Bod-Inc: L-162

Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus

Pharsalia (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus; ed. Johannes Taberius).

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.]

a1v Britannicus Brixianus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Advocatus. Incipit: ‘[N]on possum nostris temporibus, Hieronyme Aduocate, mirum in modum non gratulari . . .’

a1v [Vacca]: ‘M. Annei Lucani uita ex commentario antiquissimo.’ See L‑151.

a2r [Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: Vita Lucani.] ‘Ex dimidiato codice particula ad poetae huius uitam pertinens sumpta.’ Suet. Poet., ending imperfectly; see L‑151.

a2r [Laetus, Julius] Pomponius: ‘M. Annei Lucani uita.’ Incipit: ‘Anneus Seneca e Corduba ciuitate Bethycae Romam uenit statimque . . .’

a2v 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.

a2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Si generi socerique cupis cognoscere bella | Non alium quaeras hic manifesta facit'; 6 elegiac distichs. see Walther, Initia, 17744.

a2v 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.

a2v Taberius Brixianus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[C]ommentaria que in Annei Lucani Pharsaliam ab Omnibono Leoniceno edita putabantur . . .’

a3r Omnibonus Leonicenus: In Lucanum commentum. [Edited by Johannes Taberius.] Incipit: ‘  “[B]ella per aemathios”. In exponendo hoc auctore haec omnia libanda sunt: libri titulus . . .’

a3r [Epitaph of Lucan.] Incipit: ‘Corduba me genuit, rapuit Nero, praelia dixi | Quae gessere pares hinc socer, inde gener'; 2 elegiac distichs. See L‑150.

a3r Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Pharsalia. Luc. This edition is based on the 1486 Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus edition repeating the textual error which arose from the misbinding of n3.4 as described above; see L‑159.

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis for Octavianus Scotus, 31 Mar. 1492. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a–s⁸ t¹⁰.

Illustrations: Woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: il00304000

Hain: HC *10240;

Goff: Goff L‑304;

BMC: BMC V 431;

Proctor: Pr 5328;

Others: BSB‑Ink L‑234; CIBN L‑239; Rhodes 1109; Sheppard 4164.

LCN: 14500807

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