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Beinecke MS 462 Austria, s. XV^^2
Adolphus of Vienna, Doligamus, etc.
1. f. 1r-v Gregorius dicit melius est et sanius est iuueni serpontem
[sic] feneficum [sic] amplexari quam meritricare...liber iste de
fraudibus mulieris existit etc.
Unidentified prose preface to art. 2, including an explanation of the name of
the work.
2. ff. 2r-31r Augurio docti fraudes didici mulieres/ De quarum fraude nemo
cavere potest/...Nec non quindenis, adolfus fecit egenis/ Me merces domini
detur huic ego bona fini.
E. Habel, ed., "Der Doligamus des Adolfus von Wien," Studi medievali,
Nuova serie, 11 (1938) pp. 103-47; MS 462 not listed. The text, a series of
fables concerning the deceitful conduct of women, is heavily annotated with
interlinear glosses and lengthy explanatory prose passages inserted both between
segments of the text and in the outer margins.
3. ff. 31v-80r Circa secreta mulierum initium. Notandum. homo generat
hominem et sol. Ista propositio scribitur a philosopho secundo phisicorum...
corrupte spiritaliter in memoriam delectacionis. etc. [colophon, enclosed in
red rectangle:] ante festum nicolaij vnum diem 1^^o primo. etc.
Unidentified commentary on art. 4, with prefatory material on ff. 31v-33v,
and large segments of commentary after each portion of text. Thorndike and
Kibre 636, citing only Vienna, Nationalbibliothek MS 5371*, ff. 19r-32v.
4. ff. 34r-79v [Prologue:] Dilectissimo sibi in christo socio suo et
amico carissimo...[text, f. 35r:] Sicut sicut [sic] scribit Aristoteles
secundo de generacione et corruptione...ut presens doctrina clare habeatur in
glosa etc.
Albertus Magnus, attributed author, De secretis mulierum; GKW v. 1,
719-66. For the manuscripts, editions, and attribution of the work to
Albertus Magnus see L. Thorndike, "Further Consideration of the Experimenta,
Speculum astronomiae and De secretis mulierum ascribed to Albertus
Magnus," Speculum 30 (1955) pp. 427-43; C. Ferckel, "Die Secreta
mulierum und ihr Verfasser," Sudhoffs Archiv fuer Geschichte der Medizin
und der Naturwissenschaften 38 (1954) pp. 267-74; B. Kusche, "Zur 'Secreta
Mulierum'-Forschung," Janus 62 (1975) pp. 103-23.
5. ff. 80v-83r [Heading:] Carmina enee postea pij pape de fridrico
imperatore. [text:] Incipe calliope cur nunc me deseris an non/ Materias uersu
dignas et appollinis arte/...Est populi [one word illegible] et sis pius
occuparuit.
Pope Pius II (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini), Carmen in laudem Friderici
Caesaris; poem written in praise of Friedrich III (1415-93), King of the
Germans and later crowned Holy Roman Emperor. G. Voigt, Enea Silvio de'
Piccolomini (Berlin, 1862; reprinted 1967) v. 2, p. 267.
6. ff. 83r-84v Incipe caliope. In hoc poemate eneas siluius alloquitur
caliopem que fuit mater orphei...notat appollo quod fridricus non peccat...//
Unidentified prose commentary on art. 5; ends imperfectly [?].
Paper (watermarks: similar to Piccard, Ochsenkopf XIII. 173 and XI. 201,
and similar in design to Briquet Main 11090, 11092-93), ff. i (paper) + 84 + i
(paper), 204 x 149 (155 x 92) mm. 13-49 long lines or lines of verse,
depending upon the proportion of text to commentary and interlinear glosses.
Frame-ruled in ink with prickings at corners of written space.
I-VII^^12.
Written by a single scribe in inelegant gothic cursive, with a smaller
script for commentary and interlinear notations.
Crude decorative initials, 2-line, in red, some with foliage designs in body
of letter; first letter of each verse stroked with red.
Some loss of marginalia due to trimming on ff. 8v, 9r.
Binding: s. xx. Red paste-paper case with a black, gold-tooled label.
Written in Austria in the second half of the 15th century. According to H. P.
Kraus (Cat. 125, Text Manuscript 1) "the handwriting of this codex has been
compared with a signed example of the writing of Nicolaus Mair, a schoolmaster
of Ulm, and found to be the same"; this has not been verified. Acquired by
H. P. Kraus from a German private collector
in 1966. Purchased from Kraus, 27 April 1970, as the gift of Edwin J.
Beinecke.
secundo folio: Augurio
Barbara A. Shailor