Cambridge, University Library (GB)
: Inc.5.B.2.38[4286]
ISTC No.it00375000
AuthorTicinensis, M. Antonius, de Frascarolo
TitleOratio ad Alexandrum VI in Adventu Domini a. 1498 habita. Prelim: Michael Fernus: Epistola
Imprint[Rome : Johann Besicken and Martinus de Amsterdam, about 1499-1500]
Format4°
Languagelat
SubjectRhetoric
Keywordscelebratory works; current affairs
Periodcontemporary
Description of Copy
Copy Id00562234
Holding InstitutionCambridge, University Library (GB)
CollectionInc.2-7
ShelfmarkInc.5.B.2.38[4286]
NoteTitle from caption in capitals at incipit on leaf a3 recto.
Attributed to Besicken and Martinus de Amsterdam and dated after 25 December 1498 by Paolo Veneziani.
Fernus's commendatory letter to Nicolaus Lipomannus shows it "to have been given to the printer in 1499 or 1500": see Martin C. Davies, "Besicken and Guillery", 1993, p. 53 n. 27.
Assigned to Besicken and dated 1501 in BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 33.
Assigned to Plannck by Goff.
Woodcut initials on leaves a1 recto and a3 recto.
Signatures: a⁶. Signature only on leaf a1.
Michael Fernus. [Letter to] Niccolaus Lippomanus, caption "Patri . et patric[io] . venet[o] . opt[imo]. / R.D.N[icolao] . Lyppomano : Prot. Numm. / M[ichael] . Phernus. M." [all in capitals], inc. "REuereN . pater . Venit ad me nup[er] Lelius / familiaris tuus cu[m] oratio[n]e ab .M[arco] . Antonio / seraphici dogmatis p[ro]fessore germano suo / anno sup[er]iore apud sacratissima lectisternia Cora[m] / pontifice habita", expl. "cœlo laude[m] / se quoq[ue] & gloria[m] sibi ta[n]de[m] sentiat i[n] terris apud opri/mu[m] [sic] & p[ro]batissimu[m] que[m]q[ue] q[uam] maxi[m]am co[m]perisse. Vale", a1r-a2r; Marcus Antonius Ticinensis. Oratio ad Alexandrum VI in Adventu Domini a. 1498 habita, inc. "Ecce Ego Mitto Angelu[m] Meu[m] ante facie[m] meam. / Qui p[re]parabit uia[m] tua[m] ante te : Verba su[n]t p[re]ceptoris / n[ost]ri iesu [christi] . Math[eus] .xi. c . & in p[rese]ntis diei eua[n]gelium / A Fonte sacratissime uirginis Marie o[mn]is chri/stiana solet emanare o[rati]o", expl. "no[n] nisi que̜ / sunt deo & christo digna faciamus. Qui cum p[at]re / filio & sp[rit]u . s[anctu] . uiuit & regnat i[n] secula secolor[um]. Ame[n]", a3r-a6v.
BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 33
Goff, T375
GW, M20880
IGI, 6173
ISTC, it00375000
Oates, 1599
Reichling, 345
Martin C. Davies, "Besicken and Guillery", in The Italian book 1465-1800, Studies presented to Dennis E. Rhodes on his 70th birthday, edited by Denis V. Reidy, London, 1993, 35-54, p. 53 n. 27
Paolo Veneziani, "Besicken e il metodo degli incunabolisti", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2005, 71-99, p. 94
[6] leaves :
Original item identifier in source database: 5032671
Provenance
1870-1937
Provenance
1913-1974
Provenance
PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk-en
NoteHodgson & Co. sale, 30 July 1918, lot 501 (note in pencil on upper free endpaper). Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth of Morey Lodge, Campden Hill. Harmsworth's sale, Sotheby's, 15-17 March 1948, lot 4494 (see note on upper free endpaper). Alan Noel Latimer Munby, bibliographical historian, book collector, and Librarian of King's College Cambridge; given by him in 1948.
Binding noteBrown paper over pasteboards, England, late 19th or 20th century.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
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