tig00016000

Text-inc Id:

tig00016000

Bod-inc Id:

G-012

Headings:

Gaguinus, Robertus Elegia de variis vitae humanae incommodis.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Title-page.]
2. [a1r] [Prospectus.] Incipit: ‘Hanc in via sancti Jacobi ad signum capitis diui Dyonisii venalem reperies.’
3. [a2r] Gaguinus, Robertus: Elegia de variis vitae humanae incommodis, [addressed to] [Publius] Faustus [Andrelinus]. Incipit: ‘Si tibi, Fauste, vacat et musa dat ocya curis | Impiget auditor ex helycone veni'; 46 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

[Paris: Michel Le Noir], for Durand Gerlier, [1498, after 7 Apr.]. 4°. Hillard assigns to [Le Noir]; on the dating see GW Anm.

Collation:

[a⁴].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00016000 GW 10466; HC *7423; Goff G‑16; BMC VIII 183; not in Pr; BSB‑Ink G‑9; Hillard 850; Polain 1536; Sheppard 6452. LCN: 14828542

Copies:

1. G-012(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century grey paper boards. Size: 198 × 140 × 3 mm. Size of leaf: 187 × 130 mm. Two endleaves containing 2 manuscript verses of Gaguinus, addressed to Arnoldus Bostius, with incipits ‘Mille licet studeas Joachim praeconia linguis | Dicere nec Musis inferiora canas' (6 elegiac distichs); and ‘Dum petis attoli vocali psalte parentem | Christiferae matris me quid ad ista vocas?' (14 elegiac distichs); for these verses, see ed. Thuasne II 47, n. 1, with the verses printed in Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Jesu Christi (Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascenius, 1502), K8r; inscription from Gaguinus's tomb: ‘Christe salus hominum, meritorum equissime censor | seruulus ecce tuus pro carnis lege solutus' (9 hexameters), printed in Claude Malingre, Les antiquitez de la ville de Paris (Paris, 1640), 224; ‘Suspice quo mundi gnaeuis speciosa feruntur | Fit pendas parui que semel aucta cadunt' (14 lines of verse); epitaph ‘in claustro Matturinorum' [the Trinitarian order] for Gaguin's mother, who died in 1482, with incipit ‘Ne frustra expectes quod debent busta monebo | Dicere gesta nimis gloriae inanis habet' (16 distichs), reproduced in Malingre 224-5. Provenance: Purchased from Percy Mordaunt Barnard; a pencil note on the front pastedown; see BQR 4,47 (1924), 269. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. F1.7.