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St. Bonaventure University Manuscripts. Pre-1600

St. Bonaventure University ms. 1
Nikolaus, von Dinkelsbuhl, ca. 1360‑1433
Commentarium in IV Libros Sententiarum, liber IV
Late 15th century
Austria
481 leaves (30 x 22 cm.); Paper, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci 2:1877 (not Scotus); DeRicci Suppl. 410; Stegmuller 1:279-281

St. Bonaventure University ms. 2
Bible. N.T. Epistles.
Epistolae cum Glossa
15th century
Austria
207 leaves (30 x 21 cm.); Paper, glossed text
Bibliography: DeRicci 2:1877

St. Bonaventure University ms. 3
Paulus Wann
Sermones de Tempore Super Evangeliis
Late 15th century
Austria
Size: 237 leaves (29 x 22 cm.); Paper, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci 2:1877

St. Bonaventure University ms. 4
Johannes Marolf
Sermones de Sanctis
12/1/1469 (date from colophon)
227 leaves (29 x 22 cm.); Paper, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci 2:1878

St. Bonaventure University ms. 5                                   [Destroyed in fire in 1930] 
Catholic Church
Breviary (Franciscan)
1450?
Description: St. Bonaventure's Seminary Yearbook 13 (1929) 33 39.
Provenance: T. Plassmann (purchased in Rome in 1909)

St. Bonaventure University ms. 7
[Miscellany. Sermons & theological excerpts]
Contents: Peter d'Ally / Incipit: Sequitur expositio dominicae orationis (1r‑6v).-- Peter d'Ally / Incipit: Pater noster excelsus in creation (6r).--Peter d'Ally / Expositio orationis dominicae anagogice. Incipit: Pater Noster qui ... (7r‑8v).--Gilbert of Tours / De laude melliflui amoris Dominis nostri Iesu Christi. Incipit: Mulier chananea precibus ... (9r‑67r).--Epitaphium sponsi et sponsae de laude sapientiae sub typo Iacob et Rachel. Incipit:  Ego per cervos ... (67v‑68v).—Incipit: Pater noster privilegio condicionis (68v‑69r).—Bernard of Clairvaux / Incipit: Claritas patiens est … (69r‑70v).--Bernard of Clairvaux / Incipit: Sola caritas est quae in adversis (70v).--Sermo notabilis et magistralis super salutationem angelicam, Maria.Incipit: Ave gratia plena ... Legimus Virginem (70v‑77r).--Sermo notabilis de passione Domini nostri Iesu Christi. Incipit: Christo passo in cruce .. (77r‑82r)
15th century
82 leaves (12 x 8.5 cm.); Parchment
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 411

St. Bonaventure University ms. 8
Catholic Church
Antiphonary
15th cent? (Spain)
93 leaves (85.5 x 63 cm.)
Provenance: Alonso de Gudiel (1526 1573) ; M. Faust (from a Franciscan friary in
Barcelona, Spain)
Notes: Middle to back extensively water damaged in transit

St. Bonaventure University ms. 9
Bible. Latin
13th century
445 leaves (14.5 x 10 cm.); Parchment, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 411

St. Bonaventure University ms. 10
Bible. Latin
14th century
Walsingham, England
430 leaves (22 x 16 cm.); Parchment, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 411

 St. Bonaventure University ms. 11
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 1225‑1274
Commentum in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum Magister Petri Lombardi,  pars IV
[Text begins with distinction 42, question 2, article 2]
14th century
Vienna, Austria
149 leaves (29 x 22 cm.); Paper & Parchment (outside & center of each gathering)           
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 411

St. Bonaventure University ms. 12
Catholic Church.
Antiphonary (Spanish Mozarabic Rite)
14th cent.
152 leaves (37 x 28 cm.)
Notes: Extensive damage along fore edge extending far into each page. Some pages missing.

St. Bonaventure University ms. 13
[Miscellany. Sermons, canon law, & theological excerpts]
Contents: Index liber decretorum quem magister Gratianus (1r‑10r).--De usuris (11r‑32v).-- In festo corporis Christi. Incipit: Memoriam fecit mirabilium ... (38r‑40v).--De indulgentia portiuncle. Incipit: Ecce auferetis iniquitas ... (41r‑43v).--Contra Iudeos in die palmarum. Incipit: Ite in castellum ... (44r‑46v).—John, of Prato / Summula contractuum. Incipit: Usura primo quid ... (47r‑72v).--De voluntate Dei sermo II. Incipit: Ego sum hostium ... est domini Augustini ... (72r‑76v).--De voluntate Dei sermo II. Incipit: Ego sum hostium ... Vidimis in
precedenti ... (77r‑78v).--De oration. Incipit: Dirigatur domine oratio ... (79r‑82r).--De amore proximi sermo. Incipit: Diliges proximum tuum ... (82r‑85r).--De penitentia. Incipit: Audite queso sermones ... (85v‑89r).--De peccati ponderosa aggravatione. Sermo primus. Incipit: Qui diligitis dominum ... (89v‑93r).--Tractatus vel Sermo de confessione. Incipit: Narra si quid ... Quae verba exponentes ... (93r‑100v).--Sermo secundus de confessione et primo de eius integritate. Incipit: Narra si quid ... Expeditio primo mysterio ... (100v‑107v)
.—Sermo tertius de confessionis preparatione et doloristate. Incipit: Narra si quid ... Viso de confessionis ... (107v‑111v).--De peccato. Incipit: Qui diligitis dominum ... (111v‑114v).-- Sermo de gloriosa Virgine in annuntiatione. Incipit: Ave gratia plena ... In hac gratiossima ... (115r‑117v).--Sermo de gloriosa Virgine in annuntiatione. Incipit: Ave gratia plena ... Restat videre quomodo ... (117v‑120v).--De Virgine Maria. Incipit: Fecit mihi magna ... (120v‑124r).--Sermo de Beati Virginis Maria. Incipit: Ave Maria ... Sex dignitates ... (124r‑126v).--Tabula contentorum in hoc libro primo (127r)
After 1450
Italy
127 leaves (15.5 x 11.5 cm.); Paper & Parchment (outside & center of each gathering),
Single & double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 412; Dorothy Wayman. “Story By a Book” The Cord 10:1
(1960)

St. Bonaventure University ms. 14
[Miscellany. Spiritual readings, Franciscan readings & documents, and calendars]
France
Early 16th century
194 leaves (10 x 6 cm.); Paper
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 412

St. Bonaventure University ms. 15
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91‑1153
Sermo De Concepcione Gloriosissime Virginis Marie
Late 15th cent.
Germany
8 leaves (20 x 15 cm.); Paper
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 412

St. Bonaventure University ms. 17
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, 1217‑1274
In Sententias Petri Lombardi liber III
13th century
Pontigny, France
174 leaves (18 x 12 cm.); Parchment
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 412; Monique Peyrafort-Huin. La Bibliotheque medievale
      del’Abbaye de Pontigny. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001. 140, 563.

St. Bonaventure University ms. 18
Catholic Church
Graduale
72 leaves (16 x 13 cm.); Parchment

St. Bonaventure University ms. 19
Catholic Church
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis
1585
[14] 188 leaves (12 x 9 cm.)

St. Bonaventure University ms. 20
[Miscellany]
Contents: Francis, of Assisi / Regula (1r‑4r).--Nicholas III, Pope / Exiit qui seminat. (4v‑15r).--Clement V, Pope / Exivi de paradiso (15v‑22v).—Gerardus Odonis / Epistola ad Ministrum Provinciae Bononiae de acceptis Constitutionibus Benedicti XII  (22v).-- Benedict XII, Pope / Redemptor noster (22v‑29r).--Gregory IX, Pope / Quo elongati (29v‑30r).--Constitutiones Generales in Generali Capitulo loco Assisii a.d. 1354 Celebrato (31r‑57v).--Expositio Quattuor Magistrorum  Super Regulam Fratrum Minorum (58r‑65r)
14th or 15th cent.
Italy
65 leaves (20 x 14 cm.)

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