Bod-Inc: S-294
Statius, Publius Papinius
Silvae (comm. Domitius Calderinus), et al.
Analysis of Content
a1v [Table.]
a2r Calderinus, Domitius: [Preface addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘Domitius Augustino salutem. Etsi hic noster labor et studium . . .’ See S‑286.
a3r [Calderinus], Domitius: [Carmen addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. Incipit: ‘Nuper non fueras in urbe notus | Incultus lacer horridus retonsus'; 24 hendecasyllabics. See S‑286.
a4r 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.
a4r Statius, [Publius] Papinius: Silvae. Edited by Domitius Calderinus, as stated at the end of the text and commentary. See S‑286.
m5r ‘Papinii Vita'. Incipit: ‘Qui Statio poetae Galliae oppidum patriam assignant . . .’
A1r Calderinus, Domitius: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Franciscus de Aragona. See S‑286.
A1r [Calderinus], Domitius: [Commentary.] ‘In Sappho Ouidii'. Incipit: ‘Callias Methymnaeus nulla lucubratione nobilior fuit . . .’
A2r [Ovidius Naso, Publius pseudo-(?): Epistola Sapphus.] ‘Sappho Phaoni'. See O‑037.
B1r [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.
B6r [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.
C1r [Calderinus], Domitius: ‘Ex tertio libro obseruationum'. Incipit: ‘Video a praepositionem, quom in multas uariasque significatione . . .’ See S‑286.
C3r [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: Printer of Cicero, ‘De officiis' (H *5268), c.1481-2]. Folio.
Remarks: This edition is based on Pannartz's 1475 edition. The unidentified printer is designated [Printer of Cicero, ‘De officiis'] in IGI, and [Printer of Columella] in CIBN.
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d6 e f8 g h6 i8 k–m6 A8 B6 C4.
References
ISTC: is00698000
Hain: C 5607;
Goff: Goff S‑698;
BMC: BMC VII 1145;
Proctor: Pr 7337;
Others: CIBN S‑384; Sheppard 4743-4.
LCN: 14006257
Copies
Copy number: S-294(1)
Bound with C‑143; see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 304 × 205 mm.
Wanting the blank leaf C4.
Occasional marginal notes in a fifteenth-century cursive Italian hand, ascribed by J. Delz to Petrus Marsus, including ‘vide commentarium Sylii in secunda cartha ex scri [deletum] dictatis ab ipso Domitio', and a later fifteenth-century Italian hand, both supplying corrections to the text, pointing hands, and extracting key words; Reeve, ‘Statius's Silvae', 218-19.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.27(5).
Copy number: S-294(2)
Wanting gathering C and the blank leaf m6.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled citron morocco; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 292 × 213 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 284 × 198 mm.
Provenance: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722); sale (22 Mar. 1883), lot 11685; see paper label at the head of the spine; former Spencer shelfmarks ‘60.d.7' and ‘B4: 64' on front pastedown. Purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Library Bills (1883), no. 204.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.2.
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