Bod-Inc: P-105
Perottus, Nicolaus
Cornucopiae linguae latinae (rev. Johannes Pompeius Cornianus and Polydorus Vergilius), et al.
Analysis of Content
aa1r [Title-page with advertisement.] Incipit: ‘Cornucopie emendatissimum miro ordine . . . Cui etiam addite sunt due carte que in aliis omnibus antea impressis per incuriam scriptorum omisse fuerant . . .’ See Charlet, ‘Observations', 84-5.
aa1v Vergilius, Polydorus: [Letter addressed to] Liberalis Thomasius [de Ravenna]. Incipit: ‘[A]eschines multa doctrina philosophus . . .’
aa1v Palladius Soranus, Domitius: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Membra Pelops obtruncus erat, tamen ille deorum | Dicitur iratus consuluisse pater'; 2 elegiac distichs. Charlet, ‘Observations', 86.
aa1v Philomusus Pisaurensis, Johannes Franciscus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Varronis Nigidique olim monumenta latinam | Ditarunt linguam Romuleosque patres'; 2 elegiac distichs. Charlet, ‘Observations', 84.
aa1v Constantius Fanensis, Antonius: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Non cornu Aetolum, non hic bona copia Cretum | Diua nouum fundit candida Χρυσοκέρας ‘; 2 elegiac distichs. Charlet, ‘Observations', 85.
aa1v Constantius Fanensis, Antonius: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Quisquis amas lepidi sensus haurire poetae | Quem tulit arguto Bilbilis ingenio'; 3 elegiac distichs. Charlet, ‘Observations', 85.
aa1v Philoxenus, Marcellus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Fluminis euicti sacrato diuite cornu | Ornarunt famam Naiades Herculeam'; 5 elegiac distichs. Besutti–Serra I 211; Charlet, ‘Observations', 85.
aa2r ‘Tabula'.
ee6r Odaxius, Ludovicus: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. CTC IV 267-8.
ee6v Perottus, Pyrrhus: ‘Proemium' [addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro. CTC IV 268-9.
ee7v ‘Brevis commemoratio vite M. Valerii Martialis.’ Incipit: ‘[V]alerius Martialis in Hispania Bilbili . . .’ See CTC IV 269.
ee7v Cornianus, Johannes Pompeius: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Sebastianus Baduarius. Incipit: ‘[Q]uam egregia quanque mirifice Sebastiane magnifice . . .’
ee8r Cornianus, Johannes Pompeius: Carmen [addressed to] Aurelius Bacinetus. Incipit: ‘O noue Moecenas studiorum maxime fauctor | Caesaris alterius qui mihi cura subis'; 6 elegiac distichs. Charlet, ‘Observations', 87.
ee8r Cornianus, Johannes Pompeius: [Carmen] ‘Saphicum' [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Plaude nunc multum studiose lector | Copiae cornu qui habes politum'; 3 sapphic strophes. Charlet, ‘Observations', 87.
c1r Perottus, Nicolaus: Cornucopiae linguae latinae [dedicated to] Federicus de Montefeltro. Revised by Johannes Pompeius Cornianus and Polydorus Vergilius. See P‑100; on this edition see J. L. Charlet, ‘Observations', 84-7; Milde, ‘Zur Druckhäufigkeit', 35 no. 8.
O5v Perottus, Nicolaus: [Epilogue addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro. See CTC IV 269-70.
O5v Perottus, Nicolaus: Commentariolus in prohemium Historiae naturalis Plinii [here addressed to] Antonius Moretus, [but originally to Franciscus Guarnerius]. Incipit: ‘[V!]olebam nuper aetati nostre gratulari . . .’ The letter was first printed in HR 12708; see P‑099; in this edition the dedicatee has been altered by the editor Antonius Moretus, so as to be addressed to him rather than Guarnerius; see Monfasani, ‘First Call', 15 and 24 and P‑102–P‑104.
P4v [Colophon.]
P5r ‘Registrum'.
P5v ‘Democritus'; [Vergilius, Polydorus?: Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘[C]onsueuerunt peritissime lector hoc nostro tempore . . .’
P5v [Privilege.] Incipit: ‘[E]t cum non desint . . .’ Tacuinus took out the privilege for this book on 28 Feb. 1495/6; see Fulin no. 42. Notification of the privilege on this book for ten years within the Venetian demain, granted by the doge Augustinus Barbarigus (1486-1501) and his ‘consiliarii' Ser Marinus Leo, Ser Marinus Venerio, Ser Andreas Gabriel, and Ser Antonius Trono.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 20 Dec. 1496. Folio.
Collation
Collation: aa–cc8 dd6 ee c–n8 o8-1+2 p–z [et] [con] [rum] A–N8 O P6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ip00295000
Hain: H *12704;
Goff: Goff P‑295;
BMC: BMC V 531;
Proctor: Pr 5444;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑220; CIBN P‑115; Sheppard 4537.
LCN: 14495830
Copies
Copy number: P-105(1)
Wanting the blank leaf P6.
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) dark brown paper boards, with manuscript title on a rectangular paper label at head of the spine.
Size: 318 × 212 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 318 × 207 mm.
On aa1r ‘Bona Spes' repeated in brown ink and ‘An. 1594' in an early hand. ‘£2. 12. 6' in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the front endleaf.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1833), 18.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.22.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.4.
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