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Carmina dedicated to] Johannes Galeaz Sforza; Ludovicus Sforza, ‘Il moro', Duke of Milan; Ambrosius Varisius Rosateus; Jacobus Antiquarius; Bartholomaeus Chalcus; Carolus Barbauara; Christophorus ‘vetus Ducalis sigilli' (probably Christophorus Lampugnanus); Johannes Bentivolus II; Gualtaeus de Basilicapetri; Franchinus Gafurius; Franciscus Altovitus. Incipit: ‘Mœnia cum primum uariis fulsere figuris'.
a8v Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: ‘De libello uenerandi pr[esbiteri] Io[hannis] Biffi carmen'. Incipit: ‘Maurus ab innumeris laudatur ubique camoenis'; 13 elegiac distichs.
b1r Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: [Carmen addressed to] Ludovicus Sforza, Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘Maure magis toto princeps optabilis auro'; 5 elegiac distichs.
b1r Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: ‘De eodem libello . . . Iohannis Biffi carmen'. Incipit: ‘Inclyta qui Mauri ducis et complura potentum'; 2 elegiac distichs.
b1r Hellus, Dionysius: [Carmen addressed to] Johannes Biffus. Incipit: ‘Surgite Pierides, uester febrescit amicus'; 3 elegiac distichs.
b1r Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘Carmen' [dedicated to] Johannes Antonius Varisius and Baptista Baldironus. Incipit: ‘Si cupitis uestrum tolli super aethera nomen'; 3 elegiac distichs.
b1v Hellus, Dionysius: [Sonnet addressed to] Johannes Biffus. Incipit: ‘Se dopo morte e poy pompa funebre'.
b1v Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘De assumptione beatissimae Virginis Mariae'. Incipit: ‘Angelicis assumpta choris assumpta tonanti'; 8 elegiac distichs.
b1v Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Poem addressed to] Georgius Merula. Incipit: ‘Pieridum cultor viridi spectande senecta'; 6 elegiac distichs.
b2r Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘In Pygmeum pro defensione Francisci Philelphi'. Incipit: ‘Mollibus in plumis quid stas pygmae et recursant'; six elegiac distichs.
b2r Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘De statua marmorea . . . Beatrici puellae Bononiensi dicata.’ Incipit: ‘Prisca mihi effigies niveo sub marmore vivit'.
b3r Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Letter addressed to] Carolus Barbavara. Incipit: ‘Habes, uir clare, quod per litteras inferius . . .’
b3r Barbavara, Carolus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Biffus. Incipit: ‘Venerabili in Christo d[omino] presbytero . . . Quod petenti Francisco Trachedino homini grauissimo recusarem . . .’
b3v Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: [Carmen addressed to] Johannes Biffus. Incipit: ‘Paegasides et phoebe parens soteria uestris'; 4 elegiac distichs.
b3v Cornelius, Andreas: [Carmen addressed to] Johannes Biffus. Incipit: ‘Tale poeta facis dulci testudine carmen'; 5 elegiac distichs.
b3v Mannius Mediolanensis, Andreas: [Carmen addressed to] Johannes Biffus. Incipit: ‘Biffe Tomitanos inter numerande poetas'; 5 elegiac distichs.
b4r Gilinus [de Ghilinis], Johannes Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Biffus. Incipit: ‘Presbytero Iohanni Biffo salutem. Potes et in solciensi propinquo tuo . . .’
b4r Biffus, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Carmina, one of which is dedicated to] Ludovicus Sforza. Incipit: ‘Sunt tria Sfortiadum toto notissima mundo'.
b4v Cornelius, Andreas: [Sonnet addressed to] Ludovicus Sforza. Incipit: ‘Qual plectro arguto, o qual tonante tromba'.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 10 Oct. 1493. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a8 b4.
References
ISTC: ib00667500
GW: GW 4350;
Hain: HCR 3194;
Proctor: Pr 5835;
Others: Ganda 187; Sheppard 4880.
LCN: 13959677
Copies
Copy number: B-345(1)
Bound with:
1. Franciscus Philelphus: Odae. [Brescia]: Angelus Britannicus, 4 July 1497 (P‑273(2)).
Binding: Late eighteenth-century English calf (after 1789, perhaps 1794), bound for Wodhull. On both covers a gilt scrolling band forms a border.
Size: 195 × 145 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 187 × 133 mm.
Provenance: Parma, Jesuit College; seventeenth-century inscriptions on a1r and a2r of item 1: ‘Collegii Societatis Jesu Parme'. Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), II 5461; and sale (1789), lot 10363 which comprised the two items here bound together, with two others, according to the Bodleian annotated copy of sale catalogue sold for £0. 7. 6; the purchaser is not named, but was Wodhull. Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); note on recto of front endleaf: ‘Mr Woodhull May 6th 1789', with purchase price of book given as £0. 7. 6, and cost of rebinding as £0. 3. 0; on back endleaf: ‘July 18th 1794'. John Edmund Severne (1826-1899); sale (1886), lot 1972(2); purchased for £0. 17. 0; see Library Bills.
SHELFMARK: Auct 7Q 6.63(2).
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