til00007000

Text-inc Id:

til00007000

Bod-inc Id:

L-008

Headings:

Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus Opera.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] [Table of contents.] ‘Rubrice.’
2. [a10v] Antonius Raudensis: [Errata Lactantii.] A list of errors in the works of Lactantius; see L‑002.
3. [a12v] [Montaltus] Genuensis, Adam: [Verse censuring Antonius Raudensis.] Incipit: ‘Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius ausis'; 4 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.
4. [b1r] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De divinis institutionibus. Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, ed. Brandt, CSEL 19, 1-672.
5. [r7r] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De ira dei [addressed to] Donatus. Lactantius, De ira dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 67-132.
6. [t3r] [Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus: De opificio dei vel de formatione hominis addressed to] Demetrianus. Lactantius, De opificio dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 3-64.
7. [v7v] Hieronymus: ‘In de illustribus viris.’ PL XXIII 687-9.
8. [v8r] [Fortunatus, Venantius: De resurrectione Christi. Also known as Carmen de pascha; addressed to Bishop Felix.] Incipit: ‘[S]alue festa dies toto venerabilis euo | Qua deus infernum vicit et astra tenet'; 50 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.

Imprint:

Rostock: Fratres Domus Horti Viridis ad S. Michaelem, 9 Apr. 1476. Folio.

Collation:

[a¹² b–i¹⁰ k¹²⁺¹ l–v¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00007000 HC *9812; Goff L‑7; BMC II 566; Pr 2660; BSB‑Ink L‑6; CIBN L‑7; Hillard 1180; Oates 1202; Rhodes 1068; Sheppard 1917-18. LCN: 14450183

Copies:

1. L-008(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [v10]. Missing text on [d10r], lines 1-2, supplied in manuscript in a fifteenth-century hand. Binding: English c.1796 gold-tooled diced russia with marbled pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 289 × 210 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 278 × 182 mm. Some marginal annotations, including comments on the text, ‘nota' marks, also underlining in the text. Two- to six-line initials, many with extensions into the margins and pen-work decoration, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; occasional rubric headings; some capital strokes in red. Provenance: Lüder Kulenkamp (1724-1794), 1775; inscription on [a2r]: ‘L. Kulenkamp 1775'; sale, p. ix, lot 70. Purchased for £1. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1796), 1. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.10.
2. L-008(2) Second copy Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) mottled calf. Size: 268 × 192 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 260 × 168 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations, including comments on and corrections to the text, and ‘nota' marks, also underlining in the text in black ink. Two- to six-line initials, many with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. Rubric headings in black ink in a fifteenth-century hand at the beginning of each book. Provenance: Göttingen, Universitätsbibliothek; stamp on [a2r]: ‘Ex Bibliotheca Acad. Georgæ Augustæ'; duplicate stamp on [a2r]: ‘Dupl. Bibl. Gott. Vend.' Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale (1830), lot 841; purchased by Thorpe. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe for £2. 12. 6; see Catalogue (1830), no. 6737; Library Bills (1829-32), no. 156; Books Purchased (1830), 13, dated 1477. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Auct. Q inf. 2.21; Auct. P 4.15. SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.14.