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tih00461000

Text-inc Id:
tih00461000
Bod-inc Id:
H-214
Headings:
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus Opera (`cum quibusdam annotationibus').
Analysis of content:
  1. [*1r] [Title-page.] ‘Horatii Flaci Venusini poete lirici Opera cum quibusdam annotationibus, imaginibusque pulcherrimis aptisque ad Odarum concentus et sententias.’
  2. [*2r] [Locher] Philomusus, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma' [addressed to his readers.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uem iuuat ingenium rebus lustrare beatis | Et quem musarum Numina nosse iuuat'; 10 elegiac distichs.
  3. [*2r] [Locher] Philomusus, [Jacobus]: ‘Tetrasticon.’ Incipit: ‘Qui venis Aonii nemoris spectare sorores | Illotis manibus ledere sacra caue'; 2 elegiac distichs.
  4. [*2r] Calliope [pseudo-; Locher Philomusus, Jacobus: Verse addressed to] Q. Horatius Flaccus. Incipit: ‘En ego Calliope turbis comitata sororum | Exorno vatis tempora clara mei'; 12 elegiac distichs.
  5. [*2r] Locher [Philomusus], Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Carolus, Margrave of Baden, dated 1497. Incipit: ‘[E]x omnibus rebus quas humanum admiratur ingenium nullus fructus vberior . . .’
  6. [*3r] [Locher] Philomusus, [Jacobus]: ‘Epigramma.’ Incipit: ‘Accipe prudentem venerando pectore vatem | Pangeque nunc lyricis carmina facta modis'; 3 elegiac distichs.
  7. [*3r] ‘Vita Horatii Flacci Venusini compendiosa.’ Incipit: ‘[H]oratius Flaccus poeta laudatissimus temporibus Augusti Cesaris Rome . . .’
  8. [*3v] [Locher] Philomusus, [Jacobus: Verse addressed to] Apollo. Incipit: ‘Dic mihi dulcis, cythare magister | Phoebe frondentis nemorisque custos'; 17 strophes each of 3 sapphics and 1 adonic.
  9. [*4r] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus [pseudo-]: ‘Ex Elisiis Philomusi allequitur(!)'. Ludwig, ‘Horazrezeption in der Renaissance', 364-5.
  10. [*4r] [Notes about metrics.] Incipit: ‘[C]armen quidem est ipsa pedum numero compositio . . .’
  11. [*5r] Perottus, Nicolaus: ‘Annotatio generum metrorum quibus vsus est Horatius in operibus sequentibus.’ [Extract from De generibus metrorum.] Incipit: ‘Primum genus est monocolon diciturque choriambicum Asclepiadeum . . .’ See Leonhardt no. B120.2.
  12. A1r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmina. Hor. Carm.; 1. 35 has lines 1-6 only.
  13. A1r ‘Argumentum.’ Incipit: ‘Prima ode ad Mecoenatem loquitur quandoquidem huius hominis auxilio . . .’ Each ‘carmen' is preceded by an ‘argumentum.’
  14. A1r [Commentary on Carmina.] Incipit: ‘  “[M]ecoenas atauis edite regibus”. Beniuolentiam captat . . .’ The commentary contains extracts from Antonius Mancinellus and Christophorus Landinus.
  15. Q1r [Commentary on Epodes.] Incipit: ‘Epodi dicuntur versus metro quolibet scripti et sequentes clausulas habentes . . .’ Explicit: cruciabo quocumque modo The commentary includes excerpts from Mancinellus.
  16. Q1v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Epodae. Hor. Epod.
  17. S6r [Commentary on Carmen saeculare.] Incipit: ‘[A]augustus(!) ludos seculares instituit in quibus nobiles pueri . . .’ Explicit: spem bonam et certamen The commentary contains various excerpts, including some from Mancinellus.
  18. S6v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Carmen saeculare. Hor. Saec.
  19. T2r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Ars poetica. Hor. Ars.
  20. T2r [Commentary on Ars poetica.] Incipit: ‘Hunc librum qui inscribitur De arte poetica a pluribus inter alios libros . . .’ Explicit: in quo bidentes sacrificantur The commentary contains features from both Porphyrio and Pseudo-Acro.
  21. X1r [Locher] Philomusus, Jacobus: ‘Breuia quedam . . . in libros Sermonum.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uamuis Satyram esse opus hoc confiteatur tamen . . .’
  22. X1v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Sermones. Hor. S. 1. 10. 9-92 only.
  23. X1r [Commentary on Sermones.] Incipit: ‘[I]n hac prima satyra poeta sapientissimus alloquitur Mecœnatem cum admiratione . . .’ Explicit: inopiam seuissime nocent The commentary contains various excerpts, including some from Landinus.
  24. FF2v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Epistolae. Hor. Ep.
  25. FF2v [Commentary on Epistolae.] Incipit: ‘[P]rohemii munere fungitur haec epistola nam cum grauiore iam etate . . .’ Explicit: prima resecentur crimina barba The commentary is probably by Landinus.
  26. [†1r] ‘Directorium index vocum et rerum.’
  27. [†3v] ‘Directorium sententiarum et ad virtutes index.’
Imprint:
Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 12 Mar. 1498. Folio.
Collation:
[*] A–V X–Z AA–II6 KK LL8 [dagger6]. Gatherings [*] and [†] are numbered but not signed. 156 woodcuts: see Schramm XX pls 391-465.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00461000 HC *8898; Goff H‑461; BMC I 112; Pr 485; BSB‑Ink H‑370; CIBN H‑285; Hillard 1046; Oates 197; Rhodes 945; Sack, Freiburg, 1887-8; Schramm XX p. 23; Schreiber V 4240; Sheppard 396-7. LCN: 14461028, 14463281
Copies:
  1. H-214(1) First copy Gathering [†] is bound between gatherings [*] and A. The woodcut on A5r illustrates from left to right: Vergil in a ship, and a poet seated by a stream. The woodcut on M4v illustrates from left to right: Cupid, Venus, and animals; a poet standing; a gabled house. The order of the woodcuts on P3v and P4r is reversed from that in the second copy. Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; decorated with a single gold fillet on each cover; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 295 × 212 × 37 mm. Size of leaf: 289 × 197 mm. Occasional early marginal and interlinear notes, including corrections to the text. The woodcut on [*1r] is coloured in red, yellow, blue, green, and brown, some others partly coloured in green. Provenance: Carolus Dansermont (sixteenth century); signature on H5v; heavily cancelled inscription on LL8r: ‘[ ] Caroli Dansermont studentis in Collegio Atlensi[ ]'; heavily cancelled signature on V6v. Carolus le Gui[ ]r (sixteenth century); name on R1v: ‘Carolus le Gui[ ]r', and with the surname erased on R2v. Gulielmus Fourot (sixteenth century); cancelled inscription on V6v: ‘Gulielmus Fourot'. Erased inscription on LL7v. Purchased for £0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1789), 6. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 2.6.
  2. H-214(2) Second copy Wanting the blank leaf LL8. The woodcut on A5r illustrates from left to right: a landscape with a church and a tree; Vergil in a ship. The woodcut on M4v illustrates from left to right: a man holding a scroll; a naked man with a lyre, and a scroll lettered ‘ES'; Cupid, Venus, and animals. The order of the woodcuts on P3v and P4r is reversed from that in the first copy. Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; gold-tooled spine. Size: 296 × 214 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 285 × 196 mm. One- to three-line initials are supplied in alternate red and blue; capital strokes in red. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 232.
15th Century Booktrade University of Oxford European Research Council Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Incunabula Short Title Catalogue