Bod-Inc: B-001
Badius Ascensius, Jodocus
Silvae morales.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Table of contents.]
a2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de Sinemuro and Petrus de Sinemuro. Renouard, Badius, II 67-70.
a4r [Alphabetical index.]
b1r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Primus moralium Silvarum'. Renouard, Badius, I 158.
b1r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius pseudo-?]: Vir bonus [De institutione viri boni]. Incipit: ‘[V]ir bonus et prudens, qualem uix repperit ullum . . .’ Prete 95 no.2 (Green 105 no. 20); Appendix Vergiliana (Oxford, 1966), 167-8. See Henkel, Schultexte, 314.
b1r Calderinus, Domitius: ‘Commentarium'. Incipit: ’ “[V]ir bonus”. Sermo de uiro bono hic habetur . . .’
b1v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ’ “[V]ir bonus et sapiens.” Quisquis inquit uir bonus . . .’
c2r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘In epistola ad Quintium'. Hor. Ep. 1. 16. 74-9.
c2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ’ “[V]ir bonus et sapiens.” His uerbis Horatius complectitur paradoxon illud . . .’
c3r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ludo contra auariciam et iram' [From Carmina XII sapientum]. Riesse, I/2, 59-61; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, IV 119-20; see Walther, Initia, 18488; Schaller 15573.
c2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam quidem rei publicae incolumitati . . .’
c6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De liuore seu inuidia' [from Carmina XII sapientum]. Riesse, I/2, 102-3; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, IV 153-4. See Walther, Initia, 10378; Schaller 8980.
c6r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[L]iuor tabificum etc.” Monstratum est auariciam et iram infestissima . . .’
c8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Venere et vino' [from Carmina XII sapientum]. Riesse, I/2, 99-100; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, IV 150-1. See Walther, Initia, 11706; Schaller 10135.
c8r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[N]ec veneris etc.” Si penitioribus oculis Virgilianam dicendi formam conspexeris . . .’
d2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera Y' [from Carmina XII sapientum]. Riesse, I/2, 98-9; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, IV 149-50. See Walther, Initia, 10361; Schaller 8966.
d2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[L]ittera pithagorae etc.” Propulsauimus quanta maxima potuimus diligentia . . .’
d7r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Ad secundum moralium Silvarum Lucubratiunculae'. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitanti mihi unde secundam Siluarum moralium seriem traduceremus . . .’
d7r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Quarto carminum ad Torquatum'. Hor. Carm. 4. 7.
d7r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[D]iffugere niues.” Ode haec est Quinti Horatii Flacci quarto carminum . . .’
e8v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Posthumum de fragilitate uitae humanae; Ode tricolos ex secundo Carminum Horatii'. Hor. Carm. 2. 14.
e8v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[H]eu heu fugaces”. Ode haec Quinti Horatii Flacci secundo carminnm(!) tricolos tetrastrophos est . . .’
f6v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Delium'. Hor. Carm. 2. 3.
f6v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uod superioribus in carminibus innuit poeta . . .’
g2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Tertius Siluarum ordo de maioris mundi fragili conditione. Incipit: ‘[A]dmoniti sumus fragilitatis nostrae . . .’
g2v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Metrum hipponacticum quo paupertatem suam diuitiis praefert'. Hor. Carm. 2. 18.
g2v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[T]ransiturus ad fluxam mundanae conditionis . . .’
g8r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Carmen endecasyllabum sapphicum ad Licinium quo mediocrem statum laudat'. Hor. Carm. 2. 10.
g8r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[R]ectius uiues etc.” Metrum Sapphicum endecasyllabum tribus uersibus . . .’
h2r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Grosphum ocium commendatur'. Hor. Carm. 2. 16.
h2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[O]cium diuos etc.” Carmen est quale illud quod modo posuimus . . .’
i1r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Crispum Salustium de liberalitate'. Hor. Carm. 2. 2.
i1r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[N]ullus argento.” Carmen est endecasyllabum saphicum(!) . . .’
i2v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Quartus Siluarum insitam continens de uoto faciundo'. Incipit: ‘[T]res ordines siluarum iam composuimus . . .’
i3r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Primo carminum ode xxxi'. Hor. Carm. 1. 31.
i3r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘"[Q]uid dedicatum poscit Apolli. etc.” Metrum duobus uersibus alcaicum tertius dimeter . . .’
i5v Persius, Aulus Flaccus: ‘Ex secunda satyra'. Pers. 2. 61-75.
i5v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[O] curnae(!) in terris animae . . .” ’
i8r Iuvenalis, [Decimus Iunius]: ‘Ex finae(!) decimae satyrae.’ Juv. 1. 346-66.
i8r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[N]il ergo optabunt homines.” Per satyricam ypophoram introducit . . .’
k2v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Quintus [liber Siluarum] de amiciciae atque urbanitatis officio seruando . . .’ Incipit:`[Q]uattuor iam hortos . . .’
k2v Ennius: ‘Ex septimo Annalium . . . fragmentum'. Enn. Ann. 8. 268-86.
k2v Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae 9.4. Gel. 12. 4. 4.
k3r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[H]occe loquutus uocat etc.” Pro carminum istorum (quoniam antiqua sunt) scansione . . .’
k6v ‘Sequitur sextus libellus'.
k6v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘De obsequio amicis praestando et utilitate musarum ad Margium Censorinum. lib. iiii'. Hor. Carm. 4. 8.
k6r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[D]onarem pateras.” Carmen est Asclepiadeum constans spondeodactylo . . .’
l4v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Lollium quarto carminum ode ix qua et musarum et amicitiae officium Horatius describit'. Hor. Carm. 4. 9.
l4v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[N]e forte credas.” Carmen est quale illud . . .’
m2r ‘Siluarum moralium septimus in quo partim amicitiae partim urbanitatis praecepta continentur.’
m2r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad amicos Ode tricoloss ex secundo carminum'. Hor. Carm. 3. 2.
m2r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[A]ngustam amici etc.” Quandoquidem ut M. T. Cicero . . .’
m7v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Epistola ad Lollium amicum in qua urbanae uitae pulchrique moris praecepta ponuntur'. Hor. Ep. 1. 18.
m7v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[S]i bene te noui etc.” Lollius hic est ad quem scripserat . . .’
o2v ‘Octauus moralium continens fragmenta quaedam ex Iuvenale de officio parentum'.
o2v Juvenalis, [Decimus Junius]: [Satyrae.] Juv. 14. 1-84; 107-40; 179-247; 288-321.
o2v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[P]lurima sunt, Fuscine, etc.” Arborem hanc Aquinatem integram . . .’
q5v Iuvenalis: In fine xv Satyrae. Juv. 15. 138-74.
q5v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[N]aturae imperio etc.” Recepimus apicem de communi hominum officio . . .’
r2v Nonus [liber Siluarum].
r2v Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Contra poetas impudice loquentes carmen'. Incipit: ‘[S]unt quibus eloquii datur aurea uena poetae | Sed cadit in sordes inficiturque luto . . . Si Venus in uersu non erit ulla tuo.’ See S. M. Opielka, ‘B. Baptista Mantuanus', Analecta Ordinis Carmelitarum, 1 (1909), 458-61, 482-6, 550-4, 583-8, at 459.
r2v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[N]onum siluarum apto et quadrante . . .’
s7r [Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Verse.] Renouard, Badius, II 73.
s7v [Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Letter addressed to Clemens de Auriliaco.] Renouard, Badius, II 70-1.
s8r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De moribus carmen iuvenile. Incipit: ‘[Q]uos decet in mensa seruare docemus . . .’ See Henkel, Schultexte, 309-10. Text included in J. Wimpheling, Adolescentia, ed. O. Herding (Munich, 1965), 286-9.
s7v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[Q]uos decet in mensa etc.” Sulpitius Verulanus grauium uirorum testimonio . . .’
u6v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Humbertus Fornerius and Franciscus Paschetus. Renouard, Badius, II 71.
u6r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[C]um animaduerterem etc.” In exponendis autoribus . . .’
u7v [Epistola Catonis.] Incipit: ‘[C]um animaduerterem quam plurimos homines errare . . .’
y4v [Disticha Catonis.] Disticha Catonis, ed. Marcus Boas (Amsterdam, 1952). Leopold Zatočil, Cato a Facetus. Pojednání a texty. Zu den deutschen Cato- und Facetusbearbeitungen. Untersuchungen und Texte, Spisy Masarykovy university v Brně, Filosofická fakulta, 48 (Brno, 1952), 230-7. Walther, Initia, 17703. Schaller 15020. Distichs alternate with the commentary. See Henkel, Schultexte, 228-31.
y4v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “[S]i deus est animus etc.” Horum uersuum tot sensa in commentariis . . .’
C3r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Guilhelmus Calomontensis. Renouard, Badius, II 72.
C3v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘In Alanum interpretationes'. Incipit: ‘[A] Phoebo phoebe etc. Vt paucis quæ ante explanationem . . .’
C4v Alanus [de Insulis: Doctrinale minus.] ‘Ex Parabolis'. Incipit: ‘A phebo phebe lumen capit a sapiente | Insipiens sensum, quo quasi luce micat . . .’ PL CCX 581-94. See Walther, Initia, 71. Distichs alternate with the commentary. On authorship see Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny, Alain de Lille, Textes inédits ( Études de philosophie médiévale, 52) (Paris, 1965), 51-2.
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 14 Nov. 1492. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a6 b–z & A–E8 F6.
Illustrations: One woodcut diagram.
References
ISTC: ib00003000
GW: GW 3154;
Hain: HC *15191;
Goff: Goff B‑3;
BMC: BMC VIII 294;
Proctor: Pr 8601;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑1; CIBN B‑3; Hillard 253; Sheppard 6662.
LCN: 13957798
Copies
Copy number: B-001(1)
Bound with:
1. Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars amandi. Lyons: 1526.
Binding: Sixteenth-century (between 1526 and 1545) English (Cambridge) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two clasps lost; rebacked in the seventeenth/eighteenth century, upper cover loose; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. On both covers fillets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by a roll into two vertical compartments. In the inner frame, a roll with three figures of animals (a wyvern, a lion and a griffin) containing the housemark and initials of N[icholas] S[pierinck], Cambridge, who died in 1545; in the inner rectangle, a roll with quatrefoils within lozenge-shaped compartments; for the stamps see Gray 43-53 and pl. XXVIIA I and II; and Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xxxvii, no. 562 and pl. xxxix, no. 604.
Size: 265 × 180 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 250 × 168 mm.
Former pastedowns now raised; the front pastedown from an undated parchment manuscript of a treatise on sins, the back pastedown from a thirteenth-century(?) parchment manuscript of a Latin vocabularius (entries beginning with L).
On the recto of the front endleaf, an epitaph to François de Lorraine, duc de Guise, 21 Latin elegiac distichs in a seventeenth-century(?) hand, headed ‘Francisci Lothoringii Ducis Guisani fidei patriæque propugnatoris inuictiss. Tumulus Huberto Moro Ambiano authore', incipit: ‘[Hospes:] Dic age, quis dormit gelido sub marmore? Civis: | Qui dormire sibi credidit esse nephas'. On the verso, ‘Bis sapit qui sibi sapit. Bis vincit qui se vincit. Bis dat qui cito dat'.
Provenance: Ro[ ] Rogers; name on the verso of the front endleaf. John Selden (1584-1654); item 1 is listed in MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 57. Presented in 1659.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 3.5; Auct. O 5.5; 4° O 12 Art. Seld.
SHELFMARK: S. Seld. d.16(2).
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