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tih00447000

Text-inc Id:
tih00447000
Bod-inc Id:
H-206
Headings:
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus Opera (comm. Christophorus Landinus).
Subjects:
literature
Analysis of content:
  1. [a1v] Politianus, Angelus: [Ode addressed to] Q. Horatius Flaccus. ‘Ad Horatium Flaccum Ode Dicolos tetrastrophos Angeli Politiani.’ Incipit: Vates Threicio blandior Orpheo | Seu malis fidibus sistere lubricos ... Explicit: ‘... Insertum thyalis, aut fide garrula | Inter ludere virgines. [28 lines]’ Walther Ludwig, ‘Horazrezeption in der Renaissance oder die Renaissance des Horaz', in Horace. L'œuvre et les imitations. Un siècle d'interpretation, ed. Walther Ludwig, Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique, 39 (Geneva, 1993), 305-71, at 363-4.
  2. [a2r] Landinus, Christophorus: [Preface addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro, 2nd Duke of Urbino. ‘Christophori Landini Florentini in Q. Horatii Flacci libros omnes ad illustrissimum Guidonem Feltrium magni Federici ducis Filium interpretationes incipiunt feliciter.’ Incipit: ‘[S]upremum omnino inter mortales locum ii mihi occupasse videntur ...’ [a3r] Explicit: ‘... vocabula explicata sunt ex chartarum numero indicabimus imitati aliqua ex pare in ea re Plinium Secundum, in qua ipse Valerium Soranum imitari non inficiatur.’ Landino, Scritti critici, I 198-202.
  3. a3v [Alphabetic index of keywords]. ‘Tabula vocabulorum quae in nostris comentariis suo ordine interpretata invenies modo inditia numerorum sequaris.’
  4. [b1r] Landinus, Christophorus: [Introduction]. ‘Christophori Landini Florentini in Q. Oratii Flacci carmina interpretationes incipiunt feliciter.’ Incipit: ‘[V]etustum sane institutum est et quod deinceps ab omnibus pene doctioribus perpetua . . .’ [b2v] Explicit: ‘... Postremo reddit nos: dociles cum dilucide qua de re scripturus sit, breviterque proponat.’ ‘Ad Mecenatem quod ceterorum studiis contemptis liricum carmen scripturus sit. Liber primus.’
  5. [b3r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmina. [Edited by Christophorus Landinus] Incipit: [M]ecenas atavis aedite regibus | O et pręsidium, et dulce ... [t3v] Explicit: ‘... Troiamque et Anchisen et almae | Progeniem veneris canemus.’ ‘Q. Horatii Flacci libri quarti carminum finis.’ Hor. Carm. Landinus's work as editor is noted in the ‘Proemium.’
  6. [b3r] Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Carmina]. Incipit: ‘  “Mecenas”. Ad Mecenatem scribit cui quantum debuerit paulo ante in sua uita . . .’ [t3v] Explicit: ‘... Nam Sacadas Argivus eam quam in musicis strophen dicunt tribus tonis Dorio Phyrgio et Lydio adinvenit.’ ‘Q. Horatii Flacci libri quarti Carminum finis.’
  7. [t4r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Epodae. ‘Q. Horatii Flacci Epodos incipit. Ad Mecenatem.’ Incipit: [I]bis Liburnis inter alta navium | Amice propugnacula | Paratus omne Caesaris periculum ... [x2v] Explicit: ‘... Desyderique temptare poculum | Plorem artis in te nihil habentis exitum.’ Hor. Epod.
  8. [t4r] Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Epodes]. Incipit: ‘  “Ibis liburnis inter alta nauium”. Versus iambicus est, sed primus iambicus trimeter, secundus dimeter . . .’ [x2v] Explicit: ‘... ita ad miscere ea quae in poculo opus sunt, ut ad amorem incitandum efficacissimum sit.’
  9. [x3r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmen saeculare. ‘Q. Horatii Flacci Carmen seculare.’ Incipit: [P]hoebe silvarumque petens Diana | Lucidum caeli decus, o colendi ... [x4v] Explicit: ‘... Docrus et Phębi chorus Dianae | Dicere laudes.’ ‘Carminis secularis finis.’ Hor. Saec.
  10. [x3r] Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Carmen saeculare]. Incipit: ‘  “Phœbe siluarumque potens Diana”. Carmen seculare sane inter lyrica carmina referri potest . . .’ [x4v] Explicit: ‘... Et templum libertatis a Gracco de mulctatitia pecunia militum in secundo bello Punico factum [?]. Aderant aquęductus et spelunca Caci.’
  11. [x4v] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Ars poetica. ‘Q. Horatii Flacci de Arte poetica ad Pisones.’ Incipit: [Humano capiti cervicem equinam | Iungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas ... [z3v] Explicit: ‘... Quem vero arripuit, tenet, occiditque legendo | Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris irudo.’ ‘Q. Horatii Flacci Artis poeticae finis.’ Hor. Ars.
  12. [x4v] Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Ars poetica addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. Incipit: ‘Permagna res est, illustrissime Guido Feltrane, Poeticam artem pro dignitate . . .’ [z3v] Explicit: ‘... C Latros. cancellos IRU. Do. sanguisuga est.’
  13. [z3v] Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Sermones addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. ‘Christophori Landini Florentini in Q. Horatii Flacci Sermones interpretatio.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ermagna res est, illustrissime Guido Feltri, et hominibus ac ciuitatibus apprime utilis . . .’ [F6r] Explicit: ‘... et propter calorem regionis et aquę inopiam sęvissime nocent.’
  14. [z4v] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Sermones. ‘Q. Horatii Flacci Sermonum liber primus.’ Incipit: [Q]uid sit Męcenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem | Seu ratio dederit, seu fors obiecerit, illa ... [F6r] Explicit: ‘... Ut nihil omnino gustaremus, velut illis | Canidia afflasset peior serpentibus aphris.’ Hor. S. 1. 10. 9-92 only.
  15. [F7v] Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Epistolae addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. ‘Christophori Landini Florentini ad illustrissimum Guidonem Feltrium in Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolas interpretationes incipiunt.’ ‘Proemium.’ Incipit: ‘Magnum profecto mortalibus, illustrissime Guido Feltri, adiumentum attulit ea que . . .’ [M1r] Explicit: ‘... Probe enim monet Iuvenalis quędam cum prima resecentur crimina barba.’
  16. [F8r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Epistolae. ‘Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolarum liber primus.’ ‘Epistola prima ad Mecenatem.’ Incipit: [P]rima dicte mihi summa dicende camęna | Spectatum satis et donatum iam rude quaeris ... [M1r] Explicit: ‘... Tempus abire tibi est, ne potum largius ęquo | Rideat, et pulset lasciva decentius aeras.’ ‘Christophori Landini Florentini in Q. Horatii Flacci Opera omnia interpretationum finis, divino auxilio felix.’ Hor. Ep.
  17. [M1r] Colophon: ‘Impressum per Antonium Miscominum Florentiae, anno Salutis MCCCCLXXXII nonis Augusti.’
  18. [M1v] ‘Haec sunt quae in codice Horatii errore librarii mendosa emendanda fuerant. Tu igitur, lector, numeris indicibus cuncta assequeris.’ Incipit: ‘Neque polymnia imo neue polymnia ut ‘nevepo-' faciat dactylum. vii . . .’ Explicit: ‘... Venturus in hora imo in hora ccxxxiii.’
  19. [M2r] ‘Emendata in comentariis quae inuenies indice numero chartarum.’ Incipit: ‘Philamonem fratrem imo eius fratrem. i. . . .’ Explicit: ‘... Aristonis philosophi ccxxxviii.’
Imprint:
Florence Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini f° Secundo folio: [a3r] speranda tibi inquam 5 Aug. 1482
Collation:
[a6 b–z8 A–L8 M2]. Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00447000 HCR 8881; Goff H‑447; BMC VI 637; Pr 6142; CIBN H‑276; Oates 2338; Rhodes 941; Sheppard 5102. LCN: 14449504
Copies:
  1. H-206(1) Copy Binding: Parchment; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 287 × 201 × mm. Size of leaf: 278 × 194 mm. Some notes, including extraction of key words, and underlining in the text and commentary in a sixteenth-century hand. On [a2r] a ten-line initial ‘S' is supplied in gold on a ground of blue, green, and red, with foliate decoration in white and yellow, all within a black pen-work border; on [b1r] a nine-line Florentine initial ‘V' is supplied in gold, surrounded by white vine-stems defined in red, blue, or green, and decorated with gold dots; other two- to eight-line initials are supplied in blue. On [b1r] the coat of arms of Baldinotti (see below) on a red ground decorated in white, within a green laurel wreath, all surrounded by white vine-stems defined in red, blue, and green; see Pächt and Alexander II, 109 no. pr. 52. Occasional running headings are supplied in black ink in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Provenance: Baldinotti family; coat of arms on [b1r]: azure, a bend argent [as identified by A. C de la Mare, in the Bodleian's annotated copy of Pächt and Alexander II in Duke Humfrey's Library]. Washed or erased inscription on [a1r]. Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), II no. 4571; sale (1789), lot 9472. Purchased through Peter Elmsley for £6. 10. 0; see the annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1789), 6. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 2.3.
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