Bod-Inc: B-418
Bonaventura
Opuscula.
Analysis of Content
Part I.
[*2r] Bonaventura: ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[F]uerat profecto equum . . .’
[*2v] ‘Tabula alphabetica'.
a1r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Olivi, Petrus Johannis]: Principium sacrae scripturae. [Also known as Tractatus de sacrae Scripturae praestantia.] ‘Principium in libros sacre scripture'. Incipit: ‘ “[O]stendit mihi dominus fluuium aque viue . . .” [Apc 22,1]. Probatissime perfectissimeque legis integritas . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), I 1-8. Ascribed to Petrus Johannis Olivi by Glorieux, Répertoire, II 305 cj and II 327a6, and Distelbrink no. 233.
a7v Bonaventura: Collationes in Hexaemeron. ‘Luminaria ecclesie . . . siue Illuminationes siue de quinque visionibus'. See Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum no. 1772, Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 at and Distelbrink no. 55/5. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1891), V 329-449.
h5v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Andreae, Antonius(?)]: Compendiosum principium in libros sententiarum. Incipit: ‘ “[G]irum celi circuiui sola” Eccl[esiasticus] .xxiiii [Sir 24,8]. Quam sit libri sententiarum inaccessibilis celsitudo . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 213-14. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bw and Distelbrink no. 71.
h6r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Sententiae sententiarum Petri Lombardi carmine digestae. Incipit: ‘[O] fons splendoris, vas dulcoris, sed amoris.’ See Walther, Initia, 12651. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 215-33. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ds, Distelbrink no. 198, and Stegmüller, Repertorium commentariorum no. 14.
k2r Bonaventura: De reductione artium ad theologiam. See B‑417.
k4v Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Prologus.] See B‑417.
l1r Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Table of contents.] See B‑417.
l2r Bonaventura: Breviloquium. See B‑417.
p6v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Prologus.] Incipit: ‘[E]cce descripsi eam tibi tripliciter . . .’ See B‑417.
p7r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Table of contents.]
p7v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. See B‑417.
v2v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De tribus ternariis peccatorum infamibus. See B‑417.
v6v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Summa de gradibus virtutum. ‘Formula aurea de gradibus virtutum.’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 646-54. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bf, Distelbrink no. 221 and Opera omnia VIII 646 n. 1.
x4v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Marchesinus, Johannes?]: Confessionale. Incipit: ‘[I]n Dei tabernaculo id est in sancta ecclesia positus . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 48-70. Ascribed to Johannes Marchesinus de Regio(?) by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 cc and Distelbrink no. 77.
z5r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Matthaeus de Cracovia]: De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientiae. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam fundamentum et ianua virtutum . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 687-99. Ascribed to Matthaeus de Cracovia by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dn and Distelbrink no. 92. In the title, the ascription to Bonaventura is supported by a reference to Johannes Gerson: ‘cancellarius Parisiensis in tractatu de cognitione castitatis'.
A5v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Gilbertus Tornacensis Or; Guilelmus de Fourmenterie]: Pharetra. [Prologus.] See B‑417.
A6v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Pharetra. See B‑417.
M3r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Rodolphus de Bibraco]: Collationes de septem donis spiritus sancti. Incipit: ‘[O]mne datum optimum et omne donum perfectum . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 236-76; not the version edited in Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1891), V 457-503; different incipit: ‘Hortamur vos . . .' Authorship dubious according to Distelbrink no. 106.
Q6v Bonaventura(?); [Johannes de Peckham(?)]: Expositio super regulam Fratrum Minorum. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 av; Distelbrink no. 48 and Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 839. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 391-437. Selecta scripta (Quaracchi, 1942), 1-149.
S6v Bonaventura: [Quaestiones disputatae de perfectione evangelica (2).] ‘Tractatus . . . de paupertate Christi contra magistrum Guilhelmum'. See B‑417.
X2r Bonaventura [pseudo-?; Johannes de Peckham(?): Epistola de sandaliis apostolorum.] ‘Epistola . . . de eo quod Christus et apostoli et discipuli eius incesserunt discalciati'. See B‑417.
X3v Bonaventura: Apologia pauperum. See B‑417.
CC5v Bonaventura: Determinationes quaestionum circa regulam Fratrum Minorum. Pars I. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 z and Distelbrink no. 29. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 337-56.
EE1r Bonaventura: Quare Fratres Minores praedicent et confessiones audiant. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ab and Distelbrink no. 52. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 375-81.
EE5r Bonaventura: Epistolae [officiales (2)]. ‘Epistola . . . in qua mandat, vt fratres sui ordinis caueant a frequentia discursuum, ab importunitate questuum, a sumptuositate edificiorum, librorum, vestium ac ciborum, a predicatione contra prelatos coram laycis et a litigiosa inuasione sepulturarum et testamentorum'. See B‑417.
EE5v Bonaventura: Epistolae [officiales (1)]. ‘Epistola . . . ad ministros, prouinciales et custodes de reformandis fratribus sui ordinis'. See B‑417.
EE6r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Schoonhoven]: Collatio de contemptu saeculi. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 655-7. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 be, Distelbrink no. 68 and Opera omnia VIII 655 n. 1.
EE7v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Exercitia quaedam spiritualia. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 105-6. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bm and Distelbrink no. 133.
EE7v [First Colophon.]
Part II.
A2r Bonaventura: ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[F]uerat profecto equum . . .’
A2v ‘Tabula'.
aa1v Martinis, Octavianus de: Oratio in vitam et merita S. Bonaventurae. Dedicated to Cardinal Julianus de Rovere. See B‑417.
aa5v Pavinis, Johannes Franciscus de: [Canonizationis b. Bonaventurae] Relatio. A letter to Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[B]eatissime pater, circa canonizationem beati Bonauenture . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 849-66.
cc4v [Caracciolus(?)], Robertus: Sermo de laudibus S. Bonaventurae. Incipit: ‘[Q]uasi stella matutina in medio nebule . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 866-8.
dd1r Sixtus IV, Pont. Max.: Bulla canonizationis b. Bonaventurae. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 869-72. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1882), I pp. xxxix–xliv.
dd2v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Bernardus a Bessa]: Speculum disciplinae ad novitios. ‘Libellus de minimis'. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 583-622. Selecta scripta (Quaracchi, 1942), 275-422. Ascribed to Bernardus a Bessa in Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 df, Distelbrink no. 216 and Opera omnia VIII 583 n.1.
ff8v Bonaventura: Epistola continens XXV memorialia. ‘Regula et institutio omnium pie et spiritualiter in Christo viuere volentium.’ See B‑417.
gg3r Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta]: Viginti passus de virtutibus. [De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. Lib. I. Pars II.] ‘Viginti passus siue formula nouiciorum . . . de informatione spiritualis vite ac virtute et profectu religiosorum'. See B‑417.
gg5v Bonaventura: De regimine animae. Dedicated to ‘Blanca regina Hispaniae' (Blanca d'Artois). See B‑417.
hh1r Bonaventura: Epistola de tribus quaestionibus ad magistrum innominatum. See B‑417.
hh3r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Expositio orationis dominicae. [Also known as Expositio super Pater noster.] See B‑417.
hh5r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Holznicker de Saxonia, Conradus]: Speculum BVM. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 450-5. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864-71), XIV 232-92. Conradus de Saxonia, Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis, ed. PP. Collegii S. Bonaventurae, Bibliotheca franciscana ascetica medii aevi, 2 (Quaracchi, 1904), 1-277. Ascribed to Conradus Holzinger de Saxonia by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dp and Distelbrink no. 214; VL V 247-51.
mm1v Bonaventura: De praeparatione ad missam. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ai and Distelbrink no. 24. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 99-106. On authorship see Franz, Messe, 462-3.
mm4v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Jacobus de Mediolano, Lector(?)]: Instructio sacerdotis ad se praeparandum ad celebrandam missam. Incipit: ‘[A]d missam celebrandam sex considerationes attendende sunt . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 75-7. Ascribed to Jacobus de Mediolano, lector(?), by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 cw and Distelbrink no. 146; also Franz, Messe, 463 n. 1 and DSAM I 1848 and VIII 48-9.
mm5v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Peckham(?)]: Psalterium maius BVM. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 502-17; Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864-71), XIV 199-221. Ascribed to Johannes de Peckham(?) by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dk and Distelbrink no. 185; see also Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 839.
nn6v Bonaventura: Corona BVM. See Distelbrink no. 13. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 677-8. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 an and Opera omnia VIII 677 n.6.
nn6v Bonaventura: [Officium de passione domini.] ‘Cursus de passione domini'. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ap and Distelbrink no. 22. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 152-8.
oo2v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Officium de compassione BVM. ‘Cursus de compassione beate virginis'. Incipit: ‘[D]omine, labia mea aperies. Re[sponsio:] Et os meum . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 485-8. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bq and Distelbrink no. 167.
oo4r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Carmina in canticum Salve Regina. Incipit: ‘Salue, virgo virginum, stella matutina'; rhythmic poem. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 489-90. See Walther, Initia, 17182. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bs and Distelbrink no. 65.
oo4v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Expositio missae. Incipit: ‘[C]hristus assistens pontifex . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 78-88. Authorship dubious according to Franz, Messe, 463-5; Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bn, and Distelbrink no. 137.
pp3v Bonaventura: Laudismus de sancta cruce. Incipit: ‘Recordare sancte crucis, qui perfectam vitam ducis, delectare iugiter'. See Distelbrink no. 20. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 667-9. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ao and Opera omnia VIII 667 n.1.
pp4r Bonaventura: Soliloquium. [Also known as De quattuor mentalibus exercitiis.] See B‑417.
rr5v Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum. ‘Prologus.’ See B‑417.
rr6r Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum. ‘Capitula.’ See B‑417.
tt1r Bonaventura: De triplici via. Prologus. ‘Paruum bonum . . . quod alias incendium amoris dicitur vel regimen conscientie vel fons vite.’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 18.
tt1r Bonaventura: De triplici via. ‘Paruum bonum . . . quod alias incendium amoris dicitur vel regimen conscientie vel fons vite.’ See B‑417.
vv1v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Rodolphus de Bibraco]: De septem itineribus aeternitatis. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 145-96; Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864-71), VIII 393-482. Ascribed to Rodolphus de Bibraco by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 do and Distelbrink no. 109.
BB1v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. Incipit: ‘[D]e quattuor uirtutibus cardinalibus . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 234-5. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bc and Distelbrink no. 172.
BB2v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Collationes octo ad fratres Tolosates. Incipit: ‘[V]ide, anima mea innouata, mirabilia veritatis . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 565-7. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 db and Distelbrink no. 70. The first part is taken from the Arbor vitae crucifixae by Ubertinus de Casali, whose 1485 Venetian edition has been reproduced with an introduction of C. T. Davis (Turin, 1961); see Ernst Knoth, Ubertino von Casale. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Franziskaner an der Wende des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts (Marburg, 1903), 9-19; G. L. Potestà, ‘Ubertin de Casale', DSAM XVI 3-15.
BB4v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Thomas àKempis]: Alphabetum religiosorum [prose.] ‘Alphabetum paruum boni monachi in scola Dei'. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864-71), XII 502f; Thomas à Kempis, Opera, III, ed. M. J. Pohl (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1904), 317-22. Ascribed to Thomas à Kempis by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dq, and Distelbrink no. 57.
BB5r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Alphabetum religiosorum [verse.] ‘Alphabetum religiosorum incipientium'. Incipit: ‘Ama paupertatem, sis vilibus contentus'; rhythmic poem. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 565. See Walther, Initia, 887. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bi and Distelbrink no. 58.
BB5r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Hugo Alias] Henricus de Balma: Theologia mystica. Incipit: ‘[V]ie Syon lugent eo quod non sit qui vadat ad solemnitatem . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 699-730. Ascribed to Hugo de Balma by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 de and Distelbrink no. 226. Ascription discussed in the title.
EE6v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Fascicularius. Incipit: ‘[S]cire debes quod, quamuis omnia que in diuina scriptura . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 107-12. On authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 cy and Distelbrink no. 143 (an extract from the De reformatione virium animae by Gerardus Zutphaniensis).
FF2v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De pugna spirituali contra septem vitia capitalia. ‘De duobus necessariis veris bellatoribus'. Incipit: ‘[E]ya nunc, milites Christi bellum spirituale ingressuri . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 27-30. On authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 cz and Distelbrink no. 102 (an extract from the De reformatione virium animae by Gerardus Zutphaniensis).
FF4r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De septem gradibus contemplationis. See B‑417.
FF5r Bonaventura: De quinque festivitatibus pueri Jesu. See B‑417.
GG3v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Marchesinus, Johannes]: De ecclesiastica hierarchia. Incipit: ‘[I]nuisibilia Dei per ea que facta sunt . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 264-93. Ascribed to Johannes Marchesinus de Regio by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ca and Distelbrink no. 171.
II8v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Meditationes vitae Christi. ‘Tabula'.
KK2r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Meditationes vitae Christi. Johannes de Caulibus, Meditaciones vite Christi, olim S. Bonaventurae attribuitae, ed. M. Stallings-Taney, CCCM, 153 (Turnholt, 1997). Ascribed to Johannes de Caulibus by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dr. See also Distelbrink no. 166 (and 164), Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, 9, no. 4311,1 and Zumkeller no. 203. The ascription to Johannes de Caulibus is queried by Columban Fischer, ‘Die Meditationes vitae Christi, ihre handschriftliche Überlieferung und die Verfasserschaftsfrage', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 25 (1932), 3-35, 175-209, 305-48, 449-83.
RR4v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Opus contemplationis. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 440-2; Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864-71), XIV 167-71. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 br and Distelbrink no. 170.
RR6v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De septem verbis domini in cruce. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 674-6. On authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dj (possibly by Johannes de Peckham) and Distelbrink no. 110. Authorship dubious according to Opera omnia VIII 674 n.3.
SS1r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Peckham(?)]: Philomena. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 669-74. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 di, Distelbrink no. 179 and Opera omnia VIII 669 n.3. Ascribed to Johannes de Peckham by P. Maximilianus, ‘Philomena van John Pecham', Neophilologus, 38 (1954), 206-17 and 290-300; see also Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 839.
SS3r Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta]: De vitiis et eorum remediis. [De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. Lib. II. Pars I. Cap. X–L.] David von Augsburg, ed. Lempp, 92-160. On authorship see Distelbrink no. 118. On the author see VL II 47-58, and Stöckerl, Bruder David von Augsburg, 198-9.
TT5v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Jacobus, Lector Mediolanensis(?)]: De remedio defectuum religiosi. Incipit: ‘[S]implicissimo animo hesterna luce me accedebas . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 669-70. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dw and Distelbrink no. 196.
TT6v Bonaventura: De perfectione vitae ad sorores. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ae and Distelbrink no. 14. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 107-27; Decem opuscula, 250-309.
UU5r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Laus BVM. Incipit: ‘Aue, celeste lilium, aue, rosa speciosa'. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 491-6. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bt and Distelbrink no. 151.
XX1r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Peckham(?)]: Psalterium minus BVM. See Walther, Initia, 2021. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 497-501. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864-71), XIV 189-95. On authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 dl and Distelbrink no. 186.
XX2v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Declaratio terminorum theologiae. Incipit: ‘[O]mnipotens Deus, pater, filius et spiritus sanctus, vnus est deus . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VI 209-12. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ba and Distelbrink no. 120.
XX5r Bonaventura [pseudo-]; Hieronymus: Summa de essentia dei. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 681-4. PL XLII 1199-1206; PL L 729-37. Ascription discussed in the title. See Distelbrink no. 220.
XX7r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Amatorium. Incipit: ‘[P]resens opusculum qui legerit . . .’ Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 250-63. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 bl and Distelbrink no. 59.
ZZ3v Bonaventura: Collationes de decem praeceptis. See B‑417.
Aaa5r Bonaventura: [Determinationes quaestionum circa regulam Fratrum Minorum. Pars II.] ‘Libellus apologeticus id est excusatorius'. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 z1. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 356-74.
Ccc1r Bonaventura: Lignum vitae. See B‑417.
Ddd1v Bonaventura [pseudo-]; Alanus [de Insulis pseudo-]: De sex alis seraphim. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588-96), VII 684-7; PL CCX 273-80. Ascribed to Alanus de Insulis by Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ct and Distelbrink no. 111. Ascription discussed in the title.
Ddd3r Bonaventura: De sex alis seraphim. See Glorieux, Répertoire, 305 ag and Distelbrink no. 17. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 131-51.
Eee5v [Second colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1495. Folio.
Remarks: In two parts, dated: (I) 1495; (II) 18 Dec. 1495.
Collation
Collation: Part I: [*8] [†6] a b8 c–f6.8 g h6 i–y8.6 z8 A–M6.8 N–Q6 R–Y8.6 Z8 AA6 BB8 CC DD6 EE8; part II: 2A8 B C6 aa bb8 cc–qq6.8 rr–tt6 vv–zz8.6 2AA–QQ8.6 RR SS6 TT–YY8.6 ZZ8 Aaa–Eee6.
Remarks: Gatherings [*] and [†] are numbered but not signed.
Illustrations: Four full-page woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ib00928000
GW: GW 4648;
Hain: HC *3468;
Goff: Goff B‑928;
BMC: BMC I 144;
Proctor: Pr 639;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑673; CIBN B‑616; Rhodes 417; Sack, Freiburg, 741; Schreiber V 3521; Sheppard 493.
LCN: 13960055
Copies
Copy number: B-418(1)
Bound in two volumes. Edges of z3 repaired.
Binding: Both volumes bound uniformly in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two clasps; rebacked. Title-label at the head of the upper cover. On both covers fillets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by triple fillets into lozenge-shaped compartments. Surface perished and stamps unidentifiable.
Size: 298 × 218 × 103 and 298 × 215 × 90 mm.
Size of leaf: 290 × 189 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes, all in one early hand, especially in gatherings M, N, mm–rr, and BB–CC, mainly extracting key words. On BB5r an early manuscript note in the same hand, ascribing the text to Hugo de Balma.
Scroll painted around title and coloured in yellow and green in vol. 1, in red and blue in vol. 2. Woodcuts coloured in yellow, green, and red and three of them decorated with painted borders. On [*2r] a four-line initial is supplied in green, highlighted in yellow, on a gold background and with two gold dots; similar initial in pink on2 A2r. On a1r a ten-line initial is supplied, on a dark green ground, in blue defined in black, with white highlighting, gold in the area defined by the letter, within a green frame. On aa1r a seven-line initial is supplied in green, edged in black, highlighted in yellow, on a blue background, with a red and a blue rosette and an acanthus leaf in the margin. On aa1v a nine-line initial is supplied in pink on a gold ground with highlighting in white and black and foliate extension into the margin in colours, with some dotting in red, blue, or gold; on aa6r a nine-line initial ‘P' is supplied in pink highlighted with acanthus leaf scrolling in black, and ending in yellow acanthus leaves, the descender of the letter filling the inner margin; in the lower margin a foliate staff in red, yellow, green, and silver, now oxidized; in the outer margin a stylized rose branch in blue, green, pink, red, yellow, gold, and silver; on hh1r a ten-line initial is supplied in green on a gold ground with a foliate staff in the inner margin in green, yellow, red, and silver, now oxidized, and with some dotting. On h6r a three-line initial is supplied in gold with floral decoration in the outer margin in green, pink, and silver and one gold dot. Initials, made up of cadelles, are supplied in red or blue, and other initials, sometimes with pen-flourishing into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Regensburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Emmeramus; on front pastedowns and on [*1r] of vol. 1 an inscription: ‘Monasterij S. Emmeramj Ratisbonæ', similar inscription on A2r; on [*1r] of vol. 1 and on front pastedown of vol. 2 an eighteenth-century armorial book-plate, for which see Warnecke 1671. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum' and ‘III N 475' on back pastedown of vol. 2. Purchased for £0. 8. 6; see Books Purchased (1861), 9.
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