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601J Libellus meditationum

601J

Pseudo-Augustine; Saint Augustine 354-430; Bernard of Claravallensis

1090-1153; Peter Damian 1007-1072; Saint Anselm of Canterbury, 1033-1109; Vincent Ferrer 1350-1419; Maffeo Vegio 1407-1458; Pope Pius II,(Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini) 1405-1464,

Medtationes divi Augustini episcopi Hyppoensis Soliloquia eivsden Manuale eidsdem Castigaissime. [a¹]    

   Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico.  8 Oct. 1498                                                                   $5 500

Octavo, 14 ½x10 Cm. Signatures: π⁴, a-n⁸, o^{10 [colophon]}, l⁸, m¹², p⁸.[o¹⁰,m¹², p⁸are blank and present] Second edition. Bound in later full vellum, a large copy with some deckle edges. Woodcut printer’s device C on leaf o9 verso. For Britannicus’s device C, see BM 15th cent., VII, 972 .  Second edition variations in texts though. Bound in later full vellum, a large copy with some deckle edges. 

Title and list of contents π¹r; Title page,a¹r   1)[Pseudo-] Augustinus [Pseudo- Anselmus; Jean de Fécamp]. Meditationes, caption “Invocatio dei omnipotentis ad morum et vite reparationem”, The invocation of the Almighty God for the reparation of character and life.

      2) a²r-e⁵r; [Pseudo-] Augustinus. Meditationes,

      3) e⁵r-i³r; [Pseudo-] Augustinus. Soliloquia,

      4) i³r-kkv [i.e. l1v],  Manuale including preface, i³r-v; [Pseudo-Bernardus Claravallensis    .               [i.e. Hugo de Sancto Victore]. Meditationes de cognitione humanae conditionis,

      5)  l²r-m⁸v; [Pseudo-] Bernardus Claravallensis. Epistola de perfectione vitae,

      6) n¹r-n²r; Petrus Damiani. Sermo unicus [i.e Institutio monialis, chapt. 6],( De Institutione monialis, which had the aim of safeguarding Western Christians from the decadent uses of the East. Notable in this work, among other things, Damiani, then Bishop of Ostia, condemned Maria Argyre’s use of a golden fork to eat. ‘Forks were a new invention at the time.)

       7) n²v-n³r; Anselmus Cantuariensis. Meditatio de redemptione generis humani, 

       8) n³v-n⁷r; Anselmus Cantuariensis. Orationes ad sanctam Mariam virginem, 

       9) n⁷r-o⁷v; Father N. Laudensis [Maphae⁹us Vegius? Jacobus Arrigoni Laudensis?]. [Verse], incipit “Mens mea q[ui]d cogitas? Quid tantis / ceca procellis / Sponte tuam credis mox peritura ratem?”, “My mind, what are you thinking? Why are you so blind / blind to the storm / Do you automatically believe that your rate will soon perish?”

       10-18) o⁸r :8, elegiac distichs,; Pius II, Pont. Max. In laudem divi Augustini, o⁸r-v; Maphaeus Vegius. Epigramma in laudem Monicae, o⁸v-o⁹v; colophon, ov; printer’s device, o⁹v; Vincentius Ferrerius. De vita spirituali [also known as De interiori homine formativus], 

       19) ²l1r-²m11v; 

20) p¹r-p⁷v. [Pseudo-] Bernardus Claravallensis. Sermo de passione domini . 

   Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico.  8 Oct. 1498                                                             Price $5,500

18 semi mystical texts in this beautiful and excellent little book, maybe eleven Authors, So from the top I will try to discuss the authorship and the texts!

United States of America
Baltimore MD, The Walters Art Museum Library
Chicago IL, The Newberry Library
Collection of the late Phyllis and John Gordan, New York NY
New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library
Philadelphia PA, Free Library of Philadelphia, Copinger-Widener Collection
San Marino CA, Huntington Library
Stanford CA, Stanford University, Green Library
University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University, Eberly Family Special Collections Library
Goff A1294; HC(Add) 1951; IGI 1013;Sajó-Soltész 406; IBE 126; IBPort 35; Madsen442; SchmittII2828,15; Hubay(Eichstätt)110; Oates2628; Pr6998; BMC VII 980; BSB- Ink L-136; GW 2972 (Pseudo-Augustinus)

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