Beinecke MS 451               Germany, s. XV^^4/4
Giovanni Antonio Campano, Oratio in conventu Ratisponensi, etc.

MS 451 contains three works copied from incunabula:

1.  ff. 1r-10r  Giovanni Antonio Campano, Oratio in conventu Ratisponensi
ad exhortandos principes Germanorum contra Turcos et de laudibus eorum.
Rome, Stephan Plannck, ca. 1487 (GKW 5940); or Rome, Stephan Plannck, ca.
1488-90 (GKW 5941).

2.  ff. 10v-11v  Johannes de Margarit, Oratio pronuntiata in senatu
Venetiarum.  Rome, Georgius Teutonicus (Lauer?) for Johannes Philippus de
Lignamine, 24 July 1481; Hain-Copinger 9411.  The colophon from the printed work
appears at the conclusion of the text (f. 11v).

3.  ff. 12r-14r  Franciscus de Toleto (Francois Busleiden), Oratio in
funere Leonardi de Robore.  Rome, Stephan Plannck, ca. 1481-87; Hain-Copinger
7337.  f. 14v blank

     Paper (watermarks:  unidentified, in gutter, similar to Piccard Buchstabe P
XII), ff. ii (paper) + 14 + ii (paper), 211 x 147 (158 x 94) mm.  45 long lines.
Frame-ruled in lead; vertical rulings full length.
     Single gathering of 14 leaves.
     Written in a small running hand exhibiting batarde influence.
     Binding:  s. xx.  Black goatskin, gold-tooled.

Written in Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century; formerly part
(foliated 103-16, in pencil, in upper right corner) of a larger volume.
Acquired from Breslauer (cat. 101, no. 61) in 1970 as the gift of Edwin J.
Beinecke.

Barbara A. Shailor