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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 uaria . . .’ Explicit: longo suflamine litis See M‑200.

A3v [Merula, Georgius?]: ‘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 aput(!) Graecos ut ueteres scriptores tradunt fabula fuit . . .’ Explicit: emunctae naris

a1r Merula, Georgius: [Commentary on Juvenalis, Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘  “[S]emper ego auditor”. Causas hic primum reddit cur relicta frequenti poetarum . . .’ Explicit: consequebantur anonas

k5v 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 . . .

k6r Merula, Georgius: Adversus Domitii Calderini commentarios in Martialem. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid igitur petulans et nimiae licentiae litterator . . .’ Explicit: lacertae sagipta insidiantem

n2r [Merula, Georgius: List of Calderinus's errors.] Incipit: ‘Assiduus iactet nec Babylona labor . . .’ Explicit: sauroctonos legendum sit

n3r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[C]um iam ferme quadriennium in urbe florentissima eam . . .’ Explicit: ita narrauerit. Vale . . .

n3v Merula, Georgius: Annotationes in orationem Ciceronis pro Q. Ligario. Incipit: ‘[H]aec oratio dicta est dictatore Caesare post confecta bella . . .’ Explicit: nunc xiii dierum

o8v Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Sanutus. Incipit: ‘[E]xponenti mihi superiore anno discipulis nostris eam Ciceronis epistolam . . .’ Explicit: gratiam relaturus accedimus. Vale

p1r Merula, Georgius: [In epistolam ad Lentulum Spintherem enarratio.] Incipit: ‘[A]egyptiorum reges a Ptolemaeo Lagi filio . . .’ Explicit: magno studio sciuit

p5r [Table of contents.]

Imprint

Imprint: Treviso: Bartholomaeus Confalonerius, [not before May] 1478. Folio.

Collation

Collation: A4 a–h I k–o8 p6.

Remarks: Leaf A2 signed Ai, etc.

References

ISTC: im00502000

Hain: HC *11091;

Goff: Goff M‑502;

BMC: BMC VI 893;

Proctor: Pr 6486;

Others: BSB‑Ink M‑339; CIBN M‑306; Oates 2462; Rhodes 1194; Rhodes, Treviso, no. 75; Sheppard 5520-22.

LCN: 14455546, 14455637

Copies

Copy number: M-201(1)

Wanting the blank leaf p6.

Leaf p5r, list of contents, l. 2: ‘de monte fererro r Vbini ducem . . .’

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold- and blind-tooled russia; red-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns.

Size: 294 × 205 × 26 mm.

Size of leaf: 285 × 193 mm.

Annotations, pen-trials, and scribbles on the recto of the front endleaf in the hand of Johannes Andreae de Caronelis (see below). Other early marginal annotations, mainly extracting key words, and underlining in the text in black ink, also running headings in the commentary on the Satyrae; early manuscript foliation in black ink: I–CXVII. The notes in the text, headings, and foliation all appear to be in one fifteenth/sixteenth-century humanist hand.

Provenance: Johannes Andreae de Caronelis (fl. 1493); inscription on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘1493 adi 19 Martii. Hic liber est meus Joannis Andree de Caronelis que si aliquis invenerit et mihi rediderit equidem laboris sui premium n[umquam] amittet etc.' John Trotter Brockett (1788-1842); armorial book-plate. Purchased for £3; see note on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Purchased at Mr. Brockett's sale (8 Dec.) 1823', ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 163v: ‘1823 Brocket's sale', and Books Purchased (1824), 9.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.24.

Copy number: M-201(2)

Bound with J‑309; see there for details of binding and provenance.

Size of leaf: 294 × 193 mm.

Wanting the blank leaf p6.

Variant: p5r, list of contents, l. 2: ‘de monte feretro r Vbini ducem . . .’

SHELFMARK: Auct. O 2.11(3).

Copy number: M-201(3)

Wanting the blank leaf A1.

Variant: p5r, list of contents, l. 2: ‘de monte feretro r Vbini ducem . . .’

Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) half calf with mottled paper boards.

Size: 276 × 200 × 27 mm.

Size of leaf: 267 × 182 mm.

Provenance: Purchased for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1855), 41.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.26.


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