Bod-Inc: J-049
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 Isidorus in libro De summo bono ad conuersationem et correctionem . . .’
a2r [Subject index.] Incipit: ‘[A]bscondita diuinitus manifestantur. Legenda lxxxii 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.
P8v ‘Explicit Legenda Lombardica Jacobi de Voragine episcopi Januensis'.
Q1r ‘Sequuntur quedam legende a quibusdam aliis superaddite'. ed. Graesse, nos clxxxiii, cxcv.
Q1v 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.
Q2v Beda: Sermo. Incipit: ‘Beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini sacrarum . . .’
Q4v [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos cxciii–cxciv, clxxxiv–clxxxv.
R1r Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘De festo presentationis Marie virginis 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 . . .’
R1v Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla indulgentiarum prefati festi' [21 Jan. 1464]. Incipit: ‘Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei . . . Ad id maxime versatur nostra intentio vt . . .’
R2r 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 . . .’
R2v ‘De eodem festo'. Incipit: ‘Que est illa puella mater et virgo semper Maria . . .’
R3r [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxvi–clxxxix (part).
R8v Anselmus [S. pseudo-: Extracts from Tractatus de conceptione Mariae virginis.] PL CLIX 301-5.
S1r ‘Ex decreto concilii Basiliensis'. Incipit: ‘[S]acrosancta generalis sinodus Basiliensis in spiritu sancto legitime congregata . . . Elucidantibus gratie diuine misteria mercedem gloriosam repromisit . . .’
S1v [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxix (part)–cxc, lii, lxiv, lxxi, cxcvi–ccxviii.
Imprint
Imprint: Reutlingen: [Johann Otmar], 1485. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a8 b6 c–e8 f–n6.8 o8 p–z A–X6.8.
Types: Types: 175G, title, headlines, first line of legends; 95G. Capital spaces. The headlines give the titles and numbers of the legends.
Leaves: 312 leaves, the last blank; 2 columns.
Line number: 45 lines and headlines (c1r).
Type area: Type area: 210 (222) ×136 mm (c1r).
Remarks: a1r, title: ‘Lombardica hiſtoria'; a2r: ‘Incipit tabula ſu[per] legēdas ſanctoꝝ | ƥm ordinē alphabeti collecta'; b5r: ‘Incipit prologus ſuper legēdas ſan | ctorum quas collegit in vnum frater Ja | cobus ianuenſis ordinis fratrum predica | torum'; c1r: ‘Incipit legenda ſanctorū que lombar | dica nominatur hiſtoria'; P8v: ‘Explicit legenda lombardica Ja- | cobi de voragine ordinis predicatorum | epiſcopi ianuenſis'; Q1r: ‘Sequuntur quedam legende a qui- | buſdam alijs su[per]addite'; X7v, colophon: ‘Expliciunt quo | rundam ſanctorum legende ad | iuncte poſt Lombardicam hy- | ſtoriā. Impreſſe in Reuttlingē | Anno dn̄i. M.cccclxxxv.’
References
ISTC: ij00113000
Hain: C 6440;
Goff: Goff J‑113;
Proctor: Pr 2708;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑87; CIBN J‑89; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 33; Sack, Freiburg, 1983-4; Seyboldt no. 55; Sheppard 1973-4.
LCN: 14499841
Copies
Copy number: J-049(1)
Binding: Sixteenth-century German plain pigskin over wooden boards; clasp lost, remains of catch. Label on the spine bearing the title in a sixteenth-century(?) hand.
Size: 308 × 215 × 93 mm.
Size of leaf: 289 × 199 mm.
Two parchment endleaves, written in the same fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand, from the same legal document in German mentioning ‘Wendelin Stattamann zu Rauenspurg' and ‘Conrat Baldrich'.
The title is supplied in manuscript in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand on a1r.
Partial rubrication: two- to six–line initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks and capital strokes are supplied in red.
Provenance: Weissenau, Württemberg, diocese of Konstanz, Premonstratensians, SS. Petrus et Paulus; inscription on a1r, pasted over: ‘Monasterii Augiæ Minoris'. Bonaventura Brem (1755-1818); armorial book-plate. Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog (1884), no. 339; no. on the inside of the upper cover. Purchased in 1884 from Baer for 10 Marks; see Library Bills; pencil note on the inside of the upper cover.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q inf. 1.6.
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