Rare Books
Pastoral miscellany : [manuscript]
- Description
- ff. 1r-v, 3-8: Alphabetical subject index to the 2 printed books, referring to folio number. The present f.1, a fragment, bound in reverse. ff. 8-9v, 2r-v: Calendar, now misbound, including the following entries, Reinold (7 January), "Valerii archiepiscopi trevirensis" (29 January), "Lutgeri episcopi monasteriensis" (26 March), "Arbogasti episcopi argentinensis" (29 March), Translation of Liborius (28 April), "Adventus sancti liborii episcopi" (28 May), "Maximini archiepiscopi Trevirensis" (29 May), Cantianus, Cantius and Cantianilla (31 May), "Medechardi archiepiscopi trevirensis [sic for tornacensis]" (8 June), Ulric (4 July), Kilian (8 July, in red), Liborius (30 July), Meinulf (5 October, in red), "Severi archiepiscopi trevirensis" (22 October), "Severi archiepiscopi coloniensis" (23 October), Cunibert (12 November), Fridolin (14 November), "Illatio sancte marie" (26 November), "Nicetii archiepiscopi trevirensis" (5 December), David (30 December). ff. 8-9v, 2r-v. [Brief texts in the margins below the calendar]: Hugo in persona Christi dicit serva salutem tuam . . . , In scripturis sanctis sunt profunda misteria . . . , De vana laude, Amator vane laudis de uno ribaldo . . . , Contra Accidiam, Proverbiorum 12, Nolite declinare . . . , Contra gulam et ebrietatem, Albricanus brixensis vitare debemus commesstiones. f. 10r-v: [Brief texts on the duties of a preacher]: Predicator tria in se habere debet. Primus debet cogitare qualiter vel quid aut unde loquatur . . . , Predicator debet esse verax. Baltasar rex libenter audivisset levia et sibi placabilia a daniele . . . , Predicator debet tria peccatoribus proponere . . . , Predicator bonus debet peccatorem ad viam reducere veritatis tribus modis. . . . ff. 111-113. De sacramentis, Sacramenta ecclesie septem sunt. Primus est baptismus in aqua et spiritu sancto ... item splendor solis non polluitur si sordidam fenestram pertranseat. ff. 113-117. [Brief texts concerning the powers of the priesthood]: Sequitur de sacerdotibus, Sacerdos a quibus possit absolvere a quibus non licet dominus, sacerdotibus claves contulerit ligandi et solvendi . . . , Sacerdos absoluit vere sicut enim potest ligare auctoritate clavium . . . , Sacerdotis officium non usurpent sibi layci, hoc dico propter quosdam modernos hereticos qui dicunt se missas posse celebrare . . . , Sacerdotibus obedit creatura insensibilis Ideo vult dominus ut eis distincte loco sui obediatur in omnibus . . . , Sacerdotum magna est dignitas . . . , Dupliciter deus honorat sacerdotes . . . , Sacerdotibus est obediendum . . . , De Auctoritate et potestate sacerdotum. Sacerdotibus magna auctoritas seu potestas est collenda . . . , Sacerdotium christi tripliciter honoravit . . . , Excommunicare potest sacerdos aliquem pro triplici contemptu . . . , Decimas bene solvere est valde utile. . . . ff. 117-118v. [Brief texts on the following]: De parentibus. Parentes sunt honorandi duplici honore . . . , Parentes honorantes plurima bona consequentur . . . , Parentes non honorantes . . . , Ieiunias potius in quadragesima . . . , Ieiunium cur sit xla diebus . . . , Ieiunare excusantur infirmi . . . , Ieiunare tenentur . . . , Ieiunium duplex est malorum et bonorum . . . , Ieiunii veri multiplex est effectus. . . . f. 118v. De Amore, Amor intensus socium non patitur. f. 118v. Propheta,Non est propheta sine honore in patria sua ... [6 short extracts from the New Testament]. ff. 119-121v. Temptacio, Circa temptationem quattuor sunt nominanda ... promisit deus diligentibus se. Tu autem domine miserere nobis deo gratias. Amen. ff. 121v-122. Exposicio dominice oracionis, Pater noster et cetera. Sciendum quod ista oracio dicitur oratio dominica ... et in tua gloria admirabili cum sanctis tuis perpetue gloriari. Amen. f. 122. Duodecim articuli fidei per apostolos. Petrus, Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem creatorem celi et terre ... f. 122v. De die dominico. Qui non servatis dies dominicos et alias festivitates ... iocunditas civium iustorum et piorum humilium et castorum. f. 123r-v. [Distinctions and short verses on mercy, mercy of God, virtues and vices, and other subjects]. On f. 216v, the last leaf of the incunable, with upper 2/3 lacking, the remainder contains additional notes in Pilter's hand. f. 216v: [last leaf of incunabulum, upper 2/3 of leaf lacking, the remainder contains additional notes in Pilter's hand].
- Date
- [approximately 1478-1480]
- Call number
- 103501a
- Provenance
- Purchased from A. S. W. Rosenbach, 1923. Written by Johann Pilter, who also left his name at various places in the volume: f. 111 (at end of Herolt's Sermones), "Ego Iohannes pylter pro nunc possessor huius libri eundem illuminavi anno 1480 In Ieiunio quadragesimali deo gratias"; f. 174v (contemporary foliation, f. 277v), "Anno domini Mo cccclxxviiio Hos sermones et postillas Ego Iohannes pylter mecum duxi de Treveri circa festum sancte Margarete cum ibi presens eram cum clusenario meo de Wehene scilicet hinrico tuleman deo gratias. Amen." In 1487, he gave the book away: f. 215v (contemporary foliation, f. 318v, at the end of the printed book), "Istum librum ego Iohannes pylter plebanus in Sydinchuss concessi ad bonam custodiam devoto patri domino conrado lovelinaus [?] terciario in hovegeismare usque ad revocationem, in presentia domini Iohannis Conradi et Iohannis de Ad[?] ipso die beate Anne in Buren, anno 1487." Iohann Pilter wrote and gave a number of manuscripts to Eberhardsklausen (Windesheim Congregation) near Trier between 1459 and 1486. He came from Warburg in the diocese of Paderborn, held a benefice in Buren, and served as rural priest in Zidinchuss near Buren; he is probably not the same person as Johannes de Buren, d. 1503 (Colophons, nn. 9085-9095). This book was not among the books which Pilter left to Eberhardsklausen and which passed to the Staatsbibliothek in Trier in 1802, since he gave it to a Franciscan of Hofgeismar (cf. note f. 215v), where it apparently remained until the secularization. Belonged to Leander van Ess; his initials in pale red ink on f. 3 of the manuscript. Sold by him to Sir Thomas Phillipps. On a printed paper label on the upper spine, "183," the number of this book in the Catalogus Incunabulorum of former van Ess books in the Phillipps collection. In ink on the front pastedown and on a square printed label on the lower spine, the number "119." "81" in modern pencil on f. 3.
- Dimensions
- 208 x 268 mm
- Associated people
- Pilter, Johann, (1772-1847,)
- Ess, Leander van, (1792-1872,)
- Phillipps, Thomas,
- Associated organization
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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