Bod-Inc: C-377

Cleomedes

De contemplatione orbium excelsorum [Latin].

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Note to the reader and table of contents.] Incipit: ‘Si bono litterarum studio . . .’

a2r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter] to Cardinal Caesar Borgia. Incipit: ‘[C]um in rebus humanis atque diuinis . . .’ See Robert B. Todd, ‘Cleomedes', CTC VII 1-11.

a3v Cleomedes: ‘De contemplatione orbium excelsorum'. [Also known as De motu circulari corporum caelestium.] Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[C]um uaria mundus significatione dicatur . . .’ See Robert B. Todd, ‘Cleomedes', CTC VII 1-11.

f1r Gravina, Petrus: [Letter to] Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘Aristides graecus tibi Aristidi Romano . . .’

f2r Aristides: Ad Rhodienses de concordia oratio [XXXIV K.]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[S]i pro mea uoluntate . . .’

g1r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter] to Franciscus [Todeschini] Picolomineus, Cardinal of Siena (later Pius III, Pont. Max.). Incipit: ‘[T]urbulenta haec tempora . . .’

g2r Dio [Chrysostomus]: Ad Nicomedenses oratio [XXXVIII]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[C]um ipse mecum reputo causas Nicomedii . . .’

g7v Dio [Chrysostomus]: De concordia oratio [XXXIX]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[L]aetor equidem honore . . .’

h1r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[A] sapientibus accepi . . .’

h2r Plutarchus: De virtute morali [Moralia 440 D]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Dedicated to Alexander VI, Pont. Max.. Incipit: ‘[D]e uirtute que ad mores spectare dicitur . . .’

k1r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter to] Duke Johannes Borgia. Incipit: ‘[C]vm omnis mea cura . . .’

k2r Plutarchus: Coniugalia praecepta [Moralia 138 B]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[P]lutarchus Poliano et Eurydice s[alutem] p[lurimam] d[icit]. Post legem patriam . . .’

k8r Duccus, Johannes Franciscus: [Poem.] Dedicated to Hieronymus Calciavelius. Incipit: ‘Quanta sit eximii uirtus interpretis, ecce'; 5 elegiac distichs.

k8r [Colophon.]

[l1r] [List of errata.]

Imprint

Imprint: Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, for Angelus Britannicus, 3 Apr. 1497. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a–d⁸ e⁴ f–h⁸ i⁴ k⁸ [l⁴].

Illustrations: On f2r a woodcut initial.

References

ISTC: ic00741000

GW: GW 7122 (+ Anm.);

Hain: HC *5450;

Goff: Goff C‑741;

BMC: BMC VII 991;

Proctor: Pr 7040;

Others: BSB‑Ink C‑460; Sheppard 5814-15.

LCN: 14841303, 14841356

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