Bod-Inc: A-639
Avienus, Rufius Festus
Arati phaenomena.
Analysis of Content
a2r Pisanus, Victor: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Pisanus. De vroegste uitgaven van Avienus' Descriptio orbis terrae (1488-1515), ed. Paul van de Woestijne, Verhandelingen van den koninklijke vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren, 33 (Brussels, 1959), 53-6.
a3v [Note on the contents.] De vroegste uitgaven van Avienus' Descriptio orbis terrae, ed. van de Woestijne, 56.
a4r Avienus, Rufius Festus: [Introductory poem to Arati phaenomena,] addressed to Flavianus Myrmeicus. Rufus Festus Avienus, Carmina, ed. Alfred Holder (Innsbruck, 1887), 1-2.
a4r Avienus, Rufius Festus: Arati phaenomena. Avienus, Les Phénomènes d'Aratos, ed. J. Soubiran (Paris, 1981).
d3v Avienus, Rufius Festus: Descriptio orbis. ‘Orbis terrae felix.’ Avienus, Carmina, ed. Holder, 83-143; van de De vroegste uitgaven van Avienus' Descriptio orbis terrae, ed. van de Woestijne (1959), 5-52; Avienus, La Descriptio orbis terrae, ed. Paul van de Woestijne, Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, Werken uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, afl. 128 (Bruges, 1961), 23-71; see Thorndike–Kibre 1155.
f6r Avienus, Rufius Festus: Ora maritima. Avienus, Carmina, ed. Holder, 144-71; Rufus Festus Avienus, Ora maritima, ed. A. Berthelot (Paris, 1934), 31-50; Rufus Festus Avienus, Ora maritima, ed. Dietrich Stichtenoth (Darmstadt, 1968), 14-50, facsimile 77-95.
h1r [Vita Arati.] Vita iii, Scholia in Aratum vetera, ed. Jean Martin (Stuttgart, 1974), 14-17.
h1r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[C]oelum circulis quinque distinguitur, quorum duo . . .’ The scholia are close to version ‘S' in Germanicus, Aratea, ed. Alfred Breysig (Berlin, 1866), 105-81. See however also Antonio dell' Era, ‘Gli Scholia Basiliensia a Germanico', Atti dellla Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Memorie. Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche, Serie VIII, vol. 33/4 (1978), 301-78, especially 302. While the text ends with the ‘Hydra', the commentary continues on I8v –I10v with the commentary of version ‘S', edited 193.5-202.8 in Breysigs's ed.
h2v Aratus: Phaenomena. Translated by [Julius Caesar] Germanicus. Germ. Arat. 1-69; 72-95; 97-247; 251-4; 256-69; 273-8; 281-3; 287-314; 318-20; 324-7; 331-2; 336-40; 342-3; 347-55; 359-63; 363-78; 382-92; 396-413; 417-25; 429-30; Reliq. 4. 52-163.
m8v Aratus: Phaenomena. Translated by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cic. Arat. 229-471.
n7r Quintus Serenus [Samonicus]: De medicina. Incipit: ‘[M]embrorum ser. certo deducta tenore | Vt stet consimilis medicinae defluat ordo | Principio celsa de corporis arce loquamur. | Phoebe, salutiferum quod pangimus assere carmen.’ Quintus Serenus, Liber medicinalis, ed. Fridericus Vollmer, Corpus medicorum latinorum II/3 (Leipzig and Berlin, 1916), 5-52 (without the first three lines); see Thorndike–Kibre 865.
p6r [Colophon and registrum.]
p6v Pisanus, Victor: ‘Commonitio.’ Addressed to Paulus Pisanus. Incipit: ‘Impressos habes, Paule mi Pisane, de astrologia simulque medicina poetas singulares . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, 25 Oct. 1488. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a10 b–p8.
Illustrations: 38 woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ia01432000
GW: GW 3131;
Hain: HC *2224 = H 2223;
Goff: Goff A‑1432;
BMC: BMC V 294;
Proctor: Pr 4593;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑969; Essling 431; Oates 1832-3; Sack, Freiburg, 420; Sander 718; Sheppard 3709-11.
LCN: 13955726
Copies
Copy number: A-639(1)
On p6v l. 18 misprint corrected: ‘ . . . artificem: ne . . .'; see GW Anm.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter morocco; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 215 × 153 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 145 mm.
On p7v and the verso of the following endleaf are medical recipes in a sixteenth-century hand (signed Matheus de Aracaria).
Provenance: Matheus de Aracaria (sixteenth century); inscription on the endleaf ‘Matheus de Aracaria Ciuis Bergomensis' in a sixteenth-century hand. Purchased for £0. 7. 6 from Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), Catalogue (1830), no. 4755: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 156 and Books Purchased (1830), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.5.
Copy number: A-639(2)
Bound with:
1. C. Julius Hyginus, Poetica astronomica. Venice: Thomas de Blavis de Alexandria, [7 June 1488] (H‑253(2)).
Wanting gatherings a–g.
On p6v l. 18 misprint corrected: ‘ . . . artificem: ne . . .'; see GW Anm.
Binding: Parchment.
Size: 211 × 157 × 33 mm.
Size of leaf: 205 × 151 mm.
Provenance: Albergotti family (eighteenth century); inscription on front endleaf: ‘Albergotti'. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); book-plate and shelfmark no. 358: see Catalogue (1831), lot 357; sale (1841), lot 512. Purchased for £0. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 24.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.31(2).
Copy number: A-639(3)
Wanting gatherings i–p and the blank leaf g8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth.
Size: 213 × 151 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 207 × 143 mm.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914). Donated by Bywater in Sept.1908; see donation list (Library Records c. 1194); Library stamp dated 12 Feb. 1909.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.1488.1.
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