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Bod-Inc: J-048

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

11r [Title-page.] ‘Lombardica historia que a plerisque Aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur.’

12r ‘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 . . .’

12r [Subject index.] ‘Tabula legendarum'. Incipit: ‘[A]bscondita diuinitus manifestantur. Legenda octuagesimasecunda capitulo B. In principio . . .’ The title is expressed in the running heading.

25r ‘Prologus'. ed. Graesse, 1-2.

25v ‘Capitula'. ‘De festiuitatibus que occurrunt infra tempus renouationis'.

a1r 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.

H9v [First colophon.]

I1r ‘Quedam legende a quibusdam aliis superaddite'. ed. Graesse, nos clxxxiii, cxcv.

I1v 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.

I2v Beda: Sermo. Incipit: ‘Beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini sacrarum . . .’

I3v [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos cxciii–cxciv, clxxxiv–clxxxv.

I6v 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 . . .’

I6v Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla indulgentiarum prefati festi' [21 Jan. 1464]. Incipit: ‘Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei . . . Ad id maxime versatur nostra intentio vt . . .’

K1r 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 . . .’

K1r ‘De eodem festo'. Incipit: ‘Que est illa puella mater et virgo semper Maria . . .’

K2v [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxvi–clxxxix (part).

K7r Anselmus [S. pseudo-: Extracts from Tractatus de conceptione Mariae virginis.] PL CLIX 301-5.

K7r ‘Ex decreto concilii Basiliensis'. Incipit: ‘[S]acrosancta generalis sinodus Basiliensis in spiritu sancto legitime congregata . . . Elucidantibus gratie diuine misteria mercedem gloriosam repromisit . . .’

[K7v] [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)], 4 May 1485. Folio.

Remarks: Title transcription and collation in CIBN.

Collation

Collation: 1 2 a–z A–G8.6 H10 I–M6.8 N8.

Types: Types: 160G, 91A G, 91B G; 2 columns.

Leaves: 270 leaves, 234 and 270 blank.

Line number: 47 lines, with headlines (a1r).

Type area: Type area: 216 (229) ×141 mm (a1r).

Remarks: Leaf 11r, title: ‘Lombardica hiſtoria | que a pleriſqƺ = “que” Aurea | legenda ſāctorum ap- | pellatur.'; 12r: ‘Incipit tabula ſuper | legendas ſctō . . .'; 24v: ‘Finit tabula feliciter. 25r. Incipit prologus ſu- | per legendas ſancto . . .'; 25v: ‘Incipiunt capitula. a1r. Incipit legenda ſctō que lombar | dica noīatur hiſtoria . . .'; H9v: ‘Explicit legenda lom | bardica . . .'; I1r: ‘Sequūtur quedaƺ = “m” | legende . . .'; N7v: ‘Expliciūt quorū/ | dam ſancto legende adiūcte post | Lombardicam hiſtoriaƺ = “m” . Impreſſe | Argētine Anno dn̄i. M.cccclxxxv | Finite in die ſancti Floriani marty | ris.’

References

ISTC: ij00110000

Hain: C 6443;

Goff: Goff J‑110;

Proctor: Pr 600;

Others: CIBN J‑88; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 37 bis; Pellechet MS. 6493 (6469); Seyboldt no. 50; Sheppard 459-60.

LCN: 14499961

Copies

Copy number: J-048(1)

Binding: Nineteenth-century English blind-tooled calf, bound for the Bodleian.

Size: 316 × 228 × 47 mm.

Size of leaf: 300 × 200 mm.

On 12r a five-line initial ‘Q' and on a1r a four-line initial ‘A' are supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, within a red pen-work border, and, within the body of the letter, red pen-work touched with green, and with red pen-work extensions, touched with green and blue, into the margins; on 25r a six–line initial ‘U' is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, and decorated with red pen-work within the body of the letter; other two- to six–line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes and underlining in red.

Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766-1841), 1805; inscription on 11r: ‘Bibliothecae Josephi Niesert pastoris in Velen. 1805'; sale (1843), lot 1521; purchased for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1843), 51.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 2.31.


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