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Liber constitutionu[m] Sa[n]cte Matris Ecclesie:

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Description: Code of laws for the papal states promulgated by Cardinal Albornoz in 1357, also known as the Constitutiones Aegidianae, with additions that deal primarily with the Marches of Ancona. First printed at Jesi in 1473 with title: Liber constitutionum sanctae matris ecclesiae. The present edition contains additional legislation to 1480.
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Publication date: anno do[mini] .M.cccc.lxxxi die uigesimaprima me[n]sis Nouembris [21 November 1481].
Call number: 103149
Creator: Papal States(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, October 1924. Occasional contemporary marginal ms. annotations, some in same hand as manuscript continuation, and manicules.

Incipit liber prim[us] B[ea]ti Bernardi de co[n]sideratione ad Eugeniu[m] Papa[m]

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A treatise in five books addressed to Pope Eugenius III by Bernard of Clairvaux in which Bernard advises the pope not to let the duties of the papal office detract from his own spiritual life. Book two includes Bernard's explanation for the failure of the Second Crusade.

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Liber Uricrisiarum : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-134v. [Henry Daniel] Liber Uricrisiarum. Incipit: Uryne is as mekyll for to sayne in Anglish as on in þe reynes Reyns freynsh Renes latyn lendis in Anglish. Explicit: and fordone prowe exces of the malis of þe matere and of the maladye. Explicit liber uricrisiarum et cetera. [S]ic ergo cunctorum tradidi doctrinas eorum/ Quos reperivi vel quos reperire petivi . . . Laus tibi unigenite qui labor [sic] explicit iste/ Tu qui eterne manes hunc conservare digneris. Explicit liber uricrisiarum ex ex [sic] latino in vulgare editus a Fratre I [rubric left incomplete?]. English. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 1747. Thorndike and Kibre, col. 1608. Henry Daniel, Liber Uricrisiarum or Dome of Urines, an English compilation based on the Latin of Constantinus Africanus, itself a translation of Isaac Judaeus; see R. H. Robbins, "Medical Manuscripts in Middle English," Speculum 45 (1970) 399 footnote 14. The text in HM 505 has the Latin prologue, Bk. 1 (4 chapters), Bk. 2 (said in the prologue to comprise 17 chapters, but with 18 in the manuscript, numbered 1-12, 10, 7, 77-79, 81), Bk. 3 (said in the prologue to comprise 20 chapters, but with 30 in the manuscript, numbered 1-21, 23-24, 26-30, 32-33); the Latin verse epilogue gives the date of composition as 1379. Within the text are 2 English poems: in Bk. 2, chapter 6, f. 60v, "Tred eke the kennyth/ Sonday whate letter on rennyth . . . While þou lyuist in erthe. Nascitur proprie [?] Nos et Garlandus," for which see Schuler, n. 553 and Hanna, "Addenda," n. 62; the second English poem, in Bk. 2, chapter 7, f. 75v, "As holy wrytt wytnesse and telle/ There [sic] thingis shull neuer ben full felle . . . Sely is he that this evill fleen/ For the peyne of hell shall he not sene," for which see Hanna, "Addenda," n. 2. Author and title information in the rubric of the prologue: "Hic incipit prologus in librum uricrisiarum Ricardi Dodd, Dilecto socio in christo Magistro Waltero de Ketene Frater Henricus Daniell Ordinis Fratrum predicatorum servulus Ihesu christi et virginis matris eius. Amantissime socie pluries et instanter rogasti me ut de iudiciis urinarum saltem manipulum unum florum tibi carpam atque vel breviter tibi scribam et hoc ydiomate in vulgari . . . ".

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Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie. = Das büch der vergift der pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein sterbent der Trü̈sen Blatren. / Von Jeronimo Bru[n]swig

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Largely based on Heinrich Steinhöwel's treatise on the plague, first printed in Ulm in 1473. Entire passages are copied verbatim. Printed on Chancery-size paper, measuring 28.8 x 20.4 cm. In double columns with 42 lines and headline to a full page; col. width: 6.5 cm.; area of text: 20.6 (21.6) x 13.7 cm. With many ornamental printed initials, some initial spaces with guide-letters, and printed fists in margins; without catchwords. Includes 23 woodcut illustrations (many repeated) of various sizes, which generally depict doctors in consultation with each other and at patients' bedsides. Cf. Schramm. Signatures: A⁴ B-G⁶. Huntington Library copy has "doch vnderwegen liess vnd" in the colophon. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: stiff vellum.

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Fr[atr]is Baptist[a]e Man. Carmelit[a]e theologi ad reuere[n]dissimu[m] i[n] Christo patre[m] ac d[omi]n[um] D. Oliueriu[m] Carafa[m] Sabinen. ep[iscopum] & cardinale[m] Neapolitanu[m] De suo[rum] t[em]por[m] calamitatib[us] liber f[a]elicit[er] i[n]cipit

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Bound at the end of: Baptista, Mantuanus. Parthenice prima. [Paris: Georg Wolf or Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, approximately 1499] (RB 84691). -- Baptista, Mantuanus. Parthenice secunda. [Paris: Georg Wolf for Jean Petit, approximately 1499] (RB 84692). With additions by Franciscus Ceretus. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.5 x 12.4 cm. Text in one column. Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2h⁶ 2i-2k⁸. Huntington Library copy has the de Marnef printer's device on the final page. Binding: stiff vellum.

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F[rat]ris Baptistae Man. Carmelitae theologi ad reuere[n]dissimum in Christo patre[m] ac D[omi]n[u]m D. Oliueriu[m] Carafa[m]: Sabinen. Ep[iscopu]m & Cardinale[m] Neapolitanu[m] De suo[rum] t[em]poru[m] calamitatibus

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Imprint from colophon. Full colophon reads: Calamitatum nostri temporis op[us] diuinu[m]. Parisiis impressum per Michaele[m] Lenoir. Anno natiuitatis domini millesimo nonagesimo octtauo die decima tertia mensis Marcij. Includes additions by Franciscus Ceretus. Woodcut printer's device on title page and illustration of the Crucifixion on the title page verso. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.9 x 12.8 cm. Text in one column. Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2h⁶ 2i-2k⁸. Illustration on t.p. verso and capital letters on leaf a2r touched in yellow. Binding: half green morocco with marbled paper.

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Hic codex Auienii co[n]tinet Epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] Arati Phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico: & oras maritimas trimetro iambico: germanici quoq[ue], & Marci Tulii Arati fragmenta, & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis

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This volume contains the Arati Phaenomena by Avienus (leaves a4r-d3v); Avienus's Latin version of Orbis terrae descriptio by Dionysius Periegetes (leaves d3v-f6r); Ora maritima by Avienus (leaves f6r-g7r); Phaenomena by Germanicus Caesar, with a commentary by Avienus (leaves h1r-m8v); Aratea by Cicero (leaves m8v-n6v); and Liber medicinalis by Serenus Sammonicus (leaves n7r-p6r). Edited by Victor Pisanus. Cf. dedication, leaf a2. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.4 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column with guide letters. Includes 38 woodcut illustrations in the Germanicus Caesar which are, in part, reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, from blocks previously used by T. de Blavis. Cf. BM 15th cent. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸ (a1, g8, p7-8 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1, p7-p8 lacking. Binding: Old English red morocco, in brown morocco solander case. Binder's stamp on case: Bound by Riviere & Son.

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