tif00242000

Text-inc Id:

tif00242000

Bod-inc Id:

F-083

Headings:

Fontius, Bartholomaeus Orationes.

Analysis of content:

1. a1v [Table of contents.]
2. a2r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[S]i ea potuissem . . .’
3. a2v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Oratio . . . in laudem oratorie facultatis'. Incipit: ‘[I]n hac mihi non usitata loco . . .’ See Charles Trinkaus, ‘A Humanist's Image of Humanism: the Inaugural Orations of Bartolommeo della Fonte', Studies in the Renaissance, 7 (1960), 90-125; Stefano Caroti and Stefano Zamponi, Lo scrittoio di Bartolomeo Fonzio umanista fiorentino, Documenti sulle arti del libro, 10 (Milan, 1974), 105, no. 59; Verde II 84-91.
4. a7r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Oratio in historie laudationem'. Incipit: ‘[M]agnos inter fructus . . .’
5. b6v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Oratio . . . in bonas artis'. Incipit: ‘[R]eputanti mihi, doctissimi uiri atque huius Florentine iuuentutis . . .’
6. c5r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Oratio . . . in laudem poetices facultatis'. Incipit: ‘[C]um Quintus Horatius Flaccus et summus poeta lyricus et satyricus uates fuerit . . .’
7. d1v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Oratio de sapientia'. Incipit: ‘[S]uperioribus meis orationibus cum seiunctim . . .’
8. d5r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Oratio in satyre et studiorum humanitatis laudationem'. Incipit: ‘[A]nno superiore Q. Horatii Satyra explicata . . .’
9. e3r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: Pauli Ghiacceti vita. Incipit: ‘[G]hiaccetam domum preclaram olim fuisse . . .’
10. f2r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: Donatus. [A dialogue between Fontius and Donatus Acciaiuolus in the form of a letter addressed to] Julianus de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]nutile non fuerit scripsisse tibi . . .’

Imprint:

[Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, c.1490]. 4°. Stefano Caroti and Stefano Zamponi, Lo scrittoio di Bartolomeo Fonzio umanista fiorentino, Documenti sulle arti del libro, 10 (Milan, 1974), 91, note that the last oration is dated 7 Nov. 1487 in the autograph manuscript in Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 43. Aug. 2°.

Collation:

a–e⁸ f¹².

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: if00242000 GW 10171; HCR 7227; Goff F‑242; BMC VI 662, XII 47; Pr 6280; Hillard 824; Sheppard 5171. LCN: 14828596

Copies:

1. F-083(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter red morocco; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 210 × 143 × 12 mm. Size of leaf: 206 × 140 mm. A few early marginal notes, mainly extracting key words. On a1v: ‘Guai a chi colgie la sua crudel frezia'. Provenance: Giacomo Lucchesini (1753-1820); on front pastedown an erased inscription: ‘di Giacomo Lucchesini'. Purchased in Florence via D. A. Talboys, Oxford, for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 9, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 446. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.17.