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Panegyrici Veteres

C. Plinius Secundus: Panegyricus Traiani, et al.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r Puteolanus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[R]ogasti ut Plinii secundi Nouocomensis orationem qua consul optimo principi . . .’ Explicit: omnes tibi debent. Vale decus meum

a2v [Table of contents.]

a3r Plinius Secundus, Gaius: Panegyricus Traiani. Plin. Pan. For the context of the various panegyrics, as taken from the original manuscript, see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, with the Latin text of R. A. B. Mynors, ed. C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 21 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1994), 4-5; for the manuscript tradition see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 35-7, with references (this incunable edition is not included in the stemma at 37).

f4r Panegyricus Maximiani et Constantini. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 564-71. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 178-90.

g2v Pacatus Drapanius, Latinius: Panegyricus Theodosii. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 647-74. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 437-47; also Pacatus, Panegyric to the Emperor Theodosius, trans. with introduction by C. E. V. Nixon, Translated Texts for Historians, Latin Series, 2 (Liverpool, 1987), 3-6.

i5v Panegyrici Constantini Constantii filii. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 594-607. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 288-93.

k6r Mamertinus, Claudius (Fl. 361-5): Gratiarum actio Juliano de consulatu suo. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 629-46. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 386-92; see also Claudio Mamertino, Il panegirico dell'imperatore Giuliano, ed. Giuseppina Barabino, Pubblicazioni dell'istituto di filologia classica dell'università di Genova, 20 (Genoa, 1965), 17-20; The Emperor Julian: Panegyric and Polemic. Claudius Mamertinus, John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian, ed. Samuel N. C. Lieu, 2nd edn, Translated Texts for Historians, 2 (Liverpool, 1986), 4-6.

m1v Nazarius: Panegyricus Constantino imperatori. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 608-28. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 334-42.

n6v [Incerti Gratiarum Actio Constantino Augusto.] In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 585-93. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 254-63.

o4r ‘Panegyricus Constantino filio Constantii'. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 572-84. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 211-17.

p4r [Incerti Panegyricus Constantio Caesari dictus.] In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 543-53. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 104-8.

q3r [Eumenius]: Oratio pro restaurandis scholis. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 554-63. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 145-50.

r1r ‘Panegyricus Maximiano Diocletianoque'. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 523-31. On the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 41-52.

r6v Mamertinus, [Claudius] (Fl. 289-91): [Panegyric to Emperor Maximianus.] ‘Genethliacus Maximiani Augusti'. In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 532-42. For the author, not to be confused with the author of the panegyric on Julianus, see Emperor Julian, ed. Lieu, 5; also, on the authorship and historical context see In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, 76-80, which doubts the ascription to Mamertinus.

s4v Tacitus, [Publius] Cornelius: Vita Agricolae. Tac. Ag.

u2r Petronius Arbiter: Satyrici fragmenta quae extant. Petr. 1-137. 10.

Imprint

Imprint: [Milan: Antonius Zarotus, c.1482]. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a6 b–e8 f6+1 g–x8 y4.

References

ISTC: ip00027200

Hain: HR 13119;

Goff: Goff P‑813;

BMC: BMC VI 718;

Proctor: Pr 5837;

Others: CIBN P‑15; Oates 2262; Sheppard 4864.

LCN: 14440960

Copies

Copy number: P-009(1)

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled mottled calf; mottled-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.

Size: 227 × 165 × 33 mm.

Size of leaf: 217 × 154 mm.

Washed early marginal annotations. Irregular early manuscript foliation in black ink: 2-167, often cropped. Folio numbers are supplied in black ink in the table of contents. Occasional early running headings in red or black ink.

Provenance: Thomas Thorpe; catalogue, 28 Apr. 1826, no. 1182. Purchased for £2. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1826), 13.

SHELFMARK: Auct. N 5.39.


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