Bod-Inc: A-485
Auctores Octo cum glossa.
Analysis of Content
a2r ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ummi deus largitor premii, via constans, fons refrigerii, terre vices obtemperans, a quo stillat totius gr[ati]e plenitudo . . .’ On the collection see Henkel, Schultexte, 9-10.
a3v [Epistola Catonis.] Incipit: ‘[C]um animaduerterem quam plurimos homines errare grauiter in via morum . . .’ On authorship see Marcus Boas, Die Epistola Catonis, Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Afd. Letterkunde, NS 33/1 (Amsterdam, 1934), who argues for the authenticity of the letter.
a3v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Id est cum animo meo perciperem id est sepe considerarem vel cogitarem . . .’
a7v [Disticha Catonis.] ‘Liber Cathonis.’ Disticha Catonis, ed. Marcus Boas (Amsterdam, 1952). Leopold Zatočil, Cato a Facetus. Pojednání a texty. Zu den deutschen Cato- und Facetusbearbeitungen. Untersuchungen und Texte, Spisy Masarykovy university v Brně, Filosofická fakulta, 48 (Brno, 1952), 230-7; see Walther, Initia, 17703; Schaller 15020. Distichs alternate with the commentary. See VL I 1192-6 and Henkel, Schultexte, 228-31.
a7v [Commentary.] ‘Glosule Cathonis.’ Incipit: ‘Finita parte prohemii, in qua actor(!) tetigit causam operis et huius libri materiam sub breuiloquio prosaice compilauit . . .’
d8v ‘Prologus in Theodolum.’ Theoduli eclogam, ed. Johannes Osternacher (Urfahr, 1902), 30-2; see Walther, Initia, 664. Hexameters alternate with the commentary.
d8v [Odo Picardus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Multi licet magno et excellenti ingenio viri ad presentis libelli expositionem se applicauerant . . .’ On authorship see Betty Nye Quinn, ‘Ps. Theodolus', CTC II 404-8.
e4r Theodulus: [Ecloga Theoduli.] ‘Liber Theodoli.’ Theoduli eclogam, ed. Osternacher, 32-54. Hexameters alternate with the commentary. On the textual transmission see Johannes Osternacher, ‘Die Überlieferung der Ecloga Theoduli', Neues Archiv, 40 (1916), 329-76, at 343 no. 52. See Henkel, Schultexte, 239-42; VL IX 760-4.
e4r [Odo Picardus: Commentary.] ‘Succinctissima explanatio Theodoli.’ Incipit: ‘Finito prologo, in quo intentio actoris(!) aperta est et modus procedendi per fronesim limitatus . . .’ On authorship see Quinn, ‘Ps. Theodolus', 404-8.
i4v ‘Prohemium in Facetum.’ Incipit: ‘[S]eneca in libro de quattuor virtutibus in capitulo de continentia dicit: “Sermones vtiles magis quam facetos et affabiles ama . . .” ‘
i4v [Facetus, Cum nihil utilius.] ‘Liber Faceti.’ Zatočil, Cato a Facetus, 287-93; see Walther, Initia, 3692. Hexameters alternate with the commentary. See VL II 700-3 and Henkel, Schultexte, 245-8.
i4v [Commentary.] ‘Faceti glosa.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ic actor(!) ponit prohemium sui libri, in quo ipse ostendit que fuerit causa mouens ipsum ad hoc opus agendum . . .’
k6r [Bernardus Claravallensis pseudo-]: ‘Liber de contemptu mundi.’ PL CLXXXIV 1307-14; see Walther, Initia, 2521. Hexameters alternate with the commentary. On authorship see VL II 5-8 and Henkel, Schultexte, 235-6.
k6r [Commentary.] ‘Glosule de contemptu mundi.’ Incipit: ‘[S]icut consuetum est in aliis libris ostendere in principio cuiuslibet aliqua communia . . .’
l5v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[I]n re terrena nihil est aliud nisi pena'; 13 leonine hexameters, all but the last ending with the same rhyme. See B. Hauréau, Des poèmes latins attribués à saint Bernard (Paris, 1890), 11. On the expanded version of the Contemptus mundi (Chartula II): see Robert Bultot, ‘La Chartula et l'enseignement du mépris du monde dans les écoles et les universités médiévales', Studi Medievali, ser. 3, 8/2 (1967), 787-834, at 807-12; see Walther, Initia, 9079.
l6r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[H]ierusalem ciuis fragili dum corpore viuis'; 13 + 27 + 21 + 9 leonine hexameters. See Hauréau 11-12.
l7r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Plus amat exilium miseri miser orbis amator'; 12 leonine hexameters in pairs (`versus caudati'). See Walther, Proverbia, 21671; Hauréau 11-12.
l7v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quid genus, quid species, quid opes et fama valebunt';7 hexameters, some of them rhymed. See Walther, Proverbia, 25047.
l7v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Femina res fragilis, res lubrica, res puerilis'; 10 leonine hexameters. See Walther, Proverbia, 9196 and 9202; Hauréau 13.
l8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Alea, Bachus, amor mulierum reddit egenum'; 4 hexameters, the last 2 rhymed. See Walther, Proverbia, 764; Hauréau 13-14.
l8r [Marbodus Redonensis: Contemptus praesentis vitae.] PL CLXXI 1667. See Walther, Proverbia, 33882; Hauréau 14-15.
l8v [Marbodus Redonensis: Verse.] PL CLXXI 1667-8. See Walther, Initia, 20820; Hauréau 15-16.
m1r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Scitur in omne latus nociuus cibus immoderatus'; 14 leonine hexameters, some of them rhymed. See Hauréau 16-17.
m1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui studet nummis, hic prefert infima summis'; 11 leonine hexameters. See Walther, Proverbia, 24797; Hauréau 17.
m1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Excubat et pallet diues delectat in ostro'; 1 elegiac distich. See Walther, Proverbia, 8405; Hauréau 17.
m1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Posse foramen acus citius transire camelum'; 45 leonine hexameters, some of them rhymed. See Walther, Proverbia, 21966; Hauréau 17-19.
m2v [Marbodus Redonensis: Verse.] PL CLXXI 1669-70. See Walther, Proverbia, 10741; Hauréau 19-20.
m4r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uestio magna diu multis meditantibus orta est'; 42 elegiac distichs. See Hauréau 20-2.
m6r [Verse.] Hermann Hagen, Carmina medii aevi maximam partem inedita (Bern, 1877), 97. See Walther, Proverbia, 19511a; Hauréau 22.
m6v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quisquis amas mundum, tibi prospice quod sit eundum'; 33 leonine hexameters. See Walther, Proverbia, 25522; Hauréau 22-3.
m7r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Non tibi sit venter dominus, sed viue decenter'; 8 leonine hexameters. See Walther, Proverbia, 18609; Hauréau 23.
m7r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Sperne vagam venerem, fuge blandiloquam mulierem'; 22 leonine hexameters. See Hauréau 23.
m7v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[L]azarus et diues tibi momenta futuri'; 6 leonine hexameters. See Hauréau 23.
m8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quam felix anima est in qua sibi ponere sedem'; 3 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Proverbia, 23290; Hauréau 23.
m8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘A macula sordis munda, precor, intima cordis'; 24 leonine hexameters. See Walther, Proverbia, 37; Hauréau 23-4.
m8v [Hildebertus Cenomanensis: De quindecim signis.] PL CLXXI 1287-8. See Walther, Initia, 3011; Hauréau 24.
n1v Matthaeus Vindocinensis: ‘In libro qui Thobias . . . intitulatur prologus.’ PL CCV 933. Matheus Vindocinensis, Opera, ed. Franco Munari, II, Storia e letteratura, 152 (Rome, 1982), 161; see Walther, Initia, 5975. Distichs alternate with the commentary.
n1v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[E]t consuetum est in aliis libris querere, q[ue] sunt cause, scilicet causa efficiens, materialis, formalis et finalis . . .’
n2v Matthaeus Vindocinensis: ‘Epistola . . . ad Bartholomeum Turonensis archiepiscopum.’ [Addressed to Bartholomaeus de Vendôme, Archbishop of Tours.] PL CCV 933-4; Matheus Vindocinensis, Opera, ed. Munari, II, 161-3; see Walther, Initia, 5213. Distichs alternate with the commentary.
n2v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘In ista parte actor(!) prosequitur et inuocat auxilium et fauorem domini episcopi Turonensis . . .’
n4v Matthaeus Vindocinensis: ‘Liber Thobie.’ PL CCV 933-80; Matheus Vindocinensis, Opera, ed. Munari, II, 163-255; see Walther, Initia, 19307. Distichs alternate with the commentary.
n4v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Sententia est talis: Domine Mathee, dicatis mihi, de qua patria fuit Thobias . . .’
x7r ‘Prohemium in Parabolarum Alani.’ Incipit: ‘[I]ste liber duobus modis solet nominari. Primo secundum quosdam appellatur Doctrinale altum . . .’
x7v Alanus [de Insulis: Doctrinale minus.] ‘Liber parabolarum.’ Distichs alternate with the commentary. See A‑073.
x7v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Hic actor(!) prosequitur suum intentum et primo ponit parabolam dicens quod, sicut luna sumit lumen a sole, sic insipiens debet sumere sensum siue sapientiam et bonam doctrinam a sapiente uiro . . .’ Commentary of the ‘Auctores octo'. On the ‘Auctores octo' see Henkel, Schultexte, 9-10.
z7r [Anonymus Neveleti]: ‘Liber fabularum Esopi.’ See A‑056. Fables alternate with the commentary.
z7r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]n principio huius libri quinque sunt inquirenda, scilicet causa efficiens, formalis, materialis et finalis . . .’
C8v ‘Prohemium in Floretum.’ Incipit: ‘ “[E]go flos campi” Canticorum ii [Ct 2,1]. Flores, vt dicit Ysidorus libro .xviii., dicuntur quasi fluores per ethymologiam . . .’
D1r [Bernardus Claravallensis pseudo-]: ‘Liber Floreti.’ Liber Floretus, ed. Arpád Orbán, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Beiheft 16 (Kastellaun and Hunsrück, 1979); see Walther, Initia, 11943. Hexameters alternate with the commentary. Also ascribed to Bonaventura and Johannes de Garlandia: see Henkel, Schultexte, 250-3. See VL V 756-9.
D1r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]stud est prohemium huius libri, quod diuiditur in tres partes . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Jean du Pré, 17 Mar. 1489/90. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–z A–G8 H4.
References
ISTC: ia01181800
GW: GW 2781;
Hain: C 718;
Proctor: Pr 8584B;
Others: Hillard 205; Sheppard 6642.
LCN: 13979496
Copies
Copy number: A-485(1)
Binding: Parchment.
Size: 244 × 170 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 228 × 165 mm.
Copious early marginal notes, especially at the beginning of De contemptu mundi, but partly cropped. On D4v ‘Quemadmodum animal illud quod su[perius] ve[nit] de sorde immundicio(!) de palude salt[i]m dum vult comedere surgit, sic homo sorde cor(?) iste purato inuolutus ab eodem per contritionem, consolationem et satisfactionem se liberare debet.’
Provenance: Etienne Tardif (fifteenth/sixteenth century); on a1r ‘Stephanus Tardiuus Bargemonensis', entries by the same hand on D4v. Anatole Claudin, no. 1962. Purchased in 1900.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. F2.1489.1.
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