Bod-Inc: M-200
Merula, Georgius
Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis, et al.
Analysis of Content
A2r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[S]i in enarrandis poetis quorum eruditio multiplex varia . . .’ Explicit: longo sufflamine litis See E. M. Sandford, ‘Juvenalis, Decimus Junius', CTC 1 (1960), 175-238, at 221-3, no. 27 (Merula).
A3v [Merula, Georgius: Life of Juvenalis addressed to the reader.] ‘Nec tamen caetera spreueris, lector, poetae vita'. Incipit: ‘[I]uuenalis satyrarum scriptor illustris aquinas fuisse magis . . .’ Explicit: altius repetenda sunt
A4r [Merula, Georgius?]: ‘De satyrica fabula duabus satyris'. Incipit: ‘[S]atyrica primum apud Graecos ut ueteres scriptores tradunt fabula fuit . . .’ Explicit: emunctæ naris
a2r Merula, Georgius: [Commentary on Juvenalis, Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘ “[S]emper ego auditor”. Causas hic primum reddit cur relicta frequenti poetarum . . .’ Explicit: consequebantur anonas
m6r Merula, Georgius: ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] Marcus Antonius Maurocenus. Incipit: ‘[C]um ex Belgis legatione illa, magnifice et prudentissime, obita in patriam . . .’ Explicit: maligne reprehenderit. Vale . . .
m6v Merula, Georgius: Adversus Domitii Calderini commentarios in Martialem. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid igitur petulans et nimiae licentiae litterator . . .’ Explicit: lacertæ sagita insidiantem see Frank-Rutger Hausmann, ‘Martialis, Marcus Valerius', CTC IV 249-96, at 266; Maurizio Campanelli, ‘Manoscritti antichi, testi a stampa e principi di metodo: spigolando negli scritti filologici di Giorgio Merula', La parola del testo: semestrale di filologia e letteratura italiana e comparata dal medioevo al rinascimento, 2 (1998), 253-92, at 274-81.
p7r [Merula, Georgius: List of Calderinus' errors.] Incipit: ‘Assiduus iactet nec Babylona labor . . .’ Explicit: sauroctonos legendum sit
q1r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[C]um iam ferme quadriennium in urbe florentissima eam . . .’ Explicit: ita narrauerit. Vale . . .
q2r Merula, Georgius: Annotationes in orationem Ciceronis pro Q. Ligario. Incipit: ‘[H]aec oratio dicta est dictatore Caesare post confecta bella . . .’ Explicit: nunc xiii dierum
s1r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Sanutus. Incipit: ‘[E]xponenti mihi superiore anno discipulis nostris eam Ciceronis epistolam . . .’ Explicit: gratiam relaturus accedimus. Vale
s1v Merula, Georgius: [In epistolam ad Lentulum Spintherem enarratio.] Incipit: ‘[A]egyptiorum reges a Ptolemaeo Lagi filio . . .’ Explicit: magno studio sciuit
s6r [Table of contents.]
s6r [Colophon.]
s6v [List of errata.]
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Gabriele di Pietro, [between 15 Mar. and 6 May] 1478. Folio.
Collation
Collation: A4 a10 b–i K l–s8.
Remarks: Leaf a1 blank, a2 signed a, a3 a2, etc.
References
ISTC: im00501000
Hain: HC 11090;
Goff: Goff M‑501;
BMC: BMC V 202;
Proctor: Pr 4202;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑338; CIBN M‑305; Oates 1683; Sack, Freiburg, 2436; Sheppard 3377.
LCN: 14455642
Copies
Copy number: M-200(1)
Bound with J‑302; see there for details of binding.
Size of leaf: 282 × 190 mm.
Occasional early annotations, including ‘nota' marks.
Two- to eight-line initials, some with extensions into the margin, are supplied in red, blue or interlocked red and blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Guillermus Groushet (fifteenth/sixteenth century); inscription on s7r of item 2 in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand: ‘Juuenalis iste fratri Guillermo Groushet intererat'; there is no indication that he also owned item 1. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III lot 4056, for Fl. 48; purchased though Payne for £4. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 8.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 2.9(2).
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