til00263000

Text-inc Id:

til00263000

Bod-inc Id:

L-132

Headings:

Locher, Jacobus Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigrama' [addressed to] the readers. Incipit: ‘Quisquis ad exiguos nostri dictaminis orsus | diuertis, rigidum tolle supercilium'; 4 elegiac distichs.
3. a1v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Fergenhans, ‘iuris utriusque doctori preposito Stugardiensi.’ Incipit: ‘Cum mecum reuoluo . . .’
4. a2r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Hexastichon' [addressed to] Ludouicus Fergenhans. Incipit: ‘Suscipe non magnum, gracilem sed queso libellum | Ascrei montis raptus ab Amne venit'; 3 elegiac distichs.
5. a2v Locher, Jacobus: Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum. ‘Exordium metricum.’ Incipit: ‘[M]oris erat priscis diuum implorare tonantem | Uatibus aut graias operi preponere musas'; hexameters.
6. a3r Locher, Jacobus: Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum. Incipit: ‘Nondum excubia nocte . . .’
7. b2v Locher, Jacobus: Oratio de studio humanarum disciplinarum et laude poetarum. ‘Epilogus metricus ad studia poetice cohortans.’ Incipit: ‘Plaudite nunc iuueues(!), docti quoque plaudite patres | Transit ad optatum cymbula nostra solum'; elegiac distichs.
8. b3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Decatostichon de morte.’ Incipit: ‘Rebus in humanis quod sit constantia nulla | Id modo terrifica mortis imago docet'; 5 elegiac distichs.
9. b3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Distichon ad Apollinem.’ Incipit: ‘Phoebe faue, tenuem ne barbara turba poetam | Lancinet, ingenuum dilaceretque sophos'; 1 elegiac distich.
10. b3r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Endecassyllabon eiusdem ad librum suum.’ Incipit: ‘Iam noster dominum liber require | Qui dulces tibi basiationes'; phalaecian hendecasyllables.
11. b3v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Conradus Locher. Incipit: ‘Scio eqnidem(!), mi Conrade, quod tibi admodum . . .’
12. b4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Endecasyllabon' [addressed to] Udalricus Zasius. Incipit: ‘Cultor pyeridum, sacrique vatis | Thymbrei fidicen quidem canorus'; phalaecian hendecasyllables.
13. b4r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Tetrastichon' [addressed to] Gabriel Lorch. Incipit: ‘Tu quoque Cyrrhei cultor facunde liquoris | Adsis delitiis deprecor vsque meis'; 2 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

[Freiburg im Breisgau: Friedrich Riedrer, 1496-7]. 4°.

Collation:

a b⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00263000 H *10166; Goff L‑263; BMC III 697; Pr 3222; BSB‑Ink L‑205; Sack, Freiburg, 2261-3; Sheppard 2259. LCN: 14503051

Copies:

1. L-132(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over pasteboards; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 220 × 155 × 6 mm. Size of leaf: 214 × 144 mm. On a3r a correction in an early hand. Paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining of chapter headings in red. Provenance: Engelberg, Bavaria, Capuchins; inscription on b4r: ‘Fratrum Capucinorum Montis Angelorum 1639'. Purchased together with L‑131 for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1860), 54. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.32.