Bod-Inc: V-084
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera (ed. Philippus Beroaldus and Paulus Malleolus Andelocensis).
Analysis of Content
a1v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Francus, his pupil. Incipit: ‘Quemadmodum apud Graecos suauissime mi Johannes . . .’
a2r [Beroaldus, Philippus?: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘Vera cothurnati et summa est haec France Maronis | Gloria et hoc uatis est decus eximium'; 2 elegiac distichs.
a2v [Donatus, Aelius]: ‘Publii Virgilii Maronis Vita'. All texts in this edition are edited by Philippus Beroaldus and Paulus Malleolus Andelocensis; see Beroaldus' letter and also the colophon on M8r. See V‑075.
a7r [Verse summary of Bucolicum primum.] Incipit: ‘Hic deflet Meliboeus profugiat quod inique | Tityrus ast laetus quis contulit ocia dicit'; 2 hexameters. Each Eclogue is preceded by a similar verse summary.
a7r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072.
d1r Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Tetrastichon in Georgicon librum primum'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quae sidera seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'. See V‑072.
d1v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.
k1r [Argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Edocet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072.
k1r Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: Argumentum [in verse.] ‘Argumentum in primum librum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libyes appellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
k1v [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus siluis uicina coaegi'. See V‑072.
k1v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.
M8r [Colophon.] ‘P. V. Maronis opus a Paulo Andelocensi exactissime emendatum, Parisiisque in uico Sorbonico . . .’
M8r Sulpicius Carthaginensis: [Poem on the work]. Incipit: ‘Iusserat haec rapidis aboleri carmina flammis | Virgilius Phrygium quae cecinere ducem'; 3 elegiac distichs. See V‑072. On Virgil's wish that his Aeneid be burned.
M8r Caesar Augustus [pseudo-]: ‘Exclamatio in iussum Virgilii pro Aeneidis combustione'. Incipit: ‘Ergo ne supremis potuit uox improba uerbis | Tam dirum mandare nephas? ergo ibit in ignes?’ See V‑072.
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Georg Wolf], 20 Nov. 1489. 4°.
Remarks: Ascribed by Copinger and by Polain to [Ulrich Gering], but Pr, Sheppard and CIBN assign to [Wolf].
Collation
Collation: a–e8 f8+1 g h8 i6 k–z A–M8.
Types: Type: 100 R. Guide-letters in capital spaces.
Leaves: 279 leaves.
Line number: 40 lines (a3r).
Type area: Type area: 198 ×19 mm (a3r).
Remarks: Leaf a1r blank; a1v, l. 1: ‘Ppilippus(!) beroaldus bononiēſis Iohani frāco diſcipulo | ſuo Salutē. Quēadmodum . . .'; a2r, l. 24: ‘Vera cothurnati et ſumma eſt hæc france Maronis | Gloria: et hoc vatis . . .'; a2v, l. 1: ‘PVBLII VIRGILII MARONIS VITA. | p. Virgili9 Maro parētib9 modicis fuit : et p̄cipue | pr̄e . . .'; a7r, l. 1: ‘Aegloga Prima. | Publii Virgilii maronis mātuani vatis clariſſimi. | Carmen Bucolicum fœliciter incipit.'; l. 6: ‘tItyre tu patulȩ recubās . . .'; d1r, l. 15: ‘Tetraſtichon Ouidii in Geor. Librum p̓mum || . . . |'; l. 20: ‘P. Virgilii Maronis Georgicoꝝ. Liber p̓mus.'; d1v, l. 1: ‘Georgicorum | qVid faciat lȩtas ſegetes. quo ſidere . . .'; k1v, l. 4: ‘P. V. Maronis Aeneidos Liber primus || . . . |'; l. 9: ‘aRma/ virūq ƺ cano: troiæ qui p̓mus . . .'; M8r, l. 3: ‘P. V. Marōis op9/ a paulo ādelocen̄.exactiſſime | emēdatū: [per]iſiiſqƺ ī vico ſorbōico ꝗ̃ terſiſſime Impreſ | ſum finit̃ An.Mcccclxxxix xii kľas decēbres'.
References
ISTC: iv00164800
Hain: C 6032;
Proctor: Pr 8145;
Others: CIBN V‑132; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 38; Davies–Goldfinch 36; Mambelli 62; Pellechet MS. 11620; Sheppard 6359.
LCN: 14696756
Copies
Copy number: V-084(1)
Wanting sheet x1.8.
Leaf a1v: ‘Ppilippus . . .’
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Part of a nineteenth-century manuscript inventory of ‘Magistri' used in binding. Some leaves strengthened by overlaying with paper or vegetal tissue.
Size: 267 × 180 × 49 mm.
Size of leaf: 254 × 170 mm.
Frequent marginal and interlinear annotations (many washed) to Aeneis in English and Latin in two(?) tiny c.1500 English (and French?) hands, mainly supplying synonyms: e.g. on m2v ‘instabile' above ‘incertum', ‘reuinctum [ ] manq reuinctos', and translation into English, e.g. on k6v: ‘compositus, id est settylde'; ‘of Paduay' above printed ‘Pataui', ‘chasyd' above printed ‘actos'; on m2v: ‘bownde' above printed ‘reuinctum', ‘waytyng' above printed ‘comitante', ‘sotte vndyr' above printed ‘subiectisque'. On a1r the pencilled number ‘10', and the numbers ‘1414' and ‘2[*]' in brown ink.
Provenance: Walter Frankline (sixteenth century); name on M8v: ‘Walter Frankline'. Robert Gray (fl. 1664-1709); inscription on a1r: ‘Ex libris Roberti Gray colleg. med. Lond. Socii 1709'. Acquired after 1709; the shelfmark does not provide any clearer clue to the date of acquisition.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 1.17.
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