Bod-Inc: V-090
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera (comm. Maurus Servius Honoratus), et al.
Analysis of Content
a1v [Donatus, Aelius]: ‘Maronis Vita'. See V‑087.
a4v [On poetry.] Incipit: ‘Poematis stili genera tria sunt: aut enim activum uel imitatiuum . . .’
a5r Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on Ecl.] ‘In Bucolica Maronis Commentariorum Liber'. Serv. Ecl. For the transmission see S‑186.
a6r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Aegloga prima: interlocutores Meliboeus et Tityrus'. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid see V‑072.
c5r Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on G.]. ‘In Maronis Georgica commentariorum liber primus'. Serv. G.
c5r Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-: Argumentum in verse]. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes quo sydere seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'. See V‑072.
c5r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.
g4r [Argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Edocet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072.
g4r [Second argumentum in verse.] Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libye appellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
g4r [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus siluis uicina coegi'. See V‑072.
g4v Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on A.] ‘In P. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidem commentariorum liber primus'. Serv. A.
g5r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.
cc10r ‘Registrum'.
A1r [Brippius, Josephus: Argumentum.] See V‑075.
A1r [Vegius, Maphaeus: Aeneidos liber tertiusdecimus.] See V‑075.
A8r Alcimus [Alethius](?): ‘Alcinii uersus'. See V‑075.
A8r Gallus, Cornelius [pseudo-]: ‘Cornelii Galli uersus'. See V‑075.
A8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Hortulus'. See V‑075.
A8v ‘De uino et Venere'. See V‑075.
B1r ‘De liuore'. See V‑075.
B1r [Avienus, Rufus Festus?: Carmen 7.] ‘De cantu Sirenarum'. See V‑075.
B1v [Avienus, Rufus Festus?: Carmen.] ‘Eiusdem'. See V‑075.
B1v ‘De fortuna'. See V‑075.
B1v ‘De Orpheo'. See V‑075.
B1v ‘De se ipso'. See V‑075.
B2r [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. See V‑075.
B2r ‘De ludo'. See V‑075.
B2r [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. See V‑075.
B2r ‘Argumenta. xii. librorum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘Aeolus immittit uentos Iunone precante | Troianosque uagos Libycas expellit in oras'. See V‑075.
B3r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inuentis.’ See V‑072.
B3r [Note on the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragoedias, Thalia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsichore psalterum(!), Eratho geometriam, Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia rhetoricam.’
B3r 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].
B5v Palladius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Epitaphia virorum illustrium'. See V‑072.
B5v Asclepiades: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Eusebius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Pompelianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Maximianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Vitalis: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Basilius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Asmodianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Vovianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Eugenius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Iulianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v Hilasius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B5v [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
B5v [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
B5v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
B6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tristia fata tui dum fles in Daphnide Flacci | Docte Maro, fratrem diis immortalibus aequas'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
B6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi | Capras rus hostes fronde ligone manu'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
B6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Juppiter in caelis Caesar regit omnia terris'; 1 hexameter. See V‑075.
B6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Tarpeio quondam consedit culmine cornix | Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
B6r 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.
B6r 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.
B6r 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.
B6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus serpens iuvenis pariter periere vicissim | Dente perit iuvenis serpens pede porcus ab ictu'; 2 hexameters.
B6r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De speculo'. See V‑075.
B6v Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii uersus experientia.’ See V‑075.
B6v Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Virgilii experientia.’ See V‑075.
B7r ‘De quattuor temporibus anni.’ See V‑075.
B8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis'. See V‑075.
B8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Herculis laboribus'. See V‑075.
B8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'. See V‑075.
B8v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De signis caelestibus'. See V‑075.
C1v Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versus'. Incipit: ‘Qualis bucolicis quantus tellure domanda | Vitibus arboribusque apibus pecorique satisque'. See V‑072.
C1v ‘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.
C2r 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 appears after poem 81; 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.
D1r [Priapeum.] ‘Ad Priapum'. Incipit: ‘Rusticus aerarii quondam nunc uillicus horti | Haec tibi perspecta templa Priape dico'; 3 elegiac distichs. See V‑075.
D1v [Tibullus, Albius(?): Priapeum.] ‘Querela Priapi'. Incipit: ‘Quod(!) hoc noui est? quid ira nunciat deum? | Silente nocte candidus mihi puer'; 43 iambic senarii. See V‑075.
D2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Copa. See V‑072.
D2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.
D2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.
D3r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Rosae. See V‑072.
D3v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Culex. See V‑072.
D8r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Dirae. See V‑072.
E2v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Aetna. See V‑075.
F1v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Ciris [addressed to Gaius] Messalla. See V‑075.
G1v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Priapea I–III]. ‘Catalecton. Priapus loquitur'. See V‑075. These three poems, together with Catalepton I–XIII.16 (see below), are presented as if forming a single work entitled ‘Catalecton'.
G2r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Catalepton [I–XIII.16]. See V‑081.
G4v Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Moretum. See V‑072.
G6r ‘Tabula librorum qui in hoc uolumine continentur'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Petrus de Plasiis, Cremonensis, Bartholomaeus de Blavis de Alexandria, and Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 1 Aug. 1480. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–z aa–cc10 A–E8 F G6.
References
ISTC: iv00169000
Hain: C 6046;
Goff: Goff V‑169;
BMC: BMC XII 17;
Proctor: Pr 4474;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑113; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 52; Davies–Goldfinch 45; Kallendorf 16; Mambelli 37; Sheppard 3610.
LCN: 14694473
Copies
Copy number: V-090(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; the spine gold-tooled, with title in gilt on red leather label. Sprinkled red-edged leaves, the lower edges also sprinkled with black.
Size: 315 × 211 × 56 mm.
Size of leaf: 308 × 188 mm.
Frequent interlinear and marginal notes in Latin and Greek in a c.1500 Italian/French(?) hand, mainly extracting key words from or summarizing passages of Servius' commentary, extracting whole verses, and supplying underlining and brackets. Some interlinear notes in a sixteenth-century English hand, supplying synonyms. On a5v the same(?) hand has drafted a letter signed ‘your friend Sam: Kiddell', with incipit: ‘Sir my love remembred un to you in most [ ] manner these [ ] or rather . . .', asking for ‘a couple of your slowest running hounds to accompany Mr. Osney and Vincent Booth in that Heroick sport of Hippolytus . . .’
On a1v a nine-line initial ‘V' is supplied in blue ink on a square ground of red pen-work, some spaces filled with green ink; the space within the body of the letter decorated with red pen-work and green ink. Elsewhere two- to four-line initials are supplied in red or blue ink. Paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Samuel Kiddell (sixteenth century); manuscript notes. Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland. Blenheim Palace, Dukes of Marlborough; shelfmarks in the upper left-hand corner of the verso of the front endleaf: ‘C4: 62' in black ink, ‘62.e.2' in pencil; Catalogue of the Books in the Library at Blenheim Palace (Oxford, 1872), 583; sale, Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana, part V (22 Mar. 1883), lot 13051; paper label at head of spine. Purchased through Quaritch for £6. 10. 0; see Library Bills (Quaritch), 15 June 1883 (bill no. 203).
SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.3.
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