Bod-Inc: P-145
Persius Flaccus, Aulus
Satyrae (comm. Johannes Britannicus and Bartholomaeus Fontius).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Britannicus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to the Senate and People of Brescia.] Incipit: ‘[C]um multa et uaria in rebus humanis sint in quibus hominum ingenia exerceri . . .’ Explicit: me scripti sunt. Valete See P‑143.
a2r Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Vita Persii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ersius Flaccus in Thuscia Volaterras habet patriam quod cum Eusebius . . .’ Explicit: largitor venter
a2r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: ‘Vita Persii'. Incipit: ‘[P]ersium aggressuro in primis necessarium uisum est eius uitam . . .’ Explicit: ipsam aggrediamur
a2r [Britannicus, Johannes: Preface.] Incipit: ‘[S]atyra carmen est, ut Diomedi placet apud Romanos maledicum . . .’ Explicit: uersus faceret
a3r Britannicus, Johannes: [Commentary on Choliambi.] ‘Commentarii in Persium'. Incipit: ‘ “Nec fonte labra”. Versus est senarius iambicus, qui et trimeter . . .’ Explicit: Pegasos habeat
a3r Persius Flaccus, Aulus: [Choliambi.] Pers. Chol.
a3r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on Choliambi.] Incipit: ‘ “Nec funte(!) labra prolui caballino”. Quo maiore animi libertate alios deinde corrigere . . .’ Explicit: indeclinabiliter ponitur
a4v Persius Flaccus, Aulus: Satyrae. Pers.
a4v Britannicus, Johannes: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘ “[O] curas hominum”. Reprehensurus hac satyra uaria poetarum in componendis carminibus . . .’ Explicit: insatiabilem esse ostendit
a4v 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
h3v Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Saxettus. Incipit: ‘[R]ecte facis, Saxette carissime, qui ita diligenter studiis nostris . . .’ Explicit: paratissimum semper erit. Valle See P‑135.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, 13 Apr. 1495. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a8 b–g6 h4.comment[BSB]
References
ISTC: ip00357000
Hain: HC *12739;
Goff: Goff P‑357;
BMC: BMC V 512;
Proctor: Pr 5477;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑252; Morgan, Persius, 43; Sheppard 4445.
LCN: 14492784
Copies
Copy number: P-145(1)
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century diced plain and mottled calf, ‘Cambridge style'; mottled blue-edged leaves; gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 299 × 208 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 293 × 197 mm.
Provenance: Jakob [ ] (fl. 1567); inscription on h4v in a German hand: ‘Supera hunc librum solui quatuordecim florenorum in anno 1567. Qui clepit hunc librum cleps est et cleps morietur et respice finem antetequam(!) hæc facies cogita bene quit(!) facis. Jacob'. Purchased from Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Catalogue (1830), no. 2782, for £0. 9. 0: see Books Purchased (1830), 18.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.28.
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