Bod-Inc: V-087
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera (comm. Maurus Servius Honoratus), et al.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Donatus, Aelius]: ‘Maronis Vita'. Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae, ed. G. Brugnoli and F. Stok (Rome, 1997), 77-134; Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae, ed. Hardie, 6-18. This version of Donatus' Vita ends ‘nec minus etiam in Aeneide'.
[a5r] [On poetry.] Incipit: ‘Poematis stili genera tria sunt: aut enim actiuum uel imitatiuum . . .’
[a5v] Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on Ecl.] ‘In Bucolica Maronis Commentariorum Liber'. Incipit: ‘[B]ucolica ut ferunt inde dicta sunt a custodia boum . . .’ Serv. Ecl. For the transmission see S‑186.
[a6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Aegloga Prima: Interlocutores Meliboeus et Tityrus amici'. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072. Venier 71, 50 n. 65, suggests that the text in this edition is based on that in V‑072 and collated with that in V‑073.
[c3v] Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on G.] ‘In Maronis Georgica commentariorum liber primus'. Serv. G.
[c3v] Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-: Argumentum in verse.] ‘Carmina'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quo sidera seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'. See V‑072.
[c3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G. On the textual source as C 6007 (Venice: Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, c.1472) see Venier 71.
[f8v] [Argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae contineant duodecim Aeneidos libri.’ Incipit: ‘Primus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Et docet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072.
[f8v] [Second argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libye appellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
[f8v] [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus siluis uicina coegi'. See V‑072.
[f9r] Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on A.]. ‘In P. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidem commentariorum liber primus'. Serv. A.
[f9v] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.
[r1r] [Brippius, Josephus: Argumentum.] See V‑075.
[con1r] Vegius, Maphaeus: ‘Aeneidos liber tertiusdecimus'. See V‑075.
[con7v] Alcimus [Alethius](?): ‘Alcinii uersus'. See V‑075.
[con7v] Gallus, Cornelius [pseudo-]: ‘Cornelii Galli uersus'. See V‑075.
[con8r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Hortulus'. See V‑075.
[con8r] ‘De uino et Venere'. See V‑075.
[con8v] ‘De liuore'. See V‑075.
[con8v] [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen 7.] ‘De cantu Sirenarum'. See V‑075.
[con8v] [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen.] ‘Eiusdem'. See V‑075.
[con9r] ‘De fortuna'. See V‑075.
[con9r] ‘De Orpheo'. See V‑075.
[con9r] ‘De seipso'. See V‑075.
[con9r] [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. See V‑075.
[con9v] ‘De ludo'. See V‑075.
[con9v] [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. See V‑075.
[con9v] ‘Argumenta. xii. librorum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘Aeolus immittit uentos Iunone precante | Troianosque uagos Libycas expellit in oras'. See V‑075.
[con10v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inuentis.’ See V‑072.
[con10v] [Note on the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragoedias, Thalia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsichore psalterium, Eratho geomtreiam(!), Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia rhetoricam.’
[con10v] 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]. See Reeve, ‘Textual transmission of the Appendix Vergiliana’, at 235 and 245, for textual affiliations of this edition.
[rum2v] Palladius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Epitaphia virorum illustrium'. See V‑072.
[rum2v] Asclepiades: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum2v] Eusebius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum2v] Pompelianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum2v] Maximianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum2v] Vitalis: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3r] Basilius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3r] Asmodianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3r] Vovianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3r] Eugenius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3r] Iulianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3r] Hilasius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3r] [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
[rum3r] [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
[rum3r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tristia fata tui dum fles in Daphnide Flacci | Docte Maro, fratrem diis immortalibus aequas'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi | Capras rus hostes fronde ligone manu'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Juppiter in caelis Caesar regit omnia terris'; 1 hexameter. See V‑075.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Tarpeio quondam consedit culmine cornix | Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
[rum3v] 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.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus iuvenis serpens casum venere sub imo | Sus iacet extinctus serpens pede tum ille veneno'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Anguis aper iuvenis pereunt in vonere morsu | Hic fremit ille gemit sibilat hic moriens'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus serpens iuvenis pariter periere vicissim | Dente perit iuvenis serpens pede porcus ab ictu'; 2 hexameters.
[rum3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De speculo'. See V‑075.
[rum3v] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii uersus experientia.’ See V‑075.
[rum4r] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii experientia.’ See V‑075.
[rum4v] ‘De quattuor temporibus anni.’ Incipit: ‘Verque nouum stabat cinctum florente corona | Stabat nuda aetas et spicea serta gerebat'. See V‑075.
[rum5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis'. See V‑075.
[rum5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Herculis laboribus'. See V‑075.
[rum5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'. See V‑075.
[rum6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De signis caelestibus'. See V‑075.
[rum6v] Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versus'. Incipit: ‘Qualis bucolicis quantus tellure domanda | Vitibus arboribusque apibus pecorique satisque'. See V‑072.
[rum6v] ‘Summa Virgilianae narrationis in tribus operibus Bucolicis, Georgicis et Aeneide'. Incipit: ‘Pastorum musam uario certamine promit | Ruris item dociles culturam carmine monstrat'. See V‑072.
[rum7v] [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Priapea I–LXXXI.] See V‑075. 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.
[aa4r] [Priapeum.] ‘Ad Priapum'. Incipit: ‘Rusticus aerarii quondam nunc uillicus horti | Haec tibi perspecta templa Priape dico'; 3 elegiac distichs. See V‑075.
[aa4r] [Tibullus, Albius(?): Priapeum.] ‘Querela Priapi'. Incipit: ‘Quid hoc noui est? quid ira nunciat deum? | Silente nocte candidus mihi puer'; 43 iambic senarii. See V‑075.
[aa4v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Copa. See V‑072. On the pseudo-Vergilian authorship and the transmission of this poem, see notes on the ‘Appendix Vergiliana' in V‑072 [A4r].
[aa5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.
[aa5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.
[aa6v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Culex. See V‑072.
[aa10v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Dirae. See V‑072.
[bb2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Aetna. ‘Quae a quibusdam Cornelio tribuitur'. See V‑075.
[bb9v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Ciris [addressed to Gaius] Messalla. See V‑072.
[cc5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–III]. ‘Catalecton. Priapus loquitur'. Incipit: ‘[V]ere rosa autumno pomis, aestate frequentor | Spicis una mihi est horrida pestis hyems'. See V‑075.
[cc6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Catalepton [I–XII.2]. See V‑075.
[cc8r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Moretum. See V‑072.
[cc9v] ‘Tabula librorum qui in hoc uolumine continentur'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, Jan. 14[75/6]. Folio.
Remarks: On the date, which reads ‘M.CCCC.LXXY' in most copies, but also ‘M.CCCC.LXXX' (see R 357), see Dennis E. Rhodes, ‘Early Printed Books in Greece', Library, 5th ser., 30 (1975), 183-98, at 189. For Scholderer's argument that Rubeus was not following the Venetian calendar see BMC and Venier 71.
Collation
Collation: [a–i10 k8 l–o10 p q8 r–y ζ z con ꝝ aa–cc10].
References
ISTC: iv00166000
Hain: C 6043 = 6041; R 357;
Goff: Goff V‑166;
BMC: BMC V 214;
Proctor: Pr 4238;
Others: CIBN V‑115; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 50; Davies–Goldfinch 42; Kallendorf 12; Mambelli 26 = 38 = 90; Oates 1694; Pellechet MS. 11625; Sheppard 3414.
LCN: 14695232
Copies
Copy number: V-087(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Leaf [cc9r], l. 38: ‘.M. CCCC. LXXV. Menſe Ianuarii. | Petro Mozanigo . . .’
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Marbled pastedowns.
Size: 349 × 244 × 63 mm.
Size of leaf: 338 × 220 mm.
Some marginal annotations to Verg. G. 1 and Verg. A. in two contemporary cursive Italian hands, mainly extracting personal names, and key words and phrases (including etymologies: e.g. on [d5r]: ‘Auellanae ab opido campaniae denominatur ubi abundant') from Servius' commentary, and supplying ‘nota' marks, rhetorical definitions, underlining, and leaf signatures.
On [a2r] a 12-line Italian (Venetian?) initial ‘V' is supplied in gold on a square blue ground; the space within the body of the letter painted in red and green; with white pen-work. Other principal initials are supplied in a similar style; see Pächt and Alexander II, 110 no. pr. 78. Elsewhere initials are supplied in blue.
Provenance: Purchased for £10. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 23.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 2.13.
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