Bod-Inc: D-087
Diomedes
Ars grammatica.
Analysis of Content
a1v [Table of contents.]
a2r Diomedes: [Prefatory letter addressed to] Athanasius. Keil, Grammatici latini, I 299.
a2v Diomedes: Ars grammatica. Keil, Grammatici latini, I 300-529.
i4r Phocas: De nomine et verbo. Keil, Grammatici latini, V 410-39.
k5r Priscianus: Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo. ‘Epitoma'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 443-56.
l3v Caper, Flavius [pseudo-]: De orthographia. Keil, Grammatici latini, VII 92-107.
l5r Agroecius: [Prefatory letter addressed to] Bishop Eucherius. Keil, Grammatici latini, VII 113-14; see D‑084.
l5r Agroecius: De orthographia. Keil, Grammatici latini, VII 114-25.
m1r Donatus, [Aelius]: De octo partibus orationis [Ars maior, parts II and III]. Keil, Grammatici latini, IV 372-92.
m6v Donatus, [Aelius]: De barbarismo. Keil, Grammatici latini, IV 392-402.
n2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Barbariem quicunque cupis vitare loquendo | Donati hoc lecto codice doctus eris'; 1 elegiac distich.
n3r Servius Honoratus: Commentarius in artem Donati. ‘In secundam Donati editionem interpretatio'. Keil, Grammatici latini, IV 405-20.
o1v Sergius [Servius, the Grammarian]: Explanationes artis Donati. ‘In secundam Donati editionem commentarius'. Keil, Grammatici latini, IV 428-43.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 4 June 1491. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–o6.
References
ISTC: id00236000
GW: GW 8402 (Anm. 2);
Hain: HC 6216;
Goff: Goff D‑236;
BMC: BMC V 468;
Proctor: Pr 5224;
Others: BSB‑Ink D‑163; Essling 563; Sack, Freiburg, 1256; Sander 2433; Sheppard 4305.
LCN: 14816397
Copies
Copy number: D-087(1)
Bound with:
2. Probus, Instituta artium. Vicenza: Henricus and Johannes Maria, 12 Feb. 1509;
3. Flavius Sosipatrus Charisius, Institutionum grammaticarum libri quinque. Naples: Johannes Sulzbach, 1532.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf; the upper cover detached.
Size: 294 × 213 × 37 mm.
Size of leaf: 280 × 187 mm.
Early marginal notes, mainly extracting key words.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Rouen, Normandy, Jesuit College, 1663; an inscription on a2r of item 1: ‘Inscriptus catalogo Collegii Societatis Jesu Rotomag'.' Probably the copy purchased from Payne and Foss, Catalogue of Printed Books and Manuscripts in Various Languages (London, 1837), no. 5202, for £3. 3. 0; the lot is described as ‘Diomedes et alii Grammatici Venet. 1491. etc. 3 vol. in 1. Russia 3.3.-'; see Books Purchased (1837), 11; it would seem that another copy was purchased from the sale of William Pickering, via Charles J. Stewart (London: Sotheby's, 30 Oct. 1854), lot 1018, for £0. 3. 0; see Library Bills (1851-5), 418; Books Purchased (1855), 18.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.21(1).
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