Bod-Inc: V-086
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera (ed. Philippus Beroaldus and Paulus Malleolus Andelocensis).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Opus eximium per Paulum Malleolum Andelacensem iterata diligenter plane recognitum atque emendatum'.
a1v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Francus. 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.
a2r [Donatus, Aelius]: ‘Publii Virgilii Maronis Vita'. See V‑075.
a7r [Verse summary of Bucolicum primum.] Incipit: ‘Hic deflet Meliboeus profugiat quod inique. | Tityrus ast laetus quos contulit ocia dicit'; 2 hexameters. Each Eclogue is preceded by a similar verse summary.
a7r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Aegloga Prima'. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072.
c7v Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-: Argumentum in verse.] ‘Tetrastichon in Geor. librum primum'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quae sidera seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'. See V‑072.
c7v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to] Gaius Maecenas. Verg. G.
i4r [Argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Edocet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072.
i4r Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-: Argumentum in verse]. ‘Argumentum in primum librum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libye appellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
i4v [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus siluis uicina coaegi'. See V‑072.
i4v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.
L6r [Colophon.] ‘P. V. Maronis opus per Vdalricum Gering et Magistrum Berchtoldum Renbolt socios Parrhisiis in uico Sorbonico . . . impressum: finem habuit ix. kal. Iulii. Anno Christi. M.cccc.xcviii'.
L6r Sulpicius Carthaginensis: [Poem on the work]. ‘Versus'. Incipit: ‘Iusserat haec rapidis aboleri carmina flammis | Virgilius Phrygium quae cecinere ducem'; 3 elegiac distichs. See V‑072. On Vergil's wish that his Aeneid be burned.
L6r 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.
L7r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Hortulus'. See V‑075.
L7r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De uino et Venere'. See V‑075.
L7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De liuore faleuticum'. See V‑075.
L7v ‘De fortuna'. See V‑075.
L8r ‘De seipso'. See V‑075.
L8r [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. See V‑075.
L8r ‘De ludo'. See V‑075.
L8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inuentis.’ See V‑072.
L8v [Note about the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragoedias, Thalia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsichore psalterium, Eratho geometriam, Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia rhetoricam.’
L8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De speculo et unda experientiae'. See V‑075.
M1r [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. See V‑075.
M1r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis. Experientia'. See V‑075.
M1v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'. See V‑075.
M2r [Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.
M2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.
M2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Rosae. See V‑072.
M3v Malleolus, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius Boillus. Incipit: ‘[C]onsideranti mihi uir ornatissime Reipublicae litterariae . . .’ With postscript. Malleolus refers to his work as editor in both the letter and the postscript.
M4v Malleolus, Paulus: ‘Vera in P. Virgilium emendatio'. ‘Hexastichon' [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Illa Maroneae mutilata poemata Musae | Malleola splendent en tibi tersa manu'; 3 elegiac distichs.
M4v Auber, Johannes: ‘Epigramma in recognitione' [addressed to] Paulus Malleolus. Incipit: ‘[C]armina doctiloqui quondam uitiosa Maronis | Clarius exorto sole polita nitent'; 4 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Ulrich Gering and Bertold Rembolt, 23 June 1498. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–z A–L8 M4.
Types: Type: 190 G, 100 R (leaded and unleaded), 80 R, Gk.
Leaves: 276 leaves.
Line number: 46 lines (a3r).
Type area: Type area: 183 ×95 mm (a3r).
Remarks: Leaf a1r, l. 1: ‘P. Virgilii Maronis | Opus eximium/ Per Paulum Malleolum Andelacē | ſem/ iterata diligentia plane recognitū: Atq ƺ tāta no | uiſſime . . .'; a6r, l. 1: ‘Publii Virgilii Maronis mantuani vatis clariſſimi | Carmen Bucolicum fœliciter incipit. | . . . | tItyre tu patulȩ recubās ſub tegmine fagi | Silueſtrē . . .'; c7v, l. 3: ‘Tetraſtichon Ouidii in Geor. librum primum. | qVid faciat lætas ſegetes . . .'; i4v, l. 6: ‘P.V.Maronis Aeneidos Liber primus . . . | . . . | aRma/ virumqƺ cano:troiæ qui primus ab oris | . . .'; L6r, l. 3: ‘P.V.Maronis opus per Vdalricū gering/ et Ma | giſtrū Berchtoldū renbolt ſocios/ Parrhiſiis ī vico ſorbonico ꝗ̃terſiſſime Impreſſum: finem habuit.ix.kal. | Iulii.Anno Chriſti.M.cccc.xcviii'; L7r, l. 1: ‘P.V.M.Hortulus: Carmē yponactiū trimetrū | aDeſte muſæ maximi proles iouis | . . .’
References
ISTC: iv00165500
Hain: C 6036;
Goff: Goff, Supplement, V‑165a;
Proctor: Pr 8306;
Others: Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 42; Mambelli 84; Oates 3122; Pellechet MS. 11623; Sheppard 6160.
LCN: 14693451
Copies
Copy number: V-086(1)
Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. Two clasps lost; catches remain. On both covers triple fillets form a double intersecting frame; within the outer frame leaf-shaped foliate stamps; within the inner rectangle a roll stamp of another foliate design. Sewn on five bands. 16 red leather index tabs remaining.
Size: 259 × 183 × 56 mm.
Size of leaf: 248 × 172 mm.
Frequent interlinear and marginal notes in Latin and Greek in a contemporary French hand, mainly extracting personal names, and supplying brackets, synonyms, and longer comments: e.g. on a5r notes on poetry: ‘Poemata stili genera tria sunt. Aut enim actiuum uel ymitatum quod greci ΔΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΟΝ appellant . . .'; on the front endleaf: ‘Fausstus p. Aa for. | Nil Iuuat exacti penituisse Mali'; on the front pastedown: ‘Morimur cottidie', ‘Consilio deliberandum est rei statuendi(?)', ‘P. Faustus | Tarda sed ingenti fenore plena venit | Ira dei', ‘Syno I[ ] ad rem(?) | Accede huc Interfuturus Leticie (Liesse, N.E. France or Liessies, Belgium) comuni | fu[ ]t hic publica leticie quatenus gratia vota, quibus ut inuersis cupro | Ego te ad Gant nostram communem iuncto leticiam | . . .' (continuing for a further 11 lines); on M4v in a c.1500 French hand the lemma ‘Nec omnibus fabulis repugnat philosophia nec omnibus acquiescit' (here falsely attributed to Macrobius). On the same page in a sixteenth-century French hand under Malleolus' hexastichon ‘Totus a[ ] diligens perscrutator?'.
One- to three-line initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Erased contemporary inscription on a1r. Trier, North Rhine-Westphalia, Benedictines, S. Eucharius-Matthias; inscription on a1r ‘Codex Monasterij S. Mathiae Ap[osto]li'; old shelfmarks ‘S‑i L‑8 N‑6'. Purchased for £1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 43.
SHELFMARK: Auct Q 5.3.
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