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Bod-Inc: S-348

Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes

De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis, et al.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1v] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes: Dedicatory letter addressed to] Angelus Lupus, Bishop of Tivoli. Incipit: ‘Grammaticen quam in meorum usum discipulorum . . .’

[a2r] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: ‘Examen'. Incipit: ‘Grammatica est rectae loquelae rectaeque scripturae scientia . . .’ Explicit: malo hauriatis ex Prisciano

[a6v] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. ‘De nominum declinatione opusculum conpendiosum'. Incipit: ‘[N]omina per casus paucis uariare docebo | Te quicunque puer grammata nostra leges'; 5 elegiac distichs followed by prose. Incipit: ‘[P]rime declinationis nomina aut in a aut in as . . .’ See C. Scaccia Scarafoni, ‘La Grammatica di Sulpizio Verolano in un incunabolo ignoto ai bibliografi', in Studi di bibliografia e di argomento romano in memoria di L. de Gregori (Rome, 1949), 378-84.

[c4r] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis [Preface to book 2]. ‘In opusculum de generibus nominum. Praefatio'. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitanti mihi et tentanti saepe et curiose . . .’ W. K. Percival, ‘Renaissance Grammar: Rebellion or Evolution?', in Interrogativi dell'umanesimo. II: Etica - Estetica - Teatro. Atti del X convegno internazionale del centro di studi umanistici Montepulciano - Palazzo Tarugi - 1973, ed. G. Tarugi (Florence, 1976), 73-90, at 87-9.

[c5r] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. ‘De generibus opusculum'. Incipit: ‘Propria uirorum nomina sunt generis masculini . . .’

[g1r] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes: Verse addressed to] Cyprianus Homagius. Incipit: ‘Castalios latices et amena uireta sororum | Si peragrare cupis iam tibi pando fores'; 2 elegiac distichs.

[g1r] Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De versuum scansione. ‘De versuum scansione, de syllabarum quantitate, de heroici carminis decoro et uitiis, de pedibus et diuersis generibus carminum praecepta, deque illorum connexionibus obseruationes'. Incipit: ‘[C]armen exametrum heroicum . . .’ Explicit: senarium appellamus See Leonhardt, no. B155.1.

[k7v] Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Me duce musarum choreas ingressa iuuentus | Quae fingis dulci carmina docta sono; 4 elegiac distichs.

[k7v] [Colophon.]

[k8r] Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes]: ‘Carmen' [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sunt quorum in manibus nostri monumenta laboris | Vos precor haec iusta pendere lance iuuet'; 4 elegiac distichs.

[k8r] Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Verse addressed to] Aulus. Incipit: ‘Quid iuuat heroo claudum miscere trochaeum | Ultima communis syllaba semper erit'; 3 elegiac distichs.

[l1r] Declaratio quorundam vocabulorum. ‘Sequuntur nunc uocabula explanata in hoc opusculo contenta cum paucis adiectis'. Incipit: ‘[A]bax adiectum idem est . . .’ NO EDITION

Imprint

Imprint: Nuremberg: Conrad Zeninger, 1482. 4°.

Collation

Collation: [a–o8].

Types: Type: 94 G.

Leaves: 112 leaves, 79 and 80 blank.

Line number: 34 lines ([a2v]).

Type area: Type area: 160 ×99 mm ([a2v]).

References

ISTC: is00831920

Hain: H *15149;

Goff: Goff S‑834;

Proctor: Pr 2232;

Others: BSB‑Ink S‑625; Sheppard 1619.

LCN: 14009124

Copies

Copy number: S-348(1)

Wanting the blank leaves [i8] and [k1].

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, with black cloth; bound for the Bodleian Library.

Size: 219 × 159 × 21 mm.

Size of leaf: 212 × 145 mm.

On [k8r] the following note in a contemporary German hand in brown ink, probably that of J. Peham(?): ‘Ad lectorem C. H. | Mox si vis doctus effici (?) doctus festinantes | Huncce(?) Codicem legere audis efficieris | Huncce sic codicem audieris'. In the same hand ‘Obijt dudū' after the name of the printer in the colophon. Early signatures, in red ink, partially visible.

Initials, paragraph marks, and chapter heading underlining are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.

Provenance: Johannes Peham (sixteenth century); inscription in brown ink on [o8v]: ‘Ex libris frater Johannis Pehā conuentus Nurenbergensis'. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; judging from the shelfmark probably a duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich acquired in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.97.


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