tin00030400

Text-inc Id:

tin00030400

Bod-inc Id:

N-015

Headings:

Niavis, Paulus Latina idiomata, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1v Niavis, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Erasmus [Stella?], priest in Chemnitz. Incipit: ‘Paulus Niauis honorando viro Erasmo . . . [E]gisti mecum quamsepissime . . .’ Explicit: persequimur. Vale coniunctissime Erasme The dedicatee is mentioned in another letter by Niavis; see Paulus Niavis, Epistole breues, ed. Johnson, 217.
3. A2r Niavis, Paulus: Latina idiomata. [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[E]tsi scientiarum inuentio varia erat . . .’
4. A2v Niavis, Paulus: Latina idiomata. G. Streckenbach, ‘Paulus Niavis, “Latinum Ydeoma pro novellis studentibus"- Ein Gesprächbüchlein aus dem lezten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts II', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 7 (1972), 187-251; see VL VIII 777-85, at 780: 18 dialogues.
5. C7r Niavis, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Erasmus, priest in Chemnitz. Incipit: ‘[C]ommendabili viro . . . miraris forsitan quod in hoc iam latino ydeomate . . .’ Explicit: relinquo. Vale feliciter
6. C7r Niavis, Paulus: Thesaurus eloquentiae. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[]entio quamplurimos cum loqui . . .’ Explicit: nanciscantur
7. C7v Niavis, Paulus: Thesaurus eloquentiae. Incipit: ‘[Q]uo progrederis mi amice . . .’ See VL VIII 777-85, at 780: 19 dialogues.
8. H1r Niavis, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Erasmus, priest in Chemnitz. Incipit: ‘Paulus Niauis honorando . . . Quod latius iam filium . . .’ Explicit: prospexeris. Vale.
9. H1r Niavis, Paulus: [Preface?] Incipit: ‘[F]lorente Roma post Teoye(!) destructionem . . .’ Explicit: quamuis doctrinam
10. H2r Niavis, Paulus: Dialogus litterarum, sive Latina idiomata pro scolaribus adhuc particularia frequentantibus. Incipit: ‘[R]euerende magister me in discipulum vestrum . . .’ See VL VIII 777-85, at 780-1: 12 dialogues.
11. I7r Niavis, Paulus: [Preface to the sixth dialogue, dedicated to] Erasmus, priest in Chemnitz. Incipit: ‘[N]on dubito iam . . .’ Explicit: iudicio

Imprint:

[Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, c.1487-8.] 4°. As dated by Sheppard; Sack dates [c.1490].

Collation:

A–F⁸ G⁴ H–K⁸ L M⁶. Types: 160 G, title; 89 G, text. Capital spaces. 88 leaves. 32 lines (A4r). Type area: 142 ×95 mm (A4r). Leaf A1r, title: ‘Latina ydeomata Magiſtri | Pauli Niauis'. A1v: ‘Paulus niauis honorando viro Eraſmo p̄ſbi= | tero optimaꝝ artiū baccalario in kēpnicz bn̄ficia | to dn̄o. et fautori ſuo inp̄mis amādo. S.P.D.'; A2r: ‘Praefacio Mgr̄i Pauli Niauis in latinum ydeo= | ma qd' ꝓnouellis edidit ſtudētibus Incipit feliciter. || [E]tſi ſcientiarum inuentio varia erat . . .'; C6v, l. 31: ‘Sequitur theſaurus eloquentie.)'; C7r: ‘[C]Ommendabili viro Eraſmo preſbitero | arciū baccalario . . . | . . . Paul[us] ꝰ Niauis S.P.D.'; H1r: ‘Paulus niauis honorando viro eraſmo . . . | . . . | . . . S.p.d. | Quod latius iā filū extendim[us] ꝰ ſcriptiōis nr̄e in hoc | latino ydeomate qm̄ in prioribus . . .'; M6r, l. 20: ‘ . . . Al. iam letus ſum vale Es. tuqƺ paritþ vale'.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00030400 Not in Pr; Sack, Freiburg, 2523; Sheppard 2083. LCN: 14465194

Copies:

1. N-015(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century marbled paper boards. Small parchment index tab on M6. Size: 211 × 155 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 210 × 145 mm. Provenance: ‘Cristophorus' in an early hand along the upper edge. Purchased in 1968 from Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954), catalogue 138 no. 137. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. G22.4.