Bod-Inc: L-007
Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus
Opera (ed. Angelus Sabinus).
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Bussis, Johannes Andreas de: [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Bussi 48.
[a2v] [Table of contents.] ‘Rubrice.’
[a12v] Antonius Raudensis: [Errata Lactantii.] A list of errors in the works of Lactantius; see L‑002.
[b2v] [Montaltus] Genuensis, Adam: [Verse censuring Antonius Raudensis.] Incipit: ‘Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius ausis'; 4 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.
[b4r] Sabinus, Angelus: [Letter addressed to] Dominicus Dominici, Bishop of Brescia. Incipit: ‘[I]ndignum, reuerende domine, existimarem cum aliquod opus renouatur et in pristinam celebritatem . . .’
[b4v] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De divinis institutionibus. Edited by Angelus Sabinus. Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, ed. Brandt, CSEL 19, 1-672. Sabinus records his work as editor in the letter to the Bishop of Brescia (see above).
[x3v] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De ira dei [addressed to] Donatus. Lactantius, De ira dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 67-132.
[z4r] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De opificio dei vel de formatione hominis [addressed to] Demetrianus. Lactantius, De opificio dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 3-64.
[B4v] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De phoenice carmen. Lactantius, Opera omnia: 2/1: Carmen de ave phoenice, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 135-47.
[B7r] Ovidius [Naso, Publius]: Metamorphoses [extract]. Ov. Met. 15. 391-402.
[B7r] Dante [Alighieri: La commedia: Inferno xxv, lines 106-11]. Incipit: ‘[C]ossi per li gram(!) saui se confessa | Chella phenice muore e poi renasce'; 6 lines of verse. Dante, La commedia. 2. Inferno, ed. Petrocchi, 411-12.
[B7r] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius Firmianus] Firmianus [pseudo-; Fortunatus, Venantius]: ‘De resurrectionis dominice die.’ [Also known as De resurrectione Christi and Carmen de pascha; addressed to Bishop Felix.] ‘[S]alue festa dies toto uenerabilis euo | Qua deus infernum uicit et astra tenet'; 50 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Ulrich Han and Simon Nicolai Chardella de Lucca, 12 Feb. 1474. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a12 b16 c–l10 m n12 o–z10 A8 B10].
References
ISTC: il00006000
Hain: HC 9811;
Goff: Goff L‑6;
BMC: BMC IV 24;
Proctor: Pr 3360;
Others: CIBN L‑6; Sheppard 2675-6.
LCN: 14450234
Copies
Copy number: L-007(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf with gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 336 × 240 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 327 × 218 mm.
A marginal note on [b1r] in a seventeenth-century(?) hand; occasional pointing hands. Author and title in manuscript on the fore-edge.
Two- to six-line initials are supplied in red, blue, or interlocked red and blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Purchased for £5. 5. 0 from Harding and Lepard catalogue (1830), no. 2259; note on the recto of the front endleaf ‘purchased 1829'; see Library Bills (1829-30), no. 19; see Books Purchased (1829), 13.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.14.
Copy number: L-007(2)
Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [B10].
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) parchment.
Size: 335 × 234 × 67 mm.
Size of leaf: 323 × 222 mm.
Occasional early marginal annotations. Manuscript foliation in pencil: 1-257.
On [b5r] a five-line Italian (Florentine?) initial ‘M' is supplied in blue, green, and pink, decorated with green, pink, and cream within the body of the letter, on a gold ground edged with black, and with foliate and floral extensions into the margin in pink, green, blue, and with gold dots and black pen-work; see Pächt and Alexander II, 108 no. pr. 43. Other two- to six-line epigraphic initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; running book numbers, and occasional running titles, supplied in red.
Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 91; see catalogue (1831); sale, see catalogue (1839), lot 221. Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased from Anatole Claudin, catalogue (1895), no. 42486; slip from catalogue attached to the recto of the front endleaf; Elenchus, no. 1887. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. D 4.12.
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