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Bod-Inc: S-357

Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes

De versuum scansione.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes]: ‘Carmen' [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sunt quorum in manibus nostri monumentta(!) laboris | Vos precor haec iusta pendere lance iuue(!)'; 4 elegiac distichs.

a1r Sulpitius [Verulanus, Johannes: Verse addressed to] Aulus. Incipit: ‘Quid iuuat heroo claudum miscere trochaeum | Ultima communis syllaba semper erit'; 3 elegiac distichs.

a1r 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 [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.

Imprint

Imprint: Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 2 Nov. 1482. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a–f8.

References

ISTC: is00855000

Hain: HCR 15164;

Goff: Goff S‑855;

BMC: BMC VI 718;

Proctor: Pr 5816;

Others: Sheppard 4863.

LCN: 14006949

Copies

Copy number: S-357(1)

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.

Size: 205 × 150 × 12 mm.

Size of leaf: 200 × 136 mm.

Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 3445 (`3445' on a small hexagonal paper label pasted onto the lower left-hand corner of the upper cover); purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 26.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.51.


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