Bod-Inc: A-297

Anna, S

Legenda S. Annae.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1v] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Anna suos prosperat cultores iuuat et consolatur. Annam quisquis amat felicia tempora habebit | Et modo succedant fata secunda sibi'; headline and 6 elegiac distichs.

[a1v] ‘Oratio ad sanctam Annam.’ Incipit: ‘Aue domina sanctissima, Anna deo dignissima, | que clara inter aurea celorum splendes sidera. | Tu prece tua inclita nostra ablue crimina | et pro nobis posce gaudia tecum in celesti gloria'; 4 lines of verse. Followed by prose: Incipit: ‘Ora pro nobis beata Anna, vt mundemur ab omnibus malis in hac vita. Oremus: Deus, qui beatam Annam diu sterilem prole voluisti gloriosa et humano genere salutifera fecundari, da quis vt omnes, qui in terra matrem et filiam venerantur, vtriusque presencia in hora mortis gaudere mereantur per Christum dominum nostrum.’

[a2r] Legenda S. Annae, praefatio. Incipit: ‘[A]nna matrona beatissima, regalis plantula ex stirpe Dauitica, Christi Jesu inclita domina seu venerabilis auia materque Dei genitricis Marie illibate precipua reuerencia dignissima christicolis vniuersis indefessa laude venit recolenda . . .’ See BHL 488 and also E. Schaumkell, Der Kultus der heiligen Anna am Ausgange des Mittelalters. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des religiösen Lebens am Vorabend der Reformation (Freiburg im Breisgau and Leipzig, 1893), 82 no. 5. According to the praefatio, written by a Franciscan monk.

[a4r] Legenda S. Annae. Incipit: ‘[I]n Judea ciuitate Bethleem (vt scribit sanctus Cyrillus episcopus Hierosolimitanus in consilio Ephesino se presente catholice celebrato quemadmodum etiam ex diuersis in vnum cronicis colligitur) erat virgo quedam genere nobilis de domo Dauid etate iuuenis, animo senilis, sed virtute quidem morum longe prestantior, Emerencia nomine . . .’ See BHL 488.

f6v [Note on an indulgence of 40 days, conceded by Hermannus von Hessen, Archbishop of Cologne (1480-1508), Johannes von Horn, Bishop of Liège (1484-1505) and David de Burgundia, Bishop of Utrecht (1457-94), to those praying in front of the image of the Virgin Mary.]

f6v Bernardus [Claravallensis]: [Sermo.] Bernardus Claravallensis, Opera, V (Rome, 1968), 248; part of Sermo quartus in assumptione.

g1r ‘Institucio fraternitatis rosarii Marie virginis.’ Incipit: ‘Anno domini M.cccc.lxxv. laudabilis fraternitas rosarii in alma vniuersitate Coloniensi per doctores sacre theologie predicatorum ordinis . . .’

g2r ‘Confirmacio fraternitatis rosarii Marie.’ Incipit: ‘Anno domini M.cccc.lxxvi. Alexander episcopus Forliuiensis legatus a latere pretactam fraternitatem approbauit . . .’ Lists papal approbations for the fraternity in the years after 1476, followed by some short prayers.

g5r ‘Adoptacio moralis rosarii Marie virginis.’ Incipit: ‘[R]osarii nomen presens oratio sortitur primo propter florigeram rosam virginem Mariam suauissimam, que rosa appellatur . . .’

g7r [Colophon.]

g7v [Brant, Sebastian(?)]: ‘Epigramma ad religiosum patrem fratrem Dominicum.’ Incipit: ‘Accipe, Dominice, roseum crinale Marie | Quod pater expande dulcis in ore libeus(!)'; 9 distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 7 Nov. [14]96. 8°.

Collation

Collation: [a] b–g⁸.

Illustrations: On [a1r] a woodcut depicting St Anne, with Virgin and Child; on f6r a woodcut depicting the Virgin and Child in a rosary and a kneeling monk; on g8r a woodcut depicting the Virgin and Child surrounded by God the Father, the Holy Spirit and kneeling figures.

References

ISTC: ia00746500

GW: GW 2005;

Hain: HC 1111 = 12452 (II);

Proctor: Pr 9240;

Others: BSB‑Ink L‑81; Boekdrukkunst (1973), 72; Campbell 1096; HPT II 437; ILC 252; Oates 3722; Sheppard 7098.

LCN: 14425076

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