Bod-Inc: M-229
Mirabilia Romae
(Mirabilia Romae vel potius) Historia et descriptio urbis Romae, et al.
Analysis of Content
[A2r] [Summary of contents.] Incipit: ‘[I]n isto opusculo dicitur quomodo Romulus et Remus nati sunt . . .’ Explicit: per circulum anni, etc.
[A3r] [(Mirabilia Romae vel potius) Historia et descriptio urbis Romae.] Incipit: ‘[R]oma ciuitas sancta caput mundi anno post euersionis Troiane . . .’ Explicit: Constantinopolim See M‑228.
C1r [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.
C2r ‘Collecta'. Incipit: ‘Deus qui nobis lumen vultus tui memoriale . . .’ Explicit: mereamur in celis . . .
C2r Indulgentiae septem ecclesiarum principalium urbis Romae. Incipit: ‘Sanctus Siluester papa scribit in cronica sua quod Roma fuerunt . . .’ Explicit: remissio omnium peccatorum
D6v [Indulgences of other churches.] Incipit: ‘[A]d sanctam Mariam Transtyberim hic locus vbi nunc illa venerabilis . . .’ Explicit: monasterio persistentium
G6r ‘Stationes'. Incipit: ‘In die cinerum feria iiii ad sanctam Sabinam . . .’ The stationes are listed according to the liturgical year.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Stephan Plannck, 6 Nov. 1497. 8°.
Collation
Collation: [A] B–G8.
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: im00602000
Hain: HC *11199;
Goff: Goff M‑602;
BMC: BMC IV 99;
Proctor: Pr 3722;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑150; Miedema 190, no. *l 69; Mirabilia Romae. Rome: Stephan Planck, 20 November, 1489 [facsimile edition], with introduction by Christian Hülsen (Berlin, 1925), 26, (8); Pollak, Le guide di Roma, 188, no. 12; Rossetti, Rome: I: The Guide Books, 10 no. G‑100; Sander 4550; Sheppard 2980.
LCN: 14027886
Copies
Copy number: M-229(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [A1] and [A8].
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) calf; gold-tooled spine, marbled pastedowns.
Size: 140 × 102 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 133 × 93 mm.
Bibliographical notes by Douce on the recto of the front endleaf.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 13.
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