til00013000

Text-inc Id:

til00013000

Bod-inc Id:

L-014

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. a1v Bussis, Johannes Andreas de: [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, Pont. Max. Bussi 48.
4. a2r Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus: De divinis institutionibus. Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, ed. Brandt, CSEL 19, 1-672.
5. q7r Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De ira dei [addressed to] Donatus. Lactantius, De ira dei, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 67-132.
6. s3r 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. t4v Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: De phoenice carmen. Lactantius, Opera omnia: 2/1: Carmen de ave phoenice, ed. Brandt, CSEL 27, 135-47.
8. t5r Ovidius [Naso, Publius]: Metamorphoses [extract]. Ov. Met. 15. 391-402.
9. t5v 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.
10. t5v Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus [pseudo-; Fortunatus, Venantius]: ‘De resurrectionis dominice die.’ [Also known as De resurrectione Christi and Carmen de pascha; addressed to Bishop Felix.] ‘[S]alue festa dies toto uenerabilis aeuo | Qua deus infernum uicit et astra tenet'; 50 elegiac distichs. See L‑003.
11. t6r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Arguit hic hominum sectas Lactantius omnes | Septeno falsas codice uera docens'; 5 elegiac distichs. See L‑005.
12. t6r Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: Epitome divinarum institutionum [chs 51-68]. ‘Nephythomon Lactantii Firmiani.’ Lactantius, Epitome, ed. Heck and Wlosok, 75-117.

Imprint:

Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 4 Apr. 1497. Folio. A page-for-page reprint of the 1493 edition of V. Benalius (Goff L‑11; Bod-inc. L‑012).

Collation:

A a b⁸ c d⁶ e⁸ f–m⁶ n⁸ o p⁶ q–t^8.6 u⁶. Leaf A1 unsigned, A2 signed A, etc.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00013000 HC *9818; Goff L‑13; BMC V 522; Pr 5401; BSB‑Ink L‑12; CIBN L‑13; Rhodes 1072; Sack, Freiburg, 2207; Sheppard 4477. LCN: 14452609

Copies:

1. L-014(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Quintus Septimus Florentius Tertullianus, Apologeticus contra gentes. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [not after 1494] (T‑059). Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß. Size: 317 × 219 × 34 mm. Size of leaf: 308 × 202 mm. Provenance: Henricus [ ] (sixteenth century); inscription on A1r: ‘Henricum fratrem heredem esse volo istius libri post me'. Johannes Österreicher (sixteenth century); inscription on A1r: ‘Johannes Österreicher rector possessor constat 10 fl.' Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2481; purchased(1) for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835). 17. SHELFMARK: Auct. O inf. 2.13(1).