Conradi Celtis Proseuticum ad diuu[m] Fridericum terciu[m] pro laurea appollinari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Celtis, Konrad, 1459-1508.

Contributor:

Pighinucius, Fridianus.

Canter, Johannes, -1497.

Creussner, Friedrich, active 1472-1499, printer.

Riviere & Son, binder.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Frederick.

Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493.

Genre:

Poetry.

Incunabula.

Printer's devices (Printing) -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- 15th century.

Signed bindings (Binding) -- England -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Conradi Celtis Proseuticum ad divum Fridericum tercium pro laurea appollinari

Proseuticum ad diuu[m] Fridericum terciu[m] pro laurea appollinari

Proseuticum ad divum Fridericum tercium pro laurea appollinari

Goff title: Proseuticum ad Fridericum III pro laurea apollinari : with additions by Fridianus Pighinucius and Johannes Canter

Fingerprint:

esan esos emis m.em (C) 1487 (Q)

Place of Publication:

Impressu[m] in Nurmberg : Per F. Kreusner, [after 25 April 1487]

Contents:

Fridiani Pighinucij Itali oratoris et poete Ernesti Parthenopolitani archipresulis ad Conradu[m] Celtis ode paranetice

Ad diuum Fridericu[m] terciu[m] Conradi Celtis elegiacum proseuticu[m] pro laurea apollinari

Ode monocolos tetrametros choria[m]bicos Conradi Celtis ad diuum Fridericum paranetice et palinodice

Ode saphica endecasillaba dicolos tetrastrophos Conradi Celtis prophonetice et sinbuletice : ad Fridericum tercium inuictissimum

Epodos dicolos distrophos Conradi Celtis ad diuu[m] Fridericu[m] Cesare[m] pragmatice et sinkritice

Ad imperatore[m] Fridericum terciu[m] Conradi Celtis poete laureati gratiaru[m] actio post impositione[m] poetice crinalis.

Notes:

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on leaf pi6v; imprint date from ISTC.

Dedication to George, Duke of Saxony, dated at end: Vale ex nure[m]berga. vij. kale[n]das Maij a poeta tibi deditissimo.

Chancery quarto. Leaf pi2r: 32 lines; area of text: 138 x 63 mm. Historiated woodcut initial "C" depicting Celtis's crowning as poet laureate by Emperor Maximilian on leaf pi3r. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Woodcuts: printer's device of Friedrich Creussner (cf. E. Weil, Die deutschen Druckerzeichen, p. 87) as title vignette on leaf pi1r; horoscope cast by Johannes Canter for Konrad Celtis at the moment of his crowning as poet laureate on leaf pi6v.

Signatures: pi⁶.

Caption of horoscope on leaf pi6v: Figura celi anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.lxxxvij. currente die xviij. Aprilis hora v. mi. xlj. secunda. xij. inequatis. Equatis aut[em] hora vj. mi. j. secu[n]da xx. post meridie[m]. Quo t[empor]ebirretatus et laureatus est a Cesare i[n] arce Nurmberge[n]si. Co[n]radus Celtis Erecta [per] Iohanne[m] Kanter de Gronigen Frisie astronimu[m] protunc diui im[per]atoris Friderici tercij sem[per] augusti.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 204 x 136 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: woodcut title vignette (printer's device) hand-colored in green, yellow and brown; woodcut initial (leaf pi3r) hand-colored in red, yellow, green and blue; woodcut horoscope (leaf pi6v) hand-colored in red, yellow and green.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves each has modern ms. folio number ("1"-"6") in pencil at tail inner corner; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on pastedowns and front free endpaper; paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy in German affixed to front pastedown.

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

Penn Libraries copy bound by Riviere & Son in full nineteenth-century green morocco (now much faded at edges of boards and on spine); title and imprint ("CELTES AD FRIDERICUM III. -- NÜRNBERG, CREUSSNER. -- 1487.") stamped in gold on spine; gold-ruled cover edges and turn-ins; binder's name ("BOUND BY RIVIERE & SON.") stamped in gold on tail turn-in of left board; all edges gilt.

Penn Libraries copy: left board detached from spine.

Cited in:

Goff C-373

BM 15th cent. II, p. 453 (IA.7673)

GW 6467

BSB-Ink C-217

Schreiber 3715

ISTC ic00373000

OCLC:

249340353