Bod-Inc: W-020

Wimpina, Conradus

Almae universitatis studii et urbis Lipsiensis descriptio.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1r] [Title-page.]

[a1r] [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Grandia si studii si mores sique studentes | Dogmata Lipzensis noscere foret velis'; 4 lines of verse.

[a1v] Wimpina, Conradus: [Letter addressed to] the assembly and senate of Leipzig. Incipit: ‘Arduis prestantissimisque viris dominis burgimagistris . . . Siquid unquam dignum . . .’ Explicit: emulandi forma perhennis

[a2r] [Wimpina, Conradus]: Urbis Lipsiensis Descriptio. ‘Prisca marchionum misne(!) origo'. Incipit: ‘Nunc mihi, Calliope, precibus si flecteris ullis | Da pia principium crescentis scribere Lipzig'. On the work as a whole, see Joseph Negwer, Konrad Wimpina. Ein katholischer Theologe aus der Reformationszeit, Kirchengeschichtliche Abhandlungen, 7 (Breslau, 1909), 15-19, 200-1; the four sections of the first part are discussed at 16-17, the second part at 17-19.

[b1r] [Second title-page.]

[b1v] Wimpina, Conradus: [Letter addressed to students of Leipzig University.] Incipit: ‘Pindarum Euboicum eum qui prius Grecarum litterarum peritissimus habitus est . . .’ Explicit: assit estinet valete

[b2r] Wimpina, Conradus: Almae universitatis studii descriptio. Incipit: ‘Nunc dea si prima repetens ab origine pergas | Crescentis studii Lipzensis dicere fontes'.

[b7r] ‘Ad sancta Crucem tetrastich'. Incipit: ‘Nunc serua placidos crux mores alma studentes | Dogmata cum studio numine magna tuo'; 4 lines of verse.

[b7v] ‘Laudes sancte Crucis'. Incipit: ‘O Crux que summiles voto venerata tropheo | O Crux que Christi charo es benedicta triumpho'; 19 hexameters.

[b7v] [Verse.] ‘Adolescentum exhortacio ut studia repetant'. Incipit: ‘Tempus adest iuuenes consurgite tempora veris | Expectata diu dogmata leta ferunt'; 13 distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: [Leipzig: Printer of Capotius (Martin Landsberg), c.1486-9]. 4°.

Collation

Collation: [a⁶ b⁸].

Types: Types: 156, title, headings; 78, text.

Leaves: 14 leaves.

Line number: 29 lines ([a3v]).

Type area: Type area: 152 ×68 mm ([a3v]).

References

ISTC: iw00050800

Hain: H *16204;

Proctor: not in Pr;

Others: BSB‑Ink W‑82; Negwer 200, no. 2; Sheppard 2103.

LCN: 14766041

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