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Poem #47

In Psalmorum paraphrasim epigramma
written before 1532-05-03 first edition 1532-05-03

Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 16th-century, GCO, Hs 38, f. 173v


Early printed source materials:
1CAMPENSIS 1532 Norimberga (Ioannis Dantisci Episcopi Culmensis in eandem paraphrasim Epigramma) (in extenso)
2CAMPENSIS 1532 Antverpia (Ioannis Dantisci Episcopi Culmensis in eandem paraphrasim Epigramma) (in extenso)
3CAMPENSIS 1532 Cracovia (Ioannis Dantisci Episcopi Culmensis in eandem paraphrasim Epigramma) (in extenso)
4CAMPENSIS 1534 Enchiridion (In eandem paraphrasim epigramma) p. a[1] (in extenso)
5CAMPENSIS 1536 Enchiridion p. [a1]v (in extenso)
6CAMPENSIS 1540 Enchiridion p. [a1]v (in extenso)
7CAMPENSIS 1545 Liber p. A[1]rw (in extenso)
8Liber (Ioannis Dantisci Episcopi Culmensis Epigramma) p. a0 (in extenso)

Prints:
1HIPLER 1891 (Ioannis Dantisci, episcopi Culmensis, in eandem paraphrasim Epigramma) p. 497 (in extenso)
2REJ (Ioannis Dantisci E. C. in eandem paraphrasim epigramma) (in extenso)
3DOBRZYCKI (In eandem paraphrasim epigramma) (in extenso)
4Dantisci Carmina (In Psalmorum paraphrasim epigramma) No. 38, p. 161-162 (in extenso)
5AT 14 (In eandem paraphrasim Epigramma) p. 348-349 (in extenso)
6DE VOCHT 1961 (Ioannis Dantisci Episcopi Culmensis in eandem paraphrasim Epigramma) p. 142 (in extenso)

 

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Pura mente Deum si vis cognoscere, lector,
Et quis sit verae religionis amor,
Et quibus ipse modis Deus est orandus, et illi
Fidere quo possis pectore, labe reus,
Haec lege divini sacrata poemata vatis,
Qui fidei nostrae fons et origo fuit!
Ex cuius sacro mundi servator Iesus
Semine, mortali corpore factus homo est.
Cum falsis veteres dis interiere poetae,
Nominis illorum fabula sola manet.
Hic cum perpetuo viget omni tempore Christo,
Istud et in terris dulce reliquit opus.
Dulce quidem numeris, sed sensu dulcius omni
Melle, quod ex Hybla sedula legit apis.
Clarius hoc tandem Campensis reddidit orbi,
Interpres linguae candidus Hebraicae.
Perlege, ne pigeat, mentem super astra levabis
Plusque pius fies quam modo, lector, eras!
Non hic Castalios ficto de fonte liquores,
Sed quos dat Christi spiritus, ore bibes.
Quae quondam prisci finxere poemata vates,
Mentitis pollent omnia plena iocis.
Hic est firma fides, hic spes, hic fervor amoris,
Quem quisque in summum debet habere Deum.