Bod-Inc: P-176
Petrobonus Alexandrinus, Hieronymus
Bentivola.
Analysis of Content
A1r Petrobonus Alexandrinus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bentivolus II. ‘Hieronymus Alexandrinus Petrobonus Caesarei ac Pontificii iuris scolasticus illustrissimo patriae patri Iohanni Bentivolo secundo s.d. plurimam.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ummi phylosophi, excellentissime princeps, qui rerum omnium et actuum naturam ...’ A2v Explicit: ‘... altiori stilo decantaberis. Vale, et me tuorum mancipiorum ascribas numero.’
A3r Petrobonus Alexandrinus, Hieronymus: Bentivola. ‘Hieronymi Alexandrini Petroboni Caesari iuris ac Pontificii scolastici Bentivola foeliciter incipit.’ Incipit: [C]ara uerecundo folianos pectore musa | I pete et ingenti fusa rubore genas ... C4v Explicit: ‘... Perpetua hanc serram Iupiter auctet ope. [distichs]’
C4v Colophon: ‘Bentivolae opus finit, impressioni datum anno M.cccclxxxxiiii. quintodecimo callendas Iulias.’
Imprint
Imprint: [Bologna Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis] 17 June 1494. 4°.
Secundo folio: A2r toris insistit. Qui saluberrimam animi moderatio
Collation
Collation: A B8 C4.
Types: Type: 112 R. Capital spaces with guide-letters.
Leaves: 20 leaves.
Line number: 25 lines (A2r).
Type area: Type area: 140 ×88 mm (A2r).
References
ISTC: ip00421000
Hain: H *12840;
Goff: Goff P‑421;
Proctor: Pr 6601;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑291; CIBN P‑198; Pellechet MS. 9313 (9137); Sheppard 5346.
LCN: 14488490
Copies
Copy number: P-176(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) quarter calf with paper boards covered with red cloth; gold-tooled spine.
Size: 206 × 150 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 142 mm.
Note in a sixteenth-century(?) hand on a piece of parchment now pasted onto the front pastedown; formerly part of a legal document, with the scar of a seal and the slit for its attachment, also the name ‘Caspar Pfister L[ ] 50lb.' The printed text is preceded by 8 leaves containing the following Latin verses in manuscript in black ink with red initials, in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century humanist hand:
(1) ‘Hilarionis monachi poema ad eruditissimum virum Matthaeum Bossium Veronensem canonicum regularem', with incipit, ‘Matthæe æonidum princeps et gloria Phoebi | Salue iam summis annumerande viris' [14 lines]; (2) ‘Egloga in natalem Christi. Corydon, Tityrus, Meliboeus pastores tres', with incipit, ‘Forte dies sollemnis erat qua rustica multo | Fessa labore manus requiem captabat in vmbra' [92 lines]; (3) ‘Ad eundem', with incipit, ‘Inclyta prodigium celi regina quod egit | Hunc nostre cecine pater Matthee camoene' [7 lines]; (4) ‘Carmen de quodam Virginis Marie prodigio', with incipit, ‘Confingunt alii lasciua poemata vates | Bella canunt alii reserataque limina iani' [172 lines]; the verses are followed by a further concluding verse in the same hand in red ink, with incipit, ‘Si quid habes plausum uel quid mereatur honorem | Sit summi totus omnipotentis honos' [4 lines].
Provenance: Legnago, Verona, S. Maria Gratiarum, Dominicans; see heavily erased inscription on the recto of the first front endleaf, partly visible under ultraviolet light: ‘Iste libellus est sancte Marie de gratiis de memoria [ ] ad usum o[rdinis?] [?] Lenaciensis.' Heavily cancelled note or inscription on the verso of the last front endleaf; unread under ultraviolet light. Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); sale, 1 Aug. 1859, lot 2014. Purchased for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 68.
SHELFMARK: Auct. S 7.3.
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