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CELTIS, Conradus (1459-1508). Panegyricus ad duces Bavariae. -Oratio in Gymnasio in Ingelstadio publice recitata. [Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, after 31 August 1492].
Chancery half-sheet 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: [112] (1/1r title, 1/1v verses by Henricus Euticus, verses by Celtis to the reader, 1/2r panegyric, 1/4r Oratio in gymnasio Ingelstadensi habita (Non magno duxissem, patres ornatissimi...), 1/10r Ode I, 11 to Sigismund Fusilius, 1/11r Ode II,8, 1/12 blank). 40 lines, shoulder notes. Type: 4:76G, 9:130G. Paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (Short marginal tear in title.) Early 20th-century blue paper wrapper, shelf-label on upper cover. Provenance: Miltenberg, Bavaria, Franciscan convent (18th-century title inscription).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. These two works contain some of the most explicit statements of Celtis' cultural nationalism and his proposal for studia humanistica. He calls for the reform and strengthening of German universities so that they may compete with their Italian counterparts. He also calls on German youth to defend against the age-old cliché of teutonic barbarism by embracing humanism not only to match but to surpass the cultural achievements of the rest of Europe. The Panegyricus also appeared as a broadside, probably before Ratdolt's edition in book form. With MS correction on 1/1v, line 5, as often, presumably made in Ratdolt's shop. Cf. Amor als Topograph, exhibition catalogue, Bibliothek Otto Schäfer, 2002, no. 30. HCR 4841; GW 6466; BMC II, 386 (IA. 6733); Goff C-372.
Chancery half-sheet 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: [1
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. These two works contain some of the most explicit statements of Celtis' cultural nationalism and his proposal for studia humanistica. He calls for the reform and strengthening of German universities so that they may compete with their Italian counterparts. He also calls on German youth to defend against the age-old cliché of teutonic barbarism by embracing humanism not only to match but to surpass the cultural achievements of the rest of Europe. The Panegyricus also appeared as a broadside, probably before Ratdolt's edition in book form. With MS correction on 1/1v, line 5, as often, presumably made in Ratdolt's shop. Cf. Amor als Topograph, exhibition catalogue, Bibliothek Otto Schäfer, 2002, no. 30. HCR 4841; GW 6466; BMC II, 386 (IA. 6733); Goff C-372.
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