Bod-Inc: T-212
Tibullus, Albius
Elegiae, sive Carmina (comm. Bernardinus Cyllenius), et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Tibullus Catullus et Propertius cum commento'.
a1v [Cyllenius], Bernardinus: [Poem addressed to] Baptista de Ursinis. Incipit: ‘[S]aepe meo uolui dominum signare libello | magnaque pro minimo tradere tecta lare'; 29 elegiac distichs. See T‑206.
a1v [Cyllenius, Bernardinus: Poetae Vita.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam a me nusquam lectum sit apud quempiam unum certissimum maiorum nostrorum codicem . . .’ expl: ‘exilio indecentiora mulctato’ See T‑206.
a2v [Cyllenius, Bernardinus: Commentary on Tibullus.] Incipit: ‘ “[D]iuitias alius fuluo sibi congerat auro . . . magna soli” [Tib. 1. 1. 1-2] Genus carminis dicitur elegiacum . . .’ See T‑206.
a2v Tibullus, Albius: [Elegiae: I–II]. See T‑205. For this edition see Huschke, pp. lx–lxi.
c8v [Tibullus, Albius, pseudo-: Elegiae: III]. See T‑205. Division into fourth book acknowledged in commentary heading on d5v.
e6v ‘Summa uitae Albii Tibulli.’ Incipit: ‘[A]lbius Tibullus eques Romanus insignis forma . . . ut in epistola praecedenti testatur. See T‑205.
e6v [Marsus, Domitius: Epitaphium Tibulli.] See T‑205.
e6v [Vegius, Maphaeus: Epigram.] See T‑206.
e6v [Ovidius Naso, Publius: Amores 1. 15. 27-8.] Ov. Am. 1. 15. 27-8.
f1r Parthenius, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Julius Pomponius [Laetus]. CTC VII 224-5.
f1r Parthenius, Antonius: [Preface to] ‘In Catullum commentationes'. CTC VII 225-6.
f1v ‘Catulli vita'. Incipit: ‘[C]aius Valerius Catullus nobilis inter Latinos lyricos poeta Verone natus . . .’ Partly printed in CTC VII 226.
f1v [History of lyric poetry.] CTC VII 226-7.
f2r [Parthenius, Antonius: Commentary on the Carmina.] Incipit: ‘ “[Q]uoi dono lepidum nouum libellum”. In hoc primo epigrammate poeta Cornelio Nepoti amico . . .’ See C‑143.
f2r Catullus, [Gaius] Valerius: [Carmina]. Catul. See CTC VII 227 for this edition.
k7v Parthenius, Antonius: [Valedictory letter addressed to] the reader. CTC VII 227.
k8r Juliarius, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Parthenius. CTC VII 224.
k8r Parthenius, Antonius: [Verses addressed to his book.] CTC VII 225.
k8r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Minus Roscius. Incipit: ‘[M]axima est uel potius diuina uirtus poetarum, Mine . . .’ See P‑483.
k8v Beroaldus, Philippus: [List of his corrections to the Propertian text]. Incipit: ‘Huic epistolae subiunxi aliquot locos . . .’ See P‑483.
l1r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Commentarii in Propertium' [dedicated to] Minus Roscius. Incipit: ‘[E]legiacum carmen quod a luctu siue a miseratione nomen accepit . . .’ See P‑483.
l1r Propertius, [Sextus Aurelius: Elegiae]. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus. ‘Propertii poetae Elegiographi Clarissimi liber primus ad Tullum'. Prop.
x5r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Hendecassyllabon'. Incipit: ‘Quisquis carptor es et calumniator | Quisquis Liuidus osor obloquutor'; 36 hendecasyllables.
x5v Salius Faventinus, Hieronymus: ‘In inuidum carmen'. Incipit: ‘Inuide quid laceras facundi scripta Philippi | Quid laceras tantum liuide turpis opus?'; 10 elegiac distichs.
x5v ‘Registrum'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 9 Dec. 1491. Folio.
Remarks: H 4765 records a ghost edition with date 9 Dec. 1497 which is presumably based on a misreading of this colophon.
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d e6 f–s8 t–x6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: it00372000
Hain: HC *4763=4765;
Goff: Goff T‑372;
BMC: BMC V 439;
Proctor: Pr 5029;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑347; CIBN T‑278; Oates 1965; Rhodes 1727; Sheppard 4187–9. Microfiche: Unit 25: Italian Humanism: Part II, IH 25.
LCN: 14719060
Copies
Copy number: T-212(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian parchment over paper boards, the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Thickly sprinkled red-edged leaves. Manuscript title on the spine.
Size: 305 × 218 × 31 mm.
Size of leaf: 295 × 205 mm.
Occasional marginal notes in a contemporary Italian cursive hand in black or brown ink, supplying brackets, underlining, corrections to the text, pointing hands, and extracting key words from the commentary on Propertius, and adding to the commentary on Catullus. Bookseller's number in pencil ‘666-105 | C', in the lower right-hand corner of the front pastedown.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 1016; purchased for £0. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.22.
Copy number: T-212(2)
Bound with S‑288(2); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 315 × 205 mm.
A few notes in light brown ink in a c.1500 Italian cursive hand, supplying brackets and extracting key words from the commentary on Propertius and Catullus. A few notes in a darker brown ink in a late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century Italian hand, mainly supplying underlining, corrections to the Catullan text, and extracting key words from the commentary on Catullus. On x6v: in a sixteenth-century Italian hand, a large pointing hand and a single line of verse: ‘Durius in terris nihil est quod uiuat amante' (Prop. 2. 17. 9).
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.5(2).
Copy number: T-212(3)
Wanting the blank leaf x6.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 320 × 218 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 308 × 203 mm.
Frequent notes in a sixteenth-century north European (French?) humanistic hand, supplying underlining, headings structuring the commentary, and glosses, and also extracting some key words and phrases.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1846), 37.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 4.14.
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