tic00323000

Text-inc Id:

tic00323000

Bod-inc Id:

C-141

Headings:

Catullus, Gaius Valerius Carmina (ed. Johannes Calphurnius).

Analysis of content:

1. a1v Calphurnius, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[I]oannes Calphurnius Hermolao, iuris utriusque doctori peritissimo, oratori facundissimo et philosopho eruditissimo, salutem plurimum homines aetatis nostrae, Hermolae facundissime, qui litterarum . . .’
2. a2r Catullus, Gaius Valerius: [Carmina.] Edited by Johannes Calphurnius. Catul. See also Marcello Zicari, ‘Calfurnio editore di Catullo', Atene e Roma, NS 2 (1957), 157-9; and Gaisser, Renaissance Readers, 35-42.
3. e1r Tibullus, Albius: [Elegiae.] Tib.
4. g8v ‘Summa uitae Albii Tibulli'. Incipit: ‘[A]lbius Tibullus eques Romanus insignis, forma cultuque corporis . . .’
5. g8v [Domitius Marsus]: ‘Epitaphium Tibulli'.’ See C‑139.
6. h1r Propertius, Sextus: [Elegiae.] Prop.
7. o6v [Valedictory couplet.] Incipit: ‘Carmina quis potuit tuto legisse Tibulli? | Vel tua cuius opus Cynthia sola fuit?'; distich.
8. o6v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Ardoris nostri magne poeta iaces'; 1 pentameter.
9. p1v Statius, Publius Papinius: Silvae. Stat. Silv.
10. x7v [Colophon.]
11. y1r Calphurnius, Johannes: ‘Carmen . . . de interitu beati Simonis infantis a Judeis mactati'.’ Incipit: ‘[V]ir sacer et nostro princeps memorabilis aeuo | Cui praeclara dedit uirtus moderamina iusti'; explicit: ‘Franciscusque Tronae celeberrima gloria gentis | Finibus extremis qui nunc dat iura tridenti'; hexameters. See Walther, Initia, 20424a.

Imprint:

Vicenza: Johannes de Reno and Dionysius Bertochus, 1481. Folio.

Collation:

a b⁸ c–e⁶ f–h⁸ i–l⁶ m⁸ n o⁶ p⁸ q⁶⁺¹ r–t⁶ u x⁸ y⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00323000 GW 6389; HC *4760; Goff C‑323; BMC VII 1041; Pr 7151; BSB‑Ink C‑198; Sack, Freiburg, 958; Sheppard 5918. LCN: 14838914

Copies:

1. C-141(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves x8 and y4. a1 backed. Binding: Nineteenth-century English blue morocco; gold fillets; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 315 × 218 × 25 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 197 mm. Two parchment endleaves. A few early marginal notes, some correcting the text, one referring to an Italian proverb. Provenance: Purchased from Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), Catalogue (1832), no. 462, for £4. 4. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 345, and Books Purchased (1832), 5. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.3. SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.20.