Accession number
PML 20996
Creator
Godefridus, de Vorau, active 1332.
Object title
Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnarum rerum naturaliu[m] Lumen anime dictus.
Published
[Reutlingen] : [Michael Greyff?], 7 July 1479.
Description
[268] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnarum rerum naturaliu[m] Lumen anime dictus. cum septem apparitoribus. necno[n] sancto[rum] docto[rum] orthodoxe fidei p[ro]fessorum. Poetarum etiam ac orato[rum] auctoritatib[us]. per mod[um] pharatre s[ecundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti collectis. felicit[er] incipit
Explicit (leaf [35]/8r): Liber lumen anime dictus feliciter explicit. Qui post diutina[m] occultatione[m] divina coop[er]ante gracia. non sine magnis laborib[us] ad laudem omnipotentis dei. tociusq[ue] triumphantis ecclesie honorem [et] decorem. atq[ue] in maiorem fructum ipsius militantis ecclesie pioru[m] filiorum. simulq[ue] utilitatem. stagneis caracterbi[us]. primum in luce[m] est p[ro]ductus. Annoq[ue] a nativitate d[omi]ni .Millesimoquadringentesimo septaugesimo nono quarta feria post udalrici. su[m]ma cu[m] dilige[n]tia [con]plet[us].
Printed in Greyff's type 1:93bG.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁶ ⁸ 3-4⁸; 5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7⁶ 8-31⁸ 32-33⁶ 34-35⁸]: 268 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
A reprint of Sorg's edition of 3 Sept. 1477 (ISTC ib00341400).
A substantially altered recension of the Lumen Animae A (attributed to Berengarius de Landora), compiled by Gottfried of Vorau in 1332; edited by Matthias Farinator. On the authorship, see VL V:1050-54 and Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, "The Texts called Lumen Animae," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 41 (1971): 5-113.
Wrongly attributed to Berengarius de Landora. The text is also treated as anonymous (Goff) or found under the editor's name, Matthias Farinator (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.6 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [1]/1 (blank).
Checklist enters item under editor's name.
Explicit (leaf [35]/8r): Liber lumen anime dictus feliciter explicit. Qui post diutina[m] occultatione[m] divina coop[er]ante gracia. non sine magnis laborib[us] ad laudem omnipotentis dei. tociusq[ue] triumphantis ecclesie honorem [et] decorem. atq[ue] in maiorem fructum ipsius militantis ecclesie pioru[m] filiorum. simulq[ue] utilitatem. stagneis caracterbi[us]. primum in luce[m] est p[ro]ductus. Annoq[ue] a nativitate d[omi]ni .Millesimoquadringentesimo septaugesimo nono quarta feria post udalrici. su[m]ma cu[m] dilige[n]tia [con]plet[us].
Printed in Greyff's type 1:93bG.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁶ ⁸ 3-4⁸; 5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7⁶ 8-31⁸ 32-33⁶ 34-35⁸]: 268 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
A reprint of Sorg's edition of 3 Sept. 1477 (ISTC ib00341400).
A substantially altered recension of the Lumen Animae A (attributed to Berengarius de Landora), compiled by Gottfried of Vorau in 1332; edited by Matthias Farinator. On the authorship, see VL V:1050-54 and Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, "The Texts called Lumen Animae," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 41 (1971): 5-113.
Wrongly attributed to Berengarius de Landora. The text is also treated as anonymous (Goff) or found under the editor's name, Matthias Farinator (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.6 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [1]/1 (blank).
Checklist enters item under editor's name.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin with decorated paper sides over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark: C I 113 and inscription: Farinator auctore, R.SP (front fly leaf recto); [not in his sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826; inherited by his son: Cornelius Inglis, but his sale is after Culemann?]; Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (1811-1886), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 Feb. 1870, lot 330 (tipped to rear pastedown), to Tross for £2; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1920.
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