[Oratio gratulatoria ad Alexandrum VI nomine Genuensium habita].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spinola, Giancomo, active 1492.

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)

Other Title:

Goff title: Oratio gratulatoria

Text begins: Iacobus Spinola iu. v. doctor illustrissimo ac excel[lentissimo] principi d[omi]no suo sing[ul]arissimo Ludouico Mari[a]e Bari Duci salute[m] & co[m]mendatione[m].

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

Fingerprint:

t.ua ass. rimu dæna (C) 1492 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Rome] : [Stephan Plannck], [after 12 Dec. 1492]

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.

In lines 2-3 of title, the first name of the addressee reads "Ludouico". A variant reads: "Ludouiuo". Cf. BM 15th cent., GW.

Text dated at end: Habita Anno. M.cccc.xcii. pridie Idus Decembris

Chancery quarto. Leaf a1v: 28 lines, plus printed marginalia; area of text: 150 x 95 (109) mm. Woodcut initials. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for.

Signatures: a⁶.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is no. 14 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-a6 ("250"-"255") 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 S-683

BM 15th cent. IV, p. 96 (IA.18518)

GW M43149

BN cat. des incun. S-371

BSB-Ink. S-527

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1427

ISTC is00683000

OCLC:

727946550