tit00368000

Text-inc Id:

tit00368000

Bod-inc Id:

T-206

Headings:

Tibullus, Albius Elegiae, sive Carmina (comm. Bernardinus Cyllenius).

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Tibullus, Albius: [Elegiae: I–II]. See T‑205. For this edition's debt to Venice: de Spira, 1472 see CTC VII 207. See also Huschke, pp. xlviii–li.
2. [d1v] [Tibullus, Albius, pseudo-: Elegiae: III]. See T‑205.
3. [e7r] ‘Summa uitae Albii Tibulli.’ Incipit: ‘[A]lbius Tibullus eques Romanus insignis forma . . . ut in epistola praecedenti testatur'. See U. Pizzani, ‘Vite umanistiche', 260-1, and T‑205.
4. [e7v] [Marsus, Domitius: Epitaphium Tibulli.] See T‑205.
5. [e7v] [Vegius, Maphaeus: Epigram.] L. Raffaele, Maffeo Vegio. Elenco delle opere. Scritti inediti (Bologna, 1909), 130; see Walther, Initia, 18674; Ludwig Bertalot, Initia Humanistica Latina: Initienverzeichnis lateinischer Prosa und Poesie aus der 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts (Tübingen, 1985-[1990]), 6101.
6. [e7v] [Ovidius Naso, Publius: Amores 1. 15. 27-8.] Ov. Am. 1. 15. 27-8.
7. [e8r] [Ovidius Naso, Publius: [Amores, 3. 9]. Ov. Am. 3. 9.
8. [e8r] [Poem about Tibullus.] Incipit: ‘[I]uuenis qui pauper erat tamen ecce Tibullus | Viuit et eterno carmine nomen habet'; 6 elegiac distichs.
9. [e8v] [First Colophon.] ‘Presens opus Tibulli albici in primi fecit . . . sedente clemetissimo Sixto papa quarto anno eius felici quarto'.
10. [f1r] [Cyllenius], Bernardinus: [Poem addressed to] Baptista de Ursinis. Incipit: ‘[S]aepe meo uolui dominum signare libello | magnaque pro minimo tradere tecta lare'; 29 elegiac distichs. See F.-R. Hausmann, ‘Carmina Priapea', in CTC IV (1980), 422-50, at 430; R. Avesani, ‘Verona nel quattrocento: La civiltà delle lettere', Verona e il suo territorio, 4,2 (Verona, 1984), 200.
11. [f1r] [Cyllenius, Bernardinus]: ‘Poetae Vita.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam a me nusquam lectum sit apud quempiam unum certissimum maiorum nostrorum codicem . . .’ expl: ‘exilio indecentiora mulctato’ See Pizzani, ‘Vite umanistiche', 260-1; H. M. Dixon, ‘Studies in the Transmission of Tibullus', unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001, 65-6, 157.
12. [f7r] [Cyllenius, Bernardinus: Commentary on Tibullus.] Incipit: ‘  “[D]iuitias alius fuluo sibi congerat auro . . . magna soli” [Tib. 1. 1. 1-2] Genus carminis dicitur elegiacum . . .’ Cyllenius refers to his commentary on the carmina Priapea at leaf [g6r]: ‘ . . . ut in Priapeis explicuimus, quamquidem meditationem iam dudum edidissem . . .'; see CTC VI 430; Avesani, ‘Civiltà delle lettere', 200-1. See also Dixon, ‘Transmission of Tibullus', 66-94.
13. [aa2r] [Second colophon.] ‘Presens opus Tibulli albici inprimi fecit . . . sedente clementissimo Sixto papa quarto anno eius felici quinto'.
14. [aa2r] ‘Registrum textus Tibulli'.

Imprint:

Rome: [Georgius Lauer] for Giovanni Tibullo Amidani, 18 July 1475. 4°.

Collation:

[a–d⁸ e¹⁰ f–z⁸ aa⁴].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: it00368000 HC 15522; Goff T‑368; Pr 3416; CIBN T‑274; IGI 9660; Rhodes 1724; Sheppard 2738. LCN: 14716948

Copies:

1. T-206(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves [e10] and [t4]. Leaf [a1r]: ‘BERARDINUS', not as H and IGI. Misbound in the following order: [a, c, d, b, e . . .]. Binding: Eighteenth-century tan calf, the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Title in gilt on the spine. Marbled pastedowns; pink silk bookmark. Size: 209 × 148 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 203 × 133 mm. Provenance: Probably Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); Morelli (1787), II 5052; sale (1789), 9954, ‘exemplar integerrimum atque nitidissimum'. Purchased, probably through Peter Elmsley, for £10. 15. 0; see the annotated sale catalogue and Books Purchased (1789), 7. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. O 3.8. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.11.