Canis, Johannes JacobusAd Nicolaum Canalem imperatorem classem contra Turcos ducentem carmen.
Analysis of content:
[a1r] Canis, Johannes Jacobus: [Carmen, dedicated to] Nicolaus Canalis. ‘Clarissimo iurisconsulto domino Nicolao Canali universe classis in Turchos imperatori designato Iohanes Iacobus Canis iurium doctor. s.d’ Incipit: [O]ptima diuini sacrique scientia iuris | Cum fuerit uigil culta labore mihi ... [a4v] Explicit: ‘... Que tibi sint faustum munus, honosque precor. [elegiac distichs]’
Imprint:
[Padua
Printer of Lucianus (H 10276),
c. 1482]
4°
IGI assigns to Padua (cf. BMC VII p.926). GW and Pr assign to [Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, c.1475]. Sheppard records as 8°.
Secundo folio: [a2r] O decus Ausonie Veneti spes firma Senatus
Collation:
[a4]. Space left blank for initial, without printed guide letter.
References:
Source: Bodleian; Venezia N
ISTC: ic00095400
GW 5980;
H *4333;
Pr 7135;
BSB‑Ink C‑73; Sheppard 5612.
Copies:
C-046(1)
Copy
Bound with: 1. Johannes Jacobus Canis, De ludo equestri Patavii ad Ludovicum Fuscarenum carmen. [Padua: Printer of Lucianus (H 10276), c.1482] (C‑047).
Binding: Nineteenth-century grey paper boards; endpapers and pastedowns watermarked with an ox head; on lower pastedown: ‘Secunda pars hiemalis venerabilis dni Antonii'; for other books in a similar binding see bindings index under Austria, nineteenth century.
Size: 201 × 150 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 141 mm.
A four-line initial ‘O' is supplied in pencil on [a1r].
Provenance: Vienna, Dominicans, S. Maria; inscription on [a1r]: ‘Conuentus Vien[en]sis Ordinis Praedicatorum'.
Purchased for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1851), 13, where the place of printing is given as Venice and the date 1475.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.68(2).
