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Regulae
Regulae monasticorum: Regulae SS. Benedicti, Basilii, Augustini, Francisci (ed. Johannes Franciscus Brixianus) [Latin and Greek].
Analysis of Content
a2r [Title-page.]
a2v [Johannes Franciscus Brixianus: Editorial note on the order of the contents, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Ne quem forte subsequentium opusculorum positionis ordo permoueat . . .’ Johannes Franciscus Brixianus is named in the colophon as editor of the whole book. See also B. Collett, Italian Benedictine Scholars and the Reformation (Oxford, 1985), 66.
a3r Gregorius [I, Pont. Max.: Prologue to Dialogi, Book II]. ‘Dialogi de uita et miraculis beati patris Benedicti'.’ Dialogues, ed. Adalbert de Vogüé, Sources Chrétiennes, 260 (Paris, 1978) 126-8.
a3r Gregorius [I, Pont. Max: Dialogi, Book II]. ed. A. de Vogüé, 128-248.
a11v Benedictus, S. [pseudo-: Letter addressed to Bishop Remigius.] PL LXVI 935. Benedictus' authorship is doubted in CPL 1070.
a12r [List of total numbers of Benedictines classed by offices, made at the behest of Johannes XXII, and details about the life of St Benedict.] Incipit: ‘Johannes Papa xxii fecit extrahi canonizatos . . .’
a12v Giunta, Luca Antonius: [Letter addressed] to Johannes Cornelius, Abbot of the congregations of S. Georgius Maior, Venice, and of Sta Justina, Padua. Incipit: ‘[D]ignum sane opportunumque negotium, patres optimi, ut qui sitis cum uestra religione . . .’ Dated Venice, 13 Apr. 1500.
b1r Antoninus, Archiepiscopus Florentinus: [Note on the black garb of monks of the Benedictine order, an extract from] Chronicon, ‘Pars II, 15, 23.2'. Incipit: ‘[M]onachi nigri cuiusmodi creduntur Cluniacenses, quum essent incrassati . . .’
b2r [Villalonga], Arsenius, Abbas: [Letter addressed] to Cardinal Johannes [de Turrecremata]. Incipit: ‘[R]euerendissimo in Christo patri et domino, domino Johanni Cardinali sancti Sexti . . .’ Dated Florence, 21 Mar. [1442]. See DHGE IV 757. On Arsenius and his dealings with Johannes de Turrecremata see P. C. Gremper, ‘Des Kardinals Johann von Turrecremata Kommentar zur Regel des heiligen Benedikt', Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktiner-Ordens und seiner Zweige, 17 (1927), 223-83, at 241-5, 262-3, 268-72.
b2r [Turrecremata, Johannes de: Letter addressed to] Arsenius, Abbas. ‘Responsiua . . . per modum prologi.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ccepi litteras tuas, dilectissime frater, Domine Arseni, quibus me hortatus es . . .’ See Gremper 223-83, at 272ff.
b2r [Turrecremata, Johannes de]: ‘De commendatione Regulae Sancti Benedicti'.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam adiuuante domino nostro Iesu Christo expositioni regulae beatissimi ac clarissimi patris Benedicti . . .’
b3r [Turrecremata, Johannes de]: ‘De commendatione sancti uiri et doctrinae eius'.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ost praelatum hoc, Dominus Cardinal, de beatissimi patris Benedicti ac regulae eiusdem commendatione . . .’
b4v [Johannes Franciscus Brixianus: Prefatory note on the Regula.] Incipit: ‘[S]ed quid ego iam beatissimi huius et doctrinae ipsius . . .’
b5r [Benedictus, S.: Prologue to the Regula.] ed. Rudolph Hanslik, CSEL, 75 (Vienna, 1960), 1-4. See B‑145.
b5r [Turrecremata,] Johannes [de]: ‘Explanatio in Regulam. Tractatus primus in quo assumit prologum'.’ Incipit: ‘ “[A]usculta o fili praecepta etc.” Praemittit Regulae suae sanctus pater Benedictus . . .’ I. de Turre Cremata, Regula Sancti Benedicti cum commentario (Cologne, 1575). Composed in 1442; see Kaeppeli III, p. 34.
c2v Benedictus, S.: Regula. ed. Hanslik, 17-165; ed. A. de Vogüé, Sources Chrétiennes 181-2 (Paris, 1971-2), I 412–II 672; see J. D. Broekaert, Bibliographie de la Règle de saint Benoît. Editions latines et traductions imprimées de 1489 à 1929, 2 vols, Studia Anselmiana 77-78 (Rome, 1980) I no. 16-17.
c2v [Turrecremata, Johannes de]: ‘Expositio in eandem regulam'.’ Incipit: ‘ “Monachorum quattuor esse genera manifestum est etc” [Benedictus, Regula] Completo prologo sequitur tractatus . . .’
v9v ‘Forma profitendi'. Incipit: ‘Quoniam nouitius profiteri debet pater monasterii preparet se missam celebraturus . . . Oremus fratres carissimi ut quod frater iste ore professus est . . .’ Used by the congregation of Sta Justina, Padua.
v10v Gregorius I, Pont. Max.: [Note confirming his approval of the rule of S. Benedictus at the monastery at Subiaco.] Incipit: ‘Ego Gregorius sancte Romane ecclesie presul . . .’
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v ‘De uita et sanctitate atque doctrina beatissimi Basilii epitome.’ Incipit: ‘Basilius, patre Basileo, matre Eumelia . . .’
A1v [Note on S. Basilius Magnus.]
A2r Rufinus, [Tyrannius], Presbyter: [Preface to the translation of the Regula of S. Basilius Magnus addressed to] Ursarius. ed. K. Zelzer, CSEL, 86 (Vienna, 1986), 3-4. On Rufinus as translator of this version of the rule (the shorter ‘Asceticon'), see CPL 198d, and Murphy, Rufinus of Aquileia, 90-1. On the transmission see J. Gribomont, Histoire du texte des Ascetiques de S. Basile (Louvain, 1953), 95-107.
A2r Basilius [Magnus]: Regula. ‘Liber de institutis monachorum'.’ Translated by Tyrannius Rufinus. ed. Zelzer, 5-221. See Gribomont (above).
E1v [Note on the translations of S. Basilius by Rufinus.] Incipit: ‘Haec sunt quae a Rufino translata inueniuntur . . .’
E1v [Note on past and present adherents to the order of S. Basilius.]
E2r Basilius [Magnus]: Letter [addressed] to Gregorius [Nazianzenus]. Translated by Ambrosius Traversarius. Incipit: ‘[B]asilius Gregorio salutem. Agnoui litteras tuas, ut hi qui amicorum filios ex ingenita . . .’ For this letter's title ‘De uita solitaria' and date of Ambrosius Traversarius' translation see B. Gain, ‘Ambroise Traversari (1386-1439), lecteur et traducteur de s. Basile', Rivista di Storia e Letteratura religiosa, 21 (1985), 56-76, at 61 and 64 (for the edition); B. Gain, Traductions latines de Pères grecs: La collection du manuscript Laurentius San Marco 584 (Berne, 1994), 205. See also CTC II 65; CPL 160.
E4r Gregorius Nazianzenus: [Epitaph for S. Basilius.] ‘In Sanctum Basilium epitymbidion'.’ Incipit: ‘ Ἑι̂ς θεὸς ἑνα δʼ ἄξιον ἀρχιερη̂α | Ἡμετέρη γενεὴ εἰ̂δέσε Βασίλιε ‘; 3 distichs. On this edition see A. C. Way, ‘Gregorius Nazianzenus', CTC II 43-192, at 65 (which refers to Poem 2. 2. 119.)
E4r [Gregorius Nazianzenus: Epitaph for S. Basilius [Latin].] Translated by Johannes Franciscus Brixianus, as stated in the Explicit on E4v. Incipit: ‘Alta regens deus est unus. Te nostra uidebant | O Basilii solum tempora pontificem |'; 3 distichs. For incipits of the Latin translations, see CTC II 65.
E4r [Gregorius Nazianzenus: Epitaph for S. Basilius.] Incipit: ‘ Τυτθὸν ἔτι πνείεσκες ἐπὶ χθονί πάντα δέ Χριστῳ̂ | Δω̂κας ἄγων ψυχὴν, σω̂μα, λόγον, παλάμας ‘; 2 distichs.
E4r [Gregorius Nazianzenus: Epitaph for S. Basilius, in Latin.] Translated by Johannes Franciscus Brixianus. Incipit: ‘Uiuebas minimum mundo, namque omnia Christo | Obtuleras animam, corpora, uerba, manus'; 2 distichs.
E4v [Gregorius Nazianzenus: Epitaph for S. Basilius Magnus]. Incipit: ‘ Καισαρέων μέγ ’ ἄεισμα φαάντατε ὠ̂ Βασίλειε | Βροντὴσει̂ο λόγος, ἀστεροπὴδὲ βίος ‘; 4 distichs. A. Salvatore, Tradizione e originalità negli epigrammi di Gregorio Nazianzeno (Naples, c.1960), 50.
E4v [Gregorius Nazianzenus: Epitaph for S. Basilius, in Latin.] Translated by Johannes Franciscus Brixianus. Incipit: ‘Caesareae, Basili, clarissimae gloria grandis | Sermo tuus fulmen, uitamque fulgur habet |'; 2 distichs.
F1r [Title-page.]
F1v ‘De ortu, ingenio, eruditione, errore, conuersione ac sacra baptismali regeneratione diui doctoris Augustini breuis narratio.’ Incipit: ‘Augustinus Afer Carthaginensis ex Patricio patre et Monica matre genitus . . .’
F2r Augustinus [pseudo-]: ‘In Regulas diui Aurelii Augustini prefatio.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on mediocrem uerba uim habent ad monendum animum auditoris . . .’ See A‑556.
F2r Augustinus [pseudo-]: ‘Textus Tartiae(!) Regulae Sancti Augustini.’ ‘Regula prima'.’ [Also known as Regula consensoria.] PL XXXII 1447-50; La Règle de S. Augustin, ed. Luc Verheijen, II (Paris, 1967), 7-9.
F3r Augustinus [pseudo-]: Regula secunda. [Also known as Ordo monasterii.] PL XXXII 1449-52, LXVI 995-8; Lawless, 74-9; Verheijen, II 117-18; see CPL 1839a.
F4r Augustinus: Regula tertia (regula recepta). PL XXXII 1377-84. See Verheijen II 117-18.
F4v ‘Forma'. Incipit: ‘Omnes quiuis per gratiam baptismi fratres sumus . . .’
F4v [List of the divisions of the Augustinian order.] Incipit: ‘Sub regula Augustini militant omnes canonici regulares, fratres praedicatores . . .’
G1r [Title-page.]
G1v [Life of S. Franciscus.] ‘De ortu conuersione sanctitate ac miraculis seraphici patris beati Francisci breuis et succincta descriptio.’ Incipit: ‘[F]ranciscus seraphicus patre ad modum locuplete . . .’
G2r [Honorius III, Pont. Max: Confirmation of the Rule of S. Franciscus.] ‘Prologus in regulam'.’ See F‑096.
G2r [Franciscus de Assisio]: ‘Regula et vita fratrum minorum'.’ See F‑096. Also known as ‘Regula bullata'.
G4r ‘Forma faciendi professionem'. Incipit: ‘[E]go frater B. uoueo et promitto deo omnipotenti . . .’
G4r ‘Forma recipiendi ad dictam professionem'. Incipit: ‘Et ego si haec obseruaueris . . .’
G4r Franciscus [de Assisio]: Testamentum. See F‑096.
G5r ‘In his uersibus continentur breuiter omnia praecepta regulae fratrum minorum'. Incipit: ‘Christi uerba seruat obediens pauper et castra'; 15 lines of verse.
G5v Clemens V: ‘De uerborum significatione'.’ Conciliorum oecumenicorum decreta, ed. G. Alberigo and others (Bologna, 1973), 336-401.
G8v [Franciscus de Assisio: Extract from the Regula Bullata.] Incipit: ‘Si quis autem hoc attentare . . .’
H2r [Prefatory note on the subsequent texts.] ‘Sequuntur quaedam pulchra de laude religionis, et de bono ac merito uoti atque obedientiae ad multorum in religionibus Christo famulantium pie mentis consolationem sanctam et gaudium'.
H2r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘Homilia super quibusdam uerbis domini'.’ PL CLXXXIV 1131-4.
H3r Bernardus [Claravallensis(?): Sermo super] uerbis euangelii: ‘Ecce nos reliquimus omnia' [Mt 19,27]. PL CLXXXIV 1127-30.
H4r Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Epistola [CIX] ex persona Eliae monachi ad parentes suos. PL CLXXXII 253-5.
H5r Thomas Aquinas: De perfectione spiritualis vitae. ‘De perfectione status religionis et de ratione ac merito obedientie ac uoti. cap. xi'.’ Thomas Aquinas, Opuscula Theologica, ed. R. M. Spiazzi (Rome, 1954), II 125-6.
H5v Thomas Aquinas: De perfectione spiritualis vitae. ‘Contra errores illorum qui praesumpserunt diminuere meritum obedientiae uel uoti cap. xii.’ Thomas Aquinas, Opuscula Theologica, ed. Spiazzi, II 126-9.
H8r [Summary of contents.]
H8r [Colophon]. The editor is named as Johannes Franciscus Brixianus (OSB Obs.) of Sta Justina of Padua; his place of work as S. Georgius Maior, Venice.
H8v [Verse addressed] to the reader. Incipit: ‘Lector negligis, ecce nec moraris'; 16 iambics(?).
✠1r [Tables.]
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes Emericus, de Spira, for Lucantonio Giunta, 13 Apr. 1500. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–d12 e–t8 v10 A–D8 E4 F6 G–H8 4 ✠4.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials and picture.
References
ISTC: ir00135000
Hain: HC 13827; C 5893;
Goff: Goff R‑135;
BMC: BMC V 542;
Proctor: Pr 5504;
Others: BSB‑Ink R‑126; CIBN R‑83; Essling 1216; Oates 2140-1; Sander 6414; Sheppard 4568.
LCN: 14484203
Copies
Copy number: R-047(1)
Wanting the second leaf.
For this copy see Coates–Jensen 246-7, no. 6.
Binding: English blind-tooled calf, c.1700; rebacked; sprinkled red-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of upper cover.
Size: 232 × 178 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 220 × 160 mm.
Frequent marginal notes in a contemporary English(?) hand, supplying underlining, pointing hands, and page numbers, and structuring the text. Notes by Christopher Willey, giving extensive quotations and providing extended comments to fill blank spaces. Also a few notes in the hand of William Brantingham. On a2r is a series of payments in an early sixteenth-century hand, mentioning a house of OFM near the walls; also a bookseller's cypher, '.5./.t.' (sixteenth/seventeenth century) (ex informatione Ian Doyle).
Provenance: William Hacfurth, OSB, Durham Cathedral Priory; initials on a2r: 'F. W. de h.' (ex informatione Ian Doyle). Christopher Willey (†1530), OSB, Durham Cathedral Priory; ‘Liber Dompni Christoferi wyllye monachi Dunelmensis' on a2r. William Brantingham (†1548), OSB, Durham Cathedral Priory; ‘Liber dompni Willelmi Brantyngham monachi ex dono dompni Christopheri Willey, Bacalarii sacre theologie quondam huius monasterii camerarii' on a3r, and two inscriptions on a2r, one partly erased; see also Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, 645, who records Willey as receiving the book from Brantingham; Ker, MLGB 74, and MLGB Suppl. 31, 99-100. Date of acquisition unknown. The manuscript entry of the book's current shelfmark in Fysher, Catalogus, I 137 (Shelfmark: Library Records b. 293), in a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century hand provides no evidence; manuscript entries (including books known already to have been acquired in the 1690s) were added throughout the eighteenth century. Ian Doyle's personal notes on this volume refer to it bearing the book-plate of the Duke of Sussex, but the presence of this book-plate was not recorded either by Sheppard or during the subsequent cataloguing for Bod-inc.
Former Bodleian shelfmarks: R 3. 10; KK 13 Th. (`13' in black ink on fore-edge).
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.1.
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