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1098 [Neolatin poetry - Ferrara imprint]
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LAVEZZOLI LEBETI, Jacobus, O.S.A.
- Helicon (...)
ad (...) Herculem Estensem eius nominis secundum Ferrariae Principe(m) opt(imum). Ferrara, Fr.
Rossi, April 1535, 4to, mod. boards (spine def.), [12] ff. (1st and last p. soiled, wormtrack in blank
bottom margin). Good
wide-margined
copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 400/500
Extr. rare (5th recorded copy) 1st publication of the Italian Neolatin poet and Augustinian monk
Giacomo Lavezzoli Lebeti (1510-1585). It is a verse panegyric on Ercole II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara
(1508-1559), married to Renée of France. Woodcut ornament on title. Large woodcut mark at the
end. On title an
anonymous 4-line Latin poem in cont. handwriting
“In Lauezoliu(m) Incerti
auctoris”.
Ref.
Edit16 71397 (3). BnF (1). Not in Adams, Oberlé, STCItalian (BL).
Joined
:
Maillardus, Petrus
- Sacrae meditationes carmen ad (…) Paulum Camillum Sfondratum
S.R.E. Cardinalem. Rome, P. Diani, 1591, 4to, 18 (of 20) ff. (lacking 2 prel. ff.). Woodcut papal arms
on title.
Ref.
Edit16 46665.
1099 [Neolatin poetry - France]
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SALMON MACRIN, Jean
- Carminum libri quatuor ad Hilermum
Bellaium cognomento Langium. Paris, S. de Colines, 1530, 8vo, mod. calf, covers with gilt ornamental
border, gilt spine, 76 ff. (title sl. soiled and mounted, occ. spotting). Good copy.
€ 500/700
Very rare 1st larger collection of the poetry of “the French Horace” Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-
1557), in his time considered to be the finest Neolatin poet of France. Earlier (in 1528) only a small
part (16) ff.) of his poems had been published by S. de Colines. Woodcut mark on title. In italics.
Capital spaces with guide-letters.
Ref.
Renouard 162. Moreau III:2278. Pettegree FB 85621. Not in
Adams. Cp. Schreiber 41 & Oberlé 209 (1528 ed.).
1100 [Neolatin poetry - France]
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SALMON MACRIN, Jean
- Hymnorum libri sex, ad Io. Bellaiu(m),
S.R.E. Cardinalem ampliss. Paris, R. Estienne, 7 February 1537, 8vo, disbound, 238-[2] pp. (paper
spotted, dampstain in top margin of 1st ff.).
€ 200/300
Rare
original ed.
(2nd 1540) of the Neolatin hymns of “the French Horace” Jean Salmon Macrin
(1590-1557). It is also “the first original work published by Robert Estienne bearing a royal
privilege” (Schreiber). Woodcut mark on title. Old ownership entry on title erased.
Ref.
Renouard
46:19. Moreau V:665. Schreiber 54. Adams S-177. Not in Oberlé.
1101 [Neolatin poetry - Frankfurt imprint]
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AULAEUS, Christophorus
- Praecepta pietatis et
morum, distichis elegiacis conscripta. Frankfurt a. Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1551, 8vo, mod. boards,
[24] ff. (some soiling in inner margin, minor worming in top margin). Good copy.
€ 180/220
Very rare
1st ed.
(2nd 1560) of a collection of didactic moralizing poems by the Erfurt Poet Laureate
Chr. Aulaeus (fl. 1538-1560), also issued with Eobanus Hessus’ “Operum flores” (1551). Woodcut
on title. Printed in roman and italics.
Ref.
VD-16 A-4330. Not in Adams, BnF, Buisson, Oberlé, STC
German (BL).
1102 [Neolatin poetry - Jena imprint]
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STIGEL, Johann
- Poematum (…) ex recensione Adami Siberi
volumen primum. Jena, D. Richtzenhan, 1577, 8vo, cont. blindst. pigskin over boards (corners
bumped), covers with sm. medallion portraits and blind oval central ornament, spine on 3 raised
bands, [8]-278 ff. (paper age-toned, sm. hole in blank part of title). Good copy.
€ 200/300
Pt. 1 (of 2), complete in itself, of the collected Latin poetry of the Wittenberg and Jena professor
of rhetoric Johann Stigel (1515-1562), containing i.a. “Preces, Psalmi Davidici, Hymni, Johel
Propheta, Argonautica, Heroides, Epigrammata”. Woodcut on title. Woodcut mark at the end. In
italics. Some cont. reader’s notes and marks. Front cover with
blindstamped initials ‘I C O’ and
date ‘1585’
. Old ownership entry on title (partly deleted). Libr. st. (erased).
Ref.
VD-16 S-9103. Not
in Adams, BnF, Oberlé, STC German (BL).
1103 [Neolatin poetry - Leipzig imprint]
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ALBINUS, Johannes
- Poematum (...) libri II. quorum alter
versus continet heroicos in Academia Lips. partim in conuentibus publicis pronuntiatos, partim in
gratiam praecipuorum virorum compositos; alter gratulationes nuptiales, epicedia, deque diuersis