Bod-Inc: S-351
Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes
De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis, et al.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.] ‘Grammatica'.
A2r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes: Dedicatory letter addressed to] Angelus Lupus, Bishop of Tivoli. Incipit: ‘[G]rammaticen quam in meorum usum discipulorum . . .’
A2r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: ‘Examen'. Incipit: ‘Grammatica est recte loquele recteque scripture scientia . . .’ Explicit: malo hauriatis ex Prisciano
A8v Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. ‘De nominum declinatione opusculum compendiosum'. Incipit: ‘Nomina per casus paucis uariare docebo | Te quicumque puer grammatica nostra leges'; 5 elegiac distichs followed by prose. Incipit: ‘[P]rime declinationis nomina aut in a aut in as . . .’ See S‑348.
D5r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. [Preface to book 2]. ‘In opusculum de generibus uominum(!). Praefatio'. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitandi(!) mihi et tetanti(!) sepe et curiose . . .’ See S‑348.
D7r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. ‘De generibus opusculum'. Incipit: ‘Propria uirorum nomina sunt generis masculini . . .’
I7v Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De versuum scansione. ‘De versuum scantione, de syllabarum quantitate, de heroici carminis decoro et uitiis, de pedibus et diuersis generibus carmiuum(!) precepta, deque illorum conexionibus obseruationes [addressed to] Cyprianus Homagius. Incipit: ‘Castalios latices et amena uireta sororum | Si peragrare cupis iam tibi pando fores'; 2 elegiac distichs followed by prose, with explicit ‘Sulpitium plectra lyramque gero'. See Leonhardt, no. B155.1.
N5v Servius Honoratus, Maurus: De centum metris [Extracts]. ‘Sumpta ex Seruii centimetro'. Incipit: ‘[M]etra uel a pedibus uel a rebus nomen accepere . . .’ For an edition of the De centum metris see Keil, Grammatici Latini, IV, 456-67.
O6v [Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Me duce musarum coreas ingressa iuueutus(!) | Que fingis dulci carmina docta sono; 4 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Lyons]: Gaspard Ortuin, [c.1495]. 8°.
Collation
Collation: A–E [F G] H–O8.
Types: Types: 96 G; 70 G. Capital spaces, some with guide-letters.
Leaves: 112(?) leaves, the last two presumably blank.
Line number: 28 lines (A3r).
Type area: Type area: 99 ×63 mm (A3r).
Remarks: Leaf A1r, title: ‘Grammatica ſulpicij.' | [Device, Polain, Marques, no. 59)]; A2r: ‘¶ Ampliſſimo longeqƺ reuerendo | patri [et] dn̄o. dn̄o Angelo pontifici. | Turpitino: [et] in agro piceno vicele= | gato digniſſimo. Sulpicius verula | nus cū plurima cōmendatione felici | tatem . . .'; l. 20: ‘¶ Sulpicij verulani examen. | ¶ Grāmatica: est recte loquele: recteqƺ scriptu= | re ſcientia . . .'; O6v, l. 25: ‘¶ Ex ſi nō celebras me carmine: dicito ſaltē. | ¶ Hec per ſulpitiū plectra lyramqƺ gero. || ¶ Finis.’
References
ISTC: is00841150
Proctor: Not in Pr;
Others: Sheppard 6632-3.
LCN: 14009161
Copies
Copy number: S-351(1)
Wanting gatherings F, G, and sheets O1.8 and O2.7. The title and device cut out and mounted.
Binding: Paper boards covered with parchment leaves from a fifteenth-century hagiographical manuscript on parchment.
Size: 134 × 95 × 18 mm.
Size of leaf: 127 × 89 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, mainly extracting key concepts and structuring the text, in an early hand in brown ink.
Provenance: Cornelius Donalain (sixteenth century); inscription in red ink on A2v: ‘Liber Cornelij Donalain'. Purchased in 1952 from Pampiere Wereld, Amsterdam; unsigned note [by David Rogers] on the front pastedown.
SHELFMARK: Inc. f. F2.4.
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