tih00015000

Text-inc Id:

tih00015000

Bod-inc Id:

H-009

Headings:

Hemmerlin, Felix De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus et alia opuscula.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page with table of contents.]
2. A1r [Brant, Sebastian: Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quantumcunque leges minimum? Te lectio parua | Vix satiet veniam si dabis ipse stilo'; 1 elegiac distich.
3. A1r [Note about Felix Hemmerlin.] Incipit: ‘Vixit Foelix iste Malleolus circa annum domini Mccccxxxxiiii.’
4. A2r Malleolus ‘Uulgo' Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Prologus' [addressed to] Albertus VI von Hapsburg, Duke of Austria and Styria. Incipit: ‘[G]lorioso principi domino meo domino Alberto illustri duci Austrie et Stirie, etc., preceptori gratiosissimo Felix . . . Bonorum tamen hominum patientia de vniuersitatis alme . . .’ On the author and his works see VL III 989-1001, especially at pp. 997-8. The work announced on the title-page ‘De Switensium ortu, nomine, confederatione, moribus et quibusdam, vtinam bene, gestis' probably refers to chapter 33 of this work.
5. A3v [Table of contents.] ‘Registrum.’
6. a1r Hemmerlin, Felix: De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus et alia opuscula. Incipit: ‘[Q]uidam nobilis armate milicie miles militandi causa prout consueuit se de terra . . .’
7. z6v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Processus iudiciarius habitus coram omnipotenti deo inter nobiles et Thuricenses ex vna et Switenses cum complicibus partibus ex altera', [addressed to] Fredericus V von Hapsburg, King of the Romans (Emperor Fredericus III). Incipit: ‘[S]erenissimo principi et domino domino Friderico Romanorum regi excellentissimo, Felix . . . Cum generosus animus maiestatis regie frequenter occupetur . . .’
8. [et5r] Carolus I, Magnus [pseudo-; Hemmerlin, Felix]: ‘Epistola . . . de throno celorum congruenter occasione premissorum ad modernum regem Romanorum directa', [addressed to] Fredericus III, King of the Romans. Incipit: ‘[K]arolus imperator semper Augustus dilecto nobis filio Friderico regalis maiestatis successori . . . De nobis archano collateralis assessoris impenso . . .’
9. [et6r] Fredericus III, King of the Romans [pseudo-; Hemmerlin, Felix]: ‘Responsio' [addressed to] Carolus I, Magnus. Incipit: ‘[F]elicissimo principi Karolo magno imperatorum imperatori maximo semper Augusto . . . Fridericus Romanus . . . non tibi salutem quam beatissime frueris perpetua licebit premittere, sed ut salutem . . .’
10. [et6r] Carolus I, Magnus [pseudo-; Hemmerlin, Felix]: ‘Replicatio Karoli magni recitantis terre principes impiorum consilio facillantes', [addressed to] Fredericus III, King of the Romans. Incipit: ‘[K]arolus imperator, etc. charissimo nobis filio Friderico . . . Tibi nuper imperiose legalitatis magnanimitate post . . .’

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1493-1500]. Folio. As dated by Hillard and CIBN; Sheppard dates [c.1497], and BSB‑Ink [c.1500].

Collation:

A⁴ a–c⁸ d–z⁶ [et]⁸. Leaf A1 unsigned, A2 signed A, A_iii signed A_ii.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00015000 H *8426; Goff H‑15; BMC I 129; Pr 582; BSB‑Ink H‑41; CIBN H‑7; Hillard 988; Oates 219; Sack, Freiburg, 1773; Sheppard 449. LCN: 14508953

Copies:

1. H-009(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Felix Hemmerlin, Opuscula et tractatus. [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, after 13 Aug. 1497] (H‑011(2)). Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf. ‘21' in black ink on fore-edge. Size: 289 × 204 × 64 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 188 mm. Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); his Greek motto on A1r of item 1. Presented in 1659. SHELFMARK: N 1.21(1) Th. Seld.