Bod-Inc: C-123
Catharina Senensis
Libro della divina dottrina [Latin] Liber divinae doctrinae.
Analysis of Content
a2r Civilis Brixianus, Marcus: [Letter to] Paulus Sancheus Aragonensis, OP. Incipit: ‘[I]nter vitia, quibus christiani nominis professores . . .’
a4r [Maconi], Stephanus: ‘Epistola' [addressed to] Thomas Antonii de Senis, OP. See C‑120.
b1v Catharina Senensis: Libro della divina dottrina [Latin]: Liber divinae doctrinae. [Translated by Raimundus de Vineis.] Incipit: ‘[E]xurgens anima quedam versus honorem Dei . . .’
x1v Catharina Senensis: Orationes [selectae]. Incipit: ‘[O] deitas, deitas, ineffabilis deitas . . .’
z5v Pius II, Pont. Max.: [Bulla canonizationis.] ‘In vitam canonizationem beate Catherine Senensis epistola'. Acta Ss, Aprilis III, 973-6. Dated Rome, 29 June 1461.
[et]1v Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Versus . . . ad laudem seraphice sponse domini nostri Jesu Christi, beatissime Catharine de Senis'. Capecelatro 473-4. See Walther, Initia, 16106.
[et]2r ‘Alii versus'. Incipit: ‘Nata Senis virgo Catharina est stigmata passa'; 7 hexameters.
[et]2r ‘Epitaphium sepulchri Sancte Catharine de Senis'. Incipit: ‘Virginis hoc alme Catharine corpus humanum'; 23 hexameters.
[et]2v Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Memoria quottidiana sancte Catharine de Senis'. Incipit: ‘Ad Magnificat antiphona. Ad sedes regni faciat transire superni . . .’
[et]3v ‘Tabula'.
Imprint
Imprint: Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, 15 Apr. 1496. 8°.
Collation
Collation: a–z [et]8.
References
ISTC: ic00285000
GW: GW 6226;
Hain: HC *4693;
Goff: Goff C‑285;
BMC: BMC VII 990;
Proctor: Pr 7034;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑194; Oates 2636; Sheppard 5812; Veneziani, Brescia, 242.
LCN: 14837387
Copies
Copy number: C-123(1)
Binding: Sixteenth-century (third quarter) Italian hair sheep parchment; one tie only, suggesting that the parchment was reused from a different binding.
Size: 150 × 115 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 144 × 107 mm.
A few early marginal notes. On [et]8v excerpts from Caesarius [Heisterbacensis] in an early humanist hand : ‘Cesarius hȩc narrat. Quidam monachus decedens petiit instanter abbatem ut vsitam decedentium ei impartiret [ ] benedictionem . . . Contingit vt in porta frontis ecclesie cathedralis in Gallia . . .’
Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); purchased at his sale (1859), lot 557, for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 29.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 7Q 6.33.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 3.10.
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