Bod-Inc: S-209
Simon de Cassia
Expositio super totum corpus Evangeliorum or De gestis domini salvatoris (ed. Johannes de Salerno).
Analysis of Content
[*2r] [Johannes de Salerno]: ‘Prologus in tabulam sequentem'. Incipit: ‘[I]n tabula sequenti signantur euangelia euangelistarum . . .’
[*2r] [Johannes de Salerno]: ‘Tabula secundum euangelia per annum'.
a1r [Johannes de Salerno: Editorial note.] Incipit: ‘Incipit liber uenerabilis fratris Simonis de Cassia . . .’ The note states that Simon de Cassia had started the book in Rome on 6 Sept. 1338 and died on 2 Feb. 1348, without completing the final revision, which was carried out by Johannes de Salerno, his pupil, who also translated all the work into Italian and wrote a life of S. Simon de Cassia in Latin; see Zumkeller 579.
a1r Simon de Cassia: Expositio super totum corpus Evangeliorum or De gestis domini salvatoris. ‘Prologus primus'. Incipit: ‘[A] bono et superbono creatore omnium deo sumentes exordium per ipsum medium . . .’
a1r Simon de Cassia: Expositio super totum corpus Evangeliorum or De gestis domini salvatoris. ‘Prologus secundus'. Incipit: ‘[M]ulti multa locuti sunt in euangelio . . .’
a1r Simon de Cassia: Expositio super totum corpus Evangeliorum or De gestis domini salvatoris. ‘Titulus primi libri'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam igitur factorum et fiendorum . . .’
a1v Simon de Cassia: Expositio super totum corpus Evangeliorum or De gestis domini salvatoris. ‘Primus liber de uerbo increato pro nobis in tempore incarnato secundum Iohannem solum. Capitulum I'. Simon Fidati de Cassia, OESA, De gestis Domini Salvatoris, ed. W. Eckermann and others, 7 vols, Cassiciacum, Supplement, 12-18 (Würzburg, 1998-2003), with this edition discussed at I pp. lxxvii–lxxix; see Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, V 214-16 no. 7642; Zumkeller 778; M. G. McNeil, Simone Fidati and his De Gestis Domini Salvatoris (Washington, DC, 1950), 213.
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1484-7]. Folio.
Remarks: As assigned by Sheppard. BMC notes that the identity of the printer is unclear, but suggests [Speier: Peter Drach?].
Collation
Collation: [*6] a–o8 p12 q–z A–K8 KK4 L–V aa bb8 cc dd6.
Remarks: Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed.
References
ISTC: is00522000
Hain: HC *4557;
Goff: Goff S‑522;
BMC: BMC I 120;
Proctor: Pr 528;
Others: BSB‑Ink S‑401; Hillard 1852; Rhodes 1616; Sheppard 413.
LCN: 14386569
Copies
Copy number: S-209(1)
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin, very worn, over wooden boards, with two metal clasps and catches. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of lower cover. Quadruple fillets form a triple frame. Within the outer frame a floral roll; within the following frame two thin different floral rolls. The inner rectangle is decorated with six thin foliate rolls running vertically. Strips from twelfth-century manuscripts visible in the binding. Eighteenth/nineteenth-century manuscript title on a rectangular paper label pasted at the head of the spine. ‘2' in red ink at the tail of the spine, below, ‘S. S.' printed on a square paper label. This label partially covers a large ‘B' in brown ink.
Size: 400 × 295 × 90 mm.
Size of leaf: 386 × 284 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, providing corrections to the text, extracting references to biblical quotations, and adding ‘nota' marks, in an early German hand, brown ink; on T1r in green ink.
Provenance: Fremersberg, Baden-Württemberg, Franciscan Recollects, S. Ursula; inscription on [*2r]: ‘Pro Conuentu Fratrum Minorum Recollect[orum] Fremerspergensi' and on a1r: ‘Conuentus Fremerberg Fratrum Minorum'. Gorheim, near Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, Jesuits; oval stamp: ‘Domus Gorheim Soc. Jesu'. Cowley, Oxford, Society of St John the Evangelist; book-plate and inscription on [*2r]: ‘Soc. S. Joannis Eu. apud Cowley'. Purchased in 1961; see ‘Notable Accessions: Printed Books', BLR 7,2 (1963), 110.
SHELFMARK: Inc. b. G7.1.
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