Guests in a Manuscript – An Unknown Version of a Latin Epigram by Šime Budinić (1530/1535–1600) from Zadar

U Osimu, u Knjižnici Instituta Campana (Biblioteca Istituto Campana), pod signaturom ms. 18. L. 13 nalazi se rukopisni kodeks s latinskim djelima talijanskog humanista Nardina Celinesea. Ovaj je humanist bio magister publicus u Zadru otprilike u razdoblju 1508-1521, ali čini se da je kodeks u Zadru ostao i nakon Nardinova odlaska. Naime, premda je veći dio kodeksa ispisala ista ruka, najvjerojatnije samog Nardina, na folijima 26v i 27r nalazimo pet latinskih epigrama zapisanih drugačijim, po paleografskim obilježjima sudeći kasnijim rukopisom i pismom (italskom bastardom). Jedan od epigrama na spomenutim folijima nedvosmisleno povezuje kodeks sa Zadrom šezdesetih godina XVI. st. Radi se o jedinom poznatom nam latinskom sastavku zadarskog pjesnika, prevodioca psalama, svećenika i bilježnika Šime Budinića (između 1530. i 1535-1600). Sastavak se u literaturi, po početnoj riječi, naziva Cornisona, a dosad je neprecizno određivan kao »latinska satira« ili »rugalica«. Rad se osvrće na ove naknadno zapisane epigrame te tumači Budinićevu pjesmu, kao i djelo na koje ona odgovara, da bi naposljetku iznio nekoliko pretpostavki o povijesnom kontekstu Budinićeva latinskog eksperimenta.In Osimo (Italy), at the Biblioteca Istituto Campana, there is a manuscript ms. 18. L. 13, containing Latin works by Nardino Celinese. This Italian huma¬nist was magister publicus in Zadar in 1508-1521. The manuscript codex seems to have remained in Zadar even after Nardino left, as is implied by the fact that five Latin epigrams on ff 26v-27r were written by a different, later hand, using Italic bastarda, and that one of the epigrams was indubitably composed in Zadar during the 1560s. The epigram is the only Latin poem by Šime Budinić (Simone Budineo, Simon Budineus, Zadar, 1530/1535 – 1600), priest, notary, and transla¬tor of psalms into Croatian. Comprising 14 elegiac lines, the poem is also known from Budinić’s autograph (State Archives in Zadar, Notarial documents of Šime Budinić, Bastardel II, p. 54 and back cover; incipit: Cornisona inmenso cecinisti carmina cornu; explicit: Quinquigeros omnes cornibus aeque dicas). The other four epigrams on ff 26v-27r are: the poem Anthologia Latina 786, in the Osimo manuscript ascribed to Antonio Beccadelli (De Aermofrodita per D. An. Panormitanum); an Epitaphium Lucii Pape III. (incipit: Luca dedit lucem tibi, Luci, pontificatum; explicit: exilium; curas Ostia; Luca mori); an anonymous antisemitic epigram Iudeus ad Virginem Mariam (incipit: Fruges non opto nobis, castissima Virgo; explicit: Quae nos Iudeos efficit esse meros), and the poem Pau¬lus Simoni. 1564 (incipit: Uxorem qui nescit mecham, in uertice gestat; explicit: Credit et uxori, cornua quinque gerit). The epigram which »Paulus« dedicated to »Simon« in 1564, on five classes of cuckolds with sets of horns ranging from one to five, is attested outside Zadar as well; it is quoted in books from the 16th to the 19th century, while the earliest version known to us was printed in Giovanni Antonio Taglietti, Poemata ex quamplurimis autorum probatissimorum scriptis quae nondum edita fuerunt, Brixiae, 1568, f. 42 (there the poem is ascribed to Trifone Benci, fl. 1535-1555). Budinić’s epigram, entitled »Simon Paulo« in the Osimo manuscript, is undo¬ubtedly a response to »Paulus Simoni. 1564«. The lyric subject excludes himself from the group of cuckolded husbands, and reinterprets the classification of cuc¬kolds, acknowledging only those with one, two, and five sets of horns. Budinić was not very adept at Latin versification; his line 11, Dissimulant multi bicornes itaque multi, is not a correct hexameter; the poem’s complicated language makes it difficult to understand on its own, without the context of the earlier epigram. Still, Budinić manages to use Latin creatively, coining the otherwise uncomfirmed compound adjectives cornisonus, unicorniger, cornunus, quinquiger. Budinić’s poetic conversational partner »Paulus« could have been one of his brothers (in 1594, a »Paulus« who had agreed to provide his brother Šime Budinić with lifelong maintenance in exchange for the latter’s share of the inheritance), or his cousin Paulus de Sanctis, active as notary in Zadar in 1545-1551. The epigram, composed in 1564, could have been connected with Budinić’s personal conflict with the priest Martin Jurjević in November 1563 (the confrontation earned Bu¬dinić the punishment of brief excommunication)