Bod-Inc: J-161
Johannes Gallensis
Summa collationum, sive Communiloquium.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.] ‘Summa Ioannis Valensis de regimine uite humane seu Margarita doctorum ad omne propositum prout patet in tabula'.
A1v [Pincius], Guilelmus Astensis: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Arrivabenus. Incipit: ‘[H]aud iniuria mi pater reuerende ab Atheniensibus nonnumquam irrisos fuisse Lacedemonios arbitror . . .’ On the edition see C. Cenci, ‘Fr. Pietro Arrivabene da Canneto e la sua attività letteraria', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 62 (1969), 115-95, at 126-8.
A3r [Table of contents, in alphabetical order.] Incipit: ‘Tabula per ordinem alphabeti . . . Abstinentia antiquorum principium mirabilis . . .’
H2r [Table of contents.]
a1r Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: Summa collationum, sive Communiloquium. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[C]um doctor siue predicator euangelicus sapientibus et insipientibus debitor sit . . .’
a4r Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: Summa collationum, sive Communiloquium. ‘Prima distinctio . . .’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam respublica vt dictum est est vniuersale quoddam corpus compaginatum ex membris . . .’ See J‑159.
x7r Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: ‘Prologus in Compendiloquium de vitis illustrium philosophorum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um enim debeamus apes imitari . . . Prima pars est de philosophia in generali . . .’
y2r Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: Compendiloquium de vitis illustrium philosophorum. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[C]um ex vita gentilium . . .’
y3v Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: Compendiloquium de vitis illustrium philosophorum. ‘Pars prima . . .Capitulum primum . . .’ Incipit: ‘[C]irca primum notandum quod diuersimode describitur philosophia . . .’ See Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 958; Glorieux, Répertoire, 322c.
2D1r [Table of contents.]
2D1r Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: Breviloquium de sapientia sanctorum. Incipit: ‘ “[C]um vani sint omnes homines in quibus non est sapientia dei” [Sap 13,1] licet in priori tractatulo fuerunt aliqua collecta de vita philosophorum gentilium . . . See Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 958; Bloomfield 1260; treated by Glorieux as one entry, with 322b, see below.
2D7v Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: Breviloquium de iv virtutibus cardinalibus. ‘Incipit Breviloquium de virtutibus antiquorum principum et philosophorum . . .’ Incipit: ‘ “[Q]uoniam misericordia et veritas custodiunt regem” Prouer. xx. [Prv 20,28.] Imo quattuor virtutes Cardinales scilicet Prudentia . . . [Q]uoniam autem iustitia est virtutum preclarissima . . .’ See Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 958; Glorieux, Répertoire, 322b; Bloomfield 4971.
2G4r Johannes Valensis [Gallensis]: Ordinarium vitae religiosae. Incipit: ‘ “[N]unquid nosti ordinem celi et rationem eius pones in terra” Iob .xxxviij. [Iob 38,33.] Sicut angelica hierarchia . . .’ See Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 958; Glorieux, Répertoire, 322e.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 30 July 1496. 8°.
Collation
Collation: A–H a–z [et] [con] [rum] 2A–L8 M10.
References
ISTC: ij00333000
Hain: H *7446; C 3370;
Goff: Goff J‑333;
BMC: BMC V 386;
Proctor: Pr 4930;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑580; CIBN J‑224; Hillard 1140; Oates 1934; Sack, Freiburg, 2087; Scholderer, ‘Early Editions of Johannes Vallensis', 76-9; Sheppard 4031-2.
LCN: 14487266
Copies
Copy number: J-161(1)
Binding: Early sixteenth-century English calf over wooden boards. Panels: Mass of St Gregory on the upper cover, St Barbara on the lower cover; see Weale 87, 88; Goldschmidt no. 81, 82, pl. xxxv; Oldham, Blind Panels, pl. xlvii ST. 16, pl. xlii ST. 1. Remains of two clasps on the upper cover. Manuscript title across the fore-edge. Strips from a fourteenth-century English manuscript visible in the binding.
Size: 164 × 113 × 53 mm.
Size of leaf: 154 × 103 mm.
Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in Robert Jones's hand. On2 C8r the addition of excommunication procedures, in Robert Jones's hand: ‘Modus fulminandi sentenciam maioris excommunicationis contra omnes malefactores. Imprimis prelatus alba indutus, et ceteris sacerdotibus in ecclesia existentibus (cruce erecta et candelis accensis) stans in pulpito pronuncient verba quae sequuntur. Ex Authoritate dei patris omnipotentis et beate Mariae virginis, et omnium sanctorum, Excommunicamus et diabolo commendamus omnes supradictos malefactores, Excommunicati sint Anathematizati, Et diabolo commendati. Maledicti sint in villis, in campis, in viis, in semitis, in domibus, extra domos, et in omnibus aliis locis stando, sedendo, iacendo, surgendo, ambulando, currendo, vigilando, dormiendo, comedendo, bibendo, et aliud opus faciendo, et illos a luminibus et omnibus bonis ecclesiae sequestramus et diabolo damnamus et in penis inferni animas eorum extinguimus sicut extinguitur ista candela (nisi recipiscant, et ad satisfactionem veniant.) Finita sentencia extinguatur lumen, pulsatis campanis ad terrorem omnium malefactorum . . .' On the rear pastedown the same hand has added Is 28,13-15. Another English hand, late sixteenth-century, has added a list of names or things on both sides of the biblical quotation.
Provenance: Robert Jones (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r and a3v: ‘Roberti Jones et amicorum eius liber'. John Hawley (fl. 1593-1626). Donated by Hawley; see Benefactors' Register I 30: ‘Donum Io. Havvley Princip. Aulæ Gloucestr . . . Jo. Vallensis de regimine vitæ. 8. Ven. 1496.'; James, Catalogus (1605), 154: 8° V 5 [Th]; Jensen, ‘Benefactors' Register', no. 58.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: 8° V 5 [Th.].
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.20.
Copy number: J-161(2)
Binding: Nineteenth(?)-century half black morocco over marbled pasteboards, with marbled pastedowns and green silk book-mark.
Size: 149 × 100 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 142 × 94 mm.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 1811. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. O 8.8.
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