Farfel Notebook 07: Leaves 469-498

During Plutarch's lifetime, 11 Roman emperors came and went. The vicissitudes of the great must have suggested his peculiar moralistic method of comparing similar lives. Shakespeare relied heavily on Plutarch. It is the source from which he took the plots, and in many cases the characterization and diction, of all his "classical" plays. This borrowing is most evident in Anthony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus no rub. my leaf K3 (of 8) Dionis (part of secundi Libri) begins 72 I8 ends 78 K5 before - Catonis Iunioris IXIIII after - Marci Brutis uita IXXVIII Part 2 - book ends [with] Caroli Magni uita cxl folio 144 -begins [with] Cymonis vita Part 1 1-145 folio

Biographers of a sort had been in existence for more than [a] half millenium, though Plutarch was the first of the Greeks whose work has survived.

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Perottus, Nicolaus Cornucopiae linguae latinae (Ed: Pyrrhus Perottus, revised by Ludovicus Odaxius) Venice: Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona + Simon de Leure, 30 May 1490 f0 Ref: Goff P-289 H12699 Oats 2050 BMC V 464 Haebler, Plate 99, Type 7. IGI 7420 Copy: WAntGL

ab8c-zA-Q8R6 318 leaves, the last blank. 17-317 numbered I-ccci 19a: 62 lines + headline, 248(255)x 148 (c marginalia 181) mm. Capital spaces + guide letters Types: 107R (P3) text type + separate Q In use in 1489, 1490 80R (P7,13) small text type. Large face + single Qu. 80Gk - Iowa case only. In use 1488-90 Probably reprinted from the 1489 ed. of Del Paganinis.

The earliest known products of this press are 3 books of 1488. De Choris was partnered by Simon de Leure from 13 Aug. 1489 to 15 Dec. 1490 + again in Aug. + Nov. 1491. His last recorded ed. is the Seneca of 13 Oct. 1492.

EPIGRAMMA cclxi. XLV XLVI XLVII

(horn of plenty) [underlined word] Cornucopiae [end underlined word] is a thesaurus of classical Latin based on Book I of Martials' [underlined word] Epigrammata [end underlined word] (ca. AD86) The Latin of Martial was for Perotti, the language of Rome at its apex of empire, language at the height, that is to say, of its powers of description, persuatoin, + command. Cornucopiu(?) is the legacy of his life long study.

In [underlined word] Cornucopiae [end underlined word], Perotti surveyed the linguistic + syntactical cosmos of classical antiquity in a mannes analagous to his method of editing Martial + Pliny(?), as something to be apprehended + reconstructed from within. Cornucopiae (the manuscript was completed July 1478) was the 1st commentary in which the language + literature of ancient Greece was employed as essential aduncts to the interpretation of a classical Latin text.

Marcus Valerius [underlined word] Martialis [end underlined word] c 40-104 - greatest of epigrammatists + father of the epigram in its modern translation - his poems total 1561 pieces of which about 1200 are true epigrams (a short poem of a discriptive, often satiric, sometimes vituperative character, usually (?) some unexpected climax in the last line.) [left margin] HEHL # 104179 no rub. [end left margin] Oct. 19 [underlined number] 1490 [end underlined number] Venice: Baptista de Tortis(?). Goff P - 290, /os 4640, in [underlined words] this ed. my leaf [end underlined words] G 2+3, folio 246 +47. [underlined word] begins [end underlined word] - De Amphitheatrs Epigramma Primum on a3 (folio3) [underlined word] ends [end underlined word] - Ad Caedicianum Epig. CXLVII on folio 286.

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See#340 296 495 Hieronymus (ca 331-419 20) Epistolae. ([with] other tracts) Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis I) 7 Jan. 1496 II) 12 July 1396. Folio Ref: Goff H-175 HC 8563 IGI 4745 Pr 5141 BMC V 419, Haebler, Plate 94, type 2. Copy: BM an CL, HEHL, LC, UCalBL (2,3)6; a-v8 x4; A-Z, AA-CC8 DD6; EE8 FF6 398 leaves, 15-398 numbered ix-390 [sic] 8a: 62-63 lines 253x164mm. Capital spaces, some [with] guide letters. woodcut capitals on 2a, 3b - epistola begins on 7a. Types: 135G (P7) heading type. In use in 1496-1500. 82R (P2) small text type [with] single Qu. S leans slightly to the left. Brought from Treviso & in use throughout. 80 Gk. The evidence of the 2 colophons seems conclusive proof that Rubeus was here dating in the modern style. -183 Ciii During the period of his activity at Treviso (1480-85) J. Rubeus produced 1 book at Venice (1482). The Josephus of Oct 23, 1485 was the 1st of a regular output of book printed at Venice. His brother Albertinus partnered [with] him in April 1499 & June 1500. The name of Albertinus alone appears in the colophon of the subsequent books.

HEHL #88337 no rub. my leaf C3 (of 8) folio 183 Secundae Partis, folio 165-377 volume ends on folio Primae Partis - Epistolarum, folio 1-164 from Homelia secunda begins C2, ends D2 title - "FVSca & formosa filiae hierusalem: ut tabernacula cedar: ut pelles Salmois. In aliis exemplaribus legimus Nigra sum & formosa" total of 4.