Bod-Inc: L-159
Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus
Pharsalia (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus; ed. Johannes Taberius).
Analysis of Content
[*2r] Britannicus Brixianus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Advocatus. Incipit: ‘[N]on possum nostris temporibus, Hieronyme Aduocate, mirum in modum non gratulari . . .’
[*2v] [Vacca]: ‘M. Annei Lucani uita ex commentario antiquissimo.’ See L‑151.
[*3r] [Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: Vita Lucani.] ‘Ex dimidiato codice particula ad poetae huius uitam pertinens sumpta.’ Suet. Poet., ending imperfectly; see L‑151.
[*3r] [Laetus, Julius] Pomponius: ‘M. Annei Lucani vita.’ Incipit: ‘[M] Anneus Seneca e Corduba ciuitate Bethycae Romam uenit statimque . . .’
[*4r] Tacitus, [Publius Cornelius: Note based on Tac., Ann. 15.48-9.] ‘Apud Cornelium Tacitum legitur.’ Incipit: ‘Consulibus Silio Nerua et Attico Vestino coniurationem in Neronem cœptam . . .’ see also L‑094.
[*4r] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Si generi socerique cupis cognoscere bella | Non alium quaeras hic manifesta facit'; 6 elegiac distichs. see Walther, Initia, 17744.
[*4r] Lanfrancus, [Christophorus: Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Non rudis occurro sed lima tersus ad unguem | Nuper qui fueram sordidus atque lacer'; 4 elegiac distichs.
[*4v] Taberius Brixianus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[C]ommentaria quae in Annei Lucani Pharsaliam ab Omnibono Leoniceno edita putabantur . . .’
a1r Omnibonus Leonicenus: In Lucanum commentum. [Edited by Johannes Taberius.] Incipit: ‘ “[B]ella per aemathios”. In exponendo hoc auctore haec omnia libanda sunt: libri titulus . . .’ Taberius records his role in the letter to Barbarus (see above).
a1r [Epitaph of Lucan.] Incipit: ‘Corduba me genuit, rapuit Nero, praelia dixi | Quae gessere pares hinc socer, inde gener'; 2 elegiac distichs. See L‑150.
a1r Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Pharsalia. Luc.
Imprint
Imprint: Brescia: Jacobus Britannicus, 2 May 1486. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a8 b–q6 r4 s t6 u x4 y6 z4 & [con] [rum] A–C6 D4.
References
ISTC: il00301000
Hain: HC *10237;
Goff: Goff L‑301;
BMC: BMC VII 975;
Proctor: Pr 6983;
Others: BSB‑Ink L‑231; CIBN L‑236; Sack, Freiburg, 2274; Sheppard 5781.
LCN: 14500868
Copies
Copy number: L-159(1)
Sheet n3.4 bound as u3.4, as BMC note.
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf; rebacked.
Size: 291 × 206 × 34 mm.
Size of leaf: 287 × 188 mm.
Early pen-trials and scribbles on [*1r].
Provenance: William (†1520?), Thomas (c.1486-1545), and John Hartwell (Hertwell, b.c.1487); inscriptions on [*1r]: ‘Iste liber cum Ovidio super pluribus tractatibus et [ ] libris cum oratio pertinent ad fratrem meum Wylhelmum Hartwell in eos 3es [ ] dedit', and ‘Constat Harttwell' (in red ink); and on D4v: ‘Thomas Hartwell vel Johannes est possessor huius [libri] sed Wylhelmus potest eligere cui vult dare eum', and ‘Thomas Hartwell'. William Smithson (sixteenth century); name on [*1r]: ‘Gulielmus Smithsonus'. Henry Fanshawe, probably to be identified with Sir Henry Fanshawe (1569-1616); name on [*2r]. Sir Thomas Fanshawe (1596-1665), 1st Viscount Fanshawe. Richard Lockwood Giveen (b. 1838); armorial book-plate. W. A. Chislett, North Hinksey, Oxford; presumably William Chislett, 43, Yarnells Hill, Botley, Oxford. Purchased from Chislett in 1950; see BLR 3, 32 (1951), 225, and pencil note on the front pastedown.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I22.1486.1.
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