[a2r] [Nicolaus de Lovanio]: ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘Continentur in hoc libello materia multum exquisite ventilata . . .’ Explicit: animam suam saluare
[a3r] Minorica elucidativa: ‘Tractatus detractorius et impugnatiuus'. [The entire volume was edited by Nicolaus de Lovanio.] Incipit: ‘Placet magnopere in obseruantibus vita regularis et monastica . . .’ Explicit: suspectam esse ergo, etc. Sometimes attributed to the editor, and also, probably erroneously, to Alexander de Ariostis; the work is not ascribed to Alexander by Gerold Fussenegger, ‘De vita et scripta fratri Alexandri Ariosti (†c.1486)', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 49 (1956), 143-65.
b6r Minorica elucidativa: ‘Apologia vel tractatus defensorius et responsiuus'. Incipit: ‘Quidam nimium scrupulosus frater vt ex suis perpenditur . . .’ Explicit: quod decretum immediate sequitur
E4r Minorica elucidativa: ‘Decretum concilii Constanciensis'. Incipit: ‘Sacrosancta et generalis synodus Constancie[n]si dilectis ecclesie filiis generali . . . Supplicationibus personarum que voto religionis sunt . . .’
E7v Martinus V, Pont. Max.: Minorica elucidativa: ‘Confirmatio decreti consilii Constanciensis'. Incipit: ‘Martinus episcopus seruus seruorum Dei . . . Ne forte cuiuslibet temeritatis incursus . . .’ Dated 7 May 1420.
E8v Minorica elucidativa: ‘Bulla confirmationis huius decreti'. Incipit: ‘Uniuersis presentes litteras inspecturis miseratione diuina Ludouicus patriarcha Aquilegiensis, dux de Deck, Amadius Lugdunensis et Henricus Bituricensis archiepiscopi salutem in domino sempiternam. Noveritis nos quasdam litteras . . .’ Dated 10 Oct. 1435.
f2v Johannes Brixiensis: Minorica elucidativa: ‘Magistralis questio . . . super decreto consilii Constanciensis'. Incipit: ‘Utrum decretum sacri consilii Constantiensis diuidens fratres minores . . .’ Explicit: benigna correctione
g2r Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.: Minorica elucidativa: ‘Bulla ‘Ut sacra ordinis''. Incipit: ‘Eugenius episcopus seruus seruorum Dei ad perpetuam memoriam. Ut sacra ordinis minorum religio cuius zeli sinceritas . . .’ Dated 23 July 1447.
g6r Minorica elucidativa: ‘Statuta siue declaratio regule fratrum minorum que alio nomine diciter Martiniana'. Incipit: ‘Johannes miseratione diuina tituli sancti Petri ad Vincula sacrosancte ecclesie . . .’ Explicit: faciant et diuulgari
h7v [Note.] Incipit: ‘Notandum quod consilium Constantiense quod decreuit fratres minores de obseruantia . . .’
h8r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Minorica elucidativa: ‘Bulla “Presertim felicis” ’. Incipit: ‘Pius episcopus seruus seruorum Dei . . . Presertim felicis recordationis Eugenii quarti et Nicolai quinti . . .’ Dated 12 Jan. 1463.
h8v Minorica elucidativa: ‘Regula et vita minorum fratrum'. Incipit: ‘Regula et vita minorum fratrum hec est scilicet Domini nostri Jesu Christi . . .’
i3v Minorica elucidativa: ‘Ex speculo perfectionis fratrum minorum'. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam secunda regula quam fecerat beatus Franciscus . . .’ Explicit: confusi et territi recesserunt
Imprint:
Paris: [Étienne Jehannot] for Jean Petit, ‘22 Mar. 1499' [c.1502]. 8°.
A reprint, including the date, of Bocard's edition (Goff M‑589); see CIBN and BBFN. CIBN dates by the state of Petit's device. Pr assigns to [Jean Poitevin]. Sheppard dates [22 Mar. 1499/1500].
Collation:
[a] b–d E f–h8 i4.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: im00588000
HC 1651-2; CR 4044;
Goff M‑588;
BMC VIII 199;
Pr 8369;
BBFN 79; CIBN II p. 262; Oates 3147; Sheppard 6511.
LCN: 14827925
Copies:
(M-220)(1)
Copy
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) half calf with green cloth; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 147 × 100 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 141 × 91 mm.
On h8v early marginal annotations in red ink.
Provenance: Bulley (c.1600); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Homo bulla Bulley', with price of 12d below.
John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 70.
Presented in 1659.
SHELFMARK: 8o M 27 Th. Seld.
