tib00049000

Text-inc Id:

tib00049000

Bod-inc Id:

B-023

Headings:

Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius De singulari puritate et praerogativa conceptione salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Bandellus] de Castronovo, Vincentius: ‘Epistola . . . narratiua disputationis facte de materia conceptionis beate virginis Marie', addressed to Hercules I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Incipit: ‘[C]um excellentem tui animi magnitudinem mecum reputo, Hercules clarissime, non possum non satis admirari . . .’
2. [a4r] Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius: De singulari puritate et praerogativa conceptione salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi. Incipit: ‘[P]eculiarem hanc dignitatem, princeps illustrissime, sacri doctores viri excellentissimi fundatoresque ortodoxe nostre religionis . . .’
3. [p1v] Cittadinus Faventinus, Antonius: ‘Carmen'. Incipit: ‘Quisquis ait matrem Christi sine labe creatam | Hec legat errorem discat et ille suum'; 2 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 16142.
4. [p1v] Cittadinus Faventinus, Antonius: ‘Aliud carmen'. Incipit: ‘Hic libet ethereum regem sermone profundo | Exornat sanctam consolidatque fidem'; 10 elegiac distichs.
5. [p1v] ‘M. L. Iuris Periti’: ‘Aliud carnem(!).’ Incipit: ‘Regine meritas laudes comendat Olympi | Hic liber ethereum prosequiturque ducem'; 4 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 16520.
6. [p2r] Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Epistola de festo conceptionis beatae Mariae virginis [ep. 174]. Bernardus, Epistolae, I, Opera, 7, ed. J. Leclercq and H. Rochais (Rome, 1974), 388 l. 10 – 389 l. 12 and 390 l. 13 – 392 l. 26.
7. [p3v] Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius: ‘Auctor operis ad detractores'. Incipit: ‘At siquis fortassis falso scientie nomine gloriabundus, hec que scripsimus impugnare voluerit . . .’
8. [p4r] ‘Tabula'.

Imprint:

Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, 12 Feb. 1481. 4°.

Collation:

[a⁶⁺¹ b–o⁸ p⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00049000 GW 3238; H *2353; Goff B‑49; BMC VI 806; Pr 6552; BSB‑Ink B‑32; CIBN B‑32; Sheppard 5312. LCN: 13957863

Copies:

1. B-023(1) Copy Wanting [p6]. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf, over blind-tooled pasteboards coloured red in imitation of red morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 208 × 162 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 201 × 151 mm. Occasional early marginal notes. Bibliographical note on front endleaf signed by J. T. Hand and dated 14 Feb. 1836. Partial rubrication: some initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capitals touched with yellow. Sheets signed in an old hand, partly cut away. Provenance: J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837); bibliographical note (above); purchased at his sale (1837), lot 69, for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1837), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.49.