Bod-Inc: M-173
Meffret
Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae.
Analysis of Content
Part I.
a1r [Title-page, sermones de tempore, pars hyemalis.]
a2r Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Pars hyemalis.] ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘ “[L]abora sicut bonus miles Christi Iesu”. Ita scribitur ii. Thi. ii [II Tim 2,3.] In quo quidem verbo beatus apostolus . . .’ See Schneyer, ‘Winke', 239 no. 39; VL VI 297-300.
a2v Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Pars hyemalis.] ‘Sermo primus'. Incipit: ‘ “[H]ora est iam nos de somno surgere” [Rm 13,11.] C. Consuetudo est quando rex terrenus . . .’
y10v ‘Tabula alphabetica'.
Part II.
aa1r [Title-page, sermones de tempore, pars aestivalis.]
aa2r Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘ “[E]xpurgate vetus fermentum” . . . [I Cor 5,7.] A. Solinus liber VII de mirabilibus mundi . . .’
Gg1r ‘Tabula alphabetica'.
Part III.
A1r [Title-page, sermones de sanctis.]
A2r Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Sermones de sanctis.] ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘ “[L]audate dominum in sanctis eius”. Ita scribitur psalmo .cl. [Ps 150,1.] Est enim commune prouerbium . . .’
A2v Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Sermones de sanctis.] ‘De sancto Andrea. Sermo primus'. Incipit: ‘ “[A]mbulans Iesus iuxta mare Galilee” [Mt 4,18.] A. In proprietatibus rerum . . .’
V5r [Colophon.]
V5v [Verse.] ‘De sancto Sebaldo'. Incipit: ‘[R]egie stirpis soboles Sebalde | Norica multum veneratus vrbe | Da tuam nobis memorare sanctam | Carmine vitam'; 28 strophes(?).
V6r ‘Tabula alphabetica'.
V9v [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Mellifluos fructus frondosis lector in hortis. | Inuenies nardum balsama cumque croco'; 9 elegiac distichs.
V9v ‘Tabula de festiuitatibus'.
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 24 Aug. 1496. Folio.
Collation
Collation: Part I: a–x8 y z10; part II: aa–zz Aa–Ee8 Ff10 Gg Hh8; part III: A–T8 V10.
References
ISTC: im00445000
Hain: H *11007;
Goff: Goff M‑445;
BMC: BMC II 442;
Proctor: Pr 2110;
Others: CIBN M‑277; Sheppard 1540.
LCN: 14455218
Copies
Copy number: M-173(1)
Wanting the blank leaf V10. Part II bound before part I.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the spine gold-tooled; bound for the Bodleian Library; parchment index tabs; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 319 × 222 × 90 mm.
Size of leaf: 312 × 198 mm.
On a1v a full-page addition in a German contemporary hand: ‘Iustus iudex proprium nepotem occidit Et christi corpus a deo recepit. Erkenbaldus de burdon [Burban] vir nobilis erat et potens tantus amator iusticie . . . episcopus pauens vero tantum miraculum ubique diuulgauit finis est. Elemosinas largas tribuens Tiberius secundus Imperator thesaurus imbei[ ]it. Legitur etiam in Cronicis imperatorum quod Tiberius secundus christianissimus imperator . . . expectans in futuro'. In the same hand on A1v: ‘Orationem impedire volens demon pluribus annis seruiuit(?) ut nola ponetur super capellam. Demon quidam adolescente . . .' Occasional marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, and initials supplied in brown ink in the same hand. Occasional marginal notes, extracting key words, in a sixteenth-century humanist hand in brown and red ink.
Initial and capital strokes supplied in red on aa2r only.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 18.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 2.4.
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