Bod-Inc: H-009

Hemmerlin, Felix

De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus et alia opuscula.

 

Analysis of Content

A1r [Title-page with table of contents.]

A1r [Brant, Sebastian: Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quantumcunque leges minimum? Te lectio parua | Vix satiet veniam si dabis ipse stilo'; 1 elegiac distich.

A1r [Note about Felix Hemmerlin.] Incipit: ‘Vixit Foelix iste Malleolus circa annum domini Mccccxxxxiiii.’

A2r Malleolus ‘Uulgo' Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Prologus' [addressed to] Albertus VI von Hapsburg, Duke of Austria and Styria. Incipit: ‘[G]lorioso principi domino meo domino Alberto illustri duci Austrie et Stirie, etc., preceptori gratiosissimo Felix . . . Bonorum tamen hominum patientia de vniuersitatis alme . . .’ On the author and his works see VL III 989-1001, especially at pp. 997-8. The work announced on the title-page ‘De Switensium ortu, nomine, confederatione, moribus et quibusdam, vtinam bene, gestis' probably refers to chapter 33 of this work.

A3v [Table of contents.] ‘Registrum.’

a1r Hemmerlin, Felix: De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus et alia opuscula. Incipit: ‘[Q]uidam nobilis armate milicie miles militandi causa prout consueuit se de terra . . .’

z6v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Processus iudiciarius habitus coram omnipotenti deo inter nobiles et Thuricenses ex vna et Switenses cum complicibus partibus ex altera', [addressed to] Fredericus V von Hapsburg, King of the Romans (Emperor Fredericus III). Incipit: ‘[S]erenissimo principi et domino domino Friderico Romanorum regi excellentissimo, Felix . . . Cum generosus animus maiestatis regie frequenter occupetur . . .’

[et5r] Carolus I, Magnus [pseudo-; Hemmerlin, Felix]: ‘Epistola . . . de throno celorum congruenter occasione premissorum ad modernum regem Romanorum directa', [addressed to] Fredericus III, King of the Romans. Incipit: ‘[K]arolus imperator semper Augustus dilecto nobis filio Friderico regalis maiestatis successori . . . De nobis archano collateralis assessoris impenso . . .’

[et6r] Fredericus III, King of the Romans [pseudo-; Hemmerlin, Felix]: ‘Responsio' [addressed to] Carolus I, Magnus. Incipit: ‘[F]elicissimo principi Karolo magno imperatorum imperatori maximo semper Augusto . . . Fridericus Romanus . . . non tibi salutem quam beatissime frueris perpetua licebit premittere, sed ut salutem . . .’

[et6r] Carolus I, Magnus [pseudo-; Hemmerlin, Felix]: ‘Replicatio Karoli magni recitantis terre principes impiorum consilio facillantes', [addressed to] Fredericus III, King of the Romans. Incipit: ‘[K]arolus imperator, etc. charissimo nobis filio Friderico . . . Tibi nuper imperiose legalitatis magnanimitate post . . .’

Imprint

Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1493-1500]. Folio.

Remarks: As dated by Hillard and CIBN; Sheppard dates [c.1497], and BSB‑Ink [c.1500].

Collation

Collation: A⁴ a–c⁸ d–z⁶ [et]⁸.

Remarks: Leaf A1 unsigned, A2 signed A, Aiii signed Aii.

References

ISTC: ih00015000

Hain: H *8426;

Goff: Goff H‑15;

BMC: BMC I 129;

Proctor: Pr 582;

Others: BSB‑Ink H‑41; CIBN H‑7; Hillard 988; Oates 219; Sack, Freiburg, 1773; Sheppard 449.

LCN: 14508953

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