Io. Lucidi Catanei, v. iu. doctoris archidiaconi ac co[n]siliarii marchionalis Ma[n]tuani & oratoris Alexa[n]dru[m] VI Pont. Max., oratio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cataneus, Johannes Lucidus, 1462-1505.

Contributor:

Plannck, Stephan, active 15th century, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503--Early works to 1800.

Alexander.

Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern).

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889 (former owner) (inscription)

Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910 (autograph)

Olivetans (Verona, Italy) (inscription)

Santa Maria in Organo (Monastery : Verona, Italy) (inscription)

Veronensis, Paulus (inscription)

Volateranus, Michael (autograph)

Wright, James Osborne, d. 1920 (inscription)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Jo. Lucidi Catanei, u. ju. doctoris archidiaconi ac consiliarii marchionalis Mantuani et oratoris Alexandrum VI Pont. Max., oratio

Goff title: Oratio ad Alexandrum VI

Fr. Philelphi Orationes (Brixiâ 1488) : Aliumq. orat. (Româ 1493) PU

Fingerprint:

a-ti e.di zeum arfœ (C) 1492 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Rome] : [Stephan Plannck], [after 5 Nov. 1492]

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf a1r.

Imprint from ISTC.

Text dated at end: Habita Romae coram Alexandro sexto Pontifice maximo: & sacro apostolico Senatu: Die quinta Noue[m]bris. M.cccc.xcii.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2r: 28 lines; area of text: 150 x 95 mm. (Leaves a5v and a6r "are short pages, containing 25 and 24 lines, respectively"--BM 15th cent.) Woodcut initial; printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for.

Signatures: a⁸ (leaf a8 blank).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is no. 11 in a volume of 15 incunables (largely orations, many addressed to or delivered in the presence of Pope Alexander VI) printed between 1486 and 1493, most in Rome by Stephan Plannck, Andreas Fritag or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, the whole first bound together in the early 16th century.

Leaf size: 196 x 143 mm.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. foliation of leaves a1-a8 ("230"-"237") in head outer corner in pencil.

Penn Libraries copy has at foot of second leaf of first work in volume in brown ink early 16th-century inscription ("Jesus Die 26 octobris 1522 Nos Fr[ater] Michael volat[eranus] Cong[regation]is Mo[n]tis ol[ivet]j hu[m]ilis Abb[as] Gen[eralis] Concedimus huius librj vsu[m] fr[atr]i Paulo veronen[se] [ser]uata t[ame]n prop[ri]etate Mon[aster]io S. Mari[a]e in organis d[e] verona") in which Michael Volateranus, abbot general of the Olivetans, grants the use of this volume to Paulus Veronensis of the Olivetan community of Santa Maria in Organo in Verona, Italy.

Penn Libraries copy has on front pastedown in brown ink partially illegible 19th-century ms. note ("Purchased of Mr. Wright from the Barlow Collection. Oct. 10 1889 See Galenus. De Med[...] Introd[...] fol. 179r") recording the purchase of this volume from the library of Samuel L.M. Barlow through James Osborne Wright; ms. note beginning "I defy any true bibliophile to look at this book for the first time on the Quays, as I did, without experiencing a very deep emotion" and signed "H.H." (expanded in another hand to "H.H[arrsse]", i.e. Henry Harrisse) on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; gold-stamped leather spine label ("FR. PHILELPHI ORATIONES BRIXIÂ 1488 / ALIUMQ. ORAT. ROMÂ 1493"); parchment leaf, probably from left board of previous (16th-century?) binding, with early ms. contents list on verso bound in after front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy: binding partially detached from textblock.

Cited in:

Goff C-276

BM 15th cent. IV, p. 96 (IA.18514)

GW 6216

BN cat. des incun. C-146

BSB-Ink. C-193

ISTC ic00276000

OCLC:

829426334