til00009000

Text-inc Id:

til00009000

Bod-inc Id:

L-009

Headings:

Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus Opera.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r [Table of contents.] ‘Rubrice.’
2. a11r 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. t4v Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus: De ira dei [addressed to] Donatus. Lactantius, De ira dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 67-132.
6. x6r 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. z3v [Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus: De phoenice carmen.] Lactantius, Opera omnia: 2/1: Carmen de ave phoenice, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 135-47.
8. z6r Ovidius [Naso, Publius]: Metamorphoses [extract]. Ov. Met. 15. 391-402.
9. z6r Dante [Alighieri: La commedia: Inferno xxv, lines 106-11]. Incipit: ‘[C]ossi per li gran saui se confessa | Chella phenice muore e poi renasce'; 6 lines of verse. Dante, La commedia. 2. Inferno, ed. Petrocchi, 411-12.
10. z6r [Fortunatus, Venantius: De resurrectione Christi. Also known as Carmen de pascha; addressed to Bishop Felix.] Incipit: ‘[S]alue festa dies toto uenerabilis euo | Qua deus infernum uicit et astra tenet'; 50 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.
11. z7v [Colophon.]
12. z7v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Arguit hic hominum sectas Lactantius omnes | Septeno falsas codice uera docens'; 5 elegiac distichs. See L‑005.
13. z8r ‘Registrum cartarum.’
14. [A1r] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: Epitome divinarum institutionum [chs 51-68]. ‘Nephithomon Lactantii Firmiani.’ Lactantius, Epitome Divinarum Institutionum, ed. Eberhard Heck and Antonie Wlosok (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1994), 75-117.

Imprint:

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 27 Aug. 1478. Folio.

Collation:

a¹² b–m¹⁰ n⁸ o–r¹⁰ s–x⁸ y¹⁰ z [A⁸]. Gathering [A] is unsigned, but the third and fourth leaves are numbered.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00009000 HC *9814; Goff L‑9; BMC V 233; Pr 4332; BSB‑Ink L‑7; CIBN L‑8; Oates 1728; Rhodes 1069; Sheppard 3498. LCN: 14450159

Copies:

1. L-009(1) Copy Leaf a1 mutilated. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century parchment with the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Manuscript title at the head of the spine. Sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 289 × 205 × 43 mm. Size of leaf: 270 × 187 mm. Early marginal annotations, including comments on the text, extraction of key words, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands. Provenance: Nicolaus [Sandonnino] (†1499), Bishop of Lucca (1479-99); mutilated inscription on a1v: ‘Dominus Nicolaus ex comitibus sancti donnini ciuis et episcopus Lucensis hunc Lactanti||[an entire line has been cut out] ||anno domini 1494 die xviii Junii 1494'. Giacomo Lucchesini (1753-1820); heavily erased inscription on the front pastedown: ‘Di Giacomo Lucchesini'; purchased in Florence via D. A. Talboys, Oxford, for £0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 13, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 446. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.8. SHELFMARK: Auct. P 5.4.