Bod-Inc: P-449

Priscianus

Opera, et al. (ed. Benedictus Brognolus).

 

Analysis of Content

[a2r] Priscianus Caesariensis: [Institutiones grammaticae (Institutiones I–XVI).] ‘De octo partibus orationis'. Keil, Grammatici latini, II–III 1-105.

[r9v] Priscianus Caesariensis: [Institutiones grammaticae (Institutiones XVII–XVIII).] ‘Liber Prisciani Minoris'; ‘De constructione' (in explicit). Keil, Grammatici latini, III 106-377.

[aa1r] Priscianus Caesariensis: Partitiones XII versuum Aeneidos principalium. ‘De duodecim carminibus'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 459-515; Priscianus, Opuscula, ed. M. Passalacqua, 2 vols, Sussidi eruditi, 40, 48 (Rome, 1987-99), II 43-128.

[dd2r] Priscianus Caesariensis [pseudo-]: De accentibus. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 519-28.

[dd6r] Priscianus Caesariensis: De figuris numerorum. ‘De ponderibus et mensuris'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 404-17; Passalacqua I 4-18.

[dd9v] Priscianus Caesariensis [pseudo-; Remmius Flavianus: Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris.] Incipit: ‘[P]ondera Peoriis(!) ueterum memorata libellis | Nosse iuuat pondus rebus natura locauit'; hexameters. Riese I‑II no. 486; on authorship see also George B. Parks and F. Edward Cranz, ‘Dionysius Periegetes', CTC III 31.

[ee1v] [Colophon.]

[ee2r] Hermogenes [pseudo-]: Praeexercitamina. Translated from Greek by Priscianus. ‘De preexercitamentis rhetorice'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 430-40; Passalacqua I 33-49.

[ee6v] Priscianus Caesariensis: De metris fabularum Terentii. ‘De versibus comicis ratio'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 418-29; Passalacqua I 19-32.

[ff1r] Rufinus [Antiochensis]: Commentarium in metra Terentiana. ‘Commentarium de metris comicis'. Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 554-65.

[ff3v] Rufinus [Antiochensis]: De compositione et metris oratorum. Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 565-78.

[gg1r] Priscianus Caesariensis: [Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo.] Keil, Grammatici latini, III 440-56; Passalacqua II 3-41; see also Colette Jeudy, ‘L'Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo de Priscien: manuscrits et commentaires médiévaux', Revue d'Histoire des Textes, 2 (1972), 73-144.

[gg7r] Dionysius [Periegetes]: De situ orbis or Periegesis. A shorter paraphrase of the text translated from Greek by Priscianus. ‘De orbis situ'. ‘[N]ature genitor que mundum continet omnem | Annue rex celi positum telluris et vnde'; hexameters. La Périégèse de Priscien, ed. Paul van de Woestijne, Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, Werken uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Wijsbegeerte en Letteren, 116 (Bruges, 1953), 37-99; see also Parks and Cranz, ‘Dionysius Periegetes', CTC III 31-5. The volume was edited by Benedictus Brognolus, as acknowledged in the edition by Hannibal Foxius, Venice 1485 (Pr 5007), the structure of which is exactly like this one. Ultimately, all subsequent editions are based on it. See M. Gibson, ‘The Collected Works of Priscian: the Printed Editions 1470-1859', Studi Medievali, 3rd ser., 18 (1977), 249-60, at 251-2.

Imprint

Imprint: [Venice: Vindelinus de Spira], 1470. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [a–d¹⁰ e–g⁸ h–k¹⁰ l m¹² n¹⁰ o p⁸ q–x¹⁰ y⁸ z⁶⁺¹ aa bb⁸ cc⁴ dd–hh¹⁰], not as BMC.

References

ISTC: ip00960000

Hain: HCR 13355;

Goff: Goff P‑960;

BMC: BMC V 156;

Proctor: Pr 4025;

Others: CIBN P‑592; Essling 113; Sheppard 3199. Microfiche: Unit 8: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part II.

LCN: 14089533

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