til00304000

Text-inc Id:

til00304000

Bod-inc Id:

L-162

Headings:

Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus Pharsalia (comm. Omnibonus Leonicenus; ed. Johannes Taberius).

Subjects:

history, literature

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page]. ‘Lucanus cum commento.’
2. a1v Britannicus Brixianus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Advocatus. Ioannes Britannicus Brixianus Hieronymo advocato, Ambrosii iurisconsultis f. salutem. Incipit: ‘[N]on possum nostris temporibus, Hieronyme Aduocate, mirum in modum non gratulari . . .’ Explicit: ‘... Sed haec actenus. Illud a te dumtaxat petemus, ut Britanicum tui studiosissimum diligas, ames et complectaris. Vale.’
3. a1v [Vacca]: ‘M. Annei Lucani uita ex commentario antiquiss.’ Incipit: ‘[A]nneus Lucanus patrem habuit M. Anneum Melam ex provincia Baetica Hispaniae interioris Cordubensem equitem Roma. illustrem ...’ a2r Explicit: ‘... talis tamen ut belli civilis videatur accessio.’ See L‑151.
4. a2r Svetonius Tranquillus, Gaius: Vita Lucani. ‘Ex dimidiato codice particula ad poetae huius uitam pertinens sumpta.’ Incipit: ‘[P]rima ingenii experimenta in Neronis laudibus dedit in quinquenali certamine ...’ Explicit: ‘... epulatusque largiter brachia ad secandas venas praebuit medico.’ Suet. Poet., ending imperfectly; see L‑151.
5. a2r Laetus, Julius Pomponius: ‘Pomponii Infortunati M. Annei Lucani vita.’ Incipit: ‘[A]nneus Seneca e Corduba civitate Bethycae Romam venit, statimque eques factus ...’
6. a2v Tacitus, Publius Cornelius: [Note based on Tac., Ann. 15.48-9.] ‘Apud Cornelium Tacitum legitur.’ Incipit: ‘Consulibus Silio Nerua et Attico Vestino coniurationem in Neronem coeptam . . .’ see also L‑094.
7. a2v [Epigram]. Incipit: Si generi socerique cupis cognoscere bella | Non alium quaeras hic manifesta facit ... Explicit: ‘... Et licet hic partes vel plures rhetoris extent | Invenies et quae mira poeta canat. [6 elegiac distichs]’ see Walther, Initia, 17744.
8. a2v Lanfrancus, Christophorus: [Verse addressed to the reader]. ‘Epigramma La[m]phranci Ch. Lucanus ad lectorem.’ Incipit: Non rudis occurro sed lima tersus ad unguem | Nuper qui fueram sordidus atque lacer ... Explicit: ‘... Ob utinam tales producas Brixia foetus, | Unde habeas nomen perpetuumque decus. [4 elegiac distichs]’
9. a2v Taberius Brixianus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Barbarus. Incipit: ‘[C]ommentaria que in Annei Lucani Pharsaliam ab Omnibono Leoniceno edita putabantur . . .’
10. a3r Omnibonus Leonicenus: In Lucanum commentum. [Edited by Johannes Taberius]. Incipit: ‘  “[B]ella per aemathios”. In exponendo hoc auctore haec omnia libanda sunt: libri titulus . . .’
11. a3r [Epitaph of Lucan]. Incipit: ‘Corduba me genuit, rapuit Nero, praelia dixi | Quae gessere pares hinc socer, inde gener'; 2 elegiac distichs. See L‑150.
12. a3r Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus: Pharsalia. Luc. This edition is based on the 1486 Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus edition repeating the textual error which arose from the misbinding of n3.4 as described above; see L‑159.
13. t9v Colophon: ‘Impressum Veneciis impensis Octaviani Scoti necnon arte Bertolamei [sic] de Zanis de Portesio, anno Domini M.cccc.lxxxxii. die ultimo mensis Martii.’

Imprint:

Venice Bartholomaeus de Zanis for Octavianus Scotus Folio 31 Mar. 1492

Collation:

a–s⁸ t¹⁰. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00304000 HC *10240; Goff L‑304; BMC V 431; Pr 5328; BSB‑Ink L‑234; CIBN L‑239; Rhodes 1109; Sheppard 4164. LCN: 14500807

Copies:

1. L-162(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) parchment with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 315 × 216 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 205 mm. Occasional marginal annotations, also corrections to the text. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2627; purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1835). 19. SHELFMARK: Auct. P 4.26.