Bod-Inc: W-016
Wimpfeling, Jacobus
Isidoneus Germanicus de erudienda iuventute.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A2r Han, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Count Henricus de Hennenberg. Incipit: ‘Estimaui, illustris ac venerande comes, inclite ac nobilissime domus Hennenbergensis . . . ’
A3v Wimpfeling, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Georgius de Gemmingen. Wimpfeling, Briefwechsel, ed. Herding and Mertens, I 249-51, no. 62.
A4v ‘Tabula huius opusculi.’
B1r Wimpfeling, Jacobus: Isidoneus Germanicus de erudienda iuventute [addressed to] Georgius de Gemmingen. Incipit: ‘Incipiunt nunc capitula huius opusculi. Et primum tractatus De vero litterarum sono. [I]n primis (ut a puericiae lacte incipiamus) preceptor exacte tradat . . .’ Explicit: receptiui canamus
G4r [Metrical section.] Incipit: ‘Adolescens querit ex seniore | Qualis sit haec vita | Dic venerande senex humanum vivere quid sit | Respondet senior | Transitus in mortem plenus cure atque laboris | Ni soletur amor spesque fidesque dei'. On the metrical sections see Leonhardt, no. B164.1.
G4r Schottus, Petrus: ‘De morte loquitur mors nobis'. Incipit: ‘Heus propera quae te dementia falsa moratur | Fac bona ne pigeat cras tibi finis ero'; 2 elegiac disctichs.
G4r Schottus, Petrus: ‘Eadem mors iterum ex sentencia Petri Schotti . . .’ Incipit: ‘Horrida sum prauis iustis optabile lucrum | Illos suppliciis hos ego mitto polis'; a single elegiac distich.
G4r Schottus, Petrus: ‘Dysticon . . . de morte'. Incipit: ‘Omnibus exitium quamuis mors saeua minetur | Principium vitae fert tamen illa piis'; a single elegiac distich.
G4r Gerson, Johannes: ‘Tres veritates . . . ante somnum dicende in dysticon redacte Ja[cobi] V[impfelingi] . . .’ Incipit: ‘Peccaui fateor post ponam deinde fatebor | Atque satisfatiam dum iubet ecclesia'; 2 lines of verse.
G4r Gerson, Johannes: ‘Exhortationes . . . ad aegrum ex dysthico Ja[cobi] V[impfelingi] . . .’ Incipit: ‘Subiectus domino grates referendo patrasse | Te mala commemores sit sita corde salus'; 2 lines of verse.
G4v Gerson, Johannes: ‘Interrogationes . . . ad migrantem ex dystico Ja[cobi] V[impfelingi] . . .’ Incipit: ‘Credis aues veniam proponis culpa ne mordet | More Iesu parcis si dare rapta cupis'; 2 lines of verse.
G4v Wimpfeling, Jacobus: ‘Dysticon . . . de fidei et spei informium iactura'. Incipit: ‘Vana fides, spes vana itidem mea, Christe, manebit | Si non vero etiam iungar amore tibi'; distich.
G4v Wimpfeling, Jacobus: ‘Tetrastycon . . . ad Christum neminem posse deo simul . . .’ Incipit: ‘Si soli, bone Christe, tibi mea vita placeret | Sit mundo quamuis nausea saluus ero'; 4 lines of verse.
G4v Wimpfeling, Jacobus: ‘Tetrastycon . . . ad Mariam Magdalenam de spe venie'. Incipit: ‘Cum te respicio miser, o Magdalena, quid ultra | Propicium verear flectere posse deum'; 4 lines of verse.
G4v Wimpfeling, Jacobus: ‘Elegiacum . . . ad Christum pro remissione omnium et grauissimorum pecatorum'. Incipit: ‘Chiste(!) dei patris non enarrabile verbum | Perpetua genitus qui deitate duis'; 52 lines of verse.
G5v Wimpfeling, Jacobus: ‘Elegiacum.’ Incipit: ‘Ante sacrificium | O venerande Iesu viciorum mole grauatum'; 24 lines of verse.
G6r [Wimpfeling], Jacobus: ‘Ad idem sapphicum.' [Addressed to Georgius de Gemmingen(?)]. Joseph Knepper, Jakob Wimpfeling (1450-1528). Sein Leben und seine Werke (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1902), 459-60.
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, after 22 Aug. 1497]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by BSB‑Ink; Sheppard dates [c.1497], CIBN [after 27 Aug. 1497].
Collation
Collation: A4 B C6 D4 E6 F4 G6.
Illustrations: Title woodcut on A1r, and two armorial woodcuts on A3r and A4r: see Schramm XX pls 1027-9.
References
ISTC: iw00038000
Hain: HC *16178;
Goff: Goff W‑38;
BMC: BMC I 116;
Proctor: Pr 507;
Others: BSB‑Ink W‑66; CIBN W‑23; Schramm XX p. 24; Schreiber V 5481; Sheppard 394-5.
LCN: 14765983
Copies
Copy number: W-016(1)
Bound with D‑031; see there for details of binding, decoration, and provenance.
Size of leaf: 195 × 136 mm.
Some ‘nota' marks in black ink.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.78(8).
Copy number: W-016(2)
Bound with:
1. S. Basilius, De legendis antiquorum libris opusculum divinum. Strasbourg: Matthias Hupfuff, 1507;
1a. Leonardus Brunus, Historia de vita atque gestis Ciceronis. Cologne: Sons of Heinrich Quentell, 1506;
2. Jacobus Locher, Poematia. Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1513;
3. Bartholomaeus Coloniensis, Dialogus mythologicus. Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1509;
4. Bernardus Perger, Grammatica nova. Basel: Nicolaus Lamparter, 1506;
6. Johannes Reuchlin, Sergius vel Capitis caput, with comm. Georgius Simler. Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508;
7. Gaius Julius Solinus, De memorabilibus mundi, ed. Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Speier: C[onrad] H[ist], 1512;
8. Laurentius Corvinus, Hortulus elegantiarum. Speier: Conrad Hist, 1512.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled paper boards; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 209 × 151 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 140 mm.
Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 28. Presented in 1659; shelfmark in black ink across the fore-edge.
SHELFMARK: 4o B 1(5) Th. Seld.
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