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Brant, Sebastian

Varia carmina.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page with woodcuts.] Incipit: ‘Que tibi diua miser christipara carmina lusi'; 3 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 174.

a1v Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Wymmarus de Ercklens. Incipit: ‘Q[uia] te summa virtute virum . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 174-5. Dated Basel, 15 Mar. 1498.

a2r Brant, Sebastian: Varia carmina. [Part I.] ‘Ad magnificum et nobilem virum dominum Adelberum de Rotperg . . . inuectio'. Incipit: ‘Quod te cultorem scio virginis intemerate'. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 175-84 nos 1-41.

A1r Brant, Sebastian: [Poem on Johannes Reuchlin.] Incipit: ‘Accipe, Vangionem(!) presul venerande, Ioannis'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 195 no. I. Hugo Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des lateinischen Schuldramas (Halle an der Saale, 1888), 31-2.

A1v Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to Johannes de Dalberg.] Incipit: ‘[E]piscoporum gloriam, philosophorum pater . . .’ Dated Basel, 1 May 1498. See Karl Morneweg, Johann von Dalberg: ein deutscher Humanist und Bischof (Heidelberg, 1887), 258.

A1v Köchlin [I.e. Reuchlin], Johannes: Scenica progymnasmata. [Also known as Henno.] Incipit: ‘[N]ouus poeta sentiens actoribus'. Hugo Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des lateinischen Schuldramas (Halle an der Saale, 1888), 13-30. See Ludwig Geiger, Johann Reuchlin. Sein Leben und seine Werke (Leipzig, 1871), 81-91, and Josef Benzing, Bibliographie der Schriften Johannes Reuchlins im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Bibliotheca bibliographica, 18 (Bad Bocklet, 1955), 12 no. 46.

B2v [Note about time and place of performance and players.] Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 30-1.

B3r Helfant, Valentinus; [Reuchlin, Johannes]: ‘Oratio'. Incipit: ‘[C]omicos hos ludos, illustris princeps . . .’ The speech was given by Valentinus Helfant, but composed by Reuchlin; see Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 35 n. 1.

B3v Dracontius, Jacobus: ‘Ad iuuentutem Germanicam in Johannem Reuchlin . . . panegyris'. Incipit: ‘[H]uc ades, Aonidum qui ludere queris in vmbra'. Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 32-3.

B4r Adam Werner von Themar: ‘Ad . . . Johannem Richartzhusen . . . carmen'. Incipit: ‘[T]e duce res nostris agitur rarissima terris'. Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 33-4.

B4v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine viuendi pereuntibus inuentio noua'. Incipit: ‘[S]tultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 121-7. Without the two concluding distichs addressed to the reader.

D5v Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part II.] Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 184-5 nos 43-5.

D6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum regem gloriosissimum in vitam et conuersationem regum Israhel et Juda'. Incipit: ‘[H]actenus immensum regnorum enauimus equor'. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 185 no. 46.

G2r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part III.] Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 186-7 nos 47-59.

K4v Brant, Sebastian: [Two German-Latin poems.] ‘De causis deprauationis rerum omnium'. Incipit: ‘[P]osteaquam impuberes cunnos gens stulta petiuit'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 153-4.

L2r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part IV.] Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 187-92 nos 62-79.

O3v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum fatuorum additio'. Incipit: ‘Te nostram accepi vertisse, Jacobe, carinam'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 119-21.

O5v Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part V.] Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 192 no. 81.

O6v Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part VI.] ‘Explanatio . . . de anticipatione horologii Basiliensium'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 192-4 nos 82-6.

P3v ‘Finis carminum Sebastiani Brant'. Incipit: ‘Hoc Titionis opus, dulcis Wynmare, peractum'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 195 no. 87.

P4r [Colophon.]

P4r ‘Tabula carminum S. Brant'.

Imprint

Imprint: Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 Aug. 1498. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a⁶ b c⁴ d⁶ e f⁴ g⁶ h–k⁴ l A⁶ B C⁴ D⁶ E F⁴ G H⁶ I⁴ K⁶ L M⁴ N–P⁶.

Illustrations: Seven woodcuts.

References

ISTC: ib01100000

GW: GW 5069;

Hain: HC, Addenda, *3732;

Goff: Goff B‑1100;

BMC: BMC I 113;

Proctor: Pr 487;

Others: BSB‑Ink B‑809; Schramm XX p. 23; Schreiber V 3544; Sheppard 399.

LCN: 13911693

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