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Vergilius Maro, Publius

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Analysis of Content

[a2r] ‘Tabula'. Incipit: ‘[P]u. V. Maronis uita . . .’

[a3r] [Donatus, Aelius]: ‘Publii Virgilii Maronis Vita'. Incipit: ‘[P] Virgilius Maro parentibus modicis fuit . . .’ Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae, ed. G. Brugnoli and F. Stok (Rome, 1997), 77-119. This version of Donatus' Vita ends ‘omnibus aliis praetulit'. On the early printed sources of the Vita and the texts in this edition, and on the dubious suggestion of Johannes Antonius Campanus as editor, see Venier 76.

[a9r] Alcimus [Alethius]?: ‘Alcinii uersus'. Incipit: ‘De numero uatum si quis se ponat Homerum | Proximus a primo tum Maro primus erit'; 2 elegiac distichs. Riese 740; Baehrens IV 187; see Walther, Initia, 4131; Schaller 3372.

[a9r] Gallus, Cornelius [pseudo-]: ‘Cornelii Galli uersus'. Incipit: ‘Temporibus laetis tristamur maxime Caesar | Hoc uno ammisso quem gemo Virgilium'; 5 elegiac distichs. Riese 242; Baehrens IV 183; Shackleton Bailey 235; see Walther, Initia, 19156; Schaller 16206. The poems in this edition that have been edited by Riese and/or Baehrens were transmitted as part of the Anthologia Latina corpus.

[a9r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Hortulus'. Incipit: ‘Adeste Musae maxumi proles Iouis | Laudem feracis praedicemus hortuli'; 25 iambic trimeters. Riese 635; Baehrens IV 152; see Walther, Initia, 518; Schaller 286. The initials ‘PVM' or ‘P. V. Maronis' in the heading attribute this poem to Vergil. However, evidence for the transmission of this and the other epigrams headed ‘PVM' as the work of Vergil is slight. Riese and Baehrens list this poem as one of the Carmina XII Sapientum. On their appearance in this edition see Venier 28; M. Rosellini, ‘Vicende umanistiche dei carmina XII sapientum’, Rivista de Filologia e di istruzione classica, 123 (1995), 320-46, at 327.

[a9v] ‘De uino et Venere'. Incipit: ‘Nec Veneris nec tu uini capiaris amore | Vno nanque modo uina Venusque nocent'; 8 elegiac distichs. Riese 633; Baehrens IV 150; see Walther, Initia, 11706; Schaller 10135. Riese and Baehrens list this poem as one of the Carmina XII sapientum.

[a9v] ‘De liuore'. Incipit: ‘Liuor tabificum malis uenenum | Intactis uorat ossibus medullas'; 25 hendecasyllabics. Riese 636; Baehrens IV 153; see Walther, Initia, 10378; Schaller 8980. Riese and Baehrens list this poem as one of the Carmina XII sapientum.

[a10r] [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen 7.] ‘De cantu Sirenarum'. Incipit: ‘Sirenae uarios cantus Acheloia proles | Et solis miseros ore ciere modos'; 9 elegiac distichs. Riese 637; Baehrens IV 154; see Walther, Initia, 18260; Schaller 15408. Riese and Baehrens list this poem as one of the Carmina XII sapientum.

[a10r] [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen.] ‘Eiusdem'. Incipit: ‘Clarus inoffenso redibat lumine Titan | Laetificusque dies erat omnibus aethere puro'; 6 hexameters. Riese 638; Baehrens IV 155; see Walther, Initia, 2846; Schaller 2372. Riese and Baehrens list this poem as one of the Carmina XII sapientum.

[a10v] ‘De fortuna'. Incipit: ‘Fortuna potens tantum | Nuris(!) atrox quae uendicas'; 15 Asclepiadic lines. See Walther, Initia, 6810; the first two lines are a corrupt, but often repeated, opening of the same poem, starting ‘O Fortuna potens et nimium levis | Tantum iuris atrox quae tibi vendicas', given by Riese 629; Baehrens IV 148; see Walter 12656; Schaller 10893.

[a10v] ‘De Orpheo'. Incipit: ‘Threicius quondam uates | Fide creditur canora'; 12 lines in corrupt form from a poem which in modern editions is printed in the form of six distichs in the Third Archilochian metre. Riese 628; Baehrens IV 147; see Walther, Initia, 19280; Schaller 16363. Riese and Baehrens list this poem as one of the Carmina XII sapientum.

[a11r] ‘De seipso'. Incipit: ‘Mellifluum quisquis Romanum nescit Homerum | Me legat et lecto credat utrunque sibi'; 3 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 10873.

[a11r] [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. Incipit: ‘Per binos diesque nouem superexit in annos | Iusta senescentum quod et implet uita uirorum'; 10 hexameters. Prete 99 no. 4 (Green 107 no. 22); see Walther, Initia, 13929.

[a11r] ‘De ludo'. Incipit: ‘Sperne ludum uersat mentes uesana libido | Fraude carete graues ignari credite doctis'; 12 hexameters. Many editions read ‘lucrum' for ‘ludum'. Riese 495; Baehrens IV 119; see Walther, Initia, 18488; Schaller 15573; also J. Stohlmann, ‘Nachträge zu Hans Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 9 (1972), 320-44, at 341.

[a11v] [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. Incipit: ‘Prima Cleonei tolerata erumna leonis | Proxima lernaeam ferro et face contulit hydram; 12 hexameters. Prete 112 no. 24 (Green 103 no. 17)

[a11v] ‘Argumenta xii librorum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘Aeolus immittit uentos Iunone precante | Troianosque uagos Lybicas expellit in oras'; hexameters. Riese 591; Baehrens IV 136; see Walther, Initia, 584; Schaller 367. Riese and Baehrens list this poem as one of the Carmina XII sapientum.

[b1r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inuentis.’ See V‑072.

[b1r] [Note about the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragedias, Talia comoedias, Euterpe tibyas, Terpsichore psalterium, Eratho geomotriam(!), Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia rhetoricam.’

[b1r] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Elegia in Mecoenatis obitu quae dicitur Virgilii cum non sit.’ See V‑072. On the pseudo-Vergilian authorship and the transmission of this poem see notes on the ‘Appendix Vergiliana' in V‑072 [A4r].

[b3v] Palladius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Epitaphia virorum illustrium'. See V‑072.

[b4r] Asclepiades: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4r] Eusebius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4r] Pompelianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4r] Maximianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4r] Vitalis: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4r] Basilius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4r] Asmodianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4r] Vovianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4v] Eugenius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4v] Iulianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4v] Hilasius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4v] [Epitaphium Vergilii.] ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.

[b4v] [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.

[b4v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.

[b4v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Tristia fata tui dum fles in Daphnide Flacci | Docte Maro, fratrem diis immortalibus aequas'; 2 hexameters. Riese 778; Baehrens IV 187; see Schaller 16487.

[b4v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi | Capras rus hostes fronde ligone manu'; 1 elegiac distich. Riese 800 lines 1-2; Baehrens IV 188; see Walther, Initia, 13779; Schaller 11706.

[b5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Juppiter in caelis Caesar regit omnia terris'; 1 hexameter. Riese 813; Baehrens IV 160; see Schaller 8543

[b5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Tarpeio quondam consedit culmine cornix | Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit'; 1 elegiac distich. W. Morel Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum Epicorum et Lyricorum (Leipzig, 1975), 133, where the first line reads ‘Nuper Tarpeio quae sedit culmine cornix'.

[b5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Littera rem gestam loquitur res ipsa medullam | Verbi quam vivax mens videt intus habet'; 1 elegiac distich. Riese 663; Baehrens IV 161; see Schaller 8969

[b5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Sus iuvenis serpens casum venere sub imo | Sus iacet extinctus serpens pede tum ille veneno'; 2 hexameters. Riese 160; Baehrens IV 158 with variations; see Walther, Initia, 18931; Schaller 15908.

[b5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Anguis aper iuvenis pereunt in vulnere morsu | Hic fremit ille gemit sibilat hic moriens'; 1 elegiac distich. Riese 160; Baehrens IV 158 with variations; see Schaller 798

[b5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus serpens iuvenis pariter periere vicissim | Dente perit iuvenis serpens pede porcus ab ictu'; 2 hexameters.

[b5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De speculo'. Incipit: ‘[R]edditur effigies liquidaque tuentis in unda | Qualis in aduerso speculorum cernitur orbe'; 24 hexameters. Riese 519; Baehrens IV 122; see Walther, Initia, 16471; Schaller 14092.

[b5v] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii uersus experientia.’ Incipit: ‘Qua ratis aegit iter iuncto boue plaustra trahuntur | Postquam tristis hiems frigore iunxit aquas'; 11 elegiac distichs. Riese 531-42; Baehrens IV 124-5; see Walther, Initia, 14957; Schaller 12810. Listed by Riese and Baehrens as part of Carmina XII sapientum.

[b5v] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii experientia.’ Incipit: ‘Thaumantis proles uarianti ueste figuras | Multicolor picto per nubila deuolat arcu'; 36 hexameters. Riese 543-54; Baehrens IV 126-8; see Walther, Initia, 19026; Schaller 16333. Listed by Riese and Baehrens as part of Carmina XII sapientum.

[b6r] ‘De quatuor temporibus anni.’ Incipit: ‘Verque nouum stabat cinctum florente corona | Stabat nuda aetas et spicea serta gerebat'; hexameters. Riese 566a-578; Baehrens IV 131-4, with the twelve ‘Tetrasticha de quatuor temporibus', here all merged into one sequence, beginning with the four lines from Ov. Met. 2. 27-30.

[b7r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis'. Riese 579-90; Baehrens IV 134-6, where the 12 tetrasticha are listed separately as ‘Tetrasticha de aurora et sole'; see Walther, Initia, 1850; Schaller 1499.

[b8r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Herculis laboribus'. Incipit: ‘[C]ompressit Nemeae primum uirtute leonem | Extincta est anguis quae pullulat hydra secundo'; 12 hexameters. See Walther, Initia, 3073.

[b8r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'.} Riese 632; Baehrens IV 149; see Walther, Initia, 10361; Schaller 8966.

[b8r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De signis caelestibus'. Riese 615-26; Baehrens IV 143; followed by the other 11 ‘hexasticha de duodecim signis', listed separately in Baehrens IV 143-6.

[b9r] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versiculi Virgilii'. Incipit: ‘Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane | Diuisum imperium cum Ioue Caesar habes'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑072.

[b9r] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Hos ego uersiculos feci tulit alter honorem | Sic uos non uobis mellificatis aper'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑072.

[b9v] Vergililus Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘In Balistam latronem'. See V‑072.

[b9v] Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versus Ouidii.’ Incipit: ‘Qualis bucolicis quantus tellure domanda | Vitibus arboribusque apibus pecorique satisque'; 4 hexameters. See V‑072.

[b9v] ‘Summa Virgilianae narrationis in tribus operibus Bucolicis, Georgicis et Aeneide.’ Incipit: ‘[P]astorum musam uario certamine promit | Ruris item dociles culturam carmine monstrat'. See V‑072.

[b10r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Super libris xii Aenidos.’ Incipit: ‘[A]eolus immittit uentos Iunone precante | Troianos Libycasque uagos expellit in oras'; hexameters. The second appearance of this poem in this edition.

[c2r] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Aegloga prima inter loquutores. Meliboeus et Tytirus amici.’ Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072. For this edition see Venier 76.

[d4v] Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Tetrastichon in primum librum Georgicon Virgilii'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quae sydera seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'; 4 hexameters. See V‑072.

[d4v] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.

[g6v] Octavius Augustus [pseudo-]: ‘Pro Virgilii Aeneide uersus'. Incipit: ‘[E]rgo ne supremis potuit uox improba uerbis | Tam dirum mandare nephas? ergo ibit in ignes?'; hexameters. See V‑072.

[g7r] [Argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae contineant duodecim Aeneidos libri.’ Incipit: ‘Primus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Et docet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'; 12 hexameters. See V‑072.

[g7r] [Second argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae primo Aeneidos libro contineantur.’ Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libyes apellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.

[g7v] [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus siluis uicina coegi'; 4 hexameters. See V‑072.

[g7v] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.

[y1v] [Brippius, Josephus: Argumentum.] Incipit: ‘[T]urnus ut extremo uitam sub Marte profudit | Subdunt se Rutuli Aeneae Troiana sequentes'; 12 hexameters. B. Schneider, Das Aeneissupplement des Maffeo Vegio (Weinheim, 1985), 48, and at 31 for the authorship.

[y2r] Vegius, Maphaeus: ‘Aeneidos liber tertiusdecimus'. Incipit: ‘[T]urnus ut extremo deuictus Marte profudit | Effugientem animam medioque sub agmine uictor'; hexameters. Schneider, Aeneissupplement, 56-130, with discussion of the manuscript tradition at 24-40, and for the work at 12-23.

[z1r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Moretum. See V‑072.

[z2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–LXXXI]. ‘Ad Priapum'. Poetae Latini Minores, II.2, ed. F. Vollmer, (Leipzig, 1923), 43-70, nos I–LXXXI, with numerous variant readings. In this edition poem 15 immediately follows poem 14, and poem 26 poem 25; poem 30 is divided into two poems, each of one elegiac distich; poems 43 and 44 appear in reverse order. Poem 58 is merged with poem 59. Poem 68 is divided after verse 8: verse 9 begins the new poem 68a. Poem 72 is divided into two poems of two lines each. Poem 73 is joined to poem 74 and poem 76 with 77. On the transmission see M. D. Reeve, ‘Priapea', in Texts and Transmission, 322-3; F.-R. Hausmann, ‘Carmina Priapea', CTC IV 423-50, at 423-30.

[A2r] [Priapeum.] ‘Ad Priapum'. Incipit: ‘Rusticus aerari quondam nunc uillicus horti | Haec tibi perspectus templa Priape dico'; 3 elegiac distichs. ed. Vollmer, 70 no. LXXXII; Albius Tibullus, Carmina, ed. G. Luck (Stuttgart, 1998), 108. Attributed to Tibullus by Joseph Scaliger in 1572 on tenuous grounds; see Reeve, in Texts and Transmission, 323 and n. 3, 424; apparatus in Tibullus, ed. Luck, 108.

[A2r] [Tibullus, Albius(?): Priapeum.] Incipit: ‘Quid hoc noui est? quid ira nunciat deum? | Silente nocte candidus mihi puer'; 43 iambic senarii. ed. Vollmer, 71 no. LXXXIII; Tibullus, ed. Luck, 109-10. On the transmission of this Priapeum see Reeve, in Texts and Transmission, 323, 437, and at 424-5 for evidence suggesting Tibullan authorship; apparatus in Tibullus, ed. Luck, 109. Lines 20 and 28 of the modern edition are missing from the early editions.

[A2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Copa. AV 81-2. On the pseudo-Vergilian authorship and the transmission of this poem see notes on the ‘Appendix Vergiliana' in V‑072 [A4r].

[A3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.

[A3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.

[A4r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Rosae. See V‑072.

[A5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Culex. See V‑072.

[B1r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Dirae. See V‑072.

[B3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Aetna quae a quibusdam Cornelio tribuitur'. AV 41-76.

[C2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Ciris [addressed to Gaius] Messalla. Appendix Vergiliana, ed. W. V. Clausen (Oxford, 1966), 101-25. See V‑072 [A4r].

[D2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–III]. ‘Catalecton. Priapus loquitur'. Incipit: ‘Vere rosa autumno pomis, aestate frequentor | Spicis una mihi est horrida pestis hyems'; elegiac distichs. AV 131-3. These three poems, together with Catalepton I–XII.2 (see below), are presented as if forming a single work entitled ‘Catalecton'. On the pseudo-Vergilian authorship and the transmission, see notes on the ‘Appendix Vergiliana' in V‑072 [A4r].

[D3r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Catalepton [I–XII.2]. AV 133-43. M. D. Reeve, ‘The Textual Tradition of Aetna, Ciris and Catalepton’, Maia, 27 (1975), 233-8, at 237 explains how it came about that so many printed editions only print the Catalepton poems as far as line 2 of poem XII.

[D5v] [Colophon.] See BMC.

[D6r] [Registrum.] ‘Tabula'.

Imprint

Imprint: Rome: Ulrich Han and Simon Nicolai Chardella, de Lucca, 4 Nov. 1473. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [a¹² b–n¹⁰ o¹⁰⁺¹ p–z A B¹⁰ C⁸ D⁶].

Remarks: Collation as BSB‑Ink and Sheppard, not as BMC.

References

ISTC: iv00157000

Hain: C 6011;

Goff: Goff V‑157;

BMC: BMC IV 24;

Proctor: Pr 3358;

Others: BSB‑Ink V‑107; CIBN V‑112; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 17; Davies–Goldfinch 15; Mambelli 21; Sheppard 2673.

LCN: 14695339

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