Bod-Inc: L-132
Locher, Jacobus
Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigrama' [addressed to] the readers. Incipit: ‘Quisquis ad exiguos nostri dictaminis orsus | diuertis, rigidum tolle supercilium'; 4 elegiac distichs.
a1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Fergenhans, ‘iuris utriusque doctori preposito Stugardiensi.’ Incipit: ‘Cum mecum reuoluo . . .’
a2r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Hexastichon' [addressed to] Ludouicus Fergenhans. Incipit: ‘Suscipe non magnum, gracilem sed queso libellum | Ascrei montis raptus ab Amne venit'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a2v Locher, Jacobus: Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum. ‘Exordium metricum.’ Incipit: ‘[M]oris erat priscis diuum implorare tonantem | Uatibus aut graias operi preponere musas'; hexameters.
a3r Locher, Jacobus: Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum. Incipit: ‘Nondum excubia nocte . . .’
b2v Locher, Jacobus: Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum. ‘Epilogus metricus ad studia poetice cohortans.’ Incipit: ‘Plaudite nunc iuueues(!), docti quoque plaudite patres | Transit ad optatum cymbula nostra solum'; elegiac distichs.
b3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Decatostichon de morte.’ Incipit: ‘Rebus in humanis quod sit constantia nulla | Id modo terrifica mortis imago docet'; 5 elegiac distichs.
b3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Distichon ad Apollinem.’ Incipit: ‘Phoebe faue, tenuem ne barbara turba poetam | Lancinet, ingenuum dilaceretque sophos'; 1 elegiac distich.
b3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Endecassyllabon eiusdem ad librum suum.’ Incipit: ‘Iam noster dominum liber require | Qui dulces tibi basiationes'; phalaecian hendecasyllables.
b3v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Conradus Locher. Incipit: ‘Scio eqnidem(!), mi Conrade, quod tibi admodum . . .’
b4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Endecasyllabon' [addressed to] Udalricus Zasius. Incipit: ‘Cultor pyeridum, sacrique vatis | Thymbrei fidicen quidem canorus'; phalaecian hendecasyllables.
b4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Tetrastichon' [addressed to] Gabriel Lorch. Incipit: ‘Tu quoque Cyrrhei cultor facunde liquoris | Adsis delitiis deprecor vsque meis'; 2 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Freiburg im Breisgau: Friedrich Riedrer, 1496-7]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a b4.
References
ISTC: il00263000
Hain: H *10166;
Goff: Goff L‑263;
BMC: BMC III 697;
Proctor: Pr 3222;
Others: BSB‑Ink L‑205; Sack, Freiburg, 2261-3; Sheppard 2259.
LCN: 14503051
Copies
Copy number: L-132(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboards; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 220 × 155 × 6 mm.
Size of leaf: 214 × 144 mm.
On a3r a correction in an early hand.
Paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining of chapter headings in red.
Provenance: Engelberg, Bavaria, Capuchins; inscription on b4r: ‘Fratrum Capucinorum Montis Angelorum 1639'. Purchased together with L‑131 for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 54.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.32.
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