tis00696000

Text-inc Id:

tis00696000

Bod-inc Id:

S-291

Headings:

Statius, Publius Papinius Achilleis (comm. Johannes Britannicus).

Analysis of content:

1. A2r Britannicus, Johannes: [Carmen.] ‘Ad librum suum'. Incipit: ‘[I] liber i trepidas? nescis quo mitteris? an quod | praeceptum dedimus decidit omne tibi |'; 47 elegiac distichs. A. M. Quirini, Specimen variae literaturae quae in urbe Brixia eiusque ditione paulo post typographiae incunabula florebat (Brescia, 1739), I 141-3.
2. A3v Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Interpretatio in Achilleida Statii Papinii Neapolitani’ [dedicated to] Comes Petrus Gambarensis (Pietro de Gambara). Incipit: ‘[E]xistimaui semper magnifice ac splendidissime comes . . .’
3. A4v ‘Statii Papinii Vita'. Incipit: ‘[S]tatius Papinius cui alii falso in Gallia patriam assignat . . .’
4. a1r Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Commentarii in Achilleida Statii’ [dedicated to] Comes Petrus Gambarensis (Pietro Gambara). Incipit: ‘  “[M]agnanimum” [Stat. Theb. I.1.1.] Epitheton est perpetuum Achillis . . .’ See Jeudy and Riou, ‘L'Achilleide de Stace', 149.
5. a1r Statius, Publius Papinius: Achilleis. See S‑286.

Imprint:

Brescia: Jacobus Britannicus, 21 May 1485. Folio.

Collation:

A⁴ a–d⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00696000 HC *14989; Goff S‑696; BMC VII 973; Pr 6977; BSB‑Ink S‑534; CIBN S‑381; Sack, Freiburg, 3277; Sheppard 5779. LCN: 14010002

Copies:

1. S-291(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled paper boards. Size: 305 × 210 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 209 mm. Some marginal notes in a contemporary cursive Italian hand, extracting key words and supplying some brackets and pointing hands. A cropped inscription on A1r. Provenance: Probably the ‘Statii' bought from Caspar Haugg, Catalogue 76 (22 Oct. 1885), no. 269. Purchased for 12 Marks; see Library Bills (1885), no. 296. SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.10.