tip00356000

Text-inc Id:

tip00356000

Bod-inc Id:

P-146

Headings:

Persius Flaccus, Aulus Satyrae (comm. Johannes Britannicus and Bartholomaeus Fontius, ed. Bartholomaeus Merula).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Britannicus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to the Senate and People of Brescia. Edited by Bartholomaeus Merula, along with the rest of the items in this edition.] Incipit: ‘[C]um multa et uaria in rebus humanis sint in quibus hominum ingenia exerceri . . .’ Explicit: me scripti sunt. Valete See P‑143. Merula is named as editor in the colophon.
3. a2r Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Vita Persii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ersius Flaccus in Thuscia Volaterras habet patriam quod cum Eusebius . . .’ Explicit: largitor venter
4. a2r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Vita Persii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ersium aggressuro in primis necessarium uisum est eius uitam . . .’ Explicit: ipsam aggrediamur
5. a2v [Britannicus, Johannes: Preface.] Incipit: ‘[S]atyra carmen est, ut Diomedi placet apud Romanos maledicum . . .’ Explicit: uersus faceret
6. a3r Britannicus, Johannes: [Commentary on Choliambi.] ‘Commentarii in Persium'. Incipit: ‘  “Nec fonte labra”. Versus est senarius iambicus, qui et trimeter . . .’ Explicit: Pegasos habeat
7. a3r Persius Flaccus, Aulus: [Choliambi.] Pers. Chol.
8. a3r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on Choliambi.] Incipit: ‘  “Ne(!) fonte labra prolui caballino”. Quo maiore animi libertate alios deinde corrigere . . .’ Explicit: indeclinabiliter ponitur
9. a4v Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satyrae. Pers.
10. a4v Britannicus, Johannes: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘  “[O] curas hominum”. Reprehensurus hac satyra uaria poetarum in componendis carminibus . . .’ Explicit: insatiabilem esse ostendit
11. a5r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘  “[O] curas hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane”. Haec satyra lenocinio uerborum plausum . . .’ Explicit: Chrysippum repertum esse
12. i3r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Saxettus. Incipit: ‘[R]ecte facis, Saxette carissime, qui ita diligenter studiis nostris . . .’ Explicit: paratissimum semper erit. Vale See P‑135.
13. i3v [Colophon.]

Imprint:

Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 14 Feb. 1494/5. Folio.

Collation:

a–g⁶ h i⁴. On a1r a woodcut showing Persius flanked by Britannicus and Fontius, with type-set inscriptions bearing their names: see Sander and Essling, also Morgan, Persius, pl. VI. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00356000 HC 12738; Goff P‑356; BMC V 529; Pr 5429; Essling 794; Morgan, Persius, 41; Oates 2107; Rhodes 1352; Sander 5563; Sheppard 4523-4. LCN: 14492732

Copies:

1. P-146(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaf i4. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled grey morocco, stamped on each cover with a crest: a cross pattée, fitchée at the foot; light blue silk doublures; gauffred edges. Size: 307 × 210 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 302 × 201 mm. Manuscript names of the figures in the woodcut (in addition to those set in type) have been written in a sixteenth-century hand. Provenance: Catalogue of . . . the Library of a Gentleman (London: Christie & Manson, 8 Mar. 1847), lot 861; circular paper label on the upper cover. Purchased for £0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1847), 27. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.27.
2. P-146(2) Second copy Bound with J‑316(2); see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 313 × 202 mm. Wanting the blank leaf i4. Occasional marginal and interlinear annotations and corrections to the text and commentary, also underlining in the commentary. SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1494.1(2).