Bod-Inc: J-047
Jacobus de Voragine
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. With texts relating to Marian feasts as J‑041; legends as J‑043.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Title-page.] ‘Lombardica historia'.
[a2r] ‘Incipit tabula super legendas sanctorum secundum ordinem alphabeti collecta. Et primo premittitur prologus qui ostendit modum reperiendi materias contentas in diuersis locis huius voluminis'. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam sicut dicit Ysidorus in libro De summo bono ad conuersationem et correctionem . . .’
[a2r] [Subject index.] Incipit: ‘[A]bscondita diuinitus manifestantur. Legenda octuagesimasecunda capitulo B. In principio . . .’
[b5r] ‘Prologus'. ed. Graesse, 1-2.
[b5v] ‘Capitula'. ‘De festiuitatibus que occurrunt infra tempus renouationis'.
[c1r] Jacobus de Voragine: Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. ed. Graesse, nos i–xlvii, xlix–li, liii–lxiii, lxv, lxvii–lxx, lxxii–lxxxiv, lxxxvi, lxxxv, lxxxvii–xciv, xcvi, xcv (with additional section on the name), xcvii–cxxxi, cxxxiv–cxxxviii, cxxxii, cxxxix, cxxxiii, cxl–clxxxii.
[M3v] ‘Quedam legende a quibusdam aliis superaddite'. ed. Graesse, nos clxxxiii, cxcv.
[M4r] Bonifacius IX, Pont. Max.: ‘Tenor bulle per Bonifacium Papam ix transmisse ad diuersas mundi partes super festo visitationis beate Marie virginis ad Elizabeth'. Bulla ‘Superni benignitas conditoris' [9 Nov. 1389]. MBR 4, 602-4.
[M5r] Beda: Sermo. Incipit: ‘Beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini sacrarum . . .’
[M6r] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos cxciii–cxciv, clxxxiv–clxxxv.
[N1r] Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘De festo presentationis Marie ad templum in Hierusalem'. 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 . . .’
[N1v] Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla indulgentiarum prefati festi' [21 Jan. 1464]. Incipit: ‘Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei . . . Ad id maxime versatur nostra intentio vt . . .’
[N1v] 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 . . .’
[N2r] ‘De eodem festo'. Incipit: ‘Que est illa puella mater et virgo semper Maria . . .’
[N3r] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxvi–clxxxix (part).
[N8r] Anselmus [S. pseudo-: Extracts from Tractatus de conceptione Mariae virginis.] PL CLIX 301-5.
[N8r] ‘Ex decreto concilii Basiliensis'. Incipit: ‘[S]acrosancta generalis sinodus Basiliensis in spiritu sancto legitime congregata . . .Elucidantibus gratie diuine misteria mercedem gloriosam repromisit . . .’
[N8v] [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxix (part)–cxc, lii, lxiv, lxxi, cxcvi–ccxviii.
Imprint
Imprint: Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1483. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a8 b6 c d8 e–y8.6 z A–L8.6 M–Q8].
Leaves: 280 leaves. Polain records 282 leaves.
References
ISTC: ij00107000
Hain: C 6430;
Goff: Goff J‑107;
Proctor: Pr 586;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑85; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 28; Polain 2196; Sack, Freiburg, 1982; Seyboldt no. 45; Sheppard 454.
LCN: 14437867
Copies
Copy number: J-047(1)
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with five metal bosses on each cover, and two metal clasps and catches. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the lower cover. On both covers triple fillets form an outer frame, within which is a repeated lozenge-shaped floral stamp. Triple fillets form an inner frame, with further triple fillets dividing the area enclosed into lozenge-shaped compartments, containg a large circular rosette stamp, a small circular fylfot stamp, a small flower-petal stamp, or a fleuron. Triple fillets form the inner rectangle with a repeated small flower-petal stamp and a repeated foliate stamp. Remains of a sixteenth-century(?) manuscript label at the head of the spine.
Size: 321 × 220 × 71 mm.
Size of leaf: 303 × 202 mm.
Signatures are supplied in black ink in a fifteenth-century hand, most now shaved off. Drawing in black ink of the head of a figure wearing a hat on [x1r].
Two- to five-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance: Fribourg, Switzerland, Franciscans; inscription on [a1r]: ‘Fratrum Minorum Conuentualium S. Francisci Friburgi Heluetiorum'. Purchased for £1. 1. 0: see Books Purchased (1852), 93.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 4.31.
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