Bod-Inc: V-089
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera (comm. Maurus Servius Honoratus), et al. (ed. Johannes Calphurnius).
Analysis of Content
[*2r] [Donatus, Aelius]: ‘Maronis Vita'. All texts in this edition are edited by Johannes Calphurnius, as stated in the colophon on [*6r]. See V‑087.
[*5r] [On poetry.] Incipit: ‘Poematis stili genera tria sunt: aut enim activum uel imitativum . . .’
[*5v] Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on Ecl.] Incipit: ‘[B]ucolica ut ferunt inde dicta sunt a custodia boum . . .’ Serv. Ecl. For the transmission see S‑186.
[*5r] Calphurnius Brixiensis, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Portensis. Incipit: ‘Diuus Hieronymus uir meo iudicio tam honestis saeculi artibus quam sacre scripturae . . .’ Calphurnius refers to his editing of the Servian commentary.
[*6r] [Colophon, naming Calphurnius as editor of all works in this edition.] BMC.
a1r Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on Ecl.] ‘In Bucolica Maronis Commentariorum Liaer(!)'. Serv. Ecl.
a1r [Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica.] ‘Aegloga prima. Interlocutores Meliboeus et Tityrus'. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072.
c2v Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on G.]. ‘In Maronis Georgica commentariorum liber primus'. Serv. G.
c2v Ovidius Naso, Publius [pseudo-: Argumentum in verse]. ‘Carmina'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quo sidere seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'. See V‑072.
c2v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.
g6r [Argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Edocet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072.
g6v [Second argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libyes appellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
g6v [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus syluis uicina coegi'. See V‑072.
g7r Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on A.]. ‘In P. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidem commentariorum liber primus'. Serv. A.
g7v Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.
A1r [Brippius, Josephus: Argumentum.] See V‑075.
A1r [Vegius, Maphaeus: Liber Aeneidos XIII.] See V‑075.
A7v Alcimus [Alethius](?): ‘Alcinii uersus'. See V‑075.
A7v Gallus, Cornelius [pseudo-]: ‘Cornelii Galli uersus'. See V‑075.
A7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Hortulus'. See V‑075.
A8r ‘De uino et Venere'. See V‑075.
A8r ‘De liuore'. See V‑075.
A8v [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen 7.] ‘De cantu Sirenarum'. See V‑075.
A8v [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen.] ‘Eiusdem'. See V‑075.
A8v ‘De fortuna'. See V‑075.
B1r ‘De Orpheo'. See V‑075.
B1r ‘De seipso'. See V‑075.
B1r [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. See V‑075.
B1r ‘De ludo'. See V‑075.
B1v [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. See V‑075.
B2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inuentis.’ See V‑072.
B2r [Note on the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragoedias, Thalia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsichore psalterium, Eratho geometriam, Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia rhetoricam.’
B2v Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Elegia in Moecenatis 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].
B4r Palladius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Epitaphia virorum illustrium'. See V‑072.
B4r Asclepiades: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B4v Eusebius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B4v Pompelianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B4v Maximianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B4v Vitalis: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B4v Basilius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B4v Asmodianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B4v 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-]: Incipit: ‘Tristia fata tui dum fles in Daphnide Flacci | Docte Maro, fratrem diis immortalibus aequas'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
B4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi | Capras rus hostes fronde ligone manu'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
B4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Juppiter in caelis Caesar regit omnia terris'; 1 hexameter. See V‑075.
B5r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tarpeo quondam consedit culmine cornix | Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
B5r 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.
B5r 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.
B5r 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.
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'. See V‑075.
B5v Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii uersus experientia.’ See V‑075.
B5v Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii experientia.’ See V‑075.
B6r ‘De quatuor temporibus anni.’ See V‑075.
B6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis'. See V‑075.
B7r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Herculis laboribus'. See V‑075.
B7r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'. See V‑075.
B7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De signis caelestibus'. See V‑075.
B8r Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versus Ouidii.’ Incipit: ‘Qualis bucolicis quantus tellure domanda | Vitibus arboribusque apibus pecorique satisque'. See V‑072.
B8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–LXXXI]. ‘Ad Priapum'. 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; poem 35 is omitted; 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.
C7r [Priapeum.] ‘Ad Priapum'. Incipit: ‘Rusticus aerari quondam nunc uilicus horti | Haec tibi perspectus templa Priape dico'; 3 elegiac distichs. See V‑075.
C7v [Tibullus, Albius?: Priapeum.] Incipit: ‘Quid hoc noui est? quid ira nunciat deum? | Silente nocte candidus mihi puer'; 43 iambic senarii. See V‑075.
C7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Copa. See V‑072.
C8r [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.
C8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.
D1r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Rosae. See V‑072.
D1v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Culex. See V‑072.
[D5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Dirae. See V‑072.
D7v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Aetna. ‘Quae a quibusdam Cornelio tribuitur'. See V‑075.
E6v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Ciris [addressed to Gaius] Messalla. See V‑075.
F4r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–III]. ‘Catalecton. Priapus loquitur'. Incipit: ‘Vere rosa autumno pomis, aestate frequentor | Spicis una mihi est horrida pestis hyems'. See V‑075.
F4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Catalepton [I–XIII.16]. See V‑081.
F4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Moretum. See V‑072.
F6r ‘Tabula librorum quae in hoc uolumine continentur'.
Imprint
Imprint: Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 1479. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*6] a–i8 k10–1 l–z aa–ee8 ff6 A–F10.
References
ISTC: iv00168000
Hain: C 6045;
Goff: Goff V‑168;
BMC: BMC VII 1031;
Proctor: Pr 7123;
Others: CIBN V‑123; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 51; Davies–Goldfinch 44; Kallendorf 126; Mambelli 36; Sheppard 5886.
LCN: 14694564
Copies
Copy number: V-089(1)
Wanting the separate half-sheet k3 (Verg. A. I 676-722).
Sheets aa3.6 and aa4.5 transposed. Leaves [*2], and F5-6 repaired.
Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter parchment over cream paper boards. Resewn in the eighteenth century, but not recut and retaining some deckle-edges. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Gilt title on red and black leather labels on spine.
Size: 316 × 215 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 310 × 207 mm.
Frequent marginal annotations in a late fifteenth-centuy cursive Italian hand, especially to Verg. Ecl., extracting key words, and supplying paragraph marks, brackets, running headings, synonyms, and comments summarizing parts of Servius' commentary. Some marginal notes in Italian, by Alvise da (?), Vicenza, dated 1514, e.g. on a3r: ‘Noto faco cadauna | persona che lezera | questo schrito | come a di. 1. de | cenbris 1514 mi al | uixe da s[an]ta deluni in u[ic]entia | scomentie que [ ] epistola de mititi in per | me st | alnome de dio e de la soa mad | re bela'. Early sixteenth-century Italian inscription on D8r: ‘A di 20 decembris 1516 ueni da padoa'. A few notes in an eighteenth-century Italian hand.
Provenance: Niccolo Paruta (fl. c.1500); inscription on [*1v]: ‘M[e]s[ser] zuan piero de aver da s[er] nicolo paruta el [ ]le getose[/c?]rino maçe deuide . . . uide gelaueva da la sua amantissima infelix amicha che per amore suo le donese | Teg[n]ir in mano et in asaile(?) qualche volta per amor suo uoleua soldi 20 per bene'. Zuan Piero (fl. c.1500). Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); Morelli (1787), II 5074; sale (1789), lot 9976. Purchased through Peter Elmsley for £3. 3. 0; see the annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1789), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 1.13.
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