Bod-Inc: A-485A
Auctores Octo cum glossa.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ummi deus largitor premii, via constans, fons refrigerii, terre vices obtemperans, a quo stillat totius gr[ati]e plenitudo . . .’ See A‑485.
a3r [Epistola Catonis.] Incipit: ‘[C]um animaduerterem quam plurimos homines errare grauiter in via morum . . .’ See A‑485.
a3r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Id est cum animo meo perciperem id est sepe considerarem vel cogitarem . . .’
a6v [Disticha Catonis.] ‘Liber Cathonis.’ See A‑485.
a6v [Commentary.] ‘Glosule Cathonis.’ Incipit: ‘Finita parte prohemii, in qua auctor tetigit causam operis et huius libri materiam sub breuiloquio prosaice compilauit . . .’
d3v ‘Prologus in Theodolum.’ See A‑485. Hexameters alternate with the commentary.
d3v [Odo Picardus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Multi licet magno et excellenti ingenio viri ad presentis libelli expositionem se applicauerant . . .’ See A‑485.
d6v Theodulus: [Ecloga Theoduli.] ‘Liber Theodoli.’ See A‑485.
d6v [Odo Picardus: Commentary.] ‘Succinctissima explanatio Theodoli.’ Incipit: ‘Finito prologo, in quo intentio auctoris aperta est et modus procedendi per fronesim limitatus . . .’ See A‑485.
h1v ‘Prohemium in Facetum.’ Incipit: ‘[S]eneca in libro de quattuor virtutibus in capitulo de continentia dicit: “Sermones vtiles magis quam facetos et affabiles ama . . .” ‘
h1v [Facetus, Cum nihil utilius.] ‘Liber Faceti.’ See A‑485.
h1v [Commentary.] ‘Faceti glosa.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ic auctor ponit prohemium sui libri, in quo ipse ostendit que fuerit causa mouens ipsum ad hoc opus agendum . . .’
i2r [Bernardus Claravallensis pseudo-]: ‘Liber de contemptu mundi.’ See A‑485.
i2r [Commentary.] ‘Glosule de contemptu mundi.’ Incipit: ‘[S]icut consuetum est in aliis libris ostendere in principio cuiuslibet aliqua communia . . .’
k1r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[I]n re terrena nihil est aliud nisi pena'; 13 leonine hexameters, all but the last ending with the same rhyme. See A‑485.
k1r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[H]ierusalem ciuis fragili dum corpore viuis'; 13 + 27 + 21 + 9 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
k2r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Plus amat exilium miseri miser orbis amator'; 12 leonine hexameters in pairs (`versus caudati'). See A‑485.
k2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quid genus, quid species, quid opes et fama valebunt'; 7 hexameters, some of them rhymed. See A‑485.
k2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Femina res fragilis, res lubrica, res puerilis'; 10 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
k2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Alea, Bachus, amor mulierum reddit egenum'; 4 hexameters, the last 2 rhymed. See A‑485.
k2v [Marbodus Redonensis: Contemptus praesentis vitae.] See A‑485.
k3r [Marbodus Redonensis: Verse.] See A‑485.
k4r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Scitur in omne latus nociuus cibus immoderatus'; 14 leonine hexameters, some of them rhymed. See A‑485.
k4r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui studet in nummis, hic prefert infima summis'; 11 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
k4v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Excubat et pallet diues delectat in ostro'; 1 elegiac distich. See A‑485.
k4v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Posse foramen acus citius transire camelum'; 45 leonine hexameters, some of them rhymed. See A‑485.
k5r [Marbodus Redonensis: Verse.] See A‑485.
k6v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uestio magna diu multis meditantibus orta est'; 42 elegiac distichs. See A‑485.
k8v [Verse.] See A‑485.
k8v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quisquis amas mundum, tibi prospice quod sit eundum'; 33 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
l1r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Non tibi sit venter dominus, sed viue decenter'; 8 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
l1r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Sperne vagam venerem, fuge blandiloquam mulierem'; 22 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
l1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘[L]azarus et diues tibi sunt monumenta futuri'; 6 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
l1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quam felix anima est in qua sibi ponere sedem'; 3 elegiac distichs. See A‑485.
l1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘A macula sordis munda, precor, intima cordis'; 24 leonine hexameters. See A‑485.
l2r [Hildebertus Cenomanensis: De quindecim signis.] See A‑485.
l3v Matthaeus Vindocinensis: ‘In libro qui Thobias . . . intitulatur prologus . . .’ See A‑485. Distichs alternate with the commentary.
l3v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[E]t consuetum est in aliis libris querere, que sunt cause . . .’
l4r Matthaeus Vindocinensis: ‘Epistola . . . ad Bartholomeum Turonensis archiepiscopum.’ [Addressed to Bartholomaeus de Vendôme, Archbishop of Tours.] See A‑485. Distichs alternate with the commentary.
l4r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘In ista parte auctor prosequitur et inuocat auxilium et fauorem domini episcopi Turonensis . . .’
l5v Matthaeus Vindocinensis: ‘Narratio Thobie.’ See A‑485. Distichs alternate with the commentary.
l5v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Sententia est talis: Domine Mathee, dicatis mihi, de qua patria fuit Thobias . . .’
s8v ‘Prohemium in Parabolarum Alani.’ Incipit: ‘[I]ste liber duobus modis solet nominari. Primo secundum quosdam appellatur Doctrinale altum . . .’
t1r Alanus [de Insulis: Doctrinale minus.] Distichs alternate with the commentary. See A‑073.
t1r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Hic auctor 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 . . .’ See A‑485.
v7r [Anonymus Neveleti]: ‘Liber fabularum Esopi.’ See A‑056. Fables alternate with the commentary.
v7v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]n principio huius libri quinque sunt inquirenda, scilicet causa efficiens, formalis, materialis et finalis . . .’
z6r ‘Prohemium in Floretum.’ Incipit: ‘ “[E]go flos campi” Canticorum ii [Ct 2,1]. Flores, vt dicit Ysidorus libro xviii, dicuntur quasi fluores per ethymologiam . . .’
z6r [Bernardus Claravallensis pseudo-]: ‘Liber Floreti.’ See A‑485.
z6r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]stud est prohemium huius libri, quod diuiditur in tres partes . . .’
D4r [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: [Perrinus Lathomi and Bonifacius Johannis], 28 Aug. 1493. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–z A–C8 D4.
Remarks: Collation as Bodleian copy; the GW collation as recorded is unclear.
Types: Types: GW gives types 120 G, 81 G; the Bodleian copy has 81 G, text, headlines; 67 G, commentary.
Leaves: 212 leaves.
Line number: 56 lines, plus headline (a2r).
Type area: Type area: 188 (195) ×123 mm (a2r).
References
ISTC: ia01182800
GW: GW 2789;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Pellechet 1431; not in Sheppard.
LCN: 15712767
Copies
Copy number: A-485A(1)
Wanting the title-page (a1), and sheet b3.6.
Binding: Twentieth-century(?) quarter parchment with brown cloth.
Size: 259 × 175 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 251 × 159 mm.
Some early notes in French in a humanist hand. Two leaves of paper containing notes by Lawn.
Capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Michael Friordanus(?) (sixteenth century); inscription on D4r: ‘Iste Michaeli Fr[i?]ordani pertinet liber. Scribitur in portis [mulier?] est ianua mortis'. Dr Brian Lawn (1905-2001); book-plate; catalogue, p. 27. Bequeathed in 2001.
SHELFMARK: Lawn d.1.
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