Bod-Inc: H-011
Hemmerlin, Felix
Opuscula et tractatus.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*1r] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Felicis si te iuuat indulsisse libellis | Malleoli presens dilige, lector, opus'; 5 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 6319.
[*1v] Brant, Sebastian: ‘Elegiacum episodion’ [addressed to] Hermannus [von Hessen], Archbishop of Cologne and Elector. Incipit: ‘Venerat in mentem dudum, illustrissime princeps | Velle tuum totum me dare in obsequium'; 37 elegiac distichs. See Wilhelmi no. 380, where Brant is described as editor.
[*2v] ‘Tabula titulorum. Quos titulos lector volens prompte inuenire querat eos secundum signaturas foliorum que inferius in foliis signatur.’ Referring to folio numbers; repeating the word ‘inferius' from the preceding edition although the folio numbers are at the head of each page.
A1r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Contra validos mendicantes', [addressed to] Henricus [de Hoewen], Bishop of Constance. Incipit: ‘[R]euerendo in Christo patri ac domino domino Henrico dei et apostolice sedis gratia episcopo . . . Cum recommendatione perspicaciter speculari ac salubriter presentem attendere epistolam . . .’
B1r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Contra anachoritas.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uemadmodum beatissimus Hieronymus vastas terre solitudines Egyptique . . .’
B5r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Glosa bullarum per beghardos impetratarum.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ro fundamentali bullarum subscriptarum intelligentia clarius demonstranda . . .’
B5v Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.: [Bulla.] Incipit: ‘[E]ugenius epsicopus seruus seruorum dei uenerabilibus fratribus Coloniensibus, Treuerensibus, Maguntinensibus, ceteris quod archiepiscopis et tam eorum suffraganeis . . .’ Not found in MBR; dated 1431 ‘iiii idus Maii'.
C4v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De negocio monachorum’ [addressed to] B[ertholdus de Roßwag, Abbot of Maulbronn]. Incipit: ‘[R]euerendo in Christo patri et domino domino B[ertholdi de Roßswag] abbati de Mulenbrunn ordinis Cisterciensis domino mihi multum venerando Felix . . . Si quid melius salute dudum Lotharius cardinalis vir mirande . . .’
E4r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De plebanis et religiosis mendicantibus.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on est enim potestas nisi a deo; que autem a deo sunt ordinata sunt . . .’
F5r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De religiosis proprietariis precepta domini predicantibus.’ Incipit: ‘[S]uper cathedram Moysi sederunt scribe et pharisei omnia . . .’
G4r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Tenor epistole de celis misse per patronos ecclesie Thuricensi contra negligentes diuinum cultum.’ Incipit: ‘[F]elix et Regula et Exuperantius Germani Thebais martyres ac patroni ecclesie maioris . . .’
H1r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Tractatus de nouorum officiorum diuinorum institutione.’ Incipit: ‘[I]n ecclesia Thuricensi sunt statutorum ordinationes quondam solemniter edite . . .’
I4r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De oblatis et solutis pecuniis pro prebenda seu beneficio in ecclesiis vel monasteriis percipiendo.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um symoniace prauitatis rabies per sanctorum patrum traditiones tam . . .’
I6v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Dyalogus . . . de anno iubileo.’ Incipit: ‘[I]ubileus. Qui venturus est veniet et non tardabit iam non erit timor . . .’
M1r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Recapitulatio de anno iubileo.’ Incipit: ‘[V]idi turbam magnam quam dinumerare nemo poterat ex omnibus gentibus . . .’
M5v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De benedictionibus aure cum sacramento faciendis.’ Incipit: ‘[V]t a fructu frumenti et vini multiplicati fideles in pace requiescant . . .’
N2r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Tractatus de exorcismis.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uestionem nuper motam in voce exultationis inter epulantes in mensa . . .’
N4r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Alius tractatus exorcismorum seu adiurationum.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam deus magnus dominus et rex magnus super omnes deos nouit quod gentes . . .’
O1v Hemmerlin, Felix: De credulitate demonibus adhibenda. ‘De crudelitate(!) demonibus adhibendam(!).’ Incipit: ‘[D]ominus noster Ihesus Christus dum in terra predicaret vsus est parabolis, exemplis . . .’ The treatise is also called ‘De crudelitate demonibus adhibenda' in the table of contents.
O5r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De arbore torculari ducendo in die festo.’ Incipit: ‘[V]enerabilibus viris dominis rectoribus plebanis et viceplebanis ecclesiarum per vrbem imperialem . . .’
P1v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De matrimonio tractatus.’ Incipit: ‘[G]loriosus deus omnia quecunque voluit fecit et erant valde bona . . .’
P5v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De furto reliquiarum et aliis rebus nuper in monasterio beate virginis loci heremitarum per tres personas miraculose commisso et deducto et finaliter reperto et recuperato.’ Incipit: ‘[M]onasterium beatissime virginis Marie in loco heremitarum ordinis sancti Benedicti . . .’
Q2v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Contra quendam superbum clericum epistola' [addressed to] Jacobus Purlin. Incipit: ‘[F]elix cantor ecclesie Thuricensis sola peritorum patientia studii Bononiensis decretorum doctor inutilis Jacobo cognominato Purlin canonico abbatie Thuricensis salutem et spiritum humiliorem. Scis forsitan quod erubescit . . .’
Q4r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Forma appellationis contra cardinalem qui in Germania vellet intrare ecclesiam cathedralem.’ Incipit: ‘[M]agnus sanctus Paulus vas electionis vere digne glorificandus spiritus sancti . . .’
Q5v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De libertate ecclesiastica tractatus' [addressed to] Henricus [de Hoewen], Bishop of Constance. Incipit: ‘[V]icarius reuerendi in Christo patris et domini domini Henrici episcopi Constantiensis in spiritualibus generalis dilecto nobis in Christo . . . Quoniam dicit Gregorius super Ezechiel omelia xii de Iudea . . .’
S5r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De boni et mali occasione tractatus.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]ui occasione damni dat damnum dedisse videtur. De quo satis legitur . . .’
T2v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De emptione et venditione vnius pro viginti.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam patenter accusationis et execusationis commertium in paradiso . . .’ See H‑010.
T4v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘De contractibus qui obstagia dicuntur et vulgariter Gisel nuncupantur.’ Incipit: ‘[I]d quod apud nos nouum est in tempore non est nouum apud eum . . .’
V1r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Doctoratus in stulticia.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ixit insipiens in corde suo : nunquid est deus qui stulta mundi elegit vt confundat . . .’
V5r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Tenor littere doctoratus in stulticia.’ Incipit: ‘[F]elix ecclesie Thuricensis cantor stultorum promotor. Ad infrascripta diuine . . .’
V5r Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Contra iniquos iudices.’ Incipit: ‘[G]irum celi circumiui sola et profundum abyssi penetraui et in fluctibus . . .’
X1v Hemmerlin, Felix: ‘Dyalogus de consolatione inique suppressorum.’ Incipit: ‘[A]nxiatus. Anxiatus est in me spiritus meus, in me turbatum est cor . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, after 13 Aug. 1497]. Folio.
Remarks: BSB‑Ink dates [c.1500], Sack, Freiburg [after 1500?]. In H *8424, BMC I 172, and Bod-inc. H‑011, the elegiacs of Sebastian Brant (in this edition printed on [*1v]) are dated: ‘Idibus Augusti 1497'.
Collation
Collation: [*2] A–Y6.
Illustrations: Woodcut on [*1r]: see Schramm.
References
ISTC: ih00016000
Hain: H *8425;
Goff: Goff H‑16;
BMC: BMC I 129;
Proctor: Pr 581;
Others: BSB‑Ink H‑43; CIBN H‑9; Hillard 989; Oates 218; Sack, Freiburg, 1772; Schramm XX p. 27 and pl. 1327; Schreiber V 4199; Sheppard 450-1.
LCN: 14508996
Copies
Copy number: H-011(1)
Bound with:
1. Cronica del muy esclarescido principe e Rey Don Alfonso el onzeno. Valladolid: Sebastian Martinez, for Pedro de Espinosa and Antonio Zamora, 1551;
3. Gregorio Lopez Madera, Excelencias de la monarchia y reyno de España. Valladolid: Diego Fernandez de Cordova, for Martin de Cordova, 1597.
Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; two ties lost; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover. Fragments from a printed English Bible used as pastedowns; two leaves from a printed Latin Bible containing tables used as endleaves, one at the front, the other at the back. Parchment reinforcing slip at the front, with ‘N. de Benzis' in black ink in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century(?) hand; and at the back containing part of a text of canon law(?) written in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century(?) hand.
Size: 282 × 207 × 77 mm.
Size of leaf: 269 × 182 mm.
Copious early marginal annotations, consisting mainly of ‘nota' marks, pointing hands, underlining in the text in faded black ink, apparently all in a single hand. ‘1531' on [*1r].
Provenance: Item 3 is perhaps the copy acquired by 1620: see James, Catalogus (1620), 299 (A 1.13 Art, which also contained a copy of Hemmerlin, Opuscula et tractatus varii (James, Catalogus (1620), 247), dated 1532.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: B 5.8 Art.
SHELFMARK: M 4.6(2) Art.
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