tip00359000

Text-inc Id:

tip00359000

Bod-inc Id:

P-148

Headings:

Persius Flaccus, Aulus Satyrae (comm. Johannes Britannicus and Jodocus Badius Ascensius).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Argumenta satyrarum ac prefationis'. Incipit: ‘Preludendo docet Satyram se scribere posse | Scriptorem in prima Satyra reprehendit ineptum'; 7 hexameters.
3. a1v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Levinus Maurus and Guilhelmus Dives. Renouard, Badius, III 146-7.
4. a2r ‘Tabula'.
5. a3v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Oratio habita in enarratione Persii poete satyrici'. Incipit: ‘[M]ulte res sunt parui corporis, viri clarissimi, que rebus magnis . . .’ Explicit: diligenter attendite. Dixi ? try JB Wadsworth, ‘Filippo Beroaldo the Elder and the Early Renaissance in Lyon', Medievalia et Humanistica, 11 (1957), 78-89: OLIS indicates it should be in Bod, but not found by AC: apparently not in URR, nor at 3974 d.1420
6. a3v Politianus, Angelus: ‘In Persium prelectio'. Maïer I 512-16; see also Commento inedito alle Satire di Persio, ed. L. Cesarini Martinelli and R. Ricciardi, Istituto nazionale di studi sul rinascimento, Studi e Testi, 11 (Florence, 1985), 3-13.
7. a5v Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Vita Persii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ersius Flaccus in Thuscia Volaterras habet patriam quod cum Eusebius . . .’ Explicit: largitor venter
8. a6r [Britannicus, Johannes: Preface.] Incipit: ‘[S]atyra carmen est (ut Diomedi placet) apud Romanos maledicum . . .’ Explicit: versus faceret
9. a6v Badius [Ascensius], Jodocus: ‘Vite Persii et quorundam aliorum . . . annotatio'. Incipit: ‘[P]oete huius vitam ex superiori commentario notiorem puto . . .’ Explicit: constructionem litteralem
10. b1r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on Preface (Choliambi).] Incipit: ‘  “[N]ec fonte labra”, etc. Quia poeta non immerito in male inepteque . . .’ Explicit: indignatione dicens
11. b1r Persius Flaccus, Aulus: [Choliambi.] ‘Prefatio'. Pers. Chol. Badius notes an extra line of verse between lines 8 and 9.
12. b2v Britannicus, Johannes: [Commentary on Choliambi.] Incipit: ‘  “Nec fonte labra”. Versus est senarius iambicus, qui et trimeter . . .’ Explicit: Pegasos habeat
13. b4r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Monostychon'. Incipit: ‘Scriptorem in prima satyra reprehendit ineptum. Monostychon est solus versus sententiam complectens . . .’ Explicit: monstrat sequentia Badius prefaces his commentary on each book with a short ‘argumentum'.
14. b4v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘  “[O] curas hominum”. In hac prima satyra reprehendit poeta ineptum . . .’ Explicit: non amplius addo
15. b4v Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satyrae. Pers.
16. b5v Britannicus, Johannes: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘  “[O] curas hominum”, etc. Reprehensurus hac satyra varia poetarum in componendis carminibus . . .’ Explicit: insatiabilem esse ostendit

Imprint:

Lyons: Nicolaus Wolf, 27 Jan.? 1499. 4°. On the interpretation of the date see BMC.

Collation:

a–i⁸. On a1r is a woodcut of the author and the two commentators: see BMC.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00359000 HC 12733; Goff P‑359; BMC VIII 329; Pr 8675; CIBN P‑148; Morgan, Persius, 46; Oates 3243-4; Sheppard 6726-7. LCN: 14494641, 14494731

Copies:

1. P-148(1) First copy Bound with J‑320; see there for details of binding, decoration, and provenance. Size of leaf: 242 × 162 mm. Leaf a1r, l. 3: ‘ . . . ſatyriarum . . .', not as BMC; i8r, colophon, l. 2: ‘ . . . vvolf' not as BMC (` . . . Vvolf . . .'). Marginal and interlinear notes apparently in two sixteenth-century English hands, including comments on the text and extraction of key words, also underlining in the text and commentaries in black ink. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.4(2).
2. P-148(2) Second copy a1r, l. 3: ‘ . . . ſatyrarum . . .', as BMC; i8r, colophon, l. 2: ‘ . . . vvolf . . .', not as BMC. Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards, bound for Kloß. Size: 241 × 179 × 16 mm. Size of leaf: 236 × 169 mm. Some underlining in the commentaries. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 3095 (bookseller's circular label on the spine); not identified in Books Purchased (1835). SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.28.