tim00501000

Text-inc Id:

tim00501000

Bod-inc Id:

M-200

Headings:

Merula, Georgius Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. A2r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Federicus de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[S]i in enarrandis poetis quorum eruditio multiplex varia . . .’ Explicit: longo sufflamine litis See E. M. Sandford, ‘Juvenalis, Decimus Junius', CTC 1 (1960), 175-238, at 221-3, no. 27 (Merula).
2. A3v [Merula, Georgius: Life of Juvenalis addressed to the reader.] ‘Nec tamen caetera spreueris, lector, poetae vita'. Incipit: ‘[I]uuenalis satyrarum scriptor illustris aquinas fuisse magis . . .’ Explicit: altius repetenda sunt
3. A4r [Merula, Georgius?]: ‘De satyrica fabula duabus satyris'. Incipit: ‘[S]atyrica primum apud Graecos ut ueteres scriptores tradunt fabula fuit . . .’ Explicit: emunctæ naris
4. a2r Merula, Georgius: [Commentary on Juvenalis, Satyrae.] Incipit: ‘  “[S]emper ego auditor”. Causas hic primum reddit cur relicta frequenti poetarum . . .’ Explicit: consequebantur anonas
5. m6r Merula, Georgius: ‘Praefatio' [addressed to] Marcus Antonius Maurocenus. Incipit: ‘[C]um ex Belgis legatione illa, magnifice et prudentissime, obita in patriam . . .’ Explicit: maligne reprehenderit. Vale . . .
6. m6v Merula, Georgius: Adversus Domitii Calderini commentarios in Martialem. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid igitur petulans et nimiae licentiae litterator . . .’ Explicit: lacertæ sagita insidiantem see Frank-Rutger Hausmann, ‘Martialis, Marcus Valerius', CTC IV 249-96, at 266; Maurizio Campanelli, ‘Manoscritti antichi, testi a stampa e principi di metodo: spigolando negli scritti filologici di Giorgio Merula', La parola del testo: semestrale di filologia e letteratura italiana e comparata dal medioevo al rinascimento, 2 (1998), 253-92, at 274-81.
7. p7r [Merula, Georgius: List of Calderinus' errors.] Incipit: ‘Assiduus iactet nec Babylona labor . . .’ Explicit: sauroctonos legendum sit
8. q1r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. Incipit: ‘[C]um iam ferme quadriennium in urbe florentissima eam . . .’ Explicit: ita narrauerit. Vale . . .
9. q2r Merula, Georgius: Annotationes in orationem Ciceronis pro Q. Ligario. Incipit: ‘[H]aec oratio dicta est dictatore Caesare post confecta bella . . .’ Explicit: nunc xiii dierum
10. s1r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Sanutus. Incipit: ‘[E]xponenti mihi superiore anno discipulis nostris eam Ciceronis epistolam . . .’ Explicit: gratiam relaturus accedimus. Vale
11. s1v Merula, Georgius: [In epistolam ad Lentulum Spintherem enarratio.] Incipit: ‘[A]egyptiorum reges a Ptolemaeo Lagi filio . . .’ Explicit: magno studio sciuit
12. s6r [Table of contents.]
13. s6r [Colophon.]
14. s6v [List of errata.]

Imprint:

Venice: Gabriele di Pietro, [between 15 Mar. and 6 May] 1478. Folio.

Collation:

A⁴ a¹⁰ b–i K l–s⁸. Leaf a1 blank, a2 signed a, a3 a2, etc.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00501000 HC 11090; Goff M‑501; BMC V 202; Pr 4202; BSB‑Ink M‑338; CIBN M‑305; Oates 1683; Sack, Freiburg, 2436; Sheppard 3377. LCN: 14455642

Copies:

1. M-200(1) Copy Bound with J‑302; see there for details of binding. Size of leaf: 282 × 190 mm. Occasional early annotations, including ‘nota' marks. Two- to eight-line initials, some with extensions into the margin, are supplied in red, blue or interlocked red and blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Guillermus Groushet (fifteenth/sixteenth century); inscription on s7r of item 2 in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand: ‘Juuenalis iste fratri Guillermo Groushet intererat'; there is no indication that he also owned item 1. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735-1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part III lot 4056, for Fl. 48; purchased though Payne for £4. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 8. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 2.9(2).