Bod-Inc: A-313
Antoninus Florentinus
Chronicon. Partes I–III.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] ‘Summarium primi voluminis.’ Incipit: ‘Primus titulus, de prima et secunda mundi etate . . .’
[c1r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[L]oquar propositiones ab initio. Quanta audiuimus et cognouimus ea et patres nostri annunciauerunt nobis . . .’ Chroniques de S. Antonin, ed. Raoul Morçay (Paris, 1913), 165-70.
[c2r] [Table of contents of part 1.]
[c3r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Prima pars hystorialis' [also known as Chronicon. Pars I]. Incipit: ‘Capitulum primum de Adam et Eua in statu innocentie . . . [H]omo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit . . .’ See Chroniques, ed. Morçay; see also Kaeppeli I 82 no. 240; Orlandi 306 (A) 1.
[P1r] ‘Registrum prime partis.’
[a2r] ‘Summarium secundi voluminis.’ Incipit: ‘Titulus nonus de Constantino magno imperatore . . .’
[c2r] ‘Tabula titulorum et capitulorum.’
[c3r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Secunda pars hystorialis' [also known as Chronicon. Pars II]. Incipit: ‘[C]onstantinus igitur defuncto eius patre Constantio imperare cepit . . .’
[V1r] ‘Registrum secunde partis.’
[a2r] ‘Summarium tercii voluminis.’ Incipit: ‘[T]ercium istud volumen partis hystorialis continet materiam de quibusdam doctoribus et libris eorum et sententiis notabilioribus . . .’
[c2r] ‘Tabula titulorum et capitulorum.’
[c3r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Tercia pars historialis' [also known as Chronicon. Pars III]. Incipit: ‘[H]ugo de sancto Victore canonicus regularis claruit circa annos domini mille centum . . .’
[X10r] [Note ascribing the incomplete state of the work to the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Finit feliciter tercia pars historialis domini Antonini Archiepiscopi Florentini usque ad tempora sua morte preuentus non plura absoluit.’
[X10r] [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit autem idem Antoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus sacre scripture interpres . . .’
[X10r] [Epitaph of Antoninus.] ‘Epigramma domini Antonini sepulture eius affixum.’ Incipit: ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia pro quo | Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas'; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416.
[X10r] [Colophon.]
[Y1r] ‘Registrum tercie partis.’
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 31 July 1484. Folio.
Collation
Collation: Part I: [a b6 c–f8 g–z A–P6]; part II: [a b6 c8 d–z A–V6]; part III: [a b6 c8 d–z A–V6 X10 Y6].
References
ISTC: ia00778000
GW: GW 2072;
Hain: HC *1159;
Goff: Goff A‑778;
BMC: BMC II 426-7;
Proctor: Pr 2040;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑563; CIBN A‑450; Oates 1003; Rhodes 105; Sack, Freiburg, 211; Sheppard 1492.
LCN: 14423563
Copies
Copy number: A-313(1)
Sheets [m1.6] and [m2.5] of part 1 in reverse order.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library. Index tabs in part 3.
Size: Part 1: 420 × 295 × 60 mm; part 2: 425 × 300 × 66 mm; part 3: 425 × 300 × 70 mm.
Size of leaf: 408 × 273 mm.
Occasional early marginal annotations.
Part 1: Three- to seven-line initials are supplied in red or blue, some with extensions into the margins. On [c1r] a fourteen-line initial ‘L' is supplied in blue; on [c3r] a nineteen-line initial ‘H' is supplied in red, with extensions into the margin and gutter. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; underlining and capital strokes in red. Contemporary inscription on [a1r]: ‘Prima pars cronice Domini Anthonini'. Part 2: Two- to six-line initials are supplied in red or blue, some with extensions into the margins, some red initials decorated in blue. On [c3r] a 21-line initial ‘C' is supplied in interlocked red and blue, within a red and blue frame, serrated towards the right; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; underlining and capital strokes in red or blue. Contemporary inscription on [a1r]: ‘Secunda pars cronice Domini Anthonini'. Part 3: Two- to six-line initials are supplied in red or blue; some with extensions into the margins, some red initials decorated in blue, some blue initials in red; paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining and capital strokes in red. Contemporary inscription on [a1r]: ‘Tertia pars cronice Domini Anthonini'. Twenty-one line initial on [c3r] left blank.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 227. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1835; note on endleaf of part 2 without date, and part 3 with date; sale (1837), lot 151. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 3.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 2.4-6.
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