tig00235000

Text-inc Id:

tig00235000

Bod-inc Id:

G-115

Headings:

Gerson, Johannes Monotessaron, sive Concordantiae IV evangelistarum.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Gerson, Johannes: ‘Prohemium seu prologus.’ Gerson, Oeuvres, IX no. 450, 245-8.
2. [a2r] Gerson, Johannes: ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[E]wangelicas canones composuit Eusebius Cesariensis in Greco . . .’ Explicit:` . . .deambularis animo. Vale frater.’
3. [a2v] Gerson, Johannes: ‘Prohemium.’ Gerson, Oeuvres, IX no. 450, 248-9.
4. [a3r] ‘[T]abula continens 150 rubricas.’
5. [a5r] [Four tables of ‘rubricelle'.]
6. [a6v] [Table giving years and ‘Golden Numbers'.]
7. [a7v] [Rubric about the use of the concordance.] Incipit: ‘Circa lecturam istarum concordantiarum propere considerandum est . . .’ Explicit:` . . .omnium euangelistarum.’
8. [a8r] Monotessaron, sive Concordantiae IV evangelistarum. [Edited by Johannes Gerson.] Gerson, Oeuvres, IX no. 450, 249-373. This work consists of extracts from the four Gospels, with marginal commentary by Gerson.
9. [f7r] [Table.]
10. [f8v] ‘Rubricelle in magna rubrica 30.’ Incipit: ‘[O]cto beant lux lex racha(!) qui viderit est non'; 5 lines of mnemonic verse on the tables. For the reading ‘racha' see also G‑085 at¹ b2r.
11. [f8v] ‘Rubricelle in rubrica 141.’ Incipit: ‘[S]um via cum patre do vitis quia te sed odit'; 2 lines of mnemonic verse on the tables.
12. [f8v] ‘Rubricelle in rubrica 146.’ Incipit: ‘[P]oncio dant vinctum Iudas albis homicida'; 2 lines of mnemonic verse on the tables.
13. [f8v] ‘Rubricelle in rubrica 150.’ Incipit: ‘[T]res duo stabant auete fregit stat medio pax'; 2 lines of mnemonic verse on the tables.

Imprint:

[Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, c.1474]. Folio.

Collation:

[a¹² b–e¹⁰ f⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00235000 GW 10772; HC 7718; Goff G‑235; Pr 959; Sheppard 734; Voulliéme, Köln, 465. LCN: 14555715

Copies:

1. G-115(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) paper boards. Size: 305 × 224 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 297 × 216 mm. Early manuscript catchwords at the end of each gathering. Initials are supplied in red, blue or interlocked red and blue, paragraph marks in red or blue; capitals touched with yellow wash. Provenance: Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp on the recto of the front endleaf; see probably Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 2524, sold for £0. 3. 0, although this copy is described as ‘uncut'. J. S. Hall (nineteenth century); book-label: ‘J. S. Hall & amicorum'. Purchased for £0. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 22. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q inf. 1.12.