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VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Appendix Vergiliana, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER
[Italy, ?Veneto, 1470-90]
Chancery 40 (197 x 142mm). 85 leaves: 1-410, 58 (of 10, lacking i & x), 67 (of 10, vii-ix cancelled), 78 (of 10, lacking i, x cancelled), 85 (of 8, v-vii cancelled) , 910, 107 (of 8, vii a half folio), 20 or 25 lines written in brown ink in a humanistic cursive hand on a scored ruling of 2 pairs of vertical and 21 or 26 horizontal lines, justification: 133 x103mm, decorated initial and arms with supporting putti painted in red, yellow, green and brown on opening folio, additions and corrections on several folios, various pen-trials, phrases and sketches, especially on ff. 68v, 84v, 85r & v, including a faun's head (spots and small blots on ff.1, 10v, 31 and 78v, water stains in inner upper margins from ff.56-68v, several loose leaves). ?17th-century limp vellum.
PROVENANCE:
1. The arms on f.1 may represent those of the original owner: on an unpainted shield a yellow rampant lion crossed by a green band, surmounted by a winged head.
2. The vernacular verse (cancelled) on f.54v and the verses on ff.55 and 68v are written in a later hand and in Venetian dialect.
2. Baron Horace de Landau: his bookplate -- a coronet above an entwined monogram -- on the inside of the upper cover.
CONTENTS:
Aetna (ff.1-17); Ciris (ff.17-30v); Culex 1-401 (ff.31-40v); Priapea III, 2-21 (ff.41); Catalepton I-XII, 1-2 (ff.41v-45); Dirae 1-142 (ff.45v-48v); De est et non (49r & v); De institutione viri boni (ff.49v-50); De rosis nascentibus (ff.50-51v); Ovid, Heroides XV, 121-220 (ff.52-54); cancelled verses beginning "Ad furtum inveniendum piglia..." (f.54v); verse beginning "Che fai casandrio mio..." (f.55v); verses on a grammatical theme and an incomplete glossary (ff.56-63); Ovid, Heroides XV, 1-120 (ff.64-66v); Petronius, Satyrica 119, 1-26 (ff.67r & v); Silius Italicus, Punica II, 1-99 (ff.69-76); Martial, Epigrammata, Epigrammaton liber, I-XXVII, 1 (ff.79-83v); Martial, Epigrammata, Epigrammaton liber, X, 1-4 (f.84).
This codex contains all but two of the minor poems that were attributed to Virgil and that have been known as the Appendix Vergiliana since Giuseppe Giusto Scaligero's edition of 1573. No 15th-century manuscript contains all of the texts and no other humanistic copy has more than the present codex.
In addition to the Vergilian texts the Epistula Sapphus is found in two misbound segments. This is one of the most famous of Ovid's Heroides - the letters from famous women of Greek legend to absent husbands or lovers.
The final fragment is from the Epigrammaton liber that is also known as the Liber Spectaculorum, which gives an account of the series of spectacular games that took place when the emperor Titus inaugurated the amphitheatre Flavio.
[Italy, ?Veneto, 1470-90]
Chancery 40 (197 x 142mm). 85 leaves: 1-410, 58 (of 10, lacking i & x), 67 (of 10, vii-ix cancelled), 78 (of 10, lacking i, x cancelled), 85 (of 8, v-vii cancelled) , 910, 107 (of 8, vii a half folio), 20 or 25 lines written in brown ink in a humanistic cursive hand on a scored ruling of 2 pairs of vertical and 21 or 26 horizontal lines, justification: 133 x103mm, decorated initial and arms with supporting putti painted in red, yellow, green and brown on opening folio, additions and corrections on several folios, various pen-trials, phrases and sketches, especially on ff. 68v, 84v, 85r & v, including a faun's head (spots and small blots on ff.1, 10v, 31 and 78v, water stains in inner upper margins from ff.56-68v, several loose leaves). ?17th-century limp vellum.
PROVENANCE:
1. The arms on f.1 may represent those of the original owner: on an unpainted shield a yellow rampant lion crossed by a green band, surmounted by a winged head.
2. The vernacular verse (cancelled) on f.54v and the verses on ff.55 and 68v are written in a later hand and in Venetian dialect.
2. Baron Horace de Landau: his bookplate -- a coronet above an entwined monogram -- on the inside of the upper cover.
CONTENTS:
Aetna (ff.1-17); Ciris (ff.17-30v); Culex 1-401 (ff.31-40v); Priapea III, 2-21 (ff.41); Catalepton I-XII, 1-2 (ff.41v-45); Dirae 1-142 (ff.45v-48v); De est et non (49r & v); De institutione viri boni (ff.49v-50); De rosis nascentibus (ff.50-51v); Ovid, Heroides XV, 121-220 (ff.52-54); cancelled verses beginning "Ad furtum inveniendum piglia..." (f.54v); verse beginning "Che fai casandrio mio..." (f.55v); verses on a grammatical theme and an incomplete glossary (ff.56-63); Ovid, Heroides XV, 1-120 (ff.64-66v); Petronius, Satyrica 119, 1-26 (ff.67r & v); Silius Italicus, Punica II, 1-99 (ff.69-76); Martial, Epigrammata, Epigrammaton liber, I-XXVII, 1 (ff.79-83v); Martial, Epigrammata, Epigrammaton liber, X, 1-4 (f.84).
This codex contains all but two of the minor poems that were attributed to Virgil and that have been known as the Appendix Vergiliana since Giuseppe Giusto Scaligero's edition of 1573. No 15th-century manuscript contains all of the texts and no other humanistic copy has more than the present codex.
In addition to the Vergilian texts the Epistula Sapphus is found in two misbound segments. This is one of the most famous of Ovid's Heroides - the letters from famous women of Greek legend to absent husbands or lovers.
The final fragment is from the Epigrammaton liber that is also known as the Liber Spectaculorum, which gives an account of the series of spectacular games that took place when the emperor Titus inaugurated the amphitheatre Flavio.