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Varia carmina. Add: Johannes Reuchlin, Scenica progymnasmata 1 August 1498
20.6 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1057857
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Sebastian Brant (1457-1521)
Varia carmina / Sebastian Brant ; [with additions by Johann Bergmann. ] With: Scenica progymnasmata / Johannes Reuchlin 1 August 1498
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This volume brings together different Latin compositions in verse by Sebastian Brant, a German humanist and satirist. Born in Strasbourg, he studied philosophy at the University of Basel but later took up law, completing his doctorate in 1489. He would practise as a lawyer throughout his life.
The poems in this edition mostly concern religion and faith, but also include panegyrics on the Emperor Maximilian and verses on historical and contemporary figures. They were edited by Brant’s friend and printer Johann Bergmann von Olpe (c.1455-c.1532), who published the first edition of this title. This second edition, printed by Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger in the same year, includes the carnivalesque play Scenica progymnasmata by the contemporary humanist Johannes Reuchlin.
Binding description
?Nineteenth-century green paste paper over ?millboards, showing signs of original double flexible sewing structure. Covers undecorated. Spine rounded, with paper label and titling in ink. Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of plain laid paper.Provenance
Acquired by WIlliam IV, 1830-37.
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Measurements
20.6 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm (book measurement (conservation))
Markings
annotation: one contemporary hand, writing in a dark brown ink has added two missing lines, another contemporary hand, writing in light brown ink, has added two comments ("Heu deo nato"; "Magnis in penis clamitatqu[e] dicit"). Both use a humanistic set script. [b4v, c1r]
annotation: an eighteenth-century hand highlights two of Brant's poems, making reference to the former's treatment of venereal disease (written in ink on a label), then contributes a couple of signposts and one bibliographic detail using pencil [front flyleaf verso, K2r, K3r, O5v, P4r]
annotation: correction, line addition and transcription of another Latin poem by Brant in a ?eighteenth-century hand [N1r, P3v, P6r]
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ISTC : Incunabula Short Title Catalogue – ISTC ib01100000Alternative title(s)
Varia carmina / Sebastian Brant ; [with additions by Johann Bergmann.] With: Scenica progymnasmata / Johannes Reuchlin.
Carminu[m] Sebastiani Brant ta[m] diuinas qua[m] humanas laudes decantantiu[m] opus: felici fine consummatu[m] Argentine opera & impensis Ioannis Grüninger. K[a]l[enda]s. Augusti Anni.&c.xcviij.
Place of Production
Strasbourg [France]
