Rare Bohemian Neo-Latin humanist pamphlet largely in Latin verse and prose. The author, Simon Villaticus (identified in modern scholarship with Šimon Fagellus Villaticus / Šimon Bouèek 1473-1548), was provost of the Capella Omnium Sanctorum (All Saints Chapel) in Prague and is associated with the humanist literary milieu of Plzeò and Prague in the mid-16th century.
The work comprises several interconnected pieces, largely in verse, of particular interest for the intellectual and literary milieu of Prague and Bohemia. It includes a panegyric on the deeds of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), an exhortation to Christians under Ottoman rule, and elegiac laments on the deaths of Queen Anna (1366-1394) of Bohemia and Hungary and Queen Elisabeth (1305-1380) of Poland, together with further occasional and commemorative writings of a similar character. The tone is consistently humanist and panegyrically, reflecting the ideological and devotional concerns of mid-16-century Central European Habsburg culture. On D2 verso-D3 recto appears a poem De Erasmo Roterodamo, an elegiac hendecasyllabi tribute to Erasmus of Rotterdam, further situating the work within the wider European humanist tradition and indicating engagement with Erasmus's literary legacy.
Of particular interest is the strongly Habsburg-loyalist perspective and the integration of political event, devotional rhetoric, and classical humanist form. The text also reflects the wider Central European tradition of Latin occasional poetry.
The spine is somewhat rubbed, with some loss of material at the head. The work is somewhat browned, with occasional staining, particularly to the final leaf. Otherwise in good condition. Knihovìda BCBT42620 (1 copy); USTC 1918561 (1 copy); not in Adams; BM STC German; Hohenemser; Knaake; Kuczynski.