Bod-Inc: P-323
Pius II, Pont. Max.
Epistolae familiares (ed. Ambrosius Archintus and Johannes Vinzalius).
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.] ‘Epistole et uarii tractatus Pii secundi Pontificis Maximi ad diuersos in quadruplici vite eius statu transmisse'.
A2r ‘Numerus et ordo epistolarum'.
A7r Archintus, Ambrosius: [Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Peruenerunt nuper ad manus meas . . .’ Dated Milan, 27 Nov. 1496.
a1r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistolae familiares. Edited by Ambrosius Archintus and Johannes Vinzalius. See Haebler, ‘Die Drucke der Briefsammlungen', 149. 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.
f5v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistola de fortuna [addressed to] Procopius de Rabenstein. ‘Somnium de fortuna'. Dated Vienna, 26 June 1444. See P‑314.
g2r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Kaspar Schlick. See P‑304.
g2r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Marianus Sozzinus. See P‑304.
g2v [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.
i1v 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.
m1r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Descriptio urbis Viennensis. See P‑316.
m2r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De curialium miseria [addressed to] Johannes de Eych. Dated Bruck a. Mur, 31 Jan. 1445 [30 Nov. 1444]. See P‑301.
o8v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistolae in Cardinalatu editae. Incipit: ‘[D]iuo imperatori Frederico augusto domino suo . . . Quod iam dudum optasti procurasti . . .’ On Pius's letters see VL VII 634-69, at 640-1.
t3r 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 . . .’
v7r 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.
x3r 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.
x6v [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.
z3v Poggius Florentinus: Epistola ex balneis [addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De schola Epicure 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.
z4v 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).
z5v [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus: [Letter addressed to] Bindactius Ricassolanus. ‘De crudeli amoris exitu Guiscardi et Sigismunde Tancredi Salernitanorum principis filie'. Incipit: ‘Cum sepius mecum egisses vt fabulam illam . . .’ Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 954-5; Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, 247.
z6r [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Boccaccio, Giovanni]: De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda. Incipit: ‘Tancredus fuit princeps Salernitanus . . .’ Explicit: ambos sepeliri fecit A Latin translation from Boccaccio's Decameron IV,1 by Leonardus Brunus. See P‑318.
[et]1r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Tractatulus de educatione liberorum [addressed to] Ladislas Posthumus, King of Bohemia and Hungary. Dated Wiener Neustadt, Feb. 1450. See P‑318.
[con]5r Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Conclusio epistolarum metrico carmine de laudibus beate Marie virginis Jesu Christi gerule'. 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 by the printer. See P‑318.
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Jean de Vingle, 8 Nov. 1497. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A a–z [et]8 [con]6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ip00722000
Hain: HC *158; C 37;
Goff: Goff P‑722;
BMC: BMC VIII 312;
Proctor: Pr 8646;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑525; CIBN P‑417; Hillard 1636; Rhodes 1418; Sheppard 6698.
LCN: 14015998
Copies
Copy number: P-323(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [con]6.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco, with gilt-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and azure silk bookmark.
Size: 248 × 170 × 37 mm.
Size of leaf: 241 × 153 mm.
Some marginal notes, mostly extracting key words and ‘nota' marks, but also extracting names of authors and providing corrections to the text, in Roger Le Sar's hand.
Provenance: Roger Le Sar (sixteenth century); name on [con]4v. Franciscus Morel (seventeenth century); inscription on A1r and a1r: ‘Ex libris Francisci Morel'. John Josias Conybeare (1779-1824); inscription on verso of front endleaf: ‘J. J. Conybeare'. Purchased by Heber from Sotheby's, July 1826; note on the recto of the front endleaf ‘Sale by Sotheby July 1826' (sale not identified); bookseller's circular label ‘978' at the head of the spine. Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp; not identified in his Catalogue. Purchased in 1867 according to Sheppard.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.57.
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