tiv00306000

Text-inc Id:

tiv00306000

Bod-inc Id:

V-149

Headings:

Vitruvius Pollio De architectura (ed. Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus).

Analysis of content:

1. [*1v] Sulpitius [Verulanus], Johannes: [Letter addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Cum diuinum opus Victruuii non modo studiosis . . .’ On this edition see Lucia A. Ciapponi, ‘Fra Giocondo da Verona and his Edition of Vitruvius', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 47 (1984), 72-90, at 72-3.
2. [*2r] ‘Index'.
3. [*3v] Sulpitius [Verulanus], Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Raphael Riarius. Incipit: ‘[Q]uicqnid(!) curae studii vigiliarum et opere . . .’
4. [a1r] Vitruvius Pollio: De architectura. Dedicated to Emperor Augustus. Edited by Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, as stated in his letters. Vitr. See Lucia A. Ciapponi, ‘Vitruvius', in CTC III 399-403. In this edition the author's name is given as L[ucius].
5. [a1v] Vitruvius Pollio: De architectura. Vitr.
6. [n7v] Sulpitius [Verulanus], Johannes: [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Lector habes tandem veneranda volumina docti | Victruuii quorum copia rara fuit'; 3 elegiac distichs.
7. [n8r] [Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: Emendations.] Incipit: ‘Praetermissis paucis in quibus aut deest . . .’

Imprint:

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, between 1486 and 16 Aug. 1487]. Folio. On the dating see Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, IX A, 1 (1961), at col. 481-3 for the terminus post quem (CIBN); the copy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was purchased at Rome on 16 Aug. 1487 (see BMC and Rhodes). Pr and Copinger assign to [Georgius Herolt].

Collation:

[*⁴ a–c⁸ d–f⁶ g⁸ h⁶ i–l⁸ m⁶ n⁸]. Woodcut diagram.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iv00306000 CR 6268; Goff V‑306; BMC IV 124; Pr 3951; BSB‑Ink V‑270; CIBN V‑254; Hillard 2081; Rhodes 1835; Sander 7691 = 7692; Sheppard 3098. LCN: 14766386

Copies:

1. V-149(1) Copy Bound with F‑108; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 270 × 184 mm. An early note mentioning Philelphus on [*1r] has been hidden by pasting this leaf to a preceding endleaf. A few other early marginal notes erased or washed out. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 5.27(1).