Bod-Inc: B-618
Burtius, Nicolaus
Bononia illustrata.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen'. [Dedicatory verse, addressed to] Johannes II Bentivolus. ‘[S]alue (saepe canam) patriae clarissime splendor | Cui deus et coeli sydera cuncta fauent'; 20 elegiac distichs.
a2v Burtius, Nicolaus: Bononia illustrata. Vitae summorum dignitate et eruditione virorum, II, ed. Johannes Gerhardus Meuschenius (Coburg, 1736), 157-87.
d5v Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quisquis ab externis uenisti nuper ad horas | Felsineas, quæso perlege scripta libens'; 6 elegiac distichs.
d5v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Vaticinium' [addressed to] Johannes Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘[O] decus excelsum generosa stirpe Ioannes | Bentiuolae ac patriae gloria summa tuae'; 39 elegiac distichs.
d7r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Congratulatory verse addressed to] Hannibal II Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘Quod tibi iam cecini, doctae cecinere sorores | Gratulor, en genius ad tua uota dedit'; 15 elegiac distichs.
d8r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to] Antonius Galeacius Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘Qui patriae specimen, studii quoque gloria nostri | Antoni Galeaz Bentiuolumque decus'; 12 elegiac distichs.
e8v Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to] Count Nicolaus Rangonus. Incipit: ‘O sydus patriae tuae refulgens | Rangonum decus omniumque foelix'; 21 hendecasyllables.
e1r Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Epigramma' [addressed to] Guibertus Pius. Incipit: ‘Quas tibi nunc referam grates, dignissime ductor | Dedite militiae Martis et arma gerens'; 18 elegiac distichs.
e1v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen . . . contra fortunam aduersantem'. Incipit: ‘Cur me, saeua, nimis stimulas nunc diua biformis | Conqueror infoelix frustraque uerba loquor'; 18 elegiac distichs.
e2v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen . . . de nouem musis fictione poetarum ex Jouis cerebro natis'. Incipit: ‘Nempe nouem musas summo quae de Ioue natae | Scribere temptabo sub breuitate tamen'; 10 elegiac distichs.
e3r Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen sapphicum' [addressed to] Virgin Mary. Incipit: ‘O decus caeli nimium relucens | Virgo, cui patres cecinere prisci'; 15 sapphic strophes.
e4r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to] Virgin Mary. Incipit: ‘O genetrix ueneranda Dei, cui nuntius alto | Gabriel angelicum dicere uenit Aue'; 10 elegiac distichs.
e4v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Sapphicum carmen' [in praise of] S. Anna. Incipit: ‘Anna, quae matrem Domini superni | Ventre et annoso sine labe portas'; 5 sapphic strophes.
e5r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse in praise of] S. Hieronymus. Incipit: ‘Si numeris quisquam phama laudandus et arte | Inter mortales, carmina lector habes'; 14 elegiac distichs.
e6r [Colophon, with a summary of the contents of the main work, addressed to the reader.]
Imprint
Imprint: Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1494. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d8 e6.
References
ISTC: ib01329000
GW: GW 5794 (Anm.);
Hain: H *4148;
Goff: Goff B‑1329;
BMC: BMC VI 827;
Proctor: Pr 6604;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑1008; CIBN B‑936; Oates 2495; Sheppard 5348-9.
LCN: 13985119
Copies
Copy number: B-618(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled brown paper boards.
Size: 203 × 152 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 198 × 143 mm.
Early marginal annotations in red ink and a few corrections of the text in early brown ink. On e6v, notice of birth of Johannes Sefurt(?), 15 May 1513.
Provenance: Franz Anton Veith (1730/31-1796); inscription on front pastedown: ‘Ex bibliotheca Veithiana'. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' and shelfmark ‘Inc.1083' in pencil on verso of front endleaf, ‘1665' in pencil on verso of back endleaf. Purchased for £0. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1852), 15.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.35.
Copy number: B-618(2)
Bound with:
2. Pandulphus Collenucius: Pliniana defensio adversus Nicolai Leoniceni accusationem. Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, [1493] (C‑386(1)).
Binding: Paper boards covered with part of a nineteenth-century German transcription of a manuscript legal document on paper signed ‘Ad mandatum Cæsaris et Catholicæ: maiestatis proprium' and granted to the family of Melchior Schedel of Nuremberg in 1546.
Size: 208 × 158 × 21 mm.
Size of leaf: 204 × 150 mm.
Manuscript foliation: item 1 89-126, item 2 197-248, both in the same hand.
Provenance: Nuremberg, probably from the library of Christoph Scheurl (1481-1542); see manuscript note in his hand on c4r of item 1 and manuscript titles along the lower edge and across the fore-edge of both items; see Wagner 78-9. Purchased for £2. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1840), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.39(1).
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