MS. Canon. Misc. 536
Summary Catalogue no.: 20012
Contents
1. (fol. 1)
Patristic sententiae Incipit: Si humilis et quietus non fueris non potest habitare in te gratia Spiritus Saneti. Augustinus.
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 16)
Hymns Incipit: Stabat mater dolorosa
Chevalier 19416
Incipit: Stabat mater speciosa, Justa fenum gaudiosa Dum jacebat parvulus
Chevalier 19418
Incipit: In hoc anni circulo Vita datur seculo Nato nobis parvulo
Chevalier 8614
Incipit: Ave vivens hostia et vita[sic], In qua sacrificia cunta sunt finita, Per te Patri gloria datur infinita, Per te stat ecclesia jugiter munita.
Chevalier 2278
Incipit: Recordare, frater pie, Septem vicibus in die Passionis Domini
Chevalier 17040
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 26v)
, Scala paradisi Extracts from gradus 1-14 (not numbered) in the version of Ambrogio Traversari
Rubric: Notabilia extracta de climaco
Incipit: Impius quis [in margin]. Impius est rationalis mortalis creatura sponte vitam fugiens
Explicit: rapiuntur illecebris [end of gradus 14]
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 42)
Apostles' Creed with concordance of prophets Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 46)
Incipit: Deo servire est regnare
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 48)
Sententiae from Seneca, Aristotle, etc.
Language(s): Latin
8. (fol. 52v)
, Laude to fr. Zuane de Laverna Rubric: A frate Johanne de Laverna che in quaranta se senverna a lui mando questa B scripta che da lui deia e lecta
Language(s): Italian
9. (fol. 53)
, De gradibus animae Incipit: Primus status per quem transit
Language(s): Latin
10. (fol. 53v)
Extracts from Cassiodorus, Seneca, Aristotle, ete.
Language(s): Latin
11. (fol. 65)
Verses on the image of Christ
Incipit: Quisquis precipuam Cristi spectare peroptat
Language(s): Latin
12. (fol.65v)
Versus on pride
Incipit: Non ual superbia ira ne crudel sdegno
Language(s): Italian
13. (fol. 66)
, Verses to Mary Magdalen (from Seniles 14.15) Incipit: Dulcis amica dei
Bertalot 1328
Language(s): Latin
(fols. 66v–69v)
Mostly comprised of inscriptions and epitaphs copied at Rome, c. 1474-6.
14. (fol. 66v)
Verses at the church of S. Giovanni in Oleo
Rubric: Sanctus iohannes euangelista
Incipit: Martirii calicem bibit hic athleta Johannes
Final rubric: Ex ecclesia S. Johannis ante portam Latinam Rome scripsi versus predictos in die stacionis ejusdem 1476.
Language(s): Latin
15. (fol. 67)
Rubric: Sanctus Bernardus, Romae in S. Johanne Lateranensi
Incipit: Cellum ridet, angelus gaudet
Language(s): Latin
16. (fol. 67)
Verses on Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Rubric: Rome ante sanctam mariam maiorem
Incipit: Tertius Eugenius Romanus papa benignus
Bertalot 6306
Language(s): Latin
17. (fol. 67)
Verses on the Dominican convent at Rome
Rubric: Rome ad mineruam in conuentu fratrum predicatorum
Incipit: Romanus hic populus coluit delirando Minervam
Language(s): Latin
18. (fol. 67v)
Verses at St Peter's Rome
Rubric: De petro apostolo in curtiuo rome sub naui apostolorum ad sanctum petrum
Incipit: Quem liquidos pelagi gradientem sternere fluctus
SK 13148
Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, II.1.323, 420
Language(s): Latin
19. (fol. 67v)
Verses at St Peter's Rome
Rubric: In capella sancti petri
Incipit: Summa Petri sedes est, haec sacra principis aedes
Bertalot 6133
Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, II.1.420
Language(s): Latin
20. (fol. 67v)
Rubric: Rome ex monasterio sancti sabe abbatis in quo ostenduntur corpora titi et vespasiani que uidi in die stacionis sancte prisce . 1476
Incipit: Conditur hoc tumulo Titus cum Vespasiano
Bertalot 796
Language(s): Latin
21. (fol. 67v)
Carmina in Italie laudem
Rubric: Italia dominus F. P. qum exiret ex galia in italiam et esset in vertice gibenne montis hec de eius laude italie composuit carmina
Incipit: Tellus tuta bonis
Language(s): Latin
22. (fol. 68)
Petrach's epitaph for himself Incipit: Frigida Francisci lapis hic tegit ossa Petrarche
Colophon: 1474, 19 Julii
Bertalot 1883
Walther 6910
Language(s): Latin
23. (fol. 68v)
Rubric: Viro insigni F. Petrarche Laureato, Franciscolus de Brossano Mediolanensis, gener individua conversatione, amore, propinquitate, successione, memoria, in vila Arquati, districtus Paduae
Incipit: Roma vetus, veteres dum te rexere Quirites
Final rubric: Rome ex sancta maria trans tiberim ubi antiquitus erat taberna meritoria. Taberna est domus proprie in qua panis uinumque et carnes venduntur
Bertalot 5368
Walther 16879
Language(s): Latin
23. (fol. 68v)
Epitaph of Pius II in convent of S. Francis; distichon.
Rubric: Papa pius in conuentu sancti francisci
Incipit: Siluius hic iacet coniux victoria metum est
Language(s): Latin
25. (fol. 68v)
Rubric: Calpurnia anthis fecit
Incipit: Dextra, fama mihi fuit et fortuna
Bertalot 1151
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI(2). 14211
Language(s): Latin
26. (fol. 69r)
Verses at S. John Lateran, Rome, 1476
Rubric: Rome ex sancto iohanne lateranensi ubi papa dat benedictionem. 1476
Incipit: O virgo genitrix una et sine conjuge mater
Bertalot 3990
Language(s): Latin
27. (fol. 70)
De pace et amore, de eucharistia, etc. .
Language(s): Latin
28. (fol. 70v)
Sententiae from Bernard, Gregory, John Gerson, Rabanus, Chrysostom, Lactantius, aliisque; mana, altera
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper, folded in octavo; watermark difficult to see, but probably cf. Piccard, Anker, IV.165-6, 168-9 (used 1482-8)
History
Origin: 15th century, late (after 1476)
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.