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Bod-Inc: B-588

Brutus, Petrus

Victoria contra Judaeos.

 

Analysis of Content

[*1v] Bonavitus, Johannes; Mantuanus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Hoc opus egregium toto celebrabitur orbe | Res noua, res grandis, res memoranda, quidem'; 69 elegiac distichs.

[*2r] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Dum tua scripta lego, cerno dum singula praesul | Cognosco uires quid ualuere tuae'; 2 elegiac distichs.

[*2v] Brutus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bonavitus. Incipit: ‘[M]e saepius adhortatus es, Ioannes doctissime, et litteris tuis atque carminibus . . .’

[*4v] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Me facit aeternum tua dulcis epistola, praesul, | Meque locat cœlo fertiliore lyra'; 16 elegiac distichs.

[*4v] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse, addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Magnanimus Brutus dimissus ab aethere caeli | Praesul in Hebraeos bella gerenda mouet'; 6 elegiac distichs.

[*4v] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Si quid in hoc libro mendosum offenderis unquam | Aut dederit uitium littera quaeque suum'; 4 elegiac distichs.

a1r Brutus, Petrus: ‘Praefatio' [addressed to the nobles of Vicenza.] Incipit: ‘[L]ectitanti mihi plurimorum codices hominum doctissimorum uisum est . . .’

a2v Brutus, Petrus: Victoria contra Iudaeos. Incipit: ‘[M]irantur Iudaei qum(!) haec audiunt, et primo quod Christum de uirgine natum Christiani credant . . .’ F. Secret, ‘Notes sur les hebraïsants chrétiens', Revue des études juives, 125 (1965), 169-73.

p1v ‘Quindecim obiectiones Judaeorum'. Incipit: ‘[P]rima auctoritas est Esaiae, c.xi, qui ait, “Erit in die illa”, [Is 11,11] (hoc est tempore Messiach), et sequitur infra, “eleuabit dominus signum in nationes et congregabit profugos” [Is 11,12] . . .’

p5v ‘Responsiones'. Incipit: ‘[N]unc igitur ad primam Esaiae auctoritatem ueritate duce reuertamur, inquit ille adhuc signum suum . . .’

x3r [Verse about the printer and author.] Incipit: ‘Est opus impressum Papiensi Simone clarum | Compositum Petri praesulis ingenio'; 3 elegiac distichs.

x3r [Colophon.]

x3v Dragatius, [Jacobus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Quid tua sunt Bruti foelix cognomina, praesul? | Cur non sunt pulchri qum tua fama iubet?'; 3 elegiac distichs.

x3v Ber[ ], Fran[ciscus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Gloria pontificum laus et pater optime nostri | Te praecor accipias carmina facta tibi'; 10 elegiac distichs.

x3v Ange[lus], Bar[tholomaeus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Est mea nunc uestras diuinas tangere laudes | Quae uestrum certe nomen in astra ferunt'; 3 elegiac distichs.

x3v Ange[lus], Bar[tholomaeus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘(Vt nulli dubium est) te gloria summa moratur | Petre, gubernantem saeculum simul aetheris alta'; 15 hexameters.

x3v Urbanus, [Servus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Me tua dignata est, praesul reuerende, uocare | Dulcibus ac fari coram dominatio uerbis'; 30 hexameters.

x4r Aemilius, Gregorius: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Fama uolat, praesul, cunctas dispersa per aures | Te fidei nobis edere uelle librum'; 14 elegiac distichs. Dated 29 Feb. 1488.

x4r Urbanus, Servus: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Praesul in Hebraeos mirum dignissime uidi | Te scripsisse librum horum qui confringat apertos'; 25 hexameters. Dated 20 June.

x4r Fabricius, Bartholomeus: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Praesul, aue, templi catharensis gloria, salue | Qui genus a Bruti sanguine clarus habes'; 9 elegiac distichs.

x4r Celsanus, Marcus: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. Incipit: ‘Sanctorum manibus tibi cœlo ponitur amplo | Aeternum solium, quoniam saeuissima turba'; 4 hexameters.

Imprint

Imprint: Vicenza: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Oct. 1489. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [*]4 a8 b–u6 x4.

References

ISTC: ib01264000

GW: GW 5659;

Hain: HC *4027;

Goff: Goff B‑1264;

BMC: BMC VII 1051;

Proctor: Pr 7180;

Others: BSB‑Ink B‑951; CIBN B‑900; Oates 2688; Sack, Freiburg, 856; Sheppard 5949.

LCN: 13982654

Copies

Copy number: B-588(1)

Gatherings r and s are transposed.

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; double fillets form a border. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover. Upper board detached.

Size: 280 × 206 × 32 mm.

Size of leaf: 272 × 187 mm.

Some marginal annotations and underlining in black ink.

Irregular manuscript foliation.

Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); Greek motto on [*1r]; see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 4; MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 63v, dated 1488. Presented in 1659.

SHELFMARK: V 1. 11 Th. Seld.


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