Bod-Inc: J-119
Johannes Carthusiensis
Nosce te.
Analysis of Content
A1r Jodocus Gallus: ‘Tetrastichon . . . in opusculum nosce te'. Incipit: ‘Vertitur hoc libro sanctorum dogmate sacro | Precipuum graijs inter responsa chilonis'; 4 hexameters.
A2r Rota, Philippus; Gusmacus, Johannes; Frigerius, Petrus; Maffeus, Girardus: [Theological approval dated 1 Feb. 1480.] Incipit: ‘Ego Philippus Rota iuris vtriusque doctor . . .’
A2r Brunus, Gabriel: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Carthusiensis. Incipit: ‘Gabriel Brunus Venetus . . . Tris libros quos de sui notitia percopiose edidisti . . .’ Dated 1480.
A2v Johannes Carthusiensis: ‘Ad intentionem scriptoris intelligendam.’ Incipit: ‘[U]niuersis ac singulis fidelibus catholicis atque sancte matris ecclesie . . . [N]e putes obsecro mi lector me ad hoc que in opusculo reperies . . .’
A3r Johannes Carthusiensis: Nosce te. ‘Oratio ad infrascriptos'. Incipit: ‘Opus Nosce te interpretatum ad suos diuersis degentes religionibus dilectos filios. [C]um nihil iucundius, nihil felicius . . .’
A6r Johannes Carthusiensis: Nosce te. ‘Exordium'. Incipit: ‘[N]e ea dilectissimi fratres que de manibus exierunt domini fragmenta . . .’
A6v [Table of contents, first book.]
A7r Johannes Carthusiensis: Nosce te. Incipit: ‘[P]anes vero ordeacei, qui quidam ordei naturali tenacitate nimiam duritiam solidantur . . .’ See Dom Stanislas, Scriptores sacri ordinis Cartusiensis, V, Analecta Cartusiana, 120, 55-62, at 56 no. 1; Gruys 112; DSAM VIII 329-31, at 329.
H4v Johannes Carthusiensis: Corona senum. Incipit: ‘[C]um mens humana veluti rota velocissima . . . [D]iuinarum humanarumque rerum profecto . . .’
K2r Johannes Carthusiensis: De immensa charitate Dei. [Dedicated to] the Carthusians of St Jerome and St Bernard, near Padua. Incipit: ‘[S]icut pridie de interiori humilitate et patientia locutus sum . . .’
K6v Johannes Carthusiensis: De humilitate interiori et patientia vera. [Dedicated to] the Carthusians of St Jerome and St Bernard, near Padua. Incipit: ‘[F]ratres in Christo charissimi secundum deum et ordinem sed secundum intimam cordis mei charitatem . . .’
L4r Johannes Carthusiensis: Flos vitae. ‘Libellus in preparatione infirmorum et in dispositione morientium qui flos vite interpretatur.’ Incipit: ‘[M]ore bonorum parentum qui tam etsi facultate tenui sint ac pauperes . . .’
O7v [Colophon, with editorial note.] Incipit: ‘Accipe nunc tandem, studiosissime lector, hoc maxime deuotionis vtilitatisque opusculum . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, after 6 July 1489]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–B8 C–D6 E–M8.6 N–O8.
References
ISTC: ij00275000
Hain: HC *9389;
Goff: Goff J‑275;
BMC: BMC III 670;
Proctor: Pr 3131;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑339; CIBN J‑176; Hillard 1134; Sack, Freiburg, 2058; Sheppard 2194.
LCN: 14496981
Copies
Copy number: J-119(1)
Wanting the blank leaf O8.
Binding: Paper boards. Apparently formerly bound with Hugo de S. Caro, Expositio missae and other tracts; see inscription on A1r: ‘Exposicio misse hugonis cardinalis Tractatus de martyrio sactorum [ ]le opusculum sancti vincencij de fine mundi'.
Size: 220 × 156 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 214 × 150 mm.
Gathering numbers, in red, partly visible. ‘132' in pencil on the front endleaf.
Initials are supplied in red; capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Vienna, Augustinian Canons Regular, S. Dorothea; inscription on A1r: ‘Iste libellus est monasterij sancte dorothee virginis vienne' and O7v: ‘Iste liber est monasterii sancte dorothee in vienna'. Purchased in 1895; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 12 May 1896, 466.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. G37.1489.2.
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