Valla, LaurentiusElegantiae linguae latinae, et al. (ed. Petrus Paulus Senilis).
Analysis of content:
[a1r] [Introduction to the list of contents.] Incipit: ‘[V]niuersum hoc Elegantiarum opus sex libris distinctum est . . .’
[a1r] [Alphabetical list of chapters.]
[b1r] Senilis, Petrus Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Heynlin de Lapide. Incipit: ‘Quom his proximis diebus mecum ageres uir humanitate . . .’ See P. Champion, Les plus anciens monuments de la typographie parisienne (Paris, 1904), no. 50; and see E. Beltran, ‘Pierre-Paul Senilis (Veillot) secrétaire de Louis XI et éditeur des Elegantiae de Valla', Bibliothèque d'humanisme et renaissance: Travaux et documents, 56 (1994), 107-25.
[b1v] Senilis, Petrus Paulus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Rhetora quisquis amas uates linguamue latinam | Laurenti hoc Vallae perlege semper opus'; 4 elegiac distichs. See Champion no. 51.
[b2r] Valla, Laurentius: Elegantiae linguae latinae. [Preface to book I.] Edited by Petrus Paulus Senilis. See V‑026.
[b4r] Valla, Laurentius: Elegantiae linguae latinae. See V‑026; Ijsewijn–Tournoy 36 [group A].
[y7r] Valla, Laurentius: De reciprocatione ‘sui' et ‘suus' [dedicated to] Johannes Tortellius. ed. Sandström 4-74; see pp. lxxxvi–xc on this edition.
[aa1r] Valla, Laurentius: Raudensianae notae. ‘Liber in errores Antonii Raudensis'. Incipit: ‘[A] ab abs praepositiones sunt . . .’ Laurentius Valla, Opera (Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1540),390-438, repr. in Valla, Opera omnia 1, with introduction by Garin, Monumenta politica et philosophica rariora, 1/5; see M. Regoliosi, ‘Le due redazioni delle “Raudensiane note” e le “Elegantiae” del Valla', in Vestigia. Studi in onore di Giuseppe Billanovich, ed. R. Avesani and others, 2 vols, Storia e Letteratura, 162-3 (Rome, 1984), II 559-73.
[ee1r] [Alphabetical list of words.]
[ff8r] Heynlin, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Paulus Senilis. Incipit: ‘Etsi me iandudum multis officiis tibi deuinxeras . . .’ Dated Sorbonne 1471. See Champion no. 52.
Imprint:
[Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz, and Michael Friburger, before 6 Mar. 1472]. Folio.
Collation:
[a–g10 h8 i–o10 p12 q–z aa bb10 cc–ee8 ff10]. Type: 115 R. Capital spaces. 284 leaves, 10, 221, 283, and 284 blank. 32 lines ([b3r]). Type area: 185 ×120 mm ([b3r]). Leaf [a1r]: ‘Quot Vniuerſi Operis Elegantiaꝝ Lau | rentii Vallæ ſint libri! quæ ue unicuiqƺ li= | bro ſubiecta materia! & quis in ſingulis | materiis pertractandis ordo ſeruetur; || [ ]NIVERSVM hoc Elegantiarum | Opus / Sex Libris Diſtinctum Eſt. | . . .'; [b1r]: ‘.P. Pauluſ Seniliſ [Ioanni Heynlin de Lapide] | ſalutem plurimam dicit;' [b2r]: ‘Excellentiſſimi acutiſſimiqƺ grāmatici & oratoris Laurentii | Vallæ / in libꝝ elegantiaꝝ ſuaꝝꝓlogus fœliciter incipit.'; [y6v]: ‘Libri Sexti Elegantiarum Laurentii Vallæ / fœlix finis;' [y7r]: ‘Laurentii Vallæ ad Iohannē tortellum arretinū cubiculariū | appoſtolicū Præfatio in tractatū. de reciꝓcatione ſui & ſuus;' [z10r]: ‘Fœlix Finis;' [aa1r]: ‘Laurentii Vallæ liber / in errores Antonii | Raudenſis fœliciter incipit;' [dd8r]: ‘FINIS;' [ee1r]: ‘Elegantium uocabuloꝝ quæ in hoc opere ſparſim tradita | ſunt! . . . | . . . compendioſa collectio;' [ff8r]: ‘Petro Paulo Senili / chriſtianiſſimi francoꝝ regis | ſecretario / [Iohannes de Lapide] S. P. D.;' [ff8v], l. 28, end: ‘ . . . Aedibuſ ſorbonȩ ſcriptū anno | uno & ſeptuageſimo quadringenteſimoqƺ ſupra milleſimū;'.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: iv00052000
HC 15800;
Goff V‑52;
Pr 7828;
CIBN V‑38; Claudin I 37-41 and tables 161; Claudin, First Paris Press, 10; Sheppard 6071-2. Microfiche: Unit 25: Italian Humanism: Part II, IH 177.
LCN: 14800494
Copies:
V-027(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaves [a10], [z1], [ff10]. The name of Heynlin on [b1r] and [ff8r] has been erased.
Binding: Early nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Gilt-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and turquoise silk bookmark.
Size: 302 × 225 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 291 × 201 mm.
Contemporary manuscript foliation in the middle of the lower margin of the rectos in brown ink: 1-281. In the same hand also running book numbers and running titles, some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, and ‘nota' marks; on [y6v] a diagram grouping subjects by author: ‘In Nonium Marcellum de: alumnus | Citare | Capio . . . In Servium . . . In Macrobium . . . In Aulum Gellium . . . In Pristianum . . . In Donatum . . . In Varronem . . . In Festum Pompeium . . . In Boetium . . . In Iustinianum . . . In iurisconsultos . . .' on [ff8v]: ‘In hoc libro sunt folia cclxxxi a primo uerbo Laurentii ad ultimum millesimum | Τέλος ’.
Provenance: Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale (1830), lot 1089.
Purchased at the Renouard sale for £15. 15. 0: see Books Purchased (1830), 23.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.8.
