Egregium opus subtilitate et deuoto exercitio precellens paruoru[m] opusculoru[m]
By: doctoris seraphici sancti Bonauenture ; Prima[-Secunda] pars
Contributors: Husner, Georg, d. 1505, printer; Martinis, Octavianus de, d. ca. 1500; Pavini, Gianfrancesco, d. 1486; Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495; Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484; Erzabtei St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria); Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [Georg Husner]
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Impressi Argentine
Language: lat
Subjects: Doctrines; Theology; Early works to 1800; Mysticism; Doctrinal Theology; Catholic Church
Other titles: Egregium opus subtilitate et devoto exercitio precellens parvorum opusculorum
Work titles: Selections
Notes: Includes many texts no longer attributed to St. Bonaventure.

Place and dates of publication from colophons.

Publisher from Goff.

Signatures: v. 1: [1]⁸ 2-4⁶; a⁸ b-g⁸/⁶ h-z⁶/⁸ A-M⁶/⁸ N-P⁶ Q-Z⁶/⁸ 2A⁶ 2B⁸ 2C-2D⁶ 2E⁸ (2E8 blank); v. 2: A⁸ B-C⁶; 2a-2b⁸ 2c-2q⁶/⁸ 2r-2t⁶ 2v-2z⁸/⁶ 2A-2Q⁸/⁶ 2R⁶ 2S-2Z⁶/⁸ 3A-3E⁶ (3E6 blank).

Vol. 1: [26], CCCLV [i.e. 353], [1] leaves (the last leaf blank); v. 2: [20], CCCXLIX, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank).

Errors in foliation: v. 1.: CCCLII-CCCLIII omitted.

Text in 2 columns; capital spaces, with guide-letters.

Three of the ill. are pulled from the same block.

"Oratio in uitam et merita diui Bonauenture, p[er] insigne[m] iuris vtriusq[ue] doctore[m] disertissimu[m] Octauianum de Martinis ...": v. 2, leaves I verso-V verso.

"Relatio R.P.D. Johannis Francisci de Pauinis ... Circa canonizatione[m] beati Bonaue[n]ture ...": v. 2, leaves V verso-XX verso.

"Sermo magistri Roberti [Caracciolo?] de laudibus sancti Bonauenture ...": v. 2, leaves XX verso-XXIII.

"Bulla de canonizatio[n]e s[an]c[t]i Bonauenture", by Sixtus IV: v. 2, leaves XXIII-XXIII verso.

Includes indexes.

LC copy has initials in red; bound in blind-stamped leather over wooden boards. Vol. 1 has retained its clasps, v. 2 is wanting them.

Goff B-928

Hain-Copinger 3468*

GW 4648

BM 15th cent., I, p. 144-145 (IB. 1963)

LC copy has bookplates: Ex Bibliotheca antiquo--nova Monasterii ad sanctum Petrum Salisburgi O. S. Benedicti ab Anno 1767, in alium ordinem redacta.