tip00933000

Text-inc Id:

tip00933000

Bod-inc Id:

P-441

Headings:

Pontificale Romanum (ed. Augustinus Patritius and Johannes Burchardus)

Analysis of content:

1. [*2r] Patritius de Picolominibus, Augustinus: [Letter addressed to] Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[S]anctissimo in Christo patri et domino nostro Innocentio ... Pontificalis libri emendationem, beatissime pater, tuo iussu aggressus sum ...’ [*3r] Explicit: ‘... plurium mensium lucubrationem dementer suscipere digneris. Vale.’ M. Dykmans, Le pontifical romain révisé au XV^e siècle, Studi e Testi, 311 (Vatican City, 1985), 108-9 n. 1.
2. [*3r] [Alphabetical table of contents] Pontificalis ordinis liber incipit. In quo ea tantum ordinata sunt, que ad officium pontificis pertinent, qui tres in se partes continet. In quarum prima de benedictionibus, ordinationibus et consecrationibus personarum. In secunda de consecrationibus et benedictionibus rerum. In tertia vero de quibusdam sacramentis et ecclesiasticis officiis agitur. Et primo in prima parte. See Dykmans 108-23; V. Leroquais, Les Pontificaux manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 3 vols (Paris, 1937), I pp. xi–xiv.
3. [a1r] Pontificale Romanum [Edited by] Augustinus Patritius and Johannes Burchardus. Prima pars: de benedictionibus ordinationibus et consecrationibus personarum. ‘Incipit prima pars, et primo De crismandis in fronte.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ontifex pueros seu infantes in fronte crismare volens paratus supra rochetum ...’ [q7r] ... etiam habetur supra in suo loco predicto per errorem sine notis impressa. [Pentagrams of notes] See Dykmans 111-16.
4. [q7r] Pontificale Romanum [edited by] Augustinus Patritius and Johannes Burchardus. Secunda pars: de consecrationibus et benedictionibus rerum. ‘Secunda pars incipit. Et primo de benedictione et impositione primarii lapidis pro Ecclesia edificanda.’ Incipit: ‘[N]emo Ecclesiam edificet priusquam pontificis iudicio locus et atrium designetur ...’ [G2r] Explicit: ‘... deinde dat ei osculum pacis dicens: pax tibi qui surgit et discedunt omnes.’ See Dykmans 116-19.
5. [G2r] Pontificale Romanum [edited by] Augustinus Patritius and Johannes Burchardus. Tertia pars: de quibusdam sacramentis et ecclesiasticis officiis. ‘Tertia pars incipit in qua de quibusdam ecclesiasticis officiis agitur. Et primo | De feria quinta in cena Domini.’ Incipit: ‘[H]ic die in toto orbe cristiano crisma et oleum sanctum ac oleum cathecuminorum conficiuntur ...’ [P9v] Explicit: ‘... tempore oportuno stans ante pontifice ei mitram imponat et deponat.’ See Dykmans 119-23.
6. [O9v] [Editorial close] ‘Explicit Pontificalis liber, magna diligentia reverendi ... domini Augustini Patricii de Picolominibus ... ac ... domini Johannis Burckardi prepositi et canonici ecclesie Sancti Florentini ... correctus et emendatus.’
7. [O9v] Colophon: ‘Impressus Rome, opera discreti viri magistri Stephani Plannck clerici Patavien. diocesis eius artis expertissimi, anno a Nativitate Domini Mcccclxxxv. indictione iii. die vero xx. mensis Decembris ... Et cum adeo difficile sit quod impossibile dici possit ... colligetur omnes in unum in huius libri impressione errores commissi, ut quisque illos possit intelligere commode et reformare.’

Imprint:

Rome Stephan Plannck Folio Secundo folio: [a3r] rationi quadrare visum 20 Dec. 1485.

Collation:

[*⁴ a–z⁸ A–N⁸ O¹⁰]. Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters.

References:

Source: Bodleian; Subiaco Ben (III B 20) ISTC: ip00933000 HC 13285; Goff P‑933; BMC IV 86; Pr 3670; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 777; CIBN P‑579; Meyer-Baer 229; Oates 1469; Rhodes 1464; Sheppard 2919. LCN: 14087870

Copies:

1. P-441(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [*1]. Binding: Eighteenth-century half green morocco with green paper boards, the spine gold-tooled. Gilt and gauffered leaves. Size: 338 × 240 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 330 × 236 mm. Some marginal notes, mainly noticing whether the office has to be performed with or without the mitre, in Marsuppini's hand. Some extra notation has been added in the margin on [l1r]. Some marginal notes, in correspondence with the consecration of the Virgin, have been added in a contemporary humanist hand; they include the following prayer on [l6v]: ‘[Benedictio velorum] Accipe vestem hanc in nomine domini quam preferas ante tribunal domini nostri Ihesu Chrysti Cui flectitur omne genu celestium terrestrium et infernorum qui cum deo patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum'. Modern manuscript foliation 1-297 in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos in brown ink. On [a1r] a historiated initial ‘P' is supplied in blue with foliate decoration in green and purple within a gold ground edged in black; the area defined by the letter is decorated with the image of a bishop. On the same leaf a three-quarter border is made of a green branch with purple and blue flowers, and with gold dots (Florentine style); see Pächt and Alexander II, 109 no. pr. 53 (Florence or Rome?). Other principal initials are also supplied in gold and colours, others in red or blue with purple or red pen-work decoration. Provenance: Leonardo Aspettati (fl. 1646), of Arezzo; in the outer margin of [M1r]: ‘Leonardo Aspettati Aretino 1646'. Jacopo Marsuppini (fl. 1658); inscription in the upper margin of [*2r]: ‘Jacobi Marsuppini Can[oni]ci Cath[edral]is Aretin[ensis] 1658'. Giovanni Jacopo Bacci (fl. 1704); inscription on [O10r]: ‘Questo libro è di Jacopo Giovanni Bacco nobile Aretino . . .', and in the lower margin of [*2r]: ‘Ex libris Joannis Jacobi Bacci Archidiaconi Ecclesie Cathedralis Aretin[ensis] 1704'; see [S. J. P. van Dijk] Latin Liturgical Manuscripts and Printed Books. Guide to an Exhibition held at the Bodleian Library during 1952 (Oxford, 1952), no. 79, which dates the ownership note to the sixteenth century. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 367, see Catalogue (1831) and sale catalogue (1839), lot 119. Purchased for £2. 10. 0: see Books Purchased (1842), 34. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 1.26.