tim00156000

Text-inc Id:

tim00156000

Bod-inc Id:

M-051

Headings:

Mancinus, Dominicus De quattuor virtutibus.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Quattuor astringit virtutes ille libellus | Perplacido ductu, perfacilique pede'; 11 elegiac distichs.
3. a1v Mancinus, Dominicus: ‘Argumentum totius operis'.
4. a2r Mancinus, Dominicus: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Federicus de Sancto Severino, Bishop of Maillezais and La Rochelle. Incipit: ‘[N]on mea fert etas iuueniles aedere lusus | Quosque solet vulgus commemorare iocos'; 73 elegiac distichs.
5. a4r Mancinus, Dominicus: De quattuor virtutibus. Incipit: ‘[P]rincipio omnipotens celum terramque creauit | Et statuit propriis cuncta elementa locis'; elegiac distichs. See C. A. J. Armstrong, The Usurpation of Richard III (Oxford, 1969), 11-14 on this work.
6. c6v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Verse addressed to] Federicus de Sancto Severino. Incipit: ‘Cum vellem paucis ad te Fiderice tabellam | Scribere prolapsa est dextera nostra nimis'; 5 elegiac distichs.
7. d1r Mancinus, Dominicus: [Verse.] ‘In laudem Roberti Seuerinatis Italice pacis auctoris, totiusque Italici exercitus . . . imperatoris'. Incipit: ‘Ardebat magnis modo bellis Itala tellus | Nec fuit immunis vllus ab igne locus'; 25 elegiac distichs.
8. d1v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Verse.] ‘In laudem Claudii Valdreii Burgundi equitis insignis'. Incipit: ‘Sic tua Valdrei referatur ad ethera Claudi | Virtus, vt dignum strenua gessit opus'; 15 elegiac distichs.
9. d2r Mancinus, Dominicus: ‘Satyra in eos qui dum in potestate sunt non seruant modum non putantes vicissitudinem rerum esse'. Incipit: ‘Quis neget esse vices rerum quis prospera semper | Dixerit esse malis quis luctus esse bonorum'; 87 hexameters.
10. d3v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Letter in verse addressed to] Guilelmus de Rupeforti. Incipit: ‘Iussimus vt nostris te oblectent carmina nugis | Si secus efficiant improba trade rogis'; 4 elegiac distichs.
11. d3v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Letter in verse addressed to] Guilelmus de Rupeforti. Incipit: ‘Cum si doctorum spes certa et sola virorum | Et meritus doctis vt numerere viris'; 6 elegiac distichs.
12. d3v Mancinus, Dominicus: ‘Carmen allegoricum in Rupemfortem'. Incipit: ‘Rupis excelse veterisque moles | Surgit in celtis mediisque gallis. | Eius ingentes memorare laudes | Incipe Clio'; 12 sapphic stanzas.
13. d4v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Letter in verse addressed to] Johannes Arlicus. Incipit: ‘Qui decoras totam regalem moribus aulam | Arlice eloquii gloria prima sacri'; 10 elegiac distichs.
14. d4v Mancinus, Dominicus: ‘De prima etate Caroli Regis Francorum carmen vndecasyllabum'. Incipit: ‘Inclyti regis teneram iuuentam, | Seculum priscum, veteresque mores | Scribimus, Muse properate mecum | Dicere cantum'; 32 sapphic stanzas.
15. d6v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Verse addressed to] Federicus de Sancto Severino. Incipit: ‘Seu dederint sortes veri presagia regni | Seu solitos festis luserit vrna iocos'; 3 elegiac distichs.
16. d6v Sancto Severino, Federicus de: [Verse addressed to] Dominicus Mancinus. Incipit: ‘Non sortes, non vrna mihi prenuncia regni | Non momenta Iouis, nulla sit augur auis'; 3 elegiac distichs.
17. d6v Mancinus, Dominicus: [Verse addressed to] Federicus de Sancto Severino. Incipit: ‘Non equidem inficias ibo, quod gesta parentis, | Propria quod virtus sunt tua regna satis'; 4 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Paris: Georg Mittelhus, 1488. 4°.

Collation:

a b⁸ c d⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00156000 HC *10632; Goff M‑156; BMC VIII 124; Pr 8098; BSB‑Ink M‑98; CIBN M‑63; Hillard 1302; Oates 3012; Sheppard 6328. LCN: 14478427

Copies:

1. M-051(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Agostino Dati, De variis loquendi figuris. Strasbourg: [n. pr.], 1504. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half calf over marbled pastedowns, the spine gold-tooled; red-edged leaves. Size: 200 × 137 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 132 mm. Marginal note in a contemporary French(?) hand on c1v. An early inscription in German on A1r of item 1 suggests that the two items were bound together at a late stage, probably for Douce. Provenance: Henderson(?) (sixteenth century); name among pen-trials on d5v. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 72(2).