Jacobus de VoragineSermones de tempore et de sanctis et Quadragesimales (ed. Nicolaus Campanus and Hieronymus de Cherio).
Analysis of content:
a1r [Part I: Title-page.]
a1v [Address to the reader by the book (`Jacobus de Voragine . . . sum').] Incipit: ‘Tu quicunque es qui hec legis seu predicator seu philosophus aut theologus . . .’
a2r [Table of contents, in alphabetical order.]
2a1r Jacobus de Voragine: Sermones de tempore. See Schneyer, Repertorium, III nos 1-160; Kaeppeli II 361-4 no. 2156.
A2r [Table of contents, according to the liturgical year.]
A2v [Table of contents, in alphabetical order.]
2A1r Jacobus de Voragine: Sermones de sanctis. Edited by Nicolaus Campanus and Hieronymus de Cherio. See Schneyer, Repertorium, III nos 295-600; Kaeppeli II 359-61 no. 2155.
BB4r [Second colophon.]
BB4r [Verse.] ‘Ad Librum.’ Incipit: ‘I nunc ne trepida, velut ante, libelle per vrbes, | Cesaris et doctas ne vereare manus'; 4 elegiac distichs.
aa2r [Table of contents, according to the liturgical year.]
aa3r [Table of contents, in alphabetical order.]
2aa1r Jacobus de Voragine: Sermones Quadragesimales. See Schneyer, Repertorium, III nos 196-292; Kaeppeli II 364-7 no. 2157.
nn3v Jacobus de Voragine: Sermo de passione domini nostri Jesu Christi. See Schneyer, Repertorium, III no. 293.
oo7v Jacobus de Voragine: Sermo de planctu BVM. See Schneyer, Repertorium, III no. 294.
Imprint:
Pavia: Jacobus de Paucis Drapis, 1499-1500. 8°.
In three parts, dated: (I) 14 Nov. 1499; (II) 8 Jan. 1500; (III) 2 Sept. 1499.
Collation:
Part I: a–b 2a–y8 z4; part II: A 2A–Z AA–CC8 DD4; part III: aa102aa–oo8 pp6. Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ij00201000
C 6526; R 789 (II);
Goff J‑201;
BMC VII 1019 (III), XII 73 (II);
Pr 7118 (II);
BSB‑Ink I‑115; CIBN J‑137; Sheppard 5871 (III), 5872 (I), 5873 (II).
LCN: 14498341, 14500336, 14500393
Copies:
J-083(1)
First copy
‘Sermones de tempore' and ‘Quadragesimales' only.
Part I, a1v, l. 14: ‘ . . . legant. Bene vale.’
Binding: Paper boards covered with parchment from a fourteenth-century liturgical (Missal?) manuscript, remains of two leather ties. Sprinkled red-edged leaves.
Size: 154 × 109 × 42 mm.
Size of leaf: 148 × 105 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a contemporary humanist hand; a few other similar notes in two different later hands, one probably that of Johannes Engelb[ ].
The woodcut on a1r and a few initials coloured in green.
Provenance: Johannes Engelb[ ] (fl. 1650).
Weissenau, Württemberg, diocese of Konstanz, Premonstratensians, SS. Petrus et Paulus; inscription on a1r of item 1: ‘Joannis Engelb. Weiss. 1650.’
Purchased from Menno Hertzberger in 1966, Catalogue 250, no. 65.
SHELFMARK: Inc. f. I23.1499.1(1); Inc. f. I23.1499.1(2).
J-083(2)
Second copy
‘Sermones de sanctis' only.
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) parchment; marbled pastedowns and red-edged leaves.
Size: 169 × 115 × 29 mm.
Size of leaf: 160 × 107 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in Isidorus Parmensis' hand and in a different, later, hand.
Provenance: Brother Paulinus de Mara (fl. 1538).
Brother Isidorus Parmensis (fl. 1538); inscription on A8v: ‘Frater paulinus de mara largitus est mihi fratri Isidoro parmensi hunc librum, die 20 Junij 1538'.
Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 28.