Bod-Inc: S-350
Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes
De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r Laetus, [Julius] Pomponius: Tetrastichum. Incipit: ‘Nostra palemonias non optant saecula chartas | Quum legitis culti munera Sulpitii'; 2 elegiac distichs.
a1r Platina, Bartholomaeus: Epigramma. Incipit: ‘Qui uis ad laetam pueros perducere frugem | Illos Sulpitii lactea uerba doce'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a1r Phileticus, Martinus: Carmen. Incipit: ‘Quisquis es et doctus fieri sermone Latino | Multaque sub paruo codice nosce cupis'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a1r Phileticus, Martinus: Distichum. Incipit: ‘Dogmata Sulpitii toto celebrentur in orbe | Atque sit in pretio docta minerua suo'; 1 elegiac distich.
a2r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: ‘De octo partibus orationis'. [Verse.] ‘Haec quae sunt nostri praeludia parua libelli | Discat Donati post elementa puer'; 2 elegiac distichs.
a2r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: [Examen.] Incipit: ‘Grammatica est rectae loquelae rectaeque scripturae scientia . . .’
a5r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De moribus puerorum carmen juvenile. Incipit: ‘[Q]uos docet(!) in mensa mores seruare docemus | Virtuti ut studeas litterulisque simul'; elegiac distichs. expl: queque suo. See S‑349.
a7r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes: Dedicatory letter addressed to] Falco Sinibaldus. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundam horum librorum editionem eo tibi dicari constitui . . .’ See Scaccia Scarafoni, La grammatica, 382.
a7v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. ‘De arte grammatica opusculum compendiosum'. Incipit: ‘Fundamenta cupis Latiae qui noscere lingue | Artibus ut doctis inuigilare queas'; 6 elegiac distichs followed by prose. Incipit: ‘[P]rimae declinationis nomina siue Latina siue Graeca . . .’ See S‑348.
c5r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis [beginning of book 2]. ‘De generibus opusculum'. Incipit: ‘Propria uirorum nomina sunt generis masculini . . .’
i6v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: ‘Opusculus de componendis et ornandis epistolis' [addressed to] Philippus Gentilis Pallavicinus. Incipit: ‘[C]um omnis oratio Philippe Gentilis Palauicine emendata perspicua composita ornataque esse debeat . . .’
l5v Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De scansione et syllabarum quantitate epitome [addressed to] Alexander Farnesius. Incipit: ‘[V]ersus exametri qui sex habet dimensiones . . .’ Explicit: omne genus See Leonhardt, no. B155.2.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, c.1491]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard.
Collation
Collation: a–l8.
References
ISTC: is00841000
Hain: HC (+ Addenda) 15139 = HC 15140;
Goff: Goff S‑841;
BMC: BMC V 468;
Proctor: Pr 5225;
Others: Sheppard 4306.
LCN: 14009092
Copies
Copy number: S-350(1)
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half brown morocco over marbled pasteboards; bound for Boutourlin. Green-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; pink silk bookmark.
Size: 215 × 160 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 151 mm.
Frequent marginal and interlinear notes, extracting key words as well as commenting on the text and analysing it, in a contemporary Italian hand in brown ink.
Provenance: Sargiano, Tuscany, near Arezzo, Franciscans. ‘Sargiano B[ ]t. no. 11(?)' on a2r; also shelfmark ‘K no. 18'. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 804: see Catalogue (1831); not found in sale catalogue. Purchased for £0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1842), 41.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.14.
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