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.; St. Peter in Salzburg (Abbey),; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [Georg Husner]
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Impressi Argentine
Language: lat
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.; Mysticism -- Early works to 1800.; Theology -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Egregium opus subtilitate et devoto exercitio precellens parvorum opusculorum
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.
LC copy has bookplates: Ex Bibliotheca antiquo--nova Monasterii ad sanctum Petrum Salisburgi O. S. Benedicti ab Anno 1767, in alium ordinem redacta.
Goff B-928
Hain-Copinger 3468*
GW 4648
BM 15th cent., I, p. 144-145 (IB. 1963)