Bod-Inc: A-626

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Opera.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1v] Sforza, Ludovicus Maria; [Chalcus], B[artholomaeus: Privilege for Angelus Ugoletus.] Incipit: ‘Cum Angelus Vgoletus Ciuis Parmensis noster dilectus significauerit nobis se optare imprimi facere Mosellam Ausonii poetae opusculum . . .’ Dated Milan, 28 July 1498.

[a2r] Ugoletus, Thaddaeus: [Letter addressed to] Lazarus Cassola. Incipit: ‘[D]ecreueram, eruditissime Lazare, Ausonii opuscula et ea praecipue, quae diu in obscuro delituerant . . .’

[a3r] [List of previously unedited works of Ausonius.]

[a4r] Paxius, Franciscus: ‘Epigramma ad Thadeum Ugoletum Parmensem oratorem celeberimum.’ Incipit: ‘Hippolytum ueluti quondam Diana pudicum | Traxit ab infernis uallibus ad superos'; 2 elegiac distichs.

[a4r] Paxius, Franciscus: ‘Ubi Ausonius loquitur.’ Incipit: ‘Quem iam barbaries studiis inimica reliquit | Confossum, ut posset uix noua plaga dari'; 2 elegiac distichs.

[a4r] Paxius, Franciscus: ‘Ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘Haec sunt codicibus sumpta reconditis | Qui non tam nocuit sors mala temporum'; 8 versus Asclepiadei.

[a4r] Securanus Fivizanensis, Antonius: ‘Carmen.’ Incipit: ‘Erraui latias diu per oras | Exul, squalidus, aeger obsitusque'; 38 hendecasyllables.

[a4v] Securanus Fivizanensis, Antonius: ‘Carmen per quod iterum Ausonius loquitur.’ Incipit: ‘Obruerat me longa dies et merserat orco | Traxerat ad Stygios mors uiolenta lacus'; 5 elegiac distichs.

[a5r] [List of poems with incipits.] ‘Epigrammaton dimidiatus liber.’

b1r Ausonius Paeonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Epigrammata. The entire item edited by Thaddaeus Ugoletus; Incipit: ‘[P]hoebe potens numeris, praeses Tritonia belli, | Tu quoque ab aereo praepes Victoria lapsu.’ A collection of epigrams and epitaphs together with other pieces, here modified and with some additions: see Prete and Green: Prete 296 no. 26 (Green 143 no. XX.1); Prete 296 no. 25 l. 6-8 (Green 65 no. I); Prete 297-9 nos 27-30 (Green 66-7 nos 2-3, 5-6); Prete 67 no. 31 (Green 67-8 no. 8); Prete 287 no. 2 (Green 68 no. 9); Prete 290 no. 9 (Green 78 no. 45); Prete 299 no. 31 (Green 66 no. 4); Prete 287-8 no. 3 (Green 68 no. 10); Prete 299-301 nos 32-3 (Green 68-9 nos 11-12); Prete 69 no. 35 (Green 69 no. 13); Prete 301-5 nos 34-42 (Green 70-2 nos 14-22); Prete 291-2 no. 14 (Green 72 no. 23); Prete 305-6 nos 43-5 (Green 73 nos 24-6); Prete 308 no. 53 (Green 73-4 no. 27); Prete 306-7 nos 46-7 (Green 74 nos 30-1); Prete 307-8 nos 49-52 (Green 75-6 nos 33-6); Prete 286 no. 1 (Green 6 no. I.5); Prete 67 no. 32 (Green 76 no. 37); Prete 309-10 nos 54-7 (Green 74, 76-7 nos 28-9, 39-41); Prete 311 no. 59 (Green 77 no. 43); Prete 289 no. 7 (Green 78 no. 44); Prete 291 nos 12-13 (Green 78 nos 46-7); Prete 289 no. 8 (Green 78 no. 48); Prete 311 no. 61 (Green 79 no. 50); Prete 290-1 nos 10-11 (Green 79 nos 51-2); Prete 312 no. 62 (Green 79 no. 53); Prete 65 no. 28 (Green 80 no. 54); Prete 66 no. 30 l. 1-2 (Green 80 no. 56 l. 1-2) and three more distichs; Prete 312 no. 63 (Green 80-1 no. 57); De eodem trimetrum iambicum; Prete 313-19 nos 64-70 (Green 81-5 nos 59-66); De eadem (three elegiac distichs); Prete 315-19 nos 71-9 (Green 83-5 nos 67-75); Prete 295 no. 24 (Green 85-6 no. 76); Prete 319 nos 80-1 (Green 86 nos 77-8); Prete 288 no. 4 (Green 86-7 no. 79); Prete 320-1 nos 82-7 (Green 87-9 nos 82-7); Prete 311 no. 60 (Green 78 no. 49); Prete 322-3 nos 88-91 (Green 89-90 nos 88-91); Prete 292-3 nos 15-18 (Green 90 nos 92-5) and two more distichs; De eodem; Prete 293 nos 19-21 (Green 90-1 nos 96-8); Prete 323-4 nos 92-4 (Green 91 nos 99-101); Prete 294-5 nos 22-3 (Green 92 nos 102-3); Prete 310 no. 58 (Green 77 no. 42); Prete 324-5 nos 95-6 (Green 92-3 nos 104-5); Prete 307 no. 48 (Green 75 no. 32); Prete 325-7 nos 97-105 (Green 93-4 nos 106-14); De Deliam lasciuientem cultu; Ad Gallam; In Venerem Anadyomenem; Epitaphium Calli creteae; In puerum formosum. see L. Balsamo, ‘Editoria e umanesimo a Parma', in Parma e l'umanesimo italiano. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi umanistici (Parma, 20 ottobre 1984), ed. P. Medioli Masotti, Medioevo e Umanesimo, 60 (Padua, 1986), 77-95, at 91-93.

[c3v] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus: Epigramma.] ‘In Scabiosum Polygitonem.’ Incipit: ‘[T]hermarum in solio si quis Polygitona uidit | Vlcera membrorum scabie putrefacta fouentem.’ Prete 327-8 no. 106; Green 95 no. 115.

[c4r] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus: Epigramma.] ‘De quodam Siluio bono qui erat Britto.’ Incipit: ‘[S]iluius ille Bonus, qui carmina nostra lacessit, | Nostra magis meruit disticha Britto Bonus.’ Prete 328-9 nos 107-12; Green 95-6 nos 116-21.

[c4v] Ausonius Paeonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Versus paschales.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ancta salutiferi redeunt solemnia Christi | Et deuota pii celebrant ieiunia mystae.’ Prete 82-3 no. IX; Green 15-16 no. IV.

c5r Ausonius Paeonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Epistulae. Incipit: ‘Ausonius Paulo salutem. [T]andem eluctati retinacula blanda morarum | Burdigale molles liquimus illecebras.’ See A‑622.

[d7r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: ‘Periocha in Homerum et primo Iliados.’ Incipit: ‘[S]i Homerum scriptorem Troici belli eatenus qua Iliadem suam incipit quaque finit percenseamus . . .’ Green 677-86 no. 6. Without the Greek text.

[e3v] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus]: ‘Periocha Odysseae.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ic mihi, Musa, uirum, captae post moenia Troiae | Qui mores hominum multorum uidit et urbes.’ Green 686-95 no. 6. Without the Greek text.

[e8r] [Ausonius pseudo-]: ‘Sententiae septem sapientum septenis uersibus explicatae.’ Incipit: ‘Bias Prieneus: [Q]uaenam summa boni? Mens quae sibi conscia recti. | Pernicies hominum quae maxima? Solus homo alter.’ Green 674-6 to l. 47.

[e8v] [Ausonius pseudo-]: ‘De septem sapientibus ex graeco.’ Incipit: ‘Septenis patriam sapientum, nomina, uoces | Versibus expediam, sua quemque monosticha dicent'; 9 hexameters. Green 676-7 no. 2.

[f1r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus: Ecloga.] ‘De .xii. laboribus Herculis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]rima Cleonaei tolerata erumna leonis. | Proxima Lernæam ferro et face contudit hydram.’ Prete 112-13 no. 24; Green 103 no. 17.

[f1r] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus]: De Fastis. ‘In libro quem de fastis composuerat ad Georgium.’ Incipit: ‘Ignota aeternae ne sint tibi tempora Romae | Regibus et patrum ducta sub imperiis.’ Prete 212-13 no. XXIII; Green 160-1 no. XXII.

[f1v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: De XII caesaribus. Incipit: ‘[C]aesareos proceres, in quorum regna secundis | Consulibus dudum Romana potentia cessit.’ Prete 202-11 no. XXII; Green 161-8 no. XXIII.

[f4r] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus: Ecloga.] ‘De mensibus et quattuor anni temporibus.’ Incipit: ‘[A]eternos menses et tempora quattuor anni | Quattuor ista tibi subiecta monosticha dicent.’ Prete 109-10 no. 18; Green 101 no. 11

[f4r] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus: Ecloga.] ‘De nominibus stelarum.’ Incipit: ‘Ad Boreae partes arcti iunguntur et anguis, | Post has Arctophylax pariterque corona genuque.’ PL XIX 910.

[f4r] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus: Ephemeris.] ‘In notarium in scribendo uelocissimum.’ Incipit: ‘[P]uer, notarum praecipuum | solers minister, aduola.’ Prete 330-1 no. XXVII; Green 12-13 no. 7.

[f4v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Gratiarum actio ad Gratianum imperatorem pro consulatu. Prete 214-32 no. XXIV; Green 146-60 no. XXI.

[g5r] [Ausonius Paeonius, Decimus Magnus]: [Technopaegnion.] ‘De monosyllabis opus.’ Prete 126-37 nos 2-12 and 14; Green 176-83 nos 2-13 and 15-16.

[h1v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Griphus ternarii numeri. ‘Crippus de ternario numero.’ Prete 150-8 no. XVIII; Green 111-15 no. XV.

[h3v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Cento nuptialis. Prete 159-69 no. XIX; Green 132-9 no. XVIII.

[i6r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: [Epistula.] ‘Ausonius Theonii salutem.’ Incipit: ‘[A]usonius, cuius ferulam nunc sceptra uerentur, | Paganum e Medulis iubeo saluere Theonem.’ Prete 253-7 no. XII; Green 208-11 no. 13.

[i2v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: [Epistula.] ‘Ausonius Paulino salutem plurimam dicit.’ Incipit: ‘Paulino Ausonius; metrum sic suasit, ut esses | Tu prior et nomen praegrederere meum.’ Prete 267 no. XX; Green 217 no. 18.

[i2v] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: Ephemeris: Oratio.] ‘Precatio matutina ad omnipotentem Deum.’ Incipit: ‘Omnipotens, quem mente colo, pater unice rerum | Ignorate malis et nulli ignote piorum.’ Prete 7-10 no. 3; Green 8-10 no. II.3.

[i4r] [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus]: Epicedion in patrem. ‘Epicedion in partem(!) de Vita sua.’ Incipit: ‘[N]omen ego Ausonius; non ultimus arte medendi, | Et, mea si nosces tempora, primus eram.’ Prete 86-8 no. XI (parts); Green 17-18 no. V (parts).

[i4v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Protrepticus ad nepotem. Prete 72-8 no. VII; Green 21-4 no. VIII.

[i6v] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus: Cupido cruciatus.] ‘Eclogarum liber.’ Prete 116-21 no. XIV; Green 139-43 no. XIX.

[k2r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Bissula. Prete 122-5 nos 1-2, 4-7; Green 130-2 no. XVII.

[k3r] Ausonius, [Decimus Magnus]: Mosella. Incipit: ‘[T]ransieram celerem nebuloso flumine Navam | Addita miratus ueteri noua mœnia muro.’ Prete 170-92 no. XX; Green 115-30 no. XVI.

[l2r] Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius: [Letter to] Ausonius. PL XVIII 152-3. Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Lettres, ed. Jean Pierre Callu, I (Paris, 1972), 78-80.

[l2v] Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: Ludus septem sapientum. Incipit: ‘[I]gnoscenda isthaec an cognoscenda rearis, | Attento, Drepani, perlege iudicio.’ Prete 138-49 no. XVII; Green 184-92 no. XXVI.

[l6r] Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: Ordo urbium nobilium. Incipit: ‘[P]rima urbes inter, Diuum domus, aurea Roma. | Constantinopoli assurgit Carthago priori.’ Prete 193-201 no. XXI; Green 169-75 no. XXIV.

[m2v] Sulpicia: [Satira.] Incipit: ‘[M]usa quibus numeris heroas et arma frequentas | Fabellam permitte mihi detexere paucis.’ Sulpicia, poet. 37.

[m3v] Ausonius, Decimus Magnus [pseudo-: Epigrammata Bobiensia.] ‘Epigrammata . . . quae feruntur emanasse e bibliotheca Georgii Alexandrini viri de lingua Latina benemeriti.’ Incipit: ‘Pars te Furippum uocitat, pars uera Furippum | Altera producens, altera corripiens.’ Epigrammata Bobiensia, ed. Munari and Epigrammata Bobiensia, ed. Speyer, nos 41, 43, 66, 28, 49, 45, 33, 65, 53, 54, 55, 56, 14, 60, 61, 36, 47, 52, 67, 68, 24, 27, 31, 69; see also A‑625.

Imprint

Imprint: Parma: Angelus Ugoletus, 10 July 1499. 4°.

Remarks: GW erroneously lists works of pseudo-Ovid, Proba Falconia, Calpurnius, Nemesianus, and Tifernas among the contents; see BSB‑Ink and Sheppard.

Collation

Collation: [a–f⁸ g–i⁶ k⁸ l m⁶].

References

ISTC: ia01404000

GW: GW 3094;

Hain: HC (+ Addenda) 2181;

Goff: Goff A‑1404;

BMC: BMC VII 946;

Proctor: Pr 6873;

Others: BSB‑Ink A‑948; CIBN A‑799; Hillard 243; Sheppard 5684.

LCN: 13958649

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