Bod-Inc: P-421
Poggius, Johannes Franciscus
Epistola contra Savonarolam, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Contra fratrem Hieronymum Heresiarcham libellus et processus'.
a1r [Ulsenius, Theodoricus: Verse.] ‘Nosce teipsum'. Incipit: ‘Qui potis es Sathane versutos scire colubros | Tartareum impunis ire redire lacum'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a1v Poggius, Johannes [Franciscus]: Epistola contra Savonarolam [addressed to] Hieronymus Savonarola. ‘Sic transit gloria mundi. Prologus'. Incipit: ‘Johannes Pogius Florentinus apostolice sedi deuotus, fratri Hieronymo Sauonarole. Spiritum sanioris . . . [L]icet mihi tecum Hieronyme frater hac superscriptione vti . . .’ Explicit: qui est benedictus in secula. See Audin de Rians no. 165.
b4v [Ulsenius, Theodoricus: Verse.] ‘Prudens qui intelligit beatum'. Incipit: ‘Esse sui iuris hominem sua seque tueri | Contentumque suis alienum nolle beatum'; 4 hexameters. Catrien Santing, Geneeskunde en Humanisme: Een intellectuele biografie van Theodericus Ulsenius (c. 1460-1508), Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen 42. Pantaleon reeks 5 (Rotterdam, 1992), 58.
c1r ‘Conclusiones rationibus ac signis supernaturalibus probande'. Incipit: ‘Ecclesia dei indiget renouatione . . .’ See Audin de Rians no. 148.
c1v ‘Processus'. ‘Examinatio infrascripta fratris Hieronymi Nicolai Sauonorale(!) Ferrariensis ordinis Predicatorum facta de eodem per spectabiles et prudentes viros commissarios ac examinatores ex magnifico dominio Florentinorum solenniter electos . . .’ [Processo di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, in Latin.] Dated 19 Apr. 1498. See Audin de Rians no. 165 and L. Giovannozzi, Contributo alla bibliografia delle opere del Savonarola: edizioni dei secc. XV e XVI (Florence, 1953), 271.
d7r Alexander Vi, Pont. Max.: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Appulus, Observant Franciscan. Incipit: ‘Intelleximus quanto feruore et iusticia . . .’ Dated Rome, 11 Apr. 1498.
d7v Alexander Vi, Pont. Max.: [Letter addressed to] the Franciscans of S. Franciscus. Incipit: ‘Relatum nobis fuit quanto zelo veritatis . . .’ Dated Rome, 11 Apr. 1498.
d8r [Ulsenius, Theodoricus: Verse.] ‘In finem pseudoprophetie lumen'. Incipit: ‘Qui crucis es solitus frater cantare triumphos | Inque tuam sperans ferre trophea manum'; 15 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Nuremberg: Ambrosius Huber, after 19 Apr. 1498]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a8 b4 c d8.
Illustrations: Woodcut.
References
ISTC: ip00879000
Hain: H *13386 = 14479; C 4797;
Goff: Goff P‑879;
BMC: BMC II 479;
Proctor: Pr 3286;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑774; CIBN P‑513; Oates 1104; Schramm XVIII p. 23; Schreiber V 5001; Sheppard 1673.
LCN: 14089270
Copies
Copy number: P-421(1)
With the error on c7v, l. 33 corrected, as BMC IA.8297.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboards, with blue-edged leaves; perhaps bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 210 × 145 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 137 mm.
‘5' in brown ink in the upper right-hand corner of a1r; ‘8' in pencil, on the same leaf.
Provenance: Sheppard states that this item was purchased in 1873.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.72.
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