Ars versificandi et carminum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Celtis, Konrad, 1459-1508.

Contributor:

Pighinucius, Fridianus.

Kachelofen, Konrad, -1528 or 1529, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Metrics and rhythmics--Early works to 1800.

Latin language.

Latin language--Metrics and rhythmics.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered leaves ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Ars versificandi et carminum : (with additions by Fridianus Pighinucius)

Fingerprint:

osas nice urta PlTe (C) 1486 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Leipzig] : [Konrad Kachelofen], [1486?]

Contents:

Poema quod [pro]tem[por]e caniculari ad Fridericu[m] inclitum saxonie ducem in artem carminu[m] lusinius / [Konrad Celtis]

[Ars versificandi et carminum / Konrad Celtis]

Conradus Celtis Protucius Fridianu[m] Pighinuciu[m] Italu[m] ... Oratore[m] & Poeta[m] Salutat

Fridianus Pighinuci[us] Co[n]rado Celti S.P.D.

Saphicon Endecasillabon Fridiani Pighinucij pro peste Ad sanctum Sebastianum

Fridianus Pighinucius Martino Melrstet Medico mathematice [per]itissimo S.P.D.

Conradus Celtis Protucius Fridiano Pighinucio Abhemitriteos co[n]ualesce[n]ti S.P.D.

Conradi Celtis Protucij Ode ad Apolline[m] repertore[m] poetices ...

Notes:

Consists of Konrad Celtis's "Ars versificandi et carminum" and several poems by Celtis and the Italian poet and orator Fridiano Pighinucci.

Title from title leaf (leaf [a]1r).

Imprint from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf [a]2v: 36 lines; area of text: 143 x 78 mm. (Number of lines per page varies from 34-37; GW gives 35.) Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Printed marginalia. Without foliation, signatures or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]-[c]⁸.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 182 x 135 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and some underlines supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy: author's name and brief biographical note in Latin supplied in early ms. in ink (now reddish brown) on title leaf; a few early ms. underlines and notes in brown ink in text; ms. underline in pencil on leaf [c]5v; ms. numeral ("5.") in head outer corner of title leaf; a few bibliographical notes in modern ms. in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has stamp ("Printed in Germany") at foot of front pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1953 from Lathrop C. Harper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern(?) parchment(?); ms. title and imprint date ("Celtes ars versificandi. ca. 1486.") on spine; all edges red.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with minor damage to ms. marginalia on leaf [a]7r; 2 small cuts in head margin of leaf [c]4.

Facsimile available for public use.

Cited in:

Goff C-368

GW 6460

ISTC ic00368000

OCLC:

249339968