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Picus de Mirandula, Johannes
Opera (ed. Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula).
Analysis of Content
Part I.
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sfortia. Dated Mirandola, 1 Mar. 1496. Giovanfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Johannis Pici Mirandulae viri omni disciplinarum genere consummatissimi Vita, ed. T. Sorbelli (Modena, 1963), 20-4.
a2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: Vita Pici. Pico della Mirandola, Johannis Pici Mirandulae . . . Vita, ed. Sorbelli 30-88.
A1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Heptaplus de septiformi sex dierum Geneseos enarratione [dedicated to] Laurentius Medicus. The entire volume was edited by Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. De hominis dignitate. Heptaplus. De ente et uno, e scritti vari, ed. E. Garin (Florence, 1942), 167-383; with corrections in E. Garin, La cultura filosofica del Rinascimento italiano, 2nd edn (Florence, 1979), 278-9; Heptaplus, ed. Adolfo Ruiz Diaz (Buenos Aures, 1998).
AA1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Laurentius Medicus. Incipit: ‘[A]pologiam nostram dicaui tibi . . .’
AA1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Apologia. [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[C]um nuper Romam uenissem pedes summi pontificis Innocentii octaui . . .’ Reproduced from the 1532 edition in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Apologia propositionum suarum, ed. José V. de Pina Martins (Lisbon, 1963).
AA6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Apologia. ‘Questio prima de descensu Christi ad inferos'. Incipit: ‘[P]rima conclusio ex propositis a me in disputatione mea quam isti damnauerunt fuit hec. Cristus non ueraliter et quantum ad realem . . . Circa istam conclusionem primo uolo declarare sensum meum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia (Basel, 1557; repr. Hildesheim, 1969), 125-237.
KK3v Alexander Vi, Pont. Max.: [Writ addressed to Johannes Picus de Mirandula.] Omnium catholicorum. Incipit: ‘Dilecte filii . . . omnium catholicorum quieti et famae . . .’ Dated Rome, 18 June 1493. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, ii.
LL1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: De ente et uno [dedicated to] Angelus Politianus. De hominis dignitate, ed. Garin, 385-441.
MM1v [Cittadinus], Antonius Faventinus: Obiectiones adversus libellum de uno et ente. Incipit: ‘[S]i libellus quispiam de ente et uno inscribi mereatur . . .’ Each obiectio is followed by Johannes Picus' answer.
OO2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Solutio obiectionum, addressed to] Antonius Cittadinus Faventinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam Ioannis Pici patrui mei obitu . . .’
PP6r [Cittadinus], Antonius Faventinus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[I]llustri principi . . . legi missas ad me in patrui tui scripta defensiones . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 16 Dec. 1495.
PP6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Cittadinus Faventinus. Incipit: ‘Satisfactum est abunde tuis uotis . . .’ Dated Mirandola, 4 Jan. 1496.
QQ1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: ‘Argumentum in orationem et epistolas Ioannis Pici patrui etc.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ccipe lector et has Ioannis Pici Mirandulae lucubrationes . . .’
QQ2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Oratio quaedam elegantissima [de hominis dignitate]. De hominis dignitate, ed. Garin, 101-64; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oratio de hominis dignitate, ed. E. Garin (Pordenone, 1994).
RR3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Epistolae.]
RR3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘In eo qui est uera salus . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 15 May 1492.
RR4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Philippus Beroaldus. Incipit: ‘[A]ccepi abste doctissime Beroalde et epistolam . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 347.
RR5r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Medicus. Incipit: ‘[L]egi Laurenti Medice rythmos tuos . . .’ Dated Florence, 15 July 1484. Prosatori latini del Quattrocento, 796-804.
RR6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[E]go quidem mi Hermolae nec possum aut tacere . . .’ Dated Florence, 3 June 1485. Prosatori latini del Quattrocento, 804-22.
SS3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Baptista Mantuanus. Incipit: ‘[S]alue pater dilectissime, de Apollonio Thianeo nihil sentio . . .’ Dated Florence, 20 Mar. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 358-9.
SS4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Aldus Manutius. Incipit: ‘[M]itto Homerum quem desiderabas . . .’ Dated Florence, 11 Feb. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 359.
SS4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[A]udio te patriarcham Aquileliensem electum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 359.
SS4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid esse hoc dicam mi Hermolae . . .’ Dated Florence, 31 July 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 359-60.
SS4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus [Savonarola?]. Incipit: ‘[N]isi Angelus noster ad te scriberet . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 360.
SS4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod hactenus tuis literis non responderim . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 30 May 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 360.
SS4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui ab amicis quod cupiunt pluribus contendunt . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 361.
SS5r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[N]ec Urbanius unquam . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 361-2.
SS5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Thomas Medius. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod fabellam tuam et eam festiuam . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 362-3.
SS6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Nicolaus Leonicenus. Incipit: ‘[I]am saepius et pluribus tecum per litteras collocutus fuissem . . .’ Dated Mirandola, 20 July 1482. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 363-4.
SS6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod proximis litteris tuis me tantopere laudaris . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 364-5.
SS6v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Cortesius. Incipit: ‘[B]ene cogitas Paule . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 365-6.
TT1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Troilus Malvetius. Incipit: ‘[L]ibellus tuus de sortibus . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 29 May 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 366.
TT1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Thaddaeus Ugolinus. Incipit: ‘[G]ratissimas habui litteras tuas plenas amoris . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 366.
TT1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Thomas Medius. Incipit: ‘[S]olidius nunquam me oblectatum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 366-7.
TT1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. Incipit: ‘[N]on poteras opportunius Maumettem tuum latinum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 367-8.
TT2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Donatus. Incipit: ‘[I]am diu quae mea est negligentia . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 368.
TT2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[D]edi ad te litteras superioribus diebus . . .’ Dated Florence, 6 Dec. 1484. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 368-9.
TT2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Baptista Mantuanus. Incipit: ‘[S]alue pater optime olim ad te non scripsi . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 369.
TT2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] C. F. Incipit: ‘[Q]esitum(!) diu apud me fuit tecum ne silentio . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 369-70.
TT3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Balthasar Milliavacca. Incipit: ‘[M]iraberis et quidem non iniuria responsum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 370.
TT3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Feltrinus. Incipit: ‘[L]itterae tuae si quando alias . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 371.
TT3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Donatus. Incipit: ‘[A]ccepi litteras tuas et suaues profecto et eruditas . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 371.
TT4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus [Politianus?]. Incipit: ‘[C]um tenues musas meas quibus dum per etatem . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 372.
TT4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[C]um superioribus annis Florentiae essem . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 372-3.
TT4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Marsilius Ficinus. Incipit: ‘[M]ei semper fuit iudicii Marsili . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 373.
TT4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[N]on quod quiquam habeam te dignum . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 374.
TT5r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[M]ihi nunquam aut placui magis . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 374-5.
TT5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter.] Incipit: ‘[N]ihil mihi dulcius fuit dum hic . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 375.
TT5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] F. B. C. Th. [= Baptista Mantuanus?]. Incipit: ‘[S]alue pater dilectissime en tibi Apollonium quem . . .’ Dated Florence, 13 Jan. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 375-6.
TT5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[M]emini me cum deliberarem . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 376.
TT6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Corneus Urbinas. Incipit: ‘[Q]uas proxime ad me dedisti litteras tuas . . .’ Dated Perugia, 15 Oct. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 376-9.
VV1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[G]ratissime mihi fuerunt littere tue. Non ob id . . .’ Dated Florence, 27 Nov. 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 346-7.
VV1v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[I]nter uoluptates quas cum eram Florentiae de Politiani . . .’ Dated ‘ex agro Ferrariensi', 28 June 1494. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 379-80.
VV2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Corneus. Incipit: ‘[S]atisfactum est plane uotis meis . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 380-1.
VV2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] R. C. C. Incipit: ‘[M]atteus noster uir officiosissimus . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 381.
VV3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Alexander Cortesius. Incipit: ‘[G]ratissimae mihi fuerunt litterae tuae quas non ut putas ad ignotum ignotus . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 382.
VV3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Benivenius. Incipit: ‘[S]alue mi Dominice in domini sortem . . .’ Dated ‘Fratta', 10 Nov. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 382.
VV3r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Corneus. Incipit: ‘[E]t si ad te litteras dedi . . .’ Dated 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 382-3.
VV3v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Baptista Guarinus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid contrahis frontem? . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 383-4.
VV4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Picimannus [i.e. Pizamanus]. Incipit: ‘[N]ihil tota uita mihi fuit iucundius his litteris . . .’ Dated 9 July 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 384.
VV4r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Ignotus amicus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uisquis es noster eris post quam Roberto Saluiato . . .’ Dated ‘Fratta', 10 Nov. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 384-6.
VV5r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[F]elix es fili quando non solum id tibi tribuit . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 2 July 1492. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 344-6; see Garin, La cultura filosofica, 254-66.
VV6r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Deprecatoria ad Deum. Incipit: ‘Alme deus summa qui maiestate uerendus | Vere unum in triplici numine numen habes'. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 339-40; partially reproduced in G. Bottiglioni, La lirica latina in Firenze nella seconda metà del sec. XV, Annali della R. Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, 1913), 228-9.
XX1r ‘Varia testimonia uitae doctrinae et commentationum Ioannis Pici Mirandulani variis ex locis collecta'. It includes the following letters:
XX1r Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[I]llustris domine. Nuper audita morte Ioannis Pici . . .’ Dated Mantua, 27 Nov. 1494. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 386-7.
XX1v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[I]llustris comes Ioanne Francisce dilatio honestissima . . .’ Dated Mantua, 3 Jan. 1495. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 387-8.
XX2r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Dated Milan, 1 Jan. 1487. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 388-9; E. Barbaro, Epistolae, Orationes et Carmina, ed. V. Branca, 2 vols (Florence, 1943), II 39-41 no. 124.
XX2v Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Dated Milan, 21 Oct. 1488. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 389-90; ed. Branca II 32-3 no. 115.
XX3r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Dated Venice, 4 Sept. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 390-1; ed. Branca II 50-1 no. 133.
XX3r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Dated Rome, 13 Aug. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 391; ed. Branca II 60 no. 139.
XX3v Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Dated Rome, 31 Mar. 1491. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 392; ed. Branca II 61-2 no. 141.
XX3v Baptista [Mantuanus: Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[I]llustris comes ac domine Patrui tui . . .’ Dated Mantua, 29 Oct. 1494. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 392-3.
XX4r [Bossus], Matthaeus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[I]nterpretatio sex dierum . . .’ ‘Ex abbatia Fesulana'. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 393-4.
XX4v Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Excerpt from a letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[O] preclare et plane diuinum ingenium tuum Pice . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 394.
XX5r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Excerpt from a letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[N]am cum ipse in quodam litterarum ad te mentis angulo . . .’ Dated Venice, 20 Sept. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 394.
XX5v Donatus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[P]rouocatus sum abste in amore . . .’ Dated Milan, 25 Oct. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 396.
XX5v Guarinus, Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[P]ictorius noster suo sibi celeriusculo gradu . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 1 Nov. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 396-7.
XX6r Landinus, Christophorus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uam gratum quamque iucundum . . .’ Dated 22 Nov. [14?]. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 397-9.
YY1r Cortesius, Alexander: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[E]go in tota uita . . .’ Dated 27 Dec. [14?]. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 399-400.
YY1v Donatus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[Q]uae meae partes esse debuerant . . .’ Dated Venice, 16 Dec. 1484. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 400-1.
YY2r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Joahnnes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[C]enaturus apud Minum Roscium . . .’ Dated Bologna, 10 Mar. 1486. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 401-2.
YY2v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[S]alue. Siquidem unquam summa cum uoluptate . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 403.
YY3r Guarinus, Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[N]ondum concedo secundum te . . .’ Dated Ferrara, 5 Dec. 1489. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 403-4.
YY3r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Extract from a letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam has ipse epistolas tuas amo . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 404.
YY3v Antiquarius, Jacobus: [Extract from a letter addressed to] Angelus Politianus. Incipit: ‘[N]oli igitur longi incubatus . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 405.
YY3v Politianus, Angelus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[A]rsi pene semper . . .’ Maïer I 167.
YY4r Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter addressed to] Germanus de Ganay. Incipit: ‘[C]aertior esse uis de obitu Pici . . .’ Dated 23 Mar. 1494. Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, II 91-3.
YY4v Ficinus, Marsilius: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[E]pistolam de obitu laudibusque Pici . . .’ Dated 1 Nov. 1495. Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum, II 93.
YY4v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Duodecim regulae partim excitantes partim dirigentes homines in spirituali pugna. Incipit: ‘Prima regula: si homini uidetur dura uia . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 332-3.
YY5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Duodecim arma spiritualis pugnae quae in promptu haberi debent cum peccandi libido mentem subdit. Incipit: ‘Voluptas breuis et exigua . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 333-4.
YY5v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Duodecim conditiones amantis. Incipit: ‘Amare unum tantum et contemnere omnia pro eo . . .’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 334.
YY8r Ugolinus, Baccius: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[M]erito te Roberte docti diligunt . . .’ Dated Naples, 26 Mar. 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 407-8.
YY8r Maius, Junianus: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Salviatus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod Ioannis Pici Mirandulae diuinum opus . . .’ Dated Naples, 4 June 1490. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 408-9.
YY8v Politianus, Angelus: Miscellaneorum centuria prima [extracts]. Incipit: ‘De isto enim precunctis admirando non Pico iam . . . cedite Grai [last few lines of the preface]; Ut idem et comparit et ostendit Ioannes . . . fideliter existimemus [from cap. 14]. Qualis est item Ioannes Picus hic meus . . . fastigium accipiet [from cap. 90]. Percurrimus aliquando . . . possit impietas [from cap. 94]'. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 409; Maïer I 217, 238, 301, 305.
YY9r [Trithemius], Johannes: [Extract from ‘De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis'.] Incipit: ‘Ioannes Picus natione italus . . .’ Explicit: non indignae sempiternam reddidit Johannes Trithemius, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (Cologne, 1546), 383; ed. G. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca ecclesiatica (Hamburg, 1718), no. CMXIX; Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 409-10.
YY9r Savonarola, Hieronymus: [Extract from ‘Compendium revelationum'.] Incipit: ‘Comes Ioannes Mirandulanus uir temporibus nostris ingenio et multiplici doctrina singularis.’ Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 410; G. Savonarola, Compendio di rivelazioni (testo latino e testo volgare) e Dialogus de veritate prophetica, ed. A. Crucitti (Rome, 1974), 137 (lines 5-6).
YY9r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Extract from second commentary in Propertium super illo uersu: non tot Achemeniis etcetera.] Incipit: ‘Susa pro Ethrusca scriptum . . .’ Explicit: esse non ethrusca etc. Johannes Picus, Opera omnia, 410.
YY9r [Colophon.]
YY9v ‘Registrum'.
[Part II.]
aa1r [Title-page.]
aa2r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Oliverius Carafa, Cardinal of Naples. Incipit: ‘[A]pollonium Thyanaeum pater amplissime . . .’ Dated Mirandola, 28 June [14?]. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, ed. E. Garin, Edizione nazionale dei classici del pensiero italiano, 2-3 (Florenze, 1946-52), I 25-6.
aa2v Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] ‘ueritatis amatoribus'. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes, ed. Garin, I 27-8.
aa3r ‘Tabula'.
2a1r Picus de Mirandula, Johannes: Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Disputationes, ed. Garin, I–II.
[*1r] [Errata.]
Imprint
Imprint: Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1496. Folio.
Remarks: In two parts, dated: (I) 20 Mar. 1496; (II) 16 July 1495 [i.e. 1496].
Collation
Collation: Part I: a12 A–D6 E4 AA–II6 KK4 LL–MM6 NN8 OO–XX6 YY10; part II: aa 2a–m 2A–K6 L4 [*2].
Remarks: In part I, a2 signed a1.
Illustrations: Diagram.
References
ISTC: ip00632000
Hain: HC Addenda, *12992; [not HC 12992];
Goff: Goff P‑632;
BMC: BMC VI 843;
Proctor: Pr 6630-31;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑479; CIBN P‑344; Hillard 1610; Rhodes 1400; Sheppard 5382; E. Valenziani, ‘Les incunables de Pic de la Mirandole', in Pensée humaniste et tradition chrétienne au XVe et XVIe siècle (Paris, 1948), 333-8, at 334.
LCN: 14488909
Copies
Copy number: P-286(1)
Wanting the blank leaf L4 of part II and [*2] containing the two leaves of errata.
Binding: Old paper boards with, on both covers, four holes, one at the head and tail and two holes along the fore-edge (for ties). Rebacked with brown morocco. Manuscript title along the lower edge.
Size: 304 × 214 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 302 × 198 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words and commenting on the text, in a sixteenth-century humanist hand; in particular, on a12r, beside the mention of frater Hieronymus in the text, the following marginal note: ‘hic frater Hieronimus Florentie heresim seminans igne crematus est 1498'; on2 a3r of part II, beside the mention of Origenes in the first book of the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, the note: ‘Que disputet Origenes aduersus Astrologos, uide apud Eusebium Caesar. lib. 6 de preparatione euangelica, cap. 9'. Some more marginal notes, mainly summarizing key points and extracting key words, have been added in a seventeenth-century hand.
Provenance: Milan, Discalced Carmelites, S. Carolus (1614-1805); two stamps on a1r: (1) ‘Conv. S. Caroli Mediol. Carmel. Discalc.', c.1690; (2) armorial ‘Biblio. P. P. Carm. Disc. Medi.', c.1710; see Gelli 260. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, nos 2512-13. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. F 3.2.
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