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Julianus Toletanus / De comprobatione aetatis sextae, etc.

1. f. ir-iiv Variorum Patrum Opuscula

Table of contents followed by a brief publishing history of the texts which describes article 6 as "ineditus" and probably "spurius." Later additions, in lead, in a twentieth-century hand.

2. f. ir-36v Incipit liber de comprobacione sexte etatis

[Oration:] Accedam ad te domine in humilitate spiritus mei loquar tibi quia multam spem et fiduciam dedisti mihi. . . ad te perueniens gloriosus factus in ea bonam tibi de eius defensione rationem rediturus accedat.

[Text:] Inclito et glorioso Erugio Regi Iulianus seruulus uester. prephacio. Peritorum mos iuste est medicorum ubilibet uulnus serpit in corpore ferro uulneris materiam preuenire. . .

Expl.: Viam perdidisti uiam sequere ut uiam uenias ad salutem. deo gratias. Finit liber tercius et ultimus.

Julianus Toletanus, De Comprobatione Aetatis Sextae; PL 96, 537-586.

3. ff. 36v-37v Inc.: Gayus caligula annis iiii, menses X. Claudius menses xi.

Nero annis xiiii.

Expl.: Theodora regina cum ipso graecorum [?] regnauit anno i. Michael nomous [sic] regnauit anno i. Amen

Continuation of article 2; a chronology of the Roman Empire from the birth of Christ through Michael.

4. ff. 38r-v In nomine domini. hic est liber testimoniorum de christo et de eterna eius natiuitate editus a sancto Ysidoro ad florentinam sororem suam. 1. De christo. 2. Quia Christus de patre genitus est. . . 48. Et cum nobis ueteris testamenti Iudicem et regem de prophetis.

Table of contents for Article 5.

5. ff. 38v-80v [Preface:] Incipit prefacio ysidori Iunioris testimoniorum. Et primo de christo Domine sancte sororis florentine ysidorus. Quedam que diuersis temporibus in ueteris testamenti libris prenunciata sunt de natiuitate domini secundum diuinitatem. . . ut quam consortem perfruo sanguinis coheredem faciam et mei laboris.

[Text:] Quia christus de deo patre genitus est

Inc.: Iudei nefaria incredulitate christum dei filium abnegantes Impii duri corde prophetis

Expl.: solemnitates tabernaculorum non obseruamus quia tabernaculum dei sancti eius sunt. In quibus habitat in eternum deo gracias. Amen Amen Amen

Isidore, De fide catholica; PL 83, 449-538.

6. ff. 80v-98r Incipit liber de predestinatione et diuina gratia domini Ieronymi presbyteri.

Inc.: Quidam de predestinatione et diuina gratia disputante asserare uisi sunt.

Expl.: inuestigare non ualet humana curiositas et spiritualia sunt. A quo et in futuro ab omnibus reuelanda sunt. Qui est gloria in secula seculorum. Amen

Unidentified text attributed to Jerome.

7. ff. 98r-107r In nomine domini incipit libellus proemiorum a sancto dei uiro ysidoro episcopo editus.

Inc.: Plenitudo noui et ueteris testamenti quam in canone catholica recipit ecclesia Iuxta uetustam priorum traditionem ista est.

Expl.: Ad ultimum memorat resurrectionem mortuorum celique nouitatem et terram ornatam descriptionemque Ierusalem. flumen eciam baptisimi mundum lignumque uite Dominum Iesum Christum.

Isidore, In libros Veteris et Novi Testamenti Proemia; PL 83, 155-80.

8. ff. 107r-117v Incipit expositio nominum uel quorumdam testimoniorum noui ac ueteris testamenti

[Preface:] Domino sancto ac reuerendissimo francisco orosio ysidorus yspalensis sedis episcopus. Quaedam notissima legis et evangeliorum que sub allegoria ymaginarum obteguntur et interpretacione aliqua egent. . . Explicit prefacio Incipit tractatus.

[Text:] Adam figuram gestauit christi. nam sicut ille sexta die formatus est ad ymaginem dei Ita sexta mundi etate filius dei carnis formam induit.

Expl.: Publicanus autem gentilis est populus. qui longe a deo positus confitetur peccata sua quorum unus superbiendo recessit humiliatus. Alter con//

Isidore, Allegorie Quaedam Sacrae Scripturae; PL 83, 97-127; text ends incompletely.

Paper (watermarks: Similar to Briquet Indéterminés 16073), ff. iv (modern paper, a contemporary flyleaf has been glued to f. ii)+ i (parchment) + 117 + i (contemporary paper) + iv (modern paper), 195 x 136 (138 x 80) mm., foliation possibly in the hand which wrote article 1, c. 35-40 unruled lines, with single horizontal and vertical bounding lines in ink. Prickings visible in outer margin.

I2, II14 (-2, 3, 4), III-VIII12, IX10, X12 (+ back flyleaf). Vertical catchwords along inner bounding line.

Written by a single scribe in a small, spidery, and difficult to read gothic cursive above the top line.

Numerous crude, 2- to 3-line red initials throughout. Red underlining and paragraph markers; sentence strokes in yellow. Occasional marginal drawings in brown ink with yellow.

Outer margin repair in final three leaves is made from now badly deteriorating paper.

Binding: United States; 20th-century brown cloth with Howard L. Goodhart's gold crane stamped on cover. On spine gold-tooled on green leather label: JULIAN/ ISODORUS/ & OTHERS/ MSS. XV CENT .

Written in the fifteenth century. Provenance unknown. Unidentified [Sotheby's ?] catalogue entry glued to flyleaf. In the collection of Howard L. Goodhart (2 bookplates; in lead: "Census 1675 pencil no. 112"), and left by him to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.

secundo folio: f. 2: adfuturum

Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 404, no. 112.

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