tic00741000

Text-inc Id:

tic00741000

Bod-inc Id:

C-377

Headings:

Cleomedes De contemplatione orbium excelsorum [Latin].

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Note to the reader and table of contents.] Incipit: ‘Si bono litterarum studio . . .’
2. a2r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter] to Cardinal Caesar Borgia. Incipit: ‘[C]um in rebus humanis atque diuinis . . .’ See Robert B. Todd, ‘Cleomedes', CTC VII 1-11.
3. a3v Cleomedes: ‘De contemplatione orbium excelsorum'. [Also known as De motu circulari corporum caelestium.] Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[C]um uaria mundus significatione dicatur . . .’ See Robert B. Todd, ‘Cleomedes', CTC VII 1-11.
4. f1r Gravina, Petrus: [Letter to] Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘Aristides graecus tibi Aristidi Romano . . .’
5. f2r Aristides: Ad Rhodienses de concordia oratio [XXXIV K.]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[S]i pro mea uoluntate . . .’
6. g1r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter] to Franciscus [Todeschini] Picolomineus, Cardinal of Siena (later Pius III, Pont. Max.). Incipit: ‘[T]urbulenta haec tempora . . .’
7. g2r Dio [Chrysostomus]: Ad Nicomedenses oratio [XXXVIII]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[C]um ipse mecum reputo causas Nicomedii . . .’
8. g7v Dio [Chrysostomus]: De concordia oratio [XXXIX]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[L]aetor equidem honore . . .’
9. h1r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[A] sapientibus accepi . . .’
10. h2r Plutarchus: De virtute morali [Moralia 440 D]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Dedicated to Alexander VI, Pont. Max.. Incipit: ‘[D]e uirtute que ad mores spectare dicitur . . .’
11. k1r Valgulius, Carolus: [Letter to] Duke Johannes Borgia. Incipit: ‘[C]vm omnis mea cura . . .’
12. k2r Plutarchus: Coniugalia praecepta [Moralia 138 B]. Translated by Carolus Valgulius. Incipit: ‘[P]lutarchus Poliano et Eurydice s[alutem] p[lurimam] d[icit]. Post legem patriam . . .’
13. k8r Duccus, Johannes Franciscus: [Poem.] Dedicated to Hieronymus Calciavelius. Incipit: ‘Quanta sit eximii uirtus interpretis, ecce'; 5 elegiac distichs.
14. k8r [Colophon.]
15. [l1r] [List of errata.]

Imprint:

Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, for Angelus Britannicus, 3 Apr. 1497. 4°.

Collation:

a–d⁸ e⁴ f–h⁸ i⁴ k⁸ [l⁴]. On f2r a woodcut initial.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00741000 GW 7122 (+ Anm.); HC *5450; Goff C‑741; BMC VII 991; Pr 7040; BSB‑Ink C‑460; Sheppard 5814-15. LCN: 14841303, 14841356

Copies:

1. C-377(1) First copy Leaf a1 is erroneously signed a2 and contains the first three lines of a2, see GW Anm. Binding: Nineteenth-century half morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 201 × 155 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 145 mm. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 941. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. L 8.6.
2. C-377(2) Second copy Gathering f only. Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards. Size: 210 × 160 × 5 mm. Size of leaf: 209 × 157 mm. Provenance: Giuseppe Colbacchini; Catalogo dei libri . . . formanti la Biblioteca Colbacchini di Venezia (Milan, 16 Jan. 1888), lot 61. Purchased in 1888. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 7.47.