til00010000

Text-inc Id:

til00010000

Bod-inc Id:

L-011

Headings:

Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus Opera.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r [Table of contents.] ‘Rubricae.’
2. a7r Antonius Raudensis: [Errata Lactantii.] A list of errors in the works of Lactantius; see L‑002.
3. a8v [Montaltus] Genuensis, Adam: [Verse censuring Antonius Raudensis.] Incipit: ‘Hic male corripuit stolidis Antonius ausis'; 4 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.
4. b1v Bussis, Johannes Andreas de: [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Bussi 48.
5. b2r Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus: De divinis institutionibus. Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, ed. Brandt, CSEL 19, 1-672.
6. p11v Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De ira dei [addressed to] Donatus. Lactantius, De ira dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 67-132.
7. q8r Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De opificio dei vel de formatione hominis [addressed to] Demetrianus. Lactantius, De opificio dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 3-64.
8. s2r Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De phoenice carmen. Lactantius, Opera omnia: 2/1: Carmen de ave phoenice, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 135-47.
9. s4r Ovidius [Naso, Publius]: Metamorphoses [extract]. Ov. Met. 15. 391-402.
10. s4r Dante [Alighieri: La commedia: Inferno xxv, lines 106-11]. Incipit: ‘[C]ossi per li gran saui se confessa | Che la phœnice muore e poi renasci'; 6 lines of verse. Dante, La commedia. 2. Inferno, ed. Petrocchi, 411-12.
11. s4r Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius Firmianus] Firmianus [pseudo-; Fortunatus, Venantius]: ‘De resurrectionis dominicae die.’ [Also known as De resurrectione Christi and Carmen de pascha; addressed to Bishop Felix.] ‘[S]alue festa dies toto uenerabilis euo | Qua deus infernum uicit et astra tenet'; 50 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.
12. s5v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Arguit hic hominum sectas Lactantius omnes | Septeno falsas codice uera docens'; 5 elegiac distichs. See L‑005.
13. s5v Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: Epitome divinarum institutionum [chs 51-68]. ‘Nephythomon Lactantii Firmiani.’ Lactantius, Epitome, ed. Heck and Wlosok, 75-117.

Imprint:

Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 21 Apr. 1490. Folio.

Collation:

a–f⁸ g⁶ h–k⁸ l⁶ m–o⁸ p¹⁴ q r⁸ s⁶ t⁴. Leaf b1 unsigned, b2 signed b, etc.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00010000 HC 9815; Goff L‑10; BMC V 477; Pr 5262; BSB‑Ink L‑9; CIBN L‑10; Sheppard 4340. LCN: 14450205

Copies:

1. L-011(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf a1. Binding: Parchment, with two parchment endleaves. The name of the author is written along the fore-edge in black ink. Size: 312 × 214 × 53 mm. Size of leaf: 306 × 207 mm. Marginal notes, apparently in sixteenth-century(?) hands, including comments on the text, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands; also corrections and underlining in the text in black ink. Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); shelfmark no. 442, see catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £1. 12. 0: see catalogue (1841), lot 50, and Books Purchased (1842), 26. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 3.30.