Bod-Inc: W-018
Wimpfeling, Jacobus
Oratio quaerulosa contra invasores sacerdotum.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Wimpfeling, Jacobus]: Oratio quaerulosa contra invasores sacerdotum. ‘Flaminum vatum sacerdotum gymnosophistarum philosophorum druidum in testipremos conquestio' [addressed to] Alexander [VI], Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Si unquam, beatissime maximeque pontifex Alexander, opus fuit auxilio . . .’ Explicit: quos neque maximi quidem
a7v [Wimpfeling, Jacobus(?): Verse.] Incipit: ‘Imperatores ausi fuerunt unquam diiudicare | Impie tu latro quem certe lamia tygris'; 14 lines of verse.
Imprint
Imprint: [Speier: Conrad Hist, c.1495]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard and BSB‑Ink.
Collation
Collation: a8.
References
ISTC: iw00044000
Hain: H *16193;
Goff: Goff W‑44;
BMC: BMC II 507;
Proctor: Pr 2445;
Others: BSB‑Ink W‑72; Engel–Stalla col. 1667; Sheppard 1756.
LCN: 14766002
Copies
Copy number: W-018(1)
The title-page, a1, backed; leaves a2-4 overlaid with vegetal tissue; leaves a4-8 show signs of water damage.
Binding: Nineteenth-century purple cloth; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 197 × 142 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 184 × 126 mm.
Cropped early marginal annotations in black ink in a German hand, including crossing out in the text and ‘nota' marks.
Provenance: Purchased in 1884; see unsigned pencil note in the hand of Falconer Madan on a1r.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.68.
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