tis00831000

Text-inc Id:

tis00831000

Bod-inc Id:

S-372

Headings:

Swineshead, Richardus Calculationes (ed. Johannes Tollentinus).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Johannes Tollentinus: [Letter addressed to] Ambrosius [Varisius] Rosatus. Incipit: ‘Solent magnifice Ambrosi sapientissimi principes exercitus suos . . .’
3. a2r Swineshead, Richardus: Calculationes. Edited by Johannes Tollentinus, as stated in the explicit. Incipit: ‘Veneas quod habeant intensio et remissio qualitatis . . .’ See M. Clagett, The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages (Madison, Wis., 1959), 298-304 (extracts from ‘regulae de motu locali'); see Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1393. The author is named ‘Suiseth Anglicus' in the incunable.
4. n3r [Colophon.]
5. n3v Stephanus de Compiano: Tetrasticon [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Vera dedit Verona metus depone priores | Eternum uiuat uerus et iste labor'; 2 elegiac distichs in honour of Johannes Tollentinus.
6. n3v Feliciano, Johannes Jacobus de: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Si tibi phebeos mens est conscendere honores | Noscere et excelsi dogmata Aristotelis'; 3 elegiac distichs in honour of Johannes Tollentinus.
7. n3v Jacobus Veronicus Brixianus: [Verse addressed to] Johannes Tollentinus. Incipit: ‘Qui rudis ante fuit per te geometra refulgens | Munere Joannes gestit ubique tuo'; 4 elegiac distichs.
8. n3v Julianus Piscinas Cremonensis: [Verse addressed to] Johannes Tollentinus. Incipit: ‘Tesidam furiis lacerum dyctina nouerce | Restituit, uires inclita Roma frigum (i.e. Phrygum)'; 4 elegiac distichs.
9. n3v [Verse addressed to] Johannes Tollentinus. Incipit: ‘Debetur manes Suiseth laudesque decoras | Iam tibi deductus carcere uandalico'; 1 elegiac distich.
10. n4r ‘Tabula'.

Imprint:

Pavia: Franciscus Girardengus, 4 Jan. 1498. Folio.

Collation:

a¹⁰ b–m⁶ n⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00831000 HC *15138; Goff S‑831; BMC VII 1005; Pr 7078; BSB‑Ink S‑622; CIBN S‑497; Oates 2654; Rhodes 1652; Sheppard 5848. LCN: 14007389

Copies:

1. S-372(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half red morocco over marbled pasteboards; bound for Boutourlin. Size: 322 × 232 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 315 × 221 mm. Some marginal and interlinear notes, mainly providing corrections to the text, in the first leaves only, in a contemporary humanist hand in light brown ink; running folio numbers ‘1-80' in the same hand. Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 413; see Catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1839), lot 469; purchased at his sale for £1. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1840), 30. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 2.30.