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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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