tim00846000

Text-inc Id:

tim00846000

Bod-inc Id:

M-322

Headings:

Montemagno, Bonaccursius de Controversia de nobilitate.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Title-page.]
2. [a1v] Niavis, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Erasmus [Stella?], priest of Chemnitz. Incipit: ‘Cum in ceteris illustrium scriptorum aut epistolis profutura fuerit . . .’ Explicit: esse immemorem. Vale The dedicatee is mentioned in another letter by Niavis; see Paulus Niavis, Epistole breues. Epistole mediocres. Epistole longiores, ed. Rand H. Johnson (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1995), 217.
3. [a2r] Montemagno, Bonaccursius de: Controversia de nobilitate. Incipit: ‘[A]pud maiores nostros sepenumero de nobiitate disputatum est . . .’ Explicit: sententia relinquitur See Arjo Vanderjagt, ‘Between Court Literature and Civic Rhetoric: Buonaccorso da Montemagno's Controversia de nobilitate’, in Courtly Literature - Culture and Context: Selected Papers from the 5th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9-16 August 1986, ed. Keith Busby and Erik Kooper, Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 25 (Amsterdam, 1990), 561-72, with the references given there.

Imprint:

[Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, c.1494]. 4°. As assigned by Oates and Sack, and as dated by Sack; Sheppard and BSB‑Ink assign to [Moritz Brandis] and date [1488, 89].

Collation:

[a b⁶]. Types: 151 G (152 G [BSB‑Ink]), title, headings; 88 G. Capital spaces. 12 leaves. 34 lines ([a4r]). Type area: 150 ×98 mm ([a4r]). Leaf [a1r], title: ‘Orationes Bonacurſi orato | ris clariſſimi de vera nobilita | te maḡ a virtute ꝙ̃ diuicijs orta'. [a1v]: ‘Paulus Niauis venerabili viro Eraſmo | Preſpitero artiūbaccalario benefitiato in kempnitz dn̄o . . . | ¶Cum in ceteris illuſtriū ſcriptoꝝ . . .'; [a2r]: ‘Cōtrouerſia de nobilitate int̃ Pub: | Corneliū Scipiōƺ [et] G. Flāmieū edita [per] ꝑ egregiū oratorē | Bonacurſū de mōte magno ad guidontoniū montiſfere | ti Comitem foeliciter inctpit | [A]Pud maiores noſtros ſepenu= | mero de nobilitate . . .'; [b6v], l. 25: ‘ . . . In veſtra ſententia relinquit̃| Laus Deo'.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00846000 HR 3459; Goff M‑846; Pr 2882; BSB‑Ink M‑571; Oates 1274; Sack, Freiburg, 2504; Sheppard 2098. LCN: 14512941

Copies:

1. M-322(1) Copy Bound with B‑073; see there for details of binding and acquisition. Size of leaf: 198 × 135 mm. Irregular early manuscript foliation: 212-22. One- to three-line initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining in red. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.88(2).