Bod-Inc: T-205
Tibullus, Albius
Elegiae, sive Carmina, et al.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] [Vita Propertii.] Incipit: ‘[A]urelius Propertius elegiae scriptor egregius, patria Beuania fuit Umbriae . . .’
[a2r] Tibullus, Albius: [Elegiae: I–II]. ‘Albii Tibulli equitis Romani poetae clarissimi liber Primus: quod spretis diuitiis et militia Deliam amet et amori seruiat.’ Tib. 1-2 (Tibullus, Albii Tibulli aliorumque libri tres, ed. F. W. Lenz and K. Galinksy (Leiden, 1971), 51-127). On the transmission see M. D. R[eeve], ‘Tibullus', in Texts and Transmission, 420-5; Tibullus, Libri tres, ed. Lenz and Galinsky, 1-32, at 3, for the three-book division of the corpus attested in the earliest witnesses of the complete text; at 4 for appearance of the corpus in three books at the time of Messalla's death; and at 8-9 surveying evidence for the opposing views that the Tibullan corpus was originally transmitted in two or three books; see there for further references. On this edition see J. H. Gaisser, ‘Catullus', in CTC VII 207 and n. 81; Albius Tibullus, Carmina, ed. I. G. Huschke (Leipzig, 1819), pp. vi, xlv–xlvi (`Veneta maior'), providing evidence that it may not have been the editio princeps. For the most recent bibliography on Tibullus see P. Militerni della Morte, ‘Rassegna di Studi Tibulliani (1984-99)', Bollettino di Studi Latini, 30 (2000), 204-46.
[c4r] [Tibullus, Albius, pseudo-: Elegiae: III.] ‘Ad Neaeram amasiam suam Liber iii.’ Tibullus, Libri tres, ed. Lenz and Galinsky, 128-70. Evidence of who wrote these 20 poems is meagre. See Tibullus, Libri tres, ed. Lenz and Galinsky, 3, and Der Neue Pauly, ed. H. Cancik and H. Schneider (Stuttgart, 1999), VII 551-2, for attributions of poems 3. 1-6 to a poet Lygdamis or to Tibullus, with further references given there. On Tibullus as possible author of 3. 7 (`Laudes Messallae'), and Sulpicia as authoress of 8-12 and 19-20, see Tibullus, Libri tres, ed. Lenz and Galinsky, 4; RE IV A:1, 87-8.
[d6v] ‘Summa uitae Albii Tibulli.’ Tibullus, Libri tres, ed. Lenz and Galinsky, 171; U. Pizzani, ‘Le vite umanistiche di Tibullo', Res publica litterarum, 5 (1982), 252-67, at 254. On this and its transmission see Pizzani 252-6.
[d6v] [Marsus, Domitius]: Epitaphium Tibulli. Tibullus, Libri tres, ed. Lenz and Galinsky, 171; see Walther, Initia, 19097. For the attribution of authorship to Marsus see J. J. Scaliger, Catulli Tibulli Propertii nova editio et . . . Castigationum (Leiden, 1577), 166; Pizzani, ‘Vite umanistiche', 254-5 and n. 9, and 260 and notes 52-3, for arguments against L. Luisides' hypothesis that Scaliger saw ‘D. M.' in his manuscript.
[d6v] Ovidius Naso, [Publius: Amores, 3. 9]. ‘Epistola in qua conqueritur de morte Tibulli'. Ov. Am. 3. 9.
[d7r] Propertius, [Sextus Aurelius: Elegiae]. ‘Propertii Vmbri Meuani poetae elegiographi clarissimi liber primus.’ Prop.
[m6v] [Ovidius Naso, Publius: Remedia Amoris, 763-4.] Ov. Rem. 763-4.
[m6v] [Propertius, Sextus Aurelius: Carmina, 1. 7. 24.] Prop. 1. 7. 24.
[n1v] Squarzaficus, Hieronymus: [Vita Catulli.] Allenspach–Frasso 265; G. Bombieri, ‘Collazione di alcune antiche edizioni di Catullo', Acme, 15 (1962), 179-239, at 179.
[n2r] Guarinus Veronensis [pseudo-; Campesanus, Benvenutus]: ‘Hextichum . . . in libellum Valerii Catulli eius conciuis'. Incipit: ‘Ad patriam uenio longis de finibus exul | Causa mei reditus compatriota fuit'; 3 elegiac distichs. See C‑139.
[n2r] Catullus, [Gaius] Valerius: [Carmina]. ‘Liber ad Cornelium Gallum.’ Catul. On this edition see J. H. Gaisser, Catullus and his Renaissance Readers (Oxford, 1993), 25-8, with illustration of this leaf at 27, pl. 1; M. Zicàri, ‘Calfurnio editore di Catullo', in Scritti Catulliani, ed. P. Parroni (Urbino, 1979), 105-8, at 106. For a collation of this edition see Bombieri, ‘Collazione', 179-99.
[s3r] Statius, P[ublius] Papinius: Silvae. ‘P. Papini Statii Surculi Silvarum liber primus. Prohemium ad stellam'. Stat. Silv. On this work see S‑286.
[B4v] [Colophon.] ‘Tabula Librorum qui sunt in praesenti uolumine: Albius Tibullus . . . Aurelius Propertius Beuanus . . . Catulli Veronensis . . . Publius Papinius Statius . . . M.CCCC.LXXII'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Vindelinus de Spira], 1472. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–g8 h8-1 i–k8 l m6 n–p8 q–r6 s8 2s2 t–z8 A–B6].
References
ISTC: it00366400
Hain: HC *4758;
BMC: BMC V 161;
Proctor: Pr 4043;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑344; Fava–Bresciano 1110; Oates 1613; Sheppard 3218.
LCN: 14716866
Copies
Copy number: T-205(1)
Wanting the gatherings containing Propertius and Statius, Silvae, [a1], and the blank leaf [r6].
Binding: Late eighteenth-century gold-tooled blue morocco with doublures, stamped with the arms of the Rt Hon. Thomas Grenville. Gilt-edged leaves. White parchment pastedowns, gold-tooled parchment endleaves.
Size: 288 × 203 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 283 × 197 mm.
Gathering signatures in a sixteenth-century north European hand, many cropped, supplied in brown ink in the lower right-hand corner of the recto of several leaves.
Provenance: Rt Hon. Thomas Grenville (1755-1846). Purchased for £12. 12. 0; see ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 58r; Books Purchased (1836), 8.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 5.28.
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