tib00072000

Text-inc Id:

tib00072000

Bod-inc Id:

B-040

Headings:

Baptista Mantuanus Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Henricus Valluphinus. Renouard, Badius, II 98.
3. a2r Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[B]eatissime virginis et martyris Catharine vitam nuper Rome dum tu apud Innocentium Pontificem Maximum pro republica tua splendidum oratoris munus . . .’
4. a2v Baptista Mantuanus(?): ‘Argumentum'. Incipit: ‘[C]atharina virgo Egyptia Alexandrie nata . . .’
5. a3r ‘Index alphabeticus'.
6. a4r ‘Expositiuncule epistole auctoris premisse'. Incipit: ‘Nequid inexpositum preteream noris lector in epistola ab auctore repremissa . . .’
7. a4v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[V]itam poete atque auctoris huius clarissimi in prioris Parthenices preambulis recensuimus . . .’
8. B1r Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda dedicated to Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[C]ostidis aggressi pugnam tormenta rotasque | Atque triumphato uictricia bella tyranno'. See B‑037.
9. B1r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on Parthenice secunda.] Incipit: ‘[C]ostidis aggressi pugnam. Ex veteri Latinorum poetarum more atque instituto poeta noster tria facit . . .’
10. P6r Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘In inuidum lectorem carmen'. Incipit: ‘Inuide quid tantum iuuat excandescere lector | Et Rhodiis linguax ponere sacra focis'; 11 elegiac distichs.
11. P6r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Excandescere est ira et inuidia inflamari . . .’

Imprint:

[Paris: Georg Wolf and] Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit [and Johann de Koblenz, between 5 Aug. 1499 and 13 Jan 1500]. 4°. As dated by CIBN; Sheppard dates [after 5 Aug. 1499].

Collation:

a⁴ B–M⁸ N–P⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00072000 GW 3303; H 2369 (II); C (+Addenda) 2376; Goff B‑72; Pr 8385; CIBN B‑053; Renouard, Badius, II 97-8 no. D 1; Rhodes 252; Sheppard 6539. LCN: 14123404

Copies:

1. B-040(1) Copy Bound with B‑036; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 207 × 133 mm. Some early marginal notes. Manuscript list of contents on front endleaf in a seventeenth-century(?) hand, containing the first two items, and showing that they had travelled together for some time before they received their present binding. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.24(2).