Bod-Inc: J-059
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
<1-4>1r [Title-page.] ‘Lombardica historia que a plerisque Aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur.’
<1-4>2r ‘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 . . .’
<1-4>2r ‘Tabula legendarum'. [Running heading] [Subject index.] Incipit: ‘[A]bscondita diuinitus manifestantur. Legenda octuagesimasecunda capitulo B. In principio . . .’
<ii-33>4v ‘Prologus'. ed. Graesse, 1-2.
<ii-33>5r ‘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.
I8v ‘Sequuntur quedam legende a quibusdam aliis superaddite'. ed. Graesse, nos clxxxiii, cxcv.
K1r 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.
K2r Beda: Sermo. Incipit: ‘Beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini sacrarum . . .’
K3r [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos cxciii–cxciv, clxxxiv–clxxxv.
L2r 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 . . .’
L2v Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla indulgentiarum prefati festi' [21 Jan. 1464]. Incipit: ‘Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei . . . Ad id maxime versatur nostra intentio vt . . .’
L3r 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 . . .’
L3r ‘De eodem festo'. Incipit: ‘Que est illa puella mater et virgo semper Maria . . .’
L4r [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxvi–clxxxix (part).
M1r Anselmus [S. pseudo-: Extracts from Tractatus de conceptione Mariae virginis.] PL CLIX 301-5.
M1v ‘Ex decreto concilii Basiliensis'. Incipit: ‘[S]acrosancta generalis synodus Basiliensis in spiritu sancto legitime congregata . . .Elucidantibus gratie diuine mysteria mercedem gloriosam repromisit . . .’
M2r [Additional legends.] ed. Graesse, nos clxxxix (part)–cxc, lii, lxiv, lxxi, cxcvi-ccxviii.
Imprint
Imprint: [Hagenau: Heinrich Gran], 1497. 4°.
Remarks: Polain and Pr assign to [Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger].
Collation
Collation:
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Types: Types: 170 G, 83 G, 63 G.
References
ISTC: ij00135000
Hain: R 1423;
Goff: Goff J‑135;
Proctor: Pr 484;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑103; Oates 1326.5; Polain 2211; Sack, Freiburg, 1995; Seyboldt no. 94; Sheppard 393.
LCN: 14496700
Copies
Copy number: J-059(1)
Binding: English blind-tooled calf, c.1800, bound for Gough. Both covers are decorated with an ornamental roll (the same as that on J‑033 (Gough Missals 195)). Parchment index tab attached to <ii-33>4; scars of other index tabs, now lost.
Size: 215 × 148 × 42 mm.
Size of leaf: 203 × 136 mm.
Some marginal annotations, including comments on the text, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands.
Principal three- to six–line initials at the beginning of each legend are supplied in blue within a red pen-work frame, with red pen-work decoration within the bodies of the letters, and extensions into the margins; other three- to six–line initials supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining supplied in red.
Provenance: Richard Gough (1735-1809); purchased by him in Oxford, 1 July 1793; inscription in his hand on <1-4>1r: ‘Oxon. Jul. 1 1793'; shelfmark. Bequeathed in 1809.
SHELFMARK: Gough Missals 131.
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