tib00068000

Text-inc Id:

tib00068000

Bod-inc Id:

B-037

Headings:

Baptista Mantuanus Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[B]eatissime virginis et martyris Katharine vitam nuper Rome . . .’
3. A2r [Baptista Mantuanus(?)]: ‘Argumentum'. Incipit: ‘Catharina virgo Egyptia, Alexandrie nata . . .’
4. A2v Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda, [dedicated to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[C]ostidis aggressi pugnam tormenta rotasque | Atque triumphato nutricia bella tyranno'. See Walther, Initia, 3392a and Coccia 143.
5. G6r [Colophon.]
6. G6v Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘Carmen', [addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘[I]nuide quod tantum iuuat excandescere, lector | Et Rhodiis linguax ponere sacra focis'; 11 elegiac distichs.
7. H1r Baptista Mantuanus: In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum carmen, dedicated to Ludovicus Gonzales Hispanus. Incipit: ‘[S]emideum ueteres insignia facta poete | Meoniis usi fidibus grandique cothurno'. See Coccia 141.
8. K2v Baptista Mantuanus: Somnium Romanum dedicated to Andreas Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘[M]axime iustitie cultor, qui clara parentum | Facta nouis uite meritis et honoribus auges'. See Coccia 144.
9. M5r Baptista Mantuanus: Epigrammata ad Falconem. Incipit: ‘[D]ebeo (sed cure prohibent) tibi carmina, Falco | Aegraque mens uariis sollicitudinibus'. See Coccia 141.
10. P5r Baptista Mantuanus: In divum Albertum Carmelitam carmen. Incipit: ‘[M]ensis Augusti redeunt honores | Fulget auleis paries et are'. See Coccia 141.
11. P8r Baptista Mantuanus: De vita divi Ludovici Morbioli, dedicated to Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[M]axime pontificum triplicem qui fronte coronam | Et duo sacrata qui geris arma manu'. See Walther, Initia, 10810a and Coccia 142.
12. R2v Baptista Mantuanus: De contemnenda morte dedicated to Jason Castellus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid meres fatumque times, oblita tui mens? | Stulta, quid hoc tantum debile corpus amas'. See Coccia 140.

Imprint:

Paris: [Georg Wolf and Johann Philippi, for] E., J. and G. de Marnef, and Jean Petit, 1497. 4°.

Collation:

A–C⁸ D–G⁶ H I⁸ K–N⁶ O–Q⁸ R⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00068000 GW 3294; C 838; Goff B‑68; BMC VIII 149; Pr 8240; Sheppard 6378. LCN: 14123339

Copies:

1. B-037(1) Copy Bound with A‑277; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 186 × 127 mm. Gatherings H–R only: wanting gatherings A–G, Parthenice secunda. Occasional underlining in black ink. SHELFMARK: 4° F 1(4) Art.