Britannicus, GregoriusSermones funebres et nuptiales.
Analysis of content:
[*1v] ‘Ad lectorem epigramma elegiacum'. Incipit: ‘Jura tibi si forte velis decerpere, lector'; 9 elegiac distichs.
[*2r] Britannicus, Gregorius: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Zane, Bishop of Brescia. Incipit: ‘[E]t si nulla vnquam, reuerendissime antistes, nec consuetudo . . .’ Dated 19 Mar. 1495. Saxius 509-10.
[*2v] Zane, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Gregorius Britannicus. Incipit: ‘[P]erlectis suauissimis litteris tuis . . .’ Dated Brescia, 21 Mar. 1495. Saxius 510-11.
[*3v] ‘Tabula orationum funebrium vulgarium'.
a1r Britannicus, Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum quod dicit Damasenus(!), nulla res distinguitur . . .’ 103 sermons. In addition, the collection contains sermons by Thomas Acerbus, Johannes Britannicus, Carolus Zenus and Christophorus Barzizius; see below.
h1v Acerbus, Thomas: ‘Oratio funerea in quemcumque equitem auratum'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam mors co[mmun]i sorte hominum corpora dissipat . . .’ Listed in John McManamon, Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism (Chapel Hill, NC, 1989), 249.
h8r Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio . . . in obitu magni magistratus Brixiani Nicolai Duodo habita Brixie'. Incipit: ‘[C]upienti mihi, magnifice pretor uosque, amplissimi patres . . .’
i2r Zenus, Carolus: ‘Oratio pro quocumque principe, capitaneo, magistratu, legato, doctore omni scientia celeberrimo'. Incipit: ‘[M]aximum et amplissimum munus . . .’
l2v Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio matrimonialis'. Incipit: ‘[E]t si mihi iure letandum est, magnifici rectores vosque, amplissimi patres . . .’
l6r Barzizius, Christophorus (Grammaticus): ‘Oratio coniugalis'. Incipit: ‘[Q]ualem in presenti causa . . .’
p1r ‘Auctoritates'. Incipit: ‘[H]omo vite commodatus est . . .’
q1r Britannicus, Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales vulgares [Italian]. Incipit: ‘ “[M]emorare nouissima tua . . .” [Ecl 7,40]. Queste parole, ornatissimi citadini mei . . .’
Imprint:
[Brescia: Angelus Britannicus, c.1498]. 8°.
GW ascribes to [Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus].
Collation:
[*4] a–l8 m4 n8 o4 p–r8. Gathering [*] numbered, but not signed. Woodcut initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib01208500
GW 5551;
C 1345;
BMC VII 980;
Pr 7012;
Sheppard 5793.
LCN: 13983311
Copies:
B-559(1)
Copy
Binding: Parchment.
Size: 140 × 100 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 132 × 93 mm.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 11.
