Bod-Inc: S-287
Statius Publius Papinius
Opera, et al.
Analysis of Content
a2r Lactantius Placidus: [Commentary.] ‘Interpretatio in primum librum Thebaidos'. See S‑286.
a2r [Statius, Publius Papinius: Thebais.] See S‑286.
q4r ‘Papinii Vita'. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui Statio poetae Galliae oppidum patriam assignant . . .’
A1r Mataratius, Franciscus: [Commentary.] ‘Recollecta super Achilleida'. Incipit: ‘[P]ublius Papinius Statius P. Papinii Statii pater utraque lingua eruditus . . .’ See S‑286.
A1r [Verse summary.] See S‑286.
A1r Statius, P[ublius] Pa[pinius]: Achilleis. See S‑286.
D1r Calderinus, Domitius: [Preface addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘[D]omitius Augustino salutem. Etsi hic noster labor et studium . . .’ See S‑286.
D2r [Calderinus], Domitius: [Carmen addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. Incipit: ‘Nuper non fueras in urbe notus | Incultus lacer horridus retonsus |'; 24 hendecasyllabics. See S‑286.
D2v Calderinus, Domitius: [Commentary dedicated to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘Vates et per antiquos esse et natura duce qua una uigent hoc furoris genere . . .’ See S‑286.
D5v Statius, [Publius] Papinius: Silvae. Edited by Domitius Calderinus, as stated at the end of the text and commentary. see S‑286.
M1r [Calderinus], Domitius: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. See S‑286.
M1r [Calderinus], Domitius: [Commentary.] ‘In Sapho Ouidii'. Incipit: ‘[C]allias Methymnaeus nulla lucubratione nobilior fuit . . .’
M1v [Ovidius Naso, Publius pseudo-?: Epistola Sapphus.] ‘Sapho Phaoni'. See O‑037.
M6v [Calderinus], Domitius: ‘Elucubratio in quaedam Propertii loca quae difficiliora uidebantur' [dedicated to] Franciscus de Aragona. ‘Ex primo libro Propertii in primam elegiam cuius argumentum'. Incipit: ‘ “Vritur et nulla fuas quum mitior arte | Ut se dissoluat Cynthia quaerit opem”. Minalion Athalantae duae fuerunt, altera filia Promethei . . .’ See P‑481.
N3v [Calderinus], Domitius: ‘Epilogus et [ προσφώνησις ] de obseruationibus' [dedicated to] Franciscus de Aragona. Incipit: ‘[S]cio me multa praeterisse quae fortasse explicationem desiderabunt . . .’ See S‑286.
N4r [Calderinus, Domitius]: ‘Ex tertio libro obseruationum'. Incipit: ‘Video a praepositionem, quom in multas uariasque significatione . . .’ See S‑286.
N5v [Calderinus], Domitius: [Postscript addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sic mihi perpetuae contingant murmura laudis | Et bona post funus hora superstes eat |'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Jacobus de Paganinis, 24 Dec. 1490. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–o8 p6 q4 A8 B C6 D–G8 H–N6.
References
ISTC: is00692000
Hain: HC 14978 (incl. HC 14975);
Goff: Goff S‑692;
BMC: BMC V 456, XII 32;
Proctor: Pr 5353;
Others: CIBN S‑377; Oates 2085; Rhodes 1637; Sheppard 4253-4.
LCN: 14009931, 14009942
Copies
Copy number: S-287(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1r.
Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled calf, stained dark red; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; yellow-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; azure silk bookmark.
Size: 322 × 223 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 312 × 200 mm.
Occasional marginal notes in a round Italian hand c.1500 at the beginning of Thebaid and Achilleid, extracting key words, and supplying brackets, pointing hands, and underlining. Copious marginal and interlinear notes in a cursive contemporary hand, on the above texts and on Silvae, extracting key words; supplying brackets, underlining, and technical comments; and following Politianus, often explicitly, in corrections to the text and further comments (of which some are in Greek); Reeve, ‘Statius's Silvae’, 218-20.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 13. 0; see Books Purchased (1789), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 1.6.
Copy number: S-287(2)
Bound with H‑213(1); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 296 × 190 mm.
Wanting the gatherings a to C, containing Thebaid and Achilleid.
Occasional marginal and interlinear notes in two contemporary Italian hands, supplying corrections to the text; see Reeve, ‘Statius's Silvae’, 218-19.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.29(2).
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