Bebelius, Henricus (1472-1516?)

Varia carmina. Including a `Hymnus sapphicus' and a `Carmen elegiacum' to SS. Cosmas and Damian. Written in a neat gothic hand 29 lines to a page: hedings in red. Fol. 2 Compilator est Henricus Babelius Instingensis poeta laureatus./ (red) Historia horarum canonicarum de S. Hieronymo presbytero / ac doctore. Vario carminum genere illustrata exornataque/ac confirmata et indulgentiis dotata a Reverendissimo Archiepiscopo Mogun / tinensi. In primis vespris super psalmos Antiphona. / Nunc pueri laudate deum. quo praeside sanctus. / ... 7 (red) Historia horarum Canonicarum de S. Anna. vario / carminum genere exornata Ab Henrico Bebelio com / posita. In primis vesperis super omnes psalmos Antiphona. / Nunc sancte votis festum concordibus Anne/ ... 10v (red) Hymnus Sapphicus. endecasyllabicum. In sanctissiman beate virginis Conceptionem / Virginis festum celebremus omnes / ... 12, line 13 13 (red) Hymnus sapphicus. endecasyllabicum. de Sancta Barbara. / Barbare laudes resonet quotannis / ... 12v line 9 (red) Hymnus sapphicus. de Sancto Thoma apostolo. / Ceteri vates celebrent Minerue / ... 13v, line 17 (red) Hymnus sapphicus de sanctis Cosma et Damiano. / Cuncta plebs Christi famulis gemellis / ... 14v, line 9 (red) Carmen Elegiacum in vita illorum / Turilega canimus de arabum tellure creatos / ... 15v, line 10 (red) Finis Carminum Henrici bebelii. Sequuntur Car / mina leonharti Clementis Archipresbyteri. / Carmen sapphicum endecasyllabicum de S. Leonharto. / Laudis excelsum merite beati / ... 17 (red) Hymnus eiusdem de Sancto Beato. Sapphicum endeca-syllabicum. / Nune diem Sancti celebrem Beac / ... 17v (red) Eiusdem Hymnus constans duobus Aschlepiadis / Pherecratio et Gliconico. De Sancto Beato / can[tan]dus ut Hymnus (Gaude visceribus. / Nun aptate pios christicolos modos / ... 18 ... Mentem ad sublimia deumque / pro viribus erigito. 1516. The paper has a water-mark slightly varied from Briquet 2171, which is entered as `Munich 1507-1508'. An edition of these poems seems to be recorded in Graesse's Trèsor' as having been printed at Wurzburg in 1512.

1516

1 volume 18 ll. (first bl.). 4to. 20 x 141/2 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).