Bod-Inc: M-143
Mataratius, Franciscus
De componendis versibus hexametro et pentametro.
Analysis of Content
Subject: literature
a2r Mataratius, Franciscus: De componendis versibus hexametro et pentametro [dedicated to] Petrus Paulus Cornelius. ‘Francisci Mataratii Perusini viri utraque lingua eruditissimi ad Petrum Paulum Cornelium eruditum et ingenuum adolescentem de componendis versibus hexametro et pentametro opusculum et primo prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[P]oeticam artem veterens [sic] primam quandam philosophiam esse voluerunt que ad vivendi rationem ab ineunte etate adduceret ...’ d4v Explicit: ‘... item ut Pantus, Melampus, Oedipus genitivi Greci, Calypsus mautus longantur. | T corripitur ut caput, sinciput, occiput.’ ‘Finis opusculi De compositione versus hexametri et pentametri editi a Francisco Matratio [sic] Perusino viro clarissimo. | Telòs.’ See Leonhardt no. B103.
d5r Sentinus, Jacobus: [Preface addressed to] Jacobus Gasparis. ‘Iacobi Sentini Ricinensis De quibusdam lyricis carminibus tractatulus, et primo prefacio.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um diebus preteritis Iacobe vir magnifice . . .’ d5v Explicit: ‘... et nostre in primis civitatis maximum et precipuum ornamentum.’
d5v Sentinus, Jacobus: De quibusdam lyricis carminibus tractatulus. ‘De Carminum Lyricorum Pedibus'.’ Incipit: ‘[P]edes qui metra de quibus dicturi sumus . . .’ d6r Explicit: ‘... in componendis carminibus proficias, et locum teneas honestissimum. Vale, Ricinensium adolescentum unicum decus et ornamentum.’ See Leonhardt no. B103a.
d6v Sentinus, Jacobus: [Verse addressed to the reader]. Incipit: Versus scribere qui cupit liquore | Tinctos pyerio, Thalia vel quos ... Explicit: ‘... Francisci numeris viri diserti. [7 hendecasyllabics]’
d6v Sentinus, Jacobus: [Verse]. Incipit: Quisquis amas vatum cantus, vel quisquis anhelas | Tendere pyeria letus in astra via ... Explicit: ‘... Compos tu voti si cupi esse tui. [2 elegiac distichs]’
d6v Sentinus, Jacobus: [Verse]. Incipit: Carmina quisquis amat sacro pertincta liquore ... Explicit: ‘... Scribere, grandiloquum perlegat istud opus. [1 elegiac distich]’
d6v Colophon: ‘Ehrardus Ratdolt Augustensis probatissimus librarie artis exactor summa confecit diligentia. Anno Christi M.cccclxxviii vii. calen. Decembris, Venetiis.’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice Erhard Ratdolt 25 Nov. ‘1468' [i.e. 1482]. 4°.
Secundo folio: a3r ta ut labat ariete crebro ianua, et Titire pascentes a flumine reiice
Remarks: The misprinted date 1468 is taken to mean 1482; see BMC.
Collation
Collation: a-b8 c d6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: im00347000
Hain: HC *10889;
Goff: Goff M‑347;
BMC: BMC V 287;
Proctor: Pr 4376;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑245; CIBN M‑210; Hillard 1343; Oates 1745; Redgrave 15; Rhodes 1177; Sheppard 3673.
LCN: 14550834
Copies
Copy number: M-143(1)
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf, with gold-tooled turn-ins and gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 209 × 156 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 205 × 147 mm.
Provenance: Benediktbeuren, Bavaria, Benedictine abbey, SS. Benedictus et Jacobus; inscriptions on a2r and d6v: ‘Iste liber est Monasterii Benedictenpewren'. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; stamp on a2r: ‘Duplum Bibliothecae R. Monacensis'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 2515; purchased for £2. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1835). 19.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.66.
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