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Bod-Inc: J-060

Jacobus de Voragine

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia. With texts relating to Marian feasts as J‑041, but wanting all from ‘De eodem festo' and with Usuardus and related texts; legends as J‑043.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page.] 'Lombardica historia que a plerisque Aurea legenda sanctorum appellatur. Item Martyrologium Usuardi monachi ad Karolum magnum'.

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 ‘Tabula legendarum'. [running heading] [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'.

b6v [List of the legends of the Martyrology.] Incipit: ‘Nota quod additiones hic posite non habentur in loco . . .’

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.

N2r ‘Sequuntur quedam legende a quibusdam aliis superaddite'. ed. Graesse, nos clxxxiii, cxcv.

N2v 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.

N3v Beda: Sermo. Incipit: ‘Beata dei genitrix virgo semper Maria templum domini sacrarium . . .’

N4r 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 . . .’

N5r Paulus II, Pont. Max.: ‘Bulla indulgentiarum prefati festi' [21 Jan. 1464].’ Incipit: ‘Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum dei . . . Ad id maxime versatur nostra intentio vt . . .’

N5r Adolphus, Archiepiscopus Mogonciacensis: ‘Institutio huius festi' [30 Aug. 1468].’ Incipit: ‘Adolphus dei gratia sancte Maguntine sedis archiepiscopus . . . rei memoriam. Ex specialis deuotionis affectu quam ad inclytam propugnatricem . . .’

N5v ‘De eodem festo'. Incipit: ‘Que est illa puella mater et virgo semper Maria . . .’

2a1r [Title-page for ‘Martyrologium'.]

2a2r ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[N]otandum quod licet multi dederint operam ad compilandum martyrologium . . .’ aliis et tenendum’

2a2r Chromatius [pseudo-]; Heliodorus [pseudo-]: ‘Epistola' [addressed to] Hieronymus. PL XXX 435-6; É. Amann, Le Protévangile de Jacques et ses remaniements latins (Paris, 1910), 272-7; CPL 633, epist. 48-9.

2a2r Hieronymus: ‘Responsio' [addressed to] Chromatius and Heliodorus. PL XXX 435-6.

2a2v Beda [pseudo-]; Augustinus [pseudo-]: ‘Prefatio'.’ Usuard, Le Martyrologe. Texte et commentaire, ed. J. Dubois, Subsidia Hagiographica, 40 (Brussels, 1965), 146; see also E. A. Overgaauw, Martyrologes manuscrits des anciens diocèces d'Utrecht et de Liège: étude sur le développement et la diffusion du Martyrologe d'Usuard (Hilversum, 1993).

2a2v Usuardus: ‘Epistola seu prefatio' [addressed to] Carolus, King of Francia [Charles the Bald]. Usuard, Le Martyrologe, 144; see also VL X 141-4. Recension A.

2a3r Usuardus: Martyrologium. Usuard, Le Martyrologe, 152-364, 147-51, with variations and additions. Year from 1 Jan. to 31 Dec.

2h7v Augustinus: ‘Sermo . . . de offerendis obligationibus'.’ Contra Faustum, book 20 ch. 21; PL CXXIII 179-80; PL XLII 384-5; CSEL, 25, 652-4; CPL 321.

Imprint

Imprint: Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 22 July 1490. Folio.

Remarks: The date in the colophon reads ‘in vigilia sanctissimorum trium Regum', interpreted by Albert Labarre, ‘Particularités d'un incunable de Cologne', Gb Jb (1975), 77-80 as 22 July, but previously as 5 Jan. (see CIBN).

Collation

Collation: a8 b6 c–e8 f6 g h8 i6 i8 k l6 m–z A–F8.6 G6 H–N8.6 a–h6.8.

References

ISTC: ij00123000

Hain: C 6453 (Voragine only); HCR 16111 (Usuardus only);

Goff: Goff J‑123;

BMC: BMC I 229;

Proctor: Pr 1079;

Others: CIBN J‑96; Oates 553 (Usuardus only); Pellechet, ‘Voragine', no. 47 (Voragine only); Rhodes 985; Seyboldt no. 67; Sheppard 819; Voulliéme, Köln, 625.

LCN: 14499858

Copies

Copy number: J-060(1)

Formerly bound with MS. Tanner 17 (South English Legendary); Sheppard notes a reference to Fysher, but this has not been found.

Binding: Nineteenth-century English blind-tooled calf with marbled pastedowns; bound for the Bodleian Library.

Size: 283 × 208 × 62 mm.

Size of leaf: 270 × 185 mm.

Manuscript foliation: 223-849. Notes in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand on2 h8v: ‘Ars sua quemque iuuat fract[ ]s fabril[ ]', and ‘Ante falas falerata falanx fregere falangas', and ‘Denique quisquis erat castris iugulatus achiuis | Frigidinis glacie pectus amantis erat | Sed bene consuluit casto deus equus amore | Versa est in cineres sospite Troia viro'. Early marginal annotations and underlining in the text, including annotations and pen-trials on a1r and2 h8v.

Provenance: Richard Chambers (sixteenth century); signature on a1r. Richard Lathe (1568-?1614); inscription on a1r: ‘Richardus Lathe: pretium iii s'. William Yonger (1605-1661); signature on a1r. (MS. Tanner 17): William Herne (fl. 1730). Thomas Tanner (1674-1735); signature on a1r; MS Tanner 17 given by Herne to Tanner on 20 Jan. 1730, according to an inscription in the manuscript. Bequeathed in 1736.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: MS. Tanner 17.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 3.35.


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