Item Summary

Religious miscellany consisting of incunabula and manuscript works.

Descriptive Information

Title
Floretus in se continens sacre theologie & canonum flores ad gaudia paradisi finaliter eos (qui se in illis exercitauerint) perducentes ... [etc.]
Call Number
EXI PA8360 .L52 1494
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc7d279772z
Publisher
[Germany], [between 1450 and 1500]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1450-1499
Extent
1 volume : paper ; 204 x 144 (143-159 x 89-102) mm bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Final part of a Sammelbad formerly in Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Peter in Salzburg. Later owned by Ned J. Nakles. Sold after his death in 2000 by Christie's, New York. In 2002 sold by Christie's London to Princeton University Library.
Source Acquisition
Purchased from Christie's, London, sale of Wed 20 Nov 2002, lot 31(consigned from a Private European library, i.e. Percy Barnevik.)
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library (Princeton, 2013), vol. 2, p. 519-520.
Goff B-394, L-31, A-1098, B-36.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. [104] pages: Floretus in se continens sacre theologie & canonum flores ad gaudia paradisi finaliter eos (qui se in illis exercitauerint) perducentes. Poem; with a typographically distinguished anonymous commentary. Erroneously attributed to Saint Bernard. Contains 1 woodcut. [Cologne, Germany : Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1494]. Signatures: 2A-2G⁶,2H⁴,2I⁶ (2C3 and 2C4 signed "ciij" and "ciiij" respectively).
2. xxi leaves: Speculum conscientie et nouissimorum ; Soliloquiu[m] regis eterni superni ; Soliloquium anime delicate ; Alphabetum exhortatorium. [Speyer, Germany : Conrad Hist], 1446 [i.e. 1496]. Signatures: a-b⁶,c⁴,d⁶.
3. [16] leaves: Speculu[m] artis bene morie[n]di : de temptat[i]onibus, penis infernalibus interrogat[i]o[n]ibus agonisantium, et varijs orat[i]onibus pro illorum salute faciendis. Contains 1 woodcut. [Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, ca. 1495]. Signatures: a⁶,b⁴,c⁶.
4. 78 pages: Aphorismi compunctionis theologicales. Contains woodcuts. [Strasbourg : Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 6 Jan. 1497].
5. fol. 1r-15r: Compendiosus tractatus de arte loquendi.
6. fol. 15r-25r: Exhortatio de celebratione missae.
7. fol. 29r-44r: Opusculum devotum pro animi retentatione a distractionibus et laudibus in divinis.
8. fol. 44r: [Prayer]
Notes
Incipit: [Compendiosus tractatus de arte loquendi] "Compendiosus tractatus de arte loquendi et tacendi multum vtilis. Quoniam indicendo multum errant nec est aliquis qui linguam suam ad plenum valeat domare ..." -- [Exhortatio de celebratione missae] "Tractatulus compendiosus per modum dyalogi tumdis ac deuotis viris editus Instruens non plus curam de pullis et carnibus habere suillis quam quo modo verus deus et homo qui in celis est digne tractetur. Ostendens insuper etiam salubres manuductores quibus minus dispositus magis habilitatur et cetera. Incipit exhortatio dei celebratione misse per modum dyalogi inter pontifecem et sacerdotem. Quando vox illi iustitie auribus meis ..." -- [Opusculum devotum pro animi] "Opusculum devotum pro animi retentatione a distractionibus et laudibus in divinis. [A]nte orationem prepara animam tuam ..." -- [Prayer] "O Rosa pulcherissima … tuo filio inter Angustias derelicta terneris. Amen".
Explicit: [Compendiosus tractatus de arte loquendi] "... ad instructionem suorum filiorum composites. Impressus Colonia Anno domini mo cccc lxxxvi pridie nonas decembris." -- [Exhortatio de celebratione missae] "... et timere qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit exhortatio de celebratione misse per modum dyalogi inter pontificex et sacerdotem. Anno domini m⁰ cccc⁰ nonagesimo secunda die lune Mensis Aprilis et cetera." -- [Opusculum devotum pro animi] "... mortem et sepultuam se occupaxit."
Composite codex.
Title from first published work.
Pencilled list of contents (upper pastedown). Title label and two ownership labels on spine. Label on upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. [104] + xxi ; manuscipt has modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 27 lines lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (printed texts: initials, pot, bull's head; manuscript: anchor, unidentified circular mark)
Decoration: Printed material: woodcuts include a title vignette with motto: Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti; Manuscript: initial letters of sentences stroked in red, unexecuted 3-line initials.
Origin: [Compendiosus tractatus de arte loquendi] Copied after 1486.
Binding Note
Later binding. Germany, 16th century. Tawed pigskin blind-tooled in the form of a cross of St. Andrew. Pink leather index tabs (one missing). Remnants of clasp and ten center- and cornerpiece bosses.

Discovery Information

Subject
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Middle Ages—Poetry
Theology, Doctrinal—Early works to 1800
Death—Religious aspects—Christianity—Early works to 1800
Christian life—Biblical teaching—Early works to 1800
Aphorisms and apothegms—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin—New Jersey—Princeton
Incunabula
Poetry
Watermarks
Woodcuts
Blind tooled bindings
Centerpiece and cornerpiece bindings
Bosses (Bindings)
Clasps
Sammelbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
356

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/32de077f-0d98-477f-ac0d-1f4fd3ceae97/manifest