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tis00860000

Text-inc Id:
tis00860000
Bod-inc Id:
P-406A
Headings:
Poeniteas Cito Summa poenitentiae [Latin and German].
Analysis of content:
  1. A1r [Title-page.] ‘Summa penitentie'.
  2. A2r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[B]onum anime preciosius est omnibus bonis . . .’
  3. A3v [Guilelmus de Montibus: Poeniteas cito.] Incipit: ‘[P]eniteas cito peccator cum sit milerator(!) | Iudex. Et sunt hec quinque tenenda tibi'; verse. For references see P‑396.
  4. A3v [German translation.] Incipit: ‘O Sunder peicht die Sunde dein | Wan unss der Richter wil genedig sein'; verse. See P. E. Weidenhiller, Untersuchungen zur deutschsprachigen katechetischen Literatur des späten Mittelalters, Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, 10 (Munich, 1965), 195-200.
  5. A3v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Causa formalis huius libri ut dixi consistit in libri diuisione . . .’
  6. E5r [Grosseteste, Robertus: Versus de decem mandatis.] Incipit: ‘Disce deum colere nomenque suum uenerare | Sabbata conserues habeas in honore parentes'; 5 lines of verse. Followed by a German translation and a commentary in Latin. S. H. Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253 (Cambridge, 1940), 141; see Walther, Initia, 5844; Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1467.
  7. E5v [German translation.] Incipit: ‘Du solt eren zu aller Frist | der das ewig Leben geben ist'; 8 lines of verse.
  8. E5v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘In ista parte autor hortatur nos ad decem preceptorum observationem . . .’
  9. E6r [Versus memoriales de septem sacramentis.] Incipit: ‘Abluo firmo cibo fleo copulor ordinor ungor'; 1 line of verse. Followed by a German translation and a commentary in Latin.
  10. E6r [German translation.] Incipit: ‘Die syben Sacrament soltu merken gar eben | do durch nur alle muessen seligk leben'; 4 lines of verse.
  11. E6v [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘In ista parte autor ostendit quod sunt septem sacramenta . . .’
Imprint:
[Nuremberg: Peter Wagner, c.1490]. 4°.
Collation:
A8 B–D6 E8. Woodcut initial on A1r.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00860000 HC *15169; Goff S‑860; BMC II 464; Pr 2249; BSB‑Ink P‑641; Sack, Freiburg, 2934; Sheppard 1625. LCN: 14006883
Copies:
  1. P-406A(1) Copy Wanting A1 and the blank E8. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled half red morocco over marbled pasteboards; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 200 × 144 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 130 mm. ‘Summa Poenitentiae' on A2r and some marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in a sixteenth-century German humanist hand in brown ink, also ‘nota' marks in the shape of treffoils and pointing hands; on A3v an inscription in sixteenth-century German, translating parts of the texts. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 90.