Bod-Inc: C-141
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
Carmina (ed. Johannes Calphurnius).
Analysis of Content
a1v Calphurnius, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Calphurnius Hermolao, iuris utriusque doctori peritissimo, oratori facundissimo et philosopho eruditissimo, salutem plurimum homines aetatis nostrae, Hermolae facundissime, qui litterarum . . .’
a2r Catullus, Gaius Valerius: [Carmina.] Edited by Johannes Calphurnius. Catul. See also Marcello Zicari, ‘Calfurnio editore di Catullo', Atene e Roma, NS 2 (1957), 157-9; and Gaisser, Renaissance Readers, 35-42.
e1r Tibullus, Albius: [Elegiae.] Tib.
g8v ‘Summa uitae Albii Tibulli'. Incipit: ‘[A]lbius Tibullus eques Romanus insignis, forma cultuque corporis . . .’
g8v [Domitius Marsus]: ‘Epitaphium Tibulli'.’ See C‑139.
h1r Propertius, Sextus: [Elegiae.] Prop.
o6v [Valedictory couplet.] Incipit: ‘Carmina quis potuit tuto legisse Tibulli? | Vel tua cuius opus Cynthia sola fuit?'; distich.
o6v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Ardoris nostri magne poeta iaces'; 1 pentameter.
p1v Statius, Publius Papinius: Silvae. Stat. Silv.
x7v [Colophon.]
y1r Calphurnius, Johannes: ‘Carmen . . . de interitu beati Simonis infantis a Judeis mactati'.’ Incipit: ‘[V]ir sacer et nostro princeps memorabilis aeuo | Cui praeclara dedit uirtus moderamina iusti'; explicit: ‘Franciscusque Tronae celeberrima gloria gentis | Finibus extremis qui nunc dat iura tridenti'; hexameters. See Walther, Initia, 20424a.
Imprint
Imprint: Vicenza: Johannes de Reno and Dionysius Bertochus, 1481. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a b8 c–e6 f–h8 i–l6 m8 n o6 p8 q6+1 r–t6 u x8 y4.
References
ISTC: ic00323000
GW: GW 6389;
Hain: HC *4760;
Goff: Goff C‑323;
BMC: BMC VII 1041;
Proctor: Pr 7151;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑198; Sack, Freiburg, 958; Sheppard 5918.
LCN: 14838914
Copies
Copy number: C-141(1)
Wanting the blank leaves x8 and y4.
a1 backed.
Binding: Nineteenth-century English blue morocco; gold fillets; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 315 × 218 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 305 × 197 mm.
Two parchment endleaves.
A few early marginal notes, some correcting the text, one referring to an Italian proverb.
Provenance: Purchased from Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), Catalogue (1832), no. 462, for £4. 4. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 345, and Books Purchased (1832), 5.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.3.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.20.
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