Bod-Inc: E-031
Este, Nicolaus Maria de
Oratio pro Hercule Estensi, Ferrariae duce, ad Alexandrum VI.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Title-page] ‘Illustris. et reverendi domini Nicolai Mariae Estensis episcopi Hadriensis Oratio pro consanguineo suo inclyto Hercule Estensi, Ferrariae duce secundo.’
[a2r] Campellus, Julius: [Introductory letter, addressed to] Lucas Ripa, of Ferrara. Incipit: ‘Scripsi ad te, Ripa mi optime, superioribus diebus de candidissima illa oratione . . .’ [a2v] Explicit: ‘... illustrique domino Herculi Varano etiam atque etiam commenda, orationem ipsam (si placet) amicis omnibus impartire. Vale iterum et me, ut facis, ama.’
[a2v] Este, Nicolaus Maria de: [Dedicatory preface, addressed to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Conuenerat, beatissime pater, inter huius sanctissimi foederis . . .’ [a3r] Explicit: ‘... Commendo me etiam atque etiam sanctitati tuae quam Deus opt. max. ad vota foelicitet.’
[a3r] Este, Nicolaus Maria de: Oratio pro Hercule Estensi Ferrariae duce [Addressed to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Nemini sane mirum uideri debet, beatissime pater, si in ipso dicendi . . .’ [a4r] Explicit: ‘... quieta sede illustrem et diuturnam pro tuae beatitudinis meritis clementissimus ille rerum omnium opifex Deus servet. | Dixi.’
[a4r] Colophon: ‘Romae impressa per magistrum Steffanum Plannck, Iulio Campello Spoletino procurante, anno Salvatoris M.cccc.lxxxxiii. Nonis Ianuariis.’
[a4v] [Oration in verse addressed to the reader] ‘Have. | Oratio ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘Lector diuitiae pede et solutae | Et iunctae simul omnis usque vocis'; 20 phalaecian hendecasyllables. Explicit: ‘... Successus referens diu cupitos: | Temnes rinocerotis [sic] usque nasum. | Vale.’
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Stephan Plannck, 5 Jan. 1493. 4°.
Secundo folio: Postea quam ad sanctitatem tua adventavimus ut unius- [a3r]
Collation
Collation: [a4].
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ie00110000
GW: GW 9396;
Hain: H *6689;
Goff: Goff E‑110;
BMC: BMC IV 97;
Proctor: Pr 3709;
Others: BSB‑Ink E‑100; Oates 1488; Rhodes 738; Sheppard 2972.
LCN: 14863081
Copies
Copy number: E-031(1)
Formerly bound first in a volume of speeches, the contents of which are listed in manuscript on [a1v].
Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, with purple cloth over paper boards.
Size: 208 × 145 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 130 mm.
On [a1v] list of contents of original volume in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Early marginal annotations and underlining in the text in black ink.
Provenance: Andreas Calceolus (fl. 1558); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Andreas Calceolus anno 1558'. Burghausen, Bavaria, Jesuits; inscription on [a2r]: ‘Collegii Societatis Jesu Burghusii 1634'. Probably a duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; pencil no. ‘4650/4' on [a1r]. Purchased from Caspar Haugg on 30 Nov. 1885, Catalogue 78 (1885), no. 115, for 4 Marks; see Library Bills (1885), no. 381.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 6.33.
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