Bod-Inc: M-124
Martialis, Marcus Valerius
Epigrammata, et al. (comm. Domitius Calderinus).
Analysis of Content
a1v Calderinus, Domitius: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Gonzaga. Incipit: ‘[N]on fuissent tot exemplis editi commentarii nostri . . .’ Explicit: Laurentii est Domitius. Vale See M‑120.
a1v [Calderinus], Domitius: [Verse.] ‘In uolumen dicatum Laurentio'. [Addressed to Laurentius de' Medici.] Incipit: ‘Odisti uigiles liber lucernas | Et signum calami seuerioris'; 11 hendecasyllabics.
a2r Calderinus, Domitius: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius de' Medici. Incipit: ‘[I]n omni ciuitatis administratione praeclare actum arbitrari . . .’ Explicit: elaborata fuerunt. Vale See M‑120.
a3r ‘Vita Martialis'. Incipit: ‘[M]arcus Valerius Martialis in Hispania . . .’ Explicit: redacta fuisse See M‑120.
a3v Plinius Secundus, [Gaius Caecilius]: Epistola [addressed to] Cornelius Priscus. Plin. Ep. 3. 21.
a4r [Calderinus, Domitius: Commentary on Martialis, Spectacula.] Incipit: ‘ “[B]arbara pyramidum”. Hoc primo epigrammate assentatur Domitiano . . .’ Explicit: naumachiæ Domitiani See M‑120.
a4r Martialis, Marcus Valerius: [Spectacula.] Mart. Sp. 1-28.
a8v [Calderinus, Domitius: Commentary on Martialis, Epigrammata.] Incipit: ‘ “[S]pero me secuturum”. Scribit hoc nunc ut demum sit editurus librum . . .’ Explicit: somnum rumpendum
a8v Martialis, Marcus Valerius: Epigrammata. Mart.
y3v Calderinus, Domitius: ‘Defensio' [addressed to] Corelius Carafa. Incipit: ‘[N]on potuimus assequi id quod uel tu optabas . . .’ Explicit: ferendis moderationis See M‑120.
y5v Lucidus Phosphorus, M[ ]: ‘Epigramma'. Incipit: ‘Quisquis amat lepidum uatem latiasque camoenas | Et uitam et mores noscere quisquis amat'; 8 elegiac distichs. See M‑120.
y5v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 20 Sept. 1490. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–i κ l–u8 x y6.
References
ISTC: im00309000
Hain: HC Addenda 10820;
Goff: Goff M‑309;
BMC: BMC VI 764;
Proctor: Pr 6015;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑199; CIBN M‑171; Sheppard 4987.
LCN: 14549076
Copies
Copy number: M-124(1)
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century parchment; blue-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 303 × 206 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 296 × 196 mm.
Early marginal annotations, including pointing hands and ‘nota' marks, also running book numbers for books 1-6, and epigram numbers. Heavily erased early annotations on y5v and y6v.
Provenance: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Catalogue (1830), no. 2348. Purchased from Longman et al. for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1830), 15.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.26.
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