tig00484000

Text-inc Id:

tig00484000

Bod-inc Id:

G-246

Headings:

Gresemundus, Theodoricus Dialogus Podalyrii cum Catone de furore Germanico diebus genialibus carnis privii.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1r Cuspinianus, [Johannes: Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quem modo scire iuuat quidnam per compita larue | Mille strepant? Aut quis sit furor iste recens?'; 3 elegiac distichs. See Hans-Heinrich Fleischer, Dietrich Gresemund der Jüngere. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Humanismus in Mainz, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Mainz, 8 (Wiesbaden, 1967), 96.
3. A2r Gresemundus, Theodoricus: [Introductory letter addressed to] Georgius [Peffer] de Helle. Incipit: ‘[T]heodoricus Gresemundus iunior Maguntinus celeberrimo eruditissimoque viro domino Georgio de Helle . . . Cum iis genialibus feriis quas carnispriuiales . . .’ See Fleischer 98.
4. A3r Canter, Jacobus; Frisius: [Verse addressed to] Germania. Incipit: ‘Gresemundo ingentes grates Germania solue | Laudibus et iuuenem sidera adusque leua'; 5 elegiac distichs. See Fleischer 97.
5. A3r Cuspinianus, Johannes: [Verse in praise of Gresemundus, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Unde sit iste furor lemures quo luce diurna | Et laruis mixti per loca cuncta ruant'; 6 elegiac distichs. See Fleischer 96.
6. A3v Gresemundus, Theodoricus: Dialogus Podalyrii cum Catone de furore Germanico diebus genialibus carnis privii. Incipit: ‘[P]odalirius Ecdicetes Germanus. Saluere te iubeo, Cato. Unde proficisceris? An ex agro Norico? . . .’ See Fleischer 97-103.
7. B5r Gresemundus, Theodoricus: [Verse addressed to the book.] Incipit: ‘Edende auspiciis, libelle, faustis | Placato Ioue consulente Phebo'; 50 Phaleucian hendecasyllabics.
8. B6r Gresemundus, Theodoricus: ‘Carmen elegiacum . . . in eundem Zoilum.’ Incipit: ‘Falsus hucusque mihi firmam proh, Zoile, vultu | Spondere es blando visus amiciciam'; 13 elegiac distichs.
9. B6v Gresemundus, Theodoricus: ‘Tetrastichum . . . in eundem Zoilum.’ Incipit: ‘Ludere centenos vna se Zoilus hora | Iactat posse modos non facit ergo vir est'; 2 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

[Mainz: Peter von Friedberg, after 28 Feb. 1495]. 4°.

Collation:

a b⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00484000 GW 11510; H *8049; Goff G‑484; BMC I 47; Pr 178; BSB‑Ink G‑369; Oates 58; Sheppard 115. LCN: 14555500

Copies:

1. G-246(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century half red sheep, with paper covers and marbled pastedowns. Size: 211 × 149 × 6 mm. Size of leaf: 204 × 140 mm. Some early marginal notes and underlining in the text in black ink. Provenance: Purchased in 1861 via Parker, from Edwin Tross; ‘Tross VIII 1337', either for £1. 17. 6; see Invoice Book (1862-4, Library Records d. 430); or £1. 8. 0; see Library Bills (1862-4), bill dated 24 Oct. 1861; the former price may include Parker's commission. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.57.