tie00110000

Text-inc Id:

tie00110000

Bod-inc Id:

E-031

Headings:

Este, Nicolaus Maria de Oratio pro Hercule Estensi, Ferrariae duce, ad Alexandrum VI.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Title-page] ‘Illustris. et reverendi domini Nicolai Mariae Estensis episcopi Hadriensis Oratio pro consanguineo suo inclyto Hercule Estensi, Ferrariae duce secundo.’
2. [a2r] Campellus, Julius: [Introductory letter, addressed to] Lucas Ripa, of Ferrara. Incipit: ‘Scripsi ad te, Ripa mi optime, superioribus diebus de candidissima illa oratione . . .’ [a2v] Explicit: ‘... illustrique domino Herculi Varano etiam atque etiam commenda, orationem ipsam (si placet) amicis omnibus impartire. Vale iterum et me, ut facis, ama.’
3. [a2v] Este, Nicolaus Maria de: [Dedicatory preface, addressed to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Conuenerat, beatissime pater, inter huius sanctissimi foederis . . .’ [a3r] Explicit: ‘... Commendo me etiam atque etiam sanctitati tuae quam Deus opt. max. ad vota foelicitet.’
4. [a3r] Este, Nicolaus Maria de: Oratio pro Hercule Estensi Ferrariae duce [Addressed to] Alexander VI, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Nemini sane mirum uideri debet, beatissime pater, si in ipso dicendi . . .’ [a4r] Explicit: ‘... quieta sede illustrem et diuturnam pro tuae beatitudinis meritis clementissimus ille rerum omnium opifex Deus servet. | Dixi.’
5. [a4r] Colophon: ‘Romae impressa per magistrum Steffanum Plannck, Iulio Campello Spoletino procurante, anno Salvatoris M.cccc.lxxxxiii. Nonis Ianuariis.’
6. [a4v] [Oration in verse addressed to the reader] ‘Have. | Oratio ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘Lector diuitiae pede et solutae | Et iunctae simul omnis usque vocis'; 20 phalaecian hendecasyllables. Explicit: ‘... Successus referens diu cupitos: | Temnes rinocerotis [sic] usque nasum. | Vale.’

Imprint:

Rome: Stephan Plannck, 5 Jan. 1493. 4°. Secundo folio: Postea quam ad sanctitatem tua adventavimus ut unius- [a3r]

Collation:

[a⁴]. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian; Venezia N ISTC: ie00110000 GW 9396; H *6689; Goff E‑110; BMC IV 97; Pr 3709; BSB‑Ink E‑100; Oates 1488; Rhodes 738; Sheppard 2972. LCN: 14863081

Copies:

1. E-031(1) Copy Formerly bound first in a volume of speeches, the contents of which are listed in manuscript on [a1v]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco, with purple cloth over paper boards. Size: 208 × 145 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 130 mm. On [a1v] list of contents of original volume in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Early marginal annotations and underlining in the text in black ink. Provenance: Andreas Calceolus (fl. 1558); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Andreas Calceolus anno 1558'. Burghausen, Bavaria, Jesuits; inscription on [a2r]: ‘Collegii Societatis Jesu Burghusii 1634'. Probably a duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; pencil no. ‘4650/4' on [a1r]. Purchased from Caspar Haugg on 30 Nov. 1885, Catalogue 78 (1885), no. 115, for 4 Marks; see Library Bills (1885), no. 381. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 6.33.