Carmen elegiacum dicolon distrophon magistri Steffani Gerhardi de Monte Regio in libidinis insolentes suo juvenili plectello depromptum. Theologice morati Salutaris institutiones summa opera elimate. Laudes Pindari vatis clarissimi ad Julium Anthonium, ab Oratio Venusino miro ornatu descripte.

Accession number: 
PML 197883
Author: 
Gerhard, Stephan.
Published: 
[Leipzig] : [Wolfgang Stöckel], 1497.
Description: 
[12] leaves ; 20 cm. (quarto)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the L.C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2018.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf A1r).
Imprint from ISTC.
Date from colophon (leaf B6v): Finiunt Lauden Pindari. Anno [christ]i .MCCCC.xcvii.
Printed in Stöckel's types 1:81G and 2:160G.
Signatures: A-B⁶: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
The attribution of the Salutaris poeta to Gerhard is doubtful.
The 'Laudes Pindari ad Julium Anthonium' is taken from Horace's Carmen IV, 2.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13.5 cm.

Binding: 
Modern vellum over thin paper boards (20 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title: 

Carmen in libidinis insolentes

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red capital strokes. Annotations: Early maringal and interlinear notations (leaf A2r). Tab and inscription: "10" (leaf A1r), suggesting tenth text in a Sammerlband, and early pagination (pp. 507-530). 17th-/18th-century numbering of some verses in Salutaris poeta, and pen trials.

Provenance: 
Previously part of an unknown Sammelband; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Konstantinopel Rare Books, March 2018.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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