Bod-Inc: L-161
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 Senecha e Corduba ciuitate Bethyce 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 coeptam . . .’ see also L‑094.
[*4r] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Si generi socerique cupis cognoscere bella | Non alium quæras 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 . . .’
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: Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 10 Nov. 1491. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a8 b–i κ l–q6 r4 s t6 u x4 y6 z4 & [con] [rum] A–C6 D4.
References
ISTC: il00303000
Hain: HC *10239;
Goff: Goff L‑303;
BMC: BMC VI 765;
Proctor: Pr 6020;
Others: BSB‑Ink L‑233; CIBN L‑238; Sheppard 4993.
LCN: 14500865
Copies
Copy number: L-161(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [*1].
Leaf [*2r], l. 1: ‘ . . . Ambroii iuriſcōſulti ſ . F. ſalutē', as HC, but not as BMC.
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; bound for the Bodleian Library, and with the gold stamp of the Library on both covers.
Size: 307 × 215 × 41 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 199 mm.
Early marginal and interlinear annotations, including comments on the text, pointing hands, and occasional ‘nota' marks, also underlining in the text.
Printed initials coloured in red and green.
Provenance: Purchase note on D4r in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Dz buch also ingebunden gestat[ ] mich vii reinschen gulden minder iiii crutzer'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2626; purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1835). 18.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 4.25.
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