Bod-Inc: N-001
Natalibus, Petrus de
Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum (ed. Antonius Verlus).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1r Verlus, Antonius: ‘Endecasyllabon' [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Quam tot haeroum legeres olympi | Gesta, millenis reserata chartis'; 36 lines of verse.
a1v Verlus, Antonius: [Letter addressed to] all Christian people. Incipit: ‘Antonius Verlus Vicentinus . . . Possemus, et merito quidem . . .’ Explicit: fruituri. Valete
a2r Natalibus, Petrus de: Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum. Edited by Antonius Verlus. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[I]ncreata sapientia summi uerbi . . .’
a3r Natalibus, Petrus de: Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum. ‘Diuisio totius operis'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem tam sacre pagine . . .’
a5r [List of contents, first book.]
a6r Natalibus, Petrus de: Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum. ‘Prologus libri primi'. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus ergo liber huins(!) catalogi . . .’ Each of the twelve books is preceded by a list of contents, except for book 12, which contains the general list of contents, and by a prologue. See P. Chiesa, ‘Recuperi agiografici veneziani dai codici Milano, Braidense, Gerli ms. 26 e Firenze, Nazionale, Conv. Sppr. G.5.1212', Hagiographica, 5 (1998), 219-71, at 220 n. 2.
a6r Natalibus, Petrus de: Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum. ‘De aduentu domini in carnem. Cap. I.’ Incipit: ‘[A]duentus domini generalis duplex ab ecclesia colitur . . .’
R8v [Colophon.]
R8v ‘Registrum'.
S1r [List of additional lives.]
S1r Natalibus, Petrus de: Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum. [Additional lives.] Incipit: ‘Berardus, Petrus Accursius, Adiutus et Otho confessores . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Vicenza: Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus, 12 Dec. 1493. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a6 b–u8 x6 y z [et] [con]8 [rum]6 A B8 C–O6.8 P8 Q R8 S6.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: in00006000
Hain: HC *11676;
Goff: Goff N‑6;
BMC: BMC VII 1047;
Proctor: Pr 7173;
Others: BSB‑Ink N‑4; CIBN N‑4; Oates 2685; Sheppard 5936.
LCN: 14514289
Copies
Copy number: N-001(1)
Wanting the blank leaf S6.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian Library. Scars of index tabs.
Size: 346 × 245 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 338 × 212 mm.
A few marginal notes, correcting the text, in a contemporary hand in brown or red ink. In the list of contents of each book some of the feasts are underlined in red ink.
Provenance: Wessobrunn, Bavaria, Carmelites (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘In Vsum Carm. Wessobrunensium'. Wessobrunn, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Petrus [et Paulus]; book-plate; see Warnecke no. 2451. Possibly a duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q inf. 2.13.
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