Bod-Inc: P-147
Persius Flaccus, Aulus
Satyrae (comm. Johannes Britannicus and Bartholomaeus Fontius, ed. Bartholomaeus Merula).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Britannicus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to the Senate and People of Brescia. Edited by Bartholomaeus Merula, along with the rest of the items in this edition.] Incipit: ‘[C]um multa et uaria in rebus humanis sint in quibus hominum ingenia exerceri . . .’ Explicit: me scripti sunt. Valete See P‑143. Merula is named as editor in the colophon.
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
a2v [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: ‘ “Ne(!) fonte 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
a5r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘ “[O] curas hominum, o quantum est in rebus inane”. Haec satyra lenocinio uerborum plausum . . .’ Explicit: Chrysippum repertum esse
i3r Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Saxettus. Incipit: ‘[R]ecte facis, Saxette carissime, qui ita diligenter studiis . . .’ Explicit: paratissimum semper erit. Vale See P‑135.
i3v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Antonius de Gusago, for Octavianus Scotus, 28 Sept. 1497. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–g6 h i4.
Illustrations: On a1r a woodcut showing the author and the commentators: see Essling, Sander, and BMC; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ip00358000
Hain: HCR 12740;
Goff: Goff P‑358;
BMC: BMC V 577;
Proctor: Pr 5631;
Others: CIBN P‑146; Essling 795; Morgan, Persius, 44; Sander 5564; Sheppard 4712.
LCN: 14494685
Copies
Copy number: P-147(1)
Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century quarter blue cloth, with decorated paper boards.
Size: 302 × 216 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 295 × 108 mm.
The name of Fontius has been cancelled in pen and ink throughout. Some early marginal annotations including extraction of key words, also underlining in the text and commentaries. On i4v a note in a sixteenth-century Italian hand referring to an agreement between a singer and a nobleman in Venice: ‘Baptista Cantor venetus qui in casa del signor Iohannes de Mandelis nobile habitatore discontro de soto . . .Sancto Ambrosio . . .honorando a cantar un per tanto al mense et dacordo com luj al numero de li inni in [ ] gallico . . .’
Provenance: W. J. Leighton; sale, 12 Dec. 1923, lot 6436, marked down for £2. 18. 0 in an annotated copy of the auction catalogue in the Bodleian; slip from another copy of the auction catalogue, with annotations, attached to the recto of the front endleaf. Purchased in 1923: see BQR 4,41 (1924), 112, and Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 20 Feb. 1924, 376.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I4.1497.1.
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