tip00357000

Text-inc Id:

tip00357000

Bod-inc Id:

P-145

Headings:

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

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Britannicus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to the Senate and People of Brescia.] Incipit: ‘[C]um multa et uaria in rebus humanis sint in quibus hominum ingenia exerceri . . .’ Explicit: me scripti sunt. Valete See P‑143.
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. a2r [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: ‘  “Nec funte(!) 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. a4v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘  “[O] curas hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane”. Haec satyra scriptores lenocinio uerborum plausum . . .’ Explicit: Chrysippum repertum esse
12. h3v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Saxettus. Incipit: ‘[R]ecte facis, Saxette carissime, qui ita diligenter studiis nostris . . .’ Explicit: paratissimum semper erit. Valle See P‑135.

Imprint:

Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, 13 Apr. 1495. Folio.

Collation:

a⁸ b–g⁶ h⁴.comment[BSB]

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00357000 HC *12739; Goff P‑357; BMC V 512; Pr 5477; BSB‑Ink P‑252; Morgan, Persius, 43; Sheppard 4445. LCN: 14492784

Copies:

1. P-145(1) Copy Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century diced plain and mottled calf, ‘Cambridge style'; mottled blue-edged leaves; gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 299 × 208 × 14 mm. Size of leaf: 293 × 197 mm. Provenance: Jakob [ ] (fl. 1567); inscription on h4v in a German hand: ‘Supera hunc librum solui quatuordecim florenorum in anno 1567. Qui clepit hunc librum cleps est et cleps morietur et respice finem antetequam(!) hæc facies cogita bene quit(!) facis. Jacob'. Purchased from Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Catalogue (1830), no. 2782, for £0. 9. 0: see Books Purchased (1830), 18. SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.28.