Bod-Inc: E-064
Evagatorium Benemy
Modus praedicandi, et al.
Analysis of Content
Aa2r Title-page.
Aa2r Modus praedicandi. Incipit: ‘[C]ontentio est color qui conficitur . . .’ See Charland, Artes praedicandi, 71. The title is recorded as Evagatorium Genemy by all authorities except Sack, Freiburg, 2448, who argues that the letter read as G is in fact B.
A4r [First colophon.]
A4r ‘Epistola Jesu Christi filii Dei et Marie regule et vite christiane religionis explanatiua.’ Incipit: ‘[J]esus episcopus, pater, dominus et confrater seruorum Dei, dilectis filiis omnibus electis . . .’ See E‑063.
B1r ‘Applicationes breues sed perutiles materiarum tredecim sermonum Michaelis de Hungaria'. Incipit: ‘[E]untes in mundum vniuersum . . .’
D4r ‘Tabula alphabetica in sermones tredecim sequentes'.
A1r Michael de Hungaria: Sermones tredecim universales praedicabiles. Incipit: ‘Sequitur humiliatus dominus filius . . .’ On this edition see G. Borsa, Michael de Hungaria, élete és művének nyomtatott kiadásai (Budapest, 1997), 166 no. 18.
N2v Michael de Hungaria: ‘Sermo deuotus de passione domini nostri Jesu Christi'. Incipit: ‘ “[Q]ue vtilitas in sanguine meo” [Ps 29,10] Psalmus. Reuerendissimi, sicut nouerunt scholares . . .’
O4r Michael de Hungaria: ‘Sermo de perfectione hominis.’ Incipit: ‘[H]vgo de Wienna super illo Gen[esis] p[rimo] . . .’
O7r Michael de Hungaria: ‘Sermo qui est de fide et dilectione dei ac proximi'. Incipit: ‘ “[A]mbulate in dilectione” [Eph 5,2] ad Eph[esos] v. et in presentis . . . Ad imitationem Christi . . .’
P3v [Second colophon.]
P4r Buschius Monasteriensis, Hermannus: ‘Ad diuam virginem Mariam carmen'. Incipit: ‘O genus ethereum, virgo, sidusque salubre'; 8 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 12675.
P4v [Buschius Monasteriensis, Hermannus(?): Poem.] Incipit: ‘Hic effunde preces deuote poplite flexo'; 2 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 7889.
a1r ‘Passio domini Jesu Christi ex quattuor euangelistis collecta'. Incipit: ‘[H]imno dicto Egressus est Jesus . . .’
c1r ‘Sermo electissimus de duodecim priuilegiis sancte Anne'. Incipit: ‘ “[E]cce arbor in medio terre” [Dn 4,7] Danielis .iiii. “Practica figuram” Augustinus. Que in veteribus patribus . . .’
c4v ‘Sermo notabilis valde de Anna matris Marie sanctissima'. Incipit: ‘ “[O]ra pro nobis quoniam tu mulier sancta es” [Idt 8,29] Judith .viii. Hec verba licet sunt scripta . . .’
c8v ‘Oratio electissima de sancta Anna'. Incipit: ‘[O] felix Anna, matrona nobilis . . .’
d1r [Bernardus Claravallensis]: ‘Sermo pulcerrimus ac fidedignus de serto rosaceo illibate virginis Marie'. See E‑063.
d2v ‘Institutio fraternitatis rosarii Marie virginis'. Incipit: ‘Anno domini M.cccc.lxxv. laudabilis fraternitas rosarii in alma vniuersitate Coloniensi . . .’
d3r ‘Confirmatio fraternitatis rosarii Marie'. Incipit: ‘Anno domini M.cccc.lxxvi. Alexander episcopus Forliuiensis legatus . . .’
d5r ‘Adoptatio moralis rosarii Marie'. Incipit: ‘Rosarii nomen presens oratio sortitur . . .’
d6v Orationes devotissimae. Incipit: ‘Sciendum quod beatus Gregorius . . .’ See Sack, Freiburg, 2448. Nine prayers preceded by a note on the indulgences connected with them.
d7v Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: ‘Oratio . . . de dulcissimo nomine Jesu'. Incipit: ‘[O] bone Jesu, o dulcis Jesu . . .’ Ascribed to S. Bernardinus by Franz Xavier Haimerl, Mittelalterliche Frömmigkeit im Spiegel der Gebetbuchliteratur Süddeutschlands, Münchener Theologische Studien, I. Historische Abteilung, vol. 4 (Munich, 1952), 81, note 474, and to Bernardus Claravallensis by Sack, Freiburg, 2448.
d8v [Buschius Monasteriensis, Hermannus(?): Poem.] Incipit: ‘Nullius Anna preces vnquam dimisit inanes'; 2 elegiac distichs.
e1v Missale itinerantium. ‘Misse peculiares septem'. Incipit: ‘[G]loria in excelsis Deo . . .’
e1v Missale itinerantium. ‘Misse peculiares septem'. Incipit: ‘[C]redo in vnum Deum . . .’
e2r ‘Prefatio communis'. Incipit: ‘[P]er omnia secula seculorum . . .’
e2v ‘Canon'. Incipit: ‘[T]e igitur, clementissime pater . . .’
f1v ‘De dulcissimo nomine Jesu officium'. Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine Jesu . . .’
f3r ‘De quinque vulneribus Jesu Christi officium'. Incipit: ‘[H]umiliauit semetipsum dominus . . .’
f4v ‘De compassione dolorose virginis Marie officium'. Incipit: ‘[B]enedicta tu a Deo . . .’
g1v ‘De sanctissima Anna matre Marie officium'. Incipit: ‘[S]alue sancta parens . . .’
g3r ‘De tribus magis pro iter agentibus officium'. Incipit: ‘[E]sto mihi in Deum . . .’
g4r ‘Missa pro vitanda mortalitate tempore pestilentie'. Incipit: ‘[R]ecordare domine . . .’
g5v ‘Officium pro defunctis'. Incipit: ‘[R]equiem eternam . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Retro Minores (Martin von Werden?), 11 Oct., 9 Nov. 1499. 8°.
Remarks: The date 9 Nov. is on A4r.
Collation
Collation: Aa8 A4 B8 C4 D8 D4 2A–L8 M4 N O8 P a b4 c d8 e f4 g8.
Types: Types: 150, 110, 80, 63.
Leaves: 188 leaves.
Line number: 31 lines, plus headline (Aa2v).
Type area: Type area: 97 (103) ×65 mm (Aa2v).
Illustrations: One woodcut, repeated three times; woodcut initial T, repeated twice.
References
ISTC: ie00132000
Hain: H *6727; C 3208 + 4620;
Goff: Goff E‑132 + P‑130;
Proctor: Pr 1484;
Others: BSB‑Ink E‑130; Oates 850-1; Sack, Freiburg, 2448; Schramm VIII p. 27; Schreiber V 3923; Schreiber V 4655; Sheppard 1092; Voulliéme, Köln, 404; Weale–Bohatta 459.
LCN: 14386786
Copies
Copy number: E-064(1)
Binding: Sixteenth-century (1515) Flemish binding (Herentals, East Flanders), by Henricus Wyls; see provenanace description below; panelled calf(?) over wooden boards, two clasps lost, paper index tabs; title across fore-edge; rebacked. On both covers fillets form a frame, within which is a panel stamp consisting of two vertical compartments surrounded by a border. Each of the compartments bears four animals within vine sprays, the surrounding border contains similar subjects, with the symbols of the evangelists in the four corners; see Gibson, Bodleian Bindings, no. 12.
Size: 150 × 105 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 140 × 100 mm.
Parchment pastedowns, the one in front raised.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Gerardus van der Schaft (or de Loen/Hoogeloon, †1532); deleted inscription on front pastedown: ‘fr. anthonius . . . ad usum f[ratris] Gododfridi . . .'; on A4r following the colophon inscription: ‘et per fratrem Gerardum de Loen curatum de zuetendael emptus anno xvc xxviii septembris antwerpie et soluit henrico wyls ligatori in H'ntals [Herentals] pro ligatura vij st.'; on g8v deleted inscription: ‘Reverendi patris domini Gerardi Abbatis Auerbodien[sis] ordinis premonstraten[sis]'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 10.
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