Gregorius Tifernas, Publius.

chancery 4to (201 x 139mm.), 44 leaves, 30 lines, Roman letter, woodcut capitals and Lombards, later blind-tooled calf, inkstamp on a1r, wormholes in margins of a2-b1, slight spotting, binding slightly scuffed

HCR 8042; GW 11506; BMC v 547; Goff G483; Bod-inc G-245; ISTC ig00483000. Arguments for the authenticity of the Conquestio Sulpiciae were carefully reviewed by J. L. Butrica, "The Fabella of Sulpicia (Epigrammata Bobiensia 37)", Phoenix 60 (2006), 70-121.

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A collection of neo-Latin verse by the Italian humanists Gregorius Tifernas (d. c.1464), Pontanus (1426-1503), and Franciscus Octavius "Cleophilus" (d.1490), each in a pamphlet with separate quiring. The full list of contents and colophon appear in the Tifernas pamphlet, e4v. The Pontanus pamphlet includes also the editio princeps of the "Conquestio Sulpiciae", by the late first century female poet Sulpicia, who was mentioned by Martial. This poem of 70 lines was preserved in an ancient Bobbio manuscript, now lost, which was transcribed in the early 1490s, within a collection of mostly early fifth century verse known collectively as the Epigrammata Bobiensia. The poem of Sulpicia, complaining of Domitian's expulsion of philosophers from Rome (A.D. 96), was at one time seen as a Renaissance forgery; then as an early fifth-century poem put under Sulpicia's name; and then as authentic.