Bod-Inc: M-208
Methodius, S.
Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Aytinger, Wolfgangus: [Preface.] Incipit: ‘ “[H]omo cum in honore esset” . . . [Ps 48] . . . Omne lignum paradisi non est assimulatum . . .’
a2v Methodius, S. [pseudo-]: Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae. Incipit: ‘[S]ciendum namque est quod exeuntes Adam et Eua de paradiso virgines fuisse . . .’ Explicit: in infernum ex quo eripiamur..et imperium nunc et in sempiternum . . .Amen On the text of Pseudo-Methodius see Michael Kmosko, ‘Das Rätsel des Pseudomethodius', Byzantion, 6 (1931), 273-96. M. Laureys and D. Verhelst, ‘Pseudo-Methodius, Revelationes: Textgeschichte und kritische Edition. Ein Leuven-Groninger Forschungsprojekt', in The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages, ed. W. Verbeke and others, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. Series I, Studia, 15 (Louvain, 1988), 112-36: recensio 1.
d1r Aytinger, Wolfgangus: Tractatus super Methodium. Incipit: ‘ “[H]ierusalem calcabitur a gentibus” . . . [Lc 21,24] . . . Tunc enim omnis plenitudo gentium intrauerit omnis Israhel saluus erit. Beatus Methodius vero dicit . . .’ Explicit: verus amator pacis. Amen.
h3v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Cunctipotenti qui orbem verbo creauit | Instar architephi sophiaque stabiliuit'; 4 lines of verse.
Imprint
Imprint: [Augsburg]: Johann Froschauer, 1 Sept. 1496. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–g6 h4.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: im00522000
Hain: HC *11120;
Goff: Goff M‑522;
BMC: BMC II 395;
Proctor: Pr 1821;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑351; CIBN M‑330; Hillard 1376; Sack, Freiburg, 2441-2; Sheppard 1359.
LCN: 14454436
Copies
Copy number: M-208(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco with dark blue cloth over pasteboards; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 206 × 145 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 137 mm.
Marginal notes, mainly extracting names of saints and authors, in red ink in a humanist hand.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘3447' in pencil in the upper margin of a1r. Purchased from Caspar Haugg, Catalogue 82,no. 364 for 10 Marks; see Library Bills (1886), no. 80.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 7.39.
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