Plus in alieno ... De te mox de me Nne precor quid prius dato Lector uitio [quam] omnia intueare Nam spero fore ut nisi cuncta abiicias cogaris singula laudare. ... continentur ... Tractatus .v. Orationes .xv. Epistola[rum] .ix. Libri ... ibid.

Contents (from BM, 15th cent,): Prefatory matter. Title with woodcut; privilege for 10 years, dated 26 March 1495, granted to Michael Fernus by Lodovico Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, followed by verses. (p. [1r-1v]). Letter of Jacobus Antiquarius to Fernus (p. [2r]). Letter of Fernus to Antiquarius, and verses (p. [2v-3r]). Omnium index operum, and addresses to readers (p. [3v-6v]). Campani vita, and verses (p. [7r-16v]) -- Opuscular varia. Index (p. [17r-18v]). De ingratitudine fugienda, de regendo magistratu, de dignitate matrimonii, descriptio Thrasimeni, de fratris obitu, in varios auctores censurae, oratio in ascensione domini (p. [19r-66r]) -- Orationes. Index (p. [67r-68v]). Orationes (p. [69r-122v]) -- Epistolae. Index (p.[123r-128v]). Epistolae (p. [129r-204v]) -- Vita Pii Papae II. Pii ii vita (p. [205r-212v]) -- Historia Brachii. Index (p. [213r-214v]). Historia Brachii (p. [215r-272v]) -- Elegiae et epigrammata. Epigrammata (p. [273r-301v]). Supplementary poems, woodcut with verses, corrigenda, verses, and colophon. (p. [302r-304v]).

Text appears on 1st leaf as: [title around woodcut bell] .:. Plus in alieno .:. DE TE MOX DE ME Ne precor quid prius dato Lector uitio [quam] omnia intueare Nam spero fore ut nisi cuncta abiicias cogaris singula laudare. ... CONTINENTVR ... Tractatus .v. Orationes .xv. Epistola[rum] .ix. libri ... ibid. col. 2 : Vita Pii Historia Brachii Epigra[m]matu[m] .viii. l. ...

"SINT ... GRATIAE ... DOMINO ..."--Leaf [25].

"Characteribus Venetis impressum Romae per Eucharium Silber alias Franck Vnius ipsius Michaelis Ferni Mediolann[i]. cura correctione & impensa. Anno christianae salutis .M.cccc.xcv. Pridie K[a]l[end]as Noue[m]bris. Omen accipite uiri litterati quoniam in Vigilia Sanctorum Omnium expunctum. Sint gratiae d[omi]no"--Colophon.

"Johannes Antonius Campanus"--ISTC.

Text printed in roman type on watermarked paper ; small woodcut initials.

Signatures: (I-III)⁶ (i-v)¹⁰ [*]² ; a-c⁸d e k l⁶ ; [**]² ; a⁸ b-d⁶ e⁴ f⁸ g h⁶ i⁴ ; (i-iii)⁶ a-h⁸ ̇⁶ i k⁶ l m⁴ ; a⁸ ; [***]² ; A¹⁰ B⁶ C-H⁸ ̇⁶ ; A⁸ B⁴ C⁶ D-F⁴ ; [G]². F3 in final sequence missigned E3.

236(246) x 139 mm. ; gothic 146 (1st 3 words of title), roman 109 (headlines), roman 84 (text), gothic 73 ; 56 lines and headline ; woodcut initials occupying 5 or 8 lines.

ISTC (RLIN), ic00073000

BM 15th cent., IV, p. 117 (IB. 19008)

Hain, 4286

Coppinger, 4287

Goff, C-73

Oates, 1540

Procter, 3879

GW, 5939

De Hamel, C. Medieval and Rennaissance Manuscr., 161 (c)

upper cover of binding Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2007

Digital image available: upper cover of binding, Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.

The Alexander Turnbull Library copy is incomplete. Lacks leaf [1] (title with woodcut ; privilege for 10 years, dated 26 March 1495, granted to Michael Fernus by Lodovico Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, followed by verses. C.f. BMC). Lacks leaves [276-295] (epigrammata) and [302-304] (supplementary poems, woodcut with verses, corrigenda, verses, and colophon. C.f. BMC).

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Binding: contemporary calf over 8mm oak boards, upper and lower covers blind tooled to a diaper design using small tools, remains of clasps with straps on the upper cover, sewn on four split tawed leather thongs laced into the boards and held in place with wooden pegs; upper and lower pastedowns from 14th century rubricated vellum manuscript, rebacked in calf, raised spine bands, blind tooled. Title written in faded ink across head of fore-edge, 'Campani Opera' with numeral '6' underneath, written length-wise down the fore-edge 'Opa cāpanj ioānis' (the tail of the "p" has a cross stroke). Front endpaper is watermarked with a 'hand' similar to Briquet 11418-11430. Manuscript pastedowns, one of which has lifted, probably from England, 13th or 14th century, with 43 lines of text (canon law) in double columns, ruled in plummet. On the recto of the lifted leaf, three 3-line blue capitals with red penwork, four 1-line red capitals; on the verso one 3-line blue capital as before, one 1-line red capital; large red 'L' (=Liber) in upper margin. On the other (lower) pastedown, six blue capitals, five red capitals (as before), chapter headings in red, large '. II.' in upper margin. Text from the Compilatio Quarta made shortly after the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, one of the Quinque antiquiores compilationes that preceded Gregory's Decretals. The recto of the first leaf contains Comp. IV Lib. II Tit. 1-5 (Gregory, Decretals, 2.28.57- 2.28.61). Tit. 2 is headed 'Const. xxv' (error for 'xxxv' and Tit. 5 'Const. xlviii': these are cross-references to the constitutions of the Fourth Lateran Council. Eight lines of notes in plummet in lower margin. The verso contains the continuation of Comp. IV Lib. II Tit. 5; followed by Comp. IV Lib. III Tit. I.1 (Gregory, Decretals 3.3.7), with 'liber iii de uita et honestate clericoum' (i.e. Liber III of the Compilatio Quarta) in red in the margin, introduced by the 7-line initials spelling out IOHANNES described by de Hamel; and then by Comp. IV Lib. III Tit. 1.2 (Gregory, Decretals 3.1.13), headed 'Const. xiiii'. Three lines in ink in lower margin beginning 'Qui tegor hoc tumulo' (common in epitaphs), invoking St George and mentioning 'Sutton'. Lower pastedown contains Comp. IV Lib. II Tit. X.1-3, and Comp. IV Lib. II Tit. XI. 1-3. (See Quinque Compilationes Antiquae, edited by Emil Friedberg, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauschnitz, 1882, repr. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1956, available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_freidenreich/21). )

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Provenance: marginal inscriptions, Vesica armorial of H.R. Lloyd (Franks 18474), also inscription in brown ink "H R Lloyd Dauyratt"?, book stamp on first page of text: H R Lloyd. Purchased from Francis Edwards, 1963. Outer margins of first two leaves crumbling at edges; slight soiling, some water stains at end; a few worm holes in text at end. Leaf [87] (Orationes, c5] torn. Slip from publisher's catalogue tipped onto front inside cover. Accompanied by envelope containing cutting from publisher's catalogue, and cutting about old manuscripts. Acc. 1495.