Bod-Inc: M-039
Mancinellus, Antonius
Carmen de floribus ad Veliternos, et al.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v Mancinellus, Antonius: [Letter in verse addressed to] Orsus Orsinus, Bishop of Teano. Incipit: ‘[V]rse decus procerum, Romanae gloria linguae | Vnica pierio spesque salusque choro'; 10 elegiac distichs.
A1v [Table of contents.]
A2r Mancinellus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘[N]on solum sciendi aliquid artem esse . . .’ Dated Rome, 1 Aug. 1489.
A2v Mancinellus, Antonius: Carmen de floribus ad Veliternos. Incipit: ‘[A]bba pater(?), monachus pater(?) Abbas idem redundat. | Est Abacus mensa in qua Bacchi pocula ponunt'; hexameters(?).
E7v Mancinellus, Antonius: [Verse addressed to] Johannes Vitesius. Incipit: ‘[P]annonios inter fama celeberrie(!) presul | Romano eloquio uel Cicerone prior'; 9 elegiac distichs.
E8r Mancinellus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Michael Pannonius. Incipit: ‘[E]t si Fabius Quintilianus Diomedes etiam . . .’ Dated Rome, 5 Aug. 1489.
E8r [Table of contents.]
F1r Mancinellus, Antonius: Carmen de figuris. Incipit: ‘[F]igura sicut nomine ipso patet est . . .’ See Sabbadini, Antonio Mancinelli, 23.
H2r Mancinellus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Petrica. Incipit: ‘[P]oetas Veliternorum et Latii . . .’ Dated 1 Aug. 1486.
H2r [Table of contents.]
H3r Mancinellus, Antonius: De poetica virtute. Incipit: ‘[A]t qui sic a summis . . .’
I2v Quatrassus Sermonetanus, Ascanius: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quod te uita docet quam sit castissima uatum | Per Mancinellum suscipe lector opus'; 1 elegiac distich.
I2v Mancinellus, Antonius: Vitae carmen. Incipit: ‘[Q]uae mihi terra parens(?) quae me genuere(?) parentes | Cognomen fuerit qua ratione datum'; 82 elegiac distichs. See Sabbadini, Antonio Mancinelli, 24.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 11 Dec. 1493. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–H8 I4.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: im00108000
Hain: HC *10617;
Goff: Goff M‑108;
BMC: BMC V 528;
Proctor: Pr 5426;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑74; CIBN M‑48; Hillard 1296; Oates 2104; Rhodes 1156; Sheppard 4515.
LCN: 14477035
Copies
Copy number: M-039(1)
Gathering E misbound in the order E5,6,3,4.
Binding: Eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf, with coat of arms: beneath a ducal(?) coronet, an oval shield, per fess or and gules, in chief an eagle displayed, and in base a bend cotticed vert. Gold-tooled spine and sprinkled red- and green-edged leaves.
Size: 205 × 155 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 199 × 145 mm.
Provenance: Bookseller's mark: ‘H. F. Münster 1884' on front pastedown. Date of acquisition unknown; other books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired in 1884.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.51.
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