Siluae morales cum interpraetatione Ascensii in .xii. libellos diuisae. Quorum primus de uitiis fugie[n]dis: continet quinq[ue] opuscula Virgilii & fragmentu[m] Horatii vir bonus. utriusq[ue] de ludo. de liuore. de venere & uino. de littera Pythagorae. Secu[n]dus de fragilitate hominis: co[n]tinet has odas Horatii. Diffugere niues. Heu heu fugaces posthume. Aequam memento &c. Tertius de fragilitate reru[m]: habet eiusde[m] odas. Non ebur &c. Rectius uiues. Ocium diuos. Nullus argento &c. Quartus de uotis. Ex Horatio quid petendu[m]. Quid dedicatum &c. Ex Persio. Quid offerendu[m] deo. Ex Iuuenale. Quid optandum. Quintus de amicitiae atq[ue] urbanitatis officio. Habet fragmentum ex Ennio. Sextus de obsequiis amico praestandis. Ex Horatii odis. Septimus habet praecepta amicitiae & moralitatis. Ex Horatii oda & epistolis. Octauus de officio parentum in filios & de humanitate seruanda ex Iuuenale. Nonus de uitio impudice scribentium. Ex Baptista Mantuano. Decimus de moribus mensarum. Carmen iuuenile Sulpitii. Vndecimus Moralis Catonis. Duodecimus Parabolas Alani.
Josse Badius (1462-1535)
Category
Books
Date
1492
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069904
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], CCXXIX, [1] leaves : 1 ill. (woodcut) ; 4to. Running number: 6983. Head of first front fly-leaf torn off to remove an inscription. Initials supplied in blue or red (many of the red initials now oxidised); initials on leaves i3r and u7v supplied in blue with reserved white. Without rubrication. Provenance: manuscript inscription in seventeenth-century[?] hand at head of title page: "bibliothec[a]e Collegii Atrebatensis" [possibly the library of Arras or Atrecht College ("Collegium Atrebatense") of the old University of Leuven]. Manuscript inscription on verso of front free endpaper: "C. & P." [i.e. "collated and perfect" written by the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)]. Manuscript codes on recto of first front fly-leaf: "D/W." and "94". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five supports; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine with circular spiral tool within fillet panels and title 'Silvae Morales 1492 Lugd:' lettered directly onto spine; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers; blue sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Josse Badius (1462-1535), commentator Alanus de Insulis (c.1116 - c.1202), author Mantuanus Baptista (1448-1516), author Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 - 8 BC) , author Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140) , author Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) (34 - 62), author Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC), author Dionysius Cato (fl.3rd/4th century AD), author Quintus Ennius (c. 239 BC – c.169 BC), author Joannrs Sulpitius Verulanus (fl.15th century), author Johannes Trechsel (15th century), printer