Bod-Inc: T-136
Thomas Aquinas
Glossa continua super evangelia (Catena aurea).
Analysis of Content
a2r Thomas Aquinas: Glossa continua super evangelia (Catena aurea). [Part I addressed to] Urbanus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘Fons sapientie unigenitum dei uerbum . . . Leo papa in sermo de passione . . . (3 more lines)'. See T‑130. Here and below, the text of the Gospel is inserted within the gloss.
o10r ‘Capitula euangelii Matthei per ordinem'.
o10r [Table.] Incipit: ‘Dominica secunda in aduentu. Cum audisset Iohannes in uinculis . . .’ A list of incipits of the Gospel of Matthew arranged according to the liturgical year.
p1r Thomas Aquinas: Glossa continua super evangelia (Catena aurea). [Part II addressed to] Anibaldus [de Anibaldis]. Incipit: ‘Rerum opifex deus . . . Glosa. [V]ocationem gentium . . .’ Explicit: quia te decet sermonum et operum gloria
t6v [Table.] Incipit: ‘Feria tertia post dominicam in ramis palmarum . . .’ A list of incipits of the Gospel of Mark arranged according to the liturgical year.
u1r Thomas Aquinas: Glossa continua super evangelia (Catena aurea). [Part III addressed to Anibaldus de Anibaldis]. ‘Super euangelio sancti Luce continuum'. Incipit: ‘[I]nter cetera incarnationis Christi . . . Theophilus quos nos imitantes . . .’
E8r [Table.] Incipit: ‘Dominica prima de aduentu. Erunt signa . . .’ A list of incipits of the Gospel of Luke arranged according to the liturgical year.
F1r Thomas Aquinas: Glossa continua super evangelia (Catena aurea). [Part IV addressed to Anibaldus de Anibaldis]. ‘Continuum in euangelium sancti Ioannis'. Incipit: ‘[D]iuine uisionis sublimitate . . . quia ipse est super omnia deus benedicus in secula . . .’
O10r [Table.] Incipit: ‘Dominica tertia in aduentu. Miserunt Iudei . . .’ A list of incipits of the Gospel of John arranged according to the liturgical year.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Andreas Torresanus de Asula and Thomas de Blavis de Alexandria, 17 Apr. 1486. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–n8 o10 p–r8 s t6 v–z [et] [con] A–M8 N O10.
References
ISTC: it00231000
Hain: HC 1335;
Goff: Goff T‑231;
BMC: BMC V 308;
Proctor: Pr 4709;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑202; CIBN T‑130; Hillard 1947; Michelitsch 8; Sheppard 3779.
LCN: 14267168
Copies
Copy number: T-136(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. ‘Ca Aurea' in brown ink along the fore-edge; ‘Cathena Aurea | S. T.' in brown ink upside down along the lower edge.
Size: 346 × 231 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 332 × 213 mm.
Occasional corrections in an early hand in brown ink. Modern manuscript foliation in dark brown ink: ‘1, 3-317'. ‘E. Plut. 2. no. 6' crossed out and ‘F. Plut. 4' both in brown ink on the front endleaf. A nineteenth-century bibliographical note on the same leaf: ‘The paper mark in this fly leaf is the Aldine anchor without the dolphin'.
Provenance: Frater Augustinus, Piove di Sacco (fifteenth century). Padua, Franciscans, S. Franciscus; inscription on a2r: ‘Ad usum fratris Augustini de Plebe sacci. Deinde loci sancti Francisci Padue'. Samuel Butler (1774-1839); sale, pt II, lot 217. Purchased for £5; see annotated sale catalogue; listed without the price in Books Purchased (1840), 33.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.3.
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