Bod-Inc: J-031
Jacobus de Voragine
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. As J‑030, but with the life of S. Walpurga and a different version of S. Apollonia.
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–xlvii, xlix–lii (ending imperfectly), liii–lxi, lxiii, lxv, lxvii–lxx, lxxii (with slightly variant ending), lxxiii–xciv (with extended section on the name), xcv (with additional section on the name), xcvi–ciii (with additional section on the name), civ (with additional section on the name), cv–cvi (with additional section on the name, and ending imperfectly), cvii.
[y1v] ‘De sancto Luydgero episcopo Monasteriensi'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Luydgerus ex patre Tyagrimo matre vero Katburga ortus est . . .’
[y2v] Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. ed. Graesse, nos cviii–cxi (with additional section), cxii–cxix (part only), cxx (with slightly variant ending), cxxi–cxxxi, cxxxiv–cxxxvii (sections 1-6 only), cxxxii, cxxxix, cxxxiii, cxl–clxv (ending imperfectly), clxvi–clxvii, clxix–clxxii (ending imperfectly), clxxiii–clxxxii.
[Q7v] [Table of contents of additional legends.] ‘Item historie sequentes addite sunt ad Historiam Lombardicam . . .’
[Q8r] ‘De sancta Barbara'. Incipit: ‘[T]emporibus imperatoris Maximiani erat quidam vir Dyoscolus . . .’
[M2r] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, no. clxxxix (part).
[M4r] ‘De sancto Judoco'. Incipit: ‘[S]anctus Judocus cuius festum agitur in die Lucie virginis . . .’
[R4r] ‘De sancto Pontiano'. Incipit: ‘[S]anctus Pontianus passus est in ciuitate . . . [B]eati Poncii pater quondam senator vrbis Rome . . .’
[R6r] ‘De sancta Prisca'. Incipit: ‘[B]eata Prisca ciuis Romana clarissimis parentibus orta . . .’
[R6r] ‘De sancta Brigida'. Incipit: ‘[B]eata Brigida sicut legitur in Speculo historiali . . .’
[R7r] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, no. ccx, with variations.
[R8v] ‘Passio sancte Apollonie'. Incipit: ‘[T]empore Iuliani imperatoris fuit vir quidam nobilis . . .’
[S1r] ‘De sancta Gertrude'. Incipit: ‘[S]erenissime virginis Ghertrudis genitor erat Pipinus vir . . .’
[S3v] ‘De Walpurga virgine'. Incipit: ‘[W]alburga virgo ex Anglia ducens originem fratres . . .’
[S4r] ‘De sancto Quirino'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uinto loco a beato Petro apostolo sedit Alexander . . .’
[S5v] [Legenda aurea: additional legends.] ‘De sancto Seruatio'. Incipit: ‘[F]uerunt in Iudea due sorores mulieres . . .’
[S6r] ‘De sancto Erasmo'. Incipit: ‘[C]um in Antiochia Dyocleciani decretum contra Christianos . . .’
[S7v] ‘De decem milibus martirum'. Incipit: ‘[C]um quedam gens Romano se . . .’
[S8v] ‘De sancto Kiliano'. Incipit: ‘[K]ilianus Scotus nobilis monasterium vbi prelatus extitit . . .’
[T1r] ‘De sanctis Felice et Nabore'. Incipit: ‘[B]eati martires Nabor et Felix nobiles . . .’
[T1r] ‘De sancto Materno'. Incipit: ‘[P]ost decessum beati Valerii sanctus Maternus . . .’
[T1v] ‘De sancto Johanne Crisostomo'. ed. Graesse, no. cxxxviii.
[T5r] ‘De duobus Ewaldis'. Incipit: ‘[T]empore Pippini regis Francorum erant duo sacerdotes de Anglia . . .’
[T5r] ‘De sancto Gereone cum sociis suis'. Incipit: ‘[D]ioclecianus cum Maximianum contra Gallias . . .’
[T6v] ‘De sanctis Crispino et Crispiniano'. Incipit: ‘[V]eniente Christianorum persecutione sub Dyocletiano . . .’
[T7r] ‘De sancto Seuerino'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Seuerinus apud Burdegalim in Vasconia existens . . .’
[T8v] ‘De sancto Willibrordo'. Incipit: ‘[I]n Britannia quedam mulier nomine Oronia peperit . . .’
[V3r] ‘De sancto Cuniberto'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Cunibertus de luminaribus illis maximis . . .’
[V3v] ‘De sancto Gregorio Spoletano'. Incipit: ‘[I]mpiisimus Flaccus a Maximino imperatore missus vt . . .’
[V4r] ‘De sancto Maximino'. Incipit: ‘[M]aximinus ex Aquitania Pictauiensis vrbis indigena . . .’
[V4v] ‘De sancto Thoma Aquinate'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Thomas de Aquino ordinis fratrum predicatorum doctor . . .’
[V6r] ‘De sancta Elyzabeth'. Incipit: ‘[E]lizabeth interpretatur deu meus cognovit . . . [E]lizabeth illustris regis Ungarie filia nobilis genere . . .’ ed. Graesse, no. clxviii; explicit: ‘ . . .gratia sunt intermissa.’
[X3r] ‘De sancto Odulpho'. Incipit: ‘[T]emporibus Lodouuici piissimi augusti erat quidam . . .’
[X5v] ‘De sancto Bonifacio'. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Bonifacius genitale solum in insula que . . .’
[X7v] ‘De sancto Lebuino'. Incipit: ‘[S]anctus Lebuinus ex Britannia occeani insula . . .’
[X8v] ‘De translatione sancti Lebuini'. Incipit: ‘[P]ost felicem sancti Lebuini ad celestia transitum . . .’
[Y1r] ‘De sancta Columba virgine'. Incipit: ‘[I]ngressus est Aurelianus ciuitatem Senonis . . .’
[Y1v] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos ccviii, ccvi, ccvii, ccxi.
[Y4r] ‘De sancto Panthaleone'. Incipit: ‘[E]rat in ciuitate Nicomedia senator quidam nomine Eustorgius . . .’
[Y4v] ‘De sancto Albano'. Incipit: ‘[T]empore Honorii regis Persarum atque Medorum . . .’ Explicit: non est permissus
[Y5r] ‘De sancto Huperto'. Incipit: ‘[H]upertus nobili exortus prosapia Theoderici regis . . .’
[Y8r] ‘Sequitur tabula legendarum secundum ordinem alphabeti'.
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 1481. Folio and 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a b10 c–z A–O8 P6 Q–X8 Y10].
References
ISTC: ij00098000
Hain: C 6424;
Goff: Goff J‑98;
BMC: BMC I 249;
Proctor: Pr 1170;
Others: CIBN J‑78; Oates 656; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 16; Seyboldt no. 33; Sheppard 905; Voulliéme, Köln, 621.
LCN: 14437899
Copies
Copy number: J-031(1)
On [a2r], l. 2: ‘preditatoꝝ', as BMC, not as Voulliéme, Köln.
Binding: Nineteenth-century English blind-tooled calf, bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 291 × 205 × 73 mm.
Size of leaf: 278 × 188 mm.
Early manuscript signatures numbering the gatherings 1-45; the gathering are also signed with letters, now mostly shaved off; on [a1v] a note in a fifteenth-century hand, stating that the table of contents is to be found at the end of the book. Some early marginal annotations, also corrections to the text. On [T6v] the rubricator has here, as in other instances, added the letter S, reading ‘Seniente' instead of ‘Veniente'.
Two- to four-line initials, some with extensions into the margins; on [T8v] an 18-line initial I is added in the margin in red with reserved white decoration in the Cologne style; paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance unknown. Purchased for £2. 2. 0: see Books Purchased (1843), 51.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 3.24.
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