[a2r] Aegidius Delphus: ‘Ad episcopum Aniciensem christianissimi Gallorum regis elemosinarium magnificentissimum.’ [Addressed to Godefroy de Pompadour, Bishop of Le Puy.] Incipit: ‘Optime pontificum, qui pectore iura recondis | Accipe de psalmis carmina pauca sacris'; 1elegiac distich. View entry in Person Index
[a2r] Aegidius Delphus: ‘Exortatio ad poetas.’ Incipit: ‘Carminibus vates misteria dicite sacris | Saturnus iacet, numina falsa Iouis.’ View entry in Person Index
[a2r] Aegidius Delphus: ‘Septem psalmi metrice compilati.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on me carpe Deus quamuis furor iraque poscunt.’ Preceded by notes on the headings. View entry in Person Index
Imprint:
Paris: Antoine Denidel, [c.1497]. 4°.
CIBN dates [c.1497] from the state of the printer's device; GW dates [c.1500].
Collation:
[a6].
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia00096450
GW 275;
HC 13439;
not in Pr;
CIBN A‑36; Sheppard 6517.
LCN: 14063185
Copies:
A-040(1)
Copy
Bound with: 1. Hesiodus, Opera et dies. [Paris]: Pierre Levet, [c.1497] (H‑068); 2. Nigellus Wirecker, Speculum stultorum. [Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, c.1490] (W‑026); 3. Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, De moribus puerorum carmen juvenile. [Paris]: Félix Baligault, [between 1497 and 7 May 1500] (S‑354); 4. Titus Calpurnius Siculus, Bucolica. [Paris: Félix Baligault, c.1494] (C‑034); 6. Franciscus Zambecharius, Elegiarum liber de amoribus Chryseae et Philochrysi. Paris: Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, 31 Dec. 1498 (Z‑005).
On [a1v] and [a2r] mirror-image impressions of [a1r] and [a2v] respectively.
Binding: Eighteenth-century French calf; gold-tooled spine; red-edged leaves.
Size: 199 × 137 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 190 × 126 mm.
Provenance: Petrus Faber (Lefèvre?) (sixteenth century); ‘Pro Petro Fabro' on a1r of item 1.
P. Poutier' on a1r of item 1; perhaps this item only.
Identical pointing hands and occasional marginal notes in items 2 and 3.
The whole volume was bought from a French bookseller for Fr. 30 by Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846-1911); annotated cutting from a catalogue on front endleaf.
Presented by Mrs Buchanan in 1941.
SHELFMARK: Buchanan e.66(5).
