Bod-Inc: P-321
Pius II, Pont. Max.
Epistolae familiares (ed. Nicolaus von Wyle).
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v von Wyle, Nicolaus: [Preface addressed to] the reader. ‘Preconizatio Enee Siluii poete laureati'. Incipit: ‘[O]mnibus et siugulis(!) 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 Aeneas Sylvius by Cardinal Julianus Cesarini (Wolkan I no. 45). In relation to Wolkan this edition follows the same order as P‑318.
K2v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistola de fortuna [addressed to] Procopius de Rabenstein. ‘Somnium de fortuna'. Dated Vienna, 26 June 1444. See P‑314.
L2r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Kaspar Schlick. See P‑304.
L2v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Marianus Sozzinus. See P‑304.
L3r [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.
O3v 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.
T2r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Descriptio urbis Viennensis. See P‑316.
T3v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De curialium miseria [addressed to] Johannes de Eych. Dated Bruck a. Mur, 31 Jan. 1445 [30 Nov. 1444]. See P‑301.
Z7v [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.
g7r 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 . . .’
k2r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistola ad Mahumetem. ‘Reserat Thurco fidei nostre veritatem et collidit errores Machometi atque sectam suam'. See P‑311.
m8r 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.
n6v 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.
o4v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Oratio coram Calixto III de obedientia Friderici III. Incipit: ‘[S]olent plerique omnes 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.
r2r 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.
r3v Poggius Florentinus: [Letter addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De condemnatione Hieronymi heretici in concilio Constantien[si].’ Poggio Bracciolini, Lettere, ed. Harth, II 157-63 (IV,6).
r5v [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; Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, 247.
r6r [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. See P‑318.
s3r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Tractatulus de educatione liberorum [addressed to] Ladislas Posthumus, King of Bohemia and Hungary. Dated Wiener Neustadt, Feb. 1450. See P‑318.
v5v Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Oratio de laudatissima Maria'. Incipit: ‘[V]irgo Theutonicis multum celebrata sacellis | Mater et ipsa dei mater et ipsa hominis'; 10 elegiac distichs. The verse is here attributed to Pius II. See P‑318.
v6r [Colophon.]
v6v [List of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 May 1496. 4°.
Remarks: A variant with v2 signed s2; see also Hillard.
Collation
Collation: A–Z a–v8 x4.
References
ISTC: ip00720000
Hain: HC *156;
Goff: Goff P‑720;
BMC: BMC II 442;
Proctor: Pr 2107;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑523; CIBN P‑415; Hillard 1635; Oates 1040-1; Sack, Freiburg, 2888-9; Sheppard 1538.
LCN: 14015957
Copies
Copy number: P-321(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian Library, with manuscript title across the fore-edge and the lower edge, and yellow-edged leaves.
Size: 222 × 170 × 62 mm.
Size of leaf: 213 × 150 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key points and providing running chapter headings, and pointing hands in an early German hand.
Provenance: Gars, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, BVM; inscription on A1r: ‘Monasterii S. Mariae virginis in Gars'; printed label: ‘Ex Bibliotheca Canoniae ad B. V. Mariam Assumptam in Gars Ord. Can. Reg. S. P. Augustini', ‘No. 1018' followed by titulus ‘Incunabula typograph. C', series ‘III', and numerus ‘16' are provided in manuscript. Metten, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Michael(?); ‘Ex uisitatione Mettenhamiensis' in a late sixteenth-century hand. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' in red crayon on paper label pasted onto front pastedown, ‘3097' in pencil on A1r, and ‘Inc. 2844' in black ink on a paper slip inserted in the book. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 5.2.
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