Bod-Inc: V-081
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera, et al.
Analysis of Content
a2r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Aegloga prima: interlocutores Meliboeus et Tityrus amici'. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072.
b3v Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Tetrastichon in primum librum Georgicon Virgilii'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quae sydera seruet | Agricola ut facile terram proscindat aratro'. See V‑072.
b3v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.
e4v Octavius Augustus [pseudo-]: ‘Pro Virgilii Aeneide uersus'. Incipit: ‘[E]rgo ne supremis potuit uox improba uerbis | Tam dirum mandare nephas? ergo ibit in ignes?'. See V‑072.
e5r [Argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae contineantur duodecim Aeneidos libri'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Edocet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072.
e5r [Second argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae primo Aeneidos libro contineantur'. Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libyes appellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
e5v [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus siluis uicina coegi'. See V‑072.
e5v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.
t5v [Brippius, Josephus: Argumentum.] See V‑075.
t5v [Vegius, Maphaeus: Aeneidos liber tertiusdecimus.] See V‑075.
u4v Alcimus [Alethius]?: ‘Alcinii uersus'. See V‑075.
u4v Gallus, Cornelius [pseudo-]: ‘Cornelii Galli uersus'. See V‑075.
u5r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Hortulus'. See V‑075.
u5r ‘De uino et Venere'. See V‑075.
u5r ‘De liuore'. See V‑075.
u5v [Avienus, Rufus Festus?: Carmen 7.] ‘De cantu Sirenarum'. See V‑075.
u5v [Avienus, Rufus Festus?: Carmen.] ‘Eiusdem'. See V‑075.
u6r ‘De fortuna'. See V‑075.
u6r ‘De Orpheo'. See V‑075.
u6r ‘De seipso'. See V‑075.
u6r [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. See V‑075.
u6v ‘De ludo'. See V‑075.
u6v [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. See V‑075.
u6v ‘Argumenta. xii. librorum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘Aeolus immittit uentos Iunone precante | Troianosque uagos Libycas expellit in oras'. See V‑075. The poem is divided into 12 five-line epigrams in this edition.
u7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inuentis.’ Incipit: ‘Clio gesta canens transactis tempora reddit | Melpomene tragico proclamat maesta boatu'. See V‑072.
u7v [Note on the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragoedias, Thalia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsichore psaltherium, Eratho geometriam, Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia retoricam.’
u7v 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].
x1v Palladius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Epitaphia virorum illustrium'. See V‑072.
x1v Asclepiades: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x1v Eusebius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x1v Pom[p]elianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x1v Maximianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Vitalis: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Basilius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Asmodianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Vovianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Eugenius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Iulianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Hilasius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
x2r [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
x2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
x2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tristia fata tui dum fles in Daphnide Flacci | Docte Maro, fratrem diis immortalibus aequas'; 2 hexameters See V‑075.
x2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi | Capras rus hostes fronde ligone manu'; 1 elegiac distich See V‑075.
x2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Juppiter in caelis Caesar regit omnia terris'; 1 hexameter. See V‑075.
x2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tarpeo(!) quondam consedit culmine cornix | Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
x2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Littera rem gestam loquitur res ipsa medullam | Verbi quam vivax mens videt intus habet'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
x2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus iuvenis serpens casum venere sub unum | Sus iacet extinctus serpens pede tum ille veneno'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
x2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Anguis aper iuvenis pereunt in vulnere morsu | Hic fremit ille gemit sibilat hic moriens'.; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
x2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus serpens iuvenis pariter periere vicissim | Dente perit iuvenis serpens pede porcus ab ictu'; 2 hexameters.
x2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De speculo'. See V‑075.
x3r. Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii uersus experientia.’ Incipit: ‘Qua ratis egit iter iuncto boue plaustra trahuntur | Postquam tristis hyems frigora iunxit aquas'. See V‑075.
x3r Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii experientia.’ Incipit: ‘Thaumantis proles uarianti ueste figuras | Multicolor picto per nubila deuolat arcu'. See V‑075.
x3v ‘De quattuor temporibus anni.’ Incipit: ‘Verque nouum stabat cinctum florente corona | Stabat nuda aetas et spicea serta gerebat'. See V‑075.
x4r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis'. See V‑075.
x4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Herculis laboribus'. See V‑075.
x5r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'. See V‑075.
x5r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De signis caelestibus'. See V‑075.
x6r Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versiculi Virgilii'. Incipit: ‘Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane | Diuisum imperium cum Ioue Caesar habes'. See V‑072.
x6r Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Hos ego uersiculos feci tulit alter honorem | Sic uos non uobis mellificatis aper'. See V‑072.
x6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De proprietate nonarum musarum'. See V‑072.
x6v [Note on the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragoedias, Talia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsicore psalterium, Eratho geometriam, Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia rhetoricam.’
x6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–LXXXI]. ‘Ad Priapum'. See V‑075.
y6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Copa. See V‑072.
y6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.
y6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.
y7r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Rosae. See V‑072.
y7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Culex. See V‑072.
z4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Dirae. See V‑072.
z6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Aetna. ‘Quae a quibusdam Cornelio tribuitur'. See V‑075.
&5v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Ciris [addressed to Gaius] Messalla. See V‑075.
aa3v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–II.17]. ‘Catalecton. Priapus loquitur'. Incipit: ‘Vere rosa autumno pomis, aestate frequentor | Spicis una mihi est horrida pestis hyems'. See V‑075. The text breaks off at line 17 of poem II.
aa4r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Catalepton [XI–XIII.16]. AV 142-4.
aa4r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Moretum. See V‑072.
aa5v [Colophon].
aa5v ‘Tabula librorum qui in hoc uolumine continentur'.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 24 Aug. 1481. Folio.
Remarks: A reprint of Zarotus' edition of 20 Jan. 1481, which seems likewise to lack the ‘Vita Vergilii' mentioned in the table of contents; see BMC.
Collation
Collation: a–h8 i8+1 K l–q n s–z & aa8.
References
ISTC: iv00163000
Hain: C 6025;
Goff: Goff V‑163;
BMC: BMC VI 750;
Proctor: Pr 5936;
Others: Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 31; Davies–Goldfinch 29; Mambelli 40; Sheppard 4939.
LCN: 14694556
Copies
Copy number: V-081(1)
Wanting leaves x6–8 and gathering y, containing the Priapea.
The table on aa5v specifies ‘P. V. Maronis uita' as the first item in the book, and the commentary of Servius as accompanying the text. The first leaf is blank, and the text is without commentary. See note to edition of Zarotus, 20 Jan. 1481 (BMC VI 716 = London, BL, IB.26001). Sheets e2.7 and m3.6 are each misbound fourth in their respective gatherings.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco, apparently bound for Lord Harley by Christopher Chapman. For the stamps see Nixon, ‘Harleian Bindings', pl. 15, including Chapman 6, 8 (on spine), 11, and 16; for the rolls see pl. 14, Chapman nos 1, 2 (at head and base of spine), and 3. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on an oval of tan leather on both covers, obscuring Harleian centre-piece. Marbled pastedowns.
Size: 312 × 212 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 184 mm.
A few marginal notes in a fifteenth-century hand, mainly supplying catchwords at the ends of gatherings and the lemma ‘surgat eques milles aut superatus eat' on a1r. The same hand also supplies leaf numbers in upper margins and leaf references in the table. Some marginal notes in an early sixteenth-century French(?) hand, supplying brackets, headings, ‘nota' marks, and book numbers in upper margins.
Two- to seven-line initials, some with reserved white decoration, and paragraph marks are supplied in red.
Provenance: Edward, Lord Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689-1741); evidence of binding and remains of label, ‘no. 3676', on spine; purchased by Thomas Osborne; see Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae, I no. 3676. Purchased for £13; see Books Purchased (1825), 26.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N inf. 2.11.
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