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Philelphus, Franciscus

Epistolae.

 

Analysis of Content

[a2r] Philelphus, Franciscus: Epistolae. ‘Leonardo Iustiniano'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod nihil apud me duxerim antiquius beniuolentia tua . . .’ Includes letters to: Leonardus Justinianus; Franciscus Barbarus; Marcus Lypomanus; Daniel Veturius; Victorinus Feltrensis; Franciscus Ferretus; Antonius Capanorensis; Kyriacus Anconitanus; Johannes Aurispa; Federicus Cornelius; Gabriel Maurus; Petrus Thomasius; Andreas Julianus; Marcus Cannetolus; Nicolaus Faba; Gasparinus [Barzizius] Bergomensis; Ambrosius [Traversarius]; Bartholomaeus Fracanzanus; Palla Strozzi; Nicolaus Nicolus; Andreas Constantinopolitanus; Thomas Sarzanensis [i.e. Tommaso Parentucelli]; Leonardus Aretinus; Antonius Luschus; Johannes Lamola; Nicolaus Arcimboldus; Antonius Panormita; Cardinal Nicolaus [Albergati]; Carolus [Marsupinus] Aretinus; Thomas Seneca; Cincius Romanus; Cosmus [de] Medici; Bornius [de] Sala; Alberthus Zancarius; Petrus Perleonus; Johannes Franciscus Gallina; Lapo Florentinus; Philippus Maria Angelus [Visconti]; Johannes Paleologus, Emperor; [Guglielmo VII] Paleologus, Marchese di Monferrato; Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.; Senatus et populus Perusinus; Senatus et populus Bononiensis; Raphael Fuscherarius [i.e. Fuscararius]; Lapo Castelliunculus; Franciscus [I] Sfortia; Cato Saccus; Pius II, Pont. Max.; Johannes Tuscanella; Aloysius Crottus; Cardinal Gerardus Landrianus; Guarnerius Castellionus; Saxolus Pratensis; Johannes Ferufinus; Johannes Antonius Brixianus; Honofrius Stroza; Petrus Joannetus; Petrus Michaelis; Andreocius Petrucius; Rainaldus Albizius; Senatus et populus Florentinus; Jacobus Cassianus [de Sancto Cassiano] Cremonensis; Georgius Carrectus; Franciscus Barbavara; Thomas Bononiensis; Antonius Pessina; Blasius Axaeretensis; Franciscus Piccolpassus; Augustinus Datus; Nicolaus Puteus Cremonensis; Simon Arrigonus; Matronianus Brascha; Liberius Bonarellus; Hieronymus Bellantius; Daniel Venturius; Nicolaus Ceba; Johannes Marius filius; Leodrysius Cribellus; Guinifortus Barzizius; Antonius Metellus; Antonius Raudensis; Joannocius Manettus; Jacobus Constantius; Franciscus Scalamontius; Johannes Olzina; Scaeva; Johannes Antonius Rembaldus; Normanus Albizius; Antonius Petrucius; Ladislas [Posthumus], King of Hungary; Petrus Candidus Leucus Decembrius; Bavariae philosophus ac medicus; Franciscus Ocha; Antonius Trebanus; Nicolaus V, Pont. Max.; Matthiolus/Matthaeus Perusinus; Jacobinus Bichetus; Galeacius Cremensis; [Johannes] Bessarion; Angelus Actiolus; Guarnerius Veronensis; Petrus Medici Cosmi filius; Gregorius Arrigus; Georgius Lampugnanus; Innigo d'Avalos; Antonius Bernaregius; Philippus [Pellizzoni] Mediolanensis; Lapo Pisanus; Phoebus Capella; Nicolaus Fraegosus; Flavius Blondus; Georgius Platus; Nicolaus Varo; Leonellus d'Este; Lampugninus Biragus; Johannes Amidaeus; Scribis ducalibus; Johannes Amerinus; Antonius Canobius; Nicodemus Tranchedinus; Thomas Fraegosus; Johannes evangelista frater heremitanus; Maemmus Gaza episcopus Crossetanus; Dominicus Maurus; Baptista Schacca Baroccius; Baldus Martyrellus; Facinus Forobronuncianensis; Cicchus [Simoneta] Calabrus; Johannes [Jacobus Simoneta] Calabrus; Renatus, KIng of Anjou; Galeottus Frumentus; Andreas Alamannus; Sphortia secundus; Laurentius Gyni filius?; Franciscus Patritius; Cardinal Lancelotus; Carolus [VII], King of France; Laurentius Valla; Angelus Reatinus; Gaspar Pisaurensis; Jacobus Camerina; Antonius Michaelis; Xenophons [Philelphus]; Marianus sacerdos [de Genazano?]; Donatus Actiolus; Benedictus Nursinus; Jacobus Braccellus et Gotthardus; Bartholomaeus Parmensis; Mattheus Pisaurensis; Christoforus Marlianus; Johannes Jordanus; Mansuetus Attendulus; Bartholomaeus Meltius; Michael Rocha; Augustinus Narinensis; Bartholomaeus Corigia; Baldassar Risinus; Matthia Trivianus; Ludovicus [III] Gonzaga; Lodovicus Casella; Galeacius [Cavriani] episcopus Mantuanus; Bernardus Justinianus; Baptista Albertus; Guilielmus Juvenalis Ursinus; Poggius [Bracciolinus]; Sigismundus Pandulphus Malatesta; Alexander Sphortia Attendulus; Nicolaus Stroza; Franciscus Castrensis; Johannes Jacobus Ricius; Ludovicus [Trevisan] cardinal Aquileiaeque patriarcha; Georgius Trapezuntius; Bartholomaeus [Roverella] Archiepiscopus Ravennates; Julianus [Falciglia]; Petrus Nucetanus; Malatesta Novellus; Cardinal Petrus Barbus; Cardinal Dominicus [Capranica] Firmanus; Lombardus Collionus; Johachimus et Ambrosius; Andreas Ferrariensis; Jacobus Cusanus; Bartholomaeus Bufanius; Bartholomaeus theologus; Bartholomaeus Bucinius; Johannes Aretinus; Alphonsus rex; Matthes Johannes(?); Jacobus Luparus; Nicolaus Didonus; Guido Jacobus Madius; Nicolaus [III] d'Este; Franciscus Aleardus; Thomas Coronaeus; Albertus Parrhisius; Lucinus Genuensis; Bartholomaeus episcopus Scalae; Stephanus Cornelius; Hieronymus Castellus; Johannes Andreae; Callistus III, Pont. Max.; Gregorius Typhernius; Baptista Parrhisianus; Antonius Beccaria; Thomas Francus; Porcellius; Lodouicus Cunii comes; Blasius Ghiglinus/Gyllinus [i.e. de Ghilinis]; Ottho Carretus; Paulus Cusanus; Gabriel ex ordine Minorum theologus [i.e. Gabriel Brunus]; Johannes Medicus; Nicolaus Canalis; Jacobus [de] Moranica; Bartholomaeus Ricciatensis; Mariotus Tertinus? Franciscus Castellanus; Pacinus Mercatus; Franciscus Cremensis; Borsius d'Este; Gaspar Mercatus; Carolus Fortibracius; Amaretus Mannellus; Johannes et Guido Antonius Arcimboldus; Jacobus Lucensis; Prosperus Columna; Aloysius Borra; Gregorius Lollius; Johannes Petrus Eutychius; Agapetus [Rusticus] Romanus; Johannes Franciscus Gonzaga; Theodorus Gaza; Marchesius Varisinus; Bernardus Pontano; Cardinal Alexander; Pascal Malippaerius; Jacobus Antonius Marcellus; Angelus Simoneta; Johanninus Barbatus; Laurentius Pisaurensis; Jacobus Puteus; Johannes Aloysius Guidobonus; Angelus Veterbinus; Lazarus Arretinius; Hermolaus Barbarus; Lazarus Scarampus; Leonardus Sabbatinus; Isidorus cardinal Rhutenus; Thomas Thebaldus. See V. R. Giustiniani, ‘Lo scrittore e l'uomo in Filelfo', in Francesco Filelfo nel quinto centenario della morte: atti del XVII convegno di studi maceratesi (Tolentino, 27-30 settembre, 1981) (Padua, 1986), 249-74; Riccardo Ribuoli, ‘Spunti filologici dall'epistolario del Filelfo', ibid., 139-62.

Imprint

Imprint: [Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, before 6 Oct. 1473]. Folio.

Remarks: Mentioned as recently printed in a letter of Philelphus of 6 October 1473; see L. A. Sheppard, ‘A Fifteenth-century Humanist, Francesco Filelfo', Library, 4th ser., 16 (1935), 1-26 at 20.

Collation

Collation: [a–s10 t4 v–z [et10] [con12]].

References

ISTC: ip00583000

Hain: HC *12926;

Goff: Goff P‑583;

BMC: BMC V 164;

Proctor: Pr 4060;

Others: CIBN P‑310; Oates 1622; Sheppard 3232.

LCN: 14386457

Copies

Copy number: P-259(1)

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [t4].

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia, with sprinkled red-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns. Rebacked, with the original spine laid down.

Size: 316 × 214 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 295 × 189 mm.

A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, providing explanations in Latin of specific words used in the text, and commenting on the beauty and elegance of the text, in Italian, in a sixteenth-century hand.

On [a2r] the woodcut initial is coloured in gold within a blue, green, and red ground decorated with white vine-stems and groups of three gold dots. Other initials are supplied in red or blue.

Provenance: Bologna, Franciscans of S. Paulo in Monte; cancelled inscription on [a2r]: ‘Loci Sancti Pauli montis Bononiæ G(?) 347'. Purchased by Heber for £1. 11. 6, according to the price annotated in red ink in Heber's sale catalogue. Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp on the recto of the front endleaf; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 4935. Purchased at his sale for £6. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1834), 22.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.35.


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