Bod-Inc: H-213
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus
Opera (comm. pseudo-Porphyrius, pseudo-Acro, Christophorus Landinus, and Antonius Mancinellus).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Mancinellus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Julius Pomponius Laetus. Incipit: ‘Cuinam meos in Horatium commentarios dedicarem quaerenti mihi . . .’
a2r Mancinellus, Antonius: ‘Ode quid per Antonium Mancinellum.’ Incipit: ‘Erat ode modulatus sermo unde et tragoediam et commoediam . . .’
a2r ‘Horatii Venusini uita per Antonium Mancinellum edita.’ Incipit: ‘Q. Horatius Flaccus patre natus est et libertino et praecone. Sexta enim . . .’ Mancinellus is named as editor in the heading.
a2v Palladius Soranus, Domicus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Alta secant uolucres tuto stridente uolatu | Annuat hoc Iuno si dea mitis iter'; 5 elegiac distichs.
a3r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmina. Hor. Carm.
a3r Mancinellus, Antonius: [Commentary on Carmina.] Incipit: ‘ “[M]ecoenas atauis edite regibus”. Prima ode Mecoenatem alloquitur ostenditque homines . . .’
a3r Acro, [Helenius pseudo-: Commentary on Carmina. Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, I, 13-376.
a3r Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-: Commentary on Carmina.] Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 3-161.
a3r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Carmina.] Incipit: ‘ “Mecoenas”. Ad Mecoenatem scribit cui quantum debuerit pauloante in sua uita . . .’
s5r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Epodae. Hor. Epod.
s5r Mancinellus, Antonius: ‘Commentarius in carmen Epodon.’ Incipit: ‘Epodi dicuntur uersus metro quolibet scripti et sequentes clausulas habentes . . .’
s6r Acro, [Helenius pseudo-: Commentary on Epodes.] Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, I, 377-468.
s6r Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-: Commentary on Epodes.] Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 185-222.
s6v Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Epodes.] Incipit: ‘ “Ibis liburnis inter alta nauium”. Versus iambicus est, sed primus iambicus trimeter, secundus dimeter . . .’
x3r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmen saeculare. Hor. Saec.
x3r Mancinellus, Antonius: ‘Commentariolus in Carmen saeculare.’ Incipit: ‘Saeculares ludi apud Romanos, inquit Pompeius Festus, post centum annos . . .’
x3r Acro, [Helenius pseudo-: Commentary on Carmen saeculare.] Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, I, 469-80.
x3v Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-: Commentary on Carmen saeculare.] Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 180-4.
x3v Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Carmen saeculare.] Incipit: ‘ “Phoebe siluarumque potens Diana”. Carmen saeculare sane inter lyrica carmina referri potest . . .’
x5r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Ars poetica. Hor. Ars.
x5r Acro, [Helenius pseudo-: Commentary on Ars poetica.] Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, II, 309-79.
x5r Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-: Commentary on Ars poetica.] Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 162-79.
x5r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Ars poetica addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. Incipit: ‘Permagna res est, illustrissime Guido Feltrane, Poeticam artem pro dignitate . . .’ The commentary is addressed to Guidubaldus de Montefeltro.
z3v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Sermones. Hor. S. 1. 10. 9-92 only.
z3v Acro, [Helenius pseudo-]: ‘Commentaria in . . . Sermonum libros.’ Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, II, 1-204.
z3v Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-: Commentary on Sermones.] Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 223-316, ending imperfectly. Explicit appears on B8v.
z3v Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Sermones addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. Incipit: ‘Permagna res est, illustrissime Guido Feltri, et hominibus ac ciuitatibus apprime utilis . . .’
C1v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Epistolae. Hor. Ep.
C1v Acro, [Helenius pseudo-: Commentary on Epistolae.] Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, II, 205-301.
C1v Porphyrio, Pomponius [pseudo-: Commentary on Epistolae.] Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 317-409.
C2r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on Epistolae addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. Incipit: ‘Magnum profecto mortalibus, illustrissime Guido Feltri, adiumentum attulit ea quae . . .’
G2r [Colophon.]
G2v ‘Tabula.' ‘Vocum ac rerum index.’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: [Philippus Pincius, for] Benedictus Fontana, 16 Feb. 1495/6. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a10 b–z & [con] ꝶ A–F8 G6.
References
ISTC: ih00458000
Hain: HC *8893;
Goff: Goff H‑458;
BMC: BMC V 496;
Proctor: Pr 5306;
Others: BSB‑Ink H‑369; Oates 2072; Rhodes 944; Sheppard 4397-8.
LCN: 14461056
Copies
Copy number: H-213(1)
Bound with:
2. Publius Papinius Statius, Opera, et al. Venice: Jacobus de Paganinis, 24 Dec. 1490 (S‑287(2)).
Wanting the title, a1, and G6 containing the device of the publisher Benedictus Fontana.
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 305 × 213 × 54 mm.
Size of leaf: 296 × 192 mm.
Early marginal and interlinear annotations, including corrections to the text.
Provenance: Italy (sixteenth century), from the Veneto; inscription on G5v: ‘Tibaldo gia [ ]ogo da peti zintilomo dal pago'. John, 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783); armorial book-plate (after 1755, the year of his marriage to Georgiana Poyntz), with shelfmark in ink: ‘A.d.2': Spencer impaling Poyntz (see Howe, Book Plates, 27697). George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); cancelled accession number ‘3427'; sale (1821), lot 149; purchased for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 8 and the annotated sale catalogue.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.29(1).
Copy number: H-213(2)
Binding: Half parchment with paper boards.
Size: 301 × 217 × 41 mm.
Size of leaf: 297 × 207 mm.
Frequent marginal and interlinear notes, in several fifteenth/sixteenth-century German hands, including extraction of key words, corrections to the text and commentaries, and underlining; some notes in the upper margin have been cropped; German inscriptions on a1r (too faint to be read).
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich(?); ‘D' in pencil on the front pastedown. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1851), 36.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 4.23.
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