AA2r [Alphabetical table of contents] ‘Incipit registrum in libros sequentes Cassiani.’ Incipit: ‘[A]bbas Iohannes rigat signum aridum, libro iiii, capitulo xxiiii ...’ AA8v Explicit: ‘... [Y]pocris utilis beati Pauli Apostoli colla. xvii ca. xx. | Explicit tabula.’
A1r Cassianus, Johannes: De institutis coenobiorum. [Preface] ‘Incipit prefatio beati Johannes Heremite qui Cassianus dicitur in duodecim libros de institutis cenobiorum et de octo principalium viciorum remediis.’ Incipit: ‘[V]eteris instrumenti narrat historia sapientissimum Salomonem post acceptam divinitus sapientiam ...’ A1v Explicit: ‘... que si rationabilis possibilium mensura servetur, eadem observantie perfectio est etiam in impari facultate. | Explicit prefatio.’ ed. Petschenig, CSEL 17; PL XLIX 53-476. See CPL 513.
A1v Cassianus, Johannes: De institutis coenobiorum. ‘Incipit liber primus de habitu monachi.’ Incipit: ‘[D]e institutis ac regulis monasteriorum dicturi unde competentius ...’ E1v Explicit: ‘... sed et hoc ipsum quod intelligere meruimus eius esse muneris, in veritate credamus. | Explicit de Spiritu superbie liber duodecimus.’ ed. Petschenig, CSEL 17; PL XLIX 53-476. See CPL 513.
E1v Cassianus, Johannes: Collationes patrum XXIV [Preface] ‘Incipit Prefatio Ioannis Cassiani in decem collationes patrum.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ebitum quod beatissimo pape Castori in eorum voluminum prefatione promissum est que ...’ E2r Explicit: ‘... Sed nunc iam ad collationes eorum et instituta properemus. | Explicit prefatio.’ ed. Petschenig, CSEL 13; PL XLIX 477-1328. See CPL 512.
E2r Cassianus, Johannes: Collationes patrum XXIV ‘Incipit collatio prima. Abbatis Moisi de monachi destinatione vel fine.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um in heremo Scythi ubi monachorum probatissimi patres et omnis commorabatur perfectio ...’ S6v Explicit: ‘... ad tutissimum silentii portum spiritalis orationum vestrarum aura comitetur. | Explicit collatio abbatis Abraam de mortificatione.’ ed. Petschenig, CSEL 13; PL XLIX 477-1328. See CPL 512.
S6v Colophon: ‘Expliciunt vigintiquatuor collationes sanctorum patrum conscripte ab Johanne Heremita qui et Cassianus dicitur, impresse apud Venetias anno Domini Mcccclxxxxi.’
Imprint:
Venice
[Printer of Cassianus (Paganinus de Paganinis?)]
Folio
Secundo folio: A2r urbis eversione lugentibus
1491
Collation:
AA8 A6 B10 C–S6. Leaf AA2 signed AA and AA3 signed AAii. Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
References:
Source: Bodleian; Venezia N
ISTC: ic00234000
HC *4563;
Goff C‑234;
BMC V 586;
GW 6161;
Pr 5697;
Sheppard 4753.
LCN: 14835797
Copies:
C-103(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf AA1.
Binding: Old parchment.
Size: 304 × 210 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 295 × 199 mm.
Some early marginal annotations, extracting key words.
Initials, some with pen-work infill and decoration in faded black ink, are supplied in red.
Provenance: Purchased in 1950 from Howes Bookshop; see BLR 3,30 (1951), 226; note on front pastedown.
SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.1491.1.
