tis00856000

Text-inc Id:

tis00856000

Bod-inc Id:

S-358

Headings:

Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes De versuum scansione, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Auctior ecce redit tibi lector amice libellus | Ex quo discebas syllaba quanta foret'; 9 elegiac distichs.
2. [a2r] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De versuum scansione. ‘De versuum scansione, de syllabarum quantitate, de heroici carminis decoro et uitiis, de pedibus et diuersis generibus carminum precepta, deque illorum conexionibus obseruationes [addressed to] Cyprianus Homagius. Incipit: ‘Castalios latices et amena uireta sororum | Si peragrare cupis iam tibi pando fores'; 2 elegiac distichs followed by prose, with explicit ‘Sulpitium plectra lyramque gero'. See Leonhardt, no. B155.1.
3. [f1r] Servius Honoratus, Maurus: De centum metris [Extracts]. ‘Sumpta ex Seruii centimetro'. Incipit: ‘[M]etra uel a pedibus uel a rebus nomen accepere . . .’ See S‑351.
4. [f10r] Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Lector, imprimenda post hec erat Sulpitiana illa a Claudio scripta defensio . . .’
5. [g1r] Sulpitius [Verulanus], Johannes: De scansione et syllabarum quantitate epitome [addressed to] Alexander Farnesius. Incipit: ‘[V]ersus hexametri qui sex habet dimensiones . . .’ Explicit: omne genus See Leonhardt, no. B155.2.
6. [g5v] Vallatus, Claudius: In Nestorem recriminatio. Incipit: ‘Nestor Nouariensis Alexandri uersificatoris ut profitetur ipse confrater . . .’ Explicit: dimitterem An answer to Nestor's criticism of Sulpicius; see Leonhardt, no. B155.4.
7. [g8r] Priscianus Caesariensis [pseudo-]: De accentibus. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 519-28.
8. [h8r] [Errata.]
9. [h8r] [Register.]
10. [h8v] Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Address to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Adolescens nihil tibi iam ad Latinam musicam . . .’ NO EDITION

Imprint:

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 4 Jan. 1483]. 4°.

Collation:

[a–e⁸ f¹⁰ g h⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00856000 H 15163 = 15161?; C 5677; Goff S‑856; BMC IV 102; Pr 3628; Sheppard 2995. LCN: 14006836

Copies:

1. S-358(1) Copy Leaf [a1v] (wanting in BL copy): ‘Sulpitius ad lectorem. || Auctior ecce redit tibi lector amice libellus | . . . | (l. 18) Prefer nec dubia perlege queqƺ fide'. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian gold-tooled half red morocco over marbled pasteboards; bound for Boutourlin. Green-edged leaves. Size: 195 × 135 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 190 × 124 mm. Some of the initial leaves have the syllables of the text marked in brown ink, with dots and lines (measuring the quantities). A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a sixteenth-century hand in brown ink. Provenance: Sargiano, Tuscany, near Arezzo, Franciscans. ‘Pertinet ad locum Sargiani B[ ]t. no. 9' on [a2r]; also shelfmark ‘K no. 31'. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 803; Catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1841), lot 667; purchased at his sale for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 41. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.47.