Bod-Inc: L-156
Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus
Pharsalia.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Vacca]: ‘M. Annei Lucani vita ex commentario antiquissimo.’ See L‑151.
[*2r] [Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: Vita Lucani.] ‘Ex dimidiato codice particula ad poetae huius uitam pertinens sumpta.’ Suet. Poet., ending imperfectly; see L‑151.
[*2v] Martialis, [Marcus Valerius: Epigrammaton.] Mart. 1. 61.
[*2v] Martialis, [Marcus Valerius: Epigrammaton.] Mart. 7. 21.
[*2v] Statius, Papinius: Silvae. ‘Genethliacon Lucani ad polam argentariam carissimam poetae uxorem ex secundo Syluarum.’ Stat. Silv. 2. 7.
[*4v] Tacitus, [Publius Cornelius: Note based on Tac. Ann. 15. 48-9.] ‘Apud Cornelium Tacitum legitur.’ Incipit: ‘Consulibus Sylio Nerua et Attico Vestino coniurationem in Neronem coeptam . . .’ See also L‑094.
a1r [Epitaph of Lucan.] Incipit: ‘Corduba me genuit, rapuit Nero, prœlia dixi | Quæ gessere pares hinc socer, inde gener'; 2 elegiac distichs. See L‑150.
a1r Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Pharsalia. Luc.
Imprint
Imprint: [Verona: Giovanni and Alberto Alvise, c.1479-80]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard; CIBN dates [c.1479].
Collation
Collation: [*4] a–n8 o p6.
References
ISTC: il00298000
Hain: HC 10228;
Goff: Goff L‑298;
BMC: BMC VII 950;
Proctor: Pr 6917;
Others: CIBN L‑233; Sheppard 5694-5.
LCN: 14500839
Copies
Copy number: L-156(1)
Wanting the blank leaf p6.
Binding: English gold-tooled diced russia (c.1796); bound for the Bodleian Library; marbled pastedowns, gauffered edges; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 306 × 211 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 298 × 195 mm.
Heavily washed marginal and interlinear notes, which are now hardly visible.
On a1r a six-line initial ‘B' is supplied in faded blue(?), with decoration within the body of the letter in red, and two other four-line initials are supplied in red, with decoration within the body of each letter in faded blue(?); on c5r a five-line initial ‘P' is supplied in faded blue; two paragraph marks, one on a1r is supplied in faded blue(?), the other, on [*4v], is supplied in red.
Provenance: James Edwards; A Catalogue of Books in All Languages and in Every Branch of Literature Collected from Various Parts of Europe . . . (London, 1796), no. 11, listed for £8. 8. 0. Purchased for £8. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1796), 2, and the price written in pencil on the recto of the front endleaf.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 2.16.
Copy number: L-156(2)
Wanting the blank leaf p6.
Binding: Eighteenth-century pasteboards covered in gold-tooled red paper, with gold-tooled red morocco spine. Given that the binding does not fit, it may be a remboîtage; see also the description of the Heber copy below.
Size: 294 × 192 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 285 × 177 mm.
Three- to six-line initials are supplied in black ink, probably by Jacobus de Arcangelis.
Provenance: Jacobus de Arcangelis Placentinus (sixteenth century?); name on p5v. Perhaps the copy purchased by Heber for £12. 12. 0, according to the price in red ink in Heber's sale catalogue. Richard Heber (1773-1833)(?); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 2390, sold for £4. 14. 6, but described as being bound in green morocco, by Lewis. Purchased for £4. 14. 6; see Books Purchased (1835), 18.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.19.
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