tia01371000

Text-inc Id:

tia01371000

Bod-inc Id:

A-502

Headings:

Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis Dialogus in defensionem poetices.

Subjects:

rhetoric

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Title-page] ‘Dialogus in defensionem poetices.’
2. [a1v] Augustinus [Käsebrod] Moravus Olomucensis: [Epigram to his work] ‘Ad libellum.’ Incipit: I liber et nitidas celerem te confer ad arces | Presulis et docti principis ante fores ... Explicit: ‘... Presulis, et docti principis ante fores. [14 elegiac distichs]’ Augustinus Olomucensis, Dialogus in defensionem poetices, ed. K. Svoboda, Sbírka pramenů k poznání literárního života ҫeskoslovenského, 2/29 (Prague, 1948), 11.
3. [a2r] Augustinus [Käsebrod] Moravus Olomucensis: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Roth, Bishop of Wrocław. ‘Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis r.d. Ioanni episcopo Vratislaviensi s.p. dicit.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on inutilem a maioribus nostri consuetudinem observatam invenio ...’ [a3r] Explicit: ‘... Vale, presul doctissime. Ex gymnasio Patavino, idibus Novembribus.’ Augustinus Olomucensis, Dialogus, ed. Svoboda, 12-14. Dated Padua, 13 Nov. [1492].
4. [a3r] Augustinus Käsebrod Moravus Olomucensis: Dialogus in defensionem poetices. ‘Laelius Augustinus Bassareus interlocutores.’ Incipit: ‘LAE. Salve Augustine. AV. Hem quamexoptate qui mihi seculum abfuisse videbare ...’ c3r Explicit: ‘... LAE. Indeque festivis iungamur nos quoque pratis. Lusibus ingenuis. | Finis.’ Augustinus Olomucensis, Dialogus, ed. Svoboda, 15-40.
5. c3v Augustinus [Käsebrod] Moravus Olomucensis: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Stiborius. Incipit: ‘Non me latet, Andrea Stibori amice beneficentissime, complures futuros, qui presens hoc metum consilium ...’ c4v Explicit: ‘... studiorum nostrorum tyrocinio exegimus, meliora in dies augurato. Vale.’ [Dated Padua, 19 Nov. 1492].
6. c4v Colophon: ‘Impressione complectum anno salutis M.cccc.lxxxx.iii., calen. ix. Aprilis, in ora Divi Pantaleonis Venetiis. | Laus bonorum et gloria Deo Christo altitonanti.’
7. [d1r] [Errata corrige] ‘Annotantur mende librarii negligentia commisse per singulas chartas.’

Imprint:

Venice: [Paul Fridenperger], 24 Mar. 1493. 4°. BMC assigns doubtfully to [Bernardinus Benalius]. GW assigns to [Fridenperger]. Secundo folio: [a4r] recta transmittitur. AV. Optime. LAB. Hoc mihi preter cete-

Collation:

[a⁴] b⁸ c⁴ [d²]. Space left blank for initial, without printed guide letter (a2r). Woodcut initial (a3r).

References:

Source: Bodleian; Venezia N ISTC: ia01371000 GW 3057; HC *11613; C 4361; Goff A‑1371; BMC V 378; Pr 5667; BSB‑Ink A‑847; Oates 1926; Sack, Freiburg, 337; Sheppard 4570-1. LCN: 13956518

Copies:

1. A-502(1) First copy Variants of setting on [d1r]. Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards for Kloß. Size: 223 × 156 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 216 × 145 mm. Number ‘III' on title-page. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 369. Purchased for £0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.48.
2. A-502(2) Second copy Wanting the blank leaf [d2]. Variants of setting on [d1r]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter morocco. Size: 216 × 153 × 6 mm. Size of leaf: 208 × 144 mm. Early marginal annotations. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1917); Elenchus, no. 533. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 5.23.