Bod-Inc: P-460
Priscianus
Opera, et al. (ed. Benedictus Brognolus).
Analysis of Content
A1r [Locatellus, Bonetus: Address to the reader.] A modification of Cyprianus Cornelius Parmensis's address to the reader in the 1485 edition printed by Foxius (Pr 5007); for the original text and its alterations by Locatellus see Gibson, ‘Collected Works of Priscian', 253-4.
A1v Caietanus Cremonensis, Daniel: [Letter addressed to] Andreas Mocenicus. Incipit: ‘[I]nane et frustratorium est et pauci admodum emolumenti . . .’
A1v Policius, Johannes Baptista: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Saepius in lucem uenere uolumina Prisci | Huic sunt nulla tamen aequiperanda typo'; 2 elegiac distichs. Gibson, ‘Collected Works of Priscian', 249.
A2r Priscianus Caesariensis: [Institutiones grammaticae (Institutiones I–XVI).] Keil, Grammatici latini, II–III 1-105.
A2r Johannes de Aingre: [Commentary on Institutiones I–XVI.] Incipit: ‘[C]um omnis eloquentiae doctrinam et omne studiorum genus. Exequitur morem recte scribentium in prologo suo . . .’ See Gibson, ‘Collected Works of Priscian', 252-3.
CC6v Priscianus Caesariensis: [Institutiones grammaticae (Institutiones XVII–XVIII).] ‘Liber Prisciani Minoris'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 106-377.
CC6v Caietanus Cremonensis, Daniel: [Commentary on Institutiones XVII–XVIII.] Incipit: ‘[Q]ui praecepta artis scribentes inchoarunt a litteris uidentur errasse . . .’ See Gibson, ‘Collected Works of Priscian', 253-4.
II6r Priscianus Caesariensis: Partitiones XII versuum Aeneidos principalium. ‘De duodecim carminibus'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 459-515; Priscianus, Opuscula, ed. Passalacqua, II 43-128.
II6r Caietanus Cremonensis, Daniel: [Commentary on Partitiones.] Incipit: ‘[G]eneralia metra metrorum principalium formae . . .’ See Gibson, ‘Collected Works of Priscian', 254.
LL6r Priscianus Caesariensis [pseudo-]: De accentibus. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 519-28.
LL6r Caietanus Cremonensis, Daniel: [Commentary on De accentibus.] Incipit: ‘Littera. Disputaturus de accentu quod est seminarium uocis litteratae . . .’ See Gibson, ‘Collected Works of Priscian', 254.
MM1r Priscianus Caesariensis: De figuris numerorum. ‘De ponderibus et mensuris'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 404-17; Passalacqua I 4-18.
MM2v Priscianus Caesariensis [pseudo-; Remmius Flavianus: Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris.] Incipit: ‘[P]ondera Paeoniis ueterum memorata libellis | Nosse iuuat pondus rebus natura locauit'; hexameters. Riese no. 486; on authorship see also Parks and Cranz, ‘Dionysius Periegetes', CTC III 31.
MM3r Hermogenes [pseudo-]: Praeexercitamina. Translated from Greek by Priscianus. ‘De praeexercitamentis rhetoricae'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 430-40; Passalacqua I 33-49.
MM4v Priscianus Caesariensis: De metris fabularum Terentii. ‘De versibus comicis ratio'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 418-29; Passalacqua I 19-32.
MM6r Rufinus [Antiochensis]: Commentarium in metra Terentiana. ‘Commentarium de metris comicis'. Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 554-65.
MM7r Rufinus [Antiochensis]: De compositione et metris oratorum. Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 565-578.
MM8v Priscianus Caesariensis: [Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo.] Keil, Grammatici latini, III 440-56; Passalacqua II 3-41; see also Jeudy, ‘L'Institutio de nomine', 73-144.
NN3r Dionysius [Periegetes]: De situ orbis or Periegesis. A shorter paraphrase of the text translated from Greek by Priscianus. ‘De orbis situ'. ‘[N]aturae genitor quae mundum continet omnem | Annue rex caeli positum telluris et undae'; hexameters. See P‑449. Edited by Benedictus Brugnolus, as acknowledged in the address to the reader. The structure of this edition ultimately goes back to Vindelinus de Spira's 1470 Venice edition (Pr 4025).
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 21 Feb. 1496/7. Folio.
Collation
Collation: A–Z AA8 BB CC6 DD–NN8.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ip00971000
Hain: HC *13364;
Goff: Goff P‑971;
BMC: BMC V 447;
Proctor: Pr 5068;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑767; CIBN P‑600; Hillard 1687; Sheppard 4225.
LCN: 14088498
Copies
Copy number: P-460(1)
Bound with:
2. Aulus Gellius, Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti. Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1517;
3. Macrobius, In somnium Scipionis. Saturnalia. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1521.
Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, dated 1537, with two metal catches; stamps too worn for identification. Manuscript title in black ink at head of the spine.
Size: 320 × 225 × 90 mm.
Size of leaf: 301 × 203 mm.
Provenance: Petrus from Jena (sixteenth century); inscription on A1r: ‘Petrus à Jhena Servesta-Anhaltinus'. Johann Heinrich Schulze (seventeenth century?); name on the same leaf: ‘Jo. Henr. Schulze'. Thomas Thorpe; Catalogue (1824), part III, no. 12645, for £3. 13. 6. Purchased for £3. 13. 6; see Books Purchased (1825), 21; ‘Purchased of Thorpe, 1824'.
SHELFMARK: O 2. 36(1) Art. Seld.
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