Bod-Inc: P-004
Pallavicinus, Baptista
Historia flendae crucis et funeris Jesu Christi.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Pallavicinus, Baptista: ‘Prologus' [addressed to] Eugenius IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[M]ire pater quo sub populi pastore iubemur | Sectarique deum et certam sperare salutem'; 12 hexameters.
[a1r] Pallavicinus, Baptista: Historia flendae crucis et funeris Jesu Christi. Incipit: ‘[F]ilius omnipotens uenturi praescius aeui | Omnia dinumerans cum iam completa dedisset'.
[b5r] Justinianus, Leonardus: ‘Oratio' [addressed to] the Virgin Mary. [Translated by Baptista Pallavicinus.] Incipit: ‘[A]lma decus superum uirgo regina gradusque | Quo datur ad summi tecta tonantis iter'; 26 elegiac distichs. This is the translation of the following work; Pallavicinus is named as translator in the printed title.
[b6r] Justinianus, Leonardus: ‘Moralis cantilena'. Laudario Giustinianeo, ed. Francesco Luisi, 2 vols (Venice, 1983), I, 274, no. 28, omitting line 41.
[b7r] ‘Recommendatio animae in extremis cuiuscunque laborantis'. Incipit: ‘Si letus spectare uelis tibi forte propinquam | Mortem mente lege plenum dulcedine carmen'; 76 hexameters.
[b8r] [Colophon.]
[b8r] ‘Registrum cartarum'.
[b8v] [Second title-page.]
Imprint
Imprint: Treviso: [Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria], 21 Feb. 1494. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a b8].
References
ISTC: ip00014000
Hain: HC (+ Addenda) 12282;
Goff: Goff P‑14;
BMC: BMC VI 885;
Proctor: Pr 6509;
Others: CIBN P‑9; Hillard 1511; Rhodes, Treviso, no. 31; Sheppard 5499.
LCN: 14444389
Copies
Copy number: P-004(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century grey paper boards, backed with grey cloth. Red paper label, with the author and title embossed in gilt, on the upper cover.
Size: 215 × 153 × 4 mm.
Size of leaf: 215 × 151 mm.
Copious early marginal and interlinear notes in two humanist hands, one writing in red ink, the other in black ink, consisting of comments on the text. On [b4v] in red ink, ‘Epigramma magistri Marci Rustinici': ‘Vis summam mundi perfecte artemque supernam | Noscere qua poteris regna subire poli | Discitur tu toto melius nil tempore vite | Quam bene si noris fine subire recte' (sic).
Provenance: Purchased in 1900; date stamp, 8 Oct. 1900, in the lower margin of [a1v].
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I10.1494.1.
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