Bod-Inc: A-572
Augustinus Hipponensis
De dignitate sacerdotum.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Augustinus [pseudo-]: De dignitate sacerdotum. Incipit: ‘[O] veneranda sacerdotum dignitas, in quorum manibus dei filius velut in utero virginis incarnatur . . .’ CIBN gives reference to Walther, Initia, 13034.
[a2r] [Mapes, Walter pseudo-: Golias ad Christi sacerdotes.] Incipit: ‘[V]iri venerabiles, sacerdotes dei | Precones altissimi, lucerne diei'; 72 lines of ‘Vagantenstrophe.’ The Latin Poems Commonly Attributed to Walter Mapes, ed. T. Wright, Camden Society, 16 (London, 1841), 45-7, lines 1-68 only. See Walther, Initia, 20578. Wright has ‘beatissimi' as the second word on line one. The last four lines do not appear in his edition: ‘Qui sedet in solio summe maiestatis, | Vos purget a vitio, mundet a peccatis. | Vobis sit auxilio uestre pietatis, | Ut abrahe gremio fine sedeatis'. On the identity of ‘Golias' see A. G. Rigg, ‘Golias and other Pseudonyms', Studi Medievali, 3rd ser., 18 (1977), 65-109, and P. G. Walsh, ‘Golias and Goliardic Poetry', Medium Aevum, 52 (1983), 1-9.
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Ulrich Gering, c.1478-82]. 4°.
Remarks: Dated by Sheppard. GW dates to c.1485.
Collation
Collation: [a4].
References
ISTC: ia01259400
GW: GW 2947;
Hain: H 2083[I]; C 763;
Proctor: Pr 7878;
Others: CIBN A‑728; Rhodes 205; Sheppard 6150.
LCN: 13887314
Copies
Go to top of page