Bod-Inc: P-236

Petrus Ravennas

Phoenix seu De artificiosa memoria.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.] ‘Foenix domini Petri Rauennatis Memoriae magistri'.

a2r Severius, Secretarius Ducis Ferrarie: [Privilege.] Incipit: ‘Eleonora de Aragonia Ducissa Ferrariae etc. Quod ab omnium bonorum datore immortali deo generi humano concessum est . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 10 Oct. 1491.

a2v Antonius: [Privilege.] Incipit: ‘Bonifacius Marchio Montis ferrati etc. Decet per maxime principes eorum non silere commendationes . . .’ Dated Pontestura (Piedmont), 24 Sept. 1488. The author is probably Giovanni Antonio Ripa, ‘proconsole' of Bonifacius III in 1488; see Vincenzo de Conti, Notizie storiche della città di Casale e del Monferrato, 9 vols (Casale, 1839-42), III 285.

a3v Antonius Iuanus: [Privilege.] Incipit: ‘Priores et vexillifer iustitiae populi et communis ciuitatis Pistorii . . .’ Dated Pistoia, 12 Sept. 1480.

a4r Decius, Lancellottus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Ravennas. Incipit: ‘Saluus sis frater optime, uenientem sororium meum Patauium . . .’ Dated Pavia, 9 Nov. 1488.

a4v Aegidius Viterbiensis: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Ravennas. ‘Paduae domino Petro memoriae magistro'. Incipit: ‘Quid modo pyramides, quid iam Babylona canamus | Quid Iouis et Triuiae templa superba deae'; 7 elegiac distichs.

b1r Johannes Antonius: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Ravennas. Incipit: ‘Venimus externa sub celsa palatia luce | Curia conscriptos qua capit ampla patres'; 11 elegiac distichs.

b1v Picardus, Marcus: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Ravennas. Incipit: ‘Simonides cedat mensque alta Themistoclis una | Inclytus arpigena cum Cicerone Solon'; 2 elegiac distichs.

b1v Buticella, Hieronymus: Carmen [addressed to] the students of the University of Pavia. Incipit: ‘Alma decens studio studiosum spernere noli | Sic Petrum ualet hic iuribus atque pede'; 6 elegiac distichs.

b1v Buticella, Hieronymus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Si sua mirantur memorantem secula Cirum | Vt numen Petrum secula nostra colant'; 1 elegiac distich.

b2r Petrus Ravennas: Phoenix seu De artificiosa memoria. [Preface.] Incipit: ‘Quoniam aetate nostra paucos excellenti memoria praedictos fuisse cognouimus . . .’

b3r Petrus Ravennas: Phoenix seu De artificiosa memoria. Incipit: ‘[P]rima erit conclusio: Ars ista constat ex locis et imaginibus . . .’

d3v Petrus Ravennas: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Hic liber est qui nunc praebebit lumina caecis | Praeceptis poterunt dicere multa meis'; 3 elegiac distichs.

d3v Senate of Venice: [Privilege.] Incipit: ‘Adiens praesentiam serenissimi principis et illustrissimi dominii egregius . . .’ Dated 3 Jan. 1491 [i. e. 1492]. Signed by the ‘princeps in collegio' [= Augustinus Barbadicus, Doge of Venice 1486-1501?], Dominicus Maurocenus, Nicolaus Leono, Thomas Mocenigo, Marcus Fusculo, Nicolaus Trivisanus, and Leonardus Lauretanus ‘Consiliarii', and by Georgius Nigro, ducal secretary; see Fulin no. 4.

d4v Lycinius, C.: Decatonstichon [addressed to] ‘Candidum lectorem'. Incipit: ‘Si memorem tentas fieri te Candide lector | Atque inter celebres nomen habere uiros'; 5 elegiac distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: [Bologna: Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, c.1492]. 4°.

Remarks: As ascribed by BMC; a pirated edition, reprinted with the same page-contents and the colophon unaltered from the genuine first edition: ‘Venice: Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, 10 Jan. 1491'.

Collation

Collation: a–d⁴.

References

ISTC: ip00532000

Hain: R 707;

Goff: Goff P‑532;

BMC: BMC VII 1151;

Proctor: Pr 7420;

Others: CIBN P‑268; Hillard 1590; Sheppard 5368.

LCN: 14718385

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