Bod-Inc: E-058
Eusebius Cremonensis
Vita et transitus [Italian] La vita e la fine, et al.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Table of contents.] ‘La tavola'.
[a3r] [Sebastianus Casinensis pseudo-]: Vita et transitus [Italian]. ‘La vita e la fine'. Incipit: ‘[A]uegna non me dubiti a molte persone essere manifesto il luoco . . .’ For the attribution of authorship of the Latin version see Lambert III B no. 900, and CPL 622.
[b1r] Eusebius Cremonensis [pseudo-]: Epistola de morte Hieronymi [Italian], [addressed to] Damasus, Bishop of Porto, and Theodosius, senator. ‘La epistola . . . del transito del beatissimo . . . Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[A]l padre reuerendissimo Damasio uescouo di Portuense e al christianissimo Theodonio(!) senatore di Roma Eusebio discipulo che fu del sanctissimo Hieronymo ben che hora priuato di lui . . .’
[g3r] Augustinus [pseudo-]: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi [Italian], [addressed to] Cyrillus, Bishop of Jerusalem. ‘La epistola . . . de le magnificentie . . . del glorioso Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[I]l campione de la sancta madre ecclesia e de la gloriosa sede . . .’
[g12v] Cyrillus [pseudo-]: Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi [Italian], [addressed to] Augustinus. ‘La epistola . . . di miracoli di sancto Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[A]l uenerabile solemne huomo de gli altri uescoui Augustino . . .’
[m4v] ‘Certi miracoli'. Incipit: ‘[E]ra in Troia uno il quale si chimaua Iouanni penato . . .’
[n1r] [Introduction to Certi detti.] Incipit: ‘[F]acendo horamai fine ala uita al transito e li miracoli . . .’
[n1r] ‘Certi dicti de sancti e de doctori li quali . . . comendano sancto Hieronymo . . .’ Incipit: ‘[D]amasio papa dubitando de tre questione scrisse . . .’
[n5v] ‘Oratione deuotissima dedicata a sancto Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[H]ieronymo doctor graue e diserto | lume di nostra chiesia e gran splendore'; 34 hendecasyllabic terzine (alterne e incatenate).
[n6r] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui si contien del glorioso e degno | Hieronymo la uita el bel finire'; four hendecasyllabic terzine (alterne e incatenate).
[n6r] [Verse, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quem legis impressus dum stabit in aere caracter | Dum non longa dies uel fera fata prement'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, [not after July] 1473. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–f10 g12 h–l10 m8 n6].
References
ISTC: ih00247000
GW: GW 9456;
Hain: H 8637; R 1454, 1729;
Goff: Goff H‑247;
BMC: BMC V 209;
Proctor: Pr 4225;
Others: Oates 1691; Sheppard 3394.
LCN: 14864975
Copies
Copy number: E-058(1)
Binding: Parchment.
Size: 232 × 162 × 37 mm.
Size of leaf: 227 × 152 mm.
One- to four-line epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Cancelled shelfmark on recto of front endleaf: ‘Camera Scans. 4 ord. S= n° 1035'. Price ‘16.3.6' on recto of front endleaf. Giovanni Gallarini; bookseller's stamp on recto of front endleaf: ‘Libreria G. Gallarini Roma'. Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); purchased at his sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 1246, for £2. 12. 0: see Books Purchased (1859), 55.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.18.
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