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Gabriel, Johannes

Ciceronis clausulae ex Epistolis ad familiares excerptae (ed. Caesar Tortus).

 

Analysis of Content

a1v Gabriel, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Bichus. Incipit: ‘[C]orporis tui proceritas dignitas faciei . . .’

a2v Gabriel, Johannes: [Table.] ‘Genera in quae digestae sunt familiarium epistolarum Ciceronis clausulae.’

a3r Gabriel, Johannes: Ciceronis clausulae ex Epistolis ad familiares excerptae. Incipit: ‘Assentatoriae. fo.iii. Clausulae familiarium epistolarum Ciceronis . . . Nam nostra propungnatio(!) ac defensio dignitatis . . .’ See G. Fioravanti, ‘Maestri di grammatica a Siena nella seconda metà del quattrocento', in Umanesimo a Siena. Letteratura, arti figurative, musica, Siena, 5-8 Giugno 1991, ed. E. Cioni and D. Fausti (Siena, 1994), 11-27, at 12-15.

e5v Tortus, Caesar: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Mathaeus [Aquaviva], Marquess of Bitonto. Incipit: ‘Solebam, illustrissime domine, iam diu mecum ipse . . .’ See C. Bianca, Andrea Matteo Acquaviva e i libri a stampa, in Territorio e feudalità nel mezzogiorno Rinascimentale. Il ruolo degli Acquaviva tra XV e XVI secolo. Atti del Primo Convegno Internazionale di studi su la Casa Acquaviva d'Atri e di Conversano, Conversano - Atri, 13-16 Settembre 1991, ed. C. Lavarra (Lecce, 1995), 39-53, at 46-7.

e6v Tortus, Caesar: [Verse addressed to] Andreas Mathaeus [Aquaviva]. Incipit: ‘Magnus Allexander regnum sibi praeparat armis | Viribus alcidae caedat vterque polus'; 3 elegiac distichs.

e65 [First colophon.] Incipit: ‘Finis clausularum Ciceronis adest quas Joannes Galriel(!) Senensis . . .’ Stating the use of florilegia.

e6v [Corrigenda addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Haec paucula, lector amantissime, que aberrata erant librariorum . . .’

[f1v] Ursellus, Bernardinus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bichus. Incipit: ‘Quesisti a me, Joannes Biche, eques insignis, quid sentiam de clausularum Ciceronis digestione . . .’

[f2r] Valsanus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Habes, iocundissime lector, Ciceronis epistolarum familiarium clausulas . . .’

[f2v] Gabriel, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Mendoza. Incipit: ‘[P]uer olim ad meam vtilitatem Ciceronis epistolarum . . .’ Stating that the following treatise was composed at the instigation of Mendoza.

[f2v] Gabriel, Johannes: Componendi epistolas modus. Incipit: ‘Quod legendus maxime Cicero est. Monet Fabius Quintilianus libro illo . . .’

Imprint

Imprint: Siena: Henricus de Colonia, 7 Oct. 14[8]9; 5 Oct. 1489. 4°.

Remarks: Two colophons; in the first the date is misprinted as ‘M.cccc.lxxxxix.': see BMC.

Collation

Collation: a–d⁸ e⁶ [f⁴].

References

ISTC: ig00002000

GW: GW 10431;

Hain: C 2603;

Goff: Goff G‑2;

BMC: BMC VII 1099;

Proctor: Pr 7281;

Others: Hillard 838; Oates 2712; Sheppard 6038.

LCN: 14840884

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