tiw00050800

Text-inc Id:

tiw00050800

Bod-inc Id:

W-020

Headings:

Wimpina, Conradus Almae universitatis studii et urbis Lipsiensis descriptio.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Title-page.]
2. [a1r] [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Grandia si studii si mores sique studentes | Dogmata Lipzensis noscere foret velis'; 4 lines of verse.
3. [a1v] Wimpina, Conradus: [Letter addressed to] the assembly and senate of Leipzig. Incipit: ‘Arduis prestantissimisque viris dominis burgimagistris . . . Siquid unquam dignum . . .’ Explicit: emulandi forma perhennis
4. [a2r] [Wimpina, Conradus]: Urbis Lipsiensis Descriptio. ‘Prisca marchionum misne(!) origo'. Incipit: ‘Nunc mihi, Calliope, precibus si flecteris ullis | Da pia principium crescentis scribere Lipzig'. On the work as a whole, see Joseph Negwer, Konrad Wimpina. Ein katholischer Theologe aus der Reformationszeit, Kirchengeschichtliche Abhandlungen, 7 (Breslau, 1909), 15-19, 200-1; the four sections of the first part are discussed at 16-17, the second part at 17-19.
5. [b1r] [Second title-page.]
6. [b1v] Wimpina, Conradus: [Letter addressed to students of Leipzig University.] Incipit: ‘Pindarum Euboicum eum qui prius Grecarum litterarum peritissimus habitus est . . .’ Explicit: assit estinet valete
7. [b2r] Wimpina, Conradus: Almae universitatis studii descriptio. Incipit: ‘Nunc dea si prima repetens ab origine pergas | Crescentis studii Lipzensis dicere fontes'.
8. [b7r] ‘Ad sancta Crucem tetrastich'. Incipit: ‘Nunc serua placidos crux mores alma studentes | Dogmata cum studio numine magna tuo'; 4 lines of verse.
9. [b7v] ‘Laudes sancte Crucis'. Incipit: ‘O Crux que summiles voto venerata tropheo | O Crux que Christi charo es benedicta triumpho'; 19 hexameters.
10. [b7v] [Verse.] ‘Adolescentum exhortacio ut studia repetant'. Incipit: ‘Tempus adest iuuenes consurgite tempora veris | Expectata diu dogmata leta ferunt'; 13 distichs.

Imprint:

[Leipzig: Printer of Capotius (Martin Landsberg), c.1486-9]. 4°.

Collation:

[a⁶ b⁸]. Types: 156, title, headings; 78, text. 14 leaves. 29 lines ([a3v]). Type area: 152 ×68 mm ([a3v]).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iw00050800 H *16204; not in Pr; BSB‑Ink W‑82; Negwer 200, no. 2; Sheppard 2103. LCN: 14766041

Copies:

1. W-020(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco with brown cloth; bound by Maltby (gilt stamp inside the upper cover). Size: 214 × 150 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 207 × 139 mm. Pointing hand in black ink on [b2v]. Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; no indication from the shelfmark. SHELFMARK: Don. e.147.