Bod-Inc: V-095
Vergilius Maro, Publius
Opera: Bucolica and Georgica (comm. Maurus Servius Honoratus and Christophorus Landinus); Aeneis (comm. Maurus Servius Honoratus, Donatus and Christophorus Landinus), et al.
Analysis of Content
[†1r] Landinus, Christophorus: [Preface to commentary on Ecl. addressed to] Petrus Laurentii de' Medici. ‘Prohemium'. Landino, Scritti critici, I 211-25. Landinus mentions his editing of Servius' and Donatus' commentaries.
[†3r] [Landinus, Christophorus(?): Index.] Incipit: ‘Habebis uerum ex his tabulis indicem: si tu . . .’ ‘Habebis' immediately following the final ‘curabimus' of the preface seems indicative of Landinus' authorship.
[†6r] [Donatus, Aelius]: ‘Maronis Vita'. See V‑087.
[†8r] [On poetry.] Incipit: ‘Poematis stili genera tria sunt: aut enim activum uel imitatiuum . . .’
[†8v] Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on Ecl.] ‘In Bucolica Commentariorum Liber'. Serv. Ecl. For the transmission see S‑186.
A1r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica. ‘Aegloga prima. Interlocutores Meliboeus et Tityrus'. Verg. Ecl. On the transmission of Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid see V‑072.
A1r [Landinus], Christophorus: [Commentary on Ecl.] ‘In P. Vergilii interpretationes'. Incipit: ‘ “Tytire”. [Verg. Ecl. 1. 1] Tityrus Libycae hircum significat . . .’
[D2v] Landinus, Christophorus: [Preface to commentary on G. addressed to] Petrus Laurentii de' Medici. ‘Prohemium'. Incipit: ‘[F]oelices profecto, Petre Medices, ac perbeatos priscos illos mortales . . .’
[D3v] Servius [Honoratus, Maurus: Commentary on G.]. Serv. G.
[D3v] Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Carmina'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid faciat laetas segetes; quo sydere seruet | Agricola ut facilem terram proscindat aratris'. See V‑072.
[D3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica [addressed to Gaius] Maecenas. Verg. G.
[D4r] [Landinus], Christophorus: ‘Interpretationes Georgicorum'. Incipit: ‘ “Quid faciat loetas segetes” [Verg. G. 1. 1]. Quid quae res . . .’
[*1r] Landinus, Christophorus: [Preface to commentary on Aeneis addressed to] Petrus Laurentii de' Medici. ‘Prohemium'. Landino, Scritti critici, I 226-33.
[*2r] [Argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae primo Aeneidos libro contineantur'. Incipit: ‘[A]eneas primo Libyes appellitur oris | Vir magnus bello nulli pietate secundus'. See V‑072.
[*2r] [Second argumentum in verse.] ‘Quae contineantur duodecim Aeneidos libri'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus habet Libycam ueniant ut Troes in urbem | Edocet excidium Troiae clademque secundus'. See V‑072. An ‘argumentum' precedes each book of Aeneis.
[*2r] [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-: Epigramma.] Incipit: ‘[I]lle ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena | Carmen et egressus syluis uicina coegi'. See V‑072.
[*2v] Servius Honoratus, Maurus: [Commentary on A.]. ‘In Aeneidem commentariorum liber primus'. Serv. A.
a1r Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis. Verg. A.
a1r Donatus, [Tiberius Claudius: Commentary on A.]. T. C. Donati, Interpretationes Vergilianae, ed. H. Georgii (Leipzig, 1905), I 7. On the transmission see R. H. R[ouse], ‘Ti. Claudius Donatus', in Texts and Transmission, 157-8. On Donatus' textual approaches and his impact on fifteenth-century readers see Landino, Scritti critici, II 292-4; C. Kallendorf, Virgil and the Myth of Venice (Oxford, 1999), 42-3 and n. 21, with further references on the transmission given there.
a1r [Landinus], Christophorus: [Commentary on A.]. ‘In P. Vergilii Interpretationes'. Incipit: ‘ “Arma uirum”. Et si heroici poetae tam Greci quam Latini proponant . . .’ See Kallendorf, Myth of Venice, 61-7, 78.
[kk1r] [Brippius, Josephus: Argumentum.] See V‑075.
[kk1r] [Vegius, Maphaeus: Liber aeneidos XIII.] See V‑075.
[kk3v] Alcimus [Alethius](?): ‘Alcinii uersus'. See V‑075.
[kk3v] Gallus, Cornelius [pseudo-]: ‘Versus'. See V‑075.
[kk3v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘Hortulus'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] ‘De uino et Venere'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] ‘De liuore'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen 7.] ‘De cantu Sirenarum'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] [Avienus, Rufus Festus(?): Carmen.] ‘Eiusdem'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] ‘De fortuna'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] ‘De Orpheo'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] ‘De seipso'. See V‑075.
[kk4r] [Ausonius]: ‘De aetatibus animalium'. See V‑075.
[kk4v] ‘De ludo'. See V‑075.
[kk4v] [Ausonius]: ‘Monosticha de erumnis Herculis'. See V‑075.
[kk4v] ‘Argumenta duodecim librorum Aeneidos'. Incipit: ‘Aeolus immittit uentos Iunone precante | Troianosque uagos Libycas expellit in oras'. See V‑075.
[kk4v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Musarum inventis'. See V‑072.
[kk5r] [Note on the Muses.] Incipit: ‘Clio historias invenit, Melpomene tragoedias, Thalia comoedias, Euterpe tibias, Terpsicore psalterium, Eratho geometreiam, Calliope litteras, Urania astrologiam, Polymnia rhetoricam.’
[kk5r] 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].
[kk5v] Palladius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Epitaphia virorum illvstrium'. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Asclepiades: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Eusebius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Pompelianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Maximianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Vitalis: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Basilius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Asmodianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Vovianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Eugenius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Iulianus: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] Hilasius: [Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk5v] [Epitaphium Vergilii]. ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
[kk6r] [Epitaphium Vergilii.] ‘Aliud'. See V‑072.
[kk6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Epitaphium Vergilii]. See V‑072.
[kk6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Tristia fata tui dum fles in Daphnide Flacci | Docte Maro, fratrem diis immortalibus aequas'; 2 hexameters. See V‑075.
[kk6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi | Capras rus hostes fronde ligone manu'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
[kk6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Juppirer(!) in caelis Caesar regit omnia terris'; 1 hexameter. See V‑075.
[kk6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Tarpeio quondam consedit culmine cornix | Est bene non potuit dicere dixit erit'; 1 elegiac distich. See V‑075.
[kk6r] 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.
[kk6r] 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.
[kk6r] 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.
[kk6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Incipit: ‘Sus serpens iuvenis pariter periere vicissim | Dente perit iuvenis serpens pede porcus ab ictu'; 2 hexameters.
[kk6r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De speculo'. See V‑075.
[kk6r] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Vergilii uersus experientia.’ See V‑075.
[kk6r] Vergilius [Maro, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Mira Vergilii experientia.’ See V‑075.
[kk6r] ‘De quattuor temporibus anni.’ See V‑075.
[kk6v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ortu solis'. See V‑075.
[kk6v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Herculis laboribus'. See V‑075.
[kk6v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De littera y'. See V‑075.
[kk7r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De signis caelestibus'. See V‑075
[kk7r] Ovidius [Naso, Publius pseudo-]: ‘Versus'. Incipit: ‘Qualis buccolicis quantus tellure domanda | Vitibus arboribusque apibus pecorique satisque'. See V‑072.
[kk7r] ‘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.
[kk7r] 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; 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. On the transmission see M. D. R[eeve], ‘Priapea', in Texts and Transmission, 322-3; ‘Carmina Priapea', CTC IV, 423-50, at 423-30.
[ll2r] [Priapeum.] ‘Ad Priapum'. Incipit: ‘Rusticus aerarii quondam nunc uilicus horti | Haec tibi perspecta templa Priape dico'; 3 elegiac distichs. See V‑075.
[ll2r] [Tibullus, Albius(?): Priapeum.] ‘Querela Priapi'. Incipit: ‘Quid hoc noui est? quid ira nuncia(!) deum? | Salente(!) nocte candidus mihi puer'; 43 iambic senarii. See V‑075.
[ll2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Copa. See V‑072.
[ll2v] [Vergilius Maro, Publius pseudo-; Ausonius]: Est et non. See V‑072.
[ll2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius]: Vir bonus. See V‑072.
[ll2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Rosae. See V‑072.
[ll3r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Culex. See V‑072.
[ll4v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Dirae. See V‑072.
[ll5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Aetna. ‘Quae a quibusdam Cornelio tribuitur'. See V‑075.
[mm2v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Ciris [addressed to Gaius] Messalla. See V‑075.
[mm4v] 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.
[mm5r] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Catalepton [I–XII.2]. See V‑075.
[mm5v] Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: Moretum. See V‑072.
[mm6v] ‘Tabula librorum qui in hoc uolumine continentur'.
[mm7r] [List of errata.] Incipit: ‘Quoniam correctorum impressorumque incuria quaedam in uolumine extant mendae, curauimus eas emendare quae lectorem ambiguum reddere possent . . ..’ Provides corrections to the text and the commentaries.
[mm8r] ‘Registrum'.
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: [Printer of Vergilius (C 6061)], 18 Mar. 1487/8. Folio.
Remarks: As assigned by Ridolfi, who argues that Bernardus Nerlius, to whom the edition is usually assigned, was not a printer.
Collation
Collation: [†] A–C [D–K8 L4 *2] a10 b–f [g h8 i6 k–z &8 [con]4 aa–hh8 ii6 kk8 ll6 mm8].
References
ISTC: iv00183000
Hain: C 6061;
Goff: Goff V‑183;
BMC: BMC VI 678;
Proctor: Pr 6326;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑121; Copinger, ‘Incunabula Virgiliana', 68; Davies–Goldfinch 68; Mambelli 55; Oates 2347; Rhodes 1827; Ridolfi, Firenze, 95-111; Sheppard 5234.
LCN: 14696726
Copies
Copy number: V-095(1)
Leaf [mm8] backed.
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Marbled pastedowns.
Size: 302 × 221 × 67 mm.
Size of leaf: 290 × 202 mm.
Some marginal notes in a late fifteenth-century cursive Italian hand, mainly providing headings for Vergilian passages, underlining, brackets, pointing hands, and leaf numbers, but also a few comments (e.g. on A8v: ‘aurea mala: Rome nostris temporibus Herculis statua ex Horto Hesperidum redeuntis, qui manu fert mala ad similitudinem illarum quas cetonias apellamus, ideo ex hoc antiquo monumento malum aureum esse credimus quod dicimus malum cetonium non malum aranciam ut multi intelligunt'). A few corrections to the text in a round Italian hand. On [†1r] the number ‘No. 14' in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand.
Provenance: Rome, Cistercians, S. Prudentiana (later Canons Regular); circular stamp: ‘Bibl. S. Puden. de Urbe'; and (related?) inscription ‘Abbas d. Julius emit 1681'. Date of acquisition unknown; most other books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired between 1832 and 1835.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 2.15.
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