tio00148000

Text-inc Id:

tio00148000

Bod-inc Id:

O-053

Headings:

Ovidius Naso, Publius De arte amandi et De remedio amoris (comm. Bartholomaeus Merula).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Merula, Bartholomaeus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Georgius Cornelius. Incipit: ‘[P]reclara multa et omni laude cumulatissima in hac tua excellenti . . .’ Explicit: tuum amabis. Vale
3. a2r Merula, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on De arte amandi.] Incipit: ‘  “[S]i quis in hoc artem populo non nouit amandi”. Ex latinorum poetarum consuetudine proponit . . .’ Explicit: spoliis exuuiis amantum
4. a2r Ovidius Naso, Publius: De arte amandi. [Also known as Ars amatoria.] Ov. Ars.
5. h1v Merula, Bartholomaeus: [Commentary on De remedio amoris.] Incipit: ‘  “[L]egerat huius amor titulum nomenque libelli”. Scripturus de remedio amoris Ouidius primo se excusat . . .’ Explicit: remedia amoris descripsi
6. h1v Ovidius Naso, Publius: De remedio amoris. Ov. Rem.
7. k2v [Merula, Bartholomaeus: Part of the epilogue addressed to] Franciscus [Georgius Cornelius]. Incipit: ‘Habes, Francisce generose, enarrationes nostras in Ouidium De arte amandi . . .’ Explicit: nonum annum premendam
8. k3v [Colophon.]
9. k3v Antimachus, Marcus Antonius: ‘Carmen'. Incipit: ‘Naso corinna tuos expertus sepe calores | Et quam fallaces sint in amore doli'; 6 distichs.
10. k3v Palladius Soranus, Domitius: ‘Carmen'. Incipit: ‘Quot puer incautos quondam pharetratus amantes | Impulit ad seue tela cruenta necis'; 7 distichs.
11. k3v ‘Registrum.’

Imprint:

Lyons: Pierre Mareschal and Barnabe Chaussard, 1497. 4°.

Collation:

a–i⁸ k⁴. Types: 290 G; 80 G (leaded); 70 G. Initials. Device on a1r: Polain, Marques, 55. 76 leaves, the last two blank, 2-74 so numbered. 53 lines of commentary enclosing the text, plus headlines (a3r). Type area: 186 (192) ×121 (with marginalia 135) mm (a3r). a1r: ‘[O]Vidius de arte | amandi Et de re | medio amoris cū | comento.' [Device]. a1v: ‘Bartholomeus merula generoſo adoleſcenti georgij | cornelij equitis [et] decemuiri clariſſimi filio. Salutem. [P]Reclara multa [et] omni laude cumulatiſſima . . .' a2r, l. 11: ‘Bartholomei Merule In primum Ouidij de arte amandi enarrationes'. b1r: [Commentary] ‘parthos ſe ſubtrahentem reci[per] ꝑ et.his igitur . . .' [Text] ‘Cumƺ pater tibi ſit: iura tuere patris. | . . .' h1r: [Text] ‘ . . . P.Ouidii Naſonis de arte | amandi Finis'. [Commentary] ‘ . . . Spolijs exuuijs amantium. | Finis.' h1v: [Commentary] ‘Bartholomei merulae enarrationes in primum | Ouidii volumen de remedio amoris.' | [L]egerat huius amor titulum: nomenƺ libelli. Scripturus . . .' [Text] ‘P.Ouidii Naſonis de remedio amo | ris. Liber primus incipit. | [L]egerat huius amor titulū | . . .' k2v: [Commentary] ‘ . . . quibus reme | dia amoris deſscripſi. | Finis'. [Text] ‘ . . . femina virƺ meo | P.Ouidii naſonis De reme | dio amoris Finis.' [Colophon] ‘Enarrationes in ouidium . . . cōpoſitas a Bartholomeo Merula mātuano Impreſſum Luduni | per Petrū Mareſchal. [et] Bernabā chauſſard.Anno ſalutis.M.cccc.xcvij'. ‘M. Antonij antimachi | Mantuani carmen'. ‘Domici palladij Sorani | Carmen'. ‘Regiſtrum huius operis. | . . . k qui duternus eſt.’

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: io00148000 HC 12236; Goff O‑148; Pr 8627; Baudrier XI 499; BSB‑Ink O‑112; Moss, Ovid, 66 no. 8; Sheppard 6706. LCN: 14540572

Copies:

1. O-053(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled boards; bound for Kloß; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 261 × 183 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 250 × 170 mm. Early corrections to the text, and pointing hands. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; purchased at his sale (1835), lot 2906 for £0. 3. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 21. SHELFMARK: Auct. P 5.33.