F-su3k: Pharetra doctorum et philosophorum, "De amore inimicorum"
The leaf is identified with high confidence as part of the Pharetra doctorum et philosophorum, an anonymous florilegium of excerpts from the Fathers and other authorities arranged by subject, in its section on the love of enemies. The surviving entries, with their source labels, their internal cross-reference and their note of a parallel in the Decretum, are found together in the first printed edition. This is not the four-book Pharetra printed among Bonaventure's works, which shares a few excerpts but not the arrangement.
The Fragmentarium record describes a parchment leaf, Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, HS.2582/177, 336 × 239 mm, dated 1301–1350, catalogued as an unidentified theological text. Those catalogue details have not been reassessed.
- Identification: identified, high. About twenty entries on the clearer face correspond to the print, each with the same source label and opening, and three features belong to the compiler, not to any quoted source: "Idem in quadam omelia. Perfectus amor et perfectum odium etc. quere supra de amore proximi"; "... et transsumitur et habetur in decretis xxiii q. iiii"; and paraphrased entries such as "Precipua laus Romanorum fuit ...". Material alternatives examined: Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus florum (its Inimicicia has fourteen short entries in another order) and the pseudo-Bonaventure Pharetra (II.9 De ira shares three Chrysostom excerpts, with Gregory first).
- Transcription: source-assisted selected reading of entry labels and openings on the clearer face, read by a model partly from a reduced view; two image-only readings are preserved (first, native retry). Accuracy has not been measured. The faded face was read by a second model only.
- Verification: one model compared the manuscript image with the page images of the Munich copy of the print, fols. 39v–40v, directly. The comparison covers the entries listed below, not every word. No human review.
Textual evidence
Manuscript: [canvas labelled fol. [1]v](https://eu-img02.ext.exlibrisgroup.com/iiif/2/eyJyZWdpb24iOiJldS1jZW50cmFsLTEiLCJidWNrZXQiOiJldS1zdDAxLmV4dC5leGxpYnJpc2dyb3VwLmNvbSIsImtleSI6IjMyUlVHX0lOU1Qvc3RvcmFnZS9hbG1hLzdGL0U1LzU2LzlCL0FFLzZELzJELzIyLzIwLzVDLzVBL0RDLzNFL0Y5L0YxL0Y2LzkxMDAwMDY5MDM5NV8yMDIyXzAwMDFfTUEuanBnIiwicmVwX2lkIjoiMTIyNzYwNjA4MDAwMDkxNjEiLCJpbnN0YW5jZSI6ImV1MDYiLCJpbnN0aXR1dGlvbiI6IjMyUlVHX0lOU1QiLCJ3aWR0aCI6bnVsbCwiaGVpZ2h0IjpudWxsLCJ3bUtleSI6bnVsbCwid21XaWR0aCI6bnVsbCwid21IZWlnaHQiOm51bGwsIndtUG9zaXRpb24iOm51bGwsIndtUmVwZWF0IjpmYWxzZX0%3D/full/7706,/0/default.jpg), the clearer face, two columns. Print: [Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1472], Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 970 a (scan 84, fol. 39v; scan 85, fol. 40r; scan 86, fol. 40v).
| Manuscript, clearer face | |
|---|---|
| Left column, top: "... pacientia vobis necessaria est. Nichil adeo confusionem facit ingerenti mala sicut fortis tolerantia pacientis. Idem in eodem. Inimicicie si semel occupaverint animum omnia que fiunt que dicuntur que audiuntur ita accipiuntur et intelliguntur ut ad maiores et longiores proficiant inimicicias. Si quid enim boni dicatur de inimico non creditur. Si quid autem mali hoc solum creditur hoc firmatur." | Fol. 40r, right column, foot, to fol. 40v, left column: "Idem super illud ad Hebreos. Pacientia vobis necessaria est. Nichil adeo confusionem facit ingerenti mala sicut fortis tolerantia pacientis. Idem in eodem. Inimicicie si semel occupaverint animum, omnia que fiunt que dicuntur que audiuntur ita accipiuntur et intelliguntur ut ad maiores et longiores proficiant inimicicias. Si quid enim boni dicatur de inimico non creditur, si quid autem mali hoc solum creditur hoc firmatur." |
| "Idem in eodem. Permittimus pro rebus nullis contristari fratres et quasi qui nichil mali fecerimus satisfacere negligimus et oblivioni tradimus culpam et inimicicias in tempus longum protrahimus ignorantes quod tanto nobis longior erit pena quanto et discordia. Idem in quadam omelia. Perfectus amor et perfectum odium etc. quere supra de amore proximi. Idem super Iohannem. Osculum pacis porrigere tempore quo munera offeruntur in usu est. Set vereor ne plures ex nobis labiis tantummodo pacem faciant quam Christus non ex ore set ex corde desiderat et ex affectu vult proximum non solum amicum set etiam inimicum diligi vel amari." | Fol. 40v, left column: the same three entries in the same order and wording, with "tanto longior erit nobis pena quanto discordia". |
| Right column: "Nondum vindicatus est Christus, nondum vindicati sunt martyres Christi ..."; "Idem. Si quis inimicis nocere desiderat similis est illi qui gladio semetipsum transverberat ut alterius tunicam cedat"; "Idem in libro de civitate dei. Precipua laus Romanorum fuit ..."; "Idem in epistola ad Marcellinum. Cesaris mores extollens Cicero dicebat ..."; "Idem in epistola ad Severum episcopum et transsumitur et habetur in decretis xxiii q. iiii. Iniuria iniuste irrogata eius est infamia qui facit"; "Idem in libro de verbis domini. Dicit tibi deus dimitte ..."; "Idem ... et in sermone de beato Stephano. Dicet aliquis ..."; "Idem in libro de conflictu viciorum et virtutum. Odium dicit ... Dilectio vera respondit ..." | Fol. 39v, left column to right column: the same Augustine entries with the same labels, in the same order, from "Idem in omelia. Nondum vindicatus est Christus" to "Dilectio vero respondet ...". |
The print and the leaf do not arrange the section identically. On the leaf the Chrysostom entries are followed by a "Crisostomus super Matheum" entry, a group from Gregory, and then the Augustine group; in the print the Augustine group (fol. 39v) precedes the Chrysostom group (fols. 39v–40v), "Non sane convenit christiano" stands earlier within it, and Ambrose follows. Within the Augustine group the Enchiridion entry stands before "Si quis inimicis" on the leaf and after the De conflictu entry in the print. The leaf's seipsum/semetipsum and respondit/respondet are small verbal variants. The leaf is therefore a witness to the same compilation in a different order of authorities, not a copy of the text as printed. The Munich catalogue describes the Mentelin text as an alphabetically arranged and enlarged version, which is consistent with rearrangement between manuscript and print, but the relation between the two forms has not been investigated here.
The faded face, as read by a second model, carries the preceding part of the section (a Gregory entry; "Crisostomus de compunctione cordis libro i. Si tantummodo non ledas ..."; "Idem in libro de laudibus sancti Pauli ... nemo sic dilexit inimicos ..."; "Idem super Iohannem ... ploremus ..."), ending "Idem super illud", which the clearer face continues. Those entries stand in the print on fols. 39v–40r in that order. That face was not rechecked against the image.
Edition and attribution
The edition is recorded as GW M32924, ISTC ip00571000, BSB-Ink P-420 ("Pharetra doctorum. Alph. geordnete und erweiterte Fassung"), which also notes the unresolved question of authorship. The work is treated here as anonymous. A different printed book with a similar title, Nuremberg: Creussner, about 1473 (GW M32923), has the four-book arrangement by persons, vices and virtues and is not the text of this leaf.
No claim is made about the date or origin of the leaf, about the folio number that may stand at its head, or about its place among the manuscripts of the work.