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Ovidius Naso, Publius

Heroides; Sappho; Ibis (comm. Antonius Volscus and Domitius Calderinus), et al. Tradition: Volscus and Calderinus, with variations.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.]

a1v Volscus, Antonius: [Preface addressed to] Ludovicus Diaedus. Incipit: ‘[C]um multos saepe uiros qui nostris temporibus sapientiae studio . . .’ Explicit: sidere probabis industriam. Vale

a2r Volscus, Antonius: ‘Argumentum'. Incipit: ‘[P]ost euersam Troiam Graecorum principes Phrygiis . . .’ Explicit: ad redeundum inuitat An ‘argumentum' by Volscus appears before each letter.

a2r Ovidius Naso, Publius: Heroides. Ov. Ep., with the letters in the following order: . . . 14, 16. 1-38,145-378; 17-20, 21. 1-12; 5 begins with an extra couplet, ‘Nympha suo Paridi quamuis suus esse recusat | Mittit ab ideis uerba legenda iugis'; 8 supplies a ‘missing' couplet, ‘Aloquor Hermione nuper fratremque uirumque | Nunc fratrem nomen coniugis alter habet'; 9 begins with an extra couplet, ‘Mittor ad alcidem a coniuge consia mentis | Littera si coninnx(!) deyanira sua est'; 10 begins with an extra couplet, ‘Illa relicta feris est nunc improbe Theseu | Viuit et haec aequa mente tulisse uelis'; 11 supplies a ‘missing' couplet, ‘Aeolis aeolidae quam non habet ipsa salutem | Mittit et armata uerba notata manu'; 12 supplies a ‘missing' couplet, ‘Exul inops contempta nouo Medea marito | Dicit an a rebus tempora nulla uacant'.

a2r Volscus, Antonius: [Commentary on Heroides.] Incipit: ‘  “[P]enelope tua”. Quae tibi hactenus in tanta procorum turba pudice . . .’ Explicit: et laboribus gratulentur

h6r [Calderinus], Domitius: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. Incipit: ‘[D]omitius Francisco Aragonio salutem. Mirificum est studium meum, Francisce, et voluntas . . .’ Explicit: restituendum curaui. Vale

h6v [Calderinus], Domitius: [Argumentum.] Incipit: ‘[C]allias Methymnaeus nulla lucubratione nobilior . . .’ Explicit: quod mouet prætermittitur

i1r [Calderinus], Domitius: [Commentary on Sappho.] Incipit: ‘  “[N]unquid vbi aspecta est”. Principium autem epistolae interrogationem . . .’ Explicit: Eusebii recensent tempora. Vale

i1r Ovidius Naso, Publius [pseudo-?]: Sappho. [Ov.] Ep. Sapph.

i6v Calderinus, Domitius: [Preface addressed to] Falco Sinibaldus. Incipit: ‘[D]omitius Calderinus Falconi Sinibaldo salutem. Commentarios meos in Ibin Ouidii . . .’ Explicit: tui studiosissimum amabis. Vale

i6v [Calderinus, Domitius(?)]: De exilio Ovidii. Incipit: ‘[D]e Ouidii uita nihil a nobis in hoc loco scribendum . . .’ Explicit: vt scribit Plinius

K1r Calderinus, Domitius: [Argumentum.] Incipit: ‘[A]rgumentum carminis est imprecatio qua inimicum deuouet . . .’ Explicit: in aduersarium scribere

K1r Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ibis. Ov. Ib.

K1r Calderinus, Domitius: [Commentary on Ibis.] Incipit: ‘  “[T]empus bis quinque lustris”. Quinquaginta annis lustrum dixerunt . . .’ Explicit: Liuius et Dionysius. Finis

l6r [Calderinus, Domitius]: [Epilogue addressed to] Falco Sinibaldus. Incipit: ‘Laudat Papinius patrem quod per tenebras Lycophronis poetae . . .’ Explicit: ignorate. Vale Flaco et ama me

l6v Volscus, Antonius: Vita Ovidii. Incipit: ‘[P]ublii Ouidii Nasonis poetae uetusta equestris ordinis familia . . .’ Explicit: uirtute digni uideantur

l6v ‘Registrum.’

l6v [Colophon addressed to Johannes Bentivolus.]

Imprint

Imprint: Bologna: Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, [27 July] 1491. Folio.

Collation

Collation: a–i K l6.

References

ISTC: io00156500

Proctor: Pr 6579;

Others: Sheppard 5362-3.

LCN: 14540622

Copies

Copy number: O-064(1)

Gatherings c and e have changed places in binding.

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter red morocco; gold-tooled spine, marbled paper boards, pastedowns, and edges; probably bound for Boutourlin.

Size: 298 × 207 × 19 mm.

Size of leaf: 290 × 197 mm.

Fifteenth/sixteenth-century marginal and interlinear annotations in gathering a only, in either red or black ink, mostly in one humanist hand, including extraction of key words, underlining in the text, ‘nota' and paragraph marks.

Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); shelfmark no. 472 on the verso of the front endleaf; see Catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £0. 18. 0: see sale catalogue (1841), lot 848, and Books Purchased (1842), 32.

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 2.22.


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