Bod-Inc: A-103
Albertus Magnus
Compendium theologicae veritatis.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] ‘Tituli.’ [Index of chapters.]
[a4r] [Albertus Magnus pseudo-; Ripelin Argentinensis, Hugo]: Compendium theologicae veritatis. Explicit: ‘ . . . Ex omnibus premissis collige quedam spectare gaudia solum ad animam, quedam ad corpus, quedam ad coniunctum, que tamen felici fine quisque beatus secundum merita recipiet sine fine amen.’ Concluding passage expanded. Albert Magnus, Opera, ed. Petrus Jammy, 21 vols (Lyons, 1651) (= Opera (1651)), 13c,1-148; Opera (1890), 34, 1-261. By Hugo Ripelin Argentinensis, see Kaeppeli II no. 1982; Luzian Pfleger, ‘Der Dominikaner Hugo von Straßburg und das Compendium theologicae veritatis', ZfKT 28 (1904), 429-40; Martin Grabmann, ‘Entscheidung der Autorfrage des Compendium theologicae veritatis', ZfKT 45 (1921), 147-53; Grabmann, Geistesleben, I 174-85; Glorieux, Répertoire, 6 dq; Georg Boner, ‘Über den Dominikanertheologen Hugo von Straßburg', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 24 (1954), 269-86; Georg Steer, Hugo Ripelin von Straßburg: Zur Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte des ‘Compendium theologicae veritatis' im deutschen Spätmittelalter, Texte und Textgeschichte, 2 (Tübingen, 1981), 205-14. According to Steer, Hugo Ripelin, 210, the ascription to Albertus Magnus is not found before the fifteenth century. For the textual transmission see Steer, Hugo Ripelin, 48-146 (Latin manuscripts), 167-72 (printed editions).
[r1r] [Subject index.] Incipit: ‘[Q]vanquam ordo et compendiositas libri huius, qui compendium dicitur theologicae veritatis, vna cum tabula ad principium libri ordinata ad hoc faciant . . .’
[s1r] [Preface by the editor.] Incipit: ‘[Q]vanquam satisfactum sit opusculo huic in quantum discentes respicit, quia tamen materiam claudit predicabilem, illustrande menti purgandeque ac serenande conscientie admodum conducibilem . . .’
[s1r] Bernoldus de Caesarea: [Distinctiones de tempore et de sanctis quarum declarationes ex Compendio theologicae veritatis capiuntur.] Incipit: ‘[Q]voniam ad laudem dei nemo debet esse vacuus, cum ad se laudandum nos creauit ipse deus, ego frater Bernoldus . . .’ Text dated 1310.
Imprint
Imprint: [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt, not after 1469]. Folio.
Remarks: A Louvain copy has the rubricator's date 1469; see Polain 2010, Supplement. Dated c.1470-2 in Goff and GW.
Collation
Collation: [a–k10 l8 m6 n–p10 q6 r12 s t10 u8 x4].
References
ISTC: ia00229000
GW: GW 596;
Hain: H *432;
Goff: Goff A‑229;
BMC: BMC II 403;
Proctor: Pr 1951;
Others: Oates 973; Rhodes 29; Sheppard 1389-90.
LCN: 14533084, 14535540
Copies
Copy number: A-103(1)
Bound with:
2. Johannes Chrysostomus, Sermones de patientia in Job. Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmid, 14 Nov. 1471 (J‑145).
Variants from the second copy on [i7r], l. 1: ‘vt per eam adiutorium | haberent diuinuƺ in prȩlio'.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library, with yellow-edged leaves. Manuscript title along the upper edge of both items: ‘Compendium theoae veritatis.’
Size: 349 × 248 × 59 mm.
Size of leaf: 337 × 230 mm.
Last line on [a8r], end of last sentence on [e2r] supplied in manuscript; very few early marginal notes. The gatherings of the two items are numbered in one sequence, 1-28, in red ink at the centre of the foot of the page.
Initial in red with decoration in pen-and-ink on [a4r]. Initials, over red guide letters, paragraph marks, numbering of gatherings, and running headings are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Georg Graf (fifteenth century); paper slip pasted on pastedown: ‘Hoc compendium theoloyce veritatis cum Sermonibus Crisostimi de paciencia iob est Georgi Graf caplani Saluatoris capelle monacensis'. Munich, Capuchins: ‘Loci Capuccinorum monachij'; inscription on [a2r]. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; shelfmark ‘Inc. typ. N° 1133' on [a1r] of the first item; a pencil note: ‘N° 1133.n.2 Duplum' on [a1r] of the second item. Purchased for £0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1841), 22; although only item 2 is listed, the two items were probably together since their publication.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.5(1).
Copy number: A-103(2)
Wanting the blank leaves [a1], [m6], [q6] and [x4].
Variants from the first copy on [i7r], l. 1: ‘vt per eam adiutoriū | haberent diuinum in prȩlio'.
Binding: Nineteenth-century German half calf.
Size: 349 × 253 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 337 × 234 mm.
Last line on [a8r], end of last sentence on [e2r] supplied in manuscript.
Initials are supplied in red with pen flourishing; running headlines in red. Paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 169. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1835; ‘J. T. Hand 1835'; see sale (1837), lot 146. Purchased for £0. 6. 6; see Books Purchased (1837), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 1.21.
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