tib00484000

Text-inc Id:

tib00484000

Bod-inc Id:

B-225

Headings:

Beroaldus, Philippus De felicitate.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jakob II von Baden. Incipit: ‘[S]oleo ipse mecum, illustris Marchio, cumprimis admirari iuuenes illos . . .’
3. A3r Beroaldus, Philippus: De felicitate. Incipit: ‘[M]agna res est viri ornatissimi, et omnibus horis omnium uotis expetita felicitas . . .’
4. D4r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Distichon ad auditores extemporaliter effusum'. Incipit: ‘Felix cui constant bona corporis et bona mentis | Nec non fortunae munera parca deae'; 1 elegiac distich.
5. D4r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Endecasyllabon' [addressed to] Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Incipit: ‘Felix o nimis et beate princeps, | Cuius presidio est beata felix'; 10 hendecasyllables. See B‑223.
6. D4r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Eiusdem endecasyllabon' [addressed to] Germania. Incipit: ‘O Germania muneris repertrix | Quo nil utilius dedit uetustas'; 28 hendecasyllables.

Imprint:

Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 Apr. 1499. 4°.

Collation:

A–C⁸ D⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00484000 GW 4134 (+ Anm.); HC Addenda, *2971; Goff B‑484; BMC VI 844; Pr 6641; BSB‑Ink B‑367; CIBN B‑346; Sheppard 5393-4. LCN: 14003668

Copies:

1. B-225(1) First copy Bound with B‑220(2); see there for details of binding and acquisition. Size of leaf: 201 × 136 mm. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.33(1).
2. B-225(2) Second copy Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half calf, with mottled blue paper boards. Size: 215 × 160 × 9 mm. Size of leaf: 209 × 152 mm. Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 620. Bequeathed in 1914. SHELFMARK: Byw. K 7.17.