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Bod-Inc: M-228

Mirabilia Romae

(Mirabilia Romae vel potius) Historia et descriptio urbis Romae, et al.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Summary of contents.] Incipit: ‘[I]n isto opusculo dicitur quomodo Romulus et Remus nati sunt . . .’ Explicit: per circulum anni, etc.

a2r [(Mirabilia Romae vel potius) Historia et descriptio urbis Romae.] Incipit: ‘[R]oma ciuitas sancta caput mundi anno post euersionis Troiane . . .’ Explicit: Constantinopolim See Honemann, ‘Mirabilia Romae', 604-5.

b8r [Aegidius Romanus pseudo-]: Oratio de S. Veronica. Incipit: ‘Salue sancta facies nostri redemptoris | In qua nitet species diuini splendoris'; 50 lines of verse. See Walther, Initia, 17153.

c1r ‘Collecta'. Incipit: ‘Deus qui nobis lumen vultus tui memoriale . . .’ Explicit: mereamur in celis . . .

c1v Indulgentiae septem ecclesiarum principalium urbis Romae. Incipit: ‘Sanctus Siluester papa scribit in cronica sua quod Roma fuerunt . . .’ Explicit: que uocatur Hierusalem See Honemann, ‘Mirabilia Romae', 603-4.

d1r [Indulgences of other churches.] ‘Sequuntur alie ecclesie urbis Rome'. Incipit: ‘[A]d sanctam Mariam Transtyberim hic locus ubi nunc illa venerabilis . . .’ Explicit: monasterio persistentium

g1v ‘Stationes'. Incipit: ‘In die cinerum feria iiii ad sanctam Sabinam . . .’ The stationes are listed according to the liturgical year.

g4r ‘Sequuntur uersus stationum quadragesime designantes'. Incipit: ‘Inclita Roma tibi ueniarum sancta tuarum | Talis erit statio contritis et ore confessis'; 17 hexameters.

Imprint

Imprint: Rome: [Andreas Freitag], 11 July 1492. 8°.

Collation

Collation: a–f8 g4.

Illustrations: Woodcuts: see Sander.

References

ISTC: im00598000

Hain: C 4053;

Goff: Goff M‑598;

BMC: BMC IV 134;

Proctor: Pr 3850;

Others: Miedema 186-7, no. l 50; Pollak, Le guide di Roma, 186, no. 6; Rossetti, Rome: I: The Guide Books, 7 no. G‑066; Sander 4570; Sheppard 3151. Microfiche: Unit 6: Image of the World, Travellers' Tales.

LCN: 14027808

Copies

Copy number: M-228(1)

Bound with M‑223; see there for details of binding and provenance.

Size of leaf: 129 × 90 mm.

Mutilated. Leaf g4 backed.

SHELFMARK: 8° R 23(2) Art. Seld.


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