Nicolaus, de Gorra (1210-1295 (ca.))
Composite manuscript from the Dominican Monastery of Basel, written in the 14th century by a single hand. This former liber catenatus contains a commentary on the Hohelied (Song of Songs) by Thomas Aquinas' student Giles of Rome (Ægidius Romanus, ca. 1243-1316), a commentary by the Dominican Nicolaus de Gorran (1232-ca. 1295) on the Canonical Epistles, as well as the Postilla on Ecclesiastes secondarily attributed to John of Sancto Geminiano.
Online Since: 12/20/2016
- Nicolaus, de Gorra: In septem epistolas canonicas commentarii accedente addditione incerti auctoris in fine (132ra-214va)
Incipit: Misse sunt epistole ex regis nomine per veredarios β 133vb in epist. Iac.: I. in prol. Ps. Hier. "non ita ... = Stegmüller, Rep. bibl. 1, S. 303 Nr. 809 Ad commendacionem autem operis Ieronimus premittit 135ra II. in epist. Iac.: Iacobus dei 1,1. Hec epistola principaliter
Explicit: θ In epist. Iudae 25: valet tamen aliis. Unde ipsi sunt arguendi ne alii imitentur ipsos. Deo gracias qui est benedictus in secula seculorum amen
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- Aegidius, Romanus (Author) | Johannes, de Sancto Geminiano (Author) | Nicolaus, de Gorra (Author) | Pantaleon, Heinrich (Annotator) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This small-format manuscript contains for the most part sermons (pp. 3–49). They have been numbered (1–39) in the margin by a later hand, which also wrote the title Sermones de tempore and the ownership mark Liber s. Galli on p. 3. According to Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150–1350, II.766 und IV.49 and Hamesse, Repertorium initiorum manuscriptorum latinorum medii aevi, No. 31477, the authors of these sermons include Lothario dei Segni (Innocent III), Hugh of Saint-Cher, and Nicholaus de Gorran. A wide range of texts follows on p. 49: seven short letters or letter formularies on pp. 49–51 (including from the Abbot of Isny to the Abbot of Blaubeuren, from the Duke of Bavaria to two bailiffs, from parents to their son, studying in Padua, and from the student to his parents); mnemonic aids on the Eucharist, the duties of a confessor, the seven sacraments, etc. (p. 51); an additional sermon (p. 52) (by Lucas de Bitonto; Schneyer, Repertorium, IV.56, No. 88); the Fifteen Portents of the Last Judgment (p. 53); Odo of Cheriton's Parabola De rustico et eius domino (p. 54); a Tractatus naturalis, inc: Cum alterius nature sit truncus, alterius surculus (pp. 55–62); a commentary on Aristotle's De anima, inc: Bonorum honorabilium noticiam [...] subiectum huius libri de anima est anima prout est coniuncta corpori (p. 63-77). The manuscript, bereft of ornamentation, is bound in an early-modern cardboard binding that has been covered in fragments of a printed missal.
Online Since: 04/25/2023
- Aristoteles (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Caro (Author) | Innocentius III, Papa (Author) | Lucas, de Bitonto (Author) | Nicolaus, de Gorra (Author) | Odo, de Ceritona (Author) Found in: Standard description