Bod-Inc: E-024
Epistolae Illustrium Virorum (ed. Jodocus Badius Ascensius)
Analysis of Content
a1r [Verse describing the contents.] Incipit: ‘Meri sales, merae facetiae'; 5 lines of verse.
a1r ‘Operis sequentis auctores'. [Table of contents.]
a1v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter to] Anton Koberger. Renouard, Badius, III 181-2. Dated 13 Feb. 1499.
a2r Politianus, Angelus: [Correspondence with] Hermolaus Barbarus; Pomponius Laetus; Baptista Guarinus; Philippus Beroaldus; Nicolaus Leonicenus; Jovianus Pontanus; Hieronymus Donatus; Callimachus (i.e. Philippus Buonaccorsi); Ludovicus Odaxius; Marcus Antonius Sabellicus; Johannes Laurentius Venetus; Maffeus Lucius Phosphorus (i.e. Marcus Lucidus Fazini ‘Phosphorus', Bishop of Segni); Cassandra Fidelis; Jacobus Antiquarius; Caesar Carmentus; Tristanus Chalcus; Antonius Pizamanus; Franciscus Casa; Philippus Poscus; Johannes Gottius Ragusinus; Robertus Salviatus; Andreas Magnanimus; Bartholomaeus Scala; Antonius ‘Codrus' Urceus; Jacobus Modestus Pratensis; Franciscus Puccius; Augustinus Maffeius; Johannes Franciscus Benedictus; Marsilius Ficinus; Macarius Mutius; Tydeus Acciarinus [Consentinus]; Baccius Ugolinus; Aldus Manutius; Matthaeus Bossus; Johannes Baptista Mida; Hieronymus Porcarius; Antonius Zenus; Paulus Comparinus; Laurentius de' Medici; Pandulfus Collenutius; Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max. (Giovanbattista Cybo); Jacobus [Ammannati Piccolomini], Cardinal of Pavia; Ascanius Sforza, Cardinal-bishop of Pavia; Franciscus [Todeschini-]Piccolomini, Pius III, Pont. Max.; Antoniottus Gentilis, Cardinal of St Anastasia; Franciscus Hispanus, Bishop of Cefalù; the Bishop of Silva(?); Johannes Petrus Arrivabenus, Bishop of Urbino; Leonellus [Chieregatus], Bishop of Concordia; Paulus Cortesius; Baptista Mantuanus; Matthias [Corvinus], King of Hungary; Bernardus Riccius; Johannes [II], King of Portugal; Johannes Teixira; Marquardus Breisacius; Rambertus Malatesta; Jacobus Salviatus; Laurentius Tornabonus; Franciottus Ursinus; Ludovicus [Maria] Sforza; Georgius Merula; Bartholomaeus Chalcus; Ludovicus Bologninus; Michael Acciarius Utianensis; and Scipio Carteromachus (Fortiguerri). Maïer I 1-186; letters to Jacobus Antiquarius, Paulus Cortesius and Bartholomaeus Scala, and a letter from Cortesius are edited in Prosatori latini del Quattrocento, ed. Eugenio Garin (Milan, 1952), 886-925. Letters and other texts not by or addressed to Politianus:
a6v Guarinus, Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Maïer I 12-13.
b5v Donatus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Maïer I 23.
c4r Phosphorus, Lucius: [Letter addressed to] Alexander Cortesius. Maïer I 33-4.
f6r Antiquarius, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. Maïer I 83. See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, II 210.
g3r Ugolinus, Baccius: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Maïer I 89.
g3v [Bossus], Matthaeus Veronensis: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Maïer I 91-2.
g4v ‘Amor fugitiuus e graeco Moschi'. Incipit: ‘Cum Venus intento natum clamore vocaret'; 32 hexameters. Maïer I 93.
g4v ‘Elegia de violis'. Incipit: ‘Formosae o violae, Veneris munuscula nostrae'; 22 elegiac distichs. Maïer I 93-4.
g5r ‘Prologus in Plauti Menaechmos'. Incipit: ‘Heus, heus, tacete, sultis vos ego vt loquar'; 48 lines of verse. Maïer I 95-6.
h3v Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Maïer I 105.
i4r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Correspondence with] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Maïer I 119-20.
k3r Antiquarius, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Riccius. Maïer I 131.
k3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Correspondence with] Jacobus Antiquarius. Maïer I 132-3.
l5r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus [Maria] Sforza. Maïer I 151-2.
m4r [ ], Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Sabinus. ‘Paulus libro duodecimo ad Sabinum'. Maïer I 163. The author and the dedicatee have not been identified.
n4v Crinitus, Petrus: [Correspondence with] Alexander Sartius. Maïer I 180-2.
o1r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letters addressed to] Maffeus Lucius Phosphorus, Bishop of Segni; Franciscus [Todeschini-]Piccolomini, Cardinal of Siena; Antonius Calvus; Johannes Picus de Mirandula; Paulus Cortesius; Robertus Salviatus; Georgius Merula and Petrus Cara. Maïer I 187-99.
o6r ‘Epigramma de Angelo Politiano'. Incipit: ‘Huchuc, viator, paululum gradum siste'; 9 lines of verse. Maïer I 184.
o6r [Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Note addressed to] Anton [Koberger]. Renouard, Badius III 182. Dated 13 Feb. 1499.
o6r [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: [Lyons]: Nicolaus Wolf, for Anton Koberger, 13 Feb. 1499. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–o6.
References
ISTC: ip00888200
GW: GW 9368;
Hain: HC, Addenda *6662;
Goff: Goff E‑98;
BMC: BMC VIII 330;
Proctor: Pr 8676;
Others: BSB‑Ink E‑87; Claudin IV 250; Hillard 771; Oates 3245; Sheppard 6728-9.
LCN: 14534742
Copies
Copy number: E-024(1)
Wanting leaf h5.
Binding: Early eighteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns, the spine gold-tooled.
Size: 270 × 195 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 263 × 185 mm.
Early marginal notes.
Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: James West (1704?–1772); sale: [London, 1773], lot 1195; inscription on the front endleaf: ‘Purchased at Mr. West's sale, April 3, 1773'. London, British Museum; shelfmarks ‘636.k.8' and ‘IB.42191'; duplicate stamp. Transferred to the Bodleian in Oct. 1913; see ‘List of Duplicate Incunabula' (Library Records c. 1054), no. 31.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.3.
Copy number: E-024(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, for Bywater; a gold stamp on the upper cover with Bywater's initials.
Size: 281 × 200 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 276 × 191 mm.
A few early marginal notes.
Provenance: On a1r an inscription: ‘Empte precio vii fl'. On a1r and o6v an inscription: ‘G. Ponheti'. On o6v partly erased inscription: ‘Ego Franciscus Maria de . . . Rome(?) Anno Domini 1635', below ‘Luino(?) a 14 di 76 1635'. Bought Dec. 1912 for £4. 4. 0, by Ingram Bywater (1840-1914) from Percy Mordaunt Barnard; no. 95 from one of his catalogues; inside the upper cover, describing former binding: ‘Original doeskin binding (worn) bound lined with fragments of early printing'; Elenchus, no. 1185a. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. E 1.2.
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