Bod-Inc: P-471
Processo
Processo contro Pirro del Balzo principe di Altamura, Antonello Sanseverino principe di Salerno, Gerolamo Sanseverino principe di Bisignano, congiurati contro Ferdinando d'Aragona Re di Sicilia [Italian].
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Title-page with colophon.] Incipit: ‘[F]idelis traductio in formam impressa in alma ciuitate Neapolis extracta de originali processu . . .’
[a1v] [Statement of the charges brought against the accused parties.] Incipit: ‘[G]eneralis inquisitio facienda ac informatio recepienda . . .’ The following were accused: Pyrrus de Bautio (i.e. del Balzo), princeps Altamurae; Antonellus de Sancto Severino, princeps Salerni; Hieronymus de Sancto Severino, princeps Bisignani; Johannes Carazolus (i.e. Caracciolus), dux Melfiae; Anglibertus de Bautio, dux Neritoni, comes Ogenti; Johanna de Sancto Severino, comitissa Sancti Severini; Barnabas de Sancto Severino, comes Lauriae; Bernardinus de Sancto Severino (son of Barnabas); Carolus de Sancto Severino, comes Mileti; Johannes Paulus de Bautio, comes Honogiae. All of the above were imprisoned in 1487 (after May) and were never seen again; see DBI XLVI 186.
[a2r] Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Dispensation to Pyrrus de Bautio; Petrus de Guevara, marchio Vastiaymonis; Antonellus de Sancto Severino; Barnabas de Sancto Severino; Andreas Matheus de Aquaviva, princeps Terami, marchio Bitonti; Johannes Andreas de Perusio; Hieronymus de Sancto Severino; Carolus de Sancto Severino; Berlingerius Caldora; Raimundus Caldora; Johannes Antonius de Aquaviva.] Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine domini nostri iesu christi nostri amen. Anno natiuitatis eiusdem millesimo quadragintesimo . . .’ Dated Lacedonia, 11 Sept. 1486.
[a2r] [Affirmation of peace between the aforementioned men and Ferdinandus I de Aragona, King of Naples.] Incipit: ‘[A]l nome de dio amen. Nui signori Pirro de Bautio . . .’ Dated Lacedonia, 11 Sept. 1486.
[a4v] Processo contro Pirro del Balzo principe di Altamura, Antonello Sanseverino principe di Salerno, Gerolamo Sanseverino principe di Bisignano, congiurati contro Ferdinando d'Aragona Re di Sicilia. ‘Die octaua Iunii Mccclxxxvii in castello nouo Neapolis.’ Incipit: ‘[M]agnificus don Ioannes de Gueuara Patronus cuiusdam fuste Sicule interrogatus cum iuramento . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Naples: [Francesco del Tuppo], 30 June 1488. Folio.
Remarks: The date in the title is 1 July 1488.
Collation
Collation: [a6 b8 c d6 e f8 g–k6].
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ip01000500
Hain: HR 13383;
BMC: BMC VI 872;
Proctor: Pr 6725;
Others: Fava–Bresciano 71; Sheppard 5466.
LCN: 14385319
Copies
Copy number: P-471(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century brown morocco with gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 244 × 188 × 9.5 mm.
Size of leaf: 238 × 175 mm.
‘1767' in pencil on [a1r] is probably the date of purchase by Joseph Cestarius (see below). ‘516' in an eighteenth-/nineteenth-century hand on a slip of paper now pasted onto the rear endleaf. ‘Ego Ang[elus] Maria Bandinius, Laurentianae Basilicae canonicus et Regius Mediceae Bibliothecae prefectus, uidi hanc rarissimam editionem magna cum uoluptate, quum essem Neapoli die xvii Februarii in domo clariss[imi] et eruditissimi iuuenis Josephi Cestarii ueterum monumentorum sollertissimi indagatoris' on k4r; Bandini is known to have been in Naples in 1778: see DBI V 700.
Provenance: Josephus Cestarius (1751-1799), 1767; see note above. Probably acquired by the Bodleian between 1842 and 1845, from the evidence of the shelfmark.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.47.
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