Bod-Inc: B-522
Brentius, Andreas
Oratio Caesaris Vesontione habita.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] ‘Ad Cesarem'. Incipit: ‘Vt possem niueam tuam referre'; 10 hendecasyllables.
[a2r] Brentius, Andreas: [Letter addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[V]enatoribus gratum munus canes sunt . . .’
[a2v] Brentius, Andreas: ‘Prefatio ad quirites'. Incipit: ‘[C]. Iulius Cesar bello Heluetiorum confecto . . .’
[a3r] Brentius, Andreas: Oratio Caesaris Vesontione habita. Incipit: ‘[N]on eadem, commilitones . . .’ Based on a speech summarized in Caes. Gal 1. 40; DBI XIV 151: ‘la versione da Dione Cassio della “Caesaris oratio Vesontione habita” – rielaborata e ampliata sulla base di un confronto con il testo dato dal ‘De bello Gallico` ‘; Paola Casciano, ‘A proposito di un ‘falso' umanistico: la “Caesaris oratio Vesontione Belgiae ad milites habita” di Andrea Brenta, professore dello Studium Urbis', in Un pontificato ed una città, 515-56, using a Vatican manuscript without realising it being a copy of the Planck edition, which is a poor reprint of this edition; see M. D. Reeve, ‘Modestus, scriptor rei militaris’, in La Tradition vive. Mélanges d'histoire des textes en l'honneur de Louis Holtz, ed. Pierre Lardet, Bibliologia, 20 (Turnhout, 2003), 417-32, at 423.
[b4v] Litavicus [Busatus: Poem praising Brentius.] Incipit: ‘Quod tua Romano Cesar monumenta leguntur'; 2 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 16324.
[b4v] Franciscus: [Poem praising Brentius.] Incipit: ‘Incognitam diu latinis nobilem | orationem Cesaris'; 6 lines of verse. The author may be Franciscus Afranius Brixias; see also P‑433.
[b4v] [Fazini?], M[arcus] Lucius (I.e. Lucidus): [Poem praising Brentius.] Incipit: ‘Scripta quidem grece, sed nondum nota latinis'; 3 elegiac distichs.
[b4v] Ambrosius: [Poem praising Brentius.] Incipit: ‘Quem muse Charitesque contioni'; 6 hendecasyllables.
Imprint
Imprint: [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, c.1481.] 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a6 b4].
References
ISTC: ib01109000
GW: GW 5098;
Hain: HCR 4229 = H 3780?;
Goff: Goff B‑1109;
BMC: BMC XII 6;
Proctor: Pr 4007;
Others: CIBN B‑778; Sheppard 2837-8.
LCN: 13911707
Copies
Copy number: B-522(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth.
Size: 205 × 145 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 199 × 135 mm.
Manuscript foliation: 40-9.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 4. 6; see Books Purchased (1837), 7.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 7Q 6.30.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.17.
Copy number: B-522(2)
Bound with:
1. Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1575. Cuttings from various works concerning Caesar and manuscript notes in various seventeenth/eighteenth-century hands are bound into item 1. Formerly also bound with a broadside, La description et division de Gaule (Paris, [c.1510]), now Vet. E1 a.1(2).
Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century parchment.
Size: 183 × 125 × 95 mm.
Size of leaf: 169 × 107 mm.
On the front pastedown, an engraved portrait of Aldus Manutius, coloured in red, green, and yellow.
Provenance: On front pastedown, inscription: ‘Hȩred[ ] D. Salust[ ] Cerrenȩ de Crescent . . .' William Lucas (b. 1620); inscription of name on front pastedown; on title-page of item 1, ‘W. Lucas A: M: è Coll. Winton. è Coll. Exon. Oxon. è Soc. Linc: Inn'. Chelmsford Philosophical Society; stamp on title-page of item 1. Chelmsford, Borough Library; book-plate with shelfmark ‘R 094.1' and no. 33642. Acquired by 1958; Bodleian accession stamp dated 1958.
SHELFMARK: Vet. F1 e.122 (2).
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