a1r [Title-page with woodcuts.] Incipit: ‘Que tibi diua miser christipara carmina lusi'; 3 elegiac distichs. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 174.
a1v Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Wymmarus de Ercklens. Incipit: ‘Q[uia] te summa virtute virum . . .’ Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 174-5. Dated Basel, 15 Mar. 1498.
a2r Brant, Sebastian: Varia carmina. [Part I.] ‘Ad magnificum et nobilem virum dominum Adelberum de Rotperg . . . inuectio'. Incipit: ‘Quod te cultorem scio virginis intemerate'. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 175-84 nos 1-41.
A1r Brant, Sebastian: [Poem on Johannes Reuchlin.] Incipit: ‘Accipe, Vangionem(!) presul venerande, Ioannis'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 195 no. I. Hugo Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des lateinischen Schuldramas (Halle an der Saale, 1888), 31-2.
A1v Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to Johannes de Dalberg.] Incipit: ‘[E]piscoporum gloriam, philosophorum pater . . .’ Dated Basel, 1 May 1498. See Karl Morneweg, Johann von Dalberg: ein deutscher Humanist und Bischof (Heidelberg, 1887), 258.
A1v Köchlin [I.e. Reuchlin], Johannes: Scenica progymnasmata. [Also known as Henno.] Incipit: ‘[N]ouus poeta sentiens actoribus'. Hugo Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des lateinischen Schuldramas (Halle an der Saale, 1888), 13-30. See Ludwig Geiger, Johann Reuchlin. Sein Leben und seine Werke (Leipzig, 1871), 81-91, and Josef Benzing, Bibliographie der Schriften Johannes Reuchlins im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Bibliotheca bibliographica, 18 (Bad Bocklet, 1955), 12 no. 46.
B2v [Note about time and place of performance and players.] Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 30-1.
B3r Helfant, Valentinus; [Reuchlin, Johannes]: ‘Oratio'. Incipit: ‘[C]omicos hos ludos, illustris princeps . . .’ The speech was given by Valentinus Helfant, but composed by Reuchlin; see Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 35 n. 1.
B3v Dracontius, Jacobus: ‘Ad iuuentutem Germanicam in Johannem Reuchlin . . . panegyris'. Incipit: ‘[H]uc ades, Aonidum qui ludere queris in vmbra'. Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 32-3.
B4r Adam Werner von Themar: ‘Ad . . . Johannem Richartzhusen . . . carmen'. Incipit: ‘[T]e duce res nostris agitur rarissima terris'. Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komödien, 33-4.
B4v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine viuendi pereuntibus inuentio noua'. Incipit: ‘[S]tultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus'. Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 121-7. Without the two concluding distichs addressed to the reader.
D5v Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part II.] Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 184-5 nos 43-5.
D6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum regem gloriosissimum in vitam et conuersationem regum Israhel et Juda'. Incipit: ‘[H]actenus immensum regnorum enauimus equor'. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 185 no. 46.
G2r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part III.] Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 186-7 nos 47-59.
Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 Aug. 1498. 4°.
Collation:
a6 b c4 d6 e f4 g6 h–k4 l A6 B C4 D6 E F4 G H6 I4 K6 L M4 N–P6. Seven woodcuts.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib01100000
GW 5069;
HC, Addenda, *3732;
Goff B‑1100;
BMC I 113;
Pr 487;
BSB‑Ink B‑809; Schramm XX p. 23; Schreiber V 3544; Sheppard 399.
LCN: 13911693
Copies:
B-518(1)
Copy
Without the additional unsigned gathering of four leaves after gathering l containing the ‘Turcorum terror et potentia', dated 1 Sept. 1498.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled English calf by Charles Murton.
Size: 195 × 140 × 16 mm.
Size of leaf: 190 × 130 mm.
A few early marginal notes.
Initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 64.