tiw00046000

Text-inc Id:

tiw00046000

Bod-inc Id:

W-017

Headings:

Wimpfeling, Jacobus Oratio quaerulosa contra invasores sacerdotum.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r [Wimpfeling, Jacobus]: Oratio quaerulosa contra invasores sacerdotum. ‘Flaminum vatum sacerdotum gymnosophistarum philosophorum druidum in testipremos conquestio' [addressed to] Alexander [VI], Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Si unquam, beatissime maximeque pontifex Alexander, opus fuit auxilio . . .’ Explicit: quos neque maximi quidem
3. a9v [Wimpfeling, Jacobus(?): Verse.] Incipit: ‘Imperatores ausi fuerunt unquam diiudicare | Impie tu latro quem certe lamia tygris'; 14 lines of verse.

Imprint:

[Basel?: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, c.1495]. 4°. Pr assigns to an anonymous press, after 1500, and the book was excluded from BMC. It was then re-assigned at the BM to [Bergmann, c.1495] (attribution and dating used by Sheppard). CIBN, however, points out distinctions between some of the types used and those known in Bergmann's work; BSB‑Ink assigns to [Bergmann] and dates [c.1494-5].

Collation:

a¹⁰. Type: 109 R. 10 leaves. 28 lines (a2v). Type area: 153 ×112 mm (a2v).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iw00046000 H *16192; Goff W‑46; BM STC (Germany), p. 663; Pr p. 852; BSB‑Ink W‑70; CIBN II p. 758; Pellechet MS. 11825; Sheppard 2554. LCN: 14766005

Copies:

1. W-017(1) Copy Wanting title-page, a1, and the blank leaf, a10. Binding: Calf, with double gold-tooled fillets on both covers, and gold-tooled turn-ins; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 202 × 143 × 11 mm. Size of leaf: 197 × 135 mm. Provenance: Paris, Barnabites, S. Eligius; inscription on a2r in a sixteenth-century hand (after 1535, the date when Paul VI, Pont. Max. allowed the order to use the style ‘Clerici Regulares S. Pauli', for which see Paul and Marie-Louise Biver, Abbayes, monastères et couvents de Paris (Paris, 1970), 465 (foundation of order at 464, suppression at 469): ‘Collegii S. Eligii Parisiensis Clericorum Regularium S. Pauli'; circular stamp on a2r (reproduced in Alfred Franklin, Les anciennes bibliothèques de Paris, III (Paris, 1873), 9). Date of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark suggests a date in the late 1830s or early 1840s. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.42.