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tip00719000

Text-inc Id:
tip00719000
Bod-inc Id:
P-320
Headings:
Pius II, Pont. Max. Epistolae familiares (ed. Nicolaus von Wyle).
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [List of contents.]
  2. b1v von Wyle, Nicolaus: [Preface addressed to] the reader. ‘Preconizatio Enee Siluii poete laureati'. Incipit: ‘[O]mnibus et singulis humanitatis studio deditis . . . Enea Siluius de Senis ex nobili sanguine . . .’
  3. b2r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistolae familiares. Edited by Nicolaus von Wyle. This edition of Pius's letters opens with a letter addressed to Aeneas Sylvius by Cardinal Julianus Cesarini (Wolkan I no. 45). In relation to Wolkan this edition follows the same order as P‑318.
  4. h4v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistola de fortuna [addressed to] Procopius de Rabenstein. ‘Somnium de fortuna'. Dated Vienna, 26 June 1444. See P‑314.
  5. i1v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Kaspar Schlick. See P‑304.
  6. i1v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: [Letter addressed to] Marianus Sozzinus. See P‑304.
  7. i2r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia [dedicated to] Marianus Sozzinus. ‘Hystoria de Eurialo et Lucretia se amantibus'. Dated Vienna, 3 July 1444. See P‑303.
  8. l3r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Dialogus contra Bohemos atque Thaboritas de sacra communione corporis Christi [addressed to] Cardinal Johannes Carvajal. Dated Wiener Neustadt, 21 Aug. 1451. See P‑309.
  9. o6r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Descriptio urbis Viennensis. See P‑316.
  10. o6v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: De curialium miseria [addressed to] Johannes de Eych. Dated Bruck a. Mur, 31 Jan. 1445 [30 Nov. 1444]. See P‑301.
  11. r8r [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Epistolae in Cardinalatu editae. Incipit: ‘[D]iuo imperatori Friderico augusto domino suo . . . Quod iam dudum optasti procurastique . . .’ On Pius's letters see VL VII 634-69, at 640-1.
  12. y7v Pius II, Pont. Max.: [Epistolae in Pontificatu editae.] ‘Respondet Francorum regi super materia episcopatus Tornacensis'. Incipit: ‘[P]ius episcopus seruus . . . Que ad nos de conditionibus . . .’
  13. aa5v Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistola ad Mahumetem. ‘Reserat Thurco fidei nostre veritatem et collidit errores Machometi atque sectam suam'. See P‑311.
  14. cc4v Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Oratio habita in conuentu Mantuano'. Incipit: ‘[C]um bellum hodie aduersus impiam Thurcorum gentem pro dei honore . . .’ Dated 26 Sept. 1459. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 905-14; Pii II P. M. orationes, ed. Mansi, II 9-29.
  15. dd1v Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla de profectione in Thurcos et de prerogatiuis eiusdem passagii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ius episcopus . . . Ezechielis prophete magni sententia est . . .’ Explicit: psallat in secula seculorum Dated Rome, 22 Oct. 1463. Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 914-23.
  16. dd5v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Oratio coram Calixto III de obedientia Friderici III. Incipit: ‘[S]olent plerique omnnes beatissime pater maxime pontifex . . .’ Pii II P. M. orationes, ed. Mansi, I 336-46 no. xvi; on his orations see also VL (2nd edn) VII 634-69, at 649-51.
  17. ff4v Poggius Florentinus: Epistola ex balneis [addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De scola Epycure factionis que regnat in Theutonia'. The recipient of Poggius's letter is actually Nicolaus Niccoli. Poggio Bracciolini, Lettere, ed. Harth, I 128-35 no. 46.
  18. ff5v Poggius Florentinus: [Letter addressed to] Leonardus [Brunus] Aretinus. ‘De condemnatione Hieronymi heretici in concilio Constantien[si].’ Poggio Bracciolini, Lettere, ed. Harth, II 157-63 (IV,6).
  19. ff7r [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus: [Letter addressed to] Bindactius Ricassolanus. ‘De crudeli amoris exitu Guisgardi et Sigismunde Tancredi Solernitanorum principis filie'. Incipit: ‘Cum sepius mecum egisses vt fabulam illam . . .’ Aeneas Silvius, Opera, 954-5; Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, 247.
  20. ff7r [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Boccaccio, Giovanni]: De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda. Incipit: ‘Tancredus fuit princeps Solernitanus . . .’ Explicit: ambos sepeliri fecit A Latin translation from Boccaccio's Decameron IV,1 by Leonardus Brunus. See P‑318.
  21. gg2v [Piccolomini], Aeneas Sylvius: Tractatulus de educatione liberorum [addressed to] Ladislas Posthumus, King of Bohemia and Hungary. Dated Wiener Neustadt, Feb. 1450. See P‑318.
  22. hh8r Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Oratio de laudatissima Maria'. Incipit: ‘[V]irgo Theutonicis multum celebrata sacellis | Mater et ipsa dei mater et ipsa hominis'; 10 elegiac distichs. The verse is here attributed to Pius II by the printer. See P‑318.
Imprint:
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486. 4°.
Collation:
a6 b–z aa–hh8.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00719000 HC *154; Goff P‑719; BMC II 430; Pr 2051; BSB‑Ink P‑522; CIBN P‑414; Hillard 1634; Rhodes 1417; Sack, Freiburg, 2887; Sheppard 1501. LCN: 14016006
Copies:
  1. P-320(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf (fillets only), with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; marbled pastedowns. Size: 243 × 185 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 233 × 160 mm. On b2r an 11-line initial is supplied in blue and red interlocked with red pen-work decoration extending into the margin to form a border, touched with green wash. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes in red. Provenance: Anonymous sale (3 May 1832), lot 108. Purchased for £0. 5. 0; see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 364; Books Purchased (1832), 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.22.
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