Bod-Inc: B-023
Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius
De singulari puritate et praerogativa conceptione salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Bandellus] de Castronovo, Vincentius: ‘Epistola . . . narratiua disputationis facte de materia conceptionis beate virginis Marie', addressed to Hercules I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Incipit: ‘[C]um excellentem tui animi magnitudinem mecum reputo, Hercules clarissime, non possum non satis admirari . . .’
[a4r] Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius: De singulari puritate et praerogativa conceptione salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi. Incipit: ‘[P]eculiarem hanc dignitatem, princeps illustrissime, sacri doctores viri excellentissimi fundatoresque ortodoxe nostre religionis . . .’
[p1v] Cittadinus Faventinus, Antonius: ‘Carmen'. Incipit: ‘Quisquis ait matrem Christi sine labe creatam | Hec legat errorem discat et ille suum'; 2 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 16142.
[p1v] Cittadinus Faventinus, Antonius: ‘Aliud carmen'. Incipit: ‘Hic libet ethereum regem sermone profundo | Exornat sanctam consolidatque fidem'; 10 elegiac distichs.
[p1v] ‘M. L. Iuris Periti’: ‘Aliud carnem(!).’ Incipit: ‘Regine meritas laudes comendat Olympi | Hic liber ethereum prosequiturque ducem'; 4 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 16520.
[p2r] Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Epistola de festo conceptionis beatae Mariae virginis [ep. 174]. Bernardus, Epistolae, I, Opera, 7, ed. J. Leclercq and H. Rochais (Rome, 1974), 388 l. 10 – 389 l. 12 and 390 l. 13 – 392 l. 26.
[p3v] Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius: ‘Auctor operis ad detractores'. Incipit: ‘At siquis fortassis falso scientie nomine gloriabundus, hec que scripsimus impugnare voluerit . . .’
[p4r] ‘Tabula'.
Imprint
Imprint: Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, 12 Feb. 1481. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a6+1 b–o8 p6].
References
ISTC: ib00049000
GW: GW 3238;
Hain: H *2353;
Goff: Goff B‑49;
BMC: BMC VI 806;
Proctor: Pr 6552;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑32; CIBN B‑32; Sheppard 5312.
LCN: 13957863
Copies
Copy number: B-023(1)
Wanting [p6].
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf, over blind-tooled pasteboards coloured red in imitation of red morocco; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 208 × 162 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 201 × 151 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes. Bibliographical note on front endleaf signed by J. T. Hand and dated 14 Feb. 1836.
Partial rubrication: some initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capitals touched with yellow. Sheets signed in an old hand, partly cut away.
Provenance: J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837); bibliographical note (above); purchased at his sale (1837), lot 69, for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1837), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.49.
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