Bod-Inc: A-463
Asconius Pedianus, Quintus
In orationes Ciceronis.
Analysis of Content
a2r Asconius Pedianus, Quintus: In Pisonem. [Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus.] Asc. Pis. See also Bruce A. Marshall, A Historical Commentary on Asconius (Columbia Mo., 1985).
a6v Asconius Pedianus, Quintus: Pro Scauro. [Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus.] Asc. Sc.
a10r Asconius Pedianus, Quintus: Pro Milone. [Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus.] Asc. Mil.
c1r Asconius Pedianus, Quintus: Pro Cornelio. [Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus.] Asc. Corn.
c7v Asconius Pedianus, Quintus: In toga candida. [Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus.] Asc. Tog.
d2v Asconius Pedianus, Quintus [pseudo-]: In Caecilium divinatio. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Cicero, Opera quae supersunt omnia, V,2, ed. I. C. Orellius (Zurich, 1833), 97-124. See M. D. Reeve, ‘Asconius', Texts and Transmission, 25. The explicit in this edition incorrectly refers to this as the First Verrine oration.
e2v Asconius Pedianus, Quintus [pseudo-]: In Verrem 1, 2. 1-35. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Cicero, Opera quae supersunt omnia, V,2, ed. I. C. Orellius (Zurich, 1833), 125-213. See Reeve, ‘Asconius', 25.
g8v [Colophon.] Incipit: ‘Hec est pars Quinti Asconii Pediani cura et diligentia Pogii Florentini, uiri litteratissimi, reperta in monasterio Sancti Galli prope Constantia xx millibus passuum, et ab ipsius Pogii exemplaribus a me A. Iu. transcripta, ac Venetiis per Johannem de Colonia sociumque eius Johannem Manthen de Gerretzem impressa.’ On this discovery see Remigio Sabbadini, Le scoperte dei codici latini e greci ne' secoli xiv e xv, II, ed. Eugenio Garin, Biblioteca storica del rinascimento, 4 (Florence, 1914, repr. 1967), 202-3; J. E. Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, II (Cambridge, 1908), 28; Reeve, ‘Asconius', 24.
2a1r Georgius Trapezuntius: ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] Victorinus Feltrensis. Incipit: ‘[P]etiisti a me saepius, Victorine pater, ut nonnullas orationes Ciceronis ita exponerem . . .’ See John Monfasani, George of Trebizond: A Biography and a Study of his Rhetoric and Logic, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 1 (Leiden, 1976).
2a2r Georgius Trapezuntius: De artificio Ciceronianae orationis pro Quinto Ligario. Incipit: ‘[Q]uintus Ligarius cum esset adhuc nulla belli ciuilis suspitio . . .’ See Collectanea Trapezuntiana, 463-4.
3a2r Luschus, Antonius: ‘Prefatio' to Super xi orationes Ciceronis, addressed to Astolfinus de Marinonibus. Incipit: ‘[M]agna res est eloquentia, frater insignis atque optime . . .’ Luschus' commentaries, viewed as one work, are dated to c.1395 and certainly before 1405 by Sabbadini, Le scoperte dei codici, I, 123; also Sabbadini, Storia e critica di testi latini, ed. E. and M. Billanovich (Padua, 1971), 12-22.
3a5r Luschus, Antonius: Pro Pompeio. Incipit: ‘[C]icero creatus praetor Romanus duo persuadere nititur populo Romano . . .’
3b5v Luschus, Antonius: Pro Milone. Incipit: ‘[T]itus Anius Milo, ciuis Romanus, sibi infestissimum et inimicissimum Romanum ciuem Publium Clodium habuit . . .’
3d6r Luschus, Antonius: Pro Plancio. Incipit: ‘[G]neus Plantius, ciuis Romanus, et equestri ordine et Laterensis Romanus ciuis nobilissimus . . .’
3f1r Luschus, Antonius: Pro Sulla. Incipit: ‘[P]ublius Silla et Antonius Romani, ciues potentes, ambo consulatum per ambitionem obtinuerunt . . .’
3g1r Luschus, Antonius: Pro Licinio. Incipit: ‘[A]ulus Licinius archiapoeta Antiochie natus Rome uixit in amicitia . . .’
3g4r Luschus, Antonius: Pro Marcello. Incipit: ‘[M]arcellus ciuis Romanus amplissimus atque clarissimus in dissensione ciuili fuit . . .’
3g6v Luschus, Antonius: Pro Ligario. Incipit: ‘[Q]uintus Ligarius ciuis Romanus cum Gaio considio consule profectus est legatus in Africam . . .’
h5v Luschus, Antonius: Pro rege Deiotaro. Incipit: ‘[D]eiotarus rex amicissimus populo Romano belli ciuili . . .’
i3v Luschus, Antonius: Pro Cluentio. Incipit: ‘[A]ulus Cluentius habitus et Statius Albius Opianicus Romani ciues ambo ex municipio Larinate . . .’
k5v Luschus, Antonius: Pro Quinctio. Incipit: ‘[C]ornelius Quincinus et Sextus Neuius Romani ciues societatem inierunt . . .’
l2r Luschus, Antonius: Pro Flacco. Incipit: ‘[L]utius Flaccus ciuis Romanus unus de auditoribus Ciceronis et defensoribus patrie . . .’
l6r Polentonus, Xico (I.e. Sicco): [Preface addressed to] Jacobus Alvarotus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam longitudo scripture studiosi etiam ingenium perfatigat . . .’
l6r Polentonus, Sicco: ‘Argumenta super aliquot orationibus et inuectiuis Ciceronis.’ Incipit: ‘[R]hetoricorum princeps Marcus Tullius Cicero Arpino . . .’
m5r Polentonus, Sicco: ‘Conclusio operis', [addressed to Jacobus Alvarotus]. Alvarotus not named as such, but he is named in the colophon and the ‘conclusio' uses the word ‘compater', as in the ‘prefatio'. Incipit: [H]abes, compater optime, munus hoc, licet fortasse prestantie tue uideatur exigui . . .’
m5v Squarzaficus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Serachus, Archbishop of Corinth. Allenspach–Frasso 267-9.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes de Colonia, and Johannes Manthen, [after 2 June 1477]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a10 b6 c–g a8 b10 c8 d6 a10 b8 c10 d e8 f6 g–l8 m6.
References
ISTC: ia01154000
GW: GW 2739;
Hain: HC *1886; H 10349 (Luschus);
Goff: Goff A‑1154;
BMC: BMC V 232;
Proctor: Pr 4317;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑791; CIBN A‑629; Sheppard 3487-8.
LCN: 13982055, 13982144
Copies
Copy number: A-463(1)
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English diced russia; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. The binding dates from after 1789, the year it was purchased by the Library; from Books Purchased, it is known that it was, at that time, bound with Domitius Calderinus, Commentarii in Juvenalem. [Venice: Printer of Domitius Calderinus, 1476-7] (C‑019), now Auct. L 2.29.
Size: 298 × 218 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 285 × 187 mm.
On a1r the following title inscription, in an eighteenth-century(?) hand (before 1789): ‘Xichonis Polentoni argumenta in Ciceronis orationes et Domitii Calderini in Iuuenalem, Martialem et Brotheum grammaticum'.
Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), II 4369; sale (1789), lot 10628; sale catalogue annotated with the price £4. 10. 0. Purchased, probably through Peter Elmsley but no purchaser is named in the annotated sale catalogue, together with C‑019, for £4. 10. 0; see and Books Purchased (1789), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.8.
Copy number: A-463(2)
Wanting gatherings a–2 d and the blank leaf3 a1.
Leaf m6 heavily cropped, presumably to remove an inscription.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf.
Size: 266 × 195 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 262 × 185 mm.
Provenance: J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837); signature on endleaf; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 115, for £0. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 23.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.20.
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