Bod-Inc: C-163A
Celtis, Conradus
Septenaria sodalitas litteraria Germaniae.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Table of contents.]
[*1r] Celtis, Conradus: Septenaria sodalitas litteraria Germaniae. Incipit: ‘Si clara Grecie recenseo lumina | Erraticos septem globos vincentia'; 7 poems each of 7 iambic trimeters. On the text see Heinz Entner, ‘Was steck hinter dem Wort “sodalitas litteraria? Ein Diskussionsbeitrag zu Conrad Celtis und seinen Freundenkreisen', in Europäische Sozietätsbewegungen und demokratische Tradition: Die europäischen Akademien der frühen Neuzeit zwischen Frührenaisssance und Spätaufklärung, 2 vols, ed. Klaus Garber and Heinz Wismann (Tübingen, 1996), II 1069-1101, at 1084-6.
[*2r] Ausonius [pseudo-]: ‘Sententiae septem sapientum septenis uersibus explicatae.’ The Works of Ausonius, ed. R. P. H. Green (Oxford, 1991), 674-6; in the seventh poem line 7 is omitted and line 6 precedes line 5.
[*3r] [Ausonius pseudo-]: ‘De septem sapientibus ex greco translato.’ Green 676-7 no. 2.
[*3v] Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: Ludus septem sapientum. Prete 138 no. XVII (Green 184 no. XXVI).
[*7r] Hieronymus: Epistola magno cuidam oratori romano. PL XXII 664-8.
Imprint
Imprint: Vienna: [Johann Winterburg], for Conradus Celtis 1500. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*8].
Remarks: The gathering is numbered but not signed.
References
ISTC: ic00374000
GW: GW 6470;
Hain: HC 2182;
Goff: Goff C‑374;
BMC: BMC III 811;
Proctor: Pr 9477;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑218; Sack, Freiburg, 968; not in Sheppard.
LCN: 13609276
Copies
Copy number: C-163A(1)
Binding: Twentieth-century blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboards, in imitation of a contemporary binding; yellow-edged leaves.
Size: 220 × 150 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 210 × 147 mm.
On [a1r] a list of the poems in the book, preceded by their respective numbers of lines, all divisible by seven. Greek words are supplied in manuscript in the spaces left blank, possibly in the hand of Johannes Rosenpeger; for his association with Celtis and a reproduction of his Greek hand see Dieter Wuttke, ‘Zur griechischen Grammatik des Konrad Celtis', in Silvae: Festschrift für Ernst Zinn, ed. Michael von Albrecht (Tübingen, 1970), 289-303.
Provenance: Christannus Stadler (fl. 1495-1500); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Donatus a magistro Christannus Stadler ex Titmanning'. Twentieth-century red book-label inside upper cover: ‘HNF'. Sale (London: Christie's, 29 Nov. 1995), lot 41; the name of the owner there read as ‘Christian Voll.’ Purchased from Konrad Meuschel in 1999 for DM 19.000; see ledger (1998/9), no. 305.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. GA5.2.
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