Item Summary

Collection consisting of one incunabula and two manuscript copies of works by John Chrysostom in Latin translation.

Descriptive Information

Title
Homiliae super Matthaeum ... [etc.]
Call Number
EXI BR65.C45 H63 1487q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9306td014
Publisher
[Germany], 1487-1490.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1487-1490
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 volume : paper ; 271 x 205 (192 x 138) mm bound to 283 x 220 mm.
Provenance
Second part of a Sammelband formerly in the library of the Content of the Crutched Friars of Hohenbusch. Intermediate provenance unknown. Sold in 1991 by bookseller Heribert Tenschert to J.R. Ritman, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Sold in 2001 at Sotheby's London to Princeton University Library.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 517-519.
Goff J-289.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. [viii] + crrr: Homiliae super Matthaeum. [Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1487]. Signatures: pi¹⁰,a-n⁸,o-q⁶,r⁸.
2. fol. 1r-14v: De cordis compunctione.
3. fol. 14v-30r: De reparatione lapsi.
4. fol. 30v: [Manuscript table of contents of Homiliae super Matthaeum]
Notes
Incipit: [De cordis compunctione] "Incipit liber sancti Johannis Crisostomi episcopi constantinopolitani de cordis conpunctione ad demetrum et cetera ad honorem ihesu Christi … Cum te intueor beate demetri frequenter insistentem mihi omni vehementia exigentem de cordis conpunctione sermonem ..." -- [De reparatione lapsi] Incipit liber beati Johannis episcopi constantinopolitani de reparatione lapsi. [fol. 15r] "Quis dabit capiti meo aquam oculis meis fontem lacrimarum [ Jer. 9:1] Opportunius multo nunc a me ... " -- [Opus imperfectum super Mattheum] "Tabula expositionum euangeliorum Johannis Crisostomi episcopi Constantinopolitani opus eius imperfecti super Mattheum evangelistam quod in hoc volume continentur. Et dicitur opus imperfectum quod ab 8 capitulo usque ad 19 in hoc opere nichil vel parum habentur. Dominica pascuaaduentus domini … De una virgine simile est regnum celorum decem uirginibus Mattheus xxv ..."
Explicit: [De cordis compunctione] "... inexecrabilis immortalibus flammis. Explicit liber secundus de cordis compunctione sancti Johannis episcope constantinopolitani." -- [De reparatione lapsi] "... hec libenter legas, alia ultra meditamenta non queras. Explicit liber beati Johannis crisostomi episcopi constantinopolitani de reparation lapsi, siue ad amanticum lapsum. Scriptum Anno domini Mcccco xco in prefesto Georgii martyris post Pascha per me Germanum ruremundum patrem conuentus altinemoris. Deo gratias."
Composite codex.
Title from published work.
Bookplate: "Philosophia Hermetica" and pencilled list of contents (upper pastedown), pencilled note (lower pastedown). Insert from Sotheby's.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + [viii] + crrr + 30 + ii ; manuscript foliated in pencil.
Layout: 38-36 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpaper: "DK" and coat-of-arms; Homiliae: bull's head, also star-crown, initial "P" and pot; manuscript: initial "P", other unidentified mark)
Decoration: Initial letters stroked in red, two 7-line blue initials.
Origin: [De reparatione lapsi] Copy completed 23 April 1490 by Germanus Ruremund from the Kreuzherrenkloster of Hohenbusch (fol. 30r).
Binding Note
Later binding. Germany, 18th century. Marbled calf over wooden board (12 mm thick). Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible Matthew—Sermons—Early works to 1800
Sermons, Greek—Translations into Latin—Early works to 1800
Repentance—Early works to 1800
Penance—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
350

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ccc1f6b8-eea9-412f-9abd-bd3e9800b514/manifest