Bod-Inc: G-009
Gaguinus, Robertus
Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum.
Analysis of Content
Aa1r [Title-page.]
Aa1v Gaguinus, Robertus: [Verse addressed to] the Virgin Mary. Incipit: ‘Virgo concubitu nullo contacta virili | Quam puro veniens grauidam dedit ethere numen'; 8 hexameters.
Aa1v Gaguinus, Robertus: [Verse addressed to his own book.] Incipit: ‘Vade, liber, verus Francorum stemmatis index | Fer longe in populos nomen et acta ducum'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Aa1v [Gaguinus, Robertus: Verse.] Incipit: ‘Ecce recente toga venio liber vndique mundus | Promere quos reges Francia celsa tulit'; 5 elegiac distichs.
Aa2r ‘Tabula alphabetica.’
Aa5v ‘Tabula regum Francorum.’
Aa6v Montenatus, Benedictus: ‘Preludium.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on potuisse quemquam superioribus seculis Gallorum inclite . . .’
a1r Gaguinus, Robertus: ‘Praefatio.’ ed. Thuasne II 287-91, no. XVIII.
a1v Gaguinus, Robertus: Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum. Incipit: ‘[F]ranci (ut pleraeque aliae nationes) a Troianis prodiisse gloriantur . . .’ Explicit: laboribus non detrahat This edition extends the narrative into the reign of Louis XII, concluding at the end of 1499: see BMC and GW (Anm. 3).
F2r Andrelinus, Publius Faustus: ‘In Gallicas hystorias . . . carmen.’ Incipit: ‘Vt nitidos totum radios diffundit in orbem | Cum Titan puro splendidus axe micat'; 4 elegiac distichs.
F2r Erasmus, [Desiderius: Letter addressed to] Robertus Gaguinus. ed. Allen, I, no. 45.
F3v Gerardus, Cornelius: [Letter addressed to] Robertus Gaguinus. Incipit: ‘Legi tuum in historias Gallie compendium, optime pater Roberte Gaguine, opus . . .’
F4r Gerardus, Cornelius: ‘Epigramma' [in praise of the work, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Nosse cupis, lector, quo Gallia creuerit ortu | Et quibus ad summum est regibus aucta gradum'; 20 elegiac distichs.
F4v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘De prestantia Gallorum et auctoris huius utilissimi compendii carmen.’ Renouard, Badius, II 447.
F5r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘De insignibus Franciae . . . epigramma.’ Renouard, Badius, II 449-50.
F6r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘De operis huius accessione et augmento . . . carmen', [addressed to the reader.] Renouard, Badius, II 450.
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Thielman Kerver, for Durand Gerlier and Jean Petit, 13 Jan. 1500. Folio.
Remarks: Pellechet, Polain, and IGI assign to [Georg Wolf and] Thielman Kerver.
Collation
Collation: Aa a–z A–F6.
Illustrations: Woodcut on Aa1r, repeated on F5v: see BMC.
References
ISTC: ig00015000
GW: GW 10454 (Anm. 1, 3);
Hain: HC *7413;
Goff: Goff G‑15;
BMC: BMC VIII 217;
Proctor: Pr 8392;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. liii, no. 258; BSB‑Ink G‑8; Hillard 845; IGI 4121; Oates 3157; Pellechet 4972; Polain 1539; Sheppard 6543. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography.
LCN: 14831389
Copies
Copy number: G-009(1)
With the additional paragraph on F1v, ending: ‘ . . . pœna indicta eſt [qui]n/to idus ianuarii. Anno chriſtianȩ religionis. M.cccc.nonageſimonono', followed by the ‘Peroratio': see GW (Anm. 1).
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; the running number of the binder ‘27', inside the upper cover.
Size: 282 × 212 × 33 mm.
Size of leaf: 276 × 195 mm.
Copious early marginal notes, extracting key words and supplementing the text, mainly in the hand of ‘Audemarle'; pointing hands, underlining in the text, and ‘nota' marks. On the title-page an elegiac distich: ‘Nobilia arma gerat Francorum lilia princeps | Nullus eo maior audeat esse princeps'. On E3r: ‘Epigramme en Francoys mys | dussoubz la representation du[ ] | Roy Charles le viiie au palais a Paris | Charles viiie auguste liberal et ame | filz Loys xie xiiii nas a regne | Passa les Alpes et Naples conquista | . . .'; ‘Relligio bonitas animus donatio iustu[m] | hoc sita sunt tecum, Carle summe, loco.'; and ‘Idem Faustus | aliud de eodem | Hic Carlum citam ne se properantius orbem | ambiret victor condidit ante diem'. On F1v: ‘Versus isti quatuor sculpti erant in parte superiori porte domus Regie Blesis | sed hos litterando deleuit Faustus ille poeta regius alios quatuor | surrogando. Quos omnes hic habes lector. | Parta michi superioris Gallorum sacra corona | partaque caesareis Lodoico lilia septris | Quem Blesys natum comitem atque duorum Aureliorum | Quem domum regem summus decorauit Olympus' and Publius Faustus Andrelinus egregius | poeta Regius | Hic ubi natus erat dextro Ludouicus Olimp[o] | Sumpsit onorata Regia septra manu | Felix que tanti fulsit lux nuncia Regis | Gallia non alio principe digna fuit'; the latter poem is reproduced in Bernard de Montfaucon, Les monumens de la monarchie françoise (Paris, 1729-33) IV 140. On F6r two poems by Publius Faustus Andrelinus, also apparently in the hand of ‘Audemarle', ‘De veneta cornice a Regio hystrice coacta unicuique aliena restituire(!) carmen'; incipit: ‘Urgeor heu cornix alieno picta colore | Nunc volucri pennas reddere cuique suas' and ‘De veneta leone a regio histrice alligato', incipit: ‘Dum solum Hadriacis frenum moderabar in undis | Vnicus equoreo terror in orbe fui', dated 1509. On F6v a manuscript copy, in a sixteenth-century hand, of a letter from Bajazet II, Sultan of Turkey (1481-1512) to Louis XII (1462-1515), King of France (1498-1515), regarding negotations between the two rulers, entitled ‘Turci epistola ad Ludouicum duodecimum Francorum regem christianissimum, anno 1500', with incipit, ‘Soldanus Pagiaseth chaii vtriusque Epiri Asieque et Europe solus regnator, imperatorque maximus, Gallorum Regi. Fide et integritate apud nos commendati oratores tui hiis diebus cum hominibus(?) tuis ad nostre amplitudinis imperatoriam celsitudinem applicuerunt . . .’
Paragraph marks are supplied in black ink.
Provenance: [ ] Audemarle (sixteenth century); name on F6r. Acquired by 1835; see Catalogus (1843), II 108.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.16.
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