CATULLUS, TIBULLUS, PROPERTIUS, ‘GALLUS’.
Opera … cum indice e diligenti vocum singularum, labore & industria Horatii Tuscanellae Florentini confecto … Editio auctior insuper poëmatis aliquot quae verè Corn. Galli.
Hanau, Wechel Press, Claude de Marne, and the heirs of Johann Aubry, 1608.
8vo, pp. [10], 342, 191, [1]; woodcut publisher’s device to title-page and final page; some foxing and browning from poor paper stock, else a good copy in nineteenth-century polished calf, rubbed, joints cracked, preserving an earlier front-endpaper with the ownership inscription ‘Phillip Woodehouse’ and several inscriptions in a seventeenth-century hand (see below); scattered marginal marks and annotations throughout, most heavily in Propertius books I and II (where numerous variant readings are provided); Wodehouse bookplate dated in manuscript ‘Kimberley 1838'.
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Opera … cum indice e diligenti vocum singularum, labore & industria Horatii Tuscanellae Florentini confecto … Editio auctior insuper poëmatis aliquot quae verè Corn. Galli.
Wechel edition of the standard triad of Latin elegiac poets, along with the works attributed to Cornelius Gallus but actually by the sixth-century poet Maximianus – an imposture first put forth in an edition of 1501 by Pomponius Gauricus.
Provenance: possibly Phillip Woodehouse (1559–1623), of Kimberley Hall, Norfolk. Briefly an MP, he was knighted at the capture of Cadiz in 1596, and created a baronet 1611; over his inscription in an early hand is the couplet:
Since Cruell Mors hath kill’d the horse of Mr Muriell:
Come scholars all of Pembrocke Hall unto the Buriall.
The newly horseless Thomas Muriell (1565–1629), fellow at Pembroke Hall from 1588, and Proctor in 1611–2, was later Archdeacon of Norfolk. The book remained in the Wodehouse family at Kimberley and has the bookplate of John Wodehouse, second Baron Wodehouse (1771–1846).
USTC 2014675; VD 17 3:311682W.