Bod-Inc: E-061
Eusebius Cremonensis
Vita et transitus [Italian] La vita e la fine, et al.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*2r] [Table of contents.]
a3r [Sebastianus Casinensis pseudo-]: Vita et transitus [Italian]. ‘Transito del . . . sancto Hieronymo . . . e della . . . vita'. Incipit: ‘[B]enche non dubito a molte persone essere manifesto illoco . . .’
a7v 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 de Portuense e al christianissimo Theodonio(!) senatore de Roma Eusebio dicepolo che fu del sanctissimo Hieronymo benche hora priuato di lui . . .’
g6v Augustinus [pseudo-]: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi [Italian], [addressed to] Cyrillus, Bishop of Jerusalem. ‘La epistola . . . delle magnificentie . . . del glorioso Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[I]l campione della sancta madre chiesa e della gloriosa sede . . .’
h7r Cyrillus [pseudo-]: Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi [Italian], [addressed to] Augustinus. ‘La epistola . . . degli miracoli di sancto Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[A]l uenerabile solenne huomo delli altri uescoui Augustino . . .’
n7r ‘Certi miracoli'. Incipit: ‘[E]ra in Troia uno il quale si chiamaua Giouanni penato . . .’
o3v [Introduction to Certi detti.] Incipit: ‘[F]acendo hoggimai fine alla uita e transito e a gli miracoli . . .’
o3v ‘Detti di sancti e di doctori scripti in laude del glorioso Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[D]amasio papa dubitando de tre questioni scrisse . . .’
o7v ‘Oratione diuotissima dedicata a glorioso sancto Hieronymo'. Incipit: ‘[H]ieronymo doctore graue e discreto | lume di nostra chiesa e gran splendore'; 34 hendecasyllabic terzine (alterne e incatenate).
o8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Qui si contien del glurioso e degnio | Hieronymo la uica el bel finire'; 4 hendecasyllabic terzine (alterne e incatenate).
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: [Francesco di Dino], 13 Feb. 1492. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a–o8.
Illustrations: Woodcut on [*1v]: see Sander.
References
ISTC: ih00261000
GW: GW 9472 (Anm. 3);
Hain: HR 8649;
Goff: Goff H‑261;
Proctor: Pr 6339A;
Others: Sander 3397; Sheppard 5098.
LCN: 14864535
Copies
Copy number: E-061(1)
Wanting gathering [*].
The type 114 R used has admixtures noted by BMC VI p. 640 as found in gatherings b–n of Matthaeus Bossus, De perferendis adversis. [Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, not before 31 Mar. 1492] [Goff B‑1044 = GW 4957], and not observed in Francesco di Dino's signed work.
Binding: Italian parchment. Name of author and title on the spine in black ink.
Size: 206 × 139 × 28 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 129 mm.
Marginal notes in a sixteenth-century hand in black ink, now faded (perhaps washed), and often cropped. Irregular manuscript foliation: 1-58.
Provenance: Purchased from Albert Cohn, Catalogue 220, no. 417, for 40 Marks; see Library Bills, 24 Oct. 1900.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I9.1492.1.
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