Language(s): Latin
(fol. 20v)
Rubric: Quintilianus IIo
Incipit: Elegia quoque graecos provocamus, cuius mihi
(fols. 21r-v)
Rubric: idem de significatione Charitum Incipit: Quesieras Charitum
Initia Humanistica Latina: Poesie, no. 4625.
(fol. 21v)
Rubric: De ortu et obitu Hermaphroditi
Incipit: Cum mea me genetrix gravido gestaret in alvo
Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxvii
(fol. 21v)
Rubric: Julii Caesaris
Incipit: Thrax puer astricto glacie dum ludit in Hebro
Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxiii verso
(fol. 25)
Epitaph of Nero Incipit: Marmoreo tumulo iacet hic Nero sed Cato parvo
(fol. 25v)
Rubric: P. Virgilii
Incipit: Parce puer si forte tuas sonus improbus aures
(fol. 25v)
Incipit: Poggius uxorem ducit lambitque Luciam
Initia Humanistica Latina: Poesie, no. 4364.
(fol. 26)
Aurispa,
Euripidis epitaphium Incipit: Siste quid ipse velim rogito cognosce viator
Initia Humanistica Latina: Poesie, no. 5989. Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxiii verso
(fol. 26)
Rubric: Calphurnia anthis fecit
Incipit: Dextera fama mihi fuit et fortuna patrona
Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxiii verso
(fol. 26r-v)
Six distichs, all also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fols. cxxx verso - cxxxi.
Rubric: In Virgilium
Incipit: Pastor oves et arator agros et proelia miles
Rubric: In Probam
Incipit: Proba hec centonam scripsit dictante Maronis
Rubric: In Rafaelem comanum
Incipit: Iustitiae et iuris consultus maximus olim
(fol. 26v)
Rubric: In Nicolaum Nicoli
Incipit: Qui poteras prisco Varroni aequarier unus
Rubric: In Lisbonem
Incipit: Lisbo niger nigra hac ob stuprum contegor urna
Rubric: In Ruffilium
Incipit: Est tibi Ruffili pes claudus clauda fidesque
(fol. 26v)
Rubric: Apud Mediolanum nobilissam Insubrium urbem
Incipit: Vester ego insubres iaceo sub marmore vester
Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxiii verso
(fol. 26v)
Incipit: Pontius hic pariter sua cornicarius ossa
Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxiiii
(fol. 27r)
Incipit: Ecclesiae antistes fueram qui magnus eoae
Initia Humanistica Latina: Poesie, no. 1437. Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxvi verso - cxxvii.
(fols. 27r)
Rubric: In lapide retro tribunam S. Petri
Incipit: Cingebant latices montem teneroque meatu
Prose. Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxiiii.
(fols. 27v-29v)
Inscriptions at Rome Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fols. cxxiiii verso - cxxvi verso, cxxx recto - verso.
Rubric: Romae | In templo Sancti Michaelis
Incipit: Nereus et Achilleus Martyres | Militiae nomen dederant saevumque gerebant
Rubric: Epigramma in urna in sancto Michaele prope sanctum Petrus
Incipit: Tu qui secura procedis mente parumper
(fol. 28r)
Rubric: In eadem urna
Incipit: ATIMETUS PAMPHILI TI. CAESARIS AUG. LL.
Rubric: In eadem urna graece
Rubric: In eadem urna
Incipit: PERMESSU PATRONI IN FRONTELONG-UM
(fol. 28v)
Rubric: In urna in Sancta Maria maiore Romae
Incipit: Ingratae Veneri spondebam munera supplex
Rubric: In ponte Salario
Incipit: Quam bene curvati directa est semita pontis
Rubric: Apud Hostiam in basi marmorea
Incipit: Littoribus nostris qoniam certamina laetum
(fol. 29r)
Rubric: In urna Romae
Incipit: Levitae coniunx Petronia forma pudoris
Rubric: Epitaphium in quodam sepulchro nuper reperto in agro prope Maleanum quod nunc advectum in urbem ante domum Iacobi Matthei trans Tiberim cernitur | Romae
Incipit: Hospes quod deico paullum est asta ac pellege
Rubric: Romae | In urna vetustissima in sancto Gregorio
Incipit: Florus ego hic iaceo quodam bigarius infans
Rubric: Romae in domo de Chaffarellis
Incipit: Hunc tibi perpetuo tumulum gratissima coniunx
(fol. 29v)
Rubric: Ad statuam Barol. in templo plebis apud Montem Policianum haec Barn. fecit hypogrammata
Incipit: Bartholomaio viro consultiss. qui et in litterarum
(fol. 29v)
Rubric: In porta Castelli Romae
Incipit: Romanus Francus bardusque viator et omnis
(fol. 30)
Rubric: P. Vergilii Maronis
Incipit: Vir bonus et prudens qualem vix repperit unum
(fol. 30v)
Blank; note by Fontius (referring to fol. 71r)
(fols. 61–70, 31–55v)
Tibullus,
Elegies Bk. 1, fols. 61–70, 31r-34v; bk. 2, fols. 34v-44r; bk. 3, fols. 44r-55v.
(fol. 56)
Note on Tibullus (fol. 56)
Rubric: Ovidius amorum
Incipit: Donec erunt ignes arcusque Cupidinis arma
(fol. 56v)
Rubric: Campani in laudem Pii Pont.
Incipit: Quod victore Pio fieri tot proelia cernis
Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxxi verso.
(fol. 56v)
Rubric: Contra Pium Pont. tacetur nomen poete
Incipit: Silvius est genitor papae Victoria mater
Also in MS. Lat. misc. d. 85, fol. cxxxi verso.
(fol. 56v)
Campanus,
Epigram Incipit: Lesbia defuncti faciem visura mariti
Initia Humanistica Latina: Poesie, no. 3016.
(fol. 56v)
Rubric: Ad latrinas Romae
Incipit: Papa pius ventres longe miseratus onustos
Two lines.
(fol. 56v)
Incipit: Pulcris stare diu
Two lines.
(fols. 57–60v)
Ovid,
Sappho Phaonti Incipit: Ecquid ubi aspecta est studiose littera dextre
Origin: Italian;
15th century, second half - 16th century, early Provenance and Acquisition
‘Del P. Niccola Morelli di Rincine’ (?), fol. [ii] recto.
Bequeathed by John Sparrow (1906–1992)