tip00077500

Text-inc Id:

tip00077500

Bod-inc Id:

P-021

Headings:

Papias Elementarium.

Analysis of content:

1. A1v Mombritius, Boninus: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Quaeris grammatico librorum quanta suppellex | Sit satis impensa quam sibi nemo paret'; 16 elegiac distichs.
2. A2r Papias: [Preface addressed to his sons.] Incipit: ‘[F]ilii utique carissimi debui si potuissem . . .’ Explicit: Christus ad astra L. W. Daly and B. A. Daly, ‘Some Techniques in Medieval Latin Lexicography', Speculum, 39 (1964), 229-39, at 229-31.
3. A2v Papias: [Elementarium.] Incipit: ‘[A]. In omnibus gentibus ideo prior est litterarum . . .’ Explicit: Zoroteros . . .uiuatior Only partially edited in Papiae Elementarium Littera “A”, ed. V. de Angelis (Milan, 1977); G. Cremascoli, ‘Ricerche sul lessicografo Papia', Aevum, 43 (1969), 31-55, at 47-50 on the early editions.
4. a3r Papias: [Prayer of thanks for the book.] Incipit: ‘[I]nfinitas et multiplices benedictionis gratias iam deo patri referimus . . .’ Explicit: sæculorum. Amen

Imprint:

Milan: Dominicus de Vespolate, 12 Dec. 1476. Folio.

Collation:

A–I k L–N Nn–Pp⁸ Qq¹² O P q R S⁸ T⁸⁺¹ V–Z & [us] [rum] aa⁸ a⁴. Signatures stamped in.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00077500 HCR 12378; BMC VI 732; Pr 5891; CIBN P‑22; Oates 2276; Sheppard 4903. LCN: 14440882

Copies:

1. P-021(1) Copy Wanting A1, also the two blank leaves Qq12, and a4. Gathering Qq as Bodleian copy, not as BMC (Qq (+ V)¹⁰⁺². Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 422 × 298 × 47 mm. Size of leaf: 404 × 265 mm. Some early marginal and interlinear annotations, including comments on and additions to the text, also corrections to the text. On A2r is a biographical note in a seventeenth-century(?) hand. On a3v are two lines of verse: ‘Mors hominum felix que se nec dulcibus annis' (Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio, I 1,13; Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio, ed. Ludwig Bieler, CCSL 94 (Turnholt, 1984), 1), and ‘Monte sub hoc lapidum tegitur balista sepultus' (Riese, Anthologia latina, I 1, 213 no. 261, line 1). Three- to eight-line initials are supplied in blue with red pen-work decoration, or in red with blue pen-work decoration. Provenance: Asti, Piedmont, Carthusians, SS. Philippus et Jacobus; inscriptions in fifteenth/sixteenth-century hands on A2r: ‘cclv Cartusie Ast P', and on a3v: ‘Cartusie Ast'. Purchased for £2. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1849), 36. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.27.