MEI

London, British Library (GB) : IA.27527

ISTC No.if00242000

AuthorFontius, Bartholomaeus

TitleOrationes

Imprint[Florence : Bartolommeo di Libri, 1488]

Format4°

Languagelat

full ISTC record

SubjectRhetoric

Periodhumanist

Description of Copy

Copy Id02001270

Holding InstitutionLondon, British Library (GB)

ShelfmarkIA.27527

Also bound with this copyNicolaus, Episcopus Modrusiensis: Oratio in funere Petri Cardinalis S. Sixti. - Padua : Matthaeus Cerdonis, 30 Aug. 1482 [in00051000] (MEI ID: 02013343)

Butigella, Hieronymus: Oratio pro Joanne Philippo Gambaloita habita. - [Pavia : Printer of Butigella, after 13 Dec. 1494] [ib01339000] (MEI ID: 02013344)

Canis, Johannes Jacobus: Oratio in adventu Petri Barotii, episcopi Patavini, habita 25 Junii 1487. Add: Antonius Ursatus: Oratio in adventu Petri Barotii, habita 26 Junii 1487. - [Padua : Matthaeus Cerdonis, not before 26 June 1487] [ic00100000] (MEI ID: 00200300)

Bembus, Bonifacius: In Ludovici Mariae Sfortiae laudes oratio. - [Milan : Leonardus Pachel, after 28 Nov. 1490] [ib00303800] (MEI ID: 00200301)

Patritius, Franciscus: Ecloga de Christi nativitate. - [Padua : Printer of Lucianus (H 10276), about 1482] [ip00155000] (MEI ID: 00200303)

Homerus: Iliados epitome (the Ilias Latina attributed to Pindarus Thebanus [i.e. Baebius Italicus]). - [Venice : Filippo di Pietro, about 1476] [ih00305000] (MEI ID: 00200304)

Homerus: Batrachomyomachia [Latin]. Tr: Carolus Marsuppinus Aretinus. - [Venice : Printer of Datus, 'Elegantiolae' (H 5969*), about 1475] [ih00302000] (MEI ID: 00200305)

Naso, Johannes: De spectaculis a Panormitanis in Aragonaei Regis laudem editis. - [Venice : Nicolaus Jenson, not before 1476] [in00005500] (MEI ID: 00200306)

Niger, Franciscus: In Sigismundum archiducem pro epithalamio carminum libellus. - [Padua : Matthaeus Cerdonis, 1484] [in00255000] (MEI ID: 00200307)

Pamphilus de amore. - [Ferrara : Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, about 1485-89] [ip00018100] (MEI ID: 02013334)

Philelphus, Franciscus: Fabulae. - [Pavia : Antonius de Carcano], 1480 [ip00603000] (MEI ID: 00200308)

Celtis, Conradus: Panegyris ad duces Bavariae. Add:Henricus Eutycus. - [Augsburg : Erhard Ratdolt, after 31 Aug. 1492] [ic00372000] (MEI ID: 00200309)

Canis, Johannes Jacobus: Summa Institutionum Justiniani. - Padua : Matthaeus Cerdonis, 24 Mar. 1485 [ic00100300] (MEI ID: 00200311)

Petrus Ravennas (d. 1478): Carmina. - [Padua : Matthaeus Cerdonis, 1484?] [ip00530300] (MEI ID: 00200312)

Odaxius, Michael: La Macaronea. - [Milan : Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, about 1486-87] [io00022400] (MEI ID: 00200313)

NoteCreated by A. Panzanelli

Physical DescriptionBound first in a tract-volume which contains also a number of incunabula [BMC lists the shelfmarks, with later corrections] and a manuscript. A marginal note on BMC specifies 'in a Pirkheymer's hand (EPG)', but this has been later 'contradicted by Helga Scheible' (note by John Goldfinch and reference to a letter inserted in the catalogue; see below). The letter (30 October 2005) was sent by David Paisey to John Goldfinch to make clear: "BMC vol. VI p. 662 has a marginal note (in Scholderer's hand, if I am not mistaken) to the effect that a MS item at the end of the tract volume of mainly Italian incunables starting with IA27527 is in the hand of Willibald Pirckheimer. Scholderer cites "EPG" as his source for this information, obviously E.P. Goldschmidt, who bought a large number of items at the 1925 Sotheby's sale of books from the Royal Society library, including many once owned by Pirckheimer, and then himself sold them on. One would think he would be able to recognise Pirckheimer's hand, having no doubt seen many books with his MS notes. However, I recently showed the BL volume in question to Helga Scheible, the German scholar who is editing the remaining volumes of the Pirckheimer correspondence and who knows P's hand - at all stages in his career - better than anyone, and she said this is definitely not his handwriting. ...". The book-plate of Willibald Pirckheimer engraved by Dürer is on the front pastedown and book-plate of the Royal Society on the back. They have been re-applied after the book has been rebound (19th-20th century, before the BM acquired the book). The stamps of the Royal Society and, later, of the British Museum is applied on every title-page. The manuscript bound at the end consists of 10 leaves, with three texts in 'Macaronico' (Latin mixed with Italian; it was a literary genre originated in the univesity context in Padua: see I. Paccagnella, Le Macaronee Padovane, 1979) and a close relation between this manuscript and the copy of the Tifi's Macaronea (bound within the Sammelband just before the manuscript) is fairly evident; it is worth noticing that the one of the poems in the manuscript is said to be by Bassanus Mantuanus, already well known poet of this genre. On the first flyleaf there is a list of reference to Panzer's Annales for 14 items, 19th century, light brown ink; and shelfmarks referring to a collection of tractvolumes, in pencil (Tract vol. CCIV, closed case 1-17); on the verso, in pencil, the list of the 17 items bound together, with reference to their shelfmark in the BM.

Size of leaves204 × 140 mm

Support material (book)Paper

SourceBMC VI 662; De Ricci 1960; L.L. Peck, Uncovering the Arundel Library 1998; ODNB; A. Bubenik, Reframing Durer, 2013.
Bod-Inc Index of Owners; IPI; Clark's slips; BM Incunabula Accessions, 5.

Provenance 1488 - 1530

PlaceNuremberg (Geonames ID: 2861650)

Areae-gx

Time period1488 - 1530

Provenance namePirckheimer, Willibald, 1470 - 1530 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Lawyer, Scholar, No characterisation/lay)

Provenance TypeExlibris

NoteBook-plate by Dürer (1503) with Pirckheimer's portrait and the inscription, in capital letter: Bilibaldi Pirkeymheri effigies aetatis suae anno LIII vivitur ingenio caetera mortis ervunt. MDXXIV [AD].

Method of acquisitionunknown

CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

SourceBook in hand

Bibliography

Unknown / other

Provenance 1530 - 1636

PlaceNürnberg (Geonames ID: 6556832)

Time period1530 - 1636

Provenance nameImhoff, Willibald <der Ältere>, 1519 - 1580 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, No characterisation/lay) Son of Hans and Felicitas Pirckheimer.

Imhoff, Johann Hieronymus, 1595-1663 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Civil servant, Aristocracy)

Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence

NoteWillibald Imhoff inherited Pirckheimer's library in 1530 and in 1560 acquired the Dürer estate. His grandson Hans Hieronymus Imhoff sold much of what remained of the Imhoff collection (British Museum, online Collection database: ID120207; see also British Library online Catalogue of illuminated manuscript, Arundel 503).

Method of acquisitionPurchase

CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

SourceBibliography

Provenance 1636 - 1667

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)

Areae-uk

Time period1636 - 1667

Provenance name Howard, Thomas, 1585-1646 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Politician, Aristocracy) 2nd Earl of Arundel

Howard, Henry, 1628-1684 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Aristocracy) 6th Duke of Norfolk

Provenance TypeStamp

Bibliographic Evidence

NoteThomas Howard purchased Pirckheimer's library in Nuremberg in 1636. Henry Howard, who inherited the library, preseted it to the Royal Society in 1666/67. The donated collection is recalled in the stamp of the Royal Society as the Library of the Dukes of Norfolk (see below).

Method of acquisitionPurchase

CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

SourceBook in hand

Bibliography

Library catalogue

Provenance 1667 - 1924

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)

Areae-uk

Time period1667 - 1924

Provenance nameLondon, Royal Society, 1660- [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Academy, No characterisation/lay)

[Person; Donor] (Unknown)

Provenance TypeExlibris

Stamp

NoteOn a1r, in Latin, with reference to the provenance of the book: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono HENR. HOWARD Norfolciensis'.

Method of acquisitionDonation

Binding noteHalf-leather and curl marbled paper over boards. A letter or a number (zz or 22) is written along the lower edge; most likely before the book was rebound.

Binding date19th cent.

Binding typeBoards

Board materialPaper

Cover materialMixed

FurnitureNo

Binding statusRebound

Binding Dimensions215 × 150 × 50 mm

TitlingNone

ToolingNone

EdgesUncoloured

Writing on edgesAlong

GaufferedNo

CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

SourceBook in hand

Bibliography

Library catalogue

Provenance 1924 -

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)

Areae-uk

Time period1924 -

Provenance nameBritish Museum Library, 1753- [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)

Provenance TypeStamp

NoteRed stamp of the British Museum, in two shapes, one with the date of the purchase (March, 1924). A stamp is also applied on Pirckheimer book-plate. The purchase from the London Society is recorded in the journal of incunabula acquisition, no. 5.

Method of acquisitionPurchase

CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

SourceBook in hand

Library catalogue

Hist. Library Catalogue / Accession Journal

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete

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