Bod-Inc: P-318
Pius II, Pont. Max.
Epistolae familiares (ed. Nicolaus von Wyle).
Analysis of Content
[a1v] von Wyle, Nicolaus: [Preface addressed to] the reader. ‘Preconizatio Enee Siluii poete laureati'. Incipit: ‘'[O]mnibus et singulis humanitatis studio deditis . . .Enea Siluius de Senis ex nobili sanguine . . .’
[a2r] Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistolae familiares. Edited by Nicolaus von Wyle. This edition of Pius's letters opens with a letter addressed to him as Aeneas Sylvius by Cardinal Julianus Cesarini (Wolkan I no. 45). In relation to Wolkan this edition presents the following order: Wolkan I nos 45 (=1), 73 (=2), 71 (=3), 37-8 (=4-5), 53 (=6), 87 (=7), 63 (=8), 52 (=9), 72 (=10), 61 (=11), 74 (=12) 76 (=13), 79 (=14), 78 (=15), 82-3 (=16-17), 58 (=18), 65-6 (=19-20), 85 (=21), 88 (=22), 90-2 (=23-5), 94 (=26), 96 (=27), 39 (=28), 41 (=29), 40 (=30), 48 (=31), 55 (=32), 7 (=33), 2-3 (=34-5), 70 (=36), 54 (=37), 60 (=38), 101 (=39), 100 (=40), 102 (=41), 111 (=42), 116-17 (=43-4), 119 (=45), 118 (=46), 121 (=47), 120(=48), 126 (=49), 135 (=50), 150 (=51), 167 (=52), 67 (=53), 108 (=54), 106 (=55), 109 (=56), 107 (=57), 110 (=58), 113 (=59), 112 (=60), 136 (=61), 148 (=62), 141 (=63), 143 (=64), 142 (=65), 145 (=66), 146-7 (=67-8), 130 (=69), 138 (=70), 137 (=71), 139 (=72), 131 (=73), 149 (=74), 128-9 (=75-6), 176 (=77), 189 (=78), 190-2 (=79-81), 198 (=82), 193 (=83), 195 (=84), 194 (=85), 196 (=86), 157 (=87), 160 (=88), 172 (=89), 178 (=90), 161 (=91), 158 (=97), 168 (=98), 179 (=101), 43 (=102), 171 (=103), 99 (=105), 115 (=107), 151 (=108 De fortuna), 144 (=111), 153 (=112), 152 (=113-14 Duobus amantibus), 156 (=115), 133 (=116), lxxxi (=118), 104 (=122), 135 (=125), 27 (=165 Descriptio urbis Viennensis), 166 (=166 De curialium miseria), lxxxvi (=167), xc (=168), lxxxviii (=169), 155 (=170), 114 (=171), 95 (=172), 97 (=173), 122 (=174), 134 (=175), 84 (=176), 141 (=177), v (=179), 53 (=180), 123 (=181), 57 (=182), xxxvii (=183), 62 (=184), lvi-lvii (=185-6), xxvi (=187), lviii (=188), vi (=189), 51 (=190), 35 (=191), 46 (=192), 50 (=193), x (=194), 56 (=195), 80 (=196), 93 (=197), 77 (=198), 69 (=199), 127 (=200), 68 (=354); Wolkan II nos 5 (=126), 12 (=130 Dialogus contra Bohemos), 47 (=119), 91 (=432), 109 (=162), 110-11 (=160-1), 112 (=155), 114-16 (=156-8), 117 (=164), 118-33 (=132-47), 134 (=151), 135 (=153), 138 (=148), 142 (=152), 143 (=149), 154 (=150), 177 (=417), 181 (=424), 270 (=425), vii (=163).
[i2v] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistola de fortuna [addressed to] Procopius de Rabenstein. ‘Somnium de fortuna'. Dated Vienna, 26 June 1444. See P‑314.
[k1v] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Kaspar Schlick. See P‑304.
[k2r] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Marianus Sozzinus. See P‑304.
[k2r] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia [dedicated to] Marianus Sozzinus. ‘Hystoria de Eurialo et Lucretia se amantibus'. Dated Vienna, 3 July 1444. See P‑303.
[n1v] Pius II, Pont. Max.: Dialogus contra Bohemos atque Thaboritas de sacra communione corporis Christi [addressed to] Cardinal Johannes Carvajal. Dated Wiener Neustadt 21 Aug. 1451. See P‑309.
[r4v] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Descriptio urbis Viennensis. See P‑316.
[r5v] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De curialium miseria [addressed to] Johannes de Eych. Dated Bruck a. Mur, 31 Jan. 1445 [30 Nov. 1444]. See P‑301.
[x6r] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistolae in Cardinalatu editae. Incipit: ‘[D]iuo imperatori Friderico augusto domino suo . . . Quod iam dudum optasti procurastique . . .’ On Pius's letters see VL VII 634-69, at 640-1.
[E4v] Pius II, Pont. Max.: [Epistolae in Pontificatu editae.] ‘Respondet Francorum regi super materia episcopatus Tornacensis'. Incipit: ‘[P]ius episcopus seruus . . . Que ad nos de conditionibus . . .’
[G5v] Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistola ad Mahumetem. ‘Reserat Thurco fidei nostre veritatem et collidit errores Machometi atque sectam suam'. See P‑311.
[K3r] Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Oratio habita in conuentu Mantuano'. Incipit: ‘[C]um bellum hodie aduersus impiam Thurcorum gentem pro dei honore . . .’ Dated 26 Sept. 1459. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 905-14; Pii II P. M. orationes, ed. Mansi, II 9-29.
[L1v] Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla de profectione in Thurcos et de prerogatiuis eiusdem passagii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ius episcopus . . . Ezechielis prophete magni sententia est . . .’ Explicit: psallat in secula seculorum Dated Rome, 22 Oct. 1463. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 914-23.
[L6r] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Oratio coram Calixto III de obedientia Friderici III. Incipit: ‘[S]olent plerique omnnes beatissime pater maxime pontifex . . .’ Pii II P. M. orationes, ed. Mansi, I 336-46 no. xvi; on his orations see also VL (2nd edn) VII 634-69, at 649-51.
[O2v] Poggius Florentinus: Epistola ex balneis [addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De scola Epycure factionis que regnat in Theutonia'. The recipient of Poggius's letter is actually Nicolaus Niccoli. Poggio Bracciolini, Lettere, ed. Harth, I 128-35 no. 46.
[O4r] Poggius Florentinus: [Letter addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De condemnatione Hieronymi heretici in concilio Constancien[si].’ Poggio Bracciolini, Lettere, ed. Harth, II 157-63 (IV,6).
[O5r] [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus: [Letter addressed to] Bindactius Ricassolanus. ‘De crudeli amoris exitu Guisgardi et Sigismunde Tancredi Solernitanorum principis filie'. Incipit: ‘Cum sepius mecum egisses vt fabulam illam . . .’ Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 954-5; D. M. Manni, Istoria del Decamerone (Florence, 1742), 247.
[O5r] [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Boccaccio, Giovanni]: De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda. Incipit: ‘Tancredus fuit princeps Solernitanus . . .’ Explicit: ambos sepeliri fecit A Latin translation from Boccaccio's Decameron IV,1 by Leonardus Brunus. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 955-9; Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, 247-56; see also V. Branca, ‘Un “lusus” del Bruni Cancelliere: il rifacimento di una novella del Decameron (IV,1) e la sua irradiazione europea', in Leonardo Bruni, cancelliere della Repubblica di Firenze, (Firenze, 27-29 ottobre 1987), ed. P. Viti, Istituto nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento. Atti di covegni, 18 (Florence, 1990), 207-26.
[P3r] [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Tractatulus de educatione liberorum [addressed to] Ladislas Posthumus, King of Bohemia and Hungary. Dated Wiener Neustadt, Feb. 1450. Wolkan II no. 40; J. S. Nelson, Aeneae Silvii De liberorum educatione, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Latin Language and Literature, 12 (Washington, DC, 1940), 90-218; E. Garin, Il pensiero pedagogico dell'Umanesimo (Florence, 1958), 198-295.
[Q10r] Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Oratio de laudatissima Maria'. Incipit: ‘[V]irgo Theutunicis multum celebrata sacellis | Mater et ipsa dei mater et ipsa hominis'; 10 elegiac distichs. The verse is here attributed to Pius II by the printer. L. Gualdo Rosa in Poeti latini del Quattrocento, ed. F. Arnaldi (Milan and Naples, 1964), 146-8; A. Perosa and J. Sparrow, Renaissance Latin Verse. An Anthology (London, 1979), 33 and see J.-L. Charlet, ‘Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini Hymnode', in Pio II e la cultura del suo tempo. Atti del convegno internazionale - 1989, ed. L. Rotondi Secchi Tarugi (Milan, 1991), 95-104, at 98.
[Q10r] [Colophon.]
[*2r] [List of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 16 Sept. 1481. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a8 b–z6 A–P6 Q10 *6].
References
ISTC: ip00717000
Hain: H *151 = 147;
Goff: Goff P‑717;
BMC: BMC II 421;
Proctor: Pr 2008;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑520; CIBN P‑412; Hillard 1632; Sack, Freiburg, 2886; Sheppard 1469.
LCN: 14015983
Copies
Copy number: P-318(1)
Wanting gathering [*] containing the table of contents.
Binding: Nineteenth-century grey marbled paper boards.
Size: 336 × 227 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 328 × 218 mm.
Marginal notes, mostly extracting key words and key points, and ‘nota' marks in Weisman's hand.
Initials, paragraph marks, and chapter heading underlining are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.
Provenance: ‘Johannes Weisman' (fifteenth century); signature in red ink on [a1r]. Sheppard suggests Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 143. Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.34.
Copy number: P-318(2)
Not in Sheppard.
Binding: Contemporary German (Nuremberg, Franz Staindorfer, Kyriß workshop no. 65) blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards. Remains of two clasps; two catches lost; four corner-pieces and a central boss on each cover lost. Yellow-edged leaves. ‘16 | 1'in brown ink on a square paper label at head of the spine, seventeenth century. Intersecting triple fillets form a double frame. Within the outer frame ‘Epistolee enee' blind-tooled at the head, a repeated lozenge-shaped dragon stamp at the tail, and a rosette and foliate staff roll on the sides. In the inner rectangle curved-outline tools make up merrythoughts, each containing a thistle. On the lower cover, intersecting triple fillets form a frame within which is the rosette and foliate staff roll. Diagonal triple fillets divide the inner rectangle into four triangular compartments. The upper and lower triangles are decorated with a repeated small lozenge-shaped stag stamp and with a scroll bearing the name of the printer. The side triangles are each decorated with the fleuron. The spine is decorated with a rosette stamp, a fleur-de-lis stamp, and a small rose-petal stamp. See Kyriß pls 133-4; Nixon 18.
Size: 315 × 210 × 65 mm.
Size of leaf: 305 × 204 mm.
On front pastedowns several notes in a contemporary German hand, including: (1) ‘Marcus Tulius(?) Sulterius(?) iuris pontificii auperator(?) iurisconsultus in cesarias instituciones nouos latinasque commentaciones edet'. (2) ‘Ad lectorem. Si te latet huius presentis libelli possessor Lector amice: me Kilianum Goltstein illum esse tibi persuadens velim, quem [ ] amas te quoque a nobis amati fratres, non enim tam inhumane ingenio sum parentis, ut summo me amore pro sequentibus non eodem vel minori respondere possum; Ego quam optime est(?) illis verbis Iohannes in Euangelio usus est, uti possum ego amantes me amo. Quid? Nulla ego proferio vestra sine amore esse duco in aliquis iam adesset amor me viuere quidem nollem'. (3) ‘Epigramma. Tu perlege quaeso lector modo scripta(?) poe[ ] Aenee Siluii tu san[ ] [ ] eris'. | Distichon. Qui faciunt solium(?) demiror(?) docte sodalis mortales terris heu bone [ ] [ ]'. On [*1v]: ‘Philhelphus in Pium(?) Jer[?]dum. Laus tua, non tua fraus . . .' On [Q10v]: ‘Mulier nil aliud est nisi juuentutis pilatrix virorum rapina, senni(/senium?) mors, patrimonii deuoratrix, honoris pernicies, pabulum diaboli, ianua martis inferni supplementum rei'. The same hand has extensively annotated the text, extracting key words and providing explanations and comments.
On [a2r] a 14-line initial ‘I' (Nuremberg style) is supplied in blue with white pen-work decoration on a square burnished gold ground, the gilt with punch-dotting, within segmented frames of red, pale green, and grey, and with fine foliate border extensions including gold dotting. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Kilianus [ ]stein; first name in red ink on [*1r], and see notes (2) on front pastedown. Amberg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Bernardinus Senensis; inscription on [*2r]: ‘Ad bibliothecam P. P. Francisc. Amberge'. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; on [*1v] ‘Duplum' in brown ink. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg in 1955 for £274; accession no. ‘R1362'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 8.2.
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