tit00063000

Text-inc Id:

tit00063000

Bod-inc Id:

T-020

Headings:

Terentianus, Maurus De litteris syllabis et metris Horatii (ed. Georgius Galbiatus, Georgius Merula, and Johannes Crastonus).

Subjects:

grammar

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Title-page]. ‘Terentianus de litteris, syllabis et metris Horatii.’
2. [a2v] Sforza, Ludovicus Maria, Dux Mediolani: [Privilege]. ‘Ludovicus Maria Sfortia Anglus, dux Mediolani &c. Papiae Angleriaeque comes, ac Ianuae et Cremonae dominus.’ Incipit: ‘In omni genere negotiorum eo magis ingenia acui et operi homines alacrius incumbere certum est ...’ Explicit: ‘... Praesentibus annos quinque proxime futuros valituris. [Vigevano, 5 Sept. 1496]’ G. Morelli, ‘Le liste degli autori scoperti a Bobbio nel 1493', Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica, 117 (1989), 5-33, at 9-10; Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 315. A five-year privilege for the printing of the present edition, Fortunatianus' De Carminibus Horatii, Velius Longus' De orthographia, Adamantius' De orthographia, ‘Catholica Probi', and Cornelius Fronto's Elegantiae (at 25 aureai per volume), granted to Georgius Galbiatus by Ludovicus Maria Sforza, countersigned by his secretary Bartolomaeus Chalcus and dated Vigevano, 5 Sept. 1496; see Morelli, Autori scoperti, 9 n. 3, for the suggestion that it was drafted late in 1494 after Merula's death.
3. [a3r] Galbiatus, Georgius: [Prefatory letter addressed to] Jacobus Andreae. Incipit: ‘Cum Bobii in coenobio divi Columbani iussu eruditissimi Merulae ...’ Explicit: ‘... Et nunc nuper Joannis Plancentini peremendatum accipies. Vale.’ Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 316. On this letter and the privilege on [a2v] as testimonies of the texts that Merula and Galbiatus discovered at the convent of S. Columbanus, Bobbio, at the end of 1493, see Morelli, Autori scoperti, especially at 7, 9, 30-1.
4. [a3v] Terentianus, Maurus: ‘Praefatio.’ Incipit: Audivi veterem virum | vulgo dicere fabulam ... [a4v] Explicit: ‘... Par est iudicii mora | Pompae gloria utilis est.’ Edited by Georgius Galbiatus, Georgius Merula, and Johannes [Crastonus] Placentinus as stated in the preface. Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 325-7. On this edition of Galbiatus as a continuation of Merula's work see G. Resta, ‘La cultura umanistica a Milano alla fine del Quattrocento', in C. Leonardi, Milano nell'età di Ludovico il Moro (Milan, 1983), 201-14, at 209-10; on the edition as the only textual source see L. Holz, ‘La recherche des témoins', in La critica del testo Mediolatino, ed. C. Leonardi (Florence, 1994), 31-59, at 33.
5. b1r Terentianus, Maurus: De litteris syllabis et metris Horatii. Edited by Galbiatus, Merula, and Johannes [Crastonus] Placentinus as stated in the preface. ‘Terentiani Mauri de litteris syllabis et metris ad filium et generum liber.’ Incipit: [E]lementa rudes quae pueros docent magistri | Vocalia quaedam memorant, consona quaedam ... g6r Explicit: ‘... Horrida tempestas caelum contraxit et imbres | Nivesque deducunt Iovem, nunc mare, nunc sylve.’ Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 327-413. On Terentianus see OCD 1486.
6. g6r Colophon: ‘Impressum Mediolani, per magistrum Uldericum Scinzenzler, anno a partu Virginis salutifero M.cccc.xcvii. pridie nonis Frebuarii [sic].’

Imprint:

Milan Uldericus Scinzenzeler Folio Secundo folio: [a4r] Nil magnum gerere 4 Feb. 1497.

Collation:

[a⁴] b⁸ c–g⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: it00063000 CR 5729; Goff T‑63; BMC VI 771; Pr 6034; BSB‑Ink T‑84; CIBN T‑54; Oates 2309; Sheppard 5008. LCN: 14098329

Copies:

1. T-020(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century gold- and blind-tooled crushed red morocco; the blind-tooled stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; gilt-edged leaves; brown pastedowns; black silk bookmark. Size: 288 × 202 × 14 mm. Size of leaf: 284 × 193 mm. Provenance: Purchased for £18. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1803), 2. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.22.