Bod-Inc: P-470
Probus, Marcus Valerius
De Notis (ed. Johannes Bonardus).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page] Valerii Probi grammatici de interpretandis Romanorum litteris opusculum feliciter incipit. ... Lex ex tabellis diuum de re futuaria. Sacra lex. ... Phylisci consolatoria Marco Ciceroni colloquenti prestita dum in Macedonia exularet per Ioannem Aurispam e Greco in Larinum traducta.
a1v Bonardus, Johannes: [Dedicatory preface addressed to] Marcus, ‘plebanus' of Santa Maria delle Grazie di San Fantino, Venice. Incipit: ‘Consideranti mihi diebus istis reuerendae et ornatissimae plaebane nihil dulcius . . .’
a2r Probus, [Marcus] Valerius: [De Notis] Edited by Johannes Bonardus, as stated in his letter. ‘Valerii Probi Grammatici de interpretandis Romanorum litteris opusculum incipit.’ Incipit: ‘[E]st et circa perscribendas uel paucioribus litteris notandas studium . . .’
d1v ‘Lex ex tabellis diuum de re futuaria. Sacra Lex.’ Incipit: ‘[I]ure uisendi consectandi susurandi gestiundi . . .’ Explicit: grandianimem nobilem insectantor notas coniectarias tutius nouanto. Lex.’
d2r [Inscription.] ‘Romae in ecclesia post captum martium'. Incipit: ‘Bene ualeas quisquis es C. Martiae meae coniugi bene meritaeque . . .’
d2r [Inscription.] ‘Patauil in arca laterina in qua uas fictile clasum(!) erat.’ Incipit: ‘Plutoni sacrum munus ne attingite uates | Ignotum est uobis hoc quod in orbe latet'; 3 elegiac distichs.
d2r [Inscription.] ‘Ibidem in uase fictili in quo uitreum erat inclusum.’ Incipit: ‘Abite hinc pessimi fures uos quid uostris uoltis . . .’
d2r [Inscription.] ‘Romae.’ Incipit: ‘Qui sunt hi gemitus? caritum quae pompa camillae | Unde odor hic? cineri: thura ministrat amor'; 3 distichs.
d2v [Inscription within woodcut.] ‘P[rimus] P[ater] . . . In arcu Romae Sibylla sculpi fecit has litteras Quae postea per Bedam declarate sunt.’
d3r Epitaphium. ‘Epithaphium Scitu Polensis Parasiti historisque festiuissimi apud salonam urbem Dalmatiae in lapide mire magnitudinis.’ Incipit: ‘[V]iatores optumi uel aduenae siue bini: siue singuli incedetis . . .’
d3v Sammonicus, Serenus: ‘Ex libro V Rerum reconditarum'.’ Incipit: ‘[S]i deus si dea est . . . In eadem uerba hostias fieri oportet . . .’ Cited in Macr. 3. 6-8.
d3v Macrobius, Aurelius Theodosius: Saturnalia [extract]. Macr. 3. 9-16.
d4r [Inscription.] ‘In episcopatu Viterbiensi. D. M. S.’ Incipit: ‘Collatinus Tarquinius dulcissimae coniugi . . .’
d4r [Inscription.] ‘Salone in monumento antiquissimo.’ Incipit: ‘Labeo Marsus quem in calamitate Macedonica prolapsum . . .’
d4v [Cassius Dio: Historia Romana]. Translated from the Greek by Johannes Aurispa, as mentioned in the heading. ‘Philisci consolatoria Marco Ciceroni colloquenti . . .’ Incipit: ‘Non pudet o Cicero flere atque effeminate uitam agere . . . ’ A Latin translation of Dio's Roman History, 38. 18. 1-38. 30. 1.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino 20 Apr. 1499 4°.
Secundo folio: A.N. Ante noctem (a3r)
Collation
Collation: a–e4.
Illustrations: Woodcut and woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ip00996000
Hain: HCR 13378;
Goff: Goff P‑996;
BMC: BMC V 534;
Proctor: Pr 5458;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑83; CIBN P‑614; Essling 1179; Oates 2120; Sander 5900; Sheppard 4545.
LCN: 14088551
Copies
Copy number: P-470(1)
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century quarter parchment with paper boards and manuscript title at the head of the spine. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 198 × 148 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 191 × 142 mm.
A few marginal notes, expanding the abbrevations of the inscription on d2v and correcting two words in the title on d3r, in a sixteenth-century hand. ‘6181' in black ink and ‘5742' in pencil, both on front pastedown.
Provenance: John Symmons (nineteenth century); armorial book-plate: see Howe, Book Plates, 28732. Purchased for £0. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1828), 22.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 1.1.
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