Bod-Inc: J-053
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 octuagesima secunda 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.
H5r [First colophon.] ‘Explicit Legenda Lombardica Jacobi de Voragine ordinis predicatorum episcopi Januensis Impressa Argentine anno domini Mccccxc. Sequuntur additiones'.
H5v ‘Sequuntur quedam legende a quibusdam aliis superaddite'. ed. Graesse, nos clxxxiii, cxcv.
H6r 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.
I1r Beda: Sermo. Incipit: ‘Beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini sacrarum . . .’
I2r [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos cxciii–cxciv, clxxxiv–clxxxv.
I4v 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 . . .’
I5r Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla indulgentiarum prefati festi' [21 Jan. 1464]. Incipit: ‘Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei . . . Ad id maxime versatur nostra intentio vt . . .’
I5v 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 . . .’
I5v ‘De eodem festo'. Incipit: ‘Que est illa puella mater et virgo semper Maria . . .’
I6v [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxvi–clxxxix (part).
K3r Anselmus [S. pseudo-: Extracts from Tractatus de conceptione Mariae virginis.] PL CLIX 301-5.
K3v ‘Ex decreto concilii Basiliensis'. Incipit: ‘[S]acrosancta generalis synodus Basiliensis in spiritu sancto legitime congregata . . .Elucidantibus gratie diuine mysteria mercedem gloriosam repromisit . . .’
K4r [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)], 16 Aug. 1490. Folio.
Collation
Collation: 1 2 a–z A–E8.6 F6 G–K8.6 L M6 N8.
Types: Types: 160 G; 99B G.
Leaves: 264 leaves, the last blank.
Line number: 46 lines, with headlines (a1r).
Type area: Type area: 210 (225) ×137 mm (a1r).
References
ISTC: ij00124000
Hain: CR 6454;
Goff: Goff J‑124;
Proctor: Pr 622;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑96; Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 48; Sack, Freiburg, 1990; Seyboldt no. 68; Sheppard 479.
LCN: 14499905
Copies
Copy number: J-053(1)
Wanting t8, also the blank leaf N8.
Leaf v1 repaired. The corner of 11, which probably bore an early note of ownership, has been torn away.
Binding: The damaged upper and lower covers of contemporary German blind-tooled leather (Augsburg, Kyriß workshop no. 81) have been relaid on nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library; rebacked. On both covers fillets form an outer frame within which is a cresting and floral roll (Kyriß pl. 165, no. 4); on the upper cover only further fillets form a middle frame within which is roll of animals, trees, fences (Kyriß pl. 165, no. 3); on both covers further fillets form an inner frame; triple fillets form an inner rectangle which is decorated with a lattice-work roll (Kyriß pl. 165, no. 5); for a similar binding see Johannes de Turrecremata, Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis. [Strasbourg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner), c.1485] (T‑291).
Size: 291 × 210 × 50 mm.
Size of leaf: 280 × 194 mm.
Early marginal annotations, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, underlining in the text in black ink, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands. A note on a8v dated 1531, one on n6r dated 1532, one on x7r dated 1533, one on L6v dated 1531, and one on N7r dated 1534. Also some nineteenth-century(?) notes in pencil.
Partial rubrication: some three- to six–line initials are supplied in red or in black ink. Some initials are supplied in pencil, presumably by the same person who wrote the occasional annotations (see above).
Provenance: Heavily cancelled inscription on 11r. Ellingen, Bavaria, Franciscans; inscription on 12r: ‘Ad bibliothecam PP. Franciscanorum Ellingæ'. Albert Cohn; catalogue 159, no. 325. Purchased from Cohn, 26 Apr. 1884, for 12 Marks; see Library Bills.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q inf. 1.9.
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