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De remediis utriusque fortunae between 8 Feb. 1471 and 1472
20.8 x 15.7 x 3.1 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1057988
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This work, entitled ‘Remedies for both kinds of fortune’, is a discussion on what is good and bad fortune, enacted by characters called cultor virtutis (a cultivator of virtue) and tyro vanitatis (an apprentice of vanity). Written by a Carthusian monk that only refers to himself as Andrianus, it is an adaptation of Petrarch’s work of approximately the same name. Petrarch’s Remediis contained 253 dialogues between two parties: that of Gaudium (joy), Spes (hope), Dolor (adversity) and Metus (fear), and that of Ratio (reason). Petrarch himself modelled his work from a classical source: De remediis fortuitorum (Remedies for chance happenings) attributed to the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca.
This is a copy of the third edition of Adrianus’s work, printed in Strasbourg by Heinrich Eggerstein.
Binding description
Nineteenth-century quarter-bound goat or sheepskin and marbled paper. Spine with four raised bands; gilt fillets and titling over two orange and green labels.Provenance
Previously in the collection of Frankfurt doctor and book collector Georg Kloss (1787-1854), sold to White in the second sale for 4 shillings (lot 488). Before then, it may have been in the collection of the Franciscan convent in Freiburg-im-Breisgau (merged 1785).
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Creator(s)
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Measurements
20.8 x 15.7 x 3.1 cm (book measurement (conservation))
Markings
annotation: Early/mid 17th-century inscription: 'Franciscanis Friburgi' i.e. the Franciscan convent at Fribourg in modern-day Switzerland [f.2r]
Category
Other number(s)
ISTC : Incunabula Short Title Catalogue – ISTC ia00056000Alternative title(s)
De remediis utriusque fortunae / Adrianus Carthusiensis.
Place of Production
Strasbourg [France]
