Bod-Inc: P-276
Philelphus, Franciscus
Orationes, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Philelphus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sforza. Incipit: ‘[Q]uam parentalem quondam pro nobilissimo illo principe patre tuo Francisco . . .’ Dated Milan, 27 May 1481.
a2r ‘Annotatio'. [Table of contents.]
a3r Philelphus, Franciscus: Orationes funebres. Oratio parentalis de divi Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium ducis foelicitate. Incipit: ‘[S]i fieri posse censerem . . .’ Explicit: uenturique cognoscant Delivered in the cathedral of Milan, 9 Mar. 1467.
d1v Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio habita in funere divae viraginis Blancae Mariae Mediolanensium dux. Incipit: ‘[N]unquam futurum existimaram, patres conscripti . . .’ Explicit: sane mentis ignorat
e2r Philelphus, Franciscus: Consolatio de obitu Valerii filii [addressed to] Jacobus Antonius Marcellus. Incipit: ‘[C]upienti mihi aliquid ad te scribere . . .’ Explicit: memoriam relinquas immortalem Dated Milan, 25 Dec. 1461.
k1v Philelphus, Franciscus: Epistola consolatoria de obitu Alphinae matris [addressed to] Petrus Justinus Philelphus. Incipit: ‘[A]udio te angi animo ex obitu Alphinae . . .’ Explicit: gloriam peruenturus Dated 15 Feb. 1476.
k2r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio funebris pro magnifico ducali senatore et clarissimo equite aurato Philippo Borrhomaeo comite Haronae. Incipit: ‘[P]erdifficile mihi profecto et apprime laboriosum . . .’ Explicit: fert necessitatem Delivered in the church of S. Franciscus, 20 Aug. 1464.
k4r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio funebris pro magnifico equite aurato ducalique senatore Stephano Frederico Todeschino. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam non obscure futurum animaduertam . . .’ Explicit: inuidere foelicitati Delivered in Milan, S. Ambrogius, 1440.
k7r Philelphus, Franciscus: Orationes nuptiales. Oratio de inita societate inter illustrissimos duces Bonam eiusque filium Johannem Galeacium et Herculem Aestensem. Incipit: ‘[A]ristoteles ille peripateticus . . .’ Explicit: laetitiam facitote Delivered in Milan, 8 June 1477. See P‑274.
k8v Philelphus, Franciscus: Epithalamion in illutrium Beatricis Aestensis et Tristani Sphortiae nuptiis habitum. Incipit: ‘[E]t si laetandum mihi admodum sentio . . .’ Explicit: sermone transigam Dated Ferrara 6 Apr. 1455.
l3r Philelphus, Franciscus: Epistola responsiva insimulationi ac calumniae Guarini Veronensis [addressed to] Lodovicus Casella. Incipit: ‘[B]aldasar Cremensis qui medicinae studet . . .’ Explicit: causam tuere Dated Milan, 8 Aug. 1455.
l4r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio habita in sponsalitiis Theodori Plati clarissimi iureconsulti et Helisabet Vicecomitis. Incipit: ‘[S]iue ipsum naturae ductum . . .’ Explicit: satis atque super
l7v Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio habita in sponsalitiis Petri Biragi et Helisabet Princiuallis. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui sacratissimum coniugii uinculum . . .’ Explicit: propius accedamus Dated Milan, 10 Sept. 1458.
m1r Philelphus, Franciscus: Epithalamion in nuptiis nobilium coniugum Johannis Antonii Simonetae et Margaretae Cottae. Incipit: ‘[I]nter humanae societatis uincula . . .’ Explicit: propius accedatur
m2r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio habita in desponsione magnificae puellae Juliae Marutiae et magnifici equitis aurati Raymundi Attenduli. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanti fieri oporteat bene conueniens matrimonium . . .’ Explicit: propius accedamus
m3r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio habita in connubio magnificae puellae Margaretae Arcimboldae et magnifici equitis aurati Antonii Cribelli. Incipit: ‘[C]um inter uaehementissimos ac maximos animi affectus . . .’ Explicit: transigenda sunt Dated Milan, 25 June 1458.
m4v Philelphus, Franciscus: Orationes diversae. Oratio habita Mantuae pro duce Francisco Sphortia [addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[C]um essem pater beatissime nomine atque iussu . . .’ Explicit: conditionem ei liceret Delivered in Mantua, 18 Sept. 1459.
m7r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio congratulatoria de creatione Jacobi Borrhomaei Vitaliani comitis F. ad dignitatem et gradum episcopalem [addressed to ‘viri' of Pavia]. Incipit: ‘[N]on possem equidem uiri Papienses . . .’ Explicit: acceptissimum Dated Pavia, 25 Sept. 1456.
n2r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio de laudibus Laçari Scarampi episcopi [addressed to the people of Como]. Incipit: ‘[I]nstituenti mihi uiri Comenses uerba apud uos facere . . .’ Explicit: tradidere Delivered in the cathedral of Como, 16 Nov. 1460.
n5v Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio pro Theodoro Plato. Incipit: ‘[F]uerat profecto aequum et ab omnibus mea sententia . . .’ Explicit: diadema Delivered in the cathedral of Pavia, 3 Aug. 1460.
n8v Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio habita Mediolani in principio studii. Incipit: ‘[T]anquam eloquentiae et illustrium disciplinarum studia . . .’ Explicit: perscripta sunt
o1r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio gratiarum activa [addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[Q]uam mihi profecto mirificam animi laeticiam . . .’ Explicit: intermoriturum
o1v Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio habita in principio Quaestionum Tusculanarum M. Tullii Ciceronis in studio urbis Romae. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui tyrones primum in castra uenerint . . .’ Explicit: Cicero Dated Rome, 12 Jan. 1475.
o2r Philelphus, Franciscus: Oratio de suo in urbem reditu [addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanta sit in obseruatione . . .’ Explicit: deuoui
o3r Philelphus, Franciscus: Praefatio in traductionem praeceptorum Rhetorices Aristotelis de causis ciuilibus [addressed to] Cardinal Alphonsus de Cavillo [i.e. Carrillo]. Incipit: ‘[C]um superiore anno Bononiae docerem . . .’ Explicit: plane reperiuntur
o4r Aristoteles [pseudo-]: Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum Magnum. [Also known as Rhetorica ad Alexandrum.] Translated by Franciscus Philelphus. ‘Aristotelis in praecepta Rhetorices de causis ciuilibus ad Alexandrum Macedonum regem praefatio'. Incipit: ‘[A]ristoteles Alexandro regi salutem dicit. Sum tuis litteris factus certior nonnullos saepe ad nos misisse . . . Tria sunt genera ciuilium causarum . . .’ See P‑274.
r4v Philelphus, Franciscus: Praefatio in traductionem Apophthegmatum Plutarchi Cheronensis ad Traianum Caesarem [addressed to] Philippus Maria Angelus [Visconti]. Incipit: ‘[L]ectitanti mihi nuper Graeca quaedam princeps . . .’ Explicit: subnectam
r5r Plutarchus [pseudo-]: Apophthegmata. Translated by Franciscus Philelphus. Incipit: ‘[C]um Artaxerxi Persarum regi . . . Persae amant homines adunco naso . . .’ expl: Roma futura sit See P‑274.
u3v Philelphus, Franciscus: Epistolaris praefatio in Plutarchi Cheronensis Apophthegmata Laconica ab eo e graeco in latinum traducta [addressed to] Nicolaus V, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[Q]uo de te magis Nicolae quintae . . .’ Explicit: ad te ibunt
u4r Plutarchus: Apophthegmata Laconica. Translated by Franciscus Philelphus, Milan 1 Oct. 1454. Incipit: ‘[A]gasicles rex Lacedaemoniorum admirante quodam Philophanem sophistam . . .’ Explicit: seipsam exegit
z3v Philelphus, Franciscus: [Prefatory letter addressed to] Federicus Cornelius. Incipit: ‘Quod multarum legum mentionem factam inuenias . . .’ Dated Bologna, 11 Apr. 1439.
z3v Philelphus, Franciscus: Annotatio legum apud veteres scriptores crebrius commemoratarum. ‘Lex Pompeia'. Incipit: ‘Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo ueteribus incolis trans Padanis . . .’ Explicit: capitalis esset
Imprint
Imprint: [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1498]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by BSB‑Ink and CIBN; Sheppard dates [c.1495].
Collation
Collation: a–y8 z6.
References
ISTC: ip00612000
Hain: HC (+ Addenda) *12918;
Goff: Goff P‑612;
BMC: BMC III 757;
Proctor: Pr 7645;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑450; CIBN P‑327; Oates 2804; Sack, Freiburg, 2860; Sheppard 2451.
LCN: 14387332
Copies
Copy number: P-276(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled pasteboards, with sprinkled red-edged leaves.
Size: 207 × 148 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 196 × 136 mm.
With an engraved portrait of Philelphus pasted onto the title-page. Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and concepts, in an early hand, probably that of Corbin.
A few initials are supplied in blue.
Provenance: ‘Hierosme Corbin' (sixteenth century); name on z6v. Alexander Ireland (1810-1894); sale (13 Mar. 1885), lot 1351. Acquired after 1885.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.77.
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