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mei/00560313 Inc.3.A.2.14[179] [00560313]

Cambridge, University Library (GB) : Inc.3.A.2.14[179]

ISTC No.ih00016000
AuthorHemmerlin, Felix
TitleOpuscula et tractatus
Imprint[Strassburg : Johann Prüss, after 13 Aug. 1497]
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectLiterature-moral
Keywordspolemical works; current affairs
Periodcontemporary

Description of Copy

Copy Id00560313
Holding InstitutionCambridge, University Library (GB)
CollectionInc.2-7
ShelfmarkInc.3.A.2.14[179]
NoteTitle from title page on leaf [pi1] recto.
In another edition (H 8424, BMC I 172 and ISTC ih00017000) the elegiacs of Sebastian Brant here printed on leaf [pi1] verso are dated Idibus Augusti 1497: see Sheppard, 450-451, and ISTC.
Goff H16 dates this edition ca 1493-1500.
Edited by Sebastian Brant.
Woodcut illustration of the author with 4 hornets on title page on leaf [pi1] recto.
Printed running titles and foliation, the latter with mistakes.
The text of Eugenius IV's Bulla on leaves B5 verso - C4 verso is in a larger font, typographically distinguished from the surrounding commentary and all other texts.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: [pi²] A-Y⁶.
Contents include: Table page, [pi1]r; verse, incipit "Felicis si te iuvat", 5 elegiac distichs (Walther, Initia 6319), [pi1]r; Sebastian Brant. "Elegiacum episodion" [addressed to] Hermannus [von Hessen], Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, [pi1]v-[pi2]r; Table of contents, [pi2]v; Felix Hemmerlin. Opuscula et tractatus, A1r-Y6r ; Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.: [Bulla] Incipit "[E]ugenius episcopus eruus seruorum dei uenerabilibus fratribus Coloniensibus, Treuerensibus, Maguntinensibus...", dated 12 May 1431, B5v-C4v. Hemmerlin's opuscula include: "Contra validos mendicantes", [addressed to] Henricus [de Hoewen], Bishop of Constance, A1r-B1r; "De negocio monachorum", [addressed to] B[ertholdus de Rosswag, Abbot of Maulbronn], C4v-E5r; "Contra quendam superbum clericum epistola", [addressed to] Jacobus Purlin, "canonicus abbatiae Thuricensis", Q2v-Q4r; "De libertate ecclesiastica tractatus", [addressed to] Henricus [de Hoewen], Bishop of Constance, Q5v-S5r.
BM 15th cent., I, 129
BN cat. des incun., H-9
Bod-inc, H-011
BSB-Ink, H-43
Goff, H16
GW, 12188 (with digital facsimiles)
Hain, 8425*
ISTC, ih00016000
Oates, 218
L. A. Sheppard, Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library, [Unpublished MS, 1954-71], 450-451
Schreiber, Manuel, V, 4199
Parchment fragment used as spine-guard from a manuscript in Gothic hand, England [?], 13th century, with marginal nota signs and notes in Anglicana hands, England, 15th [?] century.
Item no. 1 in volume. Bound with Felix Hemmerlin. De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus et alia opuscula. [Strassburg : Johann Prüss, ca 1500] (ISTC ih00015000).
[2], CXXXII leaves :
Original item identifier in source database: 5551200

Provenance 1527-1608

Provenance nameDee, John, 1527-1608 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance 1590-1649

Provenance nameHoldsworth, Richard, 1590-1649 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance

PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk-en
Provenance nameCambridge University Library [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
NoteInscribed 'Joannes Dee' on leaf [pi1] recto, i.e. John Dee, mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. Listed in Dee's 1583 catalogue, now Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. O.4.2., p. 71, [no. 1334]: see John Dee's Library Catalogue, eds R. J. Roberts and A. G. Watson, London, 1990, p. 99, no 1334. Part of Richard Holdsworth Bequest adjudged to Cambridge University in 1664, its armorial bookplate 'Academiæ Cantabrigiensis Liber' on upper pastedown. Old library shelfmark 'H.3.36', on upper pastedown, leaf [pi1] recto, and spine.
Binding noteMottled brown calf over pasteboards, with parchment manuscript fragment used as spine-guard, and title gilt on red morocco spine label, England, 17th century.
Manuscript notesManuscript notes in Dee's hand on leaves [pi1] recto and Y6 verso, the latter providing references in the book to Salomon, King of the Britons, and to King Arthur (see John Dee's Library Catalogue, cit. above, p. 99, no. 1334), England, late 16th century. A few other marginal notes in cursive hand, England, 17th century.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

Other Information

Last Edit2017-04-30 12:00:00

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Cambridge, University Library (GB) : Inc.3.A.2.14[179]

ISTC No.ih00016000
AuthorHemmerlin, Felix
TitleOpuscula et tractatus
Imprint[Strassburg : Johann Prüss, after 13 Aug. 1497]
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectLiterature-moral
Keywordspolemical works; current affairs
Periodcontemporary

Description of Copy

Copy Id00560313
Holding InstitutionCambridge, University Library (GB)
CollectionInc.2-7
ShelfmarkInc.3.A.2.14[179]
NoteTitle from title page on leaf [pi1] recto.
In another edition (H 8424, BMC I 172 and ISTC ih00017000) the elegiacs of Sebastian Brant here printed on leaf [pi1] verso are dated Idibus Augusti 1497: see Sheppard, 450-451, and ISTC.
Goff H16 dates this edition ca 1493-1500.
Edited by Sebastian Brant.
Woodcut illustration of the author with 4 hornets on title page on leaf [pi1] recto.
Printed running titles and foliation, the latter with mistakes.
The text of Eugenius IV's Bulla on leaves B5 verso - C4 verso is in a larger font, typographically distinguished from the surrounding commentary and all other texts.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: [pi²] A-Y⁶.
Contents include: Table page, [pi1]r; verse, incipit "Felicis si te iuvat", 5 elegiac distichs (Walther, Initia 6319), [pi1]r; Sebastian Brant. "Elegiacum episodion" [addressed to] Hermannus [von Hessen], Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, [pi1]v-[pi2]r; Table of contents, [pi2]v; Felix Hemmerlin. Opuscula et tractatus, A1r-Y6r ; Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.: [Bulla] Incipit "[E]ugenius episcopus eruus seruorum dei uenerabilibus fratribus Coloniensibus, Treuerensibus, Maguntinensibus...", dated 12 May 1431, B5v-C4v. Hemmerlin's opuscula include: "Contra validos mendicantes", [addressed to] Henricus [de Hoewen], Bishop of Constance, A1r-B1r; "De negocio monachorum", [addressed to] B[ertholdus de Rosswag, Abbot of Maulbronn], C4v-E5r; "Contra quendam superbum clericum epistola", [addressed to] Jacobus Purlin, "canonicus abbatiae Thuricensis", Q2v-Q4r; "De libertate ecclesiastica tractatus", [addressed to] Henricus [de Hoewen], Bishop of Constance, Q5v-S5r.
BM 15th cent., I, 129
BN cat. des incun., H-9
Bod-inc, H-011
BSB-Ink, H-43
Goff, H16
GW, 12188 (with digital facsimiles)
Hain, 8425*
ISTC, ih00016000
Oates, 218
L. A. Sheppard, Catalogue of XVth century books in the Bodleian Library, [Unpublished MS, 1954-71], 450-451
Schreiber, Manuel, V, 4199
Parchment fragment used as spine-guard from a manuscript in Gothic hand, England [?], 13th century, with marginal nota signs and notes in Anglicana hands, England, 15th [?] century.
Item no. 1 in volume. Bound with Felix Hemmerlin. De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus et alia opuscula. [Strassburg : Johann Prüss, ca 1500] (ISTC ih00015000).
[2], CXXXII leaves :
Original item identifier in source database: 5551200

Provenance

Provenance nameDee, John, 1527-1608 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance

Provenance nameHoldsworth, Richard, 1590-1649 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance

PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk-en
Provenance nameCambridge University Library [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
NoteInscribed 'Joannes Dee' on leaf [pi1] recto, i.e. John Dee, mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. Listed in Dee's 1583 catalogue, now Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. O.4.2., p. 71, [no. 1334]: see John Dee's Library Catalogue, eds R. J. Roberts and A. G. Watson, London, 1990, p. 99, no 1334. Part of Richard Holdsworth Bequest adjudged to Cambridge University in 1664, its armorial bookplate 'Academiæ Cantabrigiensis Liber' on upper pastedown. Old library shelfmark 'H.3.36', on upper pastedown, leaf [pi1] recto, and spine.
Binding noteMottled brown calf over pasteboards, with parchment manuscript fragment used as spine-guard, and title gilt on red morocco spine label, England, 17th century.
Manuscript notesManuscript notes in Dee's hand on leaves [pi1] recto and Y6 verso, the latter providing references in the book to Salomon, King of the Britons, and to King Arthur (see John Dee's Library Catalogue, cit. above, p. 99, no. 1334), England, late 16th century. A few other marginal notes in cursive hand, England, 17th century.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

Other Information

Last Edit2017-04-30 12:00:00