tis00697000

Text-inc Id:

tis00697000

Bod-inc Id:

S-292

Headings:

Statius Publius Papinius Silvae (comm. and ed. Domitius Calderinus), et al.

Analysis of content:

1. [*2v] [Table of contents.]
2. [*3r] Calderinus, Domitius: [Preface addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘[D]omitius Augustino salutem. Etsi hic noster labor et studium . . .’ See S‑286.
3. [a1v] [Calderinus], Domitius: [Carmen addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. Incipit: ‘Nuper non fueras in urbe notus | Incultus lacer horridus retonsus |'; 24 hendecasyllabics.
4. [a2r] Statius, [Publius] Papinius: Silvae. Edited by Domitius Calderinus, as stated at the beginning and the end of the text and commentary. See S‑286.
5. [a2v] Calderinus, Domitius: [Commentary dedicated to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘Vates et per antiquos esse et natura duce qua una uigent hoc furoris genere . . .’ See S‑286. Each poem is followed by Domitius' comments.
6. [p5v] ‘Papinii Vita'. Incipit: ‘Qui Statio poetae Galliae oppidum patriam assignant . . .’
7. [q1r] [Calderinus, Domitius: Letter addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. See S‑286.
8. [q1v] [Calderinus], Domitius: [Commentary.] ‘In Sappho Ouidii'. Incipit: ‘Callias Methymnaeus nulla lucubratione nobilior fuit . . .’
9. [r4r] [Calderinus], Domitius: ‘Elucubratio in quaedam Propertii loca quae difficiliora uidebantur' [dedicated to] Franciscus de Aragona. ‘Ex primo libro Propertii in primam elegiam cuius argumentum'. Incipit: ‘  “Vritur et nulla fuas quum mitior arte | Ut se dissoluat Cynthia quaerit opem”. Minalion Athalantae duae fuerunt, altera filia Promethei . . .’ See P‑481.
10. [s4v] [Calderinus], Domitius: ‘Epilogus et προσφώνησις de obseruationibus' [dedicated to] Franciscus de Aragona. Incipit: ‘[S]cio me multa praeterisse quae fortasse explicationem desiderabunt . . .’ See S‑286.
11. [s6r] [Calderinus], Domitius: ‘Ex tertio libro obseruationum'. Incipit: ‘Video a praepositionem, quom in multas uariasque significatione . . .’ See S‑286.
12. [t5v] [Calderinus], Domitius: [Postscript addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sic mihi perpetuae contingant murmura laudis | Et bona post funus hora superstes eat |'; 3 elegiac distichs.
13. [t6r] ‘Registrum'.

Imprint:

Rome: Arnoldus Pannartz, 13 Aug. 1475. 4°.

Collation:

[*⁴ a–d¹⁰ e f⁸ g–k¹⁰ l⁸ m n¹⁰ o p⁶ q r¹⁰ s t⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00697000 HC 14983; Goff S‑697; BMC XII 5; Pr 3528; CIBN S‑382; Oates 1413; Rhodes 1639; Sheppard 2813. LCN: 14009901

Copies:

1. S-292(1) Copy Wanting gathering [*]. According to the Registrum the first two leaves are blank, but this can only refer to [*1] and [*2r], since text begins on [*2v]; see BMC. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, bound for the Bodleian Library; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 242 × 198 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 231 × 183 mm. Occasional marginal notes in a c.1500 cursive Italian hand, extracting key words and lines from the text, and supplying brackets. Frequent marginal notes in a seventeenth-century German(?) hand, mainly summarizing material from the commentary. Provenance: Purchased for £1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 37. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.7.