Bod-Inc: P-106
Perottus, Nicolaus
Cornucopiae linguae latinae (rev. Johannes Pompeius Cornianus and Polydorus Vergilius), et al.
Analysis of Content
AA1r [Title-page.]
AA1r [Editorial advertisement addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Habes, amice ac studiose lector . . .’
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 ingegnio'; 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.
AA1v Ponticus Tarvisanus, L[udovicus: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Praemia debentur solerti magna Perotto | Dum pandit nodos Bilbilitane tuos'; 3 elegiac distichs. On authorship see P‑102. Charlet, ‘Observations', 85.
AA1v Caietanus, Daniel: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Hactenus quis quis sibi comparauit | Copiae cornu. Laterem lauasse'; 4 sapphic strophes. Charlet, ‘Observations', 88.
AA2r ‘Tabula'.
CC11r Odaxius, Ludovicus: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Guidubaldus de Montefeltro. CTC IV 267-8.
CC11r Perottus, Pyrrhus: Prohemium [addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro. CTC IV 268-9.
CC12r ‘Brevis commemoratio vite M. Valerii Martialis.’ Incipit: ‘[V]alerius Martialis in Hispania Bilbili . . .’ See CTC IV 269.
CC12v Cornianus, Johannes Pompeius: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Sebastianus Baduarius. Incipit: ‘[Q]uam egregia quanque mirifice Sebastiane magnifice . . .’
CC12v 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.
CC12v 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.
CC12v ‘Alphabetum graecum graecae et latine expositum'.
CC12v ‘Diphthongi graece'.
a1r 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', 88-9; Milde, ‘Zur Druckhäufigkeit', 35 no. 11.
G4r Perottus, Nicolaus: [Epilogue addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro. See CTC IV 269-70.
G4r Perottus, Nicolaus: Commentariolus in prohemium Historiae naturalis Plinii [here addressed to] Antonius Moretus, [but originally to Franciscus Guarnerius]. Incipit: ‘[S]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‑105.
G8r [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Ulrich Gering and Bertold Rembolt, 30 Apr. 1500. Folio.
Collation
Collation: AA BB8 CC12 a–z A–G8.
Types: Types: 190 G, 100 R, 80 R, Gk.
Leaves: 268 leaves, 29-268 numbered i–240.
Line number: 67 lines and headline (a1r), 2 columns in text, 5 in tabula.
Type area: Type area: 267 (279) ×167 (with marginalia, 209) mm (a1r).
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ip00297000
Hain: HC 12707;
Goff: Goff P‑297;
Proctor: Pr 8312;
Others: CIBN P‑117; Hillard 1543; Rhodes 1348; Sack, Freiburg, 2722; Sheppard 6167.
LCN: 14495854
Copies
Copy number: P-106(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) gold- and blind-tooled diced russia; sprinkled red-edged leaves.
Size: 363 × 259 × 50 mm.
Size of leaf: 355 × 245 mm.
The lines of print on the title-page are underlined in red ink.
Provenance: Arras, Artois, Jesuits; inscription on AA1r: ‘Bibliotheca Collegij Atrebatensis'. Bookseller's circular paper label bearing the number ‘1791' in brown ink at the tail of the spine. Purchased for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1854), 45.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.3.
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