Bod-Inc: G-295
Guilelmus Altissiodorensis
Summa aurea in IV libros Sententiarum (ed. Guilelmus de Quercu).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Summa aurea in quattuor libros sententiarum . . .’ Acknowledging the editorial contribution of Guilelmus de Quercu on behalf of Nicolas Vaultier and Durand Gerlier, publishers of the University of Paris.
a1v [Introductory letter addressed to the reader.] ‘Ad anagnostas epistola.’ Incipit: ‘Quintilianus insignis admodum orator . . .’
a2r Guilelmus Altissiodorensis: Summa aurea in IV libros Sententiarum. Edited by Guilelmus de Quercu. [Prologus.] ‘Summa pernecessaria acutissimi et profundissimi doctoris magistri Guillermi Altissiodorensis. Quid sit fides et propter quid ad probationem fidei adducantur rationes naturales. [F]ides est substantia . . .’ Guilelmus Altissiodorensis, Summa aurea, ed. Jean Ribaillier, 4 vols, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum 16-20 (Paris and Grottaferrata, 1987), I, 15-21; see in particular the concordances between the Pigouchet edition and Ribaillier in Ribaillier IV, 313-27; see also Marcia L. Colish, ‘From the Sentence Collection to the “Sentence” Commentary and the “summa": Parisian Scholastic theology, 1130-1215', in Manuels, programmes de cours et techniques d'enseignement dans les universités médiévales. Actes du Colloque international de Louvain-la-Neuve (9-11 Sept. 1993), ed. Jacqueline Hamesse (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1994), 19-29.
a2v [First book.] ‘Primo debemus ostendere deum esse principium omnium. Capitulum .i. Primo debemus ostendere deum . . .’ ed. Ribaillier, I, 21-274.
e3r [Second book.] ‘Incipit secundus liber de mundo creato. [P]ostquam dictum est de mundo archetipo . . .’ ed. Ribaillier, II, 11-713.
o6r [Third book.] ‘Incipit liber tertius . . . Primum capitulum de incarnatione. [D]icto de peccatis quibus . . .’ ed. Ribaillier, III, 11-1068.
F2v [Fourth book.] ‘Incipit liber quartus . . . de sacramentis . . . [D]icto de preceptis et iudiciis . . .’ ed. Ribaillier IV, 11-554.
N10v [Colophon.]
2A1r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Codice quod longuo(!) complectitur indice paruo | Accipe quod queris parua tabula docet'; almost an elegiac distich. [Table of contents.] Incipit: ‘Huius tabule ne diutius quispiam . . .’
2C8v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Aurea summa sacri Guilihelmi Altissiodori | Presulis auricomis multiplicata notis'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, for Nicolas Vaultier and Durand Gerlier, 3 Apr. 1500/1. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–z [et] [con] A–M 8 N10 2A B6 C8.
References
ISTC: ig00707500
GW: GW 11861
Hain: HC *8324;
Goff: Goff G‑718;
BMC: BMC VIII 122;
Proctor: Pr 8206;
Others: Hillard 973; Oates 3078-9; Rhodes 885; Sack, Freiburg, 1700; Sheppard 6326.
LCN: 14456977
Copies
Copy number: G-295(1)
Bound with:
2. Richardus Fitzralph, Summa in questionibus Armenorum. [Paris: Johannes Sudorius, 1512].
Binding: Calf over pasteboards; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at tail of the upper cover. Former Bodleian shelfmark across the fore-edge: ‘14.’
Size: 270 × 201 × 75 mm.
Size of leaf: 264 × 184 mm.
Marginal annotations, extracting key words, in a sixteenth-century hand.
Provenance: Johannes Draxl (sixteenth century), Paris, Collège de Navarre; inscription, cropped, on2 C8v: ‘collegii nauarre paris[ ]. Io. draxl hunc librum emit'. Acquired by 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 5.
Former Bodleian shelfmarks: S 5. 14 Th.(?); Auct. 1Q 3.13.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 4.1(1).
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