Bod-Inc: J-029
Jacobus de Voragine
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. Conrad Winter's version.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Jacobus de Voragine: ‘Prefatio'. ed. Graesse, 1-2.
[a2v] ‘Incipit tabula legendarum de sanctis per annum'.
[a3v] Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. ed. Graesse, nos i–iii (ending imperfectly), iv–xiv (ending imperfectly), xv–xvi (ending imperfectly), xvii–xix (with additional section on the name), xx–xxxi (ending imperfectly), xxxii–xxxv (ending imperfectly), xxxvi–xlvii, xlix–li (ending imperfectly), liii–lviii (ending imperfectly), lix–lxi, lxiii, lxv, lxvii–lxx, lxxii (with slightly variant ending), lxxiii–lxxxi (ending imperfectly), lxxxii–xcv (with additional section on the name), xcvi (sections 1-9 only), xcvii–xcviii (ending imperfectly), xcix–c (ending imperfectly), ci–cii (ending imperfectly), ciii–civ (both with additional sections on the name), cv–cvi (with additional section on the name, and ending imperfectly), cvii.
[t8v] ‘De sancto Luydgero episcopo Monasteriensi'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Luydgerus ex patre Tyagrimo matre vero Katburga ortus est . . .’ Explicit: se tumulari rogauerunt
[t10r] Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. ed. Graesse, nos cviii–cxix (part only), cxx (with slightly variant ending), cxxi–cxxxi, cxxxiv–cxxxvii (sections 1-6 only), cxxxii, cxxxix, cxxxiii, cxl–clvi (ending imperfectly), clvii–clxi (with additional section on the name), clxii–clxv (ending imperfectly), clxvi–clxvii, clxix–clxx (ending imperfectly), clxxi–clxxii (ending imperfectly), clxxiii (ending imperfectly), clxxiv–clxxxii.
[M1r] [Table of contents of additional legends.] ‘Iste legende que hic sequuntur non habentur in Hystoria Lomdardica, sed addite sunt ex aliis legendis et libris videlicet . . .’
[M1r] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos ccii (with variations), clxxxix (part), clxxxiv (with variations).
[M5r] ‘De sancto Pontiano'. Incipit: ‘[S]anctus Pontianus passus est in ciuitate . . . [B]eati Poncii pater quondam senator vrbis Rome . . .’ Explicit: temporis ambo expirarent
[M7r] ‘De sancta Prisca'. Incipit: ‘[B]eata Prisca ciuis Romana clarissimis parentibus orta . . .’ Explicit: fabricata est ecclesia in eius honore
[M7v] ‘De sancta Brigida'. Incipit: ‘[B]eata Brigida sicut legitur in Speculo hystoriali . . .’ Explicit: nobis erit solempnitas
[M8v] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, no. ccx, with variations.
[M9v] ‘De sancta Apollonia'. Incipit: ‘[D]ecius imperator mittens satellites suos ad Alexandriam . . .’ Ending abrubtly: ‘ . . .persecutor ad penam'.
[M10r] ‘De sancta Gertrude'. Incipit: ‘[S]erenissime virginis Ghertrudis genitor erat Pipinus vir . . .’ Explicit: reuocare laborauit
[N2r] ‘De sancto Quirino martire'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uinto loco a beato Petro apostolo sedit Alexander . . .’ Explicit: ad plenum sanauit
[N3v] [Legenda aurea: additional legends.] ‘De sancto Seruatio episcopo'. Incipit: ‘[F]uerunt in Iudea due sorores mulieres . . .’ Explicit: basilica super ipsum
[N4r] ‘De sancto Erasmo episcopo'. Incipit: ‘[C]um in Antiochia Dyocleciani decretum contra Christianos . . .’ Explicit: alta penetrare
[N5v] ‘De decem milibus martirum'. Incipit: ‘[C]um quedam gens Romano se subtraheret imperio . . .’ Explicit: monte locellis decio kal. Julii
[N6v] ‘De sancto Kyliano'. Incipit: ‘[K]ylianus Scotus nobilis monasterium vbi prelatus extitit . . .’ Explicit: et visum recepit
[N7r] ‘De sanctis Felice et Nabore'. Incipit: ‘[B]eati martires Nabor et Felix nobiles . . .’ Explicit: sunt translati
[N7r] ‘De sancto Materno'. Incipit: ‘[P]ost decessum beati Valerii sanctus Maternus . . .’ Explicit: sepultre tradiderunt
[N10r] ‘De sancto Johanne Crisostomo'. ed. Graesse, no. cxxxviii.
[O3v] ‘De duobus Ewaldis'. Incipit: ‘[T]empore Pippini regis Francorum erant duo sacerdotes de Anglia . . .’ Explicit: viuo faciari
[O4r] ‘De sancto Gereone cum sociis suis'. Incipit: ‘[D]yoclecianus cum Maximianum contra Gallias . . .’ Explicit: salutem recepit
[O5r] ‘De sanctis Crispino et Crispiniano'. Incipit: ‘[V]eniente Christianorum persecutione sub Dyocletiano . . .’ Explicit: constructa est
[O5v] ‘De sancto Seuerino'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Seuerinus apud Burdegalim in Vasconia existens . . .’ Explicit: statim curauit eum
[O7r] ‘De sancto Villibrordo'. Incipit: ‘[I]n Britannia quedam mulier nomine Oromia peperit . . .’ Explicit: fieri non cessant
[P1v] ‘De sancto Kuniberto'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Kunibertus de luminaribus illis maximis . . .’ Explicit: ipse construxerat
[P2v] ‘De sancto Gregorio Spoletano'. Incipit: ‘[I]mpiisimus Flaccus a Maximino imperatore missus vt . . .’ Explicit: Coloniam Agrippinam, etc.
[P3r] ‘De sancto Maximino'. Incipit: ‘[M]aximinus ex Aquitanea Pictauiensis vrbis indigena . . .’ Explicit: viginti duos mundauit
[P3v] ‘De sancto Thoma de Aquino'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Thomas de Aquino ordinis fratrum predicatorum doctor . . .’ Explicit: aromatum apotheca
[P4v] ‘De sancta Elyzabeth'. Incipit: ‘[E]lyzabeth interpretatur deus meus cognovit . . . [E]lizabeth illustris regis Ungarie filia nobilis genere . . .’ ed. Graesse, no. clxviii; explicit: ‘ . . .gratia intermissa.’
[Q1r] ‘De sancto Odulpho'. Incipit: ‘[T]emporibus Lodowici piissimi augusti erat quidam . . .’ Explicit: infinita seculorum seculorum
[Q3r] ‘De sancto Bonifacio'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Bonifacius genitale solum in insula que . . .’ Explicit: in hodiernum diem
[Q5v] ‘De sancto Lebuino'. Incipit: ‘[S]anctus Lebuinus ex Britannia occeani insula . . .’ Explicit: benedictus in secula. Amen
[Q6v] ‘De translacione sancti Lebuini'. Incipit: ‘[P]ost Felicem sancti Lebuini ad celestia transitum . . .’ Explicit: secula seculorum. Amen
[Q7r] ‘De sancta Columba virgine'. Incipit: ‘[I]ngressus est Aurelianus ciuitatem Senonis . . .’ Explicit: kalendas Januarias
[Q7v] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos ccviii, ccvi, ccvii, ccxi.
[Q9v] ‘De sancto Panthaleone'. Incipit: ‘[E]rat in ciuitate Nicomedia senator quidam nomine Eustorgius . . .’ Explicit: certamen gloriosi martiris
[Q10r] ‘Tabula legendarum de sanctis secundum alphabeti ordinem incipit'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne]: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 8 Nov. 1476. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–e10 f–i8 k–z A–F10 G8 H I10 K6 L8 M10 N O8 P10 Q12].
References
ISTC: ij00086000
Hain: C 6410;
Goff: Goff J‑86;
Proctor: Pr 1161;
Others: CIBN J‑65; Oates 650; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 4; Polain 2186; Seyboldt no. 13; Sheppard 887-8; Voulliéme, Köln, 617.
LCN: 14438745
Copies
Copy number: J-029(1)
The first six gatherings are misbound in the order: a, c, d, f, b, e.
Binding: Nineteenth-century English blind-tooled (fillets only) calf, bound for the Bodleian.
Size: 299 × 226 × 77 mm.
Size of leaf: 288 × 206 mm.
Pasted inside the upper and lower covers are two small fragments from a legal treatise written in a fifteenth-century hand, with the headings ‘De fiduciaria tutela' and ‘De heredibus instituendis'.
Early marginal annotations, including comments on the text, and ‘nota' marks; on [M2v –M3r] a long note on the conception of the Virgin.
Two- to six–line initials, many with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, running headings, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance: Jacobus Beckers, fifteenth/sixteenth century; inscription on [a1r]: ‘Liber pie memorie domini Jacobi Beckers'. Purchased for £1. 4. 0: see Books Purchased (1852), 93.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 5.9.
Copy number: J-029(2)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Leaves [C4] and [C7] are misbound in reverse order.
Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf, with gold-tooled spine. Upper board loose.
Size: 304 × 223 × 73 mm.
Size of leaf: 292 × 202 mm.
Early signatures are supplied in black ink.
Two- to six–line initials, some with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance: Heavily cancelled inscription on [a2r]. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 250.
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