Bod-Inc: B-559

Britannicus, Gregorius

Sermones funebres et nuptiales.

 

Analysis of Content

[*1v] ‘Ad lectorem epigramma elegiacum'. Incipit: ‘Jura tibi si forte velis decerpere, lector'; 9 elegiac distichs.

[*2r] Britannicus, Gregorius: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Zane, Bishop of Brescia. Incipit: ‘[E]t si nulla vnquam, reuerendissime antistes, nec consuetudo . . .’ Dated 19 Mar. 1495. Saxius 509-10.

[*2v] Zane, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Gregorius Britannicus. Incipit: ‘[P]erlectis suauissimis litteris tuis . . .’ Dated Brescia, 21 Mar. 1495. Saxius 510-11.

[*3v] ‘Tabula orationum funebrium vulgarium'.

a1r Britannicus, Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum quod dicit Damasenus(!), nulla res distinguitur . . .’ 103 sermons. In addition, the collection contains sermons by Thomas Acerbus, Johannes Britannicus, Carolus Zenus and Christophorus Barzizius; see below.

h1v Acerbus, Thomas: ‘Oratio funerea in quemcumque equitem auratum'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam mors co[mmun]i sorte hominum corpora dissipat . . .’ Listed in John McManamon, Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism (Chapel Hill, NC, 1989), 249.

h8r Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio . . . in obitu magni magistratus Brixiani Nicolai Duodo habita Brixie'. Incipit: ‘[C]upienti mihi, magnifice pretor uosque, amplissimi patres . . .’

i2r Zenus, Carolus: ‘Oratio pro quocumque principe, capitaneo, magistratu, legato, doctore omni scientia celeberrimo'. Incipit: ‘[M]aximum et amplissimum munus . . .’

l2v Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio matrimonialis'. Incipit: ‘[E]t si mihi iure letandum est, magnifici rectores vosque, amplissimi patres . . .’

l6r Barzizius, Christophorus (Grammaticus): ‘Oratio coniugalis'. Incipit: ‘[Q]ualem in presenti causa . . .’

p1r ‘Auctoritates'. Incipit: ‘[H]omo vite commodatus est . . .’

q1r Britannicus, Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales vulgares [Italian]. Incipit: ‘  “[M]emorare nouissima tua . . .” [Ecl 7,40]. Queste parole, ornatissimi citadini mei . . .’

Imprint

Imprint: [Brescia: Angelus Britannicus, c.1498]. 8°.

Remarks: GW ascribes to [Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus].

Collation

Collation: [*⁴] a–l⁸ m⁴ n⁸ o⁴ p–r⁸. Gathering [*] numbered, but not signed.

Illustrations: Woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: ib01208500

GW: GW 5551;

Hain: C 1345;

BMC: BMC VII 980;

Proctor: Pr 7012;

Others: Sheppard 5793.

LCN: 13983311

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