HieronymusEpistolae [a version dependent on the traditions represented by H‑082 and of H‑087.]
Analysis of content:
Part 1.
[*2r] [Lelius, Theodorus: Preface.] Incipit: ‘[B]eati Hieronymi epistolas ad eruditionem Christianam pernecessariam . . .’ On the authorship see de la Mare and Hellinga 231.
[*2r] [Table of contents.]
[*4r] [Note on the work being in two volumes.] Incipit: ‘Ne uoluminis modum excederemus primum uolumen conclusimus . . .’
a1r [Rufinus, Tyrannius]: Expositio symboli [addressed to] Laurentius, Pont. Max. ed. Simonetti, CCSL 20, 133-82; see de la Mare and Hellinga 234, no. 8.
a7r Hieronymus [pseudo-; Pelagius]: Epistola [addressed to] Damasus, Pont. Max. [Also known as Libellus fidei addressed to Innocentius, Pont. Max.] PL XLVIII 488-91.
a7v Augustinus [pseudo-; Quodvultdeus]: Adversus quinque haereses. ed. R. Braun, CCSL 60, 261-301.
b1r [Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola [addressed to] Cyrillus.] ‘Expositio fidei Niceni concilii.’ PL XXX 176-81; see CPL nos 633 and 1746.
b3r [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[I]udeos et gentiles instituit dei trinitatis essentia . . .’
b3r Hieronymus [pseudo-; Hilarius Pictaviensis pseudo-; Tiberianus Hereticus(?)]: ‘Tractatus de fidei credulitate et conuersatione Christianorum.’ PL X 733-50; see CPL 470. For the ascription to Tiberianus see CPL; Hieronymus is rejected as the author in the incunable.
b6v Hieronymus [pseudo-; Augustinus pseudo-; Eucherius Lugdunensis]: ‘De essentia trinitatis et membris domini.’ [Also known as De essentia Dei. Ch. 1 of Eucherius, Formulae spiritualis intelligentiae.] ed. Wotke, CSEL 31, 3-62; PL L 729-37; see CPL 633, ep. 14, and 488; see H‑081.
m5v Hieronymus: Epistolae [addressed to] Oceanus; Alipius and Augustinus; Augustinus [2]. ed. Hilberg, nos lxix, cxliii, cxli, cxlii.
m8r [The fourth tractatus of the first part.] ‘Hactenus de haereticis eorumque dogmatibus . . . Nunc incipit quartus tractatus primae partis principalis et primo de origine animae . . .’
m10v [Dialogus de origine animarum.] ‘Dialogus ab incerto auctore ex uariis scriptis et epistolis sanctorum Augustini atque Hieronymi excerptus et collectus.’ PL XXX 261-71; made up of extracts from Augustinus and Hieronymus.
n2v [The first tractatus of the second part.] ‘Incipiunt epistolae beati Hieronymi de questionibus ueteris et noui testamenti in unum congestae. Secunda pars principalis totius uoluminis quae de scripturis sacris cristianum hominem erudit.’
p1v Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola de diversis generibus leprarum. PL XXX 245-8, with different ending; explicit: ‘ . . . eo reperiatur'.
p2r [The second tractatus of the second part.] ‘Secundus tractatus secundae partis principalis. Incipiunt epistolae atque tractatus beati Hieronymi super quaestionibus noui testamenti.’
q7r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola [addressed to] Chromatius and Heliodorus. PL XX 371, XXX 297.
q7r [Hieronymus pseudo-; Paschasius Radbertus?]: [De nativitate sanctae Mariae.] ‘Expositio seu translatio historiae Annae et Ioachim.’ PL XXX 297-305. Attributed to Paschasius Radbertus by C. Lambot in Revue bénédictine, 46 (1934), 265-82; the attribution has been questioned by R. Beyers, ‘De Nativitate Mariae: problèmes d'origine', Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, 122 (1990), 171-88; see CPL 633.
s6v Augustinus: ‘Argumentum excerptum ex secundo libro Retractationum beati Augustini.’ PL XXXII 649. Retractationes, ch. 45.
s6v Hieronymus [pseudo-]: De corpore et sanguine Christi. PL XXX 271-6.
s7v Hieronymus [pseudo-]: [Homelia super evangelio secundum Mattheum.] PL XXX 276-8.
s8r Vergerius, Petrus Paulus: ‘De laudibus sancti Hieronymi.’ PL XXII 231-6; see McManamon, Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder and Saint Jerome, 86, no. 7.
Part 2.
v1r ‘Tabula.’
A1r [The third tractatus of the second part.] ‘Diui Hieronymi epistolarum tertius secundae partis tractatus continens epistolares expositiones quorundam Psalmorum et Cantici canticorum secundum Origenem e graeco traductum . . .’
A7r Origenes: [Homiliae] super Cantica Canticorum. [Translated from Greek by Rufinus.] PG XIII 37-58; see CPG 1433.
B1r [Origenes]: ‘Commentarium in Cantica Canticorum in quattuor libros vel homelias distinctum.’ [Translated by Rufinus.] PG XIII 61-198.
D5r Hieronymus: Epistola [addressed to] Cyprianus. Incipit: ‘[F]rater charissime Cypriane scito prenosces quia si . . .’
D5v [The fourth tractatus of the second part.] ‘Tractatus quartus secundae partis continens sermones beati Hieronymi aliquibus diebus festis accommodatos.’
D5v Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Sermo de nativitate dominica. PL XXX 220-1.
D5v Hieronymus; [Augustinus pseudo-; Hieronymus pseudo-; Maximus Taurinensis pseudo-; Ambrosius pseudo-]: Sermo de die epiphaniorum et de psalmo xxviii. ed. Morin, CCSL 78, 530-2; see CPL 599.
D6r Hieronymus; [Hieronymus pseudo-]: Sermo de quadragesima. ed. Morin, CCSL 78, 533-5; see CPL 600.
D6v Hieronymus; [Augustinus pseudo-; Hieronymus pseudo-]: Sermo de exodo in vigilia Paschae. ed. Morin, CCSL 78, 537-41; see CPL 601.
D7r Hieronymus; [Augustinus pseudo-; Hieronymus pseudo-; Maximus Taurinensis pseudo-]: Sermo de dominica Paschae. ed. Morin, CCSL 78, 545-7; see CPL 603.
D7r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Sermo de resurrectione dominica. PL XXX 215-20.
D8r Hieronymus [pseudo-; Paschasius Radbertus]: Epistola [addressed to] Paula and [Julia] Eustochium. PL XXX 122-42; ed. A. Ripberger, CCCM, 56 C, 109-62; see CPL no. 633 [epist. 9].
E2v Hieronymus [pseudo-; Maximus Taurinensis pseudo-; Ildefonsus pseudo-]: Sermo de assumptione. PL XXX 143-5; see CPL nos 633 [epist. 10], 368, and 1257.
E4r [The fifth tractatus of the second part.] ‘Incipit tractatus quintus secundae partis de hebraicis locis nominibus et interpretatione hebraeorum nominum.’
E4r Hieronymus: [De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraicorum.] Onomastica sacra, ed. Lagarde, 118-90.
F6r [The sixth [i.e. fifth] tractatus of the second part.] ‘Incipit quintus tractatus secundae partis principalis ubi de scriptoribus graecis atque latinis diuersis interpretibus ac optimo modo interpretandi ac scribendi genere . . .’ The tractatus is erroneously numbered ‘quintus' both in the text and in the table of contents.
F6r Hieronymus: Epistola [excerpts, addressed to] Desiderius. ‘Argumentum.’ Incipit: ‘[S]cripsi librum de uiris illustribus . . .’
F6r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus.’ PL XXIII 601-3.
F6r ‘Capitula.’
F7v Hieronymus; Gennadius: De viris illustribus. ‘De uiris illustribus editus a beato Hieronymo cui quæ addidit Gennadius annectuntur'. PL XXIII 607-719; see CPL 616. Ends at ch. 135.
G3r ‘Capitula.’
G3r Gennadius: De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. [Also known as De viris illustribus.] PL LVIII 1060-1115; see CPL 957. Ending at ch. 93.
G7r Hieronymus: Epistola [addressed to] Desiderius [2]; Magnus; Pammachius; Sunnia and Fretela. ed. Hilberg, no. xlvii; PL XXIII 723-6, with different ending; explicit: ‘ . . . sub Theodosio principe'; ed. Hilberg, nos lxx, lvii, cvi.
H5v Damasus, Pont. Max.: Epistola [addressed to] Hieronymus. PL XIII 440-1; with different ending; explicit: ‘ . . . presbyterum Ierosolimitanum'.
H7r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola [addressed to] Chromatius and Heliodorus. PL XX 374-6, XXX 435-6.
H7r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: ‘Prologus' [addressed to] Chromatius and Heliodorus. PL XX 371, XXX 297.
H7r [Explanation for the omission of the Liber de infantia.] Incipit: ‘Librum ipsum de infantia licet in quodam examplari reppererim quia aniles quasdam fabulas continere uidebatur . . .’
H9r [The third part.] ‘Incipit tertia pars principalis epistolarum siue tractatuum beati Hieronymi de moribus atque uirtutibus quibus christiana conuersatio instituitur . . . Primus tractatus tertiæ partis principalis . . .’
H9r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola de homine perfecto [addressed to a friend]. PL XXX 75-104.
I7v Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola de tribus virtutibus. PL XXX 116-22.
I8v Hieronymus: Epistola [addressed to] Castorina. ed. Hilberg, no. xiii.
I8v [Reference to the Institutio christianæ credulitatis et conuersationis Christianae.] Incipit: ‘Praemissis his quae ad institutionem . . . Si quis ad institutionem Christianae conuersacionis plura . . .’
I8v [The second tractatus of the third part.] ‘Secundus liber siue tractatus tertiae partis principalis epistolarum beati Hieronymi de institutione puerilis aetatis . . .’
I10r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola de honorandis parentibus. PL XXX 145-7.
I10v [The third tractatus of the third part.] ‘Incipit tertius tractatus tertiae partis principalis de institutione conuersatione ac distinctione clericorum.’ The caption occurs in the table of contents only.
I10v [Introduction to the following letter.] Incipit: ‘Exordiens a figura Dauid qui senex Sunamitis fouebatur . . .’
K4r [The fourth tractatus of the third part.] ‘Incipit quartus liber siue tractatus tertiae partis principalis epistolarum beati Hieronymi de correctione uitae et conuersatione praelatorum siue praesidentium.’
O9v [The eighth tractatus of the third part.] ‘Incipit tractatus octauus tertiae partis principalis epistolarum beati Hieronymi qui inscribitur de contemptu mundi et uita contemplatiua ac laude heremi.’
P5r Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Epistola de testamento Gerontii. PL XXX 45-50.
P6r [Reference to the letter ‘Ad Julianum' and an explanation for its inclusion in place of the ‘Vita Pauli primi'.] Incipit: ‘Vide ad hunc tractatum pertinentem aliam epistolam ad Iulianum . . .’
P6r Hieronymus: Vita Pauli eremitae. ed. Hurter 36-42.
P7r [The ninth tractatus of the third part.] ‘Tractatus nonus tertiae partis principalis epistolarum beati Hieronymi de uita statu et regula monachorum.’
P7r ‘Argumentum.’ Incipit: ‘[L]audatus a Paulino Hieronymus propter . . .’
P10v Hieronymus [pseudo-]: Sermo . . . ad fratres de vigiliarum sanctitate. PL XXX 232-9.
Q1v Martinus V, Pont. Max.: ‘Exemplum bulle.’ PL XXX 389-92, with slightly different ending.
Q2v ‘Capitula regulae excerptae ex epistolis et opusculis suis.’
Q2v Hieronymus [pseudo-; Lupus de Oliveto]: Regula monachorum. [Also known as Aureola ex floribus S. Hieronymi contexta. Excerpted and edited by Lupus de Oliveto.] PL XXX 319-86. On the authorship see H‑081.
R5v ‘Capitula de uita sancti Hilarionis.’
R5v Hieronymus: Vita sancti Hilarionis. ed. Hurter 42-59.
S3v [The twelfth tractatus of the third part.] ‘Tractatus xii [duodecimus] tertiae partis principalis in quo consolatoriae in aduersis ad amicos inseruntur epistolae.’
S10r [The thirteenth tractatus of the third part.] ‘Tractatus xiii tertiae partis principalis in quo funebres epistolae et epitaphia defunctorum inseruntur . . .’
T9v Hieronymus: ‘In vitam, obitum ac res gestas Paulæ.’ [Vita sanctae Paulae.] PL XXII 878-906.
V4r [The fourteenth tractatus of the third part.] ‘Tractatus quartusdecimus et ultimus tertiae partis principalis de poenitentia quibus exhortatoriae ad poenitentiam et obiurgatoriae in lapsos inseruntur epistolae . . .’
V4r Hieronymus: Epistola [addressed to] Rusticus [a devout Christian in Gaul]. ed. Hilberg, no. cxxii.
V5v Hieronymus [pseudo-; Ambrosius pseudo-: De lapsu virginis consecratae.] ‘Obiurgatio . . . acerrima in Susannam uirginem a diacono corruptam . . .’ De lapsu Susannae, ed. Cazzaniga, 1-30, and PL XVI 367-84, ending imperfectly; see CPL 651.
V9r Hieronymus [pseudo-; Bachiarius]: Epistola [addressed to] Evagrius. [Epistola de reparatione lapsi parts 1-5, addressed to] Januarius.] PL XX 1037-40; see CPL 569.
V9v [The letters not included in the above sections]. ‘Sequentes epistole non subsunt ordini praemisso.’
V10r Hieronymus: [Hebraicae Quaestiones in libros Geneseos (part).] ‘De locis et nominibus Hebraicarum quaestionum epistola.’ ed. Lagarde, CCSL 72, 1-2.
Venice: Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 15 May 1488. Folio.
Collation:
Part 1: [*6] a–p10 q–s8; part 2: v4 A–Z10. Gathering [*] numbered but not signed.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ih00170000
HC *8558;
Goff H‑170;
BMC V 309;
Pr 4717;
BSB‑Ink H‑249; CIBN H‑105; de la Mare and Hellinga 234, no. 8; Hillard 1006; Oates 1866; Sheppard 3784.
LCN: 14499585
Copies:
H-088(1)
Copy
Binding: Eighteenth-century marbled dark green morocco; gold-tooled spine, triple gold fillets on each cover, and marbled pastedowns.
Size: 444 × 305 × 78 mm.
Size of leaf: 430 × 285 mm.
Occasional early marginal annotations.
On a1r an 11-line initial ‘M' is supplied in bistre, showing a scholar seated at a desk, but turning to refer to a book on a lectern next to him, and with a cupboard containing more books behind him. See A. C. de la Mare, ‘Further Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library', La Miniatura italiana tra gotica e rinascimento, i (Florence, 1985), 139, no. 24 and fig. 6, which suggests that it may be by the same hand that decorated the Pliny (Venice, 1476) now at Holkham Hall, which has in turn been tentatively ascribed to Giacometto Veneziano in G. Mariani Canova, La Miniatura Veneta del Rinascimento (Venice, 1969), pls 146-9.
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘W.h.4': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41, no. 24; sale, pt I, lot 3590.
Purchased for £2. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1844), 24.
Following the purchase of the Sussex copy, the Bodleian probably alienated the copy belonging to Samuel Butler (1774-1839) [sale (1 June 1840), pt II, lot 1149, bought for £0. 11. 0; annotated sale catalogue, the bill from Thomas Rodd, and Books Purchased (1840), 34].
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sub fen. 1.11.