Bod-Inc: S-352
Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes
De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Opus grammatices'.
a2r [Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes](?): ‘De arte punctuandi'. Incipit: ‘Cum in arte punctuandi (ut in aliis multis) . . .’
a2r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes: Dedicatory letter addressed to] Angelus Lupus, Bishop of Tivoli. Incipit: ‘Grammaticen quam in meorum usum discipulorum . . .’
a2v Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Me duce musarum choreas ingressa iuuentus | Que fingis dulci carmina docta sono; 4 elegiac distichs.
a2v Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Verse addressed to] Aulus. Incipit: ‘Quid iuuat heroo claudum miscere trocheum | Ultima communis syllaba semper erit'; 3 elegiac distichs.
a3r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: ‘Examen'. Incipit: ‘Grammatica est recte loquele recteque scripture scientia . . .’ Explicit: ex prisciano
a5v 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 grammatica nostra leges'; 5 elegiac distichs followed by prose. Incipit: ‘[P]rime declinationis nomina aut in a aut in as . . .’ See S‑348.
b6v 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 sepe et curiosi(!) . . .’ See S‑348.
b7r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De arte grammatica, sive De octo partibus orationis. ‘Opusculum de generibus'. Incipit: ‘Propria uirorum nomina sunt generis masculini . . .’
e6r Sulpitius Verulanus, [Johannes]: De versuum scansione. ‘De versuum pedibus de scansione et de syllabarum quantitate praecepta' [addressed to] Cyprianus Homagius. Incipit: ‘Castalios latires(!) et amena uireta sororum | Si peragrare cupis iam tibi pando fores'; 2 elegiac distichs followed by prose, with incipit, ‘Carmen exametrum heroicum duobus legitime conficitur pedibus . . .', and explicit ‘ . . . phebique sacerdos'. See Leonhardt, no. B155.1.
g4v [Colophon.]
g4v Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes]: ‘Carmen' [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sunt quorum in manibus nostri monimenta laboris | Vos precor hec iusta pendere lance iuuet'; 4 elegiac distichs.
g5r Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes](?): ‘De heroici carminis decore'. ‘De metris'. Incipit: ‘Et si poteram libello iam modum imponere. Syllabarum enim quantitatem quanta pro tempore diligentia . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Westminster]: Wynkyn de Worde, 4 Dec. 1499. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a8 b–h6.
Illustrations: Woodcut: see BMC.
References
ISTC: is00842300
BMC: BMC XI;
Proctor: Pr 9717;
Others: Duff 390; Oates 4139; Sheppard 7464; STC 23427.
LCN: 14006894
Copies
Copy number: S-352(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled pasteboards.
Size: 189 × 138 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 183 × 132 mm.
A few marginal and interlinear notes, mainly providing corrections to the text, in Molineaux's hand; also another note on h6v: ‘|| mex testibus gorsen rusuell cug || ogo(?) batte Suenger hoba barton || hatt formalytys id est p[ ]s'.
Provenance: Thomas Molineux (sixteenth century); on the basis of the script, probably not Thomas Molineux (matric. Lincoln College, Oxford in 1594) suggested by Sheppard, but someone of that name from earlier in the century; not found in G. Molineux, Memoir of the Molineux Family (London, 1882); inscription on a1r: ‘Liber Thome Molyneux testibus messynger wottun(?) gortyn perkyns syluester'. [ ] Fletcher (seventeenth century). James Gibbons (seventeenth century); inscription on the same leaf: ‘Jacobus Gibbons me tenet ex dono [ ] Ffletcher'; Sheppard suggested ‘Thomas Fletcher', but this does not seem to correspond well with the inscription. Thomas Tanner (1674-1735); signature on a1r: ‘Thom. Tanner'. Bequeathed in 1735.
SHELFMARK: Tanner 863.
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