tip01040000

Text-inc Id:

tip01040000

Bod-inc Id:

P-502

Headings:

Psalterium Psalterium (comm. Gabriel Brebia).

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Opening.] Incipit: ‘[I]n psalterii librum qui vnus ut diuus Hieronymus ad Sophronium ait . . .’ Followed by some prayers.
2. [a1v] Brebia, Gabriel: [Commentary to the psalter.] ‘Primi Psalmi Descriptio'. Incipit: ‘[H]ic in ordine libri primus apud Hebreos sine titulo est . . .’ The text is organized into three sections: the commentary proper, the text of the psalm, the prayer relating to the psalm. The commentary relies mostly on Jerome and Nicholas of Lyra; see B. Collett, Italian Benedictine Scholars and the Reformation: The Congregation of Santa Giustina of Padua (Oxford, 1985), 55.
3. [a2v] [Psalterium, Ps 1-151.]
4. [a2v] ‘Oratio Primi Psalmi'. Incipit: ‘[E]ffice nos domine tanquam fructuosissimum lignum . . .’
5. [N3r] [Cantica.] See P‑495, nos 1-11, 16, 15, 12.
6. [Q4v] Officium passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi.
7. [aa1r] Brebia, Gabriel: [Letter addressed to] Gregorius Beaqua Mediolanensis. Incipit: ‘Dum die quodam in corona honestorum virorum essemus . . .’ Acknowledging the help of the prior of S. Petrus in Gessate, Milan, called Urbanus Pagnanus (or de Paganis) Mediolanensis; Urbanus was appointed nineteenth prior of S. Petrus in 1475; see Collett 55. S. Petrus in Gessate was joined to the Congregation of Monte Cassino in 1436, then transferred to Milan; see Cottineau II 1851.
8. [bb1r] Brebia, Gabriel: Rubrica psalmorum.

Imprint:

Milan: [Printer of ‘Psalterio in volgare', 1476], 7 July 1477. 4°.

Collation:

[a–f⁸ g h¹⁰ i–z A–Q⁸ R⁶ aa bb⁸ cc⁴], not as BMC. Leaf [h6] blank, not as BMC. 342 leaves.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip01040000 HCR 3766; Goff P‑1040; BMC VI 733; Pr 5892; CIBN B‑770; Meyer-Baer p. 42; Sheppard 4908. LCN: 14086137

Copies:

1. P-502(1) Copy Leaf [a2v], l. 2: ‘b EATVS Vir: qui non abijt | in conſilio impiorum . . .’ The three gatherings containing the author's epistle, the rubrics, and his colophon are here bound at the end. Binding: Nineteenth-century half morocco over marbled pasteboards. Size: 205 × 145 × 57 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 133 mm. Some marginal notes, extracting key words and providing references to exact quotations in a sixteenth-century humanist hand in light brown ink. ‘961' in the upper left-hand corner of the front pastedown, in brown ink. Provenance: Embossed cipher: ‘L. F.' above, the sun between two stars, very small. Probably purchased in the nineteenth century. SHELFMARK: Auct. M inf. 1.4.