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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