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MANILIUS, Johannes Antonius. Oratio pro Britonoriensibus ad Alexandrum VI. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, August 1492?].
Chancery 4° (190 x 135 mm). Collation: [1]4 (1/1r text, 1/4v blank). 4 leaves. 28 lines. Type 10:108R. One woodcut ornamental initial. (Outer bifolium hinge strengthened.) Modern patterned-paper boards.
Provenance: Giuseppe Martini, pencilled collation note on front pastedown (Catalogo 1934, no. 246).
Probably the first of two undated editions of the oration pledging obedience of the people of Bertinoro to the newly elected Pope Alexander VI. Manilius gives a succinct account of Bertinoro, a town in the Romagna, and cites classical, mythical and religious figures, including Moses, Plato, Salomon, Hermes and Dionysius, in the course of praising Alexander VI.
HC *10700; BMC IV, 96 (IA. 18528-30); Pellechet Ms 7571; Goff M-200.
Chancery 4° (190 x 135 mm). Collation: [1]4 (1/1r text, 1/4v blank). 4 leaves. 28 lines. Type 10:108R. One woodcut ornamental initial. (Outer bifolium hinge strengthened.) Modern patterned-paper boards.
Provenance: Giuseppe Martini, pencilled collation note on front pastedown (Catalogo 1934, no. 246).
Probably the first of two undated editions of the oration pledging obedience of the people of Bertinoro to the newly elected Pope Alexander VI. Manilius gives a succinct account of Bertinoro, a town in the Romagna, and cites classical, mythical and religious figures, including Moses, Plato, Salomon, Hermes and Dionysius, in the course of praising Alexander VI.
HC *10700; BMC IV, 96 (IA. 18528-30); Pellechet Ms 7571; Goff M-200.