Bod-Inc: H-216
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus
Carmina, et al. [with commentaries] (ed. Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus).
Analysis of Content
[a1v] Tuscanus, Johannes Aloisius: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Aelius [Marchisius] Parthenopeius. C. Bianca, ‘Il soggiorno romano di Francesco Elio Marchese', in Letteratura fra centro e periferia. Studi in memoria di Pasquale Alberto De Lisio, ed. G. Paparelli and S. Martelli, Pubblicazioni dell'Università degli studi di Salerno, Sezione atti, convegni, miscellanee, 15 (Naples and Rome, 1987), 221-48, at 243-5.
[a2v] Marchisius Parthenopeius, Franciscus Aelius: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus. ed. Bianca 246-8.
[b2r] Acro, [Helenius pseudo-]: ‘Vita Horatii.’ [Edited by Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus, like the rest of the volume.] Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, I, 1-2. Johannes Aloisius's work as editor is recorded in the dedicatory letter (see above).
[b2r] Acro, [Helenius pseudo-]: ‘Item aliter vita.’ Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, I, 2-3.
[b2v] Porphyrio, Pomponius [pseudo-]: ‘Vita Horatii.’ Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 1-2.
[b3r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmina. Hor. Carm..
[b3v] Acro, [Helenius pseudo-: Commentary on Carmina.] Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, 13-376.
[b5r] Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-: Commentary on Carmina.] Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 3-161.
[v1r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Epodae. Hor. Epod.
[v1v] Acro, [Helenius pseudo-]: ‘Explanatio in . . . Epodo Oratii.’ Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, I, 377-468; apparently in a rather abbreviated form with variations.
[v2r] Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-]: ‘In Epodo Oratii.’ Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 185-222; apparently in a rather abbreviated form with variations.
[z5r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmen saeculare. Hor. Saec.
[z6r] Acro, [Helenius pseudo-]: ‘Explanatio in Carmine seculari.’ Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, I, 469-80.
[z7r] Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-]: ‘Explanatio in Seculari carmine.’ Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 180-4.
[A1r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Ars poetica. Hor. Ars.
[A8r] Acro, [Helenius pseudo-]: ‘Explanatio in Poetriam Oratii.’ Pseudo-Acro, Scholia in Horatium Vetustiora, ed. Keller, II, 309-79.
[D2r] Porphyrio, [Pomponius pseudo-]: ‘Explanatio . . . in Arte poetica.’ Porphyrio, Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, ed. Holder, 162-79.
Imprint
Imprint: [Rome: Wendelinus de Wila or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, c.1474-5]. Folio.
Remarks: Pr assigns to [Guldinbeck]. According to Sheppard, the type has two forms of ‘&' as used in the signed work of de Wila (Rhetorica ad Herennium, 1474, GW 6713), but neither used by Guldinbeck. Piero Scapecchi, ‘Johannes Philippus de Lignamine and Two Untraced Editions', Library, 6th ser., 12 (1990), 53-5, suggests that this edition may be that mentioned by de Lignamine in the preface to Domenico Cavalca, Pungi lingua (1472) [Pr 3386] as having been published by him.
Collation
Collation: [a4 b c10 d–l8.10 m–o8 p6 q r10 s t8 v10 x–z A B8 C D6].
References
ISTC: ih00472000
Hain: H 8899;
Goff: Goff H‑472;
BMC: BMC XII 4;
Proctor: Pr 3559;
Others: C. F. Bühler, ‘On the Horace Printed in Rome by Wendelinus de Wila or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck', Bibliofilia, 37 (1935), 376-80, repr. in Curt F. Bühler, Early Books and Manuscripts ([New York], 1973), 34-8; CIBN H‑291; Rhodes 946; Sheppard 2767-9.
LCN: 14464102
Copies
Copy number: H-216(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [b1].
Leaf [a1] backed.
Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco; gold-tooled spine; turn-ins, gilt-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, both covers decorated with triple gold fillets; later stamped with the arms of 2nd Earl Spencer: Spencer, impaling Bingham quartered with Turberville, and with motto: ‘Dieu defend le droit'.
Size: 278 × 206 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 188 mm.
Copious early notes, apparently in two hands, one using red ink, mainly extracting key words and underlining sections of the text or of the commentaries in red, the other consisting of both marginal and interlinear notes, and commenting extensively on aspects of the text, also providing corrections.
On [b2r] a four-line initial ‘H' is supplied in gold on a pink ground, decorated in black, all within a frame of blue and green; other two- to four-line epigraphic initials are supplied in blue.
Provenance: Louis César de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); sale (1783), lot 2466 for 140 [Écus?], with ‘V.2466' in the lower left-hand corner of the rear endleaf. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III, lot 3869, according to the annotated sale catalogue purchased by Payne for Fl. 81, the equivalent of £7. 8. 9, using the exchange rate Payne used at this sale (see below). George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); cancelled accession number ‘3299'; bibliographical note by Spencer on the recto of the front endleaf, similar to the note in F‑034, beneath which is written ‘The handwriting of Earl Spencer'; sale (1821), lot 146; see the annotated sale catalogue; purchased by Heber; inscription written on the printed label of the Crevenna sale: ‘Bibl. Crev. 81 florins. Cat. Vall. 140 [ ]. Sp[encer]. Dupl. March 1821 3-0-0'. Richard Heber (1773-1833); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 2154. Purchased for £8. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 14.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 1.18.
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