# Libro del Maestro & del Discipolo: Nelquale si dechiara la scriptura di molte sententie intitulato Lucidario: Novamente reuisto e da molti errori expurgato: & in lingua Toscha ridutto.



**Autore:** Honorius Augustodunensis

**Dati editoriali:** Venice, Melchiorre Sessa & Pietro Ravani, 15 December 1525

**Codice archivio:** 179

**Prezzo:** 1800.00 USD

**Stato commerciale:** Disponibile

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## Descrizione accademica e analisi

8vo (145x105 mm).[56] leaves. Colltion: A-G8. Title page within a woodcut frame with Sessa’s woodcut device in the center. Text printed in two columns. 19th-century quarter calf gilt, panels covered by marbled paper (slightly worn). Two quires browned, worm track to the outer margin in quire F and partly G not affecting the text, all in all a good copy. A rare and early sixteenth-century Venetian edition of the Italian Lucidario, belonging to the extensive vernacular tradition of Honorius Augustodunensis’s Elucidarium. The Italian text reached print before the Latin original, but the Italian textual tradition itself is not uniform. Research distinguishes an Italian translation mediated through French, surviving in approximately thirty manuscripts, and three translations from Latin conventionally designated Milanese, Bolognese, and Bergamasque. The relationship between these manuscript versions and individual printed editions must therefore be established textually rather than being assumed from their shared title. The Italian version first appeared in Milan in 1481 and was printed 46 times until the end the 16th century. The original Latin text was first printed in Milan in 1493. The work was also published in French, German, Czech and English in the 15th century. Honorius Augustodunensis was a theologian, exegete, and compiler whose writings helped organize substantial areas of medieval religious knowledge. His biography is considerably less secure than the transmission of his works. Although traditionally called “Honorius of Autun,” no convincing connection with that city has been established. Modern scholarship places his early intellectual formation in an English environment associated with Anselm of Canterbury and his later activity at Regensburg, where he may have lived as a recluse. The familiar birth and death dates are approximate rather than securely documented. His writings also include the Imago mundi, Clavis physicae, Speculum ecclesiae, and De luminaribus ecclesiae, the last containing his own account of his literary production. Composed around 1100, the Elucidarium became one of his most widely transmitted works. Approximately four hundred manuscripts, representing several recensions, are recorded by the repertory Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters. Its success extended beyond the Latin-reading clergy through translations and adaptations in several European vernaculars. The text is arranged as a dialogue between a questioning disciple and an answering master. Its three books concern divine things, ecclesiastical and moral questions, and the life to come. They move from God, creation, angels, humanity, and the Incarnation to sin, free will, providence, religious and secular conditions of life, death, judgement, and resurrection. The dialogue accommodates strikingly concrete questions: the human body is explained as a microcosm through correspondences with the elements; dreams are distinguished according to their origins; and bodily resurrection raises difficulties about lost limbs, hair, and nails. In the prologue, the author presents explanation as an obligation to share knowledge rather than conceal it. The result is more than an elementary catechism. Abstract doctrine becomes accessible through successive, manageable problems, often prompted by the apparent contradictions between religious teaching and bodily experience.

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## Bibliografia di riferimento

Edit 16, CNCE60524; USTC, 835832 (2 copies, in Florence and at the Vatican); Y. Lefèvre, L’Elucidarium et les lucidaires. Contribution, par l’histoire d’un texte, à l’histoire des croyances religieuses en France au Moyen Âge, Paris, 1954, pp. 343-477; V.I.J. Flint, “The Career of Honorius Augustodunensis.” Revue bénédictine, 82, (1972), pp. 63-86; M. Degli Innocenti, “I volgarizzamenti italiani dell’‘Elucidarium’ di Onorio Augustodunense.” Italia medioevale e umanistica, 22 (1979), pp. 239-318; G. Schmidt, “From Manual to Best-Seller: The History of Honorius Augustodunensis’s Elucidarium.” In Pavlína Cermanová and Václav Žůrek, eds., Books of Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe: Circulation and Reception of Popular Texts, Turnhout, 2021, pp. 137-163.

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