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Bod-Inc: S-349

Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes

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

 

Analysis of Content

a2r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: ‘Sulpitianum opusculum lege feliciter'. [Verse.] ‘Haec quae sunt nostri praeludia parua libelli | Discat Donati post elementa puer'; 2 elegiac distichs.

a2r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Examen.] Incipit: ‘Grammatica est recte loquendi recteque scribendi et uerba interpretandi scientia . . .’

a8v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De moribus puerorum carmen juvenile. Incipit: ‘[Q]ualem te cupiat non rustica mensa docemus | Moribus ut studeas literrulisque simul'; elegiac distichs. This text is printed in Badius, Silvae Morales (Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 14 Nov. 1492) (B‑001); it is also included in J. Wimpheling, Adolescentia, ed. O. Herding (Munich, 1965), 286-9; see Henkel, Schultexte, 309-10.

b2v Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes: Dedicatory letter addressed to] Falco Sinibaldus. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundam horum librorum aeditionem eo tibi dicare constitui . . .’ See Scaccia Scarafoni, La grammatica, 382.

b3r Platina, Bartholomaeus: Epigramma. Incipit: ‘Qui uis ad laetam pueros perducere frugem | Illos Sulpitii lactea uerba doce'; 3 elegiac distichs.

b3v Laetus, [Julius] Pomponius: Tetrastichum. Incipit: ‘Nostra palaemonias non optant saecula chartas | Qum legitis culti munera Sulpitii'; 2 elegiac distichs.

b3v Phileticus, Martinus: Carmen. Incipit: ‘Quisquis es et doctus fieri sermone Latino | Multaque sub paruo codice nosse cupis'; 3 elegiac distichs.

b3v Phileticus, Martinus: Distichum. Incipit: ‘Dogmata Sulpitii toto celebrentur in orbe | Atque sit in precio docta Minerua suo'; 1 elegiac distich.

b3v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. ‘De arte grammatica opusculum compendiosum'. Incipit: ‘Fundamenta cupis Latiae qui noscere linguae | Artibus ut doctis inuigilare queas'; 6 elegiac distichs followed by prose. Incipit: ‘[P]rimae declinationis nomina siue Latina siue Graeca . . .’ Explicit: ex campania See S‑348.

n5v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘His mihi non pretium est quaesitaue gloria libris | Dogmata sed latii tradere uera soni'; 3 elegiac distichs.

n5v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sunt quorum in manibus nostri monumenta laboris | Vos precor haec iusta pendere lance iuuet'; 4 elegiac distichs.

n6r Donatus, Aelius: [Ars maior. De Barbarismo.] ‘De figuris opusculum'. Keil, Grammatici latini, IV 392-402.

o5r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Barbariem quicunque cupis uitare loquendo | Donati hoc lecto codice doctus eris'; 1 elegiac distich.

o5v ‘Quocumque in toto opere continentur breuis et uera interpretatio'. Incipit: ‘Poeta est qui fingit elegantia carmina . . .’ Explicit: diuertor in diuersum eo

r6r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Verse addressed to] Johannes Succarus. Incipit: ‘Exoptata diu munuscula quina libelli | Sint haec conuiuis mensa secunda meis'; 2 elegiac distichs.

r6r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: Libellus de possessivis, diminutivis, denominativis, numeralibus, et punctis. Incipit: ‘[P]ossessiuum est quod cum genitiuo principali significat . . .’ Explicit: culumque dicimus

s6r [Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: Errata.]

Imprint

Imprint: Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1490. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a–r8 s6.

References

ISTC: is00838000

Hain: HC 15154;

Goff: Goff S‑838;

BMC: BMC IV 112;

Proctor: Pr 3846;

Others: BSB‑Ink S‑628; Sheppard 3045.

LCN: 14009225

Copies

Copy number: S-349(1)

Wanting the blank sheet a1.8.

Binding: Nineteenth-century parchment over pasteboards, the spine gold-tooled. Green-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; red and blue silk bookmark.

Size: 202 × 136 × 24 mm.

Size of leaf: 194 × 123 mm.

‘25' in brown ink in the upper right-hand corner of a2r. A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in brown ink, mostly cropped.

Provenance: Robert Finch (1783-1830); see Finch catalogue 277. Taylor Institution, University of Oxford; book-plate: ‘Bequeathed to the University by Robert Finch, M. A., of Balliol College'; shelfmark in blue ink: ‘V 169'. Transferred to the Bodleian in 1921.

SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I2.1490.1.


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