Epistola missa cuidam infecto predicatori in praga. Dyalogus lucidarii. Sermo bonus

Item Information

Title:
Epistola missa cuidam infecto predicatori in praga. Dyalogus lucidarii. Sermo bonus
Title (alt.):
Dyalogus lucidarii
Sermo bonus
First lines of Epistola ; Eloquenti viro domino et verbi dei seminatori in praga
First lines of Elucidarium [prologue] ; Sepius rogatus a condiscipulis quasdam questiunculas enodare importunitati illorum non fuit facilitas negando
First lines of Sermo bonus ; Legit in pokalypsi [?] quod dominus Iohanni in insula pathmos in captiuitate posito pro consolatione facienda
Title (uniform):
Bible. Revelation--Sermons||Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156. Elucidarius
Description:
A composite manuscript produced by at least 3 scribes, demonstrating similarities in layout and perhaps having a common place of origin. Contents are from a volume which formerly included additional manuscript material. The first work (Epistola missa) and several shorter works which follow it, are concerned with the question of reception of Communion under both species, a contentious issue with members of the Utraquist reform movement in Prague. Utraquism and other quasi-heretical views of the theologian Johann Müntzinger are considered in the pronouncements of the theological and canon law faculty which follow. The second half of the volume is largely comprised of the Lucidarium, (or Elucidarius) attributed to Honorius of Autun. Written as a dialogue between student and master, this immensely popular theological summa dates from the late 11th century. BPL's manuscript appears to be complete, with minor differences in spelling and word order from the text of Lefèvre's edition. The final work in this volume is the short Sermo based on the Apocalypse of St. John.
Contributor:
Müntzinger, Johannes, -1417
Contributor:
Reuter, Caspar, active 1385
Former owner:
Guerrini, Joachim, -1918
Contributor:
Univerzita Karlova
Contributor:
Universität Wien. Theologische Fakultät
Auctioneer:
Leonard & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Date:
[1385]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Gothic scripts
Numbers (Provenance)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Canon law--Early works to 1800
Sermons--Texts--Early works to 1800
Dialogues--Texts--Early works to 1800
Lord's Supper--Theology--Early works to 1800
Utraquists--Early works to 1800
Theology, Doctrinal--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources
Catholic Church--Theology--Early works to 1800
Catholic Church--Doctrines
Müntzinger, Johannes, -1417
Extent:
72 leaves : paper ; 291 x 215 (198 x 140) mm bound to 30 cm
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Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1r-20v: Epistola missa cuidam infecto predicatori in praga.
2. fol. 21r-24r: Alia dubia de communione sub utraque specie.
3. fol. 24v-28v: Declaratio articulorum infra scriptorum alme universitatis Biennensis ... [beginning] Petrus apostolus Iesu christi katholici gregis pastor
4. fol. 28v-34r: Declaracio magistrorum sacre theologie sancte universitatis studij pragensium [beginning]
5. fol. 34r-36v: Declaracio articulorum cuiusdam licenti Juris Canonici universitatis Bienensis. [beginning]
6. fol. 37r-70r: Dyalogus Lucidarii [beginning]
7. fol. 70v-72r: Sermo bonus.
Referenced by:
Link to full item description
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Place of production unknown; possibly South Germany, Austria, or Czech Republic. Date surmised from contents of the Epistola and associated opinions of faculty at University of Vienna and University of Prague on the doctrinal views of Johann Müntzinger, a Dominican theologian who taught in Ulm until his censure in 1385.
Sources of information: 1. fol. 1r- 36v, Opening rubric: Epistola missa cuidam infecto predicatori in praga -- 2. fol. 37r-70r, Opening rubric: Dyalogus lucidarii -- 3. fol. 70v-72r, opening rubric: Sermo bonus.
Origin: Written in South Germany, Austria, or Czech Republic in late fourteenth or early fiftenth century.
From a volume which included additional manuscript material. Several works are introduced by a later hand on the preceding page; on 24r a 16-line paragraph describes the following declarations from 1385 of the universities of Vienna and Prague and the canon law faculty of Vienna, repeating the explicit of that section and the name of the scribe Casper Reuter. The same hand has added an introductory comment on leaf 70 for the Sermo bonus which follows: "Sequitur sermo in quo 4 equi, quos vidit S. Joannes in insula Pathmos..." On the verso of final leaf 72 is described a manuscript which is no longer present: "Sequitur peregrinatio transmarina F. Udalrici ordinis minorum in qua mirabilia ...obiit [?] Fr. Vdalricus Ao. i33i die 14 januari post morte[m] miraculis claras ....".
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL in October 1878 from the auction house of Leonard & Co., Boston. Formerly in the collection of Joachim Guerrini, O.F.M., with his stamp on first leaf: "Ex libris ad usum Fr. Joachim Guerrini O.S.F. concessus."
Notes (date):
Not before 1385.
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: qua angelus celum Adam paradisu[m] Saul.
Collation: Paper, fol. i (19th-century paper) + 72 + fol. i (19th-century paper) ; 1-6¹² ; horizontal catchwords in rubricated frame in margins of Epistola, horizontal unrubricated catchwords in Dyalogus lucidarii (1 trimmed by binder); With modern pencil foliation. Epistola missa and Dyalogus lucidarii have each been paginated in later Arabic numerals by the same hand. Alia dubia and other documents are not paginated, nor is the Sermo bonus.
Layout: Epistola missa written in 2 columns, of 34 lines; frame ruled in light plummet, vertical bounding lines full-length. Dyalogus lucidarii written in 2 columns of 33-35 lines; frame ruled in ink. Sermo bonus in 2 columns 34 lines, with bounding lines ruled in pen with light brown ink.
Script: Written in a gothic hybrid, cursiva libraria[?].
Decoration: Epistola missa has large rubricated capital, flourished letters in top lines of text. The Alia dubia begins with large rubricated Q. Red and green decorated initials and paragraph marks are present in the university decrees of Vienna and Prague. Large red initials begin Dyalogus lucidarii and signal the beginning of Books 2 and 3. Large red capital letter begins the Sermo.
Binding: 19th-century sheep over pasteboard blindstamped with imitation period diaper pattern and harps; rebacked. Coral endsheets and acidic flyleaves. Modern auction number "1149" pencilled on front pastedown.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Lefèvre, Y. L'Elucidarium et les Lucidares. Paris: Boccard, 1954.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_020125
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.261
MS G.401.37 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091107282