Bod-Inc: S-195
Sidonius Apollinaris
Epistolae et carmina, et al. (ed. and comm. Johannes Baptista Pius).
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v [Privilege.]
A1v Tachon, Balthasar: ‘Monosyllabi' [addressed to] Nicolaus Corrigius. Incipit: ‘Iste Pius Latina lingua doctissimus in quo | Non minor eloquii pellucet meonii uis'; 12 hexameters.
A2r Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Franciscus Marlianus. Incipit: ‘Praessius indaganti mihi et exactius et inquisitius ruminanti . . .’
A4r Pius, Johannes Baptista: ‘Elegidion amatorium'. Incipit: ‘Frondiferum nemus et nemoris non obuia lustra | Siluaque non uiridem caedua falce comam |'; 32 elegiac distichs.
a1r Pius, Johannes Baptista: Commentarius in Sidonium. ‘De Marco Tullio'. Incipit: ‘Hoc rationis est et in causa quod elicuit et inuitauit Franciscum Petrarcham . . .’
a1r Sidonius Apollinaris: Epistolae. Edited by Johannes Baptista Pius; see preface. Sidoine Apollinaire, ed. Loyen, II‑III.
m5v Sidonius Apollinaris: [Carmina.] Edited by Johannes Baptista Pius; see preface. Sidonius, Sidoine Apollinaire, ed. Loyen, I.
m5v [Pius, Johannes Baptista: Commentary on the carmina.] Incipit: ‘Mimallones, lingua Macedonica Bacchae . . .’
s7r [Ausonius, Decimus Magnus: Caesares, 1-3.] Prete 202 no.XXII.1-29 (Green 161-3 no. XXIII.1-29).
s7v [Carmen.] Incipit: ‘[E]xigit poenas de Caesare curia mollis | Addidit Augustum diuis matura senectus'; 12 hexameters.
s7v [Carmen.] Incipit: ‘[L]ucem et praedictos et regni forte secutos | expediam series quos tenet imperii |'; 1 elegiac distich.
s7v [Ducius], Sebastianus: [Carmen.] Incipit: ‘Flebat in obscura miserum caligine mersus | Sidonius cupiens ire per ora uirum |'; 4 elegiac distichs, in praise of the editor. In this edition Sebastianus is called ‘Decius'.
s8r Trithemius, Johannes: ‘Sidonii uita'. Johannes Trithemius, De scriptoribus ecclesiaticis (Cologne, 1546), 81; ed. G. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca ecclesiatica (Hamburg, 1718), no. CLXXIX.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, for Hieronymus de Asula and Johannes de Abbatibus, 4 May 1498. Folio.
Collation
Collation: A4 a6 b6 c–s8.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: is00494000
Hain: HC 1287;
Goff: Goff S‑494;
BMC: BMC VI 773;
Proctor: Pr 6038;
Others: BSB‑Ink S‑378; CIBN S‑250; Oates 2313-14; Rhodes 1612; Sheppard 5011-12.
LCN: 14051181, 14051271
Copies
Copy number: S-195(1)
Leaf A4r (last word): ‘ſcnis'; leaf c8r (last word): ‘cyclop'; leaf s8r (last line of register): ‘preter a & b qui ſunt terni. & A qui eſt duernus. | FINIS'.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled russia; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; marbled pastedowns; green silk bookmark.
Size: 299 × 212 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 291 × 197 mm.
Ruling in red on A1r and A1v.
Provenance: Scots College, Rome; see erased inscription on A2r: ‘Ex libris Collegii Scotorum de urbe' (erased) on A2r. Purchased for £2. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1789), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.29.
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