Bod-Inc: J-041
Jacobus de Voragine
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. With texts relating to Marian feasts.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] ‘De festiuitatibus que occurrunt infra tempus renouationis'.’ [Table of contents.]
[a3r] ‘Prologus'. ed. Graesse, 1-2.
[a3v] Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. ed. Graesse, nos i–xiv (ending imperfectly), xv–xvii (ending imperfectly), xviii–xxviii, xxx–xlvii, xlix–lix (sections 1-8 only), lx–lxv, lxvii–lxx, lxxii–xcv (with additional section on the name), xcvi–cxxxi, cxxxiv–cxxxviii, cxxxii, cxxxix, cxxxiii, cxl–clxxxii.
[T3r] ‘Explicit Legenda Lombardica Jacobi de Voragine episcopi Januensis'.
[T3r] [Additional legends.] ‘Sequuntur festiuitates et legende adiuncte post Hystorie Lombardice finem'. [Title from table of contents.]’ ed. Graesse, nos clxxxiii, cxcv. The title of the additional legends occurs in the table of contents.
[T4r] Bonifacius IX, Pont. Max.: ‘Tenor bulle per Bonifacium papam 9 transmisse ad diuersas mundi partes super festo visitationis beate Marie virginis ad Elizabeth'.’ Bulla ‘Superni benignitas conditoris' [9 Nov. 1389]. MBR 4, 602-4.
[T6r] Beda: Sermo. Incipit: ‘Beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini sacrarium . . .’ Explicit: suus filius esset et dominus’
[T7v] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos cxciii–cxciv, clxxxiv–clxxxv.
[V2v] Paulus II, Pont. Max.: Bulla ‘Rationi congruit et conuenit' [16 Sept. 1464]. Incipit: ‘[P]aulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei ad futuram rei memoriam. Rationi congruit et conuenit honestati vt ea que . . .’
[V3r] Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla indulgentiarum prefati festi' [21 Jan. 1464].’ Incipit: ‘Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei . . . Ad id maxime versatur nostra intentio vt . . .’
[V3v] Adolphus, Archiepiscopus Mogonciacensis: ‘Institutio huius festi' [30 Aug. 1468].’ Incipit: ‘Adolfus dei gratia sancte Maguntine sedis archiepiscopus . . . rei memoriam. Ex specialis deuotionis affectu quam ad inclitam propugnatricem . . .’
[V4r] ‘De eodem festo'. Incipit: ‘Que est illa puella mater et virgo semper Maria . . .’ Explicit: quoque intercedente participes nos faciat glorie . . .Amen’
[V5v] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxvi–clxxxviii.
[V10v] ‘De sancta Barbara'. Incipit: ‘Temporibus Maximiani imperatoris erat quidam satrapa nomine Dyoscorus . . .’ Explicit: in secula seculorum. Amen’
[X2r] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, no. clxxxix (part).
[X4v] Anselmus [S. pseudo-: Extracts from Tractatus de conceptione Mariae virginis.] PL CLIX 301-5.
[X5r] ‘Ex decreto concilii Basiliensis'. Incipit: ‘Sacrosancta generalis synodus Basiliensis in spiritu sancto legitime congregata . . . Elucidantibus gratie diuine misteria mercedem gloriosam repromisit . . .’ Explicit: hec sancta synodus elargitur . . .Amen’
[X6r] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxix (part)–cxc.
Imprint
Imprint: Ulm: Johann Zainer, [c.1478]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–y10.8 z8 A–S10.8 T–X10].
Types: Type: 96 GA.
Leaves: 398 leaves, the last presumably blank, 3-397 numbered 1-394, with errors; 2 columns in the table.
Line number: 39 lines and headline ([a4v]).
Type area: Type area: 186 (192) ×110 mm ([a4v]).
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
Remarks: Leaf [a1v], table: ‘De feſtiuitatibus que occur | runt infra t[per]us renouacōis'; [a3r]: ‘Incipit prologus ſuper legendam ſanctoꝝ quaƺ ɂpilauit frat̄ | iacobus natione Ianuēsis ordinis fratrū predicatoꝝ'; [a3v], l. 11: ‘De feſtiuitatibus q̄ occurr̄t infra t[per]s renouacōis. qď repn̄ | tat eccleſia ab aduentu vſqƺ ad nt̄itatem dn̄i. Et primo ď | aduentu dn̄i'; [T3r] (numbered 368): ‘Explicit legenda lombardica iacobi de voragine epiſcopi | ianuenſis. | De decem milibus martirum'; [X9v], l. 8: ‘ . . . quia ipſa otilia duobus modis martir | fuit voluntate et carnis maceratione. || Finit feliciter.’
References
ISTC: ij00088400
Hain: C 6389;
Goff: Goff J‑100;
Proctor: Pr 2520;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑68; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 72; Seyboldt no. 14; Sheppard 1815-16.
LCN: 14438766
Copies
Copy number: J-041(1)
Wanting the (presumably) blank leaf [X10], and probably two gatherings containing the subject index and the preface; these would account for the additional 14 leaves recorded by BSB‑Ink.
Binding: Fifteenth/sixteenth-century leather over wooden boards; two catches lost, remains of one clasp. The lower portion of the spine has been coloured white.
Size: 292 × 195 × 122 mm.
Size of leaf: 271 × 194 mm.
Each gathering is numbered in words at the end and catchwords are supplied in black ink in a fifteenth-century hand. Early marginal annotations and underlining in the text in red and black ink, also some annotations in a sevententh-century(?) hand. Note in German in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand on [X9v]: ‘O wie fro ich was Das ich das finis las'.
Partial rubrication as far as gathering [q] only: paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red; printed initials partly coloured in red.
Provenance: Purchased from Albert Cohn, catalogue 159, no. 314, 26 Apr. 1884, for 24 Marks; see Library Bills; pencil note by Madan on the upper cover.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q inf. 1.1.
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