tia00778000

Text-inc Id:

tia00778000

Bod-inc Id:

A-313

Headings:

Antoninus Florentinus Chronicon. Partes I–III.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] ‘Summarium primi voluminis.’ Incipit: ‘Primus titulus, de prima et secunda mundi etate . . .’
2. [c1r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[L]oquar propositiones ab initio. Quanta audiuimus et cognouimus ea et patres nostri annunciauerunt nobis . . .’ Chroniques de S. Antonin, ed. Raoul Morçay (Paris, 1913), 165-70.
3. [c2r] [Table of contents of part 1.]
4. [c3r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Prima pars hystorialis' [also known as Chronicon. Pars I]. Incipit: ‘Capitulum primum de Adam et Eua in statu innocentie . . . [H]omo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit . . .’ See Chroniques, ed. Morçay; see also Kaeppeli I 82 no. 240; Orlandi 306 (A) 1.
5. [P1r] ‘Registrum prime partis.’
6. [a2r] ‘Summarium secundi voluminis.’ Incipit: ‘Titulus nonus de Constantino magno imperatore . . .’
7. [c2r] ‘Tabula titulorum et capitulorum.’
8. [c3r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Secunda pars hystorialis' [also known as Chronicon. Pars II]. Incipit: ‘[C]onstantinus igitur defuncto eius patre Constantio imperare cepit . . .’
9. [V1r] ‘Registrum secunde partis.’
10. [a2r] ‘Summarium tercii voluminis.’ Incipit: ‘[T]ercium istud volumen partis hystorialis continet materiam de quibusdam doctoribus et libris eorum et sententiis notabilioribus . . .’
11. [c2r] ‘Tabula titulorum et capitulorum.’
12. [c3r] Antoninus Florentinus: ‘Tercia pars historialis' [also known as Chronicon. Pars III]. Incipit: ‘[H]ugo de sancto Victore canonicus regularis claruit circa annos domini mille centum . . .’
13. [X10r] [Note ascribing the incomplete state of the work to the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Finit feliciter tercia pars historialis domini Antonini Archiepiscopi Florentini usque ad tempora sua morte preuentus non plura absoluit.’
14. [X10r] [Note on the death of Antoninus.] Incipit: ‘Obiit autem idem Antoninus vir consiliorum clarissimus sacre scripture interpres . . .’
15. [X10r] [Epitaph of Antoninus.] ‘Epigramma domini Antonini sepulture eius affixum.’ Incipit: ‘Hic est ille tuus pastor Florentia pro quo | Non cessas mesto spargere rore genas'; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC II 416.
16. [X10r] [Colophon.]
17. [Y1r] ‘Registrum tercie partis.’

Imprint:

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 31 July 1484. Folio.

Collation:

Part I: [a b⁶ c–f⁸ g–z A–P⁶]; part II: [a b⁶ c⁸ d–z A–V⁶]; part III: [a b⁶ c⁸ d–z A–V⁶ X¹⁰ Y⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00778000 GW 2072; HC *1159; Goff A‑778; BMC II 426-7; Pr 2040; BSB‑Ink A‑563; CIBN A‑450; Oates 1003; Rhodes 105; Sack, Freiburg, 211; Sheppard 1492. LCN: 14423563

Copies:

1. A-313(1) Copy Sheets [m1.6] and [m2.5] of part 1 in reverse order. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library. Index tabs in part 3. Size: Part 1: 420 × 295 × 60 mm; part 2: 425 × 300 × 66 mm; part 3: 425 × 300 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 408 × 273 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations. Part 1: Three- to seven-line initials are supplied in red or blue, some with extensions into the margins. On [c1r] a fourteen-line initial ‘L' is supplied in blue; on [c3r] a nineteen-line initial ‘H' is supplied in red, with extensions into the margin and gutter. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; underlining and capital strokes in red. Contemporary inscription on [a1r]: ‘Prima pars cronice Domini Anthonini'. Part 2: Two- to six-line initials are supplied in red or blue, some with extensions into the margins, some red initials decorated in blue. On [c3r] a 21-line initial ‘C' is supplied in interlocked red and blue, within a red and blue frame, serrated towards the right; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; underlining and capital strokes in red or blue. Contemporary inscription on [a1r]: ‘Secunda pars cronice Domini Anthonini'. Part 3: Two- to six-line initials are supplied in red or blue; some with extensions into the margins, some red initials decorated in blue, some blue initials in red; paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining and capital strokes in red. Contemporary inscription on [a1r]: ‘Tertia pars cronice Domini Anthonini'. Twenty-one line initial on [c3r] left blank. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); sale (1835), lot 227. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1835; note on endleaf of part 2 without date, and part 3 with date; sale (1837), lot 151. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 2.4-6.