Very rare work with poetry by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (1453-1505), one of the leading Italian humanists. The work contains twenty different poems and includes Carmen lugubre, which is considered one of Beroaldo's masterpieces, because he combined all his oratorical skills in it. The present work is very rare. It has been recorded in just three libraries, and we have only been able to find two other copies in sales records of the past hundred years.
Beroaldo's poems were first printed in 1492 by Joannes Trechsel in Lyon, together with his speeches. This edition, titled Orationes et poemata, was edited by Jodocus Badius Ascenius (1462-1532), who had been a student of Beroaldo. The same work was published a second time in 1499 by Michel Tholoze for Denis Roce. In the 16th century, the speeches and poems were separated, and the poems were published under a new title, Epigrammata. The present work, published by Denis Roce, is very likely the first edition of the epigrammata. It is difficult to ascertain, because the work is not dated, but it most likely predates the second edition published by Ascenius in 1508.
With a later annotation on the recto of the final blank leaf ("Petrus vorstius ep[iscopu]s aquen nota Theoderi"), another underneath, and two longer annotations on the verso of the final blank leaf, one in a contemporary and one in a later hand, with sermons of prayers. A water stain in the outer margin throughout, somewhat affectign the text, and wormholes in the inner margin throughout, slightly affecting the text, outer corner of final blank leaf restored, with some loss of the manuscript annotations. Otherwise in good condition. BM, French books, p. 50; USTC 180181 (1 copy); WorldCat 1041570796, 1025718194 (2 copies).