Nouem F. Baptiste Ma[n]tuani Carmelitae, theologi, poetaeq[ue] clarissimi op[er]a praeter caetera moralia : familiari quide[m] lodoci Badii Ascensii explanatione eluciadata omnia, q[uae]d[am] vero etia argutissima Sebastiani Murrhonis & Sebastiani Brantii Germanor[um] doctissimoru[m] elucidatio[n]e decorata: musaru[m] plane inue[n]ta: seq[ue]nti ipsius Asce[n]sii Ad d[omi]n[u]m Germanu[m] de Ganayo co[n]probant[ur] epigra[m]mate. Ne Germane tuas, nouus hospes; asymbolus, aedis Pulsem; pieridum confero dona nouem. Nempe tot apporto diuina poemata vatis Quo decus Aonidum Mantua rursus habet. Quae si, quo reliquis praestas: examine penses: Dictata aonii dixeris esse chori. Parthenicen siquidem primam sibi Calliopaea incipit fol[io].vii. Vendicat: at Clius Altera fertur opus. fo. C. Tertia ad Euterpen me iudice pertinet; atq[ue] est fo. Clvii. Morbiolus Iusus Dia Thalia tuus. fo. Ccx. Baptistae laudes: tua casta Polymnia cura est. fl. Cxcvii. Possunt Terpsichore Vota placere tibi. fo. Cxcix. Plectra mouens Eratho te concinuit Dionysi. fo. CC. Tristia sed plangit Tempora Melpomene. f. CCXXXIX. Vt vero aethereum casti mereantur honorem: Fert in Turpiloquos Vrania arma viros: fo. CCCxxl. Non haec nostra quidem: sed nostro praelo oleoq[ue] illustrata habui iure dicanda tibi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516.

Contributor:

Badius, Josse, 1462-1535, printer.

Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, printer.

Le Forestier, Jacques, active 1495-1509, publisher.

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521.

Murr, Sebastian.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516.

Baptista.

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, CCCXXIX pages ; 30 cm

Fingerprint:

i.i. i.i. espl napl (3) 1507 (R)

Place of Publication:

Parrhisiis : Venundantur ab Ioa[n]ne Paruo et ipso Ascensio Parrhisiis : et ab Iacobo Forestario Rothomagi: in suis cuiusq[ue] aedibus, [1507]

Notes:

Signatures: [maltese cross]¹⁰ a⁶ b-z⁸ A⁶, ²A-R⁸ S⁴ T⁸ (T8 blank).

Title in black and red.

Device of printer Josse Badius (Cf. Silvestre, L.C. Marques typographiques, no. 7) on the title-page.

A smilar edition, published in the same year has the device of Jean Petit on title page.

Date of publication from colophon which reads: Habes inqua[m] lector bone Excelle[n]tissimi viri Baptiste Mantuanti noue[m] opera p[rae]ter cetera moralia vt in prima facie protestati sumus: nouem musarum fere monumenta: cum duplici subindi explanatione.coimpressa in aedibus Ascensianis impendio ipsius Ascensii. Ioannis parui & Iacobi Forestarij.anno salutis. MDVII. ad calendas Decemb.

Woodcut initials.

Printed marginal notations.

"F. Baptist Mantuani vita et opera." -- prelim. leaf 8b.

"In parthenicen Mariana[m] prefatio. Ad Lodouicum Fuscarium & Ioannem Baptistam Refrigerium Parthenices ..." -- prelim. leaf 10.

Text surrounded on two sides by commentary.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author and title in ms. on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy has title leaf mutilated at head edge with no loss of text.

Culture Class Collection copy has early, probably contemporary, Latin ms. inscription, referring to someone finding "this ... book, left behind by a wandering mind" ("hunc libru[m] vagabunda mente relictu[m] Inueniet gracilj fratri re[ver]ende p[...]"); ms. side notes and underlines throughout.

Cited in:

Renouard, P. Josse Badius Ascensius, v. 2, p. 137-138

OCLC:

80667157