Bod-Inc: P-487
Prosper Tiro Aquitanus
Epigrammata de virtutibus et vitiis.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Epigrammata sancti Prosperi episcopi Regiensis de uitiis et uirtutibus ex dictis Augustini.’
a1v Trithemius, Johannes: [Life of Prosper.] ‘Ex libro de ecclesiasticis scriptoribus'. Incipit: ‘Prosper episcopus Regiensis post Fauentium . . .’ Johannes Trithemius, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (Cologne, 1546), 77; ed. G. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca ecclesiatica (Hamburg, 1718), no. CLXIV.
a1v [Prosper Tiro Aquitanus pseudo-(?)]: ‘Praefatio'. Incipit: ‘[H]aec Augustini ex sacris epigrammata dictis | Dulcisono rhetor componens carmine prosper'; 10 hexameters. PL LI 51; Riese 1/2 50-1, n. 493a. For authorship see F. G. Schoenemann, in ‘Notitia historico-litteraria', PL LI 51; CPL 518.
a2r Prosper [Tiro] Aquitanus: Epigrammata de virtutibus et vitiis. ‘Incipiunt epigrammata sancti Prosperi episcopi hexametro et pentametro digesta.’ PL LI 497–532.
d5r Prosper [Tiro] Aquitanus [pseudo-]: Poema coniugis ad uxorem. ‘Prosper de fide et moribus Christianorum et martirum ac de contemptu et breuitate praesentis uitae'. Incipit: ‘[A]ge iam praecor mearum | Comes irremota rerum'; 16 anacreontics, followed by distichs. Incipit: ‘Qui centum quondam terram uertebat aratris | Aestuat ut geminos possit habere boues'. PL LI 611A–616 and PL LXI 737; CSEL XXX 344-8. With three additional lines of text beginning ‘Arbiter operis qui sceptro cuncta gubernas | Dignare famulis uitam dare perhennem(?) | Alma parens christi uotis miserere precantum.' The poem is attributed to Paulinus Nolanus by P. Menna, ‘Illud carmen quod “ad coniugem” inscribitur, divi Paulini Nolani sitne an divi Prosperi Aquitani', Latinitas, 10 (1962), 208-14; Hartel supplies manuscript evidence in CSEL, pp. xxxiv–xxxv.
d6v ‘Commendatio cuiusdam in auctori'. Incipit: ‘Nobilis hic calamum deponit prosper agrestem | Multaque deducens dulci modulamine fila'; 17 hexameters.
Imprint
Imprint: Mainz: Peter von Friedberg, [14]94. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d6.
References
ISTC: ip01021000
Hain: HC 13422;
Goff: Goff P‑1021;
BMC: BMC I 47;
Proctor: Pr 177;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑808; Sheppard 113-14.
LCN: 14087117
Copies
Copy number: P-487(1)
Bound with:
2. Johannes Trithemius, Institutio vitae sacerdotalis. [Mainz: Peter von Friedberg, after 22 Oct 1494] (T‑241);
3. Johannes Trithemius, De proprietate monachorum. Mainz: Peter von Friedberg, 1495 (T‑248).
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards, with red-edged leaves.
Size: 198 × 139 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 190 × 137 mm.
In the last poem a few underlinings and one note in a sixteenth-century hand. In the lower margin of the first leaf of item 1 and 2 a German bibliographical reference in red ink.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 87, with date given as ‘1495'.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.17(1).
Copy number: P-487(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; sprinkled red-edged leaves and a marbled paper index tab on a1.
Size: 179 × 139 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 176 × 131 mm.
A few marginal notes in a contemporary Italian hand, providing brackets, one pointing hand, and a note on the authorship of the text. ‘6' in brown ink on a1r, suggesting that it was formerly bound as an item 6.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dpl' and ‘321' on a1r; ‘321' also on d6v. ‘108' also in pencil. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.25.
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