a1r [Title-page.] ‘Iucundissimus in septem artium liberalium dialogus.’
a1v Gresemundus, Theodoricus: ‘Carmen elegiacum' [addressed to the book.] Incipit: ‘I, liber, i, preceps armaria sueta relinque | In quis per totam delituisti hyemem'; 15 elegiac distichs.
a2r Gresemundus, Theodoricus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Trithemius. Incipit: ‘[C]um animo iamdudum reuoluere cepissem quemadmodum tibi . . .’
a2v Gresemundus, Theodoricus: [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[C]um ego quandoque nostrarum ad capessenda litterarum ornamenta socordiam . . .’
a3v Gresemundus, Theodoricus: Lucubratiunculae VII artium liberalium apologiam complectentes. ‘Chyronis et Aristoboli de septem artium liberalium discplinis dialogus.’ Incipit: ‘Chiron: Quoniam, o Artistobole, animum ita induxi, vt pro defendendis liberalibus . . .’ See G‑247.
c7r Trithemius, Johannes: ‘Carmen' [addressed to] Theodoricus Gresemundus. Incipit: ‘Viue puer nostris qui mittis munera tectis | In quorum dictis intima nostra moues'; 6 elegiac distichs.
c7r Leontorius, Conradus: ‘Carmen' [addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Candidulum quicunque leges tersumque libellum | Ingenio meritis laudibus vsque faue'; 6 elegiac distichs.
c7r Leontorius, Conradus: ‘Distichon.’ Incipit: ‘Gresmundi, quicunque legis, mirare iuuentam | Gresmundi canum sed venerare animum'; one distich.
c7v Wimpfeling, Jacobus: ‘In dialogum bonarum artium defensorem Theodorici Gresmundi carmen elegiacum.’ Incipit: ‘Indolis eximie felicior inter ephebos | Etatis tenere non mediocre decus'; 7 elegiac distichs.
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ig00485500
GW 11509;
HC 8048;
BMC IX 72;
Pr 9092;
Campbell 858; HPT I 108, II 414; ILC 1118; Sheppard 6985.
LCN: 14555513
Copies:
G-248(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf c8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-stamped brown sheep(?), with metal clasp and catch, in imitation of an earlier style; decorated pastedowns.
Size: 195 × 140 × 19 mm.
Size of leaf: 189 × 130 mm.
Some early marginal ‘notae'.
Provenance: Arnoldus Braclis (sixteenth century); name on a1r: ‘Arnoldus Braclis'.
Purchased from Martinus Nijhoff, Catalogue 266, no. 724, for Fl. 12.50; see Library Bills, 17 Jan. 1896.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. N8.1497.1.