Bod-Inc: P-137
Persius Flaccus, Aulus
Satyrae (comm. Bartholomaeus Fontius).
Analysis of Content
a1v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius de Medici. ‘Prooemium'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanquam, Laurenti, poete omnes uel ad benedicendum uel ad honeste . . .’ Explicit: te munere cumulabo See P‑135.
a2r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on Choliambi.] Incipit: ‘ “[N]ec fonte labra prolui caballino”. Quo maiore animi libertate alios deinde corrigeret . . .’ Explicit: indeclinabiliter ponitur
a2r Persius Flaccus, Aulus: [Choliambi.] Pers. Chol.
a2v Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satyrae. Pers.
a2v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘ “[O] curas hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane”. Haec satyra scriptores lenocinio uerborum plausum . . .’ Explicit: Chrysippum repertum esse
e3v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Saxettus. Incipit: ‘[R]ecte facis, Saxette carissime, qui ita diligenter studiis nostris . . .’ Explicit: paratissimum semper erit. Vale See P‑135.
e4r [Fontius, Bartholomaeus]: ‘Vita Persii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ersium aggressuro in primis necessarium uisum est eius uitam . . .’ Explicit: ipsam aggrediamur
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 14 Mar. 1482. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–d6 e4.
References
ISTC: ip00343000
Hain: CR 4702;
Goff: Goff P‑343;
BMC: BMC V 322;
Proctor: Pr 4611;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑244; CIBN P‑139; Morgan, Persius, 24; Oates 1839; Rhodes 1350; Sheppard 3826.
LCN: 14492740
Copies
Copy number: P-137(1)
Binding: Nineteeenth-century half sprinkled calf; marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 319 × 221 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 308 × 202 mm.
Copious early marginal and interlinear notes, mainly in one fifteenth/sixteenth-century German hand, consisting of comments on the text, also a note on a1r on poetry. Some ‘nota' marks in red.
Paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 3091, octagonal paper label on the upper cover; purchased for £0. 11. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 22.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 4.14.
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