Bod-Inc: P-140
Persius Flaccus, Aulus
Satyrae (comm. Bartholomaeus Fontius).
Analysis of Content
a1v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius de Medici. ‘Prooemium'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uanquam, Laurenti, poetae 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: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus and Dionysius Bertochus, 10 Sept. 1484. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–d6 e4.
References
ISTC: ip00346000
Hain: HCR 12724;
Goff: Goff P‑346;
BMC: BMC VII 1139;
Proctor: Pr 4845;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑247; CIBN P‑141; Morgan, Persius, 28; Oates 1908; Sack, Freiburg, 2731; Sheppard 4039.
LCN: 14492820
Copies
Copy number: P-140(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century Spanish laced case parchment binding with boards; holes and remains of ties (now covered by pastedowns) for original loop and bead fastenings.
Size: 305 × 218 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 290 × 207 mm.
Some early marginal and interlinear notes, mainly in one fifteenth/sixteenth-century humanist hand, and consisting of comments on the text and extraction of key words, also underlining in the text in black ink.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1847), 27.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.29.
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