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Bod-Inc: P-279

Philelphus, Johannes Marius

Novum epistolarium (ed. Ludovicus Mondellus).

 

Analysis of Content

A1v Mondellus, Ludovicus: [Letter addressed to] Octavianus Ubaldinus, prince of Mercatello. Incipit: ‘Vellem Octauiane princeps illustris et doctorum uirorum praesidium ac decus . . .’ Dated Paris, 29 Apr. 1481. On this and the following letters see L. Michelini Tocci, ‘Ottaviano Ubaldini della Carda e una inedita testimonianza della battaglia di Varna (1444)', in Mélanges Eugénie Tisserant, VII, Studi e Testi, 237 (Vatican City, 1964), 98-130, at 109.

A3r Ubaldinus, Octavianus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Mondellus. Incipit: ‘Amabam te antea Lodouice Mondelle . . .’ Dated Urbino, 5 July 1481.

a1r Philelphus, Johannes Marius: Novum epistolarium. [Preface addressed to] Ludovicus Mondellus. Incipit: ‘[D]ecreueram iandudum aliquid aedere . . .’

a1v Philelphus, Johannes Marius: Novum epistolarium. Edited by Ludovicus Mondellus. ‘Praecepta artis rhetorices et primo de exordio cum beniuolentia ab auditoribus'. Incipit: ‘[I]n tali exordio siue per orationem siue per epistolas . . .’

t4v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui cupis in paucis uersari et multa uidere | Hoc lege quod Marius utile prompsit opus'; 7 elegiac distichs. Saxius 580.

t4v ‘Ordo contentorum'.

Imprint

Imprint: Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeler, 29 Apr. 1484. 4°.

Collation

Collation: A4 a–i K l–s8 t6.

References

ISTC: ip00616500

Hain: HR 12969;

BMC: BMC VI 751;

Proctor: Pr 5949;

Others: BSB‑Ink P‑452; Sheppard 4953.

LCN: 14492095

Copies

Copy number: P-279(1)

Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) gold- and blind-tooled (fillets only) diced russia, with yellow-edged leaves.

Size: 206 × 150 × 23 mm.

Size of leaf: 200 × 140 mm.

Bibliographical note in pencil on front endleaf signed ‘WR' [William Roscoe].

Provenance: William Roscoe (1753-1831); ‘Mr. Roscoe's copy' in pencil on verso of front endleaf; sale (19 Aug. 1816), lot 734. Purchased from G. & J. Robinson, Liverpool, for £0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 31.

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.17.


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