Bod-Inc: O-052
Ovidius Naso, Publius
De arte amandi et De remedio amoris (comm. Bartholomaeus Merula).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Merula, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[P]reclara multa et omni laude cumulatissima in hac tua excellenti . . .’ Explicit: tuum amabis. Vale
a2r Merula, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on De arte amandi.] Incipit: ‘ “[S]i quis in hoc artem populo non nouit amandi”. Ex latinorum poetarum consuetudine proponit . . .’ Explicit: spoliis exuuiis amantum
a2r Ovidius Naso, Publius: De arte amandi. [Also known as Ars amatoria.] Ov. Ars.
h1v Merula, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on De remedio amoris.] Incipit: ‘ “[L]egerat huius amor titulum nomenque libelli”. Scripturus de remedio amoris Ouidius primo se excusat . . .’ Explicit: remedia amoris descripsi
h1v Ovidius Naso, Publius: De remedio amoris. Ov. Rem.
k2v [Merula, Bartholomaeus: Part of the epilogue addressed to] Franciscus [Georgius Cornelius]. Incipit: ‘Habes, Francisce generose, enarrationes nostras in Ouidium De arte amandi . . .’ Explicit: nonum annum premendam
k3v [Colophon.]
k3v Antimachus, Marcus Antonius: ‘Carmen'. Incipit: ‘Naso corinna tuos expertus sepe calores | Et quam fallaces sint in amore doli'; 6 distichs.
k3v Palladius Soranus, Domitius: ‘Carmen'. Incipit: ‘Quod puer incautos quondam pharetratus amantes | Impulit ad seue tela cruenta necis'; 7 distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Jean de Vingle, 1495. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–i8 k4.
References
ISTC: io00146000
Hain: C 4559;
Goff: Goff O‑146;
BMC: BMC VIII 311;
Proctor: Pr 8643;
Others: Baudrier XII 199; Moss, Ovid, 66 no. 4; Oates 3229; Sheppard 6695.
LCN: 14540646
Copies
Copy number: O-052(1)
Bound with:
1. Publius Ovidius Naso, Heroides. Lyons: Johannes Thomas, for Stephanus Gueynard, 25 Oct. 1513.
The last leaf blank does not bear the device, as presumed by BMC, which is here on a1r.
Binding: Sixteenth-century French (probably Lyons) blind-tooled calf, with two ties lost. On both covers fillets form a border. Triple fillets form a frame within which is a repeated lattice-work and flower-petal stamp. Triple fillets form the inner rectangle which is divided by further triple fillets into four compartments, two decorated with a lattice-work and fleur-de-lis roll, and two with an ornamental roll of flower petals and wheatsheaves. Head and tail of the spine repaired.
Size: 266 × 179 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 255 × 166 mm.
Some underlining in the text, also occasional ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands. Annotations in French, scribbles and pen-trials on k3r-v by Bascle (see below); in the lower margin of d3v a proverb(?) in the same hand: ‘Omnia si perdas famam seruare memento | Qua semel amissa postea nullus eris'. On k3r a draft note in French in the same hand; also the name ‘Peyroti', presumably for Nicolaus Perottus.
Provenance: François Bascle (sixteenth century); name in the lower margin of d4r, and repeated several times on k3r-v; both names are apparently in the same hand. Pierre Berès (b. 1913). Purchased in 1951 from Berès; note on the front pastedown; Bodleian stamp dated 21 July 1951 on A2v.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. F2.1495.1(2).
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