tis00857000

Text-inc Id:

tis00857000

Bod-inc Id:

S-359

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 sillaba quanta foret'; 9 elegiac distichs.
2. a2r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Verse addressed to] Cyprianus Homagius. Incipit: ‘Castalios latices et amena uireta sororum | Si peragrare cupis iam tibi pando fores'; 2 elegiac distichs.
3. a2r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De versuum scansione. ‘De versnum(!) scansione, de sillabarum quantitate, de heroici carminis decoro et uitiis, de pedibus et diuersis generibus carminum precepta, deque illorum connexionibus obseruationes'. Incipit: ‘[C]armen hexametrum heroicum . . .’ Explicit: senarium appellamus See Leonhardt, no. B155.1.
4. 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.
5. f9v Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Me duce musarum choreas ingressa iuuentus | Que fingis dulci carmina docta sono; 4 elegiac distichs.
6. f10r Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Lector, imprimenda post hec erat Sulpitiana illa a Claudio scripta defensio . . .’
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. g8r Priscianus Caesariensis [pseudo-]: De accentibus. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 519-28.
10. h8r [Errata.]
11. h8v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Address to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Adolescens nihil tibi iam ad Latinam musicam . . .’

Imprint:

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1492-3]. 4°. The contents are the same as those of the undated edition H 15163, (S‑358), doubtfully attributed to Plannck; see BMC IV 102.

Collation:

a–e⁸ f¹⁰ g h⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00857000 H *15160; Goff S‑857; not in Pr; BSB‑Ink S‑633; Hillard 1909; Sheppard 2971. LCN: 14006922

Copies:

1. S-359(1) Copy Leaf a2r, l. 5: ‘ . . . fœlititer'. Binding: Late seventeenth-century Italian parchment, replacing an earlier tacketted binding (tackets visible around the supports); the title in manuscript in brown ink at the head of the spine. ‘D IIII' in brown ink on a square paper label at the tail of the spine. Name of the author in manuscript running along the lower edge. Green or blue-edged leaves. Size: 201 × 150 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 199 × 142 mm. Occasional marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a contemporary hand in brown ink. 20 paper leaves with coloured capitals are bound before the incunable; they contain a portion of Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, with incipit ‘Distinxere pedes . . .'; explicit ‘Sustenans pause, sed bis metrare recuses', Doctrinale, ed. Reichling, 100-57, lines 1561-2360, with the prose commentary of Ludovicus de Guaschis, written in a late fifteenth-century Italian humanist hand; see SC 36908. Provenance: On the front parchment pastedown, unidentified oval black stamp: ‘B. C.' Unidentified manuscript monogram, in brown ink, on the second paper front endleaf containing the opening of the manuscript text: ‘B. S. M. C.' On the same leaf, unidentified circular blue stamp: ‘C. G.' in the middle, surrounded by ‘M. D. I. P. D. R. D. I.' Purchased from Percy Mordaunt Barnard in 1914; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 10 March 1915, 477. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I2.4.