Bod-Inc: (E-063)
Evagatorium
Modus praedicandi, et al.
Analysis of Content
A2r Modus praedicandi. Incipit: ‘[C]ontentio est color qui conficitur . . .’ See Charland, Artes praedicandi, 71. BSB‑Ink ascribes the authorship to Michael de Hungaria.
B4r ‘Epistola Jesu Christi filii Dei et Marie. Regule vite christiane religionis.’ Incipit: ‘[J]esus episcopus, pater, dominus et confrater seruorum Dei, dilectis filiis omnibus electis . . .’ See Reinhold Röhricht, ‘Ein “Brief Christi” ’, ZfK 11 (1890), 436-42; Rudolf Heinrich K. Stübe, Der Himmelsbrief. Ein Beitrag zur allgemeinen Religionsgeschichte (Tübingen, 1918); Hippolyte Delehaye, ‘Un exemplaire de la lettre tombée du ciel', Recherches de science religieuse, 18 (1928), 164-9; R. Priebsch, Letter from Heaven (1936) and VL IV 28-33.
B4v Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: [Prayer.] Incipit: ‘[R]espice, o homo, quantum . . .’
B4v ‘Oratio ad beatissimam Annam'. Incipit: ‘[O] radix viua, mire pietatis oliua . . .’
B4v ‘Alia oratio'. Incipit: ‘[O] felix Anna, matrona nobilis . . .’
B4v [Prayer.] Incipit: ‘[D]eus, qui beatam Annam . . .’
B5r ‘Applicationes breues sed perutiles materiarum tredecim sermonum Michaelis de Hungaria'. Incipit: ‘[E]untes in mundum vniuersum . . .’
D4r ‘Tabula alphabetica in sermones tredecim sequentes'.
F1r Michael de Hungaria: Sermones tredecim universales praedicabiles. Michael de Hungaria, Breviarium concionatorum, seu Sermones universales (Cologne, 1620); on this edition see G. Borsa, Michael de Hungaria, élete és művének nyomtatott kiadásai (Budapest, 1997), 180 no. 25.
R6v Michael de Hungaria: ‘Sermo deuotus de passione domini nostri Jesu Christi'.’ Incipit: ‘ “[Q]ue vtilitas in sanguine meo” [Ps 29,10] Psalmus. Reuerendissimi, sicut nouerunt scolares . . .’
S7v Michael de Hungaria: ‘Sermo de perfectione hominis'.’ Incipit: ‘[H]vgo de Wienna super illo Gen[esis] p[rimo] . . .’
T3r Michael de Hungaria: ‘Sermo qui est de fide ac dilectione dei ac proximi'.’ Incipit: ‘ “[A]mbulate in dilectione” [Eph 5,2] ad Eph[esos] v. et in presentis . . . Ad imitationem Christi . . .’
T7r [Bernardus Claravallensis]: ‘Sermo pulcherrimus ac fidedignus de serto rosaceo beate Marie virginis'.’ Bernardus Claravallensis, Opera, V (Rome, 1968), 248-9; part of Sermo quartus in assumptione. See also M. Bernhards, ‘Zur Verbreitung der Bernhardflorilegien. Das Bernardinum des Benediktiners Wilhelm von St. Martin in Tournai', Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktinerordens, 64 (1952), 234-41.
T8v ‘Institutio fraternitatis rosarii Marie virginis'. Incipit: ‘Anno domini M.cccc.lxxv. laudabilis fraternitas rosarii in alma vniuersitate Coloniensi . . .’
U1r ‘Confirmatio fraternitatis rosarii'. Incipit: ‘Anno domini M.cccc.lxxvi. Alexander episcopus Forliuiensis legatus . . .’
U3r ‘Adoptatio moralis rosarii Marie'. Incipit: ‘Rosarii nomen presens oratio sortitur . . .’
U4v ‘Sermo electissimus de duodecim priuilegiis sancte Anne'. Incipit: ‘ “[E]cce arbor in medio terre” [Dn 4,7] Danielis quarto. “Practica figuram” Aug[ustinus]. Que in veteribus patribus . . .’
U8v ‘Alius sermo notabilis valde de Anna matris Marie sanctissima'. Incipit: ‘ “[O]ra pro nobis quoniam tu mulier sancta es” [Idt 8,29] Judith .viij. Hec verba licet sint scripta . . .’
a1r [Magdalius, Jacobus, de Gouda]: ‘Passio domini Jesu Christi ex quattuor euangelistis collecta'. Incipit: ‘[H]imno dicto Egressus est Jesus . . .’ See Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, 3974.
b7r Thomas Aquinas: ‘Oratio aurea'.’ Incipit: ‘[C]oncede michi, queso, misericors Deus . . .’
b8r [Colophon, listing principal contents.] The details of the colophon are provided in a letter from Dr G. Borsa to Julian Roberts, dated 13 July 1992, with accompanying photocopy of the opening from the copy of the work in Niort, Bibliothèque municipale [correspondence kept in Rare Books, Bodleian Library].
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Étienne Jehannot], for Jean Petit, ‘after' 9 Oct. 1505. 8°.
Remarks: The date at the end of the colophon is: ‘Anno a natali chriſtian- | no Milleſimo.ccccc.v.poſt feſtuƺ beati | dyoniſii.' On the date see Brigitte Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle (Paris, 1972-93), I 170, no. 143. Sheppard dates [c.1499] on the basis of the imperfect Bodleian copy.
Collation
Collation: A–D8 [E4] F–U8 X4 a b8.
Types: Types: 96 G; 65 G; 180 G.
Leaves: 176 leaves.
Line number: 31 lines, plus headline (A2v).
Type area: Type area: 102 (108) ×67 mm (A2v).
Illustrations: On A1v a woodcut (76 ×55 mm) showing two female saints, probably the Virgin Maria and S. Anna in the foreground, within an archway, and with buildings on a hill in background, and a star in the sky above; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ie00132150
Proctor: Pr 8375;
Others: Sheppard 6504.
LCN: 14386710
Copies
Copy number: (E-063)(1)
Wanting b8, containing the colophon.
Binding: Sixteenth-century panelled calf over pasteboards; repaired. On the upper cover a quadruple panel containing saints (Johannes Evangelista, Barbara, Katherina, Nicolas, see Oldham, Blind Panels, p. 46 and pl. LIX, QUAD.6), on the lower a panel depicting the Mass of S. Gregorius (see Oldham, Blind Panels, p. 39 and pl. XLVII, ST. 16).
Size: 144 × 93 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 137 × 83 mm.
Provenance: on b7v an inscription: ‘Robertus Hudge sas[ ]'. Acquired by 1620: see James, Catalogus (1620), 261.
SHELFMARK: 8° E 44 Th.
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