Quae hoc libro continentur. Sedulii mirabilium diuinoru[m] libri quatuor carmine heroico. Eiusdem Elegia, in qua finis pentametri est similis principio hexametri. Eiusde[m] hymnus de Christo ab incarnatione, usq[ue] ad asce[n]sione[m]. Iuuenci de Euangelica historia libri quatuor. Aratoris cardinalis historiae apostolicae libri duo. Probae Falconiae ce[n]to ex Vergilio de nouo & ueteri testame[n]to. Homerocentra, hoc est centones ex Homero graece cum interpretatione latina. Opusculum ad Annu[n]tiationem beatiss. Virginis graece cum latino in medio quaternionum omnium. Lactantii Firmiani de Resurrectione Elegia. Eiusdem de passione Domini carmine heroico. Cyprianus de ligno Crucis uersu Heroico. Tipherni deprecatoria ad Virginiem Elegia. Oratio ad eandem uersu heroico. Oratio matutina ad Deum uersu heroico. Sancti Damasi de laudibus Pauli Apostoli uersus hexamteri. Elegia in Hierusalem. Ode in natali die Saluatoris. In die palmarum. De passione Domini. Ad Christum ut perdat Turcas. Epigramma ad beatiss. Virginem. Vita. S. Martini episcopi a Seuero Sulpitio prosa oratione. De miraculis. S. Martini Dialogus, ab eodem. De tralatione S. Martini ab eodem. Vita. S. Nicolai e graeco in latinum a Leonardo Iustiniano patritio Veneto.
Sedulius (5th century)
Category
Books
Date
1501 - 1502
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3014387
Summary
Bibliographic description
[294] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 7082. Second issue, with printer's warning on leaf pi8r: "Cautum est ne quis impune hunc quoq[ue] librum queat typis excudere". Wanting blank leaf [epsilon epsilon]4. Extensive water staining throughout. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full polished calf; sewn on five supports; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine with repeated dolphin and crown tool within fillet panels; brown leather spine label with gilt title 'Sedulius Juvencus & Homero Cent.'; red burnished bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Sedulius (5th century), author Arator, Subdiaconus (fl. 513-544), author Proba (fl.4th century), author Lactantius (c.240-c.320) , author Saint Cyprian (c.200-258) Bishop of Carthage, author Pope Damasus I (c.305 - 384), author Caius Vettius Aquilinus Juvencus (4th century), author Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c.540-c.600) Bishop of Poitiers, author Gregorio Tifernate (1414-ca. 1462), author Sulpicius Severus (c.363–c.425), author Leonardo Giustiniani (ca. 1388-1446), translator Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer