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Title

Ludovici Heliani Vercellensis Christianissimi Francorum regis senatoris ac oratioris de bello suscipiendo adversus Venetianos et Turcas gratio Maximiliano Augusto in conventu presulum electorum et civitatum Romani Imperii dicta in Augusta Vindelica quarta Idus Aprilis anno a partu virginis millesimoquingentesimodecimo

Authors

• Hélian, Louis
• Bannicius, Jacobus

Call number

Ms. Codex 1133
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942678433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/206270504
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4267843

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with Greek word "telos" (f. 24v)

Origin

Date

1510

Place

Augsburg

Summary

Harangue delivered at the opening of a Diet at Augsburg, convened by Maximilian I, which turned the diet against the Venetian republic. Hélian's invective is vehement and at times absurd, as he portrays the Venetians with a variety of unflattering metaphors, calling them foxes, lions, serpents, pirates, monsters, and harpies; he also accuses the Venetians of having thwarted the League of Cambrai and thus hindered the war against the Turks, and accordingly calls the Venetians non-Christians who mock the French and Germans and plan to take over Europe. Preceded by an introductory letter from Jacobus Bannicius, an editor, signed on 1 May 1510. Following the speech is a poem in 142 elegiac couplets on lion hunting, featuring the king of France and the king of Aragon. Possibly copied from a printed version published by Johann Otmar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

30 leaves : 199 x 142 (149 x 104) mm. bound to 202 x 149 mm

Foliation

Paper, 30; [1-30]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern paper.

Layout

Work 1 written in 24 long lines, work 2 written in 18-20 lines of poetry; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Pen-flourishes in upper corners and on initials (f. 1r-2r, 17r).

Script

Written in a secretary script.

Provenance

• Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. (London), 1956.
   

Subjects topical

• Cambrai, League of, 1508
• Lion hunting
• Ambassadors--France--16th century

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Speeches
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Paper
• Annotated
• Germany
• Literature -- Poetry

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Introductory letter, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Oratio de bello suscipiendo adversus Venetianos et Turcas..., f. 2r
• fol. 17r — Poem, f. 17r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 2r