Bod-Inc: S-292
Statius Publius Papinius
Silvae (comm. and ed. Domitius Calderinus), et al.
Analysis of Content
[*2v] [Table of contents.]
[*3r] Calderinus, Domitius: [Preface addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘[D]omitius Augustino salutem. Etsi hic noster labor et studium . . .’ See S‑286.
[a1v] [Calderinus], Domitius: [Carmen addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. Incipit: ‘Nuper non fueras in urbe notus | Incultus lacer horridus retonsus |'; 24 hendecasyllabics.
[a2r] Statius, [Publius] Papinius: Silvae. Edited by Domitius Calderinus, as stated at the beginning and the end of the text and commentary. See S‑286.
[a2v] 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. Each poem is followed by Domitius' comments.
[p5v] ‘Papinii Vita'. Incipit: ‘Qui Statio poetae Galliae oppidum patriam assignant . . .’
[q1r] [Calderinus, Domitius: Letter addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. See S‑286.
[q1v] [Calderinus], Domitius: [Commentary.] ‘In Sappho Ouidii'. Incipit: ‘Callias Methymnaeus nulla lucubratione nobilior fuit . . .’
[r4r] [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.
[s4v] [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.
[s6r] [Calderinus], Domitius: ‘Ex tertio libro obseruationum'. Incipit: ‘Video a praepositionem, quom in multas uariasque significatione . . .’ See S‑286.
[t5v] [Calderinus], Domitius: [Postscript addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sic mihi perpetuae contingant murmura laudis | Et bona post funus hora superstes eat |'; 3 elegiac distichs.
[t6r] ‘Registrum'.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Arnoldus Pannartz, 13 Aug. 1475. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*4 a–d10 e f8 g–k10 l8 m n10 o p6 q r10 s t6].
References
ISTC: is00697000
Hain: HC 14983;
Goff: Goff S‑697;
BMC: BMC XII 5;
Proctor: Pr 3528;
Others: CIBN S‑382; Oates 1413; Rhodes 1639; Sheppard 2813.
LCN: 14009901
Copies
Copy number: S-292(1)
Wanting gathering [*].
According to the Registrum the first two leaves are blank, but this can only refer to [*1] and [*2r], since text begins on [*2v]; see BMC.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, bound for the Bodleian Library; sprinkled red-edged leaves.
Size: 242 × 198 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 231 × 183 mm.
Occasional marginal notes in a c.1500 cursive Italian hand, extracting key words and lines from the text, and supplying brackets. Frequent marginal notes in a seventeenth-century German(?) hand, mainly summarizing material from the commentary.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 37.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.7.
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