Bod-Inc: T-214
Tibullus, Albius
Elegiae, sive Carmina (comm. Bernardinus Cyllenius), et al. (ed. Hieronymus Avantius).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
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. lxii–lxiv.
e6v ‘Summa uitae Albii Tibulli.’ Incipit: ‘[A]lbius Tibullus eques Romanus insignis forma . . . ut indicat epitaphium infrascriptum'. See T‑205.
e6v [Domitius Marsus]: 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'. ‘Prohemium in Catullum.’ CTC VII 225-6.
f1v ‘Catulli Vita'. Incipit: ‘[C]aius Valerius Catullus nobilis inter Latinos lyricos poeta Veronae natus . . .’ Partly printed in CTC VII 226.
f1v [History of lyric poetry.] CTC VII 226-7.
f2r Fuscus, Palladius: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Bragadenus. CTC VII 240; see Gaisser, Renaissance Readers, 97-102.
f2r Civalellus, Donatus: ‘In Palladii Fusci commentarios endecasyllabon'. CTC VII 240.
f2r ‘Vita Catulli'. Incipit: ‘[V]alerius Catullus quem ob eximiam eruditionem posteriores . . .’ Partly printed in CTC VII 240.
f2r Fuscus, Palladius: [Letter addressed to the reader.] CTC VII 241.
f2v [Privilege to Palladius Fuscus, mentioning the printer, Johannes Tacuinus.] Incipit: ‘[S]erenissime ac excellentissime princeps, et illustrissimum dominium suplicatur uestrae sublimitati . . .’ Privilege granted 14 Mar. 1496; see Fulin 122 no. 45.
f3r [Parthenius, Antonius: Commentary on the Carmina.] Incipit: ‘ “[Q]uoi dono lepidum nouum libellum”. In hoc primo epigrammate poeta Cornelio Nepoti amico . . .’ see C‑143.
f3r Catullus, [Gaius] Valerius: [Carmina]. ‘Catulli epigramma'. ‘Ad Cornelium nepotem'. Catul. See CTC VII 227 for this edition.
f3r Fuscus, Palladius: ‘In Catullum Commentarii'. Incipit: ‘ “[Q]uoi dono”. Versus est endecasyllabus, idem Phalecius ab inuentore . . .’ Partly printed in CTC VII 241. On the commentary see CTC VII 239-40.
n5r Parthenius, Antonius: [Valedictory letter addressed to] the reader. CTC VII 227.
n5r Juliarius, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Parthenius. CTC VII 224.
n5v Parthenius, Antonius: [Verses addressed to his book.] CTC VII 225.
n5v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Minus Roscius. Incipit: ‘[M]axima est uel potius diuina uirtus poetarum, Mine . . .’ See P‑483.
n6r Beroaldus, Philippus: [List of his corrections to the Propertian text]. Incipit: ‘Huic epistolae subiunxi aliquot locos . . .’ See P‑483.
n6v Fuscus, Palladius: [Valedictory letter addressed to] Laurentius Bragadenus. CTC VII 241.
o1r Avantius Veronensis, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Aelius Lampridius Cervinius. Incipit: ‘[L]itteras tuas tam libens accepi, ut nil unquam libentius . . .’
o1r Avantius Veronensis, Hieronymus: ‘Emendationum in Lucretium in Catullum in Pryapeias in Statii Sylvas editio secunda'. Incipit: ‘In a primo lege “lumine caelum” non “numine” . . .’
o1r Augustinus [Käsebrod] Moravus: [Letter addressed to students.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uom nihil praestabilius in rebus humanis inueniatur nihilque diuinius . . .’
o1v Avantius Veronensis, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Augustinus [Käsebrod Moravus]. [Emendationes in Catullum et Priapea.] Incipit: ‘[S]cribis, Augustine eruditorum humanissime, tibi renunciatum esse, quemadmodum hac publica studiorum remissione sepositis altioribus studiis . . .’ Dated 14 Oct. 1493.
o3v Avantius Veronensis, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Marcus Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[S]alue, ingenuorum humanissime, quum his quasi Halcyonidum diebus . . .’
o6v Avantius [Veronensis], Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[D]i te ament, Iacobe, merum Corneliorum exemplar . . .’
o6v [Avantius Veronensis, Hieronymus: Letter addressed to] Jacobus [Cornelius]. Incipit: ‘[F]ortasse ornatissime, Iacobe, uersus ille . . .’
p1r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Commentarii in Propertium' [dedicated to] Minus Roscius. Incipit: ‘[E]legiacum carmen quod a luctu siue a miseratione nomen accepit . . .’ See P‑483.
p1r Propertius, [Sextus Aurelius: Elegiae]. Edited by Philippus Beroaldus. ‘Propertii poetae Eligiographi(!) Clarissimi liber primus ad Tullum'. Prop.
[con]5r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon'. Incipit: ‘Quisquis carptor es et calumniator | Quisquis Liuidus osor obloquutor'; 36 hendecasyllables.
[con]5v Salius Faventinus, Hieronymus: ‘In inuidum carmen'. Incipit: ‘Inuide quid laceras facundi scripta Philippi | Quid laceras tantum liuide turpis opus?'; 10 elegiac distichs.
[con]5v ‘Registrum'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 19 May 1500. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d e6 f–l8 m n6 o4 p–y8 z & [con]6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: it00374000
Hain: HC *4766;
Goff: Goff T‑374.
BMC: BMC V 535;
Proctor: Pr 5461;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑348; Rhodes 1729; Sack, Freiburg, 3483; Sheppard 4546–7. Microfiche: Unit 25: Italian Humanism: Part II, IH 175.
LCN: 14719048
Copies
Copy number: T-214(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [con6].
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; yellow-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 318 × 218 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 308 × 205 mm.
Frequent marginal annotations in Zanetelli's hand, mainly to Propertius, extracting personal names, key words and phrases, and supplying pointing hands, underlining, and brackets. Some notes in another sixteenth-century hand, also extracting key words and phrases, and supplying pointing hands and underlining.
Provenance: Thomas Zanetelli (sixteenth century); name on a1r: ‘Thomae Zanetelli Feltrien̄'. Petrus Villa (seventeenth century); name in black ink on a1r:‘Petri Villa'. Purchased for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1789), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 3.5.
Copy number: T-214(2)
Bound with:
2. Claudius Claudianus, De Raptu Proserpinae. Milan: Guillermus Le Signerre, 31 July 1501.
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled quarter tawed pigskin over beech boards, with metal clasps hinged from lower to upper, and metal catches. On the upper cover triple fillets form a rectangular frame: tendril stamps make up merrythoughts, each containing a floral stamp. On the lower cover triple fillets form two thin rectangles: within the outer frame a repeated lozenge-shaped floral stamp, within the inner frame a repeated upright flower stamp. Three sewing supports. Remains of worn manuscript label at head of spine. The paper endleaves are later (eighteenth/nineteenth-century) additions.
Size: 326 × 219 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 312 × 213 mm.
Pasted on the covers, two copies of a broadside entitled ‘Die auferhebung des folcks und grosser nachfolgung des Sophi und spricht er sey ein prophet und sein gesetz das er neulich im Landt Persia auf erhebt hat', [c.1502], with woodcut; see also M‑293 for another copy.
Some marginal notes in a contemporary hand, mainly providing brackets and pointing hands. The note ‘SOPHI' on rear pastedown. On the verso of the first front endleaf an unidentified coat of arms, supported by the figures of a naked satyr and a woman with elaborate head gear, sketched in brown ink with no tinctures: on a chevron three roses, in base a mullet. At the head of the page: ‘Item nym mit lang'. On verso of front endleaf the pencilled note: ‘Emi in auctione librorum C. Nagel pro 1R 4'. On recto of rear endleaf in red ink the numbers ‘36 4'.
Provenance: Jacob L[ ] (fl. c.1500); name on the verso of front endleaf: ‘Ich Jacob L[ ]'. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 1017(1); purchased for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 3.1(1).
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