Bod-Inc: N-007
Nestor, Dionysius
Vocabularius, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1v Nestor, Dionysius: [Verse dedicated to] Ludovicus Sforza. Jean-Louis Charlet, ‘Nestor Denys de Novare, moine et lexicographe latin du Quattrocento', Res Publica Litterarum, 14 (1991), 19-47, at 46-7.
a2r Nestor, Dionysius: Vocabularius. Incipit: ‘[A]bax huius abacis antiquiores nostri teste Prisciano declinabant . . .’ See Leonhardt no. B115.1; Charlet, ‘Nestor Denys', 19-47.
E1r Nestor, Dionysius: [Epigramma addressed to] a detractor [ μυκτερίδα ]. Incipit: ‘Ecquis hic insulsus, ignarus, ineptus, inaudax, | Cum Latiis pariter grammata Graeca ruens?'; 13 elegiac distichs.
E1r Nestor, Dionysius: [Carmen in Italian.] Incipit: ‘O schiochi, o paci, o pien di caecitade | Chi vostri giorni andate consumando | Si stoltamente in tante vanitade'; terza rima.
E2r Nestor, Dionysius: ‘Carmina ad exhortandos ad conuersionem peccatores timore poenarum ex consyderatione uisibilium.’ Incipit: ‘Legeris hoc quisquis carmen lachrymabile fusis | Sacra roges lachrymis culpas ut numina donent'; 25 hexameters.
E2r Nestor, Dionysius: [Carmen in Italian.] Incipit: ‘Segui gia vana speme el van desio, | Hor me dinante a lochij un chiaro spegio, | Oue vedo me stesso, el fallir mio'; terza rima.
E3r Nestor, Dionysius: ‘Carmina ad exhortandos ad relligionem iam conuersos in statu quem professi sunt.’ Incipit: ‘Relligione sacra fratres gaudete Minores, | Mandantes operi cunctos promissa per annos'; 26 hexameters.
E3v Nestor, Dionysius: Emendatio in libellum Sulpitii de syllabarum quantitate. Incipit: ‘Aratrum ra syllabam naturaliter corripit . . .’ See Leonhardt, Dimensio syllabarum, 175-6 and no. B115.2.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 4 Jan. 1483. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–z A–E8.
Remarks: Leaf a2 signed ai, a3 signed aii, etc.
References
ISTC: in00013000
Hain: HC 6252;
Goff: Goff N‑13;
BMC: BMC VI 750;
Proctor: Pr 5942;
Others: BSB‑Ink N‑19; CIBN N‑11; Rhodes 1223; Sheppard 4946.
LCN: 14515771
Copies
Copy number: N-007(1)
Wanting the blank leaf E8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf (fillets only). Manuscript title along the upper edge. Rebacked.
Size: 290 × 210 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 286 × 189 mm.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 2852; purchased for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 20.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 5.30.
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