tir00214000

Text-inc Id:

tir00214000

Bod-inc Id:

R-083

Headings:

Rodericus Zamorensis Speculum vitae humanae.

Subjects:

theology-moral

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Rodericus Zamorensis: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. ‘Sanctissimo ac clementissimo in Christo ... domino Paulo secundo ... eiusdem ... servulus et familiaris Rodoricus episcopus Zamorensis Hispanus.’ Incipit: ‘Cogitanti mihi hanc munitissimam Romane tue urbis . . .’ [a2v] Explicit: ‘... correctioni et emendationi remicto quam Altissimus diutine et feliciter protegat et conservet.’
2. [a2v] Rodericus Zamorensis: Speculum vitae humanae. ‘Prefatio utilis in qua auctoris huius libri vita eiusque studia recoluntur, et tandem admonent et ad studia legis divine potius quam humane, et de effectu legum humanarum, et de ordine procedendi in hoc libro.’ Incipit: ‘[V]erum, B. pater, ut aptior dultiorque sit circa premissa dicendi ordo . . .’ [a4v] Explicit: ‘... in quibus discutiuntur et examinantur materie infrascripte, ut in tabula sequenti apertius declaratur.’
3. [a4v] ‘De materiis pertractandis in primo libro et de tabula capitulorum eius.’ Incipit: ‘[P]rimum liber agit de cunctis stantibus ...’ [a9r] Explicit: ‘... et utrum religio eo que artior sit perfectior.’
4. [a9v] Rodericus Zamorensis: Speculum vitae humanae. ‘Incipit capitulum primum libri primi, videlicet ... laudibus et preconus super alias temporales dignitates.’ Incipit: ‘[S]uper cunctas humanas temporalesque dignitates . . .’ [p8r] Explicit: ‘... unacum grege tibi credito perducat ad vitam eternam. Amen.’ See Bloomfield 5879; Juan Maria Laboa, Rodrigo Sanchez de Arévalo, alcaide de sant'Angelo (Madrid, 1973), especially at 279-83 on this work.
5. [p8r] [Versified explicit]. Incipit: Edidit hoc lingue clarissima norma latine | Excelsi ingenii uir Rodoricus opus ... Explicit: ‘... Eloquii. it superos gloria parta viri. [3 elegiac distichs]’
6. [p8r] [Versified colophon]. Colophon: ‘Hoc Conradus opus Suueynheym ordine miro | Arnoldusque simul Pannats una ede colendi | Gente Theotonica Romae expediere sodales [3 hexameters].’ ‘In domo Petri de Maximo, MCCCCLXVIII.’
7. [*1r] [Table of contents]. ‘Incipit Repertorium sive tabula per alphabetum ad faciliter recipiendas materias in presenti libro dicto speculum vite humane.’

Imprint:

Rome Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz 4° 1468

Collation:

[a–f¹⁰ g⁸ h¹² i–n¹⁰ o p⁸ *⁴].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00214000 HC (+ Addenda) *13939; Goff R‑214; BMC IV 4; Pr 3292; BSB‑Ink S‑58; CIBN R‑136; Hillard 1752; Oates 1357; Osler, IM, 2; Sheppard 2601. Microfiche: Unit 8: Printing in Italy Before 1472 Part II, PI 67. LCN: 14075715

Copies:

1. R-083(1) Copy Gathering [*] is here bound first. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled straight-grained green morocco. Marbled pastedowns. Size: 280 × 205 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 270 × 192 mm. A contemporary Italian humanist hand has provided manuscript headings in faded red ink to books 1 and 2, running chapter headings, and occasional summaries of the text. A marginally later hand, maybe German, has touched the incipits in brown ink and added some marginal notes, mainly extraction of key words, pointing hands, and underlining. On [e1r] the impression of an oval stamp, very faded. Initials on [a1] and [i1] are supplied in blue with white pen-work decoration on a square gold ground edged in black. The area defined by the letter is decorated with red and green floral and foliate decoration and it extends into the margin to form a border, with gold dots; see Pächt and Alexander II, 106 no. pr. 3 (Rome). Other initials are supplied in red or blue with brown or red pen-work decoration. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale (1830), lot 1049. Purchased at the Renouard sale for £4. 14. 6; Books Purchased (1830), 20. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 3.20.