B-001 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus Silvae morales.

B-001 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus 

Silvae morales. 

a1 r [Table of contents.] 

r 

a2 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de 

Sinemuro and Petrus de Sinemuro. 

refs. Renouard, Badius, II 67^70. 

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a4 [Alphabetical index.] 

b1 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Primus moralium Silvarum’. 

refs. Renouard, Badius, I 158. 

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b1 Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-; Ausonius pseudo-?]: Vir 

bonus [De institutione viri boni].‘[V]ir bonus et prudens, qualem 

uix repperit ullum . . .’ 

refs. Prete 95 no.2 (Green 105 no. 20); Appendix Vergiliana 

(Oxford, 1966), 167^8. See Henkel, Schultexte, 314. 

b1 r Calderinus, Domitius: ‘Commentarium’. Incipit: ‘‘‘[V]ir 

bonus’’. Sermo de uiro bono hic habetur . . .’ 

v 

b1 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[V]ir 

bonus et sapiens.’’ Quisquis inquit uir bonus . . .’ 

c2 r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘In epistola ad Quintium’. 

refs. Hor. Ep. 1. 16. 74^9. 

c2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘‘‘[V]ir 

bonus et sapiens.’’ His uerbis Horatius complectitur paradoxon 

illud . . .’ 

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c3 Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De ludo contra auariciam et 

iram’ [From Carmina XII sapientum]. 

refs. Riesse, I/2, 59^61; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, IV 

119^20; seeWalther, Initia, 18488; Schaller 15573. 

c2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam 

quidem rei publicae incolumitati . . .’ 

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c6 Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De liuore seu inuidia’ [from 

Carmina XII sapientum]. 

refs. Riesse, I/2,102^3; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, IV 

153^4. See Walther, Initia, 10378; Schaller 8980. 

c6 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[L]iuor 

tabi¢cum etc.’’ Monstratum est auariciam et iram infestissima . . .’ 

c8 r Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De Venere et vino’ [from 

Carmina XII sapientum]. 

refs. Riesse, I/2, 99^100; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, 

IV 150^1. See Walther, Initia, 11706; Schaller 10135. 

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c8 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[N]ec 

veneris etc.’’ Si penitioribus oculis Virgilianam dicendi formam 

conspexeris . . .’ 

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d2 Vergilius Maro, Publius [pseudo-]: ‘De litteraY’ [from Carmina 

XII sapientum]. 

refs. Riesse, I/2, 98^9; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens, IV 

149^50. See Walther, Initia, 10361; Schaller 8966. 

B 

357 

d 2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[L]ittera 

pithagorae etc.’’ Propulsauimus quanta maxima potuimus diligentia 

. . .’ 

d 7 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Ad secundum moralium Silvarum 

Lucubratiunculae’. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitanti mihi unde secundam 

Siluarum moralium seriem traduceremus . . .’ 

d 7 r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Quarto carminum ad Torquatum’. 

refs. Hor. Carm. 4. 7. 

d7 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: 

‘‘‘[D]i¡ugere niues.’’ Ode haec est Quinti Horatii Flacci quarto 

carminum . . .’ 

e8 v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Posthumum de fragilitate uitae 

humanae; Ode tricolos ex secundo Carminum Horatii’. 


e8 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit:‘‘‘[H]eu heu 

fugaces’’. Ode haec Quinti Horatii Flacci secundo carminnm(!) 

tricolos tetrastrophos est . . .’ 

f6 v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Delium’. 


f 6 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uod 

superioribus in carminibus innuit poeta . . .’ 

g2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Tertius Siluarum ordo de maioris 

mundi fragili conditione. Incipit: ‘[A]dmoniti sumus fragilitatis 

nostrae . . .’ 

g2 v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Metrum hipponacticum quo paupertatem 

suam diuitiis praefert’. 


g2 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: 

‘[T]ransiturus ad £uxam mundanae conditionis . . .’ 

g 8 r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Carmen endecasyllabum sapphicum 

ad Licinium quo mediocrem statum laudat’. 


g 8 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘‘‘[R]ectius 

uiuesetc.’’MetrumSapphicumendecasyllabumtribusuersibus...’ 

h2 r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Grosphum ocium commendatur’. 


h2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘‘‘[O]cium 

diuos etc.’’ Carmen est quale illud quod modo posuimus . . .’ 

i1 r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Crispum Salustium de liberalitate’. 


i1 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[N]ullus 

argento.’’ Carmen est endecasyllabum saphicum(!) . . .’ 

i 2 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Quartus Siluarum insitam continens 

de uoto faciundo’. Incipit:‘[T]res ordines siluarum iam composuimus 

. . .’

358 badius ascensius, jodocus 

[b-001 

i3 r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Primo carminum ode xxxi’. 


i 3 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[Q]uid 

dedicatum poscit Apolli. etc.’’ Metrum duobus uersibus alcaicum 

tertius dimeter . . .’ 

i 5 v Persius, Aulus Flaccus: ‘Ex secunda satyra’. 

refs. Pers. 2. 61^75. 

i5 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[O] curnae(!) 

in terris animae . . .’’ ‘ 

i 8 r Iuvenalis, [Decimus Iunius]: ‘Ex ¢nae(!) decimae satyrae.’ 

refs. Juv. 1. 346^66. 

i8 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[N]il ergo 

optabunt homines.’’ Per satyricam ypophoram introducit . . .’ 

k2 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Quintus [liber Siluarum] de amiciciae 

atque urbanitatis o⁄cio seruando. . .’Incipit:‘[Q]uattuor iam 

hortos . . .’ 

k2 v Ennius: ‘Ex septimo Annalium . . . fragmentum’. 

refs. Enn. Ann. 8. 268^86. 

k 2 v Gellius, Aulus: Noctes Atticae 9.4. 

refs. Gel. 12. 4. 4. 

k3 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[H]occe 

loquutus uocat etc.’’ Pro carminum istorum (quoniam antiqua 

sunt) scansione . . .’ 

k6 v ‘Sequitur sextus libellus’. 

k6 v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘De obsequio amicis praestando et 

utilitate musarum ad Margium Censorinum. lib. iiii’. 


k6 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: 

‘ ‘‘[D]onarem pateras.’’ Carmen est Asclepiadeum constans spondeodactylo 

. . .’ 

l4 v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad Lollium quarto carminum ode 

ix qua et musarum et amicitiae o⁄cium Horatius describit’. 


l4 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[N]e forte 

credas.’’ Carmen est quale illud . . .’ 

m 2 r ‘Siluarum moralium septimus in quo partim amicitiae partim 

urbanitatis praecepta continentur.’ 

m2 r Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Ad amicos Ode tricoloss ex 

secundo carminum’. 


m2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: 

‘ ‘‘[A]ngustam amici etc.’’ Quandoquidem ut M.T. Cicero . . .’ 

m 7 v Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: ‘Epistola ad Lollium amicum in 

qua urbanae uitae pulchrique moris praecepta ponuntur’. 

refs. Hor. Ep. 1. 18. 

m 7 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit:‘‘‘[S]i bene 

te noui etc.’’ Lollius hic est ad quem scripserat . . .’ 

o2 v ‘Octauus moralium continens fragmenta quaedam ex Iuvenale 

de o⁄cio parentum’. 

o2 v Juvenalis, [Decimus Junius]: [Satyrae.] 

refs. Juv. 14. 1^84; 107^40; 179^247; 288^321. 

o 2 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit:‘ ‘‘[P]lurima 

sunt, Fuscine, etc.’’Arborem hanc Aquinatem integram . . .’ 

q5 v Iuvenalis: In ¢ne xv Satyrae. 

refs. Juv. 15. 138^74. 

q 5 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit:‘‘‘[N]aturae 

imperio etc.’’Recepimus apicem de communi hominum o⁄cio. . .’ 

r 2 v Nonus [liber Siluarum]. 

r2 v Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Contra poetas impudice loquentes carmen’. 

‘[S]unt quibus eloquii datur aurea uena poetae > Sed cadit 

in sordes in¢citurque luto . . . Si Venus in uersu non erit ulla tuo.’ 

refs. See S. M. Opielka, ‘B. Baptista Mantuanus’, Analecta 

Ordinis Carmelitarum, 1 (1909), 458^61, 482^6, 550^4, 583^8, at 

459. 

r2 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[N]onum 

siluarum apto et quadrante . . .’ 

s7 r [Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Verse.] 

refs. Renouard, Badius, II 73. 

s7 v [Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Letter addressed to Clemens de 

Auriliaco.] 


s8 r Sulpitius Verulanus, Johannes: De moribus carmen iuvenile. 

‘[Q]uos decet in mensa seruare docemus . . .’ 

refs. See Henkel, Schultexte, 309^10. Text included in J. 

Wimpheling, Adolescentia, ed. O. Herding (Munich,1965), 286^9. 

s7 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘‘‘[Q]uos 

decet in mensa etc.’’ Sulpitius Verulanus grauium uirorum testimonio 

. . .’ 

u6 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Humbertus 

Fornerius and Franciscus Paschetus. 


u6 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[C]um 

animaduerterem etc.’’ In exponendis autoribus . . .’ 

v 

u7 [Epistola Catonis.] Incipit: ‘[C]um animaduerterem quam plurimos 

homines errare . . .’ 

y4 v [Disticha Catonis.] 

refs. Disticha Catonis, ed. Marcus Boas (Amsterdam, 1952). 

Leopold Zatoc� il, Cato a Facetus. Pojedna¤ n|¤ a texty. Zu den 

deutschen Cato- und Facetusbearbeitungen. Untersuchungen und 

Texte, Spisy Masarykovy university v Brne� , Filoso¢cka¤ fakulta, 

48 (Brno, 1952), 230^7. Walther, Initia, 17703. Schaller 15020. 

Distichs alternate with the commentary. See Henkel, Schultexte, 

228^31. 

v 

y4 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘‘‘[S]i deus 

est animus etc.’’ Horum uersuum tot sensa in commentariis . . .’ 

C3 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus 

Guilhelmus Calomontensis. 


C3 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘In Alanum interpretationes’. 

Incipit: ‘[A] Phoebo phoebe etc. Vt paucis qu� ante explanationem 

. . .’ 

C4 v Alanus [de Insulis: Doctrinale minus.] ‘Ex Parabolis’.‘A phebo 

phebe lumen capit a sapiente > Insipiens sensum, quo quasi luce 

micat . . .’ 

refs. PL CCX 581^94. See Walther, Initia, 71. Distichs alternate 

with the commentary. On authorship see Marie-The¤ re' se 

d’Alverny, Alain de Lille, Textes ine¤ dits (>’Etudes de philosophie 

me¤ die¤ vale, 52) (Paris, 1965), 51^2. 

Lyons: JohannesTrechsel, 14 Nov. 1492. 4 o . 

collation: a 6 b^z & AÊ 8 F 6 . 

One woodcut diagram. 

GW 3154; HC *15191; Go¡ B-3; BMC VIII 294; Pr 8601; BSB-Ink 

B-1; CIBN B-3; Hillard 253; Sheppard 6662. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars amandi. Lyons: 1526.

-001^b-005] bagellardus, paulus 

359 

Binding: Sixteenth-century (between 1526 and 1545) English 

(Cambridge) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two clasps 

lost; rebacked in the seventeenth/eighteenth century, upper 

cover loose; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both 

covers. On both covers ¢llets form a double frame; the inner rectangle 

is divided by a roll into two vertical compartments. In the 

inner frame, a roll with three ¢gures of animals (a wyvern, a lion 

and a gri⁄n) containing the housemark and initials of N[icholas] 

S[pierinck], Cambridge, who died in1545; in the inner rectangle, a 

roll with quatrefoils within lozenge-shaped compartments; for 

the stamps see Gray 43^53 and pl. XXVIIA I and II; and 

Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xxxvii, no. 562 and pl. 

xxxix, no. 604. Size: 265 ¿ 180 ¿ 55 mm. Size of leaf: 250 ¿ 

168 mm. 

Former pastedowns now raised; the front pastedown from an 

undated parchment manuscript of a treatise on sins, the back 

pastedown from a thirteenth-century(?) parchment manuscript 

of a Latin vocabularius (entries beginning with L). 

On the recto of the front endleaf, an epitaph to Franc� ois de 

Lorraine, duc de Guise, 21 Latin elegiac distichs in a seventeenth-century(?) 

hand, headed ‘Francisci Lothoringii Ducis 

Guisani ¢dei patri�que propugnatoris inuictiss. Tumulus 

Huberto Moro Ambiano authore’, incipit: ‘[Hospes:] Dic age, 

quis dormit gelido sub marmore? Civis: > Qui dormire sibi credidit 

esse nephas’. On theverso,‘Bis sapit qui sibi sapit. Bis vincitqui 

se vincit. Bis dat qui cito dat’. 

Provenance: Ro[ ] Rogers; name on theverso ofthe front endleaf. 

John Selden (1584^1654); item 1 is listed in MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 

57. Presented in 1659. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 3.5; Auct. O 5.5; 4 o O12 Art. 

Seld. 

shelfmark: S. Seld. d.16(2). 

B-002 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus 

Stultiferae naves. 

a2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Stultiferae nauis additamentum de 

quinque virginibus.’ ‘Prefatio’. Dedicated to Angelbertus de 

Marnef. 

refs. Renouard, Badius, I 198^9. 

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a3 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: Stultiferae naves. 

refs. Renouard, Badius, I 200^6. On the text see Renouard, 

Badius, I 158^60. 

[Paris]: Thielman Kerver, for E., J., and G. de Marnef, 18 Feb. 

1500. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b c 6 . 

Six woodcuts on a3 r , a5 r , b1 v , b5 r , b6 v , and c2 v . 

GW 3155; HC (+ Addenda) 2240; C 794; Go¡ B-4; BMC VIII 218; Pr 

8394; CIBN B-4; Hillard 254; Oates 3158; Sheppard 6544. 

COPY 

Three coloured woodcuts cut out of Latin editions of Sebastian 

Brant’s Stultifera navis printed by Johann Bergmann von Olpe 

in Basel pasted in on endleaves at the end of the volume. The 

woodcuts de¢nitely come from an Olpe edition, but as he reused 

them in various editions, it is not possible to say with complete 

certainty from which edition they come. The ¢rst one is 

probably r7 r of GW 5054 (1 Mar. 1497), the second one the titlepage 

(a1 r ) either from GW 5054 or GW 5062 (1 Mar. 1498), and 

the third one s 2 v from the same. 

Wanting c 6. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled calf with gold-tooled 

spine; marbled pastedowns. Size: 200 ¿ 142 ¿ 9 mm. Size of 

leaf: 193 ¿ 132 mm. 

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial book-plate. 

Bequeathed in 1834. 

shelfmark: Douce B subt. 127. 

B-003 Baduarius, Sebastianus 

Oratio ad AlexandrumVI in praestandaVenetorum 

obedientia. 

[a1 r ] Baduarius, Sebastianus: Oratio ad Alexandrum VI in praestanda 

Venetorum obedientia. Incipit: ‘[S]i aliquo vnquam tempore 

priscorumve patrum etate, sanctissime ac beatissime pater, 

letari et exultare in ponti¢cum creatione contigerit . . .’ 

refs. Text dated 17 Dec. 1492. 

[Rome: Andreas Freitag, after 17 Dec. 1492]. 4 o . 

collation: [a 2 ]. 

GW 3159; H *2243; Go¡ B-6; BMC IV 137; Pr 3969; BSB-Ink B-2; 

CIBN B-5; Hillard 255; Sack, Freiburg, 424; Sheppard 3156. 

COPY 

Boxedwith A-212; see there for details ofbinding and provenance. 

Size of leaf: 207 ¿ 138 mm. 

Manuscript pagination 105^8. 

shelfmark: Auct. 2Q 6.1(18). 

B-004 Baduarius, Sebastianus 

Oratio ad AlexandrumVI in praestandaVenetorum 

obedientia. 

[a1 r ] Baduarius, Sebastianus: Oratio ad Alexandrum VI in praestanda 

Venetorum obedientia. Incipit: ‘[S]i aliquo unquam tempore 

priscorumue patrum aetate, sanctissime ac beatissime 

pater, laetari et exultare in ponti¢cum creatione contigerit . . .’ 

refs. Text dated 17 Dec. 1492. 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 17 Dec. 1492]. 4 o . 


GW 3160; H *2242; Go¡ B-7; BMC IV 97; Pr 3703; BSB-Ink B-3; 

CIBN B-6; Sheppard 2969. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco; for the 

Bodleian Library. Size: 217 ¿ 149 ¿ 8 mm. Size of leaf: 208 ¿ 

140 mm. 

Old foliation 249^50 and ‘43’on [a 1 r ]. 

Provenance: ‘Dpl’ on [a1 r ], probably a duplicate from the Royal 

Library, Munich. Numbers ‘11’ and ‘25’ on ¢rst and last pages 

respectively. Date of acquisition unknown; to judge from the 

shelfmark it was perhaps acquired in the 1880s. 

shelfmark: Auct. 4Q 6.67. 

B-005 Bagellardus, Paulus 

De infantium aegritudinibus et remediis. 

[b1 r ] Bagellardus, Paulus: De infantium aegritudinibus, [preface, 

dedicated to] Nicolaus Tronus, Doge of Venice. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uantum domui tuae, illustrissime princeps, debeam nec Liuii 

nec Ciceronis lingua aut eloquentia exprimere . . .’

360 balbus, hieronymus 

[b-005^b-009 

[b1 v ] Bagellardus, Paulus: De infantium aegritudinibus. Incipit: 

‘[L]ibellus de egritudinibus infantium bipartitus est . . . [C]um 

infans precepto dei uuluam egreditur . . .’ 

refs. See Carl Sudho¡, Erstlingederpa« diatrischenLiteratur.Drei 

Wiegendrucke u« ber Heilung und P£ege des Kindes (Munich, 

1935), pp. xvii^xxii; G. Ongaro, ‘La medicina nello studio di 

Padova e nel Veneto’, in Storia della cultura veneta. Dal primo 

Quattrocento al Concilio di Trento, ed. G. Arnaldi and M. 

Pastore Stocchi, 3 vols (Vicenza, 1980^1), 3/iii 75^134, at 85^6. 

r 

[e10 ] ‘Sola miseria caret inuidia’. 

[Padua]: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho and Martinus de Septem 

Arboribus, 21 Apr. 1472. 4 o . 

collation: [a 2 b c 10 d 8 e 10 ]. 

GW 3166; H *2244; Go¡ B-10; BMC VII 904; Pr 6756; BSB-Ink B-4; 

CIBN B-8; Sheppard 5557; facsimile in Sudho¡, Erstlinge. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering [a] containing the table. 

Binding: Parchment wrappers from a ¢fteenth-century legal 

document in Latin. Size: 211 ¿ 154 ¿ 12 mm. Size of leaf: 211 ¿ 

150 mm. 

On the lower cover title and inscription ‘ . . . d magistrum 

Hyer[onimum?] de Urbino > Sunt tria que� natis fallax fa[ci]unt [ 

]lias > [ ] tenuis[ ]’. Sixteenth-century marginal notes. 

Provenance: Marco Lazzari; armorial book-stamp on [b1 r ], see 

Oates 2050. Oxford, Radcli¡e Library; probably purchased in 

1840; listed under 1840 as 22 G 1, a manuscript addition to the 

interleaved Catalogue (1835) in Radcli¡e Library Records; 

book-plate with old shelfmarks ‘G.191.a.1’,‘22 G.3’,‘20 C.4’,‘1.73 

C.4’.Transferred between 1861 and 1893. 

shelfmark: RR.w.341 [RSL]. 

B-006 Bagnion, Jean 

Tractatus potestatum dominorum et libertatum 

subditorum civitatis Gebennensis. 

a2 r [Note on the contents.] ‘Titulus’. 

refs. Text dated Feb. 1487. 

r 

a2 ‘Ad argumentum auctoris et praeludium ad materiam infrascriptam 

super dilectionem patrie sue’. Incipit: ‘[H]ominum gratia 

Deus omnia creauit . . .’ 

r 

a4 ‘Prohemium ad tractatum’. Incipit: ‘[E]xordior pro homine libero, 

pro quo non licet aduersam sperare fortunam . . .’ 

a5 r Bagnion, Jean: Tractatus potestatum dominorum et libertatum 

subditorum civitatis Gebennensis. Incipit: ‘[A]d pollicita pro 

primo membro declinans vt paucum faciam sermonem dicit 

scriptura . . .’ 

refs. See Henri Bordier, ‘Jean Bagnyon, avocat des liberte¤ s de 

Ge' neve en 1487’, Me¤ moires et documents publie¤ s par la Societe¤ 

d’histoire et d’arche¤ ologie de Gene' ve, 7 (1872), 1^38. 

[Lyons: Guillaume Balsarin, between Feb. and 6 Apr. 1487]. 4 o . 

Pellechet, Pr, and GW assign to [Geneva: Printer of Bagnyon]; 

Polain, BMC, and CIBN to [Lyons]. 

collation: aê 8 f 10 . 

GW 3170; HCR 2246; Go¡ B-14; BMC VIII 277; Pr 7819; CIBN B-9; 

Pellechet 1689; Polain 450; Sheppard 6638. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf f 10. 

Leaf a1 r , l. 2:‘. . . |ubditorum:’; and f9 v , lines1^2:‘dree de malna� da 

vtriu|niuris doctoris |ed apl’ice l > thonotarii eccl|ie 

cathedral|� s . . .’, both as BMC, rather than as GW. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled pasteboards. 

Size: 210 ¿ 145 ¿ 9 mm. Size of leaf: 203 ¿ 138 mm. 

Pen-trials on a 1 r . 

Provenance: ‘Bateloti’ on a1 r . Purchased from Mepham in 1873 

for »0. 8. 6; see Invoice Book (1870^5, Library Records d. 432). 


B-007 Balbus, Hieronymus 

Epigrammata. 

a1 r Balbus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Carolus Guillard. 

Incipit:‘[N]on te latet, vir prestantissime, (quid enim te latere potest?) 

illa Hesiodi sententia . . .’ 

a1 v Balbus, Hieronymus: Epigrammata.‘Nauita solue ratem, zephyros 

dabit aura secundos > Aura dabit zephyros, nauita solue 

ratem’. 

refs. Edited among the Carmina in Balbus, Opera poetica, oratoria, 

ac politico-moralia, ed. Joseph von Retzer (Vienna, 1791/ 

2), I 101^270.‘Collectio altera’. 

[Paris: Guy Marchant, c.1495]. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 . 

GW 3179; C 799; Go¡ B-19; Pr 8033; CIBN B-11; Sheppard 6220. 

COPY 

Bound with A-139; see there for details of binding and provenance. 


The ¢rst gathering of item 5 is misbound after item 6. 

shelfmark: Douce O 126 (6). 


Epigrammata. 

r 

a1 Balbus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Carolus Guillard. 

Incipit:‘[N]on te latet, vir prestantissime, (quid enim te latere potest) 

illa Hesiodi sententia . . .’ 

v 

a1 Balbus, Hieronymus: Epigrammata.‘Nauita solue ratem, zephyros 

dabit aura secundos > Aura dabit zephhiros(!), nauita solue 

ratem’. 

refs. See B-007. 

[Paris: Fe¤ lix Baligault, not before 1497]. 4 o . 


Types: 75 G b and180 G. 8 leaves. 40 lines. Type area 71 ¿ 150 mm. 

Not in Pr; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Leaf a5 mutilated. The text is supplied in a manuscript insert. 

Binding: Twentieth-century paper wrappers. Size: 212 ¿ 148 ¿ 

3 mm. Size of leaf: 202 ¿ 139 mm. 

Occasional marginal notes and corrections in a later hand. 

Provenance: Solomon Pottesman (1904^1978); purchased at his 

sale, lot 48, for »121. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. F1.11. 


Epigrammata. 

a1 r Balbus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] the regents of 

Maximilian I. Incipit: ‘[N]ulla vos subeat admiratio, prestantissimi 

viri, quod rerum opifex Deus eduxit . . .’

-009^b-011] balbus, johannes 

361 

a2 r Balbus, Hieronymus: Epigrammata. ‘Non primum tumido est 

ausus se credere ponto > Ignota secuit qui rate primus aquas’. 

refs. Edited among the Carmina in Hieronymi Balbi . . . opera 

poetica, oratoria, ac politico-moralia, ed. Joseph von Retzer 

(Vienna, 1791/2), I 101^270.‘Collectio tertia’. 

Vienna: JohannWinterburg, 1 Aug. 1494. 4 o . 

collation: a b 8 c 6 . 

GW 3181; HC *2250; Go¡ B-18; BMC III 811; Pr 9475; BSB-Ink B-7; 

CIBN B-12; Hillard 257; Sheppard 2591. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco. Size:190 ¿ 137 ¿ 


A few early marginal notes. 

Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); name on front pastedown 

and note on front endleaf; Elenchus, no. 548. Bequeathed in 

1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. K 5.31. 

B-010 Balbus, Johannes 

Catholicon. 

[a1 r ] [Balbus], Johannes: Catholicon. Incipit: ‘[P]rosodia quedam 

pars grammatice nuncupatur, partes siquidem grammatice sunt 

quatuor . . .’ 

[Q3 r ] [Colophon.] Incipit: ‘Altissimi presidio, cuius nutu infantium 

lingue ¢unt diserte . . .’ 

[Q3 r ] [Verse.] ‘Hinc tibi, sancte pater, nato cum £amine sacro > Laus 

et honor domino trino tribuatur et uno. > Ecclesie laude libro hoc 

catholice plaude > Qui laudare piam semper non linque Mariam’. 

[Q3 v ] ‘Tabula rubricarum’. 

[Mainz: Printer of the Catholicon orJohann Gutenberg(?)],‘1460’ 

or [not before 1469] or [between 1460 and c.1472]. Folio. Three 

issues can be distinguished despite identical typesetting: (a) 

printed on parchment or bull’s head paper; (b) on Galliziani 

paper; (c) on tower and crown paper; see Gottfried Zedler, Das 

Mainzer Catholicon, Vero« ¡entlichungen der Gutenberg- 

Gesellschaft, 4 (Mainz, 1905). This has given rise to the theory 

that issue (a) was printed in 1460, issue (b) in 1469, and issue (c) 

c.1472; see Paul Needham,‘Johann Gutenberg and the Catholicon 

Press’, Papersofthe Bibliographical Societyof America,76 (1982), 

395^456 and the following articles in ‘Zur Catholicon- 

Forschung’,Wolfenbu« tteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte, 13 (1988), 

105^232: James C. Thomas, ‘Die Umdatierung eines 

Wolfenbu« tteler Fru« hdruckes des Ackermann aus Bo« hmen (GW 

193) aufgrund beta- und elektronenradiographischer 

Untersuchungen seiner Papierwasserzeichen’, 106^24; Gerhardt 

Powitz, ‘Das Catholicon in buch- und textgeschichtlicher Sicht’, 

125^37; Martin Boghardt,‘Die bibliographische Erforschung der 

ersten Catholicon-Ausgabe(n)’, 138^76; Claus W. Gerhardt, ‘Der 

Doppelzeilendruck des Catholicon-Druckers von 1460’, 177^86; 

Rolf Stu« mpel, ‘Uº berlegungen zum zweizeiligen Satz des 

Catholicon’, 187^98; Paul Needham, ‘The Catholicon Press of 

Johann Gutenberg: A Hidden Chapter in the Invention of 

Printing’, 199^230; Lotte Hellinga, ‘The Catholicon: Hypotheses 

or Solutions’, 231^2. For an alternative theory that all three states 

were printed c.1469, but in three di¡erent print shops, the lines 

composed of movable type having been tied together two and 

two, see Lotte Hellinga, ‘Analytical Bibliography and the Study 

of Early Printed Books with a case-study of the Mainz 

Catholicon’, Gb Jb 64 (1989), 47^96; Lotte Hellinga, ‘Slipped 

Lines and Fallen Type in the Mainz Catholicon’, Gb Jb 67 (1992), 

35^40; and the response by Paul Needham, ‘Slipped Lines in the 

Mainz Catholicon: A Second Opinion’, Gb Jb 68 (1993), 25^9. 

See also Anke Bo« hm, ‘Das Psalterium Moguntinum. Kann man 

aufgrund von Satzvarianten verschiedene Au£agen 

erschlie�en?’, Gb Jb 64 (1989), 30^8; Lotte Hellinga,‘Comments 

on Paul Needham’s Notes’, Gb Jb 65 (1990), 65^9; Paul Needham, 

‘Corrective Notes on the Date of the Catholicon Press’, Gb Jb 65 

(1990), 46^64; Paul Needham, ‘Further Corrective Notes on the 

Date of the Catholicon Press’, Gb Jb 66 (1991), 101^26; Lotte 

Hellinga,‘Das Mainzer �Catholiconß und Gutenbergs Nachla�. 

Neudatierung und Auswirkungen’, AGB, 40 (1993), 395^416; see 

also the summary of the debate in CIBN B-13. 

collation: [a^f 10 g 4 h^t 10 v 4+1 x^z A^P 10 Q 4 ]. 

Watermarks: Bull’s head; gathering [h] Galliziani paper with pinholes 

matching the Galliziani pattern; see Hellinga (1989), 54. 

GW 3182; HC *2254; Go¡ B-20; BMC I 39; Pr 146; BSB-Ink B-8; 

CIBN B-13; Oates 47; Rhodes 245; Sheppard 90; M. B. Stillwell, 

GutenbergandtheCatholiconof1460 (NewYork,1936) [to accompany 

the distribution of leaves from an incomplete paper copy]. 

Facsimile: Farnborough, 1971. 

COPY 

Binding: Mid-nineteenth-century blind-tooled russia over bevelled 

wooden boards, in imitation of ¢fteenth-century style, for 

the Bodleian Library; index-tabs of knotted leather ties; the gold 

stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 427 ¿ 308 ¿ 95 mm. 


On front endleaf a German verse about a debt:‘Item ist mir schuldig 

der Zender zu kesten da hab ich mich(?) zum besten’. 

Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue, interlocked 

blue and yellow, or blue with white highlighting and penwork 

in¢ll and pen-£ourishing in red, light green, and yellow 

extending into the inner margin. Other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red or blue; red chapter headings, in the 

hand called ‘S1’ by Gerhardt Powitz, ‘Die Tabula Rubricarum 

des mainzer Catholicon’ Gb Jb 69 (1994), 32^49; capital strokes 

and underlining. 

Provenance: Eberhardsklausen, Rhineland-Pfalz, Canons 

Regular; on the front endleaf ‘Liber domus beatissime virginis 

Marie in clusa Eberhardi Ordinis Canonicorum regularium 

Treu[ir]ensis Diocesis.’ Johann Springel; on the front endleaf 

‘Joannes Springel vatter vnser.’ Purchased for »63; see Books 

Purchased (1806), 1 and Macray 283. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct.Y 1.8 

shelfmark: Auct. 2Q inf. 1.31(a). 


Catholicon. 


pars gramatice nuncupatur, partes siquidem gramatice sunt quatuor 

. . .’ 

[mm10 r ] [Verse colophon.] ‘Grammatice partes et vocum proprietates 

> Verius inuenies hoc codice, si quoque queres’; 19 hexameters. 

Augsburg: Gu« nther Zainer, 30 Apr. 1469. Folio. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 10+1 e^g 10 h 6 i 6+1 k^m 10 n 8 o 6 p^r 10 s 8 t 4+1 v^ 

y 10 z 8 A 4+1 B^D 10 E 8 F 4+1 GÎ 10 K 12 L^N 10 O 6 P 6+1 Q^S 10 T 6 

V 6+1 X^Z 10 aa 8 bb 6 ccêe 10 ¡ 8 gg 6+1 hh^kk 10 ll 8 mm 10 ].

362 balbus, johannes 

[b-011^b-014 

GW 3183; H *2255; Go¡ B-21; BMC II 315; Pr 1521; BSB-Ink B-9; 

CIBN B-14; Oates 872; Sack, Freiburg, 426; Sheppard 1116. 

COPY 

Leaf [mm 10] backed. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German half calf, over marbled 

boards; ‘BRM’ [Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis] in gold on the 

spine. Size: 397 ¿ 295 ¿ 150 mm. Size of leaf: 382 ¿ 272 mm. 

On [a1 r ] a historiated initial is supplied in blue with white highlighting 

on a gold ground within a segmented frame of red and 

light green, depicting a master and two scholars; foliate extensions 

in the same palette with some gold dotting in the margins. 

Principal initials are supplied in colours with highlighting, red or 

green pen-work in¢ll and foliate extensions. Headings, initials 

and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance: On [mm10 r ]: ‘T. FR. i.’ Duplicate from the Royal 

Library, Munich; book-plate, see Warnecke 1391, and Dressler^ 

Schro« der 28 and 75, Typ F5; stamp and old shelfmark ‘Inc.c.a. 

19’. Purchased from Fidelis Butsch, Catalogue (1858), no. 592. 

Purchased for »10. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 13. 



Catholicon. 



quattuor . . .’ 

[Strasbourg: The R-Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), 

c.1470]. Folio. As dated by GWand Sheppard. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 8 e 10 f g 6 h 8 i^x 10 y 6 z AÊ 10 F 8 G H 10 I 8 K 6 L^ 

P 10 Q R 8 ]. 


CIBN B-16; Oates 102^3; Rhodes 246; Sheppard 211. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary south German blind-tooled calf over 

bevelled wooden boards, remains of two metal clasps with the 

inscription ‘Aue Maria gracia’. On both covers triple ¢llets form 

a frame; the inner rectangle is ¢lled with merrythoughts; in the 

compartments, three di¡erent £oral stamps; see, for example, 

Schwenke^Schunke 69, no. 9 (Straubing); at each point of intersection, 

a small rosette stamp. In the frame, stamped scrolls with 

the inscription ‘Maria hilf’; see Schwenke^Schunke 291, no. 357 

(Augsburg Hirsch am Zaun K 80). In the corners, a round stamp 

with a stag. Size: 487 ¿ 30 ¿ 120 mm. Sizeof leaf: 462 ¿ 307 mm. 

On front pastedown, the title of the book, a note, and the name of 

the owner in Greek characters. Deleted inscription under the 

colophon on [R7 v ]. 

On [a 2 r ] a south German ten-line initial is supplied in blue with 

white highlighting on burnished gold grounds, the gilt with 

punch-dotting, within an intersected frame of red and light 

green; foliate extensions in the same palette with some gold-dotting 

into the inner and upper margins. Other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Burkhard von Horneck (c.1440^1522); on [h6 r ]: ‘Est 

burkardi de hornek’; on front pastedown, ’birkart fon oJrnek 

doktor &c’. Purchased from Payne and Foss for »21; see Library 

Bills (1828^9), no. 92 and Books Purchased (1829), 2. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct.Y 2.6, Auct.Y 2.11. 

shelfmark: Auct. Q sub. fen. 1.10. 


Catholicon. 

r 

a2 [Balbus], Johannes: Catholicon. Incipit: ‘[P]rosodia quedam 



Venice: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 24 Sept. 1483. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b^z 8 h m 6 A^T 8 U 6 . 

GW 3188; HC *2257; Go¡ B-26; BMC V 356; Pr 4785; BSB-Ink 

B-14; CIBN B-18; Oates 1884; Sheppard 3931^2. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia; 

marbled pastedowns; triple ¢llets form a border, within 

which a roll of cornucopiae, bucrania, lyres, and Aesculapian 

sta¡s; rebacked re-using old spine. Size: 335 ¿ 230 ¿ 58 mm. 


On a2 r an eighteen-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-work 

in¢ll and pen-£ourishing in red and green; occasional initials are 

supplied in a similar style. Other initials are supplied in red or 

blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes 


Provenance: Zutphen, Dominicans. Johannes de Herler (sixteenth 

century); ‘Conuentus zutphaniensis De libris fratris 

Johannis de herler’ on a1 r . Wilhelmus Goes; ‘Sum Wilelmi Goes’ 

on a 1 r . J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837), 1834; inscription on endleaf; 

sale (1837), lot 169. Purchased for »0. 7. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1837), 4. 


SECOND COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf a1. 

Binding: Modern half parchment; marbled pastedowns. Size: 

314 ¿ 223 ¿ 55 mm. Size of leaf: 302 ¿ 196 mm. 

On a2 r an eighteen-line historiated initial is supplied in magenta 

with highlighting in white, depicting a monk holding a book, on a 

blue background with white highlighting and within a gold frame; 

foliate extensions into the inner margin in blue, green, and 

magenta with some gold-dotting. In gatherings a^h, other initials 

are supplied in red or blue with pen-£ourishing in light blue and 

red. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Ripatransone, Marche, Oratorians; on a2 r : 

‘Congregationis Oratorii Ripani’. Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^ 

1932); book-plate; inscription ‘Rome 1898 21 frs. 50 c.’ 


shelfmark: Toynbee 3653. 


Catholicon. 

r 




[Cologne: Ludwig von Renchen, c.1485]. Folio. As assigned by 

Sheppard, who notes that the type, the measurement of typearea, 

and the watermarks agree with those of Alexander 

Carpentarius, Destructorium vitiorum, which is assigned to 

[Renchen] [Bod-inc. A-166]; GW and CIBN assign to 

[Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger].

-014^b-017] balbus, johannes 

363 

collation: a 10 bî 8 k 6 l 8 m 6 n^p 8 q 6 r^x 8 y 6 A B 8 C 6 D^G 8 H 10 

IÔ 8 P 6 Q^S 8 T^X 6 aa bb 8 cc dd 6 ee 8 ¡^hh 6 ii 10 . 

GW 3190; Go¡ B-27; Pr 432; CIBN B-19; Rhodes 247; Sheppard 951. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf ii 10. 

Binding: Contemporary Netherlandish (Schwenke^Schunke^ 

Rabenau 4^5, ‘Antwerp, Wappenmeister’) blind-tooled calf 

covers inlaid in nineteenth-century russia; stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers; upper board detached. Of the 

old covers, only the inner frame and rectangle survive, a lozengeshaped 

central compartment has been cut out: on both covers 

triple ¢llets form a frame; the inner rectangle is divided by triple 

¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In the compartments 

three di¡erent stamps: a square stamp with a stag (Schwenke^ 

Schunke 140, no. 26(?)), a round rosette stamp, and a lozengeshaped 

stamp with a double-headed eagle (Schwenke^Schunke 

16, no. 388); in the frame small rectangular stamps showing two 

dragons entwined(?). Size: 403 ¿ 295 ¿ 85 mm. Sizeof leaf: 382 ¿ 

270 mm. 

Initials are supplied in red, occasionally with reserved white decoration; 

paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Sir Thomas Chester (sixteenth century). George 

Harris (sixteenth century); on a1 r : ‘Syr Thomas caster’; ‘Ab eo 

dono datus est Georgio Harris’, both in sixteenth-century hands. 

Robert Burton (1577^1640); name on a1 r . Bequeathed to the 

Bodleian in 1640 by Robert Burton; see Kiessling, Robert 

Burton, no. 83. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: J 3.12 Jur.; F 2.5 Jur. 



Catholicon. 

a2 r [Balbus], Johannes: Catholicon. Incipit: ‘[P]rosodia quedam 



Venice: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 Dec. 1490. Folio. 

collation: a^x 8 y 6 AÎ L^P 8 Q^S 6 T 8 . 


B-17; CIBN B-23; Sheppard 3943. 

COPY 


Binding: Sixteenth-century German (Gaming) blind-tooled pigskin 

over wooden boards, two clasps lost. On both covers multiple 

¢llets form three frames; the inner rectangles are divided by 

¢llets into three horizontal compartments. In the outer frame, a 

roll of small rectangular ¢elds, in the central frame a crocked 

cresting roll, in the inner frame a £oral ornament. In the compartments 

two stamps: a triangular £oral stamp and a £oral cornerpiece. 

In the centre of the upper cover the coat of arms of the 

Carthusians in Gaming within a wreath, on the back cover, an 

ornamental stamp. Size: 316 ¿ 215 ¿ 72 mm. Size of leaf: 305 ¿ 

193 mm. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital 

strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Johann Bach (£. 1491); on T8 r : ‘Missus est presens 

liber fratri Martino redditto ex Venetys a Johannes pach qui 

ambo mente pia petunt. Aue Maria. 1491’ in the rubricator’s 

hand, in red. Gaming, Austria, Carthusians; on a 2 r : ‘Carthusi� 

Gemnicensis’. Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Elenchus, no. 1815. 


shelfmark: Byw. D 3.13. 


Catholicon. 




v 

S5 [Verse colophon.] ‘Littere vt precium Johannis surgat de Prato > 

Lugduni catholicon impressit arte sua’; 7 lines ofverse (the second 

distich seems to consist of 2 hexameters and 1 pentameter). 

Lyons: Jean Du Pre¤ , 26 Sept. 1492. Folio. 

collation: a^y 8 z h 6 A^Q 8 R S 6 . 

GW 3198; C 806; BMC VIII 283; Pr 8587; Sheppard 6648.Wanting 

leaf a1 (the title) and the blank leaf S6. 

Gathering m consists of eight leaves, not of ten as in GW and 

BMC. A section of text is omitted, the paragraph ‘Cenobita’ in 

the ¢rst column of m6 v being followed by ‘Cesarea’. 

COPY 


Upper board detached. Size: 340 ¿ 250 ¿ 60 mm. Size of 

leaf: 330 ¿ 234 mm. 

Provenance: Purchased from Joseph Sams in Oct. 1856 for »1. 8. 

0; see Library Bills (1856^8), no. 93, item 199, reduced from the 

listed price of »3. 3. 0; Books Purchased (1857), 5. 



Catholicon. 

v 

a1 [Registrum.] 




Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 20 Nov. 1495. 

Folio. 

collation: a^z h m k A^N 8 . 

Woodcut initials. 

GW 3201; H *2264; Go¡ B-33; BMC V 445; Pr 5063; BSB-Ink B-19; 

Oates 1985^6; Sheppard 4218. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half parchment; marbled pastedowns. 


On N8 v : ‘Qui seruare sacris libris nescit honorem > illius a manibus 

sit procul iste liber’, in a sixteenth-century hand, probably the 

hand of Paulinus Mercurius.Title on lower edge. 

Provenance: Paulinus Mercurius (£. 15[9?]1); on N8 v : ‘Frater 

Paulinus Mercurius de bononia est meus dominus [corrected to 

possessor] 15[9?]1’. Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932); bookplate; 

inscription ‘Rome 1898 14 frs.’ Bequeathed in 1932. 

shelfmark: Toynbee 3654.

364 balthasar de porta 

[b-018^b-021 


Catholicon. 




Lyons: [Perrinus Lathomi, Bonifacius Johannis, and Johannes de 

Villa Veteri], 7 Jan. 1496. Folio. GW ascribes to Bonifacius 

Johannis alone. 

collation: a^x 8 y 6 A^P 8 Q 6 . 


GW 3202; H 2265; BMC VIII 320; Pr 8706; CIBN B-25; Sheppard 

6597. 

COPY 

Leaf n4 is signed Niiii, as BMC, not as CIBN. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards. Size: 340 ¿ 255 ¿ 


Occasional early marginal notes. 

Paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Andres Embhart (sixteenth century); name on a1 r in 

a sixteenth-centuryhand;‘1Daler’. Date ofacquisition unknown; 

probably between 1847 and c.1892; not in Catalogus (1843) with 

Appendix. 



Catholicon. 

r 




Venice: Johannes Hamman, for Petrus Liechtenstein, 28 Feb. 

1497/8? Folio. 

collation: a^x 8 y 6 AÎ L^P 8 Q^S 6 T 8 . 



Sack, Freiburg, 430; Sheppard 4156. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German (Cologne, Kyri� workshop no. 

96) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two clasps lost; 

rebacked. On both covers ¢llets form a double frame; the inner 

rectangle is divided by ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. 

In the compartments are two di¡erent lozenge-shaped stamps in 

alternating rows: a stamp of the Virgin and Child and a £eur-delis 

stamp; in the frame a big round rosette stamp; for the stamps 

see Kyri� pl.195, nos1, 2, and 5. Despite reservations expressed by 

Sheppard, the presence of a Venetian-printed book in Cologne 

does not seem improbable. Size: 342 ¿ 230 ¿ 60 mm. Size of 

leaf: 326 ¿ 210 mm. 

Four leaves of an early fourteenth-century manuscript containing 

a portion of book I of a Latin treatise on surgery (de corpore 

humano) removed from the binding, now MS. Lat. misc. c.17, fols 

11^14. 

On a 2 r an eight-line initial is supplied in blue with reserved white 

decoration and pen-£ourishing in red. Initials are supplied in red 

or blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red, red capital strokes 


Provenance: Buxheim, Bavaria, Carthusians, BVM; on a2 r : 

‘Carthusi� Buxheim’ and stamp; Graf von Ostein, 1803. Sold in 

1883 by Graf Hugo von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820^1895); 

Buxheim sale, lot 3337. Purchased by Falconer Madan for the 

Bodleian in 1884 for 6 Marks; see Library Bills, 19 Feb. 1884; see 

also Honemann,‘Buxheim Collection’, Bod3. 


B-020 Baldung, Hieronymus 

Aphorismi compunctionis theologicales. 

r 

a1 [Title-page.] 

a1 v [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘Locutus sum in lingua mea, notam fac 

mihi, domine, ¢nem meum et numerum dierum meorum quis est, 

ut sciam quid desit mihi, ecce mensurabiles posuisti mihi dies 

meos et substantia mea tanquam nihilum ante te, verumtamen 

vniuersa etc.’’ [Ps 38,5^6], cum duobus sequentibus . . .’ 

a2 r Baldung, Hieronymus: ‘Proemium’, addressed to Friedrich II, 

Count of Hohenzollern, Bishop of Augsburg (1486^1505). 

Incipit: ‘[R]euerendissimo in Christo patri ac illustri principi et 

domino, domino Friderico, dei et apostolice sedis gratia 

Augustensi episcopo . . .’ 

refs. Dated 12 Feb. 1493,‘ex opido Gemu« nd’. 

v 

a3 [List of contents.] 

a4 v Baldung, Hieronymus: Aphorismi compunctionis theologicales. 

Incipit: ‘[O] niser(!) et infelix huius naufragi seculi amator, 

memento mori . . .’ 

[Strasbourg]: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 6 Jan. 1497. 4 o . 

collation: a^k 4 . 

Ten woodcuts, including Schramm pl. 344 used ¢ve times. 

GW 3211; HC (+ Addenda) *2270; Go¡ B-36; BMC I 111; Pr 477; 

BSB-Ink B-21; CIBN B-29; Rhodes 248; Sack, Freiburg, 432; 

Schmidt, Gru« ninger, 28; Schramm XX p. 22 and pls 340^5; 

Schreiber V 3400; Sheppard 385. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf (c.1825), for the Bodleian 

Library; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 


Variant: on a3 v , l. 25: ‘arciunt ~ ’, and on k3 v , last line: 

‘MCCCCxCVII’. ‘P’ wanting on a3 v , line 25, and supplied in 

black ink, also ‘-sui’on line 23 and and ‘-ius’on line 24. 

Occasional marginal notes and pointing hands. Underlining in 

black ink. 

Occasional initials are supplied in black ink. Some woodcuts 

touched with red ink. 

Provenance: Purchased for »0. 5. 6; see Books Purchased 

(1825), 4. 


B-021 Balthasar de Porta 

Conclusiones contra quorundam Bohemorum errores. 

Aa1 r [Title-page.] 

v 

Aa1 Balthasar [de Porta]: Conclusiones contra quorundam 

Bohemorum errores. Incipit: ‘[N]ouissime inter resumendum 

tractatulum resolutorium dubiorum sacratissime misse . . .’ 

Ii5 v Balthasar [de Porta]: ‘Conclusio totius operis’. Incipit: ‘Has 

conclusiones et veras et catholicas sanctorum . . .’ 

v 

Kk1 ‘Registrum’.

-021^b-024] baptista mantuanus 

365 

Kk6 r [Colophon, providing information about the author and the 

work.] 

[Leipzig]: Gregorius Bo« ttiger (Werman), [not before 1494]. 4 o . 

collation: AaÊe 6 F 6 Gg^Kk 6 . 

GW 3214; H *2349; Go¡ B-37; BMC III 647; Pr 3016; BSB-Ink B-23; 


COPY 

Leaf Aa1 repaired. 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century calf, the spine and the 

edges of the boards gold-tooled. Size: 214 ¿ 155 ¿ 25 mm. Size of 

leaf: 208 ¿ 141 mm. 

A ¢ve-line woodcut initial ‘C’ (reversed ‘D’) on Aa1 r , coloured in 

red, yellow, green, and blue. On Aa1 v a ¢ve-line initial‘N’supplied 

in green with foliate scrolling on a ground of blue and gold, with 

foliate border extensions in red, blue, and green, and a gold dot. 

Initial strokes and underlining supplied in red. 

Provenance: Purchased from Parker (pencil note inside upper 

cover) for »3. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1847), 2. 


B-022 Bandellus de Castronovo,Vincentius 

Libellus recollectorius auctoritatum de veritate 

conceptionis beatae virginis Mariae. 

[a1 r ] [Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius: Letter addressed to] 

Count Petrus [de Gambara]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[V]eritatem meditabitur 

guttur meum et labia mea detestabuntur impium’’, Prov. 8 [Prv 

8,7]. Cum apud ueteres philosophantes generose Petre, comes 

magni¢ce . . .’ 

[a2 v ] [List of contents.] 

[a5 v ] [Bandellus de Castronovo,Vincentius]: Libellus recollectorius 

auctoritatum de veritate conceptionis beatae virginis Mariae. 

Incipit: ‘[I]n hoc autem libello quem ex diuersis antiquorum . . .’ 

Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 1475. 4 o . 

collation: [a^p 8 q 6 ]. 

GW 3237; H *2352; Go¡ B-48; BMC VI 726; Pr 5878; BSB-Ink B-33; 


COPY 

Binding: Forel. Size: 283 ¿ 171 ¿ 47 mm. Size of leaf: 281 ¿ 

162 mm. 

Provenance: Milan, Carmelites; inscription on [a1 r ]. Purchased 

for »0. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1843), 4. 


B-023 Bandellus de Castronovo,Vincentius 

De singulari puritate et praerogativa conceptione 

salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi. 

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[a1 ] [Bandellus] de Castronovo,Vincentius: ‘Epistola . . . narratiua 

disputationis facte de materia conceptionis beate virginis Marie’, 

addressed to Hercules I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara. Incipit: ‘[C]um 

excellentem tui animi magnitudinem mecum reputo, Hercules 

clarissime, non possum non satis admirari . . .’ 

[a4 r ] Bandellus de Castronovo,Vincentius: De singulari puritate et 

praerogativa conceptione salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi. Incipit: 

‘[P]eculiarem hanc dignitatem, princeps illustrissime, sacri doctores 

viri excellentissimi fundatoresque ortodoxe nostre religionis 

. . .’ 

[p1 v ] Cittadinus Faventinus, Antonius: ‘Carmen’. ‘Quisquis ait 

matrem Christi sine labe creatam > Hec legat errorem discat et 

ille suum’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 16142. 

[p1 v ] Cittadinus Faventinus, Antonius: ‘Aliud carmen’. ‘Hic libet 

ethereum regem sermone profundo > Exornat sanctam consolidatque 

¢dem’; 10 elegiac distichs. 

[p1 v ] ‘M. L. Iuris Periti’: ‘Aliud carnem(!).’ ‘Regine meritas laudes 

comendat Olympi > Hic liber ethereum prosequiturque ducem’; 4 

elegiac distichs. 


[p2 r ] Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Epistola de festo conceptionis 

beatae Mariae virginis [ep. 174]. 

refs. Bernardus, Epistolae, I, Opera, 7, ed. J. Leclercq and H. 

Rochais (Rome, 1974), 388 l. 10 ^ 389 l. 12 and 390 l. 13 ^ 392 l. 26. 

v 

[p3 ] Bandellus de Castronovo, Vincentius: ‘Auctor operis ad 

detractores’. Incipit:‘At siquis fortassis falso scientie nomine gloriabundus, 

hec que scripsimus impugnare voluerit . . .’ 

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[p4 ] ‘Tabula’. 

Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, 12 Feb. 1481. 4 o . 

collation: [a 6+1 bô 8 p 6 ]. 

GW 3238; H *2353; Go¡ B-49; BMC VI 806; Pr 6552; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Wanting [p 6]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf, over blind-tooled pasteboards 

coloured red in imitation of red morocco; marbled pastedowns. 


Occasional early marginal notes. Bibliographical note on front 

endleaf signed by J.T. Hand and dated 14 Feb. 1836. 

Partial rubrication: some initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red. Capitals touched with yellow. Sheets signed in an old 

hand, partly cut away. 

Provenance: J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); bibliographical note 

(above); purchased at his sale (1837), lot 69, for »0. 10. 6; see 

Books Purchased (1837), 4. 


B-024 Baptista Mantuanus 

Opera. 

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aa1 [Title-page.] 

aa1 r Buschius, Hermannus: ‘In Baptistam Mantuanum 

Carmelitam . . . epigramma’. ‘Clarus Vlixee preco virtutis 

Homerus > Condidit errantem per duo lustra ratem’; 4 elegiac distichs. 

aa1 v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus 

Bembus. Incipit: ‘Beatissime virginis et martyris Catharine 

vitam nuper Rome, dum tu apud Innocentium Ponti¢cem 

Maximum pro republica tua splendidum oratoris munus . . .’ 

aa2 r Baptista Mantuanus(?): ‘Argumentum’. Incipit: ‘Catharina 

virgo Egyptia Alexandrie nata . . .’ 

aa2 v Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda sive Catharinaria 

dedicated to Bernardus Bembus. ‘Costidis aggressi pugnam tormenta 

rotasque > Atque triumphato victricia bella tyranno’. 

refs. See Edmondo Coccia, Le edizioni delle opere del 

Mantovano, Collectanea Bibliographica Carmelitana, 2 (Rome, 

1960), 143.

366 baptista mantuanus 

[b-024^b-028 

gg6 r Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘In inuidum lectorem carmen’. ‘Inuide 

quid tantum iuuat excandescere lector > Et Rhodiis linguax 

ponere sacra focis’; 11 elegiac distichs. 

Cologne: Apud praedicatores [i.e. Cornelis de Zierikzee], 1500. 

4 o . 

collation: aa bb 6 cc 4 dd^gg 6 . 

GW 3243 t.2; H *2360; Go¡ B-51; BMC I 308 (part II); Pr 1493; 

BSB-Ink B-51; Sheppard 1104; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 217. 

COPY 

Parthenice secunda only. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for the Bodleian 

Library. Size: 205 ¿ 143 ¿ 10 mm. Size of leaf: 200 ¿ 134 mm. 

Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dpl’ 

and ‘4432’ in pencil on aa1 r . Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, 

possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 



Adolescentia. 

a1 v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Paris Ceresarius. 

refs. The Eclogues of Mantuan, ed. Wilfred P. Mustard 

(Baltimore, 1911), 62. 

a2 r Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Aeglogae’. [Also known as Adolescentia.] 

refs. Eclogues of Mantuan, ed. Mustard, 63^119. See Coccia 138. 

Mantua: Vincentius Bertochus, 16 Sept. 1498. 4 o . 

collation: a^f 6 g 4 . 

GW 3244 (Anm.); HC (+Addenda) 2401; C 857; Go¡ B-53; BMC VII 

934; Pr 6910; BSB-Ink B-37; CIBN B-36; Sheppard 5637. 

COPY 

Colophon as GW (Anm.). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian 

Library; marbled pastedowns. Size: 213 ¿ 162 ¿ 17 mm. Size of 

leaf: 206 ¿ 148 mm. 

Some capitals are touched with yellow wash. 

Provenance: Bergamo, Dominicans, S. Stephanus, later S. 

Dominicus; inscriptions on a 1 r and a2 r . J.T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); 

note on endleaf; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 119, for »0. 2. 0; 

see Books Purchased (1837), 24. 



De suorum temporum calamitatibus. 

Fragments. 

Deventer: Richard Pafraet, 27 Nov. 1495. 4 o . 

collation: a^f 8.4 g 6 h 4 i 8 . 

GW 3248; HCR 2382; Pr 9009; Campbell^Kronenberg 228; HPT II 

408; ILC 339; Sheppard 6948. 

COPY 

Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments. 

Fragments of only three leaves remain, a 1, 50 ¿ 92 mm, a 2, 35 ¿ 

92 mm, and i8, 100 ¿ 93 mm. 

‘telos’ in faded black ink on i8 r . 

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757^1834). Bequeathed in 1834. 

shelfmark: Douce Fragm. b.1(30). 



aa1 r Baptista Mantuanus: De suorum temporum calamitatibus. 

Dedicated to Cardinal Oliverius Carafa. 

refs. Baptista Mantuanus, Libritres decalamitatibustemporum, 

ed. GabrieleWessels (Rome, 1916). See Coccia 139. 

v 

hh5 Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘Carmen’. Dedicated to Jacobus Maria 

de Lino. ‘[L]ine, decus ¢dei, dentes cui Serra beatos > Alligat et 

ueteris pignus amoris habet’; 15 elegiac distichs. 

Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 10 Sept. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: aa^¡ 8 gg hh 6 . 

GW 3253; HC (+ Addenda) *2384; Go¡ B-93; BMC V 566; Pr 5586; 

BSB-Ink B-45; Sack, Freiburg, 435; Sheppard 4679^80. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century marbled pasteboards. 


Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763^1829); 

shelfmark no. 620*, see Catalogue (1831); sale: perhaps to be 

identi¢ed with Catalogue (1841), part III, lot 877. Purchased for 

»0. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 6. 


SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Baptista Mantuanus, De patientia.Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de 

Leuco, 6 Sept.1499 (B-043); 

2. Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice prima, sive Mariana.Venice: 

Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 16 July 1[4]99 (B-035); 

3. Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria. 

Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 14 July 1499 (B-039); 

4. Baptista Mantuanus, In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum 

carmen.Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 6 Aug. 1499 (B-031). 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German (Augsburg, Kyri� workshop 

no. 86) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with metal 

clasps and catches; rebacked. On both covers double ¢llets form 

an outer frame, in which is a £oral roll (Kyri� pl. 175, no. 1); the 

head of the upper cover is stamped ‘Baptista M’. Triple ¢llets 

form an inner frame, decorated on the upper cover with a rosette 

stamp (Kyri� pl.175, no.6), undecorated on the lower cover. In the 

inner rectangle, on both covers, a repeated strapwork roll (Kyri� 

pl. 175, no. 2). Size: 201 ¿ 144 ¿ 68 mm. Size of leaf: 192 ¿ 

130 mm. 

Provenance: Buxheim, Bavaria, Carthusians, BVM inscription 

in red ink on a1 r , armorial stamp on a2 r , of item 1; ‘H 245’ (? shelfmark) 

on label inside the upper cover. Grafvon Ostein,1803. Sold 

in 1883 by Graf Hugo von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820^1895); 

Buxheim sale, lot 3338. Purchased by Falconer Madan for the 

Bodleian in 1884 for 11 Marks 50 Pfennigs; see Library Bills, 19 

Feb. 1884; note by Falconer Madan inside the upper cover; see 

also Honemann,‘Buxheim Collection’, Bod8. 




AA1 r [Title-page.] 

AA 2 r Baptista Mantuanus: De suorum temporum calamitatibus. 

‘De peccatis’. Dedicated to Cardinal Oliverius Carafa. 

refs. See B-027.


367 

KK6 v Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘Carmen’ [dedicated to] Jacobus Maria 

de Lino. ‘[L]ine, decus ¢dei, dentes cui Serra beatos > Alligat et 


Paris: Georg Wolf and Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, 13 Mar. 

1499/1500. 4 o . 

collation: AA 8 BBÎI 6 KK 8 . 

GW 3254 (Anm.); C 847; Go¡ B-94; Sheppard 6533. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice prima, sive Mariana. [Paris]: 

Georg Wolf orThielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, [c.1499] (B-034); 


[Paris: Georg Wolf and Thielman Kerver, for] Jean Petit, [c.1499] 

(B-038); 

4. Baptista Mantuanus, In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum 

carmen. [Paris: Georg Wolf and] Thielman Kerver, for Jean 

Petit, [c.1499] (B-030). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French olive-green morocco, with 

gold ¢llets, gold-tooled spine, a fern-tip roll on the turn-ins, 

marbled pastedowns, and gilt-edged leaves. Size: 202 ¿ 142 ¿ 


Provenance: Hugo Caroneus (£. 1543). G. Caroneus (sixteenth 

century); inscription on a1 r of item 1: ‘Hic liber olim circa anno 

domini1543 fuit emptus a patre meo domino Hugo Caroneo doctore 

medico meo rogatu a quodam mei condiscipulo crestensi. G. 

Caroneus. 1543’. Other names on a1 r of item 1 (perhaps pentrials): 

Johannes [ ]; Hugo Sa[ ]. Purchased from Arthur Rogers 

by the Friends of the Bodleian Library in July1931 for »22; pencil 

note on the front endleaf. 

shelfmark: Don. e.12(3). 



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[* 1 ] [Title-page.] 

[*1 v ] Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter], addressed to Johannes 

Briselotus. 


v 

[* 2 ] ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 

[*]4 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Sequentis operis prenotamenta’. 

Incipit: ‘[V]t morem quem instituimus obseruemus . . .’ 

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aa1 Baptista Mantuanus: De suorum temporum calamitatibus 

[dedicated to] Cardinal Oliverius Carafa. 


v 

aa1 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on De suorum temporum 

calamitatibus.] Incipit: ‘[C]ogimur istius mala tempestatis 

etc. Opus hoc, quod de calamitatibus suorum temporum auctor 

inscripsit . . .’ 

r 

vv7 [Colophon.] 

vv7 v Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘Carmen’ [dedicated to] Jacobus Maria 

de Lino. ‘[L]ine decus ¢dei dentes cui Serra beatos > Alligat et 


vv8 r Thiletanus, Bibacius: [Letter in prose and verse (four elegiac 

couplets), addressed to] Jodocus Badius Ascensius. 


[Paris]: Georg Wolf and Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit and 

Johann de Koblenz, 4 Sept. and 30 Nov. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: [*] 4 aa^pp 8 qq^tt 6 vv 8 . 

GW 3255; H 2385; Go¡ B-95; BMC VIII 216; Pr 8386; CIBN B-61; 

Oates 3155; Renouard, Badius, II 106 no. F 1; Rhodes 255; 

Sheppard 6540. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled russia, with green 

pastedowns; bound for the Bodleian Library: binding mark 

‘Bodl’on [* 1 r ]; and the gold stamp of the Bodleian on both covers; 

upper board detached. Size: 209 ¿ 148 ¿ 24 mm. Size of 

leaf: 198 ¿ 132 mm. 

Some underlining in pencil. 

Provenance: WilliamWorcester (sixteenth/seventeenth century); 

inscription on vv8 r in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Thys ys sr 

Wyllyam Wurcetres boke the wich he purpa[ ] > Wylnott syll for 

no Ryches therfore the reder may byleue contynually as ye doth 

fynde’. Acquired before 1674: listed in Hyde, Catalogus, I 252, 

with shelfmark 4 o F 33 Art., but dated to 1505. This date is probably 

derived from the last item in the volume as it was then bound, 

namely the De patientia. Item 2 in the description is probably now 

Auct. 2Q 5.24(3) (B-045), namely the Contra poetas impudice 

loquentes. The ruled scoring in black ink on Cc 6 v of B-045 

matches the scoring on [*1 v ^2 r ] of this item, and the leaves are the 

same size. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4 o F 33 Art. 



In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum carmen, et al. 

aa1 r [Title-page.] 

aa2 r Baptista Mantuanus: In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum 

carmen, dedicated to Ludovicus Gonzales Hispanus. 

‘[S]emideum ueteres insignia facta poetae > Meoniis usi ¢dibus 

grandique cothurno’. 

refs. See Coccia 141. 

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cc5 Baptista Mantuanus: Somnium Romanum dedicated to 

Andreas Bentivolus.‘[M]axime iusticie cultor, qui clara parentum 

> Facta nouis uite meritis et honoribus auges’. 


f1 v Baptista Mantuanus: Epigrammata ad Falconem.‘[D]ebeo (sed 

cure prohibent) tibi carmina, Falco > Aegraque mens uariis sollicitudinibus’. 


i3 v Baptista Mantuanus: In divum Albertum Carmelitam carmen. 

‘[M]ensis Augusti redeunt honores > Fulget auleis paries et are’; 36 

strophes, each consisting of 3 sapphics and 1 adonic. 


i6 v Baptista Mantuanus: De vita divi Ludovici Morbioli.‘Maxime 

ponti¢cum triplicem qui fronte coronam > Et duo sacrata qui geris 

arma manu’. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 10810a and Coccia 142. 

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ll5 Baptista Mantuanus: De contemnenda morte, dedicated to 

Jason Castellus.‘[Q]uid moeres fatumque times, oblita tui mens > 

Stulta, quid hoc tantum debile corpus amas’. 


[Paris: GeorgWolf and] Thielman Kerver, forJean Petit, [c.1499]. 

4 o . 

collation: aa 8 bbêe 6 fî 6 ll 8 . 

GW 3259; Go¡ B-86; Sheppard 6534.


[b-030^b-034 

COPY 

Variant: on aa2 r , l. 3:‘Galleci’, not as GW (‘Gallecie’). Bound with 

B-028; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of 

leaf: 195 ¿ 125 mm. 

Some contemporary scribbles and pen-trials on ll8 v . 



In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum carmen, et al. 

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A1 Baptista Mantuanus: In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum 


‘[S]emideum ueteres insignia facta poetae > Meoniis usi ¢dibus 



C1 v Baptista Mantuanus: Somnium Romanum dedicated to 

Andreas Bentivolus.‘[M]aximae iustitiae cultor, qui clara parentum 

> Facta nouis uit� meritis et honoribus auges’. 


v 

D7 Baptista Mantuanus: Epigrammata ad Falconem. ‘[D]ebeo 

(sed curae prohibent) tibi carmina, Falco > Aegraque mens uariis 

sollicitudinibus’. 


Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 6 Aug. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: AÊ 8 F 6 G 4 . 


CIBN B-41; Sack, Freiburg, 436; Sheppard 4677. 

COPY 

Bound with B-027(2); see there for details of binding and provenance. 


Marginal notes on B3 v . 



De contemnenda morte, et al. 

[a1 r ] [Title-page.] 

[a2 r ] Baptista Mantuanus: De contemnenda morte dedicated to 

Jason Castellus.‘[Q]uid meres fatumque times, oblita tui mens? > 

Stulta, quid hoc tantum debile corpus amas?.’ 


[a5 r ] Baptista Mantuanus: In divum Albertum Carmelitam carmen. 

‘[M]ensis Augusti redeunt honores > Fulget auleis paries et 

are’. 


[Erfurt: Wolfgang Schenck, c.1500]. 4 o . 


GW 3270; R 826; Go¡ B-55; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century parchment. Size: 189 ¿ 142 ¿ 7 mm. 


Notes on the orderoftheheavens on [a1 v ] in black ink in a contemporary 

hand. Notes in red ink on [a1 r ]. Smudged pen-trials on 

[a2 v ]. Musical notation in a contemporary hand in black ink on 

[a 8 r ]. 

A three-line initial ‘Q’ is supplied on [a2 r ]. Capital strokes and 

some underlining in red. 

Provenance: Purchased on 31 Oct. 1985 at Bloomsbury Book 

Auctions, lot 45, for »1300; see ledger (1985/6), no. 364. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. G25.1. 


Parthenice prima, sive Mariana. 

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a1 v Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice prima sive Mariana, dedicated 

to Ludovicus Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista 

Refrigerius. ‘[S]ancta Palestine repetens exordia nymphe > 

Di⁄ciles ortus et formidata profundo’. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 17209 and Coccia 142. 

h7 r Baptista Mantuanus: Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim 

acerrimam.‘[A]d tua confugio supplex altaria virgo > Et fero nocturnas 

in tua templa preces’. 


Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 18 May 1498. 4 o . 

collation: a^f 8.4 g 6 h 8 . 

GW 3285; H 2377; C 835; Pr 9097; Campbell 226 = 221 (II); HPT II 

414; ILC 330; Sheppard 6988. 

COPY 

Variant: on a 2 r , l. 2: ‘. . . Refriergi > um’. 

Binding: Half parchment; leaves cropped. Size: 204 ¿ 145 ¿ 


Copious interlinear glosses and marginal annotations, mainly in 

Latin, but some in Dutch, in black ink, in contemporary hands, 

both on grammatical and other subjects. Also, on a 1 r-v early 

notes in Latin, on rhetoric; further early notes in Latin and 

Dutch; and early notes in Latin, on the printed text and the 

author. 

Partial rubrication: one three-line initial is supplied in red on c 4 r . 

Some capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: name on a2 r in an early(?) hand: ‘Tr Gend[ ]’; unidenti¢ed 

stamp on a 1 r : eighteenth-century ‘C C’s addorsed and 

interlaced beneath a coronet. Date of acquisition unknown, but 

the shelfmark makes a date of 1886 probable, so this might be the 

copy bought referred to as ‘Bapt. Mantuanus’ in the bill from 

Camille Vyt, Catalogue 290, no. 262; see Library Bills, 24 Feb. 

1886. 




a1 r [Title-page.] 

a 1 v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter] addressed to Ludovicus 

Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. Incipit: ‘[F]rater 

Baptista Mantuanus Carmelita, Ludouico Fuscario ac Iohanni 

Baptistae Refrigerio viris integerrimis SPD. Libellum meum cui, 

quod Marie virginis historiam continet, Parthenice titulus . . .’ 

a3 r Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Apologeticon’ addressed to Ludovicus 

Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uoniamfortasse compluresrei(vtmosest)nouitatepellecti...’ 


2 


2 

a1 v [Dedication to Ludovicus Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista 

Refrigerius.]


369 

2 

a2 r Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice prima. ‘[S]ancta Palestine 

repetens exordia nymphae > Di⁄ciles ortus et formidata profundo’. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 17209 and Coccia 142. Date of publication 

given as Bologna, 11 Feb. 1481, on h4 r . 

v 

h4 Baptista Mantuanus: Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim 

accerimam.‘[A]d tua confugio supplex altaria uirgo > Et fero nocturnas 



v 

h6 Baptista Mantuanus: Contra poetas impudice loquentes. 

‘[S]unt quibus eloquii datur aurea uena poetae > Sed cadit in 

sordes in¢citurque luto’. 


[Paris]: Georg Wolf or Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit, [c.1499]. 

4 o . 

collation: a 10 2 a b^f 8 g h 10 . 

Woodcut on 2 v 

a1 . 

GW 3286 and 3286 (note); Go¡ B-62; not in Pr; Sheppard 6535. 

COPY 

Bound with B-028; see there for details of binding and provenance. 


Wanting h10 containing the printer’s device. 

Smudged marginal notes on c7 v . 




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a1 Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter] addressed to Ludovicus 

Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. Incipit: ‘[F]rater 

Baptista Mantuanus Carmelita, Lodouico Fuscarario ac Joanni 

Baptiste Refrigerio viris integerrimis SPD. Libellum meum cui, 

quod Marie virginis historiam continet, Parthenice titulus . . .’ 

a3 r Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Apologeticon’ addressed to Ludovicus 


‘[Q]uoniamfortassecompluresrei(vtmosest)nouitateperlecti...’ 

refs. Not in Coccia. 

r 

b3 Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice prima dedicated to Ludovicus 

Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. ‘[S]ancta 

Palestinae repetens exordia nymphae > Di⁄ciles ortus et formidata 

profundo’. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 17209 and Coccia 142. Edition dated 

Bologna, 11 Feb. 1481, on i5 r . 

v 

i5 Baptista Mantuanus: Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim 

accerrimam. ‘[A]d tua confugio supplex altaria uirgo > Et fero 

nocturnas in tua templa preces’. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 467. Not in Coccia. 

Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 16 July 1[4]99. 4 o . The colophon 

reads:‘Anno gratiae. M. xcix. die. xvi. Iulii’. 

collation: a^h 8 i 6 . 


B-53; Sack, Freiburg, 437; Sheppard 4676. 

COPY 






A1 r [Title-page.] 

A 1 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter] addressed to Laurentius 

Burellus. 


A2 r [Introduction to extract from Johann Trithemius, De scriptoribus 

ecclesiasticis]. Incipit: ‘[U]tque in explanandis autoribus perquiri 

solent . . .’ 

A 2 r Trithemius, Johannes: ‘Baptiste Mantuani vita et opera’. 

refs. Johannes Trithemius, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (Paris: 

Bertholdus Rembolt and Jean Petit, 16 Oct. 1512), B 7 r , with slight 

variations at the end; ed. G. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca ecclesiatica 

(Hamburg, 1718), no. CMXII. 

A2 v ‘In sequens opus praeambula’. Incipit: ‘Titulus operis est: 

Parthenice Mariana . . .’ 

A3 r ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 

A 5 v ‘Vocabulorum . . . declaratio’. 

A7 r Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus 

Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. Incipit: ‘Frater 

Baptista Mantuanus Carmelita, Lodouico Fuscario ac Joanni 

Baptiste Refrigerio viris integerrimis SPD. [L]ibellum meum cui, 

quod Marie uirginis historiam continet, Parthenice titulus . . .’ 

B1 r Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Apologeticon’ addressed to Ludovicus 


‘[Q]uoniamfortasse compluresrei(vtmosest)nouitatepellecti...’ 


a1 r Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice prima, dedicated to Ludovicus 

Fuscararius and Johannes Baptista Refrigerius. ‘[S]ancta 

Palestine repetens exordia nymphe > Di⁄ciles ortus et formidata 

profundo’. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 17209 and Coccia 143. Date of publication 

given as Bologna, 11 Feb. 1481, on v5 r . 

a1 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on Parthenice 

prima.] Incipit: ‘‘‘[S]ancta Palestine repetens exordia nymphe’’. 

In hoc prooemio auctor ex instituto Latinorum poetarum res 

arduas . . .’ 

v 

v6 Baptista Mantuanus: Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim 

accerimam.‘[A]d tua confugio supplex altaria uirgo > Et fero nocturnas 



r 

v7 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus(?): [Commentary on Ad beatam 

Virginem votum.] Incipit: ‘[A]d tua confugio. Carmen hoc 

votiuum quia facillimum est non egere putem explanationis . . .’ 

[Paris: Georg Wolf and] Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit [and 

Johann de Koblenz, after 15 Oct. 1499]. 4 o . IGI VI assigns to 

Kerver alone. 

collation: A B a 8 b 6 c^v 8 . 

GW 3288; H 2369 (I); HC 2369; HC after 2362; Go¡ B-64; CIBN 

B-48; Renouard, Badius, II 101^2 no. E 1; Rhodes 251; Sheppard 

6542. 

COPY 

Bound with: 



Johann de Koblenz, after 5 Aug.1499] (B-040); 

3. Baptista Mantuanus, Contra poetas impudice loquentes, commentary 

by Jodocus Badius Ascensius. [Paris: Georg Wolf and]


[b-036^b-039 

Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit and Johann de Koblenz, 15 Oct. 

1499 (B-045). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled russia; green pastedowns 

and a parchment index tab. Bound for the Bodleian 

Library; instructions to binder on front endleaf: ‘Retain the old 

paper at the beginning; not to be cut’; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 218 ¿ 148 ¿ 38 mm. Size 

of leaf: 207 ¿ 133 mm. 

Some early marginal notes. Manuscript list of contents on front 

endleaf in a seventeenth-century(?) hand, containing the ¢rst 

two items, and showing that they had travelled together for some 

time before they received their present binding. Although the 

three items were probably issued together, as stated in CIBN 

B-48, it seems thatthe copyof item three was added to this volume 

at a later stage. 

Provenance: Guilielmus Braysicus (sixteenth century?); name 

(deleted) on A1 r : ‘Guiluelmus Braysicus/E[ ]sing D[ ]perhus’. 

Items 1 and 2 were acquired in 1823 from Joseph Sams; see 

‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae’, fol. 172 v ; item 3 was acquired 

before 1674; see B-029 and B-045. 



Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria, et al. 


v 

A1 Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. 

Incipit: ‘[B]eatissime virginis et martyris Katharine vitam nuper 

Rome . . .’ 

r 

A2 [Baptista Mantuanus(?)]: ‘Argumentum’. Incipit: ‘Catharina 

virgo Egyptia, Alexandrie nata . . .’ 

A2 v Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda, [dedicated to] 

Bernardus Bembus.‘[C]ostidis aggressi pugnam tormenta rotasque 

> Atque triumphato nutricia bella tyranno’. 


G6 r [Colophon.] 

v 

G6 Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘Carmen’, [addressed to the reader.] 

‘[I]nuide quod tantum iuuat excandescere, lector > Et Rhodiis linguax 


r 

H1 Baptista Mantuanus: In Robertum Severinatem panegyricum 


‘[S]emideum ueteres insignia facta poete > Meoniis usi ¢dibus 



K2 v Baptista Mantuanus: Somnium Romanum dedicated to 

Andreas Bentivolus.‘[M]axime iustitie cultor, qui clara parentum 

> Facta nouis uite meritis et honoribus auges’. 


M5 r Baptista Mantuanus: Epigrammata ad Falconem. ‘[D]ebeo 

(sed cure prohibent) tibi carmina, Falco > Aegraque mens uariis 

sollicitudinibus’. 


r 

P5 Baptista Mantuanus: In divum Albertum Carmelitam carmen. 

‘[M]ensis Augusti redeunt honores > Fulget auleis paries et are’. 


r 

P8 Baptista Mantuanus: De vita divi Ludovici Morbioli, dedicated 

to Innocentius VIII, Pont. Max.‘[M]axime ponti¢cum triplicem 

qui fronte coronam > Et duo sacrata qui geris arma manu’. 


R2 v Baptista Mantuanus: De contemnenda morte dedicated to 

Jason Castellus.‘[Q]uid meres fatumque times, oblita tui mens? > 

Stulta, quid hoc tantum debile corpus amas’. 


Paris: [Georg Wolf and Johann Philippi, for] E., J. and G. de 

Marnef, and Jean Petit, 1497. 4 o . 

collation: A^C 8 D^G 6 H I 8 K^N 6 O^Q 8 R 6 . 

GW 3294; C 838; Go¡ B-68; BMC VIII149; Pr 8240; Sheppard 6378. 

COPY 



Gatherings H^R only: wanting gatherings A^G, Parthenice 

secunda. 

Occasional underlining in black ink. 

shelfmark: 4 o F 1(4) Art. 


Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria. 


A1 v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. 

Incipit: ‘[B]eatissime virginis et martyris Catharine vitam nuper 

Rome dum tu apud Innocentium Ponti¢cem Maximum pro 

republica tua splendidum oratoris munus . . .’ 

r 

A2 Baptista Mantuanus(?): ‘Argvmentvm’. Incipit: ‘Catharina 


A2 v Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda dedicated to 

Bernardus Bembus. ‘Costidis aggressi pugnam tormenta rotasque 

> Atque triumphato uictricia bella tyranno’. 


G4 v Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘In inuidum lectorem carmen’. ‘Inuide 



[Paris: GeorgWolf and Thielman Kerver, for] Jean Petit, [c.1499]. 

4 o . 

collation: A^C 8 D^F 6 G 4 . 

GW 3300; Go¡ B-70; Sheppard 6536. 

COPY 






a1 r Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. 




a1 v Baptista Mantuanus(?): ‘Argumentum’. Incipit: ‘[C]atharina 


a2 r Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda dedicated to 




f4 r Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘In inuidum lectorem carmen’.‘Inuide quid 

tantum iuuat excandescere lector > Et Rhodiis linguax ponere 

sacra focis’. 

Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 14 July 1499. 4 o .


371 




COPY 






r 


a1 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Henricus 

Valluphinus. 


a2 r Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Bernardus Bembus. 




a2 v Baptista Mantuanus(?): ‘Argumentum’. Incipit: ‘[C]atharina 


a3 r ‘Index alphabeticus’. 

a4 r ‘Expositiuncule epistole auctoris premisse’. Incipit: ‘Nequid 

inexpositum preteream noris lector in epistola ab auctore repremissa 

. . .’ 

a4 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[V]itam 

poete atque auctoris huius clarissimi in prioris Parthenices preambulis 

recensuimus . . .’ 

B1 r Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice secunda dedicated to 




B1 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on Parthenice 

secunda.] Incipit: ‘[C]ostidis aggressi pugnam. Ex veteri 

Latinorum poetarum more atque instituto poeta noster tria 

facit . . .’ 

P6 r Ceretus, Franciscus: ‘In inuidum lectorem carmen’. ‘Inuide 



P6 r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Excandescere est ira et inuidia in£amari 

. . .’ 


Johann de Koblenz, between 5 Aug. 1499 and 13 Jan 1500]. 4 o . 

As dated by CIBN; Sheppard dates [after 5 Aug.1499]. 

collation: a 4 B^M 8 N^P 6 . 

GW 3303; H 2369 (II); C (+Addenda) 2376; Go¡ B-72; Pr 8385; 

CIBN B-053; Renouard, Badius, II 97^8 no. D 1; Rhodes 252; 


COPY 



Some early marginal notes. Manuscript list of contents on front 

endleaf in a seventeenth-century(?) hand, containing the ¢rst 

two items, and showing that they had travelled together for some 

time before they received their present binding. 



De patientia. 


r 

a2 Capreolus, Helias: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Taberius. 

Incipit: ‘[N]isi uana sit Pythagorae palingenesia, Maronem nobis 

alterum haec aetas rediuiuum produxit . . .’ 

r 

a3 ‘Indices librorum’. 

a5 v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus 

Fantucius. 

refs. Baptista Mantuanus, La vita beata. La pazienza, ed. and 

trans. Ettore Bolisani (Padua, 1959), 251. 

b1 r Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Isagoges ad patientiam’. [Also known as 

De patientia.] Dedicated to Carolus Antonius Fantucius. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uoniam opportunis ac frequentibus bene¢ciis huic nostro 

Bononiensi coenobio magni¢ce ac religiose collatis . . .’ 

refs. Partially printed in Baptista Mantuanus, La vita beata, ed. 

Bolisani 252^64 and Coccia 140. 

p6 r Baptista Mantuanus(?): [Valedictory note.] Incipit:‘Haec habui 

de tenui facultate meae penuriae quae diuturnae nostrae amiciciae 

et mutuae . . .’ 

p6 r [Colophon.] 

p6 v Taberius Brixianus, Johannes: ‘Antigraphia’, addressed to 

Helias Capreolus.‘Postquam plena malis subierunt tempora nosque 

> Scyllaeis lacerat fors truculenta uadis’; 14 elegiac distichs. 

Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, 30 May 1497. 4 o . 

collation: a 6 bô 8 p 6 . 

GW 3304 (Anm.); HC, Addenda *2404 = H 2403; Go¡ B-76; Pr 

7041; BSB-Ink B-41; Oates 2637; Rhodes 253; Sheppard 5816. 

COPY 



Initials, often with extensions into the margins, and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Rebdorf, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, abbey, S. 

Johannes Baptista; inscription in ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand on a1 r ; not found in Rebdorf catalogues, probably alienated 

before these were drawn up (1787,1790). Duplicate from the Royal 

Library, Munich(?);‘4742’ in pencil on a 1 r . Acquired between1847 

and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with 

Appendix. 



De patientia. 

r 


a2 r Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Wymmarus 

de Ercklens, Dean of Aachen. Incipit: ‘Plurima sunt ornatissime 

vir, quae me non modo hortantur sed et impellunt . . .’ 

a3 r [Table of contents.] 

a5 v Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus 

Fantucius. 


a6 v Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Isagoges ad patientiam’. [Also known as 


‘[Q]uoniam oportunis ac frequentibus bene¢ciis huic nostro 


refs. See B-041.


[b-042^b-045 

t6 r Baptista Mantuanus(?): [Valedictory note.] Incipit: ‘Haec habui 



t6 r [Colophon.] 

t6 r Brant, Sebastian: [Verse addressed to] Wymmarus de Ercklens. 

‘Sume bianorei vatis Wymmare libellum > Quo ¢eri patiens qui 

volet, esse potest’; 4 elegiac distichs. 


Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 17 Aug. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: a b 8 c^s 4.8 t 6 . 

GW 3307; HC 2407; Go¡ B-79; BMC III 797; Pr 7783; BSB-Ink 

B-42; CIBN B-55; Oates 2855; Sack, Freiburg, 439; Sheppard 

2564. 

COPY 



Variant: on t6 r , l. 13: ‘. . . Se > ba|tinus Brant. |alutem . . .’, as GW, 

not as BMC variant. 



De patientia. 


a2 r Capreolus, Helias: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Taberius. 

Incipit: ‘[N]isi uana sit Pythagorae palingenesia, Maronem nobis 

alterum haec aetas rediuiuum produxit . . .’ 

a3 r ‘Indices librorum’. 

r 

a6 Baptista Mantuanus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus 

Fantucius. 


r 

b1 Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Isagoges ad patientiam’. [Also known as 


‘[Q]uoniam opportunis ac frequentibus bene¢ciis huic nostro 



r9 r Baptista Mantuanus(?): [Valedictory note.] Incipit: ‘Haec habui 



r9 r Taberius Brixianus, Johannes: ‘Antigraphia’addressed to Helias 

Capreolus. ‘Postquam plena malis subierunt tempora nosque > 

Scyllaeis lacerat fors truculenta uadis’; 14 elegiac distichs. 

Venice: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, 6 Sept. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: a 6 b^q 8 r 10 . 


B-43; CIBN B-56; Sack, Freiburg, 440; Sheppard 4678. 

COPY 





Contra poetas impudice loquentes. 

r 


a1 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Laudatory introduction about 

Baptista.] Incipit: ‘[B]aptista Mantuanus unus est qui sola antiquitate 

antiquis postponendus est . . .’ 

a2 r Baptista Mantuanus: Contra poetas impudice loquentes. 

Edited by Johannes Honorius Cubitensis. ‘[S]unt quibus eloquii 

datur aurea vena poete > Sed cadit in sordes in¢citurque luto’. 

refs. S. M. Opielka, ‘B. Baptista Manutanus’, Analecta Ordinis 

Carmelitarum, 1 (1909), 458^61, 482^6, 550^4, 583^8, at 459; see 

Coccia 139. 

a6 r 

[Colophon acknowledging the editorial contribution of 

Johannes Honorius Cubitensis]. 

Leipzig: JacobusThanner, 1499. 4 o . 


GW 3311; C 852; Go¡ B-81; Pr 3074; Sheppard 2168. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, De moribus puerorum carmen 

juvenile. Leipzig: JacobusThanner, 1499 (S-355); 

2. Regimen sanitatis que quondam schola solemnis Anglicorum 

regi conscripsit [with a German gloss]. Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 

1 Mar. 1[4]99 (R-023); 

3. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De moribus humanae vitae. Marsilius 

Ficinus, De o⁄ciis cuilibet necessaria. Leipzig: Jacobus Thanner, 

1499 (S-152); 

4. Caelius Sedulius, Exhortatorium ad ¢deles. Leipzig: Jacobus 

Thanner, 1499 (S-127). 

Previously also bound with: 

5. Pius II, De ritu, situ, moribus et conditione Teutoniae. Leipzig: 

Wolfgang Sto« ckel, 9 Apr. 1496 (P-308); 

6. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: De mundi gubernatione. Leipzig: 

Conrad Kachelofen, [14]98 (S-138). 


Library(?); marbled paper boards and one green paper index 

tab, scars of others at the beginning of each item. According to 

Thorpe’s sale catalogue these items were bound together in the 

following order: 5, 6, 2, 3, 5, 1, 4. Size: 213 ¿ 150 ¿ 11 mm. Size of 

leaf: 205 ¿ 142 mm. 

In all items, principal initials are supplied in red. 

Provenance: ‘/13’ in pencil on a1 r of item 1: price, 13d(?). 

Purchased from Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851), Catalogue (1832), 

no. 2428, for »1. 1. 0; see Library Bills (1829^32), no. 345 and 




Contra poetas impudice loquentes. 

r 

Aa1 [Title-page.] 

Aa1 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Nicolaus de 

Quercu. 


v 

Aa1 ‘Quedam prenotatiuncule in sequens opus’. Incipit: ‘Poete 

vitam in Parthenices Marian� prenotatiunculis recitauimus . . .’ 

Aa2 r ‘Rerum et verborum index’. 

r 

Aa3 Baptista Mantuanus: ‘Contra impudice scribentes’. [Also 

known as Contra poetas impudice loquentes.] ‘Sunt quibus eloquii 

datur aurea uena poetae > Sed cadit in sordes in¢citurque 

luto’. 

refs. See Coccia 139.

-045^b-048] barbarus, hermolaus 

373 

Aa3 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on Contra poetas 

impudice loquentes.] Incipit:‘Sunt quibus eloquii etc. Sunt, inquit, 

quibus natura diuitem venam in carmina dederit . . .’ 

[Paris: Georg Wolf and] Thielman Kerver, for Jean Petit and 

Johann de Koblenz, 15 Oct. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: Aa 8 Bb Cc 6 . 

GW 3313; H 2369 (III); Go¡ B-82; Pr 8387; CIBN B-39; Renouard, 

Badius, II 87^8 no. F 2; Rhodes 254; Sheppard 6541. 

COPY 

Now bound with B-036; see there for details of thebinding. Sizeof 

leaf: 207 ¿ 133 mm. 

Provenance: Guiluelmus Braysicus (sixteenth century?); name 

(deleted) on A1 r of item 1:‘Guiluelmus Braysicus/E[ ]sing D[ ]perhus’. 

Date of acquisition of items 1 and 2 unknown; item 3 

acquired before 1674, and listed in Hyde, Catalogus, I 252, as 

part of 4 o F 33 Art, the ¢rst part now being B-029; see there and 

B-036. 



B-046 Barbarus, Hermolaus 

Castigationes Plinianae. 

a1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Praefatio’ [addressed to] Alexander VI, 

Pont Max. 

refs. Hermolaus Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae et in 

Pomponium Melam, 3 vols, ed. Giovanni Pozzi (Padua, 1973^9), 

I 1^3. 

a 2 v [Barbarus, Hermolaus: Monitum legentibus.] 

refs. Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae, ed. Pozzi, I 3^4. 

a3 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: Castigationes Plinianae primae. 

refs. Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae, ed. Pozzi, I 5^317, II, III 

837^1209. 

L6 r [First colophon, dated 24 Nov. 1492.] 

2 a1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Prefatio’. 

refs. Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae, ed. Pozzi, III 1213. 

2 a1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: Castigationes Plinianae secundae. 

refs. Barbarus, CastigationesPlinianae, ed. Pozzi, III1214^1303. 

2 c2 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] Alexander VI, 

Pont Max. 


2 c2 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: Emendationes in Melam Pomponium. 

refs. Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae, ed. Pozzi, III 1308^49. 

2 d1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] Alexander VI, 

Pont Max. 


2 d1 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: In Plinium glossemata. 

refs. Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae, ed. Pozzi, III1354^1475. 

2 g6 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Hermolaus lectori’. 

refs. Barbarus, Castigationes Plinianae, ed. Pozzi, III 1479^83. 

2 g7 v [List of errata.] ‘Quibus locis huius operis impressores hallucinati 

sint’. Incipit: ‘Folio primo: ad Augustum de agricultura, pro 

architectura . . .’ 

2 g8 r [Second colophon, dated 13 Feb. 1493.] 

Rome: Eucharius Silber, 24 Nov. 1492, 13 Feb. 1493. Folio. 

collation: a^z aa bb 8 cc 10 AÎ 8 K L 6 2 aê 8 f 6 g 8 . 

GW 3340; HC *2421; Go¡ B-100; BMC IV 113; Pr 3860; BSB-Ink 

B-58; CIBN B-71; Oates 1536; Sheppard 3058. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, rebacked, re-using earlier 

spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 


Occasional manuscript changes to the text. 


(1822), 2. 

shelfmark: Auct. L 5.18. 





Pont Max. 


a2 v [Barbarus, Hermolaus: Monitum legentibus.] 


r 

a3 Barbarus, Hermolaus: Castigationes Plinianae primae. 


aa1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Prefatio’. 


aa1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: Castigationes Plinianae secundae. 


v 

bb3 Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] Alexander VI, 

Pont Max. 


bb3 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: Emendationes in Melam Pomponium. 


bb7 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] Alexander VI, 

Pont Max. 


bb8 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: In Plinium glossemata. 


r 

ee4 Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Hermolaus lectori’. 


[Venice: Printer of Hermolaus Barbarus, ‘Castigationes 

Plinianae’ (HC 2420), for Daniel Barbarus c.1493^4]. Folio. 

collation: a^k 8 l^r 6 s 4 aa^cc 8 dd 6 ee 4 . Leaf g2 signed giii, g3 signed g. 

GW 3341; HC *2420; C 867; Go¡ B-101; BMC V 587; Pr 7422; 

BSB-Ink B-59; CIBN B-72; Oates 2232; Rhodes 256; not in 

Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled parchment. Size: 310 ¿ 

215 ¿ 33 mm. Size of leaf: 300 ¿ 208 mm. 

Some early marginal notes. 

Provenance: Johannes Andreas Mazza Cajinatius; inscription 

on a1 r . Dominicus Soraneca; inscription on pastedown. 

Solomon Pottesman (1904^1978); purchased at his sale, lot 53, 

for »440. 

shelfmark: Inc. c. I4.10. 




a1 r Grandis, Augustinus: ‘Epigramma de opere’. ‘Sordebat multis 

erroribus ante, sed illos > Erasit limae cura laborque grauis’; 4 elegiac 

distichs.

374 barbarus, hermolaus 

[b-048^b-050 


Pont Max. 


a2 v [Barbarus, Hermolaus: Monitum legentibus.] 


r 

a3 Barbarus, Hermolaus: Castigationes Plinianae primae. 


aa1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Praefatio’. 


r 

aa1 Barbarus, Hermolaus: Castigationes Plinianae secundae. 


bb5 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Praefatio’ [addressed to] Alexander 

VI, Pont Max. 


bb5 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: Emendationes in Melam Pomponium. 


cc3 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] Alexander VI, 

Pont Max. 


r 

cc4 Barbarus, Hermolaus: In Plinium glossemata. 


¡3 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: ‘Hermolaus lectori’. 


Cremona: Carolus de Darleriis, 3 Apr. 1495. Folio. 

collation: a^k 8 l^r 6 s 4 aaêe 6 ¡ 4 . 

GW 3342; HC *2423; Go¡ B-102; BMC VII 959; Pr 6929; BSB-Ink 

B-60; CIBN B-73; Oates 2604; Rhodes 257; Sheppard 5722. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century half morocco. Size: 285 ¿ 219 ¿ 



Provenance: Purchased from Leo Samuel Olschki (1861^1940), 

Monumenta typographica, no. 115, for 75 Fr; see Library Bills, 12 

Feb. 1901. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. I13.1495.1. 


Oratioad Fridericum IIIImperatorem et Maximilianum I 

Regem Romanorum. 

a1 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: Oratio ad Fridericum III Imperatorem 

et Maximilianum I Regem Romanorum. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam litterae, 

sacer Imperator, iocundissimum Reipublicae nostrae nuncium 

attulere . . .’ 

refs. Dated 3 Aug. 1486, at Bruges or Boulogne. 

a8 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes 

Carondeletus [II]. Incipit: ‘Hermolaus Barbarus I[ohanni] 

Carondeleto, supremo Regis Romani secretario, salutem P. D. 

Orationem a me nudius quartus habitam ad principes . . .’ 

refs. Dated 4 Aug. 1486, at Bruges. 

[Venice: Antonius de Strata, end of Aug. 1486]. 4 o . 


GW 3344; H *2418; Go¡ B-104; BMC V 595; Pr 5687; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Boxedwith A-212; see there for details of binding and provenance. 


‘XIX’ in black ink in upper margin of a 1 r . 





[a1 r ] Barbarus, Hermolaus: Oratio ad Fridericum III Imperatorem 

et Maximilianum I Regem Romanorum. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam littere 

sacer Imperator iocundissimum Reipublice nostre nuncium 


refs. Dated 3 Aug. 1486, at Bruges or Boulogne. 

[a6 r ] Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes 

Carondeletus. Incipit: ‘Hermolaus Barbarus L(!) [Johanni] 

Carondeleto, supremo Regis Romani secretario, S. P. D. 

Orationem a me nudius quartus habitam ad principes . . .’ 


[Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 13 Aug. 1486]. 4 o . 


GW 3345; H *2417; Go¡ B-105; Pr 3673; BSB-Ink B-61; CIBN B-74; 

Sack, Freiburg, 449; Sheppard 2922^5. As dated by CIBN and 

BSB-Ink; Hillard and Sack date [not before end of Aug. 1486], 

Sheppard [after 4 Aug. 1486]. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes Antonius Campanus, Oratio in conventu 

Ratisponensi anno 1471 habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1487] 

(C-038); 

2. Ludovicus Imolensis, Oratio in die Stephani habita. [Rome: 

Georgius Teutonicus (Lauer?) and Sixtus Riessinger, c.1483] 

(L-198(1)); 

3. Stephanus Tegliatius, Sermo contra Turcorum persecutionem. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 27 Dec.‘1481’ i.e. 1480] (T-017); 

4. [Removed as a duplicate and exchanged with the British 

Museum, 1913: note by F[alconer] M[adan] on endleaf]; 

5. Thomas ex Capitaneis, de Colleonibus, Oratio in die Omnium 

Sanctorum habita, 1483. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 1 Nov. 

1483] (C-057); 

6. Bernardinus Carvajal, Oratio in die Circumcisionis habita, 

1484. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 1 Jan. 1484] (C-094); 

7. Ludovicus Donatus, Oratiopro S. Augustini solemnitate habita. 

[Rome: Johannes Schoemberger, after 28 Aug. 1482?] (D-156); 

8. Lippus Aurelius Brandolinus, Oratio pro S. Thoma Aquinate. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1485^90] (B-503); 

9. Andreoccius de Ghinucciis, Oratio pro Senensibus ad 

Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Johannes Schoemberger, after 30 Oct. 

1484] (G-157A(2)); 

10. Antonius Lollius, Oratio Circumcisionis dominicae coram 

Innocentio VIII habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 1 Jan. 

1485] (L-140(1)); 





13. Antonius Lollius, Oratio Passionis dominicae coram 

Innocentio VIII habita contra Judaeorum per¢diam. [Rome: 

Stephan Plannck, after 24 Mar. 1486] (L-143(2)); 

14. Guilelmus Bodivit, Sermo habitus in die Trinitatis, 1485. 

[Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 29 May 1485] 

(B-381(1)); 

15. Hieronymus Scoptius, Oratio de trinitate. [Rome: Eucharius 

Silber, after 14 June 1489] (S-116(1));

-050] barbarus, hermolaus 

375 

16. Ludovicus Imolensis, Oratio de nomine Iesu. [Rome: 

Eucharius Silber, after 1492] (L-196); 

18. Antonius Geraldinus, Oratio in obsequio nomine Ferdinandi et 

Elisabeth InnocentioVIII exhibito,19 Sept.1486. [Rome: Stephan 

Plannck, before 1488] (G-075(2)); 

19. Helias de Bourdeille, Contra pragmaticam Gallorum sanctionem. 

Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1486 (B-494); 

20. Marianus de Genazano, Oratio coram InnocentioVIII dominica 

tertia adventus habita. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 19 Dec. 

1487] (G-062(2)); 

21. Petrus Marsus, Panegyricus in memoriam S. Johannis 

Evangelistae. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 27 Dec. 

1484] (M-109(2)); 

22. Leonellus Chieregatus, Propositio coram Henrico VII facta. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 29 Mar. 1490] (C-183(1)); 

23. Stephanus Thegliatius, Oratio de passione Domini. [Rome: 

Eucharius Silber, after 20 Apr. 1492] (T-016(1)); 

24. Leonellus Chieregatus, Oratio in funere Innocentii VIII. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 28 July 1492] (C-185(1)); 

25. Bernardinus Carvajal, Oratio de eligendo summo ponti¢ce, ed. 

Johannes Valesius. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 6 Aug. 1492] 

(C-096). 

Binding: Netherlandish(?) parchment. Size: 203 ¿ 145 ¿ 35 mm. 


Manuscript table of contents on the front endleaf in a seventeenth-century(?) 

hand. 

Provenance: Avila, Jesuits; cancelled inscription on pastedown: 

‘Collegii Albicellensis’. Michael Vosmer (sixteenth century); signature 

on [a2 r ] of item 18: ‘Michaelis Vosmeri’. Cornelius Vosmer 

(seventeenth century); name on front pastedown. Given its former 

shelfmark, possibly acquired between 1650 and 1668 (see G. 

W.Wheeler,‘Bodleian Press-marks in Relation to Classi¢cation’, 

BQR 1 (1914), 288), but not found in Hyde, Catalogus (1674) or 

Fysher, Catalogus; in Catalogus (1843), I 181, with the former 

shelfmark crossed out and the present one inserted instead. See, 

however, bill from Albert Cohn, 9 Apr. 1886, referring to 

Catalogue 175 no. 506: ‘(Roma) Orationes. 25 pieces. 4 o ’, purchased 

for 25 Marks; the list on the front endleaf indicates 25 

items. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4 o E14 Th. BS. 


SECOND COPY 



Early marginal notes and underlining in black ink. 

shelfmark: Auct. 2Q 6.1(11b). 

THIRD COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Pius II, Pont. Max., Oratio coram Calixto III de obedientia 

Friderici III. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, 1488^90] (P-332); 

2. Johannes Antonius Campanus, Oratio in conventu 

Ratisponensi anno1471habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1488^ 

90] (C-039); 

3. Nicolaus vel Cola Montanus, Oratio ad Lucenses. [Rome: 

Eucharius Silber, not after 1492] (M-312(2)); 

4. Bernardus Justinianus, Oratio habita apud Sixtum IV contra 

Turcos. [Rome: Johannes Gensberg, c.1474] (J-285(1)); 

5. Franciscus Patritius, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: 

Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 29 Dec. 1484] (P-040); 

6. Vasco Fernandes, Oratio de obedientia ad Innocentium VIII. 

[Rome: Andreas Freitag, after 9 Dec. 1485] (F-016); 

7. Robertus Guiba, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII in obedientia 

praestanda. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 10 June 1485] (G-271); 

8. Robertus Guiba, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII in obedientia 

praestanda. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 10 June 

1485] (G-269); 

9. Johannes de Targowissko, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: 

Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 26 May 1486] (T-011); 

10. Titus Vespasianus Strozza, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 28 June 1485] (S-331(1)); 

11. Titus Vespasianus Strozza, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 28 June 1485] (S-330(1)); 

12. Bartholomaeus Scala, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. [Rome: 

Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 15 Dec. 1484] (S-105); 

13. Andreoccius de Ghinucciis, Oratio pro Senensibus ad 

Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Johannes Schoemberger, after 30 Oct. 

1484] (G-157A(1)); 

14. Jacobus de Moretis, Oratio in laudem suae religionis. [Rome: 

Eucharius Silber, c.1483^7] (M-324); 

15. Petrus Cadratus, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII habita, 11 Feb. 

1485. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 11 Feb. 1485] 

(C-002); 

15A. Guilelmus Caorsin, Ad Innocentium papam VIII oratio. 

[Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 28 Jan. 1485] (C-052); 

16. Hector Fliscus, OratioadInnocentiumVIII. [Rome: Eucharius 

Silber, after 27 Apr. 1485] (F-065(2)); 

17. Hector Fliscus, Oratio ad Innocentium VIII. Titus Veltrius, 

Disticha ad Fliscam domum. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 27 

Apr. 1485] (F-066(1)); 

18. Johannes Franciscus Marlianus, Oratio habita apud 

Innocentium VIII. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 29 June 1485] 

(M-099(1)); 

19. Johannes de Dalberg, Gratulatio InnocentioVIIIdicta. [Rome: 

Eucharius Silber, after 6 July 1485] (D-002(1)); 

20. Johannes de Dalberg, Gratulatio Innocentio VIII dicta. 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 6 July 1485] (D-001(2)); 

22. Antonius Geraldinus, Oratioin obsequio nomine Ferdinandi et 

Elisabeth InnocentioVIIIexhibito,19 Sept.1486. [Rome: Stephan 

Plannck, before1488] (G-075(1)); 

23. Leonellus Chieregatus, Sermoinpublicationeconfoederationis 

interInnocentiumVIIIetVenetos. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 2 

Feb. 1487] (C-180(2)); 

24. Leonellus Chieregatus, Propositio coram Henrico VII facta. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 29 Mar. 1490] (C-183(2)); 

25. Petrus de Vicentia, Oratio pro capessenda expeditione contra 

in¢deles. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 25 Mar.1490] (P-217(2)); 

26. Stephanus Thegliatius, Oratio de passione Domini. [Rome: 

Eucharius Silber, after 20 Apr. 1492] (T-016(2)); 

27. Leonellus Chieregatus, Oratio in funere Innocentii VIII. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 28 July 1492] (C-185(2)). 

The volume formerly contained a copyof Christopher Columbus, 

Epistola de insulis nuper inventis [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 

29 April 1493] (GW 7173); see manuscript list of contents on front 

endleaves, no. 29. It was removed and sold separately at the Sykes 

sale, as lot 234; see pencil note below list of contents. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf. On both covers 

double ¢llets form a frame and an inner rectangular compartment, 

both of which are undecorated. Rebacked and with new 

corners. Size: 210 ¿ 148 ¿ 42 mm. Size of leaf: 201 ¿ 131 mm.

376 barberiis, philippus de 

[b-050^b-052a 

Manuscript list of contents on front endleaves(?) in an eighteenthcentury 

hand. 

Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771^1823); sale 

(1824), lot 230, purchased by Heber for »6. 12. 6 (catalogue »5. 15. 

6, plus »0. 17. 0 commission for Thorpe; note on front endleaf, in 

Heber’s hand). Richard Heber (1773^1833); notes in his hand on 

front endleaves; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 4325 (this individual 

lotbeing sold for »7.7.0). Purchased for »16.1.6, together with ¢ve 

other volumes of orationes (lots 4323^6); see Books Purchased 

(1834), 21, under Orationum variarum collectio. 


FOURTH COPY 

Bound with: 

1.Victorius Marianus, Chaldeae seu Aethiopicae linguae institutiones. 

Rome: Valerius Doricus Brixiensis, 1552; 

2. Modus baptizandi, preces et benedictiones quibus ecclesia 

Ethiopum utitur. Rome: Antonius Bladus, Apr. 1549; 

3. Thomas de Vio Caietani, De communione. De confessione. De 

satisfactione. De inuocatione sanctorum. Aduersus Luteranos 

tractatus. Rome: Antonius Bladus, 1531; 

4. Lucas Gauricus, De eclypsi solis miraculosa in passione Domini 

celebrata, etc. Rome: Antonius Bladus, Jan. 1539. 

Binding: Old parchment, with two small fragments of thirteenth/fourteenth-century(?) 

manuscript used to strengthen 

binding. Size: 227 ¿ 153 ¿ 23 mm. Size of leaf: 220 ¿ 147 mm. 

‘Brug[es] 1486’ in lower margin of a 1 r . 

Provenance: William Watts (1590?^1649); inscription on front 

endleaf and on manuscript fragment strengthening the binding: 

‘William Watts minister of St Albans in Woodstreete’. John 

Selden (1584^1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44, as ‘Aethiopic� 

lingu� institutiones . . .’ Presented in 1659. 

shelfmark: 4 o A 64(5) Art. Seld. 





A1 v Danhauser, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Conradus Stepeck. 

Incipit: ‘Plerique commilitones mei clarissimi ingenio adolescentes 

. . .’ 

refs. Dated 2 Apr. 1490. 

A 2 r Barbarus, Hermolaus: Oratio ad Fridericum III Imperatorem 

et Maximilianum I Regem Romanorum. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam littere 

tue sacer Imperator iucundissimum reipublice nostre nuncium 


refs. Dated 5 Aug. 1486 at Bruges or Boulogne. 

A7 r Deigratia [Gratia Dei], Anthonius: ‘Responsio’. Incipit: 

‘Luculentam ac splendidissimam orationem magni¢ci Veneti 

oratores gratanti . . .’ 

refs. Ermolao Barbaro, Epistolae, Orationes et Carmina, ed.V. 

Branca, 2 vols, Nuova collezione di testi umanistici inediti e rari, 

5^6 (Florence, 1943), pp. xxix^xxx and see L. Burie, ‘Proeve tot 

inventarisatie van de in handschrift of in druk bewaarde werken 

van de Leuvense theologieprofessoren uit de XV e eeuw’, in 

Facultas S. Theologiae Lovaniensis 1432^1797, Bibliotheca 

Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 45 (Louvain, 

1977), 215^72, at 263. 

A7 v Barbarus, Hermolaus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes 

Carondeletus. Incipit: ‘Orationem a me nudius quartus habitam 

ad principes amplitudini tue . . .’ 

A8 r Carondeletus, Johannes (Here Called‘Carandeletus’): [Letter 

addressed to] Hermolaus Barbarus. Incipit:‘Reddita est mihi oratio 

quam prestantia tua superioribus diebus habuit . . .’ 


A8 v Brunus, Ludovicus: [Congratulatory poem on the coronation 

of Maximilian as King of the Romans.] ‘Sancta per eternum 

petra fundata tonantem > Christicolum classis magnum protensa 

per orbem’. 

[Nuremberg: PeterWagner, after 2 Apr. 1490]. 4 o . 

collation: A 8 B 6 . 

A twelve-line woodcut initial ‘P’on A2 r . 

GW 3346; H *2419; Go¡ B-106; BMC II 463; Pr 2245; BSB-Ink 


COPY 




B-052 Barbatia, Andreas 

Consilium Si Eugenius Papa potest facere duos episcopos 

in una diocesi. 


a2 r Barbatia, Andreas: Consilium Si Eugenius Papa potest facere 

duos episcopos in una diocesi. Incipit:‘Utrum Papa possit ponere 

duos episcopos in vno episcopatu, et duos generales ministros in 

regula Beati Francisci . . .’ 

[Strasbourg: Printer of Barbatia,‘Consilium’, after 1500?]. 4 o . 

collation: a^d 8 e 6 . On the types employed and on the dating see 

CIBN. 

GW 3349; H *2452; BSB-Ink B-65; CIBN B-77; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf e6. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco over marbled 

paperboards. Size: 215 ¿ 164 ¿ 8 mm. Sizeofleaf: 208 ¿ 154 mm. 




B-052A Barberiis, Philippus de 

Chronica summorum ponti¢cum imperatorumque. 

[*2 r ] Lignamine, Johannes Philippus de: [Letter of dedication 

addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. 

refs.V. Capialbi, Notiziecirca la vita, leopere, eleedizioni di messer 

Giovan Filippo La Legname cavaliere messinese e tipografo del 

secolo XV (Naples, 1853), 60^66. 

[a1 r ] [Barberiis, Philippus de]: Chronica summorum ponti¢cum 

imperatorumque. ‘Crononica(!) summorum ponti¢cum imperatorumque 

ac de septem etatibus mundi ex s. Hyeronimo Eusebio 

aliisque uiris eruditis excerpta. Et primo de septem etatibus 

mundi’. Incipit: ‘[P]rima etas incipit ab Adam et durat usque ad 

diluuium sub Noe . . .’ 

refs. Compilatio chronologica, ed. L. A. Muratori, Rerum italicarum 

scriptores, 9 (Milan, 1726), 193^259; see Kaeppeli III 271^

-052a^b-053] barberiis, philippus de 

377 

3 no. 3373. Sometimes attributed to Riccobaldus Ferrariensis 

(1245^1318) or to Martinus Oppaviensis. 

v 

[k10 ] [Lignamine, Johannes Philippus de: Continuation for the 

years 1316^1469.] Incipit: ‘Anno Christi .M.ccc.xvi. Iohannes 

.xxii. papa sedit annis .xviii. totus gloriosus fuit . . .’ 

refs. Philippus de Lignamine, Chronicon, ed. L. A. Muratori, 

Rerum italicarum scriptores, 9 (Milan, 1726), 263^76. 

Rome: Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, 14 July 1474. 4 o . 

collation: [* 8 a^d 10 e 12 f^l 10 m 10+1 ], not as BMC. 

H *10857; Go¡ R-187; BMC IV 33; Pr 3396; BSB-Ink B-79; CIBN 

R-119; Sheppard 2716. Micro¢che: Unit 5: Chronicles and 

Historiography Part II, CH 61. 

COPY 

Wanting [f2.9], [h5.6], also the blank leaf [*1]. 

Binding: Early nineteenth-century parchment, the spine goldtooled, 

stamped in gold with the arms and initials of Sir Mark 

Masterman Sykes. Size: 221 ¿ 164 ¿ 25 mm. Size of leaf: 214 ¿ 

155 mm. 

A late sixteenth-century Italian hand has added a number of marginal 

notes in Latin, mainly extracting key words, but also supplementing 

the text with further information. On [e 2 v ] in 

correspondence with the entry on Emperor Honorius the following 

note: ‘Anno 1567 sedente Pio papa quinto ex ordine 

Predicatorum et imperante Maximiliano Austria prope 

Civitalveccia [Civitavecchia near Rome] fuit reperta in quodam 

humili loco maxima q ta moneta aurea tempore Archadii et 

Honorii imperatorum con£ata’. Early manuscript foliation in 

light brown ink, ‘i-126’. On [c10 v ] a few exercising sentences in 

Italian: ‘Molto Mag co mio padrone osseruandissimo . . .’ On 

[m11 v ] two sentences in Latin, in the same hand. 

Provenance: J. Edwards (eighteenth century). Thomas Dampier 

(1748^1812), successively Bishop of Rochester and Ely; inscriptions 

on front pastedown: ‘This book to belong to the R. R d . Dr. 

Dampier, Bp. of Rochester if he survives J. Edwards - otherwise to 

S r . M. M. Sykes’; ‘Given to me by Sir M. M. Sykes, 1811. Tho. 

[Dampier] Elien.’; ‘After the death of the Bishop of Ely this book 

was returned to me by mrs. Dampier, 1812’. Sir Mark Masterman 

Sykes (1771^1823); catalogue reference on the front pastedown: 

‘Cat.V. I. P. 411 MMS Sledmere’; his sale (1824), part III lot 232; 

purchased by Heber for a total of »12. 1. 6 (of which »1. 11. 6 went 

to Thorpe). Richard Heber (1773^1833); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), 

lot 2101. Purchased for »4. 0. 0 according to Books Purchased 

(1835), 152. 


B-052B Barberiis, Philippus de 

Chronica summorum ponti¢cum imperatorumque. 

[a2 r ] [Barberiis, Philippus de]: Chronica summorum ponti¢cum 

imperatorumque.‘Cronica summorum ponti¢cum imperatorumque 

ac de septem etatibus mundi ex s. Hieronymo Eusebio aliisque 

eruditis excerpta. Et primo de .vii. etatibus mundi’. Incipit: 

‘[P]rima etas incipit ab Adam et durat usque ad diluuium sub 

Noe . . .’ 

refs. See B-052A. 

[h2 r ] [Lignamine, Johannes Philippus de: Continuation for the 

years 1316^1469.] Incipit: ‘Anno Christi .M.ccc.xvi. Iohannes 

.xxii. papa sedit annis .xviii. totus gloriosus fuit . . .’ 


[i8 r ] [Continuation for the years 1474^75.] Incipit: ‘Anno Christi 

.M.cccc.lxxiiii. Philippus Burgundorum dux . . .’ 

Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, 10 Feb. 1476. 4 o . 

collation: [a b 10 c^h 8 i 10 ]. 

HCAddenda,10858; Go¡ R-188; BMC IV 58; Pr 3493; CIBN R-120; 

Hillard 1745; Sack, Freiburg, 3067; Sheppard 2796. Micro¢che: 

Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography Part I, CH 57. 

COPY 

Bound with A-617(1); see there for details on binding and provenance. 


Wanting the blank leaf [a 1]. 

Some early marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, now 

heavily washed. 


B-053 Barberiis, Philippus de 

Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et 

Augustini, et al. 

[A1 v ] Lignamine, Johannes Philippus de: ‘Prefatio’, addressed to 

Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. 

refs. Capialbi, Notiziecircalavita. ..di messerGiovan FilippoLa 

Legname, 84^5. See P. Farenga, ‘Le prefazioni alle edizioni 

Romane di Giovanni Filippo de Lignamine’, Scrittura biblioteche 

e stampa II, 135^74, at 150. 

[A3 r ] [Barberiis, Philippus de: Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum 

Hieronymi et Augustini.] Incipit: ‘[D]uo luminaria magna que 

deus fecit, id est duos sacrosancte ecclesiae doctores egregios . . .’ 

See Kaeppeli no. 3371. 

v 

[A6 ] Augustinus: De civitate Dei, book 18, ch. 23. 

refs. Ed. B. Dombart and A. Kalb, CCSL 48 (1955), 613^15. 

[A8 v ] Lactantius, [Lucius Coelius] Firmianus: [De divinis institutionibus, 

book 1, ch. 6.] ‘De testimonio Cocte ponti¢cis 

Trismegisti et de decem Sibyllis’. 

refs. Lactantius, Opera omnia: 1: Divinae institutiones, ed. 

Samuel Brandt, CSEL 19 (Prague,Vienna and Leipzig, 1890), 18^ 

25. 

[B2 v ] [Barberiis, Philippus de]: ‘Dicta propria Sibyllarum’. [Also 

known as Sybillarum et prophetarum de Christo vaticinia.] 

Incipit: ‘Nunc asseramus in medium dicta propria 

Sibyllarum . . . Sibilla Persia uestita ueste aurea cum uelo albo in 

capite . . .’ 

[c2 v ] Proba: ‘Probe Romane carmina’. Cento [Vergilianus]. 

refs. PL XIX 803^18; ed. C. Schenkl, CSEL, 16 (1888), 569^609. 

See Walther, Initia, 9696. 

v 

[e2 ] Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-]: Praefatio super symbolum 

Athanasii. Incipit: ‘[Q]uicumque uult saluus esse an. etc. Sine 

qua impossibile est placere deo . . .’ Excerpted by Philippus de 

Barberiis. 

[f3 v ] Explanatio super orationem dominicam. Incipit:‘[P]ater noster 

qui es in celis, tota id est trinitatis ine¡abilis. Qui solus celum terramque 

reples, et ubique immobilis ades . . .’ 

v 

[f7 ] ‘Explanatio super euangelicam salutationem’. [Also known as 

Explanatio super salutationem angelicam]. Incipit:‘[A]ue Maria, 

polorum regina, super omnes choros angelorum exaltata. Aue 

Maria, angelorum domina, omnium prima Gabrielis ore uenerata 

. . .’ 

[g2 v ] Explanatio super Te deum. Incipit: ‘[T]e deum laudamus. Te 

bene sonantibus concinendo cimbalis exaltamus . . .’

378 barianus, nicolaus 

[b-053^b-056 

[g8 r ] Explanatio super Gloria in excelsis. Incipit:‘[G]loria in excelsis 

deo et in terra pax. Nato saluatore angeli concinut(!) de Christi 

natiuitate . . .’ 

[h3 r ] Donatus theologus. Incipit: ‘[V]erbum diuinum quod dei ¢lius 

est, et nomen et uerbum est . . .’ 

Rome: Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, [after] 1 Dec. 1481. 4 o . 

BMC treats as another issue, with 82 leaves, of Go¡ B-118. 

collation: [A B 8 C 6 D c^h 8 i 4 ]. On the collation see BMC. GW 

collates [a b 8 c 6 d^k 8 l 4 ]. 

29 woodcuts, twelve each of Sibyls and Prophets, and one each of 

Christ, John the Baptist, the Nativity, Plato, and an unnamed 

female ¢gure. 

GW 3386; HCR 2455; Go¡ B-119; BMC IV131; Pr 3961; CIBN B-87; 

Sander 773; Sheppard 3136. 

COPY 

Binding: Forel; marbled pastedowns. Size: 227 ¿ 150 ¿ 20 mm. 


Early marginal notes in faded ink. 

Initials, some epigraphic, are supplied in red or blue; the sevenline 

initial ‘S’ on [A1 v ] is decorated with faint purple may£owers, 

pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margin. On [A1 v Â2 v ] the 

text is surrounded by a frame ruled in red. Coat of arms supplied 

within a wreath, with green and red ties. Woodcuts coloured in 

red, yellow, and blue. 

Provenance: Cardinal Georgius Costa (1406^1508); coatofarms 

on [A1 v ]: azure, a Catherine wheel or, surmounted by a red cardinal’s 

hat with twelve tassels; see Alphonsus Ciaconius,Vitaeet res 

gestae Ponti¢cum Romanorum . . . (Rome, 1677), III col. 55. 



B-054 Barberiis, Philippus de 

Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et 

Augustini, et al. 

v 

[a1 ] [Table of contents.] 

[a2 r ] [Barberiis, Philippus de: Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum 

Hieronymi et Augustini.] Incipit: ‘[D]uo luminaria magna quae 

deus fecit, id est duos sacrosanctae ecclesiae doctores egregios. . .’ 

[a5 r ] [Barberiis, Philippus de]: ‘Dicta propria Sibyllarum’. [Also 

known as Sybillarum et prophetarum de Christo vaticinia.] 

Incipit: ‘Nunc asseramus in medium dicta propria 

Sibyllarum . . . Sibylla Persica uestita ueste aurea cum uelo albo 

in capite . . .’ 

r 

[c1 ] Proba: Cento [Vergilianus]. 


[e1 v ] Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-]: Praefatio super symbolum 

Athanasii. Incipit: ‘[Q]uicumque uult saluus esse an. etc. Sine 

qua impossibile est placere deo . . .’ 

r 

[f1 ] Explanatio super Te deum. Incipit: ‘[T]e deum laudamus. Te 

bene sonantibus concinendo cimbalis exaltamus . . .’ 

[f7 r ] Explanatio super Gloria in excelsis. Incipit:‘[G]loria in excelsis 

deo et in terra pax. Nato saluatore angeli concinunt de Christi 

natiuitate . . .’ 

v 

[g2 ] Explanatio super orationem dominicam. Incipit: ‘[P]ater noster 

qui es in celis, tota id est trinitatis ine¡abilis. Qui solus celum 

terramque reples, et ubique immobilis ades . . .’ 

[g6 r ] ‘Explanatio super euangelicam salutationem’. [Also known as 

Explanatio super salutationem angelicam.] Incipit: ‘[A]ue Maria 

polorum regina super omnes choros angelorum exaltata. Aue 

Maria angelorum domina omnium prima Gabrielis ore uenerata 

. . .’ 

[h2 r ] Donatus theologus. Incipit: ‘[V]erbum diuinum quod dei ¢lius 

est, et nomen et uerbum est . . .’ 

[Rome: Georgius Teutonicus (Lauer or Herolt?) and] Sixtus 

Riessinger, [c.1482]. 4 o . BMC assigns to Georgius Teutonicus 

and Riessinger, tentatively identifying Teutonicus as Lauer. Pr, 

GW, and CIBN identifyTeutonicus as Georgius Herolt. A copy at 

Cambridge UL has a manuscript date1483; see Oates. 

collation: [a 10 b^g 8 h 10 ]. 

12 woodcuts, one each of the12 Sibyls and one of Proba. Also woodcut 

initials, and a woodcut border on [a2 r ]. 

GW 3387 (Anm.); HCR 2453; Go¡ B-120; BMC IV 129; Pr 3954; 

BSB-Ink B-80; CIBN B-88; Oates 1576; Sander 774; Sheppard 

3127. 

COPY 

Wanting [a 1]. 

Woodcut border on [a2 r ] cropped. [h10] backed. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) parchment. Size: 211 ¿ 144 ¿ 


Provenance: Sir John Peter Boileau, Bt (1794^1869); armorial 

book-plate, see Howe, Book Plates, 2954. Possibly acquired in 

May 1909; date in pencil ‘D 28/5/09’on the front pastedown. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. I2.1. 

B-055 Barbus, Johannes 

Judicium de anno1483. 

[a1 r ] Barbus, Johannes: Judicium de anno 1483. Incipit: ‘Magni¢ci 

et illustres domini patres mei obseruandissimi post commendationes 

humillimas . . .’ 

[Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis, after 11 Mar. 1483]. 4 o . 


GW 3389; H * 2457; not in Pr; BSB-Ink B-82; Sheppard 5599. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century quarter blue roan. Size: 216 ¿ 152 ¿ 


Provenance: Purchased in 1924 from James Tregaskis for »6. 10. 

0; see The 890th Caxton Head Catalogue:Valuable Books . . ., no. 

21, and BQR 4,44 (1924), 190. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. e. I99.6. 


B-056 Barianus, Nicolaus 

CausaVitaliana de praecedentia heremitarum et 

minorum decisa. 

H1 r [Title-page.] 

H1 v Barianus, Nicolaus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] Cardinal Raphael 

[Riarius]. Incipit: ‘[E]tsi plurimis quidem seculis nostra religio 

institutione . . .’ 

H2 v Barianus, Nicolaus: Causa Vitaliana de praecedentia heremitarum 

et minorum decisa. Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur an ordo noster scilicet 

heremitarum diui Augustini . . .’ 

e5 r de Schitiis, Jacobus: ‘Sententia’. Incipit: ‘[N]os Jacobus de 

Schitiis prepositus maioris ecclesie Cremone comissarius . . .’

-056^b-059] bartholomaeus anglicus 

379 

refs. Dated ‘quarto Idus Februarii’ (10 Feb. 1499), not 17 Feb. as 

stated in DBI. 

Cremona: Carolus de Darleriis, 6 Apr. 1500. 4 o . 

collation: H 4 a^d 4 e 6 . 

GW 3392; H 2461; Go¡ B-123; BMC VII 960; Pr 6933; Sheppard 

5724. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century brown cloth. Size: 221 ¿ 161 ¿ 


Manuscript foliation: 119^44. 

Provenance: Sheppard records that this item was purchased 

from J. & J. Leighton on 31 Jan. 1924. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. I13.1500.1. 

B-057 Barlaam et Josaphat 

a2 r Barlaam et Josaphat. Incipit: ‘[C]um cepissent monasteria construi 

ac monachorum congregari multitudines . . .’ 

refs.Version II (BHL 979) of the Medieval Latin legend, see Jean 

Sonet, Le roman de Barlaam et Josaphat. Recherches sur la tradition 

manuscritelatineetfranc� aise, 2 vols (Namur and Paris,1949), 

I 74^88. On the erroneous ascription to Georgius Trapezuntius 

see also Ernst Kuhn, ‘Barlaam und Joasaph. Eine bibliographisch-literargeschichtliche 

Studie’, Abhandlungen der philosophisch-philologischen 

Classe der ko« niglich bayerischen Akademie 

derWissenschaften, 20 (1897), 1^88, at 55. 

[Speier: Printer of ‘Gesta Christi’, c.1472^3]. Folio. 

collation: a^f 8 G 8 h 8 I 8 k 6 . 

GW 3396; HC (+ Addenda) *5914; Go¡ B-125; BMC II 483; Pr 2319; 

BSB-Ink B-87; CIBN B-91; Oates 1105; Sack, Freiburg, 456; 


COPY 

Readings on k6 v not as BMC, but as CIBN (erroneously referring 

to h 6 v ). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian 


A few early marginal notes; on a8 r a correction and an addition to 

the text in the red ink of the rubricator; also on b 7 r ; on G2 v the 

rubricator changes a supplied initial ‘E’ to a correct ‘P’; also intelinear 

corrections in the rubricator’s hand. 

On a 2 r a six-line initial ‘C’ is supplied in interlocked blue and red. 

Other initials are supplied in red or blue, some with reserved white 

decoration; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); inscription on a 1 v 

dated 1816; sale (1843), lot 13679. Purchased for »1. 12. 0; see 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 6Q 6.[ ]. 


B-058 Barlaam et Josaphat [German] 

[a 2 r ] ‘Vorred’. Incipit: ‘[H]ie vahet an ey« n gar lo e blich vnd hey« lsam 

allen christgelaubigen cronica . . .’ 

[a2 v ] Barlaam et Josaphat [German]. Incipit:‘[E]s schreibet der hoch 

lerer vnd Mey« ster der histori Damascenus in seinem bu� ch der 

geschicht . . .’ 

refs. Based on the Latin version as printed in incunable editions; 

see Kuhn, ‘Barlaam und Joasaph’, at 69^70. On other German 

versions of the legend see LMA I 1467^8. 

[Augsburg: Anton Sorg, c.1480]. Folio. As dated by Sheppard; GW 

dates [c.1476]. 

collation: [a 10+1 b^h 10 i k 8 ]. 

Woodcut initials. 64 woodcuts. 

GW 3399; HC 5916; Go¡ B-128; BMC II 348; Pr 1679; Schreiber V 

4347; Sheppard 1243. 

COPY 

Leaf [a 1] is blank with the same watermark (a bell) as [a 2]. After 

[a 9] a leaf has been cut out. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards. Size: 284 ¿ 202 ¿ 


Woodcut initials are coloured in red. Red capital strokes. 



shelfmark: Douce 184. 

B-059 Bartholomaeus Anglicus 

De proprietatibus rerum. 

[a2 r ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. 

‘Prohemium’. Incipit: ‘[C]um proprietates rerum sequantur substancias, 

secundum distinctionem et ordinem substanciarum erit 

ordo et distinctio proprietatum . . .’ 

refs. Bartholomaeus, De genvinis rervm coelestivm, terrestrivm 

et inferarvm Proprietatibus, libri XVIII . . . cvi accessit liber XIX 

de variarum rerum accidentibus, ed. Georgius Bartholdus 

Ponsanus a Braitenberg (Frankfurt, 1601), 1^3. See Stegmu« ller, 

Repertorium biblicum II no. 1564; Bartholomaeus Anglicus, On 

the Properties of Soul and Body. De proprietatibus rerum libri III 

et IV, ed. R. James Long, Toronto Medieval Latin texts, 9 

(Toronto, 1979), 1^5; M. C. Seymour and others, Bartholomaeus 

Anglicus and his Encyclopedia (Cambridge, 1992), 1^10; Sharpe, 

LatinWriters, no. 147. 

r 

[a2 ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. Incipit: 

‘[D]e proprietatibus itaque et naturis rerum tam spiritualium 

quam corporalium elucidare aliqua . . .’ 

refs. Bartholomaeus, De genvinis rervm coelestivm, 4^1261. 

Partly edited in Bartholomaeus, On Properties of Soul, ed. Long, 

19^102. 

v 

[y10 ] ‘Autores de quorum scriptis sunt hec extracta sunt isti’. 

r 

[z2 ] ‘Tabula’. 

[Basel: Berthold Ruppel: c.1479^80.] Folio. As dated by P. L. van 

der Haegen, BaslerWiegendrucke (Basel,1985), no. 8 [exinformatione 

ISTC]; GW dates [c.1470], BMC to the 1480s, Sheppard 

[c.1480^90]. 

collation: [a 12 b^g 10 h 6 i 10 k l 8 m^q 10 r 12 s^y 10 z 4 ]. 

GW 3402; HC *2499; Go¡ B-130; BMC III 716; Pr 7452; BSB-Ink 

B-92; CIBN B-95; Oates 2737; Osler, IM 191; Rhodes 267; Sack, 

Freiburg, 459; Sheppard 2303. Micro¢che: Unit 12: Medical 

Incunabula Part II, MI 15. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a 1] and [z 1]. 

Gathering [z] bound ¢rst. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German/Swiss(?) blind-tooled pigskin 

over pasteboards; two leather ties. Letter-stamping (‘B.(?) 

A. I. A.’) at the head of the upper cover. On both covers ¢llets

380 bartholomaeus anglicus 

[b-059^b-062 

form a triple frame; the inner rectangle is divided by ¢llets into 

three compartments. In the compartments six di¡erent rolls: a 

crocketed cresting, a double set of intersecting wavy lines, a 

Renaissance £oral ornament, a £oral ornament with medallions 

depicting male heads, a series of half-¢gures of St Peter and 

Christ(?) with the inscriptions ‘Apparvit bene’, ‘Dv est Petrvs’, 

‘Data . . .’, ‘Ecce angnvs Dei’, and a small £oral ornament. Size: 


On [z4 r ] a table of contents in an early hand; early running 

headings. 

Some principal initials are supplied in red with reserved white 

decoration or blue with pen-work in¢ll in red. Occasional chapter 

headings are supplied in red; initials and paragraph marks are 

supplied in red throughout; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Purchased for »4. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 

21. 

shelfmark: Auct. 5Q inf. 2.17. 



[a1 r ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. 





r 

[a1 ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. Incipit: 




[B3 r ] ‘Autores de quorum scriptis hic tractat sunt isti’. 

[B4 r ] ‘Tituli librorum et capitulorum’. 

[Cologne: Printer of the ‘Flores Sancti Augustini’, c.1472?]. Folio. 

As dated by Sheppard; GW dates [c.1472]. Usually regarded as 

published by William Caxton; see also Caxton, Exhibition, 

Bodley, no. 1. 

collation: [a^z A 10 B 8 ]. 

GW 3403; HC *2498; Go¡ B-131; BMC I 234; Pr 1105; BSB-Ink 

B-90; Du¡ 39; Oates 590^1; Osler, IM 12; Sheppard 833; 

Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 218. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the 

Bodleian Library (see rolls used on Auct 6Q. inf. 2.5 and 2.6). 


Early running headings and folio numbers. 

On [a1 r ] a ten-line initial is supplied in light green with highlighting 

in yellow, pink in¢ll with yellow pen-£ourishing within a gold 

frame; £oral extension in pink, green, and blue into the inner, 

lower, and outer margins. Other initials are supplied in red or 

blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes 


Provenance: Seeon, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Lambertus; 

bought by Abbot Honoratus Kolb (£. 1634^1653); on [a1 r ]: 

‘Honoratus Abbas in Seon comparauit. 1638. 14 May« ’. 

Purchased in 1881 from S. Calvary & Co.; letter from Calvary to 

H. O. Coxe, dated 31 May 1881 and o¡ering the book for sale, 

attached to the recto of the front endleaf. 




a2 r Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. 





a2 v Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. Incipit: 




H7 v ‘Auctores de quorum scriptis sunt hec extracta sunt isti’. 

[Lyons]: Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart, 29 July 1480. 

Folio. 

collation: aî 10 k l 8 L 8 m^x 10 y z h m 8 A^F 10 G H 8 . 


B-91; CIBN B-096; Oates 3184; Osler, IM 211; Rhodes 268; Sack, 

Freiburg, 458; Sheppard 6585. 

COPY 


Binding: Contemporary German (1480: dated inscription on 

pastedown) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, remains 

of two clasps. Label with title at the head of the upper cover. On 

both covers triple ¢llets form a frame; on the upper cover the 

inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets into two square compartments 

which are subdivided into 4 triangular sections; on the 

lower cover the inner rectangle is divided into 4 triangular compartments. 

In each cornerofthe frames and the points of intersection, 

a circular lamb-and-£ag stamp; in the frames, a round 

rosette stamp and a scroll with the inscription ‘Maria’. In the 

inner rectangle of the upper cover two rectangular stamps depicting 

a bird with spread wings in a £oral ornament and a strawberry 

tendril; for the stamps see Schwenke^Schunke154 no. 58 and 288 

no. 264. Size: 320 ¿ 210 ¿ 83 mm. Size of leaf: 305 ¿ 205 mm. 

Two parchment documents in German used as front and back 

pastedowns: the ¢rst one issued by Ulrich Sachs and Ulrich 

Mu« ller from Alltham, near Erding, Bavaria (or possibly 

Altheim), and dated 21/22 Nov. 1480, the second one issued by 

Hans Gerster from Warthausen, near Kempten, and dated 26 

Jan. 1481. 

Early marginal notes in Latin and German in various hands. 



Provenance: Ulrich Ellenbog (c.1435^1499); inscriptions dated 

1480 and 1481 on front pastedown, a 2 v and H7 v . Sale (6 Feb. 

1832), lot 287. Purchased for »2. 0. 0; see Library Bills (1829^32), 

no. 348 and Books Purchased (1832), 10. 




[a2 r ] ‘Tituli librorum et capitulorum’. 

[a10 v ] ‘Autores de quorum scriptis hic tractat sunt isti’. 

r 

[b2 ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. 

‘Prohemium’. Incipit: ‘[C]um proprietates rerum sequantur substantias, 

secundum distinctionem et ordinem substantiarum erit 


refs. See B-059.

-062^b-064a] bartholomaeus anglicus 

381 

[b2 v ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. Incipit: 




Cologne: Johann Koelho¡, the Elder, 1481. Folio. 

collation: [a 10 bê 8 f 10 g^n 8 o 6 p^z AÔ 8 P 10 Q^Z aa bb 8 cc dd 6 

ee^kk 8 ll 10 ]. 

GW 3405; HC 2501; Go¡ B-133; BMC I 223; Pr 1048; CIBN B-97; 

Sack, Freiburg, 460; Sheppard 800; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 219. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German (Zwickau) blind-tooled pigskin 

over wooden boards, two metal clasps; 4 corner-pieces and 

a central boss on each cover lost. On both covers ¢llets form a 

frame; the inner rectangle is divided by diagonal ¢llets into 

lozenge-shaped compartments. In the frame, six di¡erent 

lozenge-shaped stamps: a £eur-de-lis, a pierced heart, an eagle, a 

pelican (Schwenke^Schunke 211, no. 32: Zwickau Pelikan yhs), a 

dragon and an oak branch (Schwenke^Schunke 89, no. 30: the 

same); two round stamps: a crown and a rosette; a scroll with the 

inscription ‘yhs’ (similar to Schwenke^Schunke 281, no. 92: 

Leipzig, Schrift St-Meister) and two very small stamps. In the 

inner rectangle, a lozenge-shaped £oral stamp. Green-edged 

leaves. Size: 305 ¿ 235 ¿ 105 mm. Size of leaf: 286 ¿ 205 mm. 

Copious early marginal notes. Unread note on front pastedown. 

On [b 2 r ] an initial is supplied in interlocked red and blue with pen- 

£ourishing in red and green. Other initials are supplied in red or 

blue; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Wu« rzburg, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, 

Inventio crucis/Sancta crux; on [a2 r ]: ‘Ad Bibliothecam Fratrum 

Minorum Conuentualium S. Francisci Herbipoli’. At the head of 

[a 1 r ] a partly mutilated and covered inscription: ‘ . . . oblitas 

Doctor’. Sale (6 Feb. 1832), lot 288. Purchased for »2. 0. 0; see 

Library Bills (1829^32), no. 348 and Books Purchased (1832), 10. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 1Q extra 2.4. 




[*2 r ] ‘Tabula rubricarum que et librorum et capitulorum materiam 

sigillatim demonstrant’. 

r 

a2 Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. 









[Lyons: Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart], 10 Dec. 1482. 

Folio. 

collation: [*] a^l 8 m n 10 o^q AÊ 8 F 6 GÎ 8 K 10 LÔ 8 P 12 Q 10 

R 12 .The ¢rst gathering is numbered but not signed. 

GW 3407 (+ var.); HC 2503; Go¡ B-135; BMC VIII 246; Pr 8531A; 

CIBN B-99; Oates 3185; Sheppard 6587. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [*1]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf; marbled pastedowns. 



Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other 

initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Corbie, Picardy, SS. Petrus et Paulus, Benedictines, 

from 1618 part of the Congregation of St Maur; on [*2 r ]: 

‘Monasterii S. Petri Corbeiensis Congregationis S. Mauri catalogo 

inscriptus’ and ‘Monasterii S. Petri Corbeiensis ordinis S. 

Benedicti’. Purchased for 100 Francs from Anatole Claudin on 

10 July 1900, no. 99085; catalogue slip bound in; see Library Bills 

(1900). 

shelfmark: Inc. d. F2.1482.1. 



[a2 r ] ‘Tituli librorum et capitulorum’. 

[a6 v ] ‘Autores de quorum scriptis hic tractat sunt isti’. 

r 

[b1 ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. 





[b1 v ] Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. Incipit: 




Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 30 May 1483. Folio. 

collation: [a 6 b c 8 d^f 6 g 8 h i 6 k 8 l m 6 n 8 o p 6 q 8 r s 6 t 8 v x 6 y 8 z 6 A 6 

B 8 C D 6 E 8 F G 6 H 8 I K 6 L 8 M N 6 O 8 P Q 6 R 8 ]. 

GW 3409 (+ var.); H *2505; Go¡ B-137; BMC II 425; Pr 2036; 



COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [R8]. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) quarter parchment covered by 

nineteenth-century paper wrappers. Size: 308 ¿ 225 ¿ 50 mm. 



In some gatherings, initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Sale (6 Feb.1832), lot 289. Purchased for »1.1. 0; see 

Library Bills1829^32, no. 348 and Books Purchased (1832), 10. 



B-064A Bartholomaeus Anglicus 


[*1 r ] [Title-page.] 

[*1 v ] ‘Tituli librorum et capitulorum’. 

v 

[* 6 ] ‘Autores de quorum scriptis hic tractat sunt isti’. 





refs. See B-059.

382 bartholomaeus anglicus 

[b-064a^b-067 





Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg 

Husner)], 14 Feb. 1485. Folio. 

collation: [*] 6 a b 8 c^y 6.8 z 8 A^F 6.8 G^K 6 L^S 8.6 T 8 . 

GW 3410; H *2506 = H 2511; Go¡ B-138; BMC I 132; Pr 592; 

BSB-Ink B-96; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Wanting sheet k4.5, leaf m2, and the blank leaf T8. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper 

boards, the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns. Size: 303 ¿ 


Early marginal notes, commenting on the text, also some pointing 

hands in pencil; also early notes on [* 1 r ], including three lines 

of verse: ‘Lare quidam absente me timida voce lacessas > dii(?) 

adsum et imtrepidus nec bella indicta recuso > Garrulitate sua 

nec fumo terreor illo’; and other annotations, perhaps in the 

hand of Wolf. Bibliographical notes by Lawn on the front endleaves, 

and on loose leaves of paper. 

On a1 r an eight-line north European initial ‘C’ is supplied in blue 

with reserved white decoration, within a red pen-work frame with 

extensions into the margins, and with the body of the letter decorated 

with red pen-work, touched with green wash; other initials, 

some with reserved white decoration, some with extensions into 

the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied alternately in 

red or blue; capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Johannes Wolf (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); name 

on [*1 r ]. Henricus van der Nadt (sixteenth century); inscription 

on [*1 r ]: ‘Sum Henrici vander nadt decani [ ]’. Peter Sarney 

Benwell (£. 1820); armorial book-plate; signature, dated 20 Nov. 

1820, on the recto of the front endleaf. G. H. Last (£. 1941). Dr 

Brian Lawn (1905^2001); purchased from Last in 1941 for »5. 10. 

0 (see Lawn catalogue, p. 4); book-plate; catalogue, pp. 4, 30. 

Bequeathed in 2001. 

shelfmark: Lawn c.7. 



[*2 r ] ‘Tituli librorum et capitulorum’. 

v 

[* 6 ] ‘Autores de quorum scriptis hic tractat sunt isti’. 


‘Prohemium’. Incipit: ‘[C]um proprietates rerum sequatur(!) substancias, 




r 

a1 Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. Incipit: 





Husner)], 11 Aug. 1491. Folio. 

collation: [* 6 ] a b 8 c d 6 e 8 f g 6 h 8 i k 6 l 8 m n 6 o 8 p^z A^R 6 . 



B-98;CIBN B-103; Rhodes 271; Sack, Freiburg, 464; Sheppard 

483. 

COPY 

Wanting leaf R1 and the blank leaf R6. 



leaf: 262 ¿ 182 mm. 

Initials and occasional running headings are supplied in red; red 

capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: F. J. Feise or Feihe (nineteenth century); name on 

[*1 r ]. Purchased for »0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1854), 25. 




[*1 v ] ‘Autores de quorum scriptis hic tractat sunt isti’. 

r 

[* 2 ] ‘Tituli librorum et capitulorum’. 






r 

a2 Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum. Incipit: 




Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 20 June 1492. Folio. 

collation: [* 4 ] a^z A^G 6 H I 8 . 

GW 3413; HC *2510; Go¡ B-141; BMC II 435; Pr 2073; BSB-Ink 


COPY 


Bodleian Library in 1855 at a cost of »0. 10. 0; see Binders’ books 

(1855, Auct. and Rawl.), p.1. no. 8 (Library Records d.1203). Size: 


On the front pastedown, an old pastedown with table of contents 

and a note in German about seasonal qualities of ¢sh, incipit: 

‘Salmo ¢sch ist ym april vnd may am besten . . .’, both in ¢fteenth-century 

hands. On the back pastedown, notes in various 

hands on the virtues attributed to biblical ¢gures, on the e¡ects 

of certain virtues and vices, and a prayer, all in Latin. Occasional 

marginal notes. On I7 v a note on virtues and vices; on I8 v notes in 

various hands, some of a computistic nature, some excerpts from 

theological texts. 

On a 1 r an eighteen-line initial is supplied in burnished gold on an 

azure ground with white highlighting, within a segmented frame 

of red and green. Other initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Christoforus Mechilti (£. 1503); on a former front 

pastedown, ‘Christofori Mechilti sum’, on [*1 r ]: ‘Hunc librum 

comparauit frater christoforus Mechilti 1503’.On the former 

front pastedown: ‘Emi Grunberg� 15 (1?) argl’ in a sixteenth/ 

seventeenth-century hand. Purchased for »0. 16. 0; see Books 

Purchased (1854), 25. 



De proprietatibus rerum [English] (trans. John Trevisa). 

A1 v [Poem.] ‘In nomine patris et ¢lii et spiritus sancti Amen. Assit 

principio sancta Maria meo. [C]rosse was made all of red > In the 

begynnyng of my boke’; 24 lines of verse.

-067^b-069] bartholomaeus anglicus 

383 

refs. On the Properties of Things. John Trevisa’s translation of 

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum. A Critical 

Text, ed. M. C. Seymour and others, 3 vols (Oxford, 1975^88), I 

40. On the whole work see also S. E. Holbrook, ‘A Medieval 

Scienti¢c Encyclopedia ‘Renewed by Godly Printing’: Wynkyn 

de Worde’s English De proprietatibus rerum’, Early Science and 

Medicine, 3 (1998), 119^56. On the manuscript used for this edition 

see Ford,‘Author’s Autograph’, no. 28. 

A2 r ‘Prologue of the translatour’. Incipit: ‘[T]rue it is, that after the 

noble and experte doctryne of wyse and well lernyd philosophers 

. . .’ 

A3 r Bartholomaeus [Anglicus]: De proprietatibus rerum. ‘Liber 

primus’. 

refs. Onthe Propertiesof Things, ed. Seymour, I 44^58 (abridged 

and paraphrased, see note on 40). 

r 

A5 ‘Table’. 

b1 r Bartholomaeus [Anglicus]: De proprietatibus rerum. ‘Liber 

secundus’. 

refs. On the Properties of Things, ed. Seymour, I 59^687, II 689^ 

1397. 

oo3 v [Colophon.] 

oo4 r ‘Thyse ben the Auctours that ben allegdyd in thyse sorsayd(!) 

bokes’. 

oo4 v ‘Prohemium Bartholomei de proprietatibus rerum’.‘[E]ternall 

lawde to god grettest of myght’; 12 strophes of 7 lines each. 

v 

oo5 ‘L’enuoy’. ‘Ye that be nobly groundid all in grace’; 7 lines of 

verse. Identifying John Tate as the maker of the paper used for 

this edition; see H. R. Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde and his 

Contemporaries (London, 1925), 55^6. 

[Westminster]: Wynkyn de Worde, [c.1496]. Folio. As dated by 

BMC; Sheppard dates [1495], GW [c.1495]. 

collation: A 6 B 8 b 6 c^z 8 h 6 m 2 A^V 8 X^Z 6 aa^cc 8 dd^gg 6 hh II 

kk^mm 8 nn 4 oo 6 . 

19 woodcuts: see BMC. 

GW 3414; HC 2520; Go¡ B-143; BMC XI; Pr 9725; Du¡ 40; Oates 

4144; Sheppard 7433^6; STC 1536. 

FIRST COPY 

Note on endleaf in a nineteenth-century hand: ‘This copy was 

made perfect out of three old copies, which were in their original 

bindings . . .’ Leaf oo6 is cut out and mounted. 

Wanting A 6, D 1 and mm 8. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English gold-tooled 

russia; marbled pastedowns; stamped ‘C. Combe M. D.’ (cancelled 

by over-stamping). Size: 312 ¿ 222 ¿ 70 mm. Size of 

leaf: 300 ¿ 205 mm. 

On oo4 r a medical recipe in an early English hand, incipit: ‘A 

medysen for the wallynge of the stone . . .’, the same on oo 5 r . 

Provenance: On A 1 r : ‘Liber [obliterated] Cancellar’’ in an early 

hand. Thomas Bartholomew (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); on 

L4 v : ‘Thomas Barthelme’ in an early hand. Robert Elyott 

(�1498); on M 5 r : ‘Thys is Robarte Elyotte hys boke and soo forth’ 

in a ¢fteenth-century hand. John Franklin (seventeenth/eighteenth 

century); name on B8 v in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century 

hand. Charles Combe (1743^1817); stamp on upper cover. 

Richard Heber (1773^1833); stamp; see Catalogue, 3 (1834), lot 

4139. Purchased for »16. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 11. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 2.22. 

shelfmark: Arch. G c.3. 

SECOND COPY 

Wanting A1.6 and oo6. 

Leaves A 2, 3, 4 are bound after B 8. bb 1 and bb 8 transposed. 

Binding: Old English reversed calf. Size: 292 ¿ 212 ¿ 94 mm. Size 

of leaf: 286 ¿ 200 mm. 

Provenance: Acquired by 1843; see Catalogus (1843), III 153. 


shelfmark: Arch. G d.27. 

THIRD COPY 

Bound in a guard-book of fragments. 

Leaf c5 only. Size of fragment: 229 ¿ 163 mm. 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce Frag. 13.b. 

shelfmark: Inc. c. E7.1(10). 

FOURTH COPY 

Bound in a guard-book of fragments. 

Leaf T4 only. Size of fragment: 261 ¿ 186 mm. 

Provenance: Richard Rawlinson (1690^1755); evidence of shelfmark. 

Presumably bequeathed in 1755. 

shelfmark: Rawl. fol. 1(4). 


De proprietatibus rerum [French] Le proprietaire (trans. 

Jean Corbichon; ed. Pierre Farget). 

a1 v [Corbichon, Jean]: ‘Prologue du translateur’. Incipit: ‘[A] treshault 

ettrespuyssant prince Charles parla diuiue(!) pouruoyance 

de dieu roy de France . . .’ 

a3 v ‘Les rubriches de tout ce present liure’. 

2 

a1 r [Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum, French.] 

‘Le proprietaire en francoys’. Translated by Jean Corbichon. 

Edited by Pierre Farget, as stated in the colophon. Incipit: ‘[E]n 

couuoytant aulcunes choses declairer des proprietes et des natures 

des choses tant espirituelles quant corporelles . . .’ See 

Zumkeller 221, no. 468 

B7 v ‘Les noms des docteurs qui sont allegues en ce liure’. 

Lyons: Mathias Huss, 15 Mar. 1491/2. Folio. 

collation: a 2 a^z h m A B 8 . 

Woodcut initials and 20 woodcuts. 

GW 3420; HC 2517; C 884; Go¡ B-148; BMC VIII 264; Pr 8564; 

CIBN B-109; Hillard 287; Sheppard 6612. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering 1 a and leaves p 1 and B 8. 

Leaves 2 a1 r and 2 a8 v are cancels: the chapter headings are printed 

in type 140 G, not 140 B as in the rest of the book, and the text is 

di¡erently set up: line 1: ‘Cy commence . . . trinite et vnite > 

diuine . . . > [woodcut] > Le premier chapitre qui e|t > de dieu >> 

[E]N couuoytant aulcunes cho= > |es declairer des proprietes . . .’ 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf. Size: 


Occasional woodcut initials coloured. 

Provenance: On B7 v : ‘dublech(?) 1789’. In Catalogus (1843), 

Appendix 370. 



De proprietatibus rerum [Dutch]. 

[aa 2 r ] ‘Titelen’.

384 bartholomaeus brixiensis 

[b-069^b-071 

a2 r Bartholomaeus [Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum, Dutch.] 

‘Vanden proprieteyten der dinghen’. Incipit: ‘[W]ant dye 

eyghentscappen der dinghen volgen moeten der substancien 

nader ondersceydinghe en[de] regulen of ordenancien der substancien 

. . .’ 

v 

EE6 [Colophon.] 

Haarlem: Jakob Bellaert, 24 Dec. 1485. Folio. 

collation: aa 6 bb 4 a^r i | s t v u w^z h 8 m 6 e� 6 A^V W X YAA BB 8 

CC DD 6 EE 8 . Leaf aa2 numbered as aa1. 


GW 3423; HC 2522; Go¡ B-142; BMC IX 102; Pr 9173; BBFN 88; 

BSB-Ink B-100; Campbell 258; CIBN B-111; HPT II 426; ILC 

349; Oates 3653^4; Rhodes 272; Sheppard 7031. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [aa 1] and EE 8 and leaves m 7, u 2, y 7, 8, and 

EE7. 

Leaf a1 (woodcut: th‘e Almighty seated in glory) bound before s1; 

leaf a 8 (woodcut: the creation of angels and the fall of demons) 

bound before a2. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century parchment with staple-marks of a 

hasp at the head of the upper cover. Size: 282 ¿ 210 ¿ 80 mm. Size 

of leaf: 272 ¿ 197 mm. 

Woodcuts coloured. Principal initials are supplied in blue with 

reserved white decoration and pen-£ourishing in red and pale 

green, extending into the left margin. Other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: John Bullord (£. 1689^1701). John Bagford (1650^ 

1716); on endleaf ‘Sent me from Holland March ye 7, 1702/3 by 

my very good frend Jo: Bullord. Jo: Bagford’. In the Bodleian by 

1738; see Fysher, Catalogus, I 117. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: T 3.10 Art; M 4.18 Art. 



De proprietatibus rerum [Spanish] El libro de las 

propiedades de las cosas. 

r 


a2 r ‘La tabla del libro del propietatibus rerum’. 

a6 r ‘El prologo del autor’. Incipit: ‘[C]omo las autoridades diuinas e 

humanas testi¢can las propiedades de las cosas siguen las mesmas 

sustanc� ias . . .’ 

2 

a1 r [Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum.] ‘El libro 

de las propiedades de las cosas’. Translated by Fray Vicente de 

Burgos. Incipit: ‘[C]onsiderando e mas que podido he en mi corac� 

on reboluiendo en todo obrar quanto es grande nuestra £aqueza 

. . .’ 

Toulouse: Henricus Mayer, 18 Sept. 1494. Folio. 

collation: a 6 2 a^m 8 n o 6 A^M 8 aa 6 bbêe 8 ¡ gg 6 hhôo 8 pp 4 . 

Woodcut initials; 18 woodcuts (some repeated) and 6 woodcut 

diagrams. 

GW 3424; HCR 2523; Go¡ B-150; BMC VIII 360; Pr 8722; BSB-Ink 

B-101; CIBN B-105; Oates 3261^2; Sheppard 6761. 

COPY 

Wanting a2^ 1 a6 (the table and the prologue). 

Title-leaf mutilated and backed. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled mottled sheep; a border 

of scrolling bands on both covers; fern-tips and chevrons on 

edges of boards; marbled pastedowns. Size: 335 ¿ 254 ¿ 67 mm. 


A few ‘nota’marks and pen-trials in ink. Extensive annotations in 

Castilian on n5 v , H2 r and I5 r . Manuscript note on title-page, 

crossed through:‘Tasase en 4 Reales’. 

Provenance: A¤ lvaro Pe¤ rez Osorio, Marque¤ s de Astorga; 

‘Biblioteca del Excmo. Sen‹ or Marques de Astorga’; printed label 

on 2 a1 r . Old shelfmarks ‘Est. 11. H’,‘3U.K.33.U’(?). Purchased by 

Heber for »15. 15. 0, according to the price annotated in red ink in 

Heber’s sale catalogue. Richard Heber (1773^1833); stamp, and 

note, ‘Cost the late Mr Heber 18/18/0’; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), 

lot 2539, sold to Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851) for »1. 0. 0. 

Purchased for »3. 3. 0 according to Books Purchased (1834), 11. 


B-071 Bartholomaeus Brixiensis 

Casus decretorum. 


a2 r Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam suffragantibus 

antiquorum laboribus minores . . .’ 

refs. See Schulte, II 84^5. 

a2 r Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: Casus decretorum. Incipit: 

‘[H]umanum genus. Casus iste sic ponitur . . .’ 

Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 9 Aug. 1489. Folio. 

collation: a 8 b^z 8.6 h 8 m t‹ 6 k 8 . Collation as GW, not as BMC, which 

collates ‘. . .h m 6 k 8 .’ 

GW 3426; HC 2472; Go¡ B-151; BMC III 768; Pr 7674; BSB-Ink 

B-102; Rhodes 273; Sack, Freiburg, 465; Sheppard 2480. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over 

wooden boards; one clasp lost. On the upper cover a frame is 

formed by triple ¢llets. The interior is divided by triple ¢llets into 

two upper and lower compartments and a central horizontal 

band. In the upper and lower compartments a large circular 

rosette stamp and four lozenge-shaped eagle stamps; in the central 

horizontal band the circular rosette stamp. On the lower 

cover a frame is formed by triple ¢llets. The interior is divided by 

diagonal triple ¢llets into triangular compartments, in which is a 

large circular £oral stamp and the wreath stamp, containing the 

words ‘Maria hil¡ uns’. Contemporary manuscript label, giving 

author and title on the upper cover. Size: 297 ¿ 210 ¿ 55 mm. 


Parchment manuscript pastedowns from a twelfth-century, 

Bavarian/Austrian(?) missal. Recto of upper pastedown part of 

‘Feria V’ and ‘Feria VI’ ‘post Dominicam II Quadragesimae’: 

begins in the middle of ‘oratio’ for ‘FeriaV’, with incipit: ‘conuenienter 

int[enti] . . . mentis et corpor[is per]’ (P. Bruylants, Les 

oraisons du missel romain (Louvain, 1952), II 237 no. 837); there 

follow fragments of the ‘secretum’,‘[P]resenti sacri¢ci[o] . . . ieiunia 

dicata s[ ] nostra pro¢tetur ex[trinsecus]’ (Bruylants II 236, no. 

832), the ‘postcommunio’,‘[G]ratia tua nos quesumus . . . [no]bis 

opem semper adq[uirat]’ (Bruylants II156, no. 573) and the‘super 

populum’,‘[A]desto domine fam[ulis] . . . qui te auctore . . . [glorian]tur 

et congregat[a] . . . conserues. per’ (Bruylants II15, no. 23). 

Thereafter are fragments from ‘FeriaVI’, the‘oratio’,‘[D]a quesumus 

o[mnipotens] . . . nos puri¢[cante] . . . mentibus ad sancta . . .’ 

(Bruylants II 60, no. 193), the ‘secretum’,‘[H]aec in nobis sa[cri¢cia] 

. . . permaneant et . . .’ (Bruylants II 159^60, no. 583) and the 

‘postcommunio’, ‘[F]ac nos domine quesumus . . . salutis

-071^b-075] bartholomaeus de chaimis 

385 

aeterne . . .’ (Bruylants II150, no. 551). On the verso and, perhaps, 

on the lower pastedown is a continuation of the text, but not identi¢ed 

precisely. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes 

and some underlining in red. 

Provenance: Seeon, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Lambertus, 1717; 

inscription on a2 r . Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

‘Duplum’on pastedown; old shelfmarks(?): ‘Inc 8713’, on a loose 

slip, and ‘III N 407’. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly 

in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 


(B-072) Bartholomaeus Coloniensis 

Canones. 

Zwolle: Pieter van Os, [after 31 Oct. 1503]. 4 o . 

collation: A^B 4 . 

GW III col. 433; HC 2496; Go¡ B-165; Pr 9153; Campbell (I) 250a; 

ILC A22; Nijho¡^Kronenberg I and II 238; Pellechet1864; not in 

Sheppard. 

COPY 

Sheet A2.3 is mounted. 

Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century purple half calf. Size: 


Calculations in a seventeenth-century(?) hand on the back 

endleaf. 

Provenance: Probably acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in 

Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 


B-073 Bartholomaeus Coloniensis 

Epistola mythologica. 


r 

a2 Bartholomaeus Coloniensis: Epistola mythologica [addressed 

to] Pancratius. 

refs. ed. D. Reichling, Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft fu« r deutsche 

Erziehungs- und Schulgeschichte, 7 (1897), 111^72. Dated 

Deventer, 10 July 1489, on c6 r . 

c6 r Bartholomaeus Coloniensis: ‘Epygramma’. ‘Garrula barbaries 

prius arctophylaca booten > Arctois plaustris pollice deiities’; 3 


[Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, between 10 July 1489 and 27 Feb. 

1490]. 4 o . 

collation: a^c 6 . 

GW 3440; HC 2492; Pr 9067; Campbell 251; HPT II 412; ILC 351; 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Francesco Petrarca, Secretum de contemptu mundi, ed. Jacobus 

Canter. Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 14 Mar. 1489 (P-172); 

2. Bonaccursius de Montemagno, Controversia de nobilitate. 

[Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, c.1494] (M-322); 

3. Matheolus Perusinus, De memoria augenda. [Louvain: Johann 

Veldener, not before1486] (M-147); 

4. Poggius Florentinus, De nobilitate. Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 18 

Mar. 1489 (P-419); 

5. Maphaeus Vegius, Philalethes. [Deventer]: Jacobus de Breda, 

[1485^7] (V-055); 

6. Paulus Niavis, Judicium Jovis ad quod mortalis homo a terra 

tractus parricidii accusatus est. [Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, 

c.1495] (N-014). 

Binding: Paper boards, imitating parchment; green edges. 

Contemporary manuscript foliation suggests that the book originally 

contained a greater number of items and was bound in 

the following order (numbers are those of the present order): 6, 

[missing item(s)], 5, [missing item(s)], 1, 7, [missing item(s)], 2, 3, 

[missing item(s)], 4. Size: 203 ¿ 145 ¿ 22 mm. Size of leaf: 198 ¿ 

134 mm. 

Early marginal notes on a 5 v and a6 r . Contemporary manuscript 

foliation 183^99, in black ink. Table of contents added in a later 

hand on pastedown. 

On a 2 r a nine-line initial ‘B’ is supplied in blue, with red in¢ll and 

edging. Some paragraph marks are supplied in red. Occasional 

underlining in red. 

Provenance: Purchased from Thomas Rodd, Catalogue (1837), 

no. 5451 for »1. 5. 0; see Library Bills (1837^8), no. 127; Books 



B-074 Bartholomaeus Coloniensis 

Epistola mythologica, et al. 

A2 r Bartholomaeus Coloniensis: Epistola mythologica [addressed 

to] Pancratius. 


C3 v Bartholomaeus Coloniensis: ‘Epygramma’.‘Garrula barbaries 

prius arctophylaca booten > Arctois plaustris pollice deiities’; 3 


C4 v ‘Epystola ad lectores suos’.‘Este procul turpes cynici rigidique 

Catones > Atque supercilio Stoica turba graui’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

r 

D1 ‘Quorundam di⁄cilium vocabulorum in precedenti epistola 

positorum succincta et breuis interpretatio’. Incipit: 

‘[A]bliguritare est auide multa consumere et consumptis dapibus 

catillos lingere . . .’ 

D8 v 

[List of errata.] Incipit: ‘Que dictiones per incuriam 

Chalcographi properam sunt . . .’ 

[Deventer: Jacobus de Breda,between10 Julyand 7 Aug.1496]. 4 o . 

Dated by GW from the state of the device. 

collation: A B 6 C 4 D 8 . 

GW 3445; HC *2494; Pr 9010; BSB-Ink B-104; Campbell 254 = 

Campbell (I) 256 ¢rst entry; HPT II 414; ILC 355; Sheppard 6981. 

COPY 

Wanting A 1, with title. 

Binding: Twentieth-century green cloth. Size: 200 ¿ 138 ¿ 9 mm. 


Provenance: Sheppard records that this item was purchased 

from Davis & Orioli on 10 Oct. 1913. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. N8.1496.1. 

B-075 Bartholomaeus de Chaimis 

Confessionale. 

[a1 r ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: [Introduction to] Confessionale. 

Incipit: ‘[C]um ars arcium sit regimen animarum, Extra. De 

etate et qualitate‘Cum sit’. . .’ 

refs. See Bloom¢eld 1051; Schulte II 453^4; Michaud-Quantin, 

76. 

v 

[a1 ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale. 

‘Interogatorium’(!). Incipit: ‘[C]irca primum notandum quod

386 bartholomaeus de chaimis 

[b-075^b-077 

non sacerdos etsi possit audire peccata con¢tentis in articulo 

mortis . . .’ 

[k9 v ] Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 

in¢rmo morienti. Incipit: ‘Primo interrogari debet, si credit 

omnia que sunt ¢dei Christiane, et respondeat . . .’ 

r 

[k10 ] [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque 

fateri > Aures clauigeri presulis ante velit’; 11 elegiac distichs. 

refs. Saxius 160^2; seeWalther, Initia, 17889. 

[Basel: Martin Flach, c.1475]. Folio. 

collation: [a^k 10 ]. 

Type: Sheppard notes that the type (117) is in its ¢nal state. 

GW 6541; HC 2476; C 2481; Go¡ B-154; BMC III 742; Pr 7553; 


COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; spine gold-tooled with six sets 

of triple ¢llets; edges yellow; marbled pastedowns. Same binding 

as Auct. N inf. 1.33 (Bod-inc. P-132). Size: 290 ¿ 220 ¿ 30 mm. 


Frequent early marginal notes. On [k10 r-v ]: ‘Forma absolutionis 

edita per dominum magistrum Hugonem ep[iscopu]m Const[ ]’ 

(probably Hugo von Hohenlandenberg (�1532), Bishop of 

Constance 1496^1529, 1531^2; see Gams 272) in a contemporary 

hand, with incipit ‘Ego absoluo te a vinculis excommunicationis 

et a peccatis tuis in nomine patris et ¢lii et spiritus sancti . . .’. Also, 

on [k10 v ]: ‘Casus papales’ and ‘Casus episcopales’. Manuscript 

note:‘Repert. No. 73/ Gal.17.4.a’. 

Initials, often with extensions into the margins, and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red. A seven-line initial ‘C’on [a 1 r ] is decorated 

with a human face. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: This book has the same provenance as Aulus 

Persius Flaccus, Satyrae. [Basel: Martin Flach, c.1474] (P-132), 

with which it is uniformly bound, namely the ‘Bibliotheca 

Heideggereriana’ of Zu« rich. Purchased for »1. 1. 0; see Books 

Purchased (1855), 13, where it is attributed to [Milan: 

Christopherus Valdarfer]. 





‘Interrogatorium’. Incipit: ‘[C]um ars artium sit regimen animarum, 

Extra. De etate et qualitate ‘Cum sit’. . .’ 


r 

[a3 ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 

Incipit: ‘[C]irca primum notandum quod non sacerdos etsi possit 

audire peccata con¢tentis in articulo mortis . . .’ 

[r5 v ] Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 

in¢rmo morienti. Incipit: ‘[P]rimo interrogari debet, si credit 

omnia que sunt ¢dei Cristiane, et respondeat . . .’ 

[r5 v ] [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque 



[Strasbourg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), 

not before Oct. 1474]. Folio. Polain dates [c.1475], but this is corrected 

by Ohly. Sheppard dates to [after 29 Sept. 1474], which is 

the date of Valdarfer’s Milan edition, the verse colophon of 

which appears unaltered in this edition. 

collation: [a 10 b^f 8 g 10 h^q 8 r 6 ]. 

GW 6542; H *2478; Go¡ B-155; BMC I 79; Pr 307; BSB-Ink C-245; 

Oates127; Ohly,‘Reyser’,13; Sack, Freiburg, 976; Sheppard 246^7. 

FIRST COPY 



wooden boards, with remains of clasp. Quadruple ¢llets form a 

frame; on the upper cover a repeated octagonal £oral stamp and 

a repeated shield stamp, bearing the coat of arms of a chevron 

between three stars (see also Schoe¡er’s device); and on the 

lower cover the shield stamp and a repeated lozenge-shaped 

stamp, now too worn for identi¢cation. The inner rectangle on 

the upper cover is divided into triangular compartments by quadruple 

¢llets forming a saltire cross, in which is a repeated lozengeshaped 

stamp, now too worn to be identi¢ed; on the lower cover a 

saltire cross is formed by the octagonal £oral stamp, repeated. In 

the triangular compartments, on both covers is the shield stamp. 

Manuscript label on spine. Size: 285 ¿ 215 ¿ 45 mm. Size of 

leaf: 276 ¿ 200 mm. 

Early marginal notes and underlining in black ink. 


and underlining in red. 

Provenance: An early price-mark: ‘iii s/ vi d’, on pastedown. 

Gengenbach, Baden-Wu« rttemberg, Benedictines, SS. Maria et 

Martinus; cancelled inscription with date 1622, on [a 2 r ]: 

‘Monasterii Gengenbachensis 1622. sub R[everen]do D[omi]no 

Joan[ne] Abb[ate]’, Johannes Demlerus Friburgensis (�1626). 

Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl’ in tail lefthand 

corner of the upper cover. Purchased for »2. 8. 0; see Books 

Purchased (1861), 12, where it is attributed to [Strasbourg: 

Valdarfer, 1474] and is described as a 4 o . 


SECOND COPY 


Leaf [r 6] backed. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco. On both 

covers triple ¢llets form a border; double ¢llets on edges of 

boards; fern-tip £ower and foliage roll on turn-ins; £oral tools 

on spine; marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 297 ¿ 


Initials are supplied in red or green, often with extensions into the 

margins, and pen-work in¢ll and extensions in black or red, 

sometimes touched with yellow. Paragraph marks are supplied in 

red. Capitals touched with yellow wash. 

Provenance: Georgius de Brixia (£.1461); inscription and monogram 

on [r6 r ]:‘hoc confessionale comparavi teste signo meo manuali 

ego Georgius de Brixia Venetiis an[no] d[omi]ni 

mcccclxxi(!)’. John Bellingham Inglis (1780^1870); sale, lot 405. 

Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial book-plate; bibliographical 

notes in Douce’s hand attached to endleaf. Bequeathed in 1834. 







refs. See B-075.

-077^b-080] bartholomaeus de chaimis 

387 

[a2 v ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 



[n7 v ] Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 



[n8 r ] [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque 



[Nuremberg]: Friedrich Creussner, 27 Mar. 1477. Folio. 

collation: [a^k 10.8 l 8 m 6 n 8 ]. 


C-246; Sheppard 1567. 

COPY 


Bodleian Library in 1855 at a cost of »0. 10. 0; see Binders’ books 

(1855, Auct. and Rawl.), p.1, no.6 (Library Records d.1203). Size: 


Marginal notes. On [a1 r ] an early manuscript table of contents 

also listing ‘Arbor consagwineitatis(!) et a⁄nitatis’. 

Initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph 


Provenance: Andechs, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Nicolaus; 

inscription on [a1 r ]. Monogram ‘S A M(?)’. Duplicate from the 

Royal Library, Munich; shelfmark on [a 1 r ]: ‘Inc. Typ. N o 1763’; 

‘Duplum’on [a1 v ]; ‘2724’ in pencil on [n8 v ]. Presumably acquired 

during the early 1850s, and certainly before 1855 (the date when it 

was rebound for the Library). 




r 

[a2 ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: [Introduction to] Confessionale. 




[a3 r ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 



[q7 r ] Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 

in¢rmo morienti. Incipit: ‘[P]rimo interrogari debet. Si credit 

omnia que sunt ¢dei Christiane et respondeat . . .’ 

v 

[q7 ] [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque 



Mainz: Peter Schoe¡er, 25 May 1478. 4 o . 

collation: [a^m 10 n^q 8 ]. 

GW 6544; HC *2483; Go¡ B-157; BMC I 34; Pr116; BSB-Ink C-247; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank sheet [a 1.10]. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English calf over pasteboards; 

on both covers blind ¢llets form a frame; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers. Shelfmark A 1. 10 Linc. on the 

fore-edge. Size: 204 ¿ 142 ¿ 35 mm. Size of leaf: 200 ¿ 135 mm. 

Early marginal notes and pen-trials. On [q8 r ] notes in two seventeenth-century 

hands on early editions printed by Peter Schoe¡er 

and on Johannes Gutenberg. 

Initials, paragraph marks and occasional chapter headings are 

supplied in red. Some capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Hamstall Ridware, church of St Michael, near 

Lich¢eld, Sta¡ordshire; contemporary inscriptions on [a2 r ], 

[q7 v ], and [q8 v ]. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (1470^1538); married, 

as his second wife, Matilda (�1521), daughter and joint heir of 

Richard Cotton, of Hamstall Ridware; inscription, in red, on 

[q8 r ] and, in black ink, on [q7 v ]. Bulley (£. c.1600); ‘homo bulla 

Bulley 3s[hillings]’ on [a2 r ]. Richard Smith (1590^1675). Thomas 

Barlow (1607^1691); received as gift from Smith; see London, 

British Library, MS. Sloane 772, fol. 26 v [Smith’s unpublished history 

of printing]. Bequeathed in 1691. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: A 1. 10 Linc. 




r 

A1 Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: [Introduction to] Confessionale. 


Extra. De etate et qualitate‘‘Cum sit� . . .’ 


A2 r Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 



v 

Y5 Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 



Milan: Dominicus deVespolate and Jacobus de Marliano, 21 Nov. 

1478. 8 o . 

collation: AÎ k L^X 8 Y 6 . 


C-248; Oates 2278^80; Sheppard 4905. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf Y6. 

On A1 r , l. 1,‘. . . mfe||iouale’, as GW, but not BMC. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled blue morocco; 

marbled pastedowns and gilt-edged leaves. Size: 164 ¿ 117 ¿ 


Early marginal notes in black ink, mainly in a handvery similar to 

the one that added the running headings. 

Running headings and some paragraph marks are supplied in 

red. Some capital strokes in red, and some capitals touched with 

yellow wash. Foliation in black ink, of a colour similar to that of 

the marginal notes. 

Provenance: Purchased in Oct. 1856 from Joseph Sams for »2. 2. 

0; see Library Bills (1856^8), no. 93, item unnumbered; Books 






‘Interrogatorium’. Incipit: ‘[C]um ars arcium sit regimen animarum, 

Extra. De etate et qualitate‘‘Cum sit� . . .’ 


[a2 v ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 


audire peccata con¢tentis in articulo mortis . . .’

388 bartholomaeus de chaimis 

[b-080^b-082 

[o7 v ] Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 



[o8 r ] [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque 



[Nuremberg: Fratres Eremitarum S. Augustini], 31 May 1480. 4 o . 

Pr attributes to [Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus 

Scinzenzeler]. 

collation: [aô 8 ]. 

GW 6546; H *2485; Go¡ B-159; BMC VII 1209; Pr 5929; BSB-Ink 

C-249; Sack, Freiburg, 979; Sheppard 1609. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [a1]. 

Sheets [g 2.7] and [g 3.6] are transposed. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century German(?) blue-green 

half calf; marbled paper boards. Size: 227 ¿ 166 ¿ 26 mm. Size 

of leaf: 220 ¿ 152 mm. 

Sheets signed in an early hand. 

Initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in 

red. Some capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: A heavily cancelled inscription on [a2 r ], unread. 

Purchased for »1. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1852), 17, where it is 

attributed to [Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia]. 



Confessionale, et al. 

[*1 v ] ‘Registrum’. 


‘Interrogatorium’. Incipit: ‘[C]um ars arcium sit regimen animarum, 

Extra. De etate et qualitate ‘‘Cum sit� . . .’ 


v 

[a2 ] Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 



[o7 v ] Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 



[o8 r ] [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque 



[o8 r ] [Colophon.] 

r 

[p1 ] Hermannus de Schildesche: Speculum sacerdotum.‘Prologus’. 

Incipit: ‘[D]eo amabilibus et sibi in Christo reuerendissimus 

omnibus sacerdotibus . . .’ 

refs. See VL III 1107^12, at 1111; Adolar Zumkeller, Schrifttum 

und Lehre des Hermann von Schildesche, OESA, Cassiciacum, 15 

(Wu« rzburg, 1957), 40^58. 

[p1 v ] ‘Rubrica’. 

v 

[p1 ] Hermannus de Schildesche: Speculum sacerdotum. Incipit: 

‘[C]auenda circa materiam baptismi sunt ista, Ne sit aqua nimis 

lutosa . . .’ 

[Nuremberg: Conrad Zeninger], 13 June 1482. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 a^p 8 ]. Collation as BMC. GWcollates [a 4 b^q 8 ]. 


C-250; Oates 1078; Sheppard 1617^18. 

FIRST COPY 

This volume previously contained Jacobus de Clusa, Tractatus de 

animabus exutis a corporibus, Augustinus, De xii abusivis saeculi, 

magister [ ], Sermones de quinque sensibus, de variis temptationibus 

et impugnationibus diaboli; see contents list in a contemporary 

hand on [* 1 v ]. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin over 

wooden boards, with remains of clasps. On both covers ¢llets 

form a frame, in which is a cresting roll. In the inner rectangle, 

on both covers, a £euron at each corner and, in the centre, on the 

upper cover an oval-shaped cruci¢xion stamp; on the lower cover 

aVirgin-and-Child stamp (late sixteenth-century Jesuit stamps). 


Occasional marginal notes. 

A four-line initial ‘C’ is supplied in blue on [a2 r ]. Other initials, 

some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are 

supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: A Jesuit college; binding stamps (see above). 

Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich;‘Duplum’on endleaf; 

‘448’ in pencil inside the lower cover. Acquired between1847 and 

c.1892, possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 


SECOND COPY 

Gathering [p] only, wanting gatherings [* aô]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco; bound for 

the Bodleian Library. Size: 217 ¿ 153 ¿ 7 mm. Size of leaf: 198 ¿ 

140 mm. 

Manuscript foliation in black ink, 113^20. 



Provenance and date ofacquisition unknown; the binding and the 

shelfmark suggest c.1885. 




a2 r ‘Tabula’. 

a3 r Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: [Introduction to] Confessionale. 




r 

a3 Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale. ‘Interrogatorium’. 



[g8 r ] Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 



Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio, 28 Sept. 1486. 4 o . 

collation: a^g 8 . 

GW 6549; HC, Addenda *2488; Go¡ B-162; BMC V 258; Pr 4448; 

BSB-Ink C-252; Oates 1784; Sheppard 3580. 

COPY 

Bound with A-287; see there for details of binding, manuscript 

notes, and provenance. Size of leaf: 214 ¿ 157 mm. 

Manuscript foliation and folio references in the ‘tabula’. 

shelfmark: Auct. 1Q inf. 1.27(2).

-083^b-085] bartholomaeus de sancto concordio 

389 




r 

a2 Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: [Introduction to] Confessionale. 




a2 v Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 



n9 v Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 

in¢rmo morienti. Incipit: ‘[P]rimo interrogare debet, si credit 


v 

n9 [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque fateri 

> Aures clauigeri presulis ante velit’; 11 elegiac distichs. 


[Heidelberg: Printer of Lindelbach (Heinrich Knoblochtzer), 

c.1490]. 4 o . 

collation: a^m 8 n 10 . 

GW 6550; HC *2480 = H 2477; Go¡ B-163; BMC III 670; Pr 3134; 

BSB-Ink C-253; Sack, Freiburg, 981; Sheppard 2196. 

COPY 


wooden boards, with remains of clasp. On both covers double ¢llets 

form a double frame; the outer is undecorated; in the inner is a 

cresting roll. In the inner rectangle, merrythoughts, and a 

repeated £euron stamp, resembling Kyri� pl. 275, no. 2. 

Contemporary manuscript label on the upper cover giving author 

and title. Leather index tabs. Insect damage. Size: 204 ¿ 148 ¿ 


Occasional early marginal notes in the text. On n10 r atext in a contemporary 

hand with the incipit: ‘Gaudet animus gestiunt membra 

omnia dignissime > Domine presentia tu[a] [insect damage] 

enim priuatus ego merore > assidue et acerbo luct[u] con¢ciebar 

Nunc . . . > autem e contrario l�titia omnique iucundatate [sic] 

a¥uere videor > conspicio enim mee spem deus tutelam auxilium 

vite’. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Initial strokes 








a2 r Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: [Introduction to] Confessionale. 




a 2 v Bartholomaeus de Chaimis: Confessionale.‘Interrogatorium’. 



i 8 v Anselmus [Cantuariensis pseudo-]: Interrogationes faciendae 



i 9 r [Concluding verse.] ‘Si quem peniteat scelerum culpamque fateri 

> Aures clauigeri presulis ante velit’; 11 elegiac distichs. 


i9 r [Colophon.] 

r 

i9 ‘Registrum capitulorum ac titulorum’. 

Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1491. 4 o . 



C-254; Sack, Freiburg, 982; Sheppard 1340^1. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting i10, containing the printer’s device. 


wooden boards, with clasp and catch. On both covers triple ¢llets 

form a frame. The inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets into 

triangular compartments, decorated on the upper cover with 

two £oral stamps and, on the lower, with a small £oral stamp 

and a circular evangelist stamp, being the eagle of St John, all 

rather worn. Blank parchment reinforcing slips. Size: 214 ¿ 


Provenance: Ulm, Swabia, Wengenkloster, Augustinian 

Canons; erased inscription on a1 r : ‘Monasterii Wengensis Vlme’. 

John Mozley Stark; Catalogue 30 (1859), no. 77; label inside the 

upper cover; fragment of bill of lading used as marker: ‘Hull.We 

have the pleasure of handing your enclosed Bill of Lading for [ ] 

shipped to your address on board the . . .’ Purchased for »0. 6. 0; 



SECOND COPY 

Wanting i10, containing the printer’s device. 

Binding: Contemporary (Augsburg, Kyri� workshop no. 91) 

blind-tooled half calf over wooden boards, with remains of 

metal clasp. On both covers ¢llets form a frame, in which is a 

cresting roll; see Kyri� pl. 185, no. 1. Manuscript label (eighteenth/nineteenth-century(?)): 

‘Alte Drucke Fascikel XXXIII’. 

Rebacked. Lower board split. Note inside the lower cover that 

repairs were carried out in Nov. 1940, presumably in Augsburg. 

On lower board unread manuscript notes. Size: 220 ¿ 155 ¿ 


Early marginal notes and pointing hands. Copious annotations in 

a contemporary hand on pastedown and on a 1 r-v . 

Provenance: Irsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Maria; inscription 

on a1 r in a sixteenth-century(?) hand: ‘Ad maiorem Vrsinensem 

Bibliothecam’, and on a 2 r in a sixteenth-century(?) hand: ‘Nunc 

sum monasterii Vrsinensis donante fratre Ferdinando’; label on 

a1 v ; manuscript label on outside of the upper cover. Augsburg, 

Bavaria, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, probably 1833; stamp and 

nineteenth-century duplicate release stamp on a1 r ; old shelfmarks: 

‘4 o Ink. d. 1491 Bartholomaeus’and ‘4 o Ink. 388’, written 

in pencil on i 9 v , and inside the lower cover and label on spine; also 

‘Alte Drucke Fasc. Bd. XXXIII’ on a1 r . Label and stamp on a1 v . 

Acquired in 1960 by exchange from the Staats- und 

Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg, the exhange value being DM 230; 

see ‘Bodley’s American Friends’, BLR 6,6 (1961), 643. 

shelfmark: Don. e.548. 

B-085 Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio 

Summa de casibus conscientiae. 

[a1 r ] [Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio: Summa de casibus 

conscientiae.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam, ut ait Gregorius super 

Ezechielem, nullum omnipotenti Deo tale sacri¢cium est . . .’

390 bartholomaeus de sancto concordio 

[b-085^b-087 

refs. See Kaeppeli I 157^65; Johannes Dietterle, ‘Die Summae 

confessorum (sive de casibus conscientiae) von ihren Anfa« ngen 

an bis zu Silvester Prierias. II’, ZfK 27 (1906), 166^70; Michaud- 

Quantin 60^2; DBI VI 768^70. 

[v1 r ] ‘Tabula’. 

r 

[v3 ] ‘Declarationes de abreuiaturis positis in summa ista’. 

[Italy (in or near Milan?): Printer of Bartholomaeus de S. 

Concordio, ‘Summa’ (GW 3450)], 21 Oct. 1473. Folio and 4 o . 

BMC suggested Milan as a probable place of imprint; this is corroborated 

by CIBN. 

collation: [a^h 10 i 6 k^q 10 r 12 s t 10 v 4 ]. 

GW 3450; H *2526; Go¡ B-170; BMC VII 1123; Pr 7389; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [i 6]. 

Gathering [v] is bound before [a]. 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden 

boards, ¢ve bosses on each cover; two metal clasps; upper board 

loose. Book-label at the head of the upper cover. On both covers 

¢llets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by triple 

¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In the outer frame, 

three di¡erent £oral stamps; in the inner frame, a scroll with the 

inscription ‘Hilf Maria’ in reverse and a £ower. In the compartments 

another £ower and two ornamental stamps. Size: 293 ¿ 


Parchment pastedowns, now raised, from a ¢fteenth-century 

Directory written in black and red. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Fiecht, Tyrol, Benedictines, S. Josephus (formerly 

St Georgenberg); on [v1 r ]: ‘Monastery« Montis S: Georgy« 1652’; 

inscription on [t 10 v ] with date 1659. Purchased for »1. 1. 0; see 

Books Purchased (1851), 5, where it is described as ‘(Speyer, Peter 

Drach, s. a.)’. 




[a1 r ] Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio: Summa de casibus conscientiae. 

Incipit:‘[Q]uoniam, ut ait Gregorius super Ezechielem, 

nullum omnipotenti Deo tale sacri¢cium est . . .’ 


r 

[C2 ] [Colophon.] 

v 

[C2 ] ‘Tabula’. 

Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, 17 Jan. 1474. Folio. 

collation: [a^z 10 A B 8 C 6 ]. 

GW 3451; HC, Addenda, 2527; Go¡ B-171; Pr 934; CIBN B-115; 

Hillard 294; Sheppard 730; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 221. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Werner Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum. Cologne: Arnold 

Ther Hoernen, 1474 (R-104(1)). 


boards, two bosses on the upper cover and two clasps lost; spine 

repaired. Book-label at the head of the upper cover. On both 

covers ¢llets form a triple frame. In the frames and the inner rectangle 

11 di¡erent stamps: a lozenge-shaped stamp depicting the 

resurrected Christ, two smaller lozenge-shaped stamps with a 

swan and a dragon respectively, and a lozenge-shaped stamp 

lettered ‘S P’; six round stamps: a lamb and £ag, an eagle, a 

rosette, a head of Christ, a stamp lettered ‘ihs’ and a ‘M’ with a 

crown; a rectangular stamp (‘Laubstab’). Size: 302 ¿ 220 ¿ 


On endleafatable ofcontents in a contemporaryhand. On [h 8 v ] of 

item 1, a note on the wedding of Johann II, Duke of Cleves, 1489: 

‘Anno domini Mcccclxxxix tercia Nouembris scilicet ipso die 

sancti Huperti episcopi Johannes dux Cliuensis et comes de 

Marka matrimonium ducens in vxorem ¢liam hynrici lantgrauie 

hassie in sutato . . . sauit’; see Stokvis III 47. Occasional marginal 

notes in item 2. Manuscript signatures throughout. On [C6 v ] a list 

of archbishops and their su¡ragans in a contemporary hand. 

On [a1 r ] a ¢ve-line initial is supplied in red with reserved white 

decoration. On [a 1 r ]^[a3 r ] initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: On [h8 r ] of item1,‘Anno domini1486 vnus roburnus 

emebatur role[win] c pro 6 hall[er] c[ir]ca lamb[er]ti’. Buxheim, 

Bavaria, Carthusians, BVM; ‘Carthusi� in Buxheim’and stamp. 

Graf von Ostein, 1803. Sold in 1883 by Graf Hugo von Waldbott- 

Bassenheim (1820^1895); Buxheim sale, lot 3077. Purchased by 

Falconer Madan for the Bodleian in 1884 for 11 Marks; see 

Library Bills, 19 Feb. 1884; see also Honemann, ‘Buxheim 

Collection’, Bod10. 




r 

[a2 ] Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio: Summa de casibus conscientiae. 

‘Prologus’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam (vt ait Gregorius super 

Ezechielem) nullum omnipotenti Deo tale sacri¢cium est . . .’ 


[C4 r ] ‘Tabula’. 

r 

[C7 ] ‘Declarationes, quotationes de abreuiaturis seu de nominibus 

doctorum et librorum que in hac summa nominantur, allegantur 

et ponuntur’. 

r 

[C7 ] [Note on further abbreviations.] 

[C7 r ] ‘Epigramma in istius libri laudem’.‘Sordet mens hominis, proprio 

spoliata decore > Ni que sancit lex, hec eadem faciat’; 6 elegiac 

distichs. 

Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz, and Michael Friburger, 

[c.1475]. Folio. Dated ‘not after 1473’ by CIBN, following Inge 

Dahm, Aargauer Inkunabelkatalog (Aargau, 1985), no. 130; the 

inscription is, however, only known from two copies of a now 

lost endleaf. 

collation: [a^l 10 m 6 n^z A B 10 C 8 ]. 

GW 3452; HC 2525; Pr 7836; CIBN B-114; Hillard 293; Sheppard 

6077. 

COPY 

At the foot of [r2 v ] three lines of text omitted by the printers and 

supplied in manuscript. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter calf, the spine gold-tooled. 


On [a 2 r ] a six-line initial is supplied in red with highlighting in yellow. 

Title, initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red 



(1847), 3. 

shelfmark: Auct. 1Q 1.25.

-088^b-089] bartholomaeus de sancto concordio 

391 



[a1 r ] [Table of contents.] ‘Summe Pisani registrum ostendens titulos’. 

r 

[b1 ] ‘Modus legendi abbreuiatorum terminorum iuris in summa 

subscripta contentorum’. 

r 

[b2 ] Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio: Summa [de casibus 

conscientiae]. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam, vt ait Gregorius super 

Ezechielem, nullum omnipotenti Deo tale sacri¢cium est . . .’ 


v 

[v10 ] [Colophon with note on author and text, which is dated 1338.] 

[Augsburg: Gu« nther Zainer], 1475. Folio. 

collation: [a 2 b^v 10 ]. 



B-115;CIBN B-116; Sack, Freiburg, 466; Sheppard 1155^6. 

FIRST COPY 

Three lines oftext omitted on leaves numbered LXII r are supplied 

in manuscript beneath the second column. Five lines of text 

omitted on leaf numbered LXXXXVII v are supplied in manuscript 

beneath the second column. Seven lines of text printed 

both on leaves numbered XLVII r and XLVII v have been crossed 

out; similarly, nine lines of text printed both on leaf numbered 

CLXXX v and CLXXXI r havebeen crossed out. Blind impression 

of bearer type on leaves numbered CLVII^CLIX and elsewhere. 


no. 90; Schwenke^Schunke^Rabenau 7^8) blind-tooled calf 

over wooden boards, two metal clasps and index tabs; rebacked. 

On both covers ¢llets form a triple frame; the inner rectangle is 

divided by diagonal ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. 

Within the outer frame are a palm-leaf stamp and a small rosette 

stamp; within the second frame a square stamp with a rose; 

within the third frame are two lozenge-shaped stamps depicting 

a double-headed eagle and a £eur-de-lis, a rectangular £oral 

ornament, a semicircle stamp, and a headed-outline tool in 

groups of four, as well as the small rosette stamp. In the inner rectangle 

a small ornament and the stamp with the double-headed 

eagle; for the stamps see Kyri� pl. 183, nos 1, 2, 5, 8, and 

Schwenke^Schunke 180 no. 356. Size: 418 ¿ 293 ¿ 65 mm. Size 

of leaf: 405 ¿ 277 mm. 

On [b2 r ] a nine-line initial is supplied in azure on a burnished gold 

ground, the gilt with punch-dotting, the azure initials with foliate 

scrolling, within a segmented frame of red and pale green, and 

with foliate and £oral border extensions in the same palette, 

including gold dotting. In the centre of the lower margin, the 

coat of arms of the Ko« ler of Augsburg depicting a lion gardant, 

crowned azure, with crest the same and scroll inscribed ‘O ¢li 

Dei miserere mei’; see Johann Siebmacher, Abgestorbener bayerischer 

Adel, Grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch,VI/1, section 

2 (Nuremberg, 1884^1911), 96 and pl. 60. The ¢rst ten leaves are 

rubricated: woodcut initials touched in red and occasionally 

green, red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Ko« ler, family of Augsburg; coat of arms on [b 2 r ]. 

Buxheim, Bavaria, Carthusians, BVM; inscription on [a1 r ]; 

stamp; Graf von Ostein, 1803. Sold in 1883 by Graf Hugo von 

Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820^1895); Buxheim sale, lot 2991. 

Purchased by Falconer Madan for the Bodleian in 1884 for 11 

Marks; see Library Bills, 19 Feb. 1884; see also Honemann, 

‘Buxheim Collection’, Bod9. 


SECOND COPY 

Without the printed colophon. 

Three lines of text omitted on the leaf numbered LXII r are supplied 

in manuscript beneath the second column. Five lines of text 

omitted on leaf numbered LXXXXVII v are printed beneath the 

second column. Seven lines of text printed both on leaves numbered 

XLVII r and XLVII v have been crossed out; similarly, nine 

lines of text printed both on leaves numbered CLXXX v and 

CLXXXI r have been crossed out. Blind impression of bearer 

type on leaves numbered CLVII^CLIX and elsewhere. 


90) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two metal clasps lost; 

spine repaired. On both covers ¢llets form a triple frame; on the 

upper cover the inner rectangle is divided by diagonal ¢llets into 

lozenge-shaped compartments; on the lower cover it is divided by 

vertical ¢llets. In the outer frame a palm-leaf stamp, a semicircle 

stamp, and a small rosette stamp; in the middle frame a square 

stamp with a rose. In the inner frame on the upper cover is a scroll 

with the inscription ‘Maria hilf’ and the small rosette; on the 

lower cover a rectangular foliate sta¡. In the inner rectangle on 

the upper cover the palm-leaf, the small rosette stamp, and a 

stamp with a double-headed eagle; on the lower cover ¢ve symmetrical 

columns with a small stamp depicting a dragon, the 

palm-leaf stamp and, in the central compartment, the eagle and 

the rosette stamps; for the stamps see Kyri� pl. 183, nos 1, 2, 4, 8, 

and also the ¢rst copy. Size: 422 ¿ 296 ¿ 67 mm. Size of 

leaf: 407 ¿ 270 mm. 

On [b2 r ] a nine-line initial is supplied in azure and an eight-line 

initial in magenta on burnished gold grounds, the gilt with 

punch-dotting, the initials with foliate scrolling, within segmented 

frames of red and pale green and blue and light green respectively, 

and with foliate and £oral border extensions in the same 

palette, including burnished gold decoration and gold dotting, 

also between the two columns. Title is supplied in red; woodcut 

initials touched in red; red capital strokes and underlining 

throughout. 

Provenance: Thierhaupten, Bavaria, Benedictines, SS. Petrus et 

Paulus; on [b1 v ]: ‘Sum monasterij Thierhauptanj in Bavaria’; on 

front pastedown, book-plate of Abbot Benedikt Gaugenrieder, 

(£. 1553^1597) dated 1587; see Warnecke 2168 and Leiningen- 

Westerburg 323. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

‘Dpl’ on front pastedown and number ‘3107’ on endleaf. 

Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not in 





r 

A2 Bartholomaeus [de Sancto Concordio]: Summa [de casibus 

conscientiae].‘Summa pisana’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam, ut ait sapiens 

Gregorius super Ezechielem, nullum omnipotenti Deo tale est 

sacri¢cium . . .’ 

z1 r Florentinus [Pseudo Antoninus Florentinus?]: De septem vitiis 

capitalibus. Incipit: ‘Nota quod tres sunt species in¢delitatis: 

Primo paganisimus(!) . . .’ 

refs. This text is not identi¢ed as a work by Antoninus 

Florentinus in Kaeppeli, Bloom¢eld, P. Ste¡ano Orlandi, 

Bibliogra¢a Antoniniana (Vatican City, 1962), nor in part II of

392 bartolinis, baldus de 

[b-089^b-091 

the Interrogatorium of Antonius Florentinus’s Confessionale 

Defecerunt. 

r 

[* 1 ] ‘Tabula capitulorum huius libri’. 

[*5 v ] ‘Tabula abreuiaturarum’. 

Venice: Nicolaus Girardengus, de Novis, 12 May 1481. 8 o . 

collation: A^Z a^z [* 8 ]. 

GW 3456; HCR 2529; Go¡ B-174; BMC V 273; Pr 4468; Sheppard 

3625. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf A1. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) half brown morocco over 

marbled pasteboards, spine gold-tooled. Size: 156 ¿ 110 ¿ 


On front pastedown, manuscript number ‘970’and a label with an 

embossed cipher ‘L J’. 

On early endleaves, notes for preachers and priests in a sixteenthcentury 

hand, followed by a note about the response given by 

Pope Eugenius IV to a petition submitted to him in 1439/40. 


Provenance: Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846^1911). Presented 

in 1941 by Mrs Buchanan. 

shelfmark: Buchanan f.112. 

B-090 Bartholomaeus Floridus 

Oratio confoederationis initae inter AlexandrumVI et 

Venetorum, Mediolani et Bari duces. 

[a1 r ] Bartholomaeus Floridus: Oratio confoederationis initae inter 

Alexandrum VI et Venetorum, Mediolani et Bari duces. Incipit: 

‘[S]i illorum potestatem extollere atque admirari solemus . . .’ 

refs. Text dated 1493. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 25 Apr. 1493]. 4 o . 


Woodcut initial. 

GW 3448; CR 2541; BMC IV 115; Pr 3873; Accurti II 72; BSB-Ink 

F-168; Sheppard 3066^7. 

FIRST COPY 

Boxed with A-241; see there for details of binding and 

provenance. 

Binding: Paper wrappers; bound for Klo�. Size: 207 ¿ 143 ¿ 


Manuscript pagination from 225^31. 


SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes Lucidus Cataneus, Oratio ad AlexandrumVI. [Rome: 

Stephan Plannck, after 5 Nov. 1492] (C-116); 

2. Antonius Lollius, Oratio Passionis dominicaecoram Innocentio 

VIII habita contra Judaeorum per¢diam. [Rome: Stephan 

Plannck, after 24 Mar. 1486] (L-143(1)); 

3. Leonellus Chieregatus, Propositio coram Carolo VIII facta. 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 20 Jan. 1488] (C-181); 

4. Leonellus Chieregatus [taken out for exchange in November 

1913; now in the British Library]; 

5. Nicolaus Tygrinus, Oratio Lucensium pro obedientia praestanda. 

[Rome: Andreas Freitag, after 25 Oct. 1492] (T-295); 

7. Thomas ex Capitaneis, de Colleonibus, Oratio in die Omnium 

Sanctorum habita, 1483. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 1 Nov. 

1483] (C-058(2)); 

8. Rodericus de Sancta Ella, Oratio in die Parasceve anno 1477. 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, 1481^7] (F-017(2)); 

9. Andreas Brentius, In Pentecosten oratio. [Rome: Eucharius 

Silber, after 18 May 1483] (B-523(2)); 

10. Guilelmus Bodivit, Sermo habitus in die Annuntiationis,1484. 

[Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 12 Aug. 1484] (B-380); 

11. Ambrosius de Cora, Oratio de conceptione Virginis. [Rome: 

Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, c.1482^8] (C-442); 

12. Guilelmus Bodivit, Sermo habitus in die Trinitatis, 1485. 

[Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, after 29 May 1485] 

(B-381(2)); 

13. Petrus Terrasse, Oratio de divina providentia. [Rome: 

Eucharius Silber, after 9 Mar. 1483] (T-057). 

Binding: Pasteboards covered with leaves from a manuscript 

antiphonary(?) on parchment. Size: 215 ¿ 158 ¿ 23 mm. Size of 

leaf: 206 ¿ 143 mm. 

Manuscript foliation from 250^3. 

Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851); Catalogue (1842), 

supplement no. 9594, priced at »0. 15. 0; date of acquisition 

unknown; not found in Books Purchased (1842). 


B-091 Bartolinis, Baldus de 

De dotibus et dotatis mulieribus et earum iuribus et 

privilegiis. 

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[a2 ] Bartolinis, Baldus de: De dotibus et dotatis mulieribus et 

earum iuribus et privilegiis.‘Tabula’. Incipit: ‘[L]argissimo modo 

accipitur dos pro omni circumferentia ad su⁄cientiam alicuius 

rei . . .’ 

[d2 r ] Bartolinis, Baldus de: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Oliverius 

Carafa. Incipit: ‘Minime sum oblitus, pater optime . . .’ 

v 

[d2 ] Carafa, Oliverius: [Letter addressed to] Baldus de Bartolinis. 

Incipit: ‘Excellentissime doctor, salutem. Dominus Paulus 

Boncambius, uir clarus ac nobilis . . .’ 

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[d3 ] Bartolinis, Baldus de: De dotibus et dotatis mulieribus et 

earum iuribus et privilegiis. Incipit: ‘[P]resentis operis et materie 

tractatum diuidendum et subornandum duxi in duodecim 

partes . . .’ 

refs.Text dated1479. 

[Perugia: Johannes Vydenast, c.1479]. Folio. The printing of this 

book was begun in 1479 by Fridericus Eber and after his death 

continued and completed in 1482 by J. Vydenast, see Demetrio 

Marzi, I tipogra¢ tedeschi in Italia durante il secolo XV, 

Festschrift zum fu« nfhundertja« hrigen Geburtstage von J. 

Gutenberg, ed. Otto Hartwig, Beihefte zum Centralblatt fu« r 

Bibliothekswesen, 23 (1900), 505^78, at 564^5. 

collation: [a 10 b 8 c 6 d 8 e f 6 g 10 h i 6 k 8 l^q 6 r^t 8 v 6 x 8 y z 6 AÊ 8 F 

G 6 ]. 

GW 3467; H *2467; Go¡ B-178; Pr 6796; BSB-Ink B-118; Sack, 


COPY 


Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; the covers blind-tooled within 

a frame ofgilt ¢llets; the edges oftheboards gold-tooled, the spine 

gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns; boards loose. Size: 430 ¿ 


Faded early marginal notes.

-091^b-094] bartolus de saxoferrato 

393 

Provenance: Unread inscription on [a2 r ]. Philip Carteret Webb 

(1700^1770); sale (25 Feb. 1771), lot 2044. Purchased for »4. 4. 0 

from William Lowndes; see Library Bills (1815), no. 77; Books 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 2Q Plut. 4. 


B-092 Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti 

Isolario [Italian]. 

[a1 r ] [Dedication (cryptogram).] ‘Al Diuo Cinquecento cinque e 

diece > Tre cinque a do Mil nulla tre e do vn cento > nulla. questa 

opra dar piu cha altri lecce’. 

refs. The solution in roman and arabic numerals reads ‘DVX 

3VA2 M03E2IC0’. This has been identi¢ed as referring to Doge 

Giovanni Mocenigo (�1485); see Curt F. Bu« hler, ‘Variants in the 

First Atlas of the Mediterranean’, Gb Jb 32 (1957), 94. 

[a1 r ] [Bartolommeo Dalli Sonetti (Zamberto): Isolario.] Incipit:‘Al 

suon de le mie rime in¢me e basse > venga chiun per virtute si 

guberna . . .’ 

refs. See Navigare e descrivere. Isolari e portolani del Museo 

Correr di Venezia XV^XVIII secolo, ed. C. Tonini and P. Lucchi 

(Venice, 2001), 95 no. 17. 

[Venice: Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis?, not after 1485]. 4 o . 

For dating see note in BMC, relying on a date of completion 

before the death of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo in 1485. 

collation: [a 12 b 8 c 6 d 10 e 6 f 8 g 6 ]. 

49 woodcut maps. 

HCR 2538 = H 14890; Go¡ B-183; BMC V 410; Pr 5107; Campbell, 

Maps, 16^64; CIBN B-119; Sheppard 4100. Facsimile: 

(Amsterdam, 1972). 

COPY 

Leaves [a12 v ], [b3 v ], and [c4 v ] are of the later setting, with additional 

sonnets. On the variants see Bu« hler,‘First Atlas’, Gb Jb 32 

(1957), 94^7. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter parchment. Size: 215 ¿ 


Manuscript foliation 17^72 and signatures in Modestus’ hand. 

Place names supplied on the maps, as well as additions, also in 

his hand; on such notes see DBI VI 774^5. Cryptogram resolved 

in manuscript on [a1 r ]. 

Provenance: Frater Modestus of Bari (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); 

erased ownership inscription on [a1 r ]: ‘Fratris Modesti 

Bar[en]sis’; on the same leaf, defaced library stamps, and stamps 

‘.D.’, ‘.P.’ and ‘.F.’ £anking and below the text (see T-255(1)). Old 

shelfmark ‘4 to S. 159’. Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851); Catalogue 

(1842), no. 483. Purchased for »2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1846), 36. 

shelfmark: Auct. Q 5.29. 

B-093 Bartolus de Saxoferrato 

Processus Satanae contra genus humanum. 

[a1 r ] Bartolus de Saxoferrato [pseudo-]: Processus Satanae contra 

genus humanum. ‘Tractatus questionis uentilate coram domino 

nostro Jesu Cristo inter uirginem Mariam ex una parte et dyabolum 

ex altera parte’. Incipit: ‘[N]ostis, fratres carissimi, sathanas 

proditoria ministeria inde procurauit . . .’ 

refs. On authorship see J. L. J. van de Kamp, Bartolo da 

Sassoferrato (Urbino, 1935), 49 no. 12; for an account of previous 

research see Emanuele Casamassima, Iter Germanicum, Codices 

operum Bartoli a Saxoferrato recensiti, 1 (Florence, 1971), 82 (cf. 

19 and 95). 

[Padua: Conradus dePaderborn],14 Apr.1473. Folio. BMC assigns 

to [Padua], GW to [Venice]. 


GW 3652; H *2645; BMC VII 910; Pr 6778; CIBN B-159; Sheppard 

5570. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco, over pasteboards; 

marbled pastedowns. Size: 300 ¿ 210 ¿ 13 mm. Size of 

leaf: 292 ¿ 200 mm. 

Early marginal notes. 

An initial is supplied in red; paragraph marks are supplied in red 

or blue. 

Provenance: J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837), 1835; armorial bookplate: 

argent, a chevron azure between three sinister hands 

gules; inscription dated 1835; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 

168, for »0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 34. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 6Q 2.14. 


B-093A Bartolus de Saxoferrato 

Super authenticis. 

Fragment. 

[Milan: Johannes Antonius de Honate], 7 Mar. 1480. Folio. 

collation: a^c 8 d 10 e^g 8 gg 4 h^l 8 . 

GW 3476; HC 2626; Go¡ B-185; not in Pr; Rhodes 276; not in 

Sheppard. 

COPY 

Bound with A-168(5); see there for details of binding and 

provenance. 

Leaf e 3 only. Size of fragment: 378 ¿ 264 mm. 

shelfmark: Gibson 403(16). 



a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato [pseudo-?]: Lectura super authenticis. 

‘De heredibus et falcidia’. Incipit: ‘[I]sta rubrica diuiditur in tres 

partes. Prima est generalis ad librum . . .’ 

refs. See DBI VI 648. 

[Milan: Johannes Antonius, de Honate, after 7 Mar. 1480]. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b c 8 d 12 e^g 8 h i 6 . Leaf a2 numbered as a1. 

GW 3477; HC *2623; Go¡ B-186; Pr 5902; BSB-Ink B-203; CIBN 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super prima parte Digesti novi.Venice: 

Nicolaus Jenson, 1478 (B-109); 

3. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super tribus ultimis libris Codicis. 

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 31 Jan. 

1479/80 (B-104). 



On unnumbered leaf a1 r-v an alphabetical index in an early hand. 

Early foliation, continued from item 1.

394 bartolus de saxoferrato 

[b-094^b-098 

Initials are supplied in red or blue; red underlining and numbering 

of books. 

Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

‘Duplum’ and ‘Inc. typ. Nro. 523’ on a1 r . Acquired betwen 1835 

and1847; item 1 is found in Catalogus (1843), Appendix, 74. 




a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato [pseudo-?]: Lectura super authenticis. 

‘De heredibus et falcidia’. Incipit: ‘Ista rubrica diuiditur in tres 

partes. Prima est generalis ad librum . . .’ 


Pavia: Christophorus de Canibus, 22 Aug. 1488. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b 8 cî 6 k 8 . 

GW 3482; H *2629; Go¡ B-189; Pr 7085; BSB-Ink B-205; Sheppard 

5855. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Angelus de Ubaldis, Super Authenticis.Venice: Johannes and 

Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 15 Mar. 1485 (U-001); 

2. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super tribus ultimis libris Codicis cum 

additionibus Angeli de Ubaldis et Alexandri Tartagni. Milan: 

Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 25 Mar. 1487 

(B-106). 

Wanting the blank leaf k 8. 

Part of a uniformly bound set of ¢ve volumes, all purchased at the 

Butler sale and probably previously owned by the Cistercians in 

Valencia. 

Binding: Old Spanish(?) quarter parchment over pasteboards, 

the sides covered with leaves from a ¢fteenth-century antiphonary; 

the same manuscript as B-097, B-101, B-120, and B-121. 


Provenance: Probably Valencia, Cistercians, S. Bernardo; see 

ownership inscription in B-121; old shelfmark on spine,‘M II 13’, 

probably fromValencia. Samuel Butler (1774^1839); sale, pt II, lot 

233(5). Purchased for »1. 1. 0; see annotated sale catalogue, and 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 3Q 3.19(3). 



Super prima parte Codicis. 

a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Codicis. 

Incipit: ‘[R]ubrica ista habetur diuersimode.Vera rubrica est illa 

quam dicam vobis legendo. . .’ 

refs. See DBI VI 640^69, at 647. 

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 12 June 

1480. Folio. 

collation: a^h 8 i 6 k^t 8 v 4 . 

GW 3493; H *2544 (I); Go¡ B-193; BMC V 237; Pr 4343; BSB-Ink 

B-132; Hillard 298; Sheppard 3506. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super secunda parte Codicis.Venice: 

Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 30 June 1480 

(B-100). 





Provenance: Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not in 



SECOND COPY 

Sheets b2.7 and g4.5 only. Bound in a collection of Italian 

fragments. 

Provenance and date of acquisition unknown. 

shelfmark: Inc. b. I97.1(7). 



a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Codicis. 

Incipit: ‘[R]ubrica ista habetur diuersimode. Uera rubrica est illa 

quam dicam uobis legendo . . .’ 

refs. See DBI VI 640^69, at 647. 

Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 5 May 

1484. Folio. 

collation: a^h 8 i 6 k^t 8 u 4 . 

Types: 145 G. and 87 G (not as GW); see BMC VI 744 and Sheppard. 

GW 3495; R, Supplement, 25; Pr 5950; Sheppard 4954. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a 1 and u 4. 

Line 3 of the colophon on u 3 r reads ‘teuthonicos’, not ‘theutonicos’as 

GW. 



Valencia. 

Binding: Quarter parchment over pasteboards, the sides covered 

with leaves from a ¢fteenth-centuryantiphonary; the same manuscript 

as B-095, B-101, B-120, and B-121. Size: 409 ¿ 285 ¿ 


Occasional early marginal notes. On u 3 v a note about the number 

of gatherings and folios in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand: 

‘F 160 Q. 20’; but really 154 leaves. 


ownership inscription in B-121; old shelfmark on spine, ‘M II 9’, 

probably from Valencia. Samuel Butler (1774^1839); sale, pt II, 

lot 233(1). Purchased for »1. 1. 0; see annotated sale catalogue, 

and Books Purchased (1840), 33. 




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AA2 Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Codicis. 

Incipit: ‘[R]ubrica ista habetur diuersimode. Uera rubrica est illa 

quam dicam vobis legendo . . .’ 


Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 28 Oct. 1490. Folio. 

collation: AAÔO 8 PP 6 . 

GW 3498; Go¡ B-195; Pr 4724; BSB-Ink B-136; Sheppard 3792. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super secunda parte Codicis.Venice:


395 

AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 18 Jan. 1488/9 (B-102 and103); 

3. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super prima parte Infortiati. Venice: 

AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 12 Feb. 148[8/9?] (B-119); 

4. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super secunda parte Infortiati.Venice: 

AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 5 May 1489 (B-122). 


boards, two clasps lost. Book-label at the head of the upper cover, 

partly removed. On the upper cover triple ¢llets form a double 

frame, the inner one with mitred corners; the inner rectangle is 

divided by vertical ¢llets into three compartments. In the outer 

frame are ¢ve di¡erent stamps: in the corners, a round stamp 

depicting St Matthew the evangelist, in the compartments, a 

tear-drop-shaped stamp with an oak branch, a scroll with the 

inscription ‘Aue Maria’, a foliate ornament and a rectangular 

stamp with a coat of arms bearing two interlacing vine-stems 

and lettered ‘E I R’. In the inner frame, rows of a rectangular dragon 

stamp and the oak-branch stamp, a small lozenge-shaped 

£eur-de-lis stamp, a small rectangular dog stamp, and one with a 

£ower within a lozenge-shaped frame. In the inner compartments, 

the latter two alternate; in the central compartment the 

foliate ornament. Minute rosette and leaf stamps all over. On the 

lower cover triple ¢llets form a frame; the inner rectangle is 

divided by diagonal ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In 

the frame, the same stamps as in the outer frame on the upper 

cover with the exception of the rectangular stamp with a coat of 

arms lettered‘E I R’. In the compartments, the oak-branch stamp, 

the foliate ornament and £eur-de-lis; minute rosette and leaf 

stamps all over. For an almost identical binding see B-110. Size: 


List of contents in an early hand on the upper cover. 

Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); booklabel, 

but not found in his sale catalogue. Samuel Butler (1774^ 

1839); sale, pt II, lot 234(1). Purchased for »2. 2. 0; see annotated 

sale catalogue, and Books Purchased (1840), 33. 

shelfmark: Auct. 3Q inf. 2.20(1). 


Super secunda parte Codicis. 

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a2 Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Super secunda parte Codicis. Incipit: 

‘[S]eruum fugitiuum. Ista lex et titulus consueuit multum solemnizari 

. . .’ 

refs. See DBI VI 647^8. 

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1476. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b 8 cê 10 f 8 g 10 h 8 i k 10 l m 8 n 6 M 4 o^r 10 s 8 t 6 u 8 . 

GW 3508; H *2542 (II); Go¡ B-199; Pr 4305A; BSB-Ink B-130; 

Oates 1716; Rhodes 282; Sheppard 3475. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf a 1 and leaf d 2. 

Binding: B-099, B-108, B-112, and B-118 are bound uniformly in 

parchment with two sets of ties. Size: 390 ¿ 260 ¿ 50 mm. Size of 

leaf: 380 ¿ 242 mm. 

Provenance: Casparius [Falch]; a cropped inscription at head of 

a2 r , see also B-118. Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); inscription on a1 v 

dated1816; sale (1843), lot1006. Purchased for »0.13. 0; see Books 





a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte Codicis. 

‘De seruis fugitiuis’. Incipit:‘[S]eruum fugitiuum. Ista lex ettitulus 

consueuit multum solennizari . . .’ 


Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 30 June 

1480. Folio. 

collation: a^k 8 l m 10 n^p 8 q 10 . 

GW 3510; H 2544 (II); Go¡ B-201; Pr 4345; BSB-Ink B-132; 


COPY 



Wanting the blank leaf q 10. 






a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte Codicis. 

‘De seruis fugitiuis’. Incipit:‘[S]eruum fugitiuum. Ista lex ettitulus 

consueuit multum solennizari . . .’ 


Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 24 Mar. 

1484. Folio. 

collation: a^p 8 q 10 . 

Types:145 G. and 87 G (not as GW); see BMC VI 744 and Sheppard. 

GW 3512; H 2554; Pr 5948; Sheppard 4952. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and q10. 



Valencia. 



as B-095; B-097; B-120 and B-121. Size: 407 ¿ 288 ¿ 


Early marginal notes in the same hands as in Auct.3Q 3.14. On q9 v 

a note about the number of gatherings and folios in a sixteenth/ 

seventeenth-century hand:‘F 160 Qui. 16’; but really 130 leaves. 









AAA2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte 

Codicis. ‘De seruis fugitiuis’. Incipit: ‘[S]eruum fugitiuum. Ista 

lex et titulus consueuit multum solemnizari . . .’ 


Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 18 Jan. 1488/9. Folio.


[b-102^b-106 

collation: AAA^MMM 8 NNN 6 . 

GW 3514; H *2546 (II); Go¡ B-202; Pr 4716; BSB-Ink B-134; 


COPY 



Wanting AAA1.8, AAA3.6 and AAA4.5, BBB1.8, BBB2.7, and 

BBB 3.6, and gatherings C and F^M, which are made up with 

sheets from GW 3515, in which the ¢rst words of sections are 

printed in 180 G. 

List of contents in an early hand on the upper cover. 




AAA2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte 

Codicis. ‘De seruis fugitiuis’. Incipit: ‘[S]eruum fugitiuum. Ista 

lex et titulus consueuit multum solemnizari . . .’ 


Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 8 Dec. 1491. Folio. 

collation: AAA^MMM 8 NNN 6 . 

Type: First words of sections printed in type 180 G. 

GW 3515; not in Pr; BSB-Ink B-136; Sheppard 3786 (pt). 

COPY 

Bound with B-098; see there for details of binding and 

provenance. 

Sheets AAA 1.8, AAA 3.6, and AAA 4.5, BBB 1.8, BBB 2.7, and BBB 3.6, 

and gatherings C and F^M only. 



Super tribus ultimis libris Codicis, cum additionibus 

Angeli de Ubaldis et Alexandri deTartagnis. 

a1 v Albinianus, Petrus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] AntoniusVicturius. 

Incipit: ‘Legimus, vir natura magni¢ce, priscos scriptores tam 

grecos quam latinos . . .’ 

refs. Dated Venice 21 Mar. 1479, printed as M.cccc.xxlx. 

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a2 Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super tribus ultimis libris 

Codicis, cum additionibus Angeli de Ubaldis et Alexandri de 

Tartagnis. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[O]mnes gaudentes £oridam etatem faciunt 

et spiritus tristis desiccat ossa’’ [Prv 17,22]. Prouerbio .xvii . . .’ 


Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 31 Jan. 

1479/80. Folio. 

collation: a b 8 c d 6 e^h 8 . 



COPY 



On h 8 r^v an alphabetical index in an early hand. Early foliation, 

continued from item 2. Occasional early marginal notes. 


initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red 

underlining and numbering of books. 





A2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super tribus ultimis libris 



et spiritus tristis desiccat ossa’’ [Prv 17,22]. Prouerbio .xvii . . .’ 


Venice: Andreas de Soziis, Parmensis, 16 Apr. 1485. Folio. 

collation: A 8 B^H 6 I 4 K 6 . 



COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century German quarter calf 

over blue pasteboards. Size: 418 ¿ 288 ¿ 16 mm. Size of 

leaf: 404 ¿ 273 mm. 

Pastedowns: two sheets of printer’s waste from an eighteenthcentury 

Roman Catholic Andachtsbuch in German, comprising 

72 pages in three sheets, pasted over sheets printed in French. 

Running headings in an early hand. 

On A 2 r an initial is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration 

and pen-£ourishing in red; other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied alternately in red and blue; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); on A1 r an ownership 

inscription dated 1817; sale (1843), lot 1015. Purchased for »1; see 






a1 v Albinianus, Petrus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] AntoniusVicturius. 

Incipit: ‘Legimus, vir natura magni¢ce, priscos scriptores tam 

grecos quam latinos . . .’ 

refs. Dated Milan 1487. 

a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super tribus ultimis libris 



et spiritus tristis desicat ossa’’ [Prv 17,22]. Prouerbio .xvii . . .’ 


Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 25 Mar. 

1487. Folio. 

collation: a b 8 c^g 6 h 8 . 

Types: 145 G and 86 G B (not as GW); see BMC VI 744 and 

Sheppard. 

GW 3531; HR 2562; Pr 5957; BSB-Ink B-148; Sheppard 4958. 

COPY 



Occasional early marginal notes. Manuscript numbering of gatherings 

and occasional running headings. On h8 v a note about the 

number of gatherings and folios in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand:‘Quin. 8 foglie 55’; but really 54 leaves. 

shelfmark: Auct. 3Q 3.18(2).


397 


Super prima parte Digesti novi. 

[a2 r ] Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Digesti 

novi. Incipit:‘[D]omini, vt scitis, hic non est caput totius compilationis 

. . .’ 


r 

[G10 ] [Verse colophon.] 

[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1471. Folio. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 10+1 eô 10 p 8 q r 10 s 8 t^z A 10 B 10+1 C 10 D E 8 F 10 

G 12 ]. 

GW 3546; H *2606 (I); Pr 4029; BSB-Ink B-151; Hillard 300; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [G11] and [G12]. 

Binding: Contemporary German(?) half sheep, dyed red and 

with ¢llets, over modern boards. Old spine laid down. Size: 


Running headings in an early hand. 

On [a 2 r ] an initial is supplied in blue with may£ower in¢ll in red 

and pale green and pen-£ourishing in the same colours; other 

initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Freising, Cathedral Chapter; on front pastedown 

an engraved book-plate: the Virgin and Child on a crescent 

moon, lettered below ‘Insignia Capituli’, see Warnecke 559. 

Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum’ on [a 1 r ] 

and ‘Inc. Typ. Nro. 192’ on [a1 v ]. Acquired between 1847 and 

c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 




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a2 Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Digesti 

novi. Incipit:‘[D]omini, ut scitis, hic non est caput totius compilationis 

. . .’ 


h1 v Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Repetitio legis ‘‘Caesar. De publicanis’’ 

[D 39.4.15]. Incipit: ‘[C]esar. Repetiturus hanc l[egem] more 

solito hunc ordinem obseruabo . . .’ 

refs. Concludes with a remark querying the authorship of 

Bartolus on v8 r : ‘Hanc repetitionem pro constanti non assero 

esse Bar[toli] quia in paucis lecturis eius reperitur, sed quia satis 

utilis est eam hic apposui.’ 

h5 v Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Digesti 

novi. ‘De donationibus’. Incipit: ‘[D]onationes. Ista est subtilis 

lex et etiam subtilis titulus . . .’ 

Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1478. Folio. 

collation: a^y 8 z 10 . 

GW 3549; Go¡ B-216; Pr 4117; Sheppard 3285. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering a, sheet z 5.6 and the blank leaf z 10. 

Binding: B-099, B-108, B-112, and B-118 (Auct. 3Q 4.14^17) are 

bound uniformly in parchment with two sets of ties; printed reinforcing 

slips. Size: 380 ¿ 250 ¿ 50 mm. Size of leaf: 373 ¿ 

240 mm. 

Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); inscription dated 1816 

on front endleaf; sale (1843), lot 1007. Purchased for »0. 13. 0; see 





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novi. Incipit:‘[D]omini, ut scitis, hic non est caput totius compilationis 

. . .’ 


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v5 [Colophon.] 

v5 v Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Repetitio legis‘Caesar. De publicanis’ 

[D 39.4.15]. Incipit:‘[C]esar. Repetiturus hanc l[egem] more solito 

hunc ordinem obseruabo . . .’ 


r 

Bartolus on v8 : ‘Hanc repetitionem pro constanti non assero 

esse Bar[toli] quia in paucis lecturis eius reperitur, sed quia satis 

vtilis est eam hic apposui.’ See also B-108. 


collation: a^s 8 t 6 v 10 . 

GW 3550; H *2608 (I); Go¡ B-217; Pr 4116; BSB-Ink B-152; Lowry, 

Jenson, 248, no. 72; Sheppard 3286. 

COPY 



On a1 v an alphabetical index in an early hand. Early foliation, 

continued in items 2 and 3. 



underlining and running book numbers. 




aa2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Digesti 

novi. Incipit:‘[D]omini, vt scitis, hic non est caput totius compilationis 

. . .’ 


rr6 v [Colophon.] 

rr7 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Repetitio legis ‘Caesar. De publicanis’ 

[D 39.4.15]. Incipit: ‘[C]esar. Repetiturus hanc legem more 

solito hunc ordinem obseruabo . . .’ 


Bartolus: ‘Hanc repetitionem pro constanti non assero esse 

Bar[toli] quia in paucis lecturis eius reperitur, sed quia satis vtilis 

est eam hic apposui.’ See also B-109. 

Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 23 Sept. 1490. Folio. 

collation: aa^pp 8 qq rr 10 . 

GW 3555; H *2610 (I); Pr 4723A; BSB-Ink B-156; Sheppard 3791. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super prima parte Digesti veteris. 

Venice: Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 28 Dec. 1489 (B-114); 

2. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super secunda parte Digesti veteris. 

Venice: Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 25 June 1491 (B-117);


[b-110^b-114 

4. Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Super secunda parte Digesti novi. 

Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 3 Apr. 1489 (B-113). 


boards, two clasps lost. Book-label at the head of the upper cover, 

partly removed. On the upper cover triple ¢llets form a triple 

frame, the inner one with mitred corners; the inner rectangle is 

divided by vertical ¢llets into three compartments. In the outer 

frame are two di¡erent stamps: an eight-petalled £ower in the 

corners, a rectangular stamp with a foliate ornament in the compartments. 

In the middle frame, six di¡erent stamps: in the corners, 

a round stamp depicting St Matthew the evangelist, in the 

compartments, a tear-drop-shaped stamp with an oak branch, a 

scroll with the inscription ‘Aue Maria’, a foliate ornament, a 

round stamp with a crowned ‘M’, and the eight-petalled £ower. 

In the inner frame, rows of a rectangular stamp with a dragon 

and the oak-branch stamp. In the inner compartments, the ‘Aue 

Maria’ scroll is repeated on the left and right; the central compartment 

is ¢lled with the foliate ornament. Minute rosette and 

leaf stamps all over. On the lower cover triple ¢llets form a 

frame; the inner rectangle is divided by diagonal ¢llets into 

lozenge-shaped compartments. In the frame, the same stamps as 

in the middle frame on the upper cover with exception of the 

crowned ‘M’and the eight-petalled £ower. In the compartments, 

the oak-branch stamp, the foliate ornament. For an almost identical 

binding see B-098 (Auct. 3Q inf. 2.20). Size: 434 ¿ 295 ¿ 


Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); booklabel, 

not found in sale catalogue. Samuel Butler (1774^1839); 

sale, pt II, lot 234(7). Purchased for »2. 2. 0; see annotated sale 

catalogue, and Books Purchased (1840), 33. 



Super secunda parte Digesti novi. 

[a2 r ] Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte Digesti 

novi.‘De verborum obligationibus’. Incipit: ‘[S]tipulatio non potest. 

Lex nostra diuiditur in vii partes . . .’ 

refs. Preceded by a short introductory remark. See DBI VI 647. 

[M5 v ] [Colophon.] 

v 

[M5 ] [Poem to the reader and praise of the book.] ‘Si correcta voles 

digesta euoluere legum > Hec eme, que nulla carpere parte potes. > 

Perlege: non paruo sunt emendata labore. > Nil nisi correctum 

vendere Spira iubet’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1473. Folio. 

collation: [a^z A^L 10 M 6 ]. 

GW 3563; H *2606 (II); Pr 4051; BSB-Ink B-162; CIBN B-139; 

Oates 1620; Rhodes 293; Sheppard 3228. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a 1] and [M 6]. 

Stamped signatures kk in gathering [H]; see GWAnm. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled paper 

boards; bound for Klo�. Size: 450 ¿ 310 ¿ 100 mm. Size of 

leaf: 435 ¿ 285 mm. 

In gatherings [a]^[k] and occasionally thereafter, copious early 

marginal notes in faded red ink, in a note on the front pastedown 

erroneously attributed to Melanchthon; see also the introduction 

of the Klo� sale catalogue, p. xix. Running headings in brown ink 

are supplied by the same hand. Occasional numbering of 

gatherings. 

On [a2 r ] an eight-line initial is supplied in red with reserved white 

decoration and blue may£ower in¢ll, some pen-£ourishing 

extending into the inner margin; other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); booklabel; 

not found in sale catalogue. J. Rimmell (mid-nineteenth 

century); label on the front pastedown. Purchased for »0. 14. 0; 





a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte Digesti 

novi.‘De verborum obligationibus’. Incipit: ‘[S]tipulatio non potest. 

Lex nostra diuiditur in vii partes . . .’ 


Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 21 Mar. 

1478. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b^n 8 o p 10 q^x 8 aa 10 bb 8 cc 10 dd ee 8 ¡ 10 gg hh 8 ii 10 

kk^mm 8 nn 6 . 

GW 3568; H 2607 (II); Go¡ B-221; Pr 4330; BSB-Ink B-164; Sack, 


COPY 

Wanting gathering a and b1, bb6.7, gg4.5, and nn6. 

Gathering b is bound after c; the ¢rst sheet ofgathering bb (signed 

dd) is bound as the second in gathering dd. 

Binding: B-099, B-108, B-112, B-118 (Auct. 3Q 4.14^17) are 

bound uniformly in parchment with two sets of ties. Size: 378 ¿ 


Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); inscription dated 1816 

on front endleaf; sale (1843), lot 1005. Purchased for »0. 13. 0; see 





aA2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte Digesti 

novi.‘De uerborum obligationibus’. Incipit: ‘[S]tipulatio non potest. 

Lex nostra diuiditur in septem partes . . .’ 


Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 3 Apr. 1489. Folio. 

collation: aAûU 8 xX 10 . 

GW 3572; H *2610 (II); Pr 4722; Sheppard 3788. 

COPY 



Wanting the blank leaf xX10. 



Super prima parte Digesti veteris. 

r 


veteris. Incipit: ‘[R]ubrica hec simul cum constitutione est quedam 

epistola . . .’ 



collation: a^v 8 .


399 

GW 3588; H 2574; BMC V 309; Pr 4720; Sheppard 3790. 

COPY 



Wanting the blank leaf a1 and sheet e2.7, which is supplied in 

reduced photographic facsimile. 



Super secunda parte Digesti veteris. 

r 

a2 Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte Digesti 

veteris.‘Si certum petatur de rebus creditis et de certi conditione 

generali’. Incipit: ‘[G]losa continuat rubricam ad precedentia 

multum breuiter . . .’ 


z9 r [Colophon.] 

r 

z9 [Poem to the reader including praise of the printer.] ‘Sacrarum 

occiderant immensa uolumina legum > Proh scelus et uanos damnabat 

menda labores’; 24 hexameters. 

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 26 Feb. 

1478/9. Folio. 

collation: a b 10 c 8 d 10 e 8 f 10 g gg h 8 i 10 k^m 8 n 10 o 12 p 10 q^x 8 y z 10 . 

GW 3596; H *2571 (II) = 9547; C 894; Go¡ B-226; BMC V 234; Pr 

4328; BSB-Ink B-180; Sack, Freiburg, 480; Sheppard 3499. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a 1 and z 10. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter calf over mottled paper 

boards. Size: 392 ¿ 275 ¿ 50 mm. Size of leaf: 390 ¿ 254 mm. 

Early running headings and book numbers. Some marginal 

notes. 



underlining. 


(1844), 4. 




a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte Digesti 

veteris. ‘Si certum petatur. De rebus creditis et de certicondictione(!).’ 


q10 v [Colophon with note on editor.] 

Venice: Petrus Maufer et Socii, 14 Sept. 1481. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b c 8 d^f 6 g^k 8 l mm 6 m^p 8 q 10 . 

GW 3597; H 2572 (II); Pr 4601; BSB-Ink B-172; Sack, Freiburg, 511; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf a 1. 


with leaves from a ¢fteenth-century antiphonary; a painted initial 

on the back cover was cut out before binding. Manuscript title on 

a 2 r in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand. Size: 400 ¿ 290 ¿ 


Occasional early marginal notes. Cropped inscription on q10 v , 

possibly a note about the number of gatherings and folios in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand: ‘Q [17] F[ ].’ 










aaa2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte 

Digesti veteris. ‘Si certum petatur. De rebus creditis et de certi 

conditione’. Incipit: ‘[G]losa continuat rubricam ad precedentia 

multum breuiter . . .’ 


Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 25 June 1491. Folio. 

collation: aaa^ppp 8 . 

GW 3600; Pr 4725A; Sheppard 3795. 

COPY 






Super prima parte Infortiati. 

a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Infortiati. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uia hic non est caput libri considerata diuisione legis 

latoris . . .’ 


Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 2 May 1477. 

Folio. 

collation: a 12 b c 8 d 10 e 8 f g 10 h^m 8 n^t 10 u 8 x 6 y 8 z aaêe 10 ¡ 8 

gg 10+1 hh 10 II 6 . Leaf a2 numbered as a1. 

GW 3614; HC *2589 (I); Go¡ B-232; BMC V 232; Pr 4316; BSB-Ink 

B-184; Sheppard 3486. 

COPY 

Binding: B-099, B-108, B-112, B-118 (Auct. 3Q 4.14^17) arel 

bound uniformly in parchment with two sets of ties. Size: 373 ¿ 


Provenance: Casparius Falch; inscription on [a1 r ]; see also B-099 

(Auct. 3Q 4.16). Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); inscription on [a1 r ] 

dated 1816; sale (1843), lot 1004. Purchased for »0. 13. 0; see 





A2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super prima parte Infortiati. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uia hic non est caput libri considerata diuisione legislatoris 

. . .’

400 barzizius, christophorus 

[b-119^b-124 


Venice: Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 12 Feb. 148[8/9?]. Folio. 

Although the date is printed as 1480 (i.e. 1480/1), this is impossible 

on typographical grounds; see also GWand Sheppard. 

collation: A^H 8 I 10 K^R 8 S 6 . 

GW 3618; H *2593 (I); Pr 4721; BSB-Ink B-185; Sheppard 3787. 

COPY 






a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Super prima parte Infortiati. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uiahic non estcaputlibri consideratadiuisionelegislatoris. ..’ 


Milan: Leonhardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 18 July 

1484. Folio. 

collation: a^z 8 h 10 . 

Types: 145 G and 87 G (not as GW); see BMC VI 744 and Sheppard. 

GW 3620; R, Supplement, 26; Pr 5952; Sheppard 4956. 

COPY 




Valencia. 





Occasional early marginal notes. On u3 v a note about the number 


‘Qui. 24 F 140’; but really 194 leaves. 

Provenance: Probably Valencia, Cistercians, S.Bernardo; see 

ownership inscription in B-121 (Auct. 3Q 3.17); old shelfmark on 

spine, ‘M II 11’, probably from Valencia. Samuel Butler (1774^ 





Super secunda parte Infortiati. 

a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte 

Infortiati. ‘De legatis primo’. Incipit: ‘[P]er omnia exequata dicit 

textus ¢deicommissis scilicet singularibus et pecuniariis seu particularibus 

. . .’ 



collation: aû 8 x 6 . 

GW 3636; H *2592 (II); Go¡ B-240; Pr 4715; BSB-Ink B-189; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and x6; wanting s2.7. 



Valencia. 





Occasional early marginal notes. On x5 v a note about the number 


‘Q. 21 F 152’, but really 166 leaves. 

Provenance: Probably Valencia, Cistercians, S. Bernardo; 

‘Pertinet Monasterio Sti. Bernardini Pallantie’; old shelfmark on 

spine, ‘M II 12’, probably from Valencia. Samuel Butler (1774^ 





Super secunda parte Infortiati. 

a2 r Bartolus de Saxoferrato: Lectura super secunda parte 

Infortiati. ‘De legatis primo’. Incipit: ‘[P]er omnia exequata dicit 

textus ¢deicommissis scilicet singularibus et pecuniariis seu particularibus 

. . .’ 


Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, 5 May 1489. Folio. 

collation: aê .f. f^q 8 . 

GW 3637; H *2593 (II); Pr 4723; BSB-Ink B-197; Sheppard 3789. 

COPY 




B-123 Barzis, Benedictus de (Perusinus) 

Libellus guarentigiarum. 

[a1 r ] ‘Tabula huius tractatus’. 

r 

[a2 ] Barzis, Benedictus de (Perusinus): [Libellus guarentigiarum.] 

‘Tractatus materia Quarantigie’. Incipit: ‘Quarantigia est preceptum 

factum inconfessum per notarium et instr[umentu]m rogatum 

e¡ectum iudicem ordinarium de obseruando promissa . . .’ 

refs. See DBI VII 20^5, at 24. This work is sometimes erroneously 

ascribed to Benedictus de Barzis de Plumbino; on him, 

see DBI VII 18^20. 

Siena: [Henricus de Colonia?], 16 May1498. Folio. On the type see 

Sheppard. 

collation: [a b 4 c 2 ]. 

GW 3667; Go¡ B-257; not in Pr; Sheppard 6040. 

COPY 

On [c2 v ] an impression of bearer type, inked by mistake. 

Binding: Half parchment. Size: 398 ¿ 290 ¿ 8 mm. Size of 

leaf: 383 ¿ 278 mm. 

Old foliation: 68^77. Seventeenth/eighteenth-century marginal 

notes. 

Provenance: Purchased on 14 Dec. 1970 for 410,000 Lire from 

Antiquariato Librario Radaeli. 

shelfmark: Inc. b. I43.1498.1. 

B-124 Barzizius, Christophorus (grammaticus) 

De ¢ne oratoris pro Ciceronis et Quintiliani assertione. 

r 

a1 Barzizius, Christophorus: De ¢ne oratoris pro Ciceronis et 

Quintiliani assertione. Dedicated to Helias Capreolus Brixianus.

-124^b-126] barzizius, gasparinus 

401 

Incipit: ‘[F]ecerim ne tibi satis, Helia suauissime, in eo quod a me 

de ¢ne oratoris aiebas te libenter scire velle . . .’ 

refs.Text dated Brescia,17 Sept.1490.The dedicatee is the father 

of the author of the following poem. 

d4 v Capreolus, Bartholomaeus: [Poem in praise of Barzizius.] ‘Inter 

utrumque caput Latii discordia nuper > Orta erat, ingentis causa 

futura mali’; 6 elegiac distichs. 

v 

d4 [Colophon.] 

Brescia: Baptista Farfengus, 7 Sept. 1492. 4 o . 

collation: a^c 8 d 4 . 

GW 3670; HC *2667; BMC VII 985; Pr 7016; BSB-Ink B-217; Oates 

2633; Sheppard 5805; Veneziani, Brescia, 178. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Pius II, Pont. Max., De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia. 

Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, for Johannes 

Baptista de Sessa, 10 Mar. 1497 (P-305); 

3. Cassandra Fidelis, Oratio pro Bertucio Lamberto, etc.Venice: 

Johannes Lucilius Santritter and Hieronymus de Sanctis, 19 Jan. 

1488 (F-054). 

Binding: Italian eighteenth-century quarter red morocco; the 

spine gold-tooled; bound for Boutourlin; yellow-edged leaves; 

endleaf watermarked ‘Giov. Magnani’; see Heawood no. 3748; 

marbled pastedowns and pink silk bookmark. Size: 222 ¿ 165 ¿ 



Catalogue (1831), no. 479; sale, part I (1839), lot 916(?). 



B-125 Barzizius, Christophorus (medicus) 

Introductorium ad opus practicum medicinae, et al. (ed. 

Johannes Antonius Bassinus). 

a1 v Bassinus, Johannes Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Ambrosius 

Varisius Rosatus. Incipit: ‘Solent, Ambrosi magni¢ce, qui aliquid 

sunt edituri dicare labores suos alicui celebri viro. . .’ Dated Pavia, 

21 Aug.1494. 

a1 v Barzizius, Christophorus: [Poem addressed to] Ambrosius 

[Varisius] Rosatus. ‘Quod mihi defuerat celesti sede recepto > 

Ambrosi mihi nuper addidisti’; 10 elegiac distichs. 

refs.The author is not identical with the grammarian ofthe same 

name, the author of B-124; see R. Cessi, ‘Cristoforo Barzizza 

medico del secolo xv’, Bollettino della Civica Biblioteca di 

Bergamo, 3 (1909), 1^17; DBI VII 33; LMA I 1501^2. 

r 

a2 Barzizius, Christophorus: Introductorium sive janua ad opus 

practicum medicinae. Edited by Johannes Antonius Bassinus. 

Corrected by Petrus Buzius. Incipit: ‘[A]ntonius Cermesonus 

nostro tempore primus ex mente Abohali aperuit casum in terminis 

. . .’ 

refs. See P. Kibre,‘Cristoforo Barzizza, Professor of Medicine at 

Padua’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 11 (1942), 388^98, at 

389^90. 

e6 r [Publisher’s note on the inclusion of the text by Rhasis.] 

e6 r Rhasis: Liber IX Almansoris. ‘De cephalea’. [Translated by 

Gerardus Cremonensis.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uando rubedo et tensio et 

grauedo in facie et oculis cum istis a¡uerit . . .’ 

refs. See Thorndike^Kibre 1170, Carmody, 135, and DSB XI 

323^6 and DSB, supplement I, vol. XV 183. 

e6 v Barzizius, Christophorus: ‘Expositio super nono Almansoris’. 

Incipit: ‘[O]mmissis puerilibus consuet[i] queri circa princi[pia] 

librorum venio ad continuationem . . .’ 

refs. Commentary alternates with the text. 

N1 v [Colophon with note on the editor and corrector, Petrus Buzius.] 

r 

N2 ‘Tabula capitulorum presentis voluminis’. 

N3 r Buzius, Petrus: ‘In laudem Cristophori Barzizii carmina’. 

‘Insigni celebris fama Barzizius olim > Claruit et medica nulli fuit 

arte secundus’; 27 hexameters. 

Pavia: Antonius de Carcano, for Octavianus Scotus, 20 Aug. 1494. 

Folio. 

collation: a 8 b 4 c d 6 e 6+1 f 6 g^s 8 t^z h m k A^M 6 N 4 . 

GW 3672; H *2666 = 2665; Go¡ B-260; Pr 7066; BSB-Ink B-216; 


COPY 


Library; on the inside ofupper cover the runningbinder’s number 

‘10/’; cf. Auct. 2Q 2.6; 2.11; 2.12; 2.15; 2.17; Auct. 

2Q 3.9; 3.10; 3.11; 3.16; 3.17; and 3.18. Size: 297 ¿ 210 ¿ 49 mm. 


Provenance: Acquired before 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 

185. 


B-126 Barzizius, Gasparinus 

Epistolae ad exercitationem accomodatae. 

[a1 v ] [Poem in praise of Basel, the printers, and the author.] ‘Quos 

legis, vnde tibi si queras forte libelli > Mittantur, pressos dat 

Basilea, scias’; 9 elegiac distichs. 

r 

[a2 ] [Barzizius], Gasparinus: Epistolae ad exercitationem accomodatae. 

refs. Barzizius, Opera, ed. Joseph Alexander Furiettus (Rome, 

1723), I 220^336. On Barzizius’s letters, see Remigio Sabbadini, 

‘Lettere e Orazioni edite e inedite di Gasparino Barzizza’, 

Archivio Storico Lombardo, 13 (1886), 363^78, 563^83, and 825^ 

36; Ludwig Bertalot,‘Die a« lteste Briefsammlung des Gasparinus 

Barzizza’, Beitra« ge zur Forschung, Studien aus dem Antiquariat 

Jacques Rosenthal, Mu« nchen, NF Heft 2 (1929), 39^84, repr. in 

Bertalot, Studien zum italienischen und deutschen Humanismus, 

ed. Paul Oskar Kristeller, II, Storia e letteratura, 130 (Rome, 

1975), 31^102; Daniela Mazzuconi, ‘Per una sistemazione 

dell’epistolario di Gasparino Barzizza’, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 

20 (1977),183^241, at192 on the text in incunable editions; 

and C. Fantazzi, ‘The ‘‘Epistulae ad exercitationem accomodatae’’ 

of Gasparino Barzizza’, in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini 

Torontoniensis: Proceedings of the Seventh International 

Congress of Neo-Latin Studies Toronto 8^13 August 1988 

(Binghamton, NY, 1991), 139^46. 

Basel: Michael Wenssler and Friedrich Biel, [not after 1 Dec. 

1472]. Folio. 

collation: [a^f 10 ]. 

GW 3676; H *2675; Go¡ B-261; BMC III 719; Pr 7466; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Binding: Old pasteboards. Size: 285 ¿ 198 ¿ 15 mm. Size of 

leaf: 277 ¿ 185 mm. 

Some initials supplied in ink by a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand; underlining.

402 basilius magnus 

[b-126^b-130 

Provenance: ‘Starck’ on [a1 r ]. ‘Bischo¡’ (nineteenth century) on 

front endleaf. J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); inscription; purchased 

at his sale (1837), lot 202, for »0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 

16. 




[a1 r ] [Barzizius], Gasparinus: Epistolae ad exercitationem accomodatae. 


[Basel: Martin Flach, not after 1474]. Folio. 

collation: [a 10 b^d 8 e f 10 ]. 


BSB-Ink B-219; CIBN B-165; Sheppard 2382. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [f10]. 

Binding: Pasteboards, covered with parchment leaves from a 

thirteenth/fourteenth-century liturgical manuscript, and 

coloured dark blue. Size: 294 ¿ 215 ¿ 22 mm. Size of leaf: 278 ¿ 

187 mm. 

Copious early marginal and interlinear notes. Beneath the colophon 

on [f9 v ]: ‘lxxij’. 

Provenance: J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); inscription; purchased at 

his sale (1837), lot 201, for »0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1837),16. 




r 

a2 [Barzizius], Gasparinus: Epistolae ad exercitationem accomodatae. 


[Deventer]: Jacobus de Breda, [1485^7]. 4 o . 

collation: a^h 8 . 

GW 3682; C 912; Pr 8970; Campbell 775; CIBN B-169; HPT II 412; 

ILC 361; Oates 3461; Sheppard 6935. 

COPY 

Wanting the title-page a 1. 

Printed signatures erased and supplied in manuscript. 

Binding: Pasteboards. Size: 202 ¿ 150 ¿ 16 mm. Size of 

leaf: 194 ¿ 140 mm. 

On h 8 v the beginning of a letter in aWest Central German dialect 

(Central Franconian, i.e. written in the Cologne area), incipit: 

‘Ersamer, besundertem frunntlich vader vnnd sty¡ moder, ich 

doyn vch wyssen, dat ich noch starckvnd gesunt byn von der gen[a]den 

gotz, alls ich ho¡en, dat yr ouch sei . . .’ 


20. 




a2 r [Barzizius], Gasparinus: Epistolae ad exercitationem accomodatae. 


Strasbourg: Johann Pru« ss, 24 Dec. 1486. 4 o . 

collation: a^f 8 g 6 h 8 i 6 . 

GW 3683; HC 2676; Go¡ B-264; BMC I120; Pr 519; BSB-Ink B-222; 


COPY 

Gatherings b and f are misbound in the order b 3, 4, 1, 2, 7, 8, 5, 6 and 

f3, 1, 4, 2, 7, 5, 8, 6. 

Binding: Old pasteboards. Size: 202 ¿ 154 ¿ 17 mm. Size of 

leaf: 201 ¿ 148 mm. 

Early manuscript interlinear and marginal notes, mainly as headings 

for individual letters. Pen-trials on a1 r . 


strokes. 

Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; a note on 

Sheppard’s card: ‘Purchased in 1873^4: sic in Invoice Book’, but 

not found in Invoice book. 


B-130 Basilius Magnus 

De legendis antiquorum libris, sive De liberalibus studiis 

et ingenuis moribus (ed. Martinus Brenningarius). 

r 

[a2 ] [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus: [Letter addressed to] 

Colluccius Salutatus.‘Prefatio in magni Basilii librum’. 

refs. Basilio di Cesarea, Discorso ai giovani. Oratio ad adolescentes. 

Con la versione latina di Leonardo Bruni, ed. Mario 

Naldini (Rome, 1984), 231^2; Bruni, Schriften, 99^100. 

[a2 v ] ‘Tituli presentis libelli’. 

v 

[a3 ] Basilius Magnus: De legendis antiquorum libris, sive De liberalibus 

studiis et ingenuis moribus. ‘De legendis libris secularibus 

opusculum’. Dedicated to his nephews. Edited by Martinus 

Prenninger. Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. 

refs. ed. Naldini, 232^48. Saint Basil on the Value of Greek 

Literature, ed. N. G. Wilson (London, 1975), has remarks on 

Bruni’s translation at 14. On the humanist reception see Luzi 

Schucan, Das Nachleben von Basilius Magnus ßad adolescentes�. 

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des christlichen Humanismus,Travaux 

d’humanisme et renaissance, 133 (Geneva, 1973), 57^76 (on 

Bruni’s translation) and 142^4 (this edition). 

Ulm: [Johann Zainer, c.1478]. 4 o . 

collation: [a b 8 ]. 



B-228; CIBN B-179; Sheppard 1813^14; Wegener, Zainer, 3. 

FIRST COPY 



Early manuscript table of contents of 15 items formerly bound 

together on front endleaf: ‘Opusculum magni Basilij de secularium 

libris legentis. Registro .1. > Opusculum Augustini de anima 

et spiritu .2., ebrietate .3., vanitate seculi .4., vita christiana .5., 

Fratris feliciani tractatus de diuina predestinacione .6., Idem de 

retencione de timore(?) .7., Oracio contra invasores sacerdotum 

.8., Liber prophecie scilicet Methodij martyris .9., Tractatus in 

eundem librum Methodij .10., Tractatus Vincentij de casu et 

ruina scilicet vite spiritualis. Registro .11.,Tractatus de a¥ictione 

christianorum per thurcas et de causis eiusdem .12., Processus 

contra Jheronimum nouum heresiarcham etc. Registro .13., De 

origine et fundacio[ne] mon[asterii] ad heremitas .14., De origine 

atque fundacione monasterij S. Georgij in monte. Registro vltimo 

.15.’ The two monasteries mentioned are Einsiedeln and St

-130^b-134] baveriis, baverius de 

403 

Georgenberg/Fiecht in Tyrol; on histories of the foundation of 

monasteries see VL II 1010^11. 

On [a 2 r ] a woodcut initial touched in red and paragraph mark is 

supplied in red. 

Provenance: Scheyern, Bavaria, BVM, Benedictines; on [a2 r ]: 

‘Monasterij Scheyern’ in an eighteenth-century hand. Duplicate 

from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl’ on [a1 v ], no. 22 on front 

endleaf. Purchased in 1866, according to Sheppard, but not 

found in Invoice Book (1865^7, Library Records d. 431); the shelfmark 

suggests a purchase date of c.1850. 


SECOND COPY 




Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl’ 

and no. 34 on [a2 r ], no. 1088 on [b8 v ]. Purchased for »0. 10. 6; see 



B-131 Basilius Magnus 

De legendis antiquorum libris, sive De liberalibus studiis 

et ingenuis moribus. 

A1 v [Brunus] Aretinus, Leonardus: [Letter addressed to] Colluccius 

Salutatus.‘Prefatio’. 


A2 r Basilius Magnus: De legendis antiquorum libris, sive De liberalibusstudiis 

et ingenuis moribus. ‘Liber ad iuuenes quantum ex 

gentilium libris ac litteris pro¢ciant’. [Dedicated to his nephews.] 

Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus. 

refs. See B-130, and Schucan, Das Nachleben von Basilius 

Magnus, 144^50 (Leipzig reception). 

[Leipzig]: Arnoldus de Colonia, [1492^5]. 4 o . 

collation: A 6 B 4 . 

GW 3713; H 2692; Pr 3002; Sheppard 2132. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De moribus humanae vitae. Leipzig: 

JacobusThanner, 1502. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 199 ¿ 151 ¿ 6 mm. Size of 

leaf: 192 ¿ 139 mm. 

Copious early marginal notes, washed out. 


(1826), 3. 


B-132 Basinus, Bernardus 

De magicis artibus et magorum male¢ciis. 

a2 r Basinus, Bernardus: De magicis artibus et magorum male¢ciis. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uom vos in audiendis magice artis disceptationibus 

attentissimos conspicio . . .’ 

refs. SeeThorndike^Kibre 358 and Thorndike IV 488^9. 

Paris: Antoine Caillaut, [c.1491^2]. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b 6 . 

GW 3720; H *2703; Pr 7967; BSB-Ink B-233; CIBN B-182; Sheppard 

6190. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Pius II, Pont. Max., De curialium miseria. [Paris]: Antoine 

Caillaut, [c.1490] (P-302). 

Wanting the blank leaf b6. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, the spine gold-tooled. 

Red-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and turquoise silk bookmark. 


Manuscript foliation: 128^40. On b5 v pen-trials. 

An initial is supplied in red; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Johannes Despauterius (1460^1520); inscription on 

a1 v . Francis Douce (1757^1834); inscription dated Paris 1817 and 

armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. 

shelfmark: Douce 50(2). 

B-133 Baudoin 

Livre de Baudoin comte de Flandre et de Ferrant ¢ls du 

Roi du Portugal [French]. 

[*1 r ] ‘Table de ce present liure’. 

r 

a1 Livre de Baudoin comte de Flandre et de Ferrant ¢ls du Roi du 

Portugal. Incipit: ‘[E]n l’an mil cent quatrevingtz auoit en 

Flandres vng conte nomme . . .’ 

refs. Le Livre de Baudoyn, conte de Flandre; suivi des fragments 

duRomandeTrasignyes, ed. E. P. Serrure and A.Voisin (Bruxelles, 

1836), reprint of the edn Chambe¤ ry 1485 (GW 3729). The heroes 

are probably Count Baudouin VIII of Flandres (1150^1195, see 

Stokvis III 494^5; LMA I 1371; Jacques Falmagne, Baudouin V, 

comte de Hainaut, 1150^1195 (Montreal, 1966)) and Ferna‹ o of 

Portugal (1188^1233, see Stokvis II 28); the latter was the third 

son of King Sancho I of Portugal (1154^1211) and married, in 

1212, Joanna (1188^1244), daughter of Baudouin IX Count of 

Flanders and grand-daughter of BaudouinVIII. 

[Lyons: Guillaume Le Roy with Barthelemy Buyer], 12 Nov. 1478. 

4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^h I l 8 m n 6 . 


GW 3727; HC 2709; BMC VIII 235; Pr 8502; CIBN B-186; Sheppard 

6571. 

COPY 

Wanting leaves a1, a6, b8, gathering c, leaves d1 and d2, and the 

blank leaf n6. Leaf [*1] mutilated. 

Leaves e 7 and e 8 transposed by the binder. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) quarter calf, the spine goldtooled; 

the boards covered with Buntpapier. Size: 265 ¿ 195 ¿ 


Manuscript note on g8 v . 

Provenance: Guillaume de Bure (1734^1820); on the front pastedown 

‘De Bure No. 3834’ (unclear which sale). Francis Douce 

(1757^1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. 


B-134 Baveriis, Baverius de 

Reggimento nel tempo della peste [Italian]. 

[a1 r ] Baveriis, Baverius de: Reggimento nel tempo della peste. 

Incipit: ‘[E]ssendo nato l’homo non solo per utile di se, secondo 

che dice Plato, ma etia[m] dio(?) perutile de li amici . . .’ 

Brescia: Baptista Farfengus, 8 May 1493. 4 o . 

collation: [a 4 ].

404 beccadelli, antonius 

[b-134^b-136 

GW 3741; Pr 7017; Sheppard 5806. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century brown diced morocco. Size: 215 ¿ 


Provenance: ‘Franchi 20/1/94’ (note on back pastedown). 

Purchased for 60 Marks (»3. 6. 0) from J. Halle, Catalogue 16 

(1896), no. 33; see Library Bills, 27 Apr. 1896. 


B-135 Baysio, Guido de 

Rosarium decretorum. 

[a2 r ] Baysio, Guido de: Rosarium decretorum. Dedicated to 

Gerardus Bianchi, later Bishop of S. Sabina, Rome. Incipit: 

‘[R]euerendo in Cristo patri suo domino Gerardo . . . Iuxta beatum 

Ambrosium omnis racio superne sciencie . . .’ 

refs. See Schulte II 186^8. 

[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, c.1473]. Folio. 

collation: [a^h 10 i^m 8 n^v 10 x 8 y z A^H 10 I 12 K^R 10 S 12 ]. 

GW 3744; H *2713; Go¡ B-285; BMC I 57; Pr 213; BSB-Ink B-246; 

CIBN B-191; Hillard 308; Sack, Freiburg, 535; Schorbach, 

Mentelin, 30; Sheppard 157^8. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German (Bamberg, Carmelites, Kyri� 

workshop no. 5, Schwenke^Schunke^Rabenau 19^20) blindtooled 

calf over wooden boards, two clasps lost; rebacked. On 

both covers triple ¢llets form a double frame; the inner rectangle 

is divided by triple ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In 

the compartments are two di¡erent stamps: a lozenge-shaped 

stamp with a stag and a tear-drop stamp with a foliate ornament(?); 

within the frames, the stag stamp and a round £ower 

stamp; for the stamps see Weale^Taylor 135, 139 (pl. x nos 15, 16, 

17), Kyri� pl. 9, nos 1, 3, 4) and Schwenke^Schunke 139, no. 11 

(Bamberg, Bischo« £icher Meister). Size: 483 ¿ 346 ¿ 165 mm. 


On [a 2 r ] a fourteen-line initial is supplied in green with yellow 

highlighting on a red background, within a segmented frame in 

red and green; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining, occasional 

book numbers in red. 

Provenance: Johannes Trebra (�1494); given by him to the 

Cathedral Chapter of St Peter in Regensburg, see also MBK IV,1, 

94; on [a 2 r ]: ‘Istud Rosarium Archidiaconi super decreto fuit per 

quondam bone memorie [ ] ac magne auctoritatis virum dominum 

Jo. Trebra, ponti¢cij iuris doctorem eximium, huius 

Ratisponensis ecclesie Canonicum, in hanc Bibliothecam eiusdem 

Ratisponensis ecclesie Legatum et testatum tali modo et 

condicione, ut predicatorj in eadem ecclesia pro tempore exeunti, 

si isto indiguerit aut pro quotidiano vsu necessarius fuerit, 

accomodetur, et quod post ipsius predicatoris recessum siue 

obitum in hanc Bibliothecam [eciam] ut prefatur(?) ad aliorum 

predicatorum succedentium simili vsu et necessitate donec durauerit 

restituatur. Actum decimo kal. Augusti anno domini 

Mcccclxxxx quarto’; on [a2 r ] above, a pencil note: ‘Hoc est 

nota d. Laurentij Hochwart’ (�1570, from 1530 preacher 

in Regensburg). Regensburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. 

Emmeramus; on [a2 r ]:‘Monasterij S: Emmerami’; on front pastedown 

an eighteenth-century armorial book-plate, see Warnecke 

1671. Anonymous Sotheby’s sale (27 Aug. 1841), lot 169. 



B-136 Beccadelli, Antonius 

Epistolae familiares. 

[a1 r ] [Beccadelli], Antonius Panormita: Epistolae familiares. 

‘Prologus’. Dedicated to Franciscus Arcelius. Incipit: ‘[D]e litteris, 

quas olim in iuuentute conscripsi in Gallia Cisalpina . . .’ 

refs. Beccadelli, Epistolarum libri V. Eiusdem Orationes II. 

Carmina praeterea quaedam quae ex multis ab eo scriptis adhuc 

colligi potuere, [ed. P. Beccatellus] (Venice, 1553), fol. 1 r ^1 v . See 

Gianvito Resta, L’epistolario del Panormita. Studi per una edizione 

critica, Universita' degli Studi di Messina, Facolta' di 

Lettere e Filoso¢a, Studi e Testi diretti da Michele Catalano, 3 

(Messina, 1954), part II, no. 33. Remigio Sabbadini, Cronologia 

della vita del Panormita e del Valla, Reale Istituto di studi superiori 

pratici e di perfezionamento in Firenze, Sezione di ¢loso¢a e 

¢lologia, 25 (Firenze, 1891). 

[a2 r ] [Beccadelli], Antonius Panormita: Epistolae familiares. 

Incipit: ‘[A]ntonius Panhormita S. P. D. Antonio Cremonae. Si 

uales, gaudeo. Suades ut uel singulis horis ad te litteras dem . . .’ 

refs. Epistolarum libri (Venice, 1553) [arranged in a di¡erent 

order]. For the individual letters and their transmission see 

Resta, L’epistolario del Panormita, part II, nos 188, 134, 327, 5, 

112, 620, 87, 608, 350, 352, 38, 349, 356, 148, 413, 185, 458, 328, 

406, 262, 411, 164, 541, 111, 136, 388, 313, 115, 68, 361, 403, 312, 

622, 597, 594, 401, 442^3, 415, 394, 606, 372, 604, 143, 404, 628, 

189, 610, 130, 626, 448, 444, 456, 480, 147, 180, 159, 141, 135, 167, 

160, 139, 179, 140, 154, 126, 168, 137, 245, 310, 611, 392, 151, 85, 113, 

469, 21, [Letter of Ferdinandus I of Naples, see below], 8, 543, 398, 

106, 37, 43, 553,13, 24, 380, 20, 6,15, 307, 554, 515, 92, 551, 274,158, 

351, 363, 396,176, 405, 377,114,109, 269, 67, 240, 360,182,582, 303, 

523, 93, 359, 575, 578, 581*, 579,138, 452,588,198,178,131,177, 453, 

572, 603, 613, 91, 595, 598, 89, 108, 445, 592, 627, 607, 629, 266, 78, 

99, 263, 192, 155, 146, 128, 183, 478, 81, 470, 152, 601, 619, 378, 614, 

393, 237, 569, 11, 514, 34, 10, [Letter of Johannes Ixanensis, see 

below], 35, 12, 9, 41, 42, 539, 368, 292, 14, 22, 18, 17, 72, 387, 23, 16, 

381, 118, 7, 116, 1, 19, 391, 395. The collection includes a letter 

addressed to Beccadelli by Philippus Maria, Duke of Milan 

(Resta, L’epistolario del Panormita, no. 581*), and the two letters, 

listed below, which were neither written by nor addressed to 

Beccadelli. See also Remigio Sabbadini, Ottanta lettere inedite 

del Panormita tratte dai codici milanesi, Biblioteca della Societa' 

di Storia Patria per la Sicilia orientale, 1 (Catania, 1910), 1^167. 

[i1 r ] Ferdinandus I, King of Naples: [Letter addressed to] Philippus 

Maria [Visconti], Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘[D]iu ueritus sum, si 

puereulus(!) ego tibi tanto principi scriberem . . .’ 

[k2 v ] Johannes Ixanensis/Ixaritanus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus 

Raimus. Incipit:‘Tuis hisce ad me grauibus et ornatis epistolis . . .’ 

[k10 v ] [Beccadelli], Antonius Panormita: ‘Epitaphium’. ‘Quaerite, 

Pierides, alium, qui ploret amores. > Quaerite, qui regum fortia 

facta canat. > Me pater ille ingens, hominum sator atque redemptor 

> Euocat, et sedes donat adire pias. > Antonine, decus nostrum, 

letare resurgam’; 2 elegiac distichs, followed by 1 hexameter. 

refs. Epistolarum libri (Venice, 1553), fol. 134 v . 

[Naples: Sixtus Riessinger, c.1475]. Folio. 

collation: [a 8+1 b 8 c 6 d 8 e 6 f g 8 h 10 i 8 k 10 ].

-136^b-138] beda 

405 

GW 3753; GW Nachtra« ge, 26; CR 928 = 929; Go¡ B-291; BMC VI 

855; Pr 6675; CIBN B-194; Fava^Bresciano 32; Oates 2507; 

Sheppard 5419^20. 

FIRST COPY 

The gatherings misbound in the order [a, g, e, f, i, b, c, h, d, k]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled blue morocco; 

quadruple ¢llets form a double intersecting frame; at all points of 

intersection four dots; £oral roll on turn-ins; parchment endleaves. 


Faded early manuscript notes and numbers of letters. 

Provenance: Richard Heber (1773^1833); stamp; see Catalogue, 

1 (1834), lot 5534, sold for »1. 0. 0. J. S. Hall (nineteenth century); 

book-label, ‘et amicorum’. Purchased for »1. 10. 0; see Books 



SECOND COPY 

Wanting [k 2.9]. 

Sheets [h4.7] and [h5.6] bound after [i4]. 

Binding: Parchment. Size: 290 ¿ 215 ¿ 18 mm. Sizeof leaf: 277 ¿ 

200 mm. 

On [a2 r ] a contemporary German initial is supplied in blue within 

a green frame cut out; foliate extensions into the upper and lower 

margins in red, blue, and green with some gold dotting. Other 

initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: On [a1 r ]: ‘Monasterii . . . Godigel’(?), on [a2 r ]: ‘Ad 

Bibliothecam Monasterii [ ]burg[ ] S. [ ]’. Purchased for »1. 10. 0; 



B-137 Beda 

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. 

[a1 r ] Beda: [Letter addressed to] Ceolwulf, King of Northumbria. 

refs. Beda, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. 

Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford, 1969), 2^6. On 

the dedicatee see Colgrave^Mynors 2, n. 2. See also J. Michael 

Wallace-Hadrill, Bede’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English 

People’: A Historical Commentary (Oxford, 1988), 1^6, 207. 

[a1 v ] ‘Capitula hystoriarum gestis(!) Anglorum’. 

1 v Beda: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. 

refs. Ends with the passage on Emperor Claudius for the year 46. 

Beda, Ecclesiastical History, ed. Colgrave and Mynors 14^560. 

See Wallace-Hadrill 7^201, 208^42. 

[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, c.1475^8]. Folio. 

collation: [a 10 b 8 cê 10 f 6 g h 10 i 8 k 10 l 6 ]. 

GW 3756; H *2732; C 933; Go¡ B-293; BMC I 71; Pr 284; BSB-Ink 

B-255; CIBN B-195; Hillard 312; Oates 118; Sheppard 201. 

COPY 

Binding: Half calf; bound for Klo�. Size: 290 ¿ 215 ¿ 24 mm. 





sale (1835), lot 655; purchased for »20; see Books 



B-138 Beda 

Repertorium auctoritatum Aristotelis et aliorum 

philosophorum. 

a2 r Beda [pseudo-]: ‘Repertorium siue tabula notabilium autoritatum, 

articulorum, dictorum et de omnibus his, que ex copiosissime 

dictis philosophorum et inprimis excellentissimi 

Aristotelis, philosophorum principis, olim Alexandri magni 

directoris, vtiliora saltim atque in phisico auditu magis necessaria 

dignoscuntur’. 

refs. PL XC 965^1054 (expanded form). See Lohr (1967), 377. 

k2 r Beda [pseudo-]; Cicero, MarcusTullius: ‘Auctoritates pro virtutum 

capessendarum vberiori lege pientissime sacrate deo optimo 

maximo arridente’. 

refs. PL XC 1053^89. Excerpts from De o⁄ciis, De amicitia, De 

senectute, De paradoxis, Tusculanae Disputationes, De re publica. 

v 

n7 Valerius Maximus: ‘Quam atrox Marci Tullii fuit mors’. 

refs. PL XC 1089^90.V. Max. 5. 4. 

n8 r ‘Epithauium M.T.C. quod statua eius perplexum est in ede 

magni Iouis apud Tullorum monumentum’. ‘Hic iacet Arpinas 

manibus tumulatus, amici, > Qui fuit orator summus et eximius’; 

9 elegiac distichs. 

refs. PL XC 1090; Walther, Initia, 7951 and 7975. 

v 

n8 Danhauser, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Sebald Schreyer. 

Incipit: ‘Ego dum apud te diuturna, magnanime ciuis, vnicum 

amicitie specimen, opera imperio tuo subministrabam . . .’ 

refs. Text dated Nuremberg, 26 July 1490. 

n9 v [Poem in praise of printing.] ‘Tingere dispositis chartas quicunque 

metallis > Cepit et insignes edidit arte notas’; 12 elegiac distichs. 

Nuremberg: PeterWagner, [c.1491]. 4 o . 


On a1 r ‘Accipies’ woodcut: see Schreiber^Heitz no. 55. Woodcut 

initials. 

GW 3757; HC *2733 = H 1926; Go¡ B-294; BMC II 464; Pr 2246; 

BSB-Ink R-131; Schreiber V 3413; Sheppard 1628. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Carolus Maneken, Formulae epistolarum. [Cologne: Heinrich 

Quentell], 8 Mar. 1489 (M-059); 

2. Paulus Lescherius, Rhetorica pro con¢ciendis epistolis accomodata. 

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 27 Jan. 1490 (L-097); 

3. Paulus Niavis, Epistolae breves. [Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, 

c.1488] (N-012); 

4. Paulus Niavis, Epistolae mediocres. [Leipzig: Conrad 

Kachelofen, c.1495] (N-013); 

5. Paulus Niavis, Elegantiae latinitatis una cum modo epistolandi. 

Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, [c.1495] (N-011). 

Binding: Old German plain calf over wooden boards, with two 

metal clasps; titles written across the fore-edge: ‘Epistole Caroli’ 

and ‘Retho Lescher’. Size: 219 ¿ 155 ¿ 56 mm. Size of leaf: 203 ¿ 

138 mm. 

Occasional early marginal notes. On a1 r :‘DasWindeche bethaus’ 

in a nineteenth-century German hand; similar entries at the 

beginning and end of other items by the same hand. 

Provenance: Leonhard Kirchhuber (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); 

on [*1 r ] of item 1, ‘Ex libris Leonhardi Kirchuberi 

Monacensis’. Wu« rzburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Jacobus, 

‘Schottenkloster’; on [* 1 r ] of item 1, ‘Ex libris Monasterij S.

406 belcari, feo 

[b-138^b-141 

Jacobi Scotorum Herbipoli’. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^ 

1854); book-label; not found in sale catalogue. Possibly the copy 

purchased in 1835, but not found in Books Purchased (1835); see 

Catalogus (1843), Appendix, 592 (for item 1). 


B-139 Beda 

Repertorium auctoritatum Aristotelis et aliorum 

philosophorum. 

a2 r Beda [pseudo-]: ‘Repertorium siue tabula notabilium autoritatum, 

articulorum, dictorum et de omnibus his, que ex copiosissime 

dictis philosophorum et inprimis excellentissimi 

Aristotelis, philosophorum principis, olim Alexandri magni 

directoris, vtiliora saltim atque in phisico auditu magis necessaria 

dignoscuntur’. 


Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 29 Mar. 1495. 4 o . 

collation: a^c 6 d 4 eî 6 . 

r 

On a1 ‘Accipies’ woodcut: see Schreiber^Heitz no. 56, here with the 

inscription ‘Arestotiles cum discipulis’. 

GW 3758 (+ var.); HC *2734 = H 1935; Go¡ B-295; BMC I 284; Pr 

1329; BSB-Ink R-132; Sack, Freiburg, 538; Schreiber V 3414; 

Sheppard 1028;Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 224. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled pastedowns. 


Provenance: ‘Barnheim’; inscription on a 1 r in a nineteenth-century 

hand. Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Elenchus, no. 2843. 


shelfmark: Byw. S 2.21. 

B-140 Beets, Johannes 

Commentum super decem praeceptis decalogi. 

a2 r [Bostius, Arnoldus]: ‘Ex libro de viris illustribus sacri ordinis 

virginee dei gentricis Marie de Monte Carmelo’. Incipit: 

‘[I]ohannes Beets, doctor conspicuus multa prestans virtute, in 

acutissimis disputationum certaminibus clarus . . .’ 

a2 r ‘Tabula’. 

v 

b6 Beissel, Jodocus: [Prefatory letter addressed to] Arnoldus 

Bostius. Incipit: ‘[C]um tuam erga me caritatem, Arnolde optime 

doctissimeque, multis in rebus sepe . . .’ 

2 r 

a2 Beets, Johannes: ‘Prologus’. Incipit:‘[S]acra scriptura diuinitas 

inspirata a sanctis prophetis ac aliis catholice ¢dei . . .’ 

2 

a3 r Beets, Johannes: ‘Prohemium’. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[S]i vis ad vitam 

ingredi serua mandata’’, Math. xix [Mt19,17]. In istis verbis explicatur 

nobis summa totius salutis nostre . . .’ 

2 

a3 r Beets, Johannes: Commentum super decem praeceptis decalogi. 

Incipit: ‘[C]irca primum videtur quod sit tantum vnum preceptum. 

Dicit enim apostolus ad Romanos xiii, ‘‘Si quod est 

aliud mandatum in hoc verbo instauratur, diliges proximum 

tuum sicut teipsum’’ [Rm 13,9] . . .’ 

refs. See L. Burie,‘Proeve tot inventarisatie van de in handschrift 

of in druk bewaarde werken van de Leuvense theologieprofessoren 

uit de XV e eeuw’, in Facultas S.Theologiae Lovaniensis1432^ 

1797, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 

45 (Louvain, 1977), 215^72, at 251^2. 

Louvain: Aegidius van der Heerstraten, 19 Apr. 1486. Folio. 

collation: a b 6 2 a^f 8 g h 6 i 8 k 6 l m 8 n 6 o 8 p 6 q r 8 s^z aa^mm A B 6 

C^G 8 . 

GW 3762; HC *2736; Go¡ B-296; BMC IX 165; Pr 9303; Amelung, 

‘Niederla« ndische Inkunabeln’, 7 no. 11; Boekdrukkunst (1973), 

187; BSB-Ink B-256; Campbell 260; CIBN B-B-197; Hillard, 313; 

HPT II 439; ILC 366; Oates 3814^16; Sack, Freiburg, 539; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf G8. 

For variant settings of hh 2 and hh 5, as in this copy, see Oates 3814. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Early marginal notes in black ink. 


marks are supplied in red. On 2 a2 r an eight-line initial ‘S’ is supplied 

in black ink, with foliate extensions and decoration in the 

upper and lower margins, in black ink over pencil. Headings are 

supplied in a contemporary hand in black ink. 

Provenance: Johannes Fortis de Augusta (c.1465âfter 1520); 

inscription on a1 r in a contemporary hand: ‘Fratris Johannis 

Fortis, S.T. bacc[elarii] et lectoris in Wienna’. Duplicate from the 

Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum’ on a1 r and pencil number ‘15’ 

on a2 r . Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not 

in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 


B-141 Belcari, Feo 

Rappresentazione di San Panunzio [Italian]. 

[a1 r ] [Title-page and woodcuts.] 

[a1 v ] Belcari, Feo: Rappresentazione di San Panunzio. ‘[A]nime 

electe a quel bene indicibile > che per grandeza qui non si puo 

intendere’. 

refs. A. D’Ancona, Sacre rappresentazioni dei secoli XIV, XVe 

XVI, 3 vols (Florence, 1872), II 65^70. 

[Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, c.1490]. 4 o . 

collation: [a2]. Two woodcuts on [a1 r ]: see Kristeller 321a, with the lower woodcut 

illustrated on pl. 60. 

GW 3797; H 2752b; R 1139; BMC VI 655; Pr 6240; Cioni, 

Rappresentazioni, 251 (LXXXI, 1); Kristeller 321a and pl. 60; 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Gherardo da Prato, Storia della preziosa cintola della gloriosissima 

Vergine Maria. Florence: Alle Scalee di Badia, [Florence?, 

1550?]; 

2. Storia e lamento di quel tribolato di Strascino Campani Sanese. 

Siena: [n. pr., n. d.]; 

3. Ladevotissimaebellastoria diSan Giuliano. Florence: [n. pr., n. 

d.]; 

4. La representatione di Santa Domitilla. [n. pl.: n. pr., n. d.]; 

5. Rappresentazione del miracolo dello Spirito Santo. [Florence: 

Bartolommeo di Libri, 1485^92] (R-010); 

6. Antonia Pulci, Rappresentatione del ¢gliuol prodigo. Florence: 

Iacinto and Giovanni Battista Fantucci Tosi, 1614; 

7. Giustino Berti, Rappresentazione di San Paolino vescovo di 

Lucca. Orazione di Santa Croce di Lucca. [Florence: Antonio di 

Bartolommeo Miscomini?, c.1500] (B-233);

-141^b-145] benedictus, s 

407 

8. [Feo Belcari], La rappresentatione della Annuntiatione di nostra 

Donna. Siena: alla Loggia del Papa, 1608; 

9. La festa di Biagio contadino. Florence: all’insegna della 

Testuggine, 1615; 

10. Frottola di un padre. Florence: Lorenzo Arnesi, 1614; 

11. Bernardo Giambulari, La istoria di San Zanobi vescovo 

Fiorentino. Florence: [n. pr., sixteenth century]; 

13. Marco dal Monte S. Maria, Libro dei comandamenti di Dio del 

Testamento vecchio. Siena: Henricus de Harlem, 24 Mar. 1494 

(M-092); 

14. Luigi Pulci, Stran botti e rispetti nobilissimi d’amore. Florence: 

Orazio Barsi, 1616. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, with gold-tooled spine and 


leaf: 200 ¿ 149 mm. 

Provenance: Alessandro, Count Mortara (�1855). Purchased 

from Count Mortara: see Alessandro Mortara, Biblioteca Italica 

(1852), 41. 

shelfmark: Mortara 900(12). 

B-142 Bellincinis, Bartholomaeus de 

Apostillae super lecturas Nicolai deTudeschis et Antonii 

de Butrio. 

a2 r Bellincinis, Bartholomaeus de: Apostillae super lecturas 

[Nicolai de Tudeschis] et Antonii de Burtio. Incipit: ‘[S]uper ista 

Rubrica, vide Cy[prianum?] et Bal[bum?] in Rubrica . . .’ 

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477. Folio. 

collation: a b 10 c d 8 e^g 10 h 8 I k 10 l 4 n 10 o 8 p^r t 10 v 6+1 x 10 y 8 . 

Collation as GW. BMC collates ‘. . . x 8 y 10 .’ 

GW 3804; HC *2760 = H 2759; Go¡ B-301; BMC V 229; Pr 4325; 



COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; bound for the Bodleian 


Title(?) on lower edge of leaves. 

Provenance: Purchased from the Fidelis Butsch catalogue 


(1858), 9. 


B-143 Bembus, Petrus 

De Aetna dialogus. 

r 

A1 Bembus, Petrus: De Aetna dialogus [between Bembus Pater 

and Bembus Filius], addressed to Angelus Chabrielis. 

refs. Pietro Bembo, De Aetna, trans. with introduction by 

Vittorio Enzo Al¢eri, notes by Marcello Carapezza and 

Leonardo Sciascia (Palermo, 1981), 43^59. 

Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Feb. 1495/6. 4 o . 

collation: A^C 8 D 6 . 


B-269; Curt F. Bu« hler, ‘Manuscript Corrections in the Aldine 

Edition of Bembo’s De Aetna’, Early Books and Manuscripts: 

Forty Years of Research (New York, 1973), 170^5, repr. from 

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 45 (1951), 136^ 

42; CIBN B-208; Scapecchi,‘Annali’, 6; Sheppard 4616. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English green morocco, stamped 

on both covers, in gold, with the Aldine anchor, and with giltedged 

leaves; endpapers watermarked ‘1801’. Size: 209 ¿ 157 ¿ 


Very faint marginal notes and correction(?) in a contemporary 

hand, washed out. 

Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851), Catalogue (1834), pt 

V no. 150. Purchased for »5. 15. 6; see Books Purchased (1834), 3. 

shelfmark: Auct. 2R 3.86. 

B-144 Benedictus de Nursia 

De conservatione sanitatis, et al. 

[a1 v ] [List of contents.] 

v 

[a1 ] Benedictus de Nursia: De conservatione sanitatis. 

refs. Gonario De¡enu, Benedetto Reguardati, medico e diplomatico 

di Francesco Sforza, Collana di studi di storia della medicina, 

13 (Milan, 1955), 55^128. SeeThorndike^Kibre1539. 

[r4 v ] Thaddeus de Florentia: De regimine sanitatis. [Also known as 

De conservanda sanitate.] Incipit: ‘Quoniam passibilis et mutabilis 

extat humani corporis conditio. . .’ 

refs. See Thorndike^Kibre 1292. Thorndike^Kibre ascribes to 

Thaddeus de Florentia, Osler and GW to Johannes Hispalensis. 

Nancy G. Siraisi, Taddeo Alderotti and his Pupils: Two 

Generations of Italian Medical Learning (Princeton, 1982), 426 

notes that the De regimine sanitatis is ‘a Latin version of the 

Italian regimen attributed toTaddeo’. 

Bologna: Dominicus de Lapis, for Sigismundus de Libris, 1477. 4 o . 

collation: [a] bî [k] m [n^r 8 s 4 ]. 

GW 3819; HC *11920; Go¡ B-314; BMC VI 814; Pr 6536; CIBN 

B-218; Osler, IM 129; Rhodes, 316; Sheppard 5327^8. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting gatherings [o]^[q]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, with gold-tooled 


Occasional faint marginal notes, apparently in a contemporary 

hand, possibly several. 

Provenance: Acquired after 1738: not found in Fysher, 

Catalogus; but in Catalogus (1843), IV 879. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4 o M 36 Jur. 


SECOND COPY 

Binding: Parchment. Size: 213 ¿ 160 ¿ 30 mm. Size of 

leaf: 206 ¿ 145 mm. 

Occasional early marginal annotations and some manuscript 

pagination. 

Provenance: Sebastianus and friends; inscription on [a1 r ]:‘Est . . . 

Sebastiani et amicorum eius’. Oxford, Radcli¡e Library; armorial 

book-plate. Probably acquired after 1840: not found in 

Catalogue (1835) or interleaved copy in Radcli¡e Library records. 

Former Radcli¡e shelfmarks: 22. K. 2. 4 a /42?; G.161.I.12/1^2; 

3335/41; A.II.7; 86.A.22/1^2. 

shelfmark: RR.w.303 [RSL]. 

B-145 Benedictus, S 

Regula [Latin and French] (trans. Guido Juvenalis). 

a 1 r [Title-page.] 

a 2 r Benedictus, S.: [Prologue: Pars prima Latin].

408 benignus salviatus, georgius 

[b-145^b-146 

refs. ed. Rudolph Hanslik, CSEL 75 (1960), 1^4, in which the 

prologue is not divided. 

v 

a2 Benedictus, S.: ‘L’exposition en francoys’. Translated by Guido 

Juvenalis. Incipit: ‘Mon ¢lz, escoute les enseignemens de ton 

maistre Iesus et mectz ton cueur a voulentiers . . .’ 

r 

a3 Benedictus, S.: ‘Secundi prologi pars’ [Latin]. 

refs. ed. Rudolph Hanslik, CSEL 75 (1960), 4^9. 

a4 r Benedictus, S.: ‘La seconde partie du prologue’. Translated by 

Guido Juvenalis. Incipit: ‘Puis que nostre seigneur nous inuite si 

douscement . . .’ 

a5 r Benedictus, S.: Regula [Latin]. 

refs. ed. Rudolph Hanslik, CSEL 75 (1960), 17^165; ed. A. de 

Vogu« e¤ , Sources Chre¤ tiennes 181^2 (Paris, 1971^2), I 412ÎI 672; 

see J. D. Broekaert, Bibliographie de la Re' gle de saint Beno|“ t. 

Editions latines et traductions imprime¤ es de 1489 a' 1929, 2 vols, 

Studia Anselmiana 77^8 (Rome, 1980) I no. 12^13. 

a5 v Benedictus, S.: Regula [French].Translated by Guido Juvenalis. 

Incipit: ‘Il est manifeste qu’il est quatre manieres de moynes . . .’ 

refs. Each section or chapter of the Latin text is followed by the 

French translation. 

k6 v [Prayer.] Incipit: ‘Deo gratias inexplicabiles agere non desistimus’. 

r 

A1 ‘Tabula’. 

A2 v ‘La table’. 

A3 v [Colophon, French only]. 

Paris: [Andre¤ Bocard], for Geo¡roy de Marnef, 7 Sept. 1500. 4 o . 

Attributed to Bocard on the basis of the type by CIBN. 

collation: a 8 b^k 6 A 4 . 

Woodcut on a1 r ; see BMC.Woodcut initial on a2 r . 

GW 3831; H 2775; C 943; Go¡ B-311; BMC VIII 180; Pr 8267; 

Anselm M. Albareda, Bibliogra¢a de la Regla Benedictina 

(Monserrat, 1933), 296, nos 12^13 and pl. 79; CIBN B-212; 

Rhodes, 315; Sheppard 6447. 

COPY 

Printed on parchment, with paper endleaves. Leaf b 2 slightly 

mutilated.Variants: on a1 r , l. 3: ‘. . . dominu[m] . . .’, and, on a2 r , l. 

3:‘. . . d[omi]no . . .’ 

Binding: Limp parchment, with gold-tooled spine. Bound at the 

end, a parchment leaf containing manuscript bidding prayers, 

used in an unidenti¢ed French(?) monastery, written in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand, for the benefactors and for the 

Pope and the College of Cardinals, the King, Queen, and 

Dauphin of France, the lords temporal, the Archbishop of 

Rouen and the other lords spiritual, other ecclesiastics, the monastery, 

unnamed, and the churches of Verdelay (unidenti¢ed), 

Bethancourt (Be¤ thancourt-en-Valois, Oise, or Be¤ thancourt-en- 

Vaux, Aisne), Freismont (unidenti¢ed),Vallis Nostrae Dominae 

(Val Notre-Dame, Antheit, near Lie' ge; Cistercian convent, suppressed 

1797: see Cottineau II 3262), Gaudii Vallis (Vaujours, 

Seine et Oise; Augustinian convent: see Cottineau II 3304^5), 

the farmers, labourers, and merchants, for themselves, for peace, 

and for founders and benefactors, particularly master Petrus de 

Nelle, Guillermus de Pilleronce, Stephanus Danery, and 

Guillermus de [ ] dominus. Also fragments of a parchment leaf, 

containing unidenti¢ed manuscript text, in a ¢fteenth-century(?) 

hand. Size: 200 ¿ 150 ¿ 23 mm. Size of leaf: 193 ¿ 137 mm. 

Some early pen-trials and scribbles. Head of Christ drawn in 

crayon on A4 v . 

Ruling supplied in red. Capitals touched with yellow wash. 

Provenance: Louis de Meau(l)x (�1607); name inside the upper 

cover; also inscription on front endleaf, perhaps in the hand of 

La Fontaine: ‘L. De Meaux, moine soub prieur de St. Denis en 

France’, with signature on a1 r , A3 v , A4 r , and rear endleaf. Jean de 

La Fontaine (�1661); inscription on front endleaf: ‘J. De La 

Fontaine, Moine In¢rmier de l’abbaye de St. Denis en France’, 

and signature on A3 v . Richard Rawlinson (1690^1755). 

Presumably acquired by the Bodleian Library with the rest of R. 

Rawlinson’s books. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Arch. Bodl. D e.31; Arch. Bodl. D 

subt.70 d ; 4 o Rawl. 44. 

shelfmark: Arch. B e.39. 

B-146 Benignus Salviatus, Georgius 

De natura angelica (ed. Ubertinus Risalitus). 

[*1 r ] Cervinius, Aelius Lampridius: [Verse addressed to the reader.] 

‘Quid nisi conspicuus summo uersabere Caelo > Visure 

Angelicum Candide lector opus’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

[*1 r ] Cervinius, Aelius Lampridius: [Verse addressed to the reader.] 

‘Legerat hec oculis quibus omnia maximus Aether > Aspicit 

Angelici Mystica scripta chori’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

r 

[* 1 ] Cervinius, Aelius Lampridius: [Verse addressed to the reader.] 

‘Esse uidebantur nobis aenigmata nuper > Quae super angelico 

scripta fuere choro’; 7 elegiac distichs. 

r 

[* 1 ] Puteus Ragusinus, Carolus: [Verse.] ‘Angelos quicunque 

choros celsamque cateruam > Naturamque cupit noscere celicolum’; 


v 

[* 1 ] Risalitus, Ubertinus: [Introductory letter, addressed to the 

Senate of Ragusa (Dubrovnik).] Incipit: ‘[G]eorgius Benignus 

Saluiatus De angelica natura preclarum opus cum nuper ad me 

misisset . . .’ 

[*2 r ] Benignus Salviatus,Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Ubertinus 

Risalitus. Incipit: ‘[M]itto ad te, suauissimeVbertine, De angelica 

natura opus, quod quidem ita a nobis descriptum est . . .’ 

r 

a1 Benignus Salviatus,Georgius: ‘Prohemium’. Incipit:‘[A]ngelica 

dignitas post summam illam optimi uniuersorum conditoris dei 

maiestatem, patres conscripti Rhacusaneque . . .’ 

v 

a1 [List of Dalmatian nobles, who appear in ‘De natura angelica’.] 

a1 v ‘Primi libri capita’. 

a2 r ‘Argumentum operis’. Incipit: ‘Kalendis Maii, anno salutis 

octauo et nonagesimo supra mille quadringentos totus senatus 

quem rogatorum uocant Rhacusane . . .’ 

a2 v Benignus Salviatus, Georgius: De natura angelica. Edited by 

Ubertinus Risalitus. Incipit: ‘[A]ngelica natura (ut primum de 

substantia ipsius perscrutemur) uiri ornatissimi non est . . .’ 

q8 r [Colophon.] 

q8 r Bonifatius Gorgeus, Sigismundus: [Verse addressed to the 

reader.] ‘Quicumque Angelicos optabat noscere cetus > Et quantum 

excellat ille, uel ille chorus’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

q8 r Benessius, Damianus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] 

‘Cognitus etrusce prius ille Georgius urbi > Incipit (ecce uides) 

notior esse modo’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

q8 r Benessius, Damianus: [Verse, addressed to] Georgius Benignus 

Salviatus.‘Ecce quod extremis Scotus fuit ille Britannis > Doctus 

quod mauris Aureliusue suis’; 8 elegiac distichs. 

q8 r Benessius, Damianus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Disce 

quot iste bonis ornatur, lector, honestas > Seruit honor, pietas, 

gloria, forma sibi; 1 elegiac distich. 

Florence: [Bartolommeo di Libri], 20 July 1499. Folio.

-146^b-149] benivieni, domenico 

409 

collation: [* 2 ] a^q 8 . 

GW 3843; HC *2783; Go¡ B-324; BMC VI 654; Pr 6232; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Binding: Contemporary (c.1500) Italian (Milan) brown sheep 

over limp pasteboards. Four pairs of ties wanting. Tooled in 

blind with multiple two-line frames. Some corners mitred; at 

others the frame lines are continued to create small squares and 

rectangles. Border of a palmette tool, not carried to the corners 

owing to the prolongation of the frame lines. Multiple impressions 

of a four-lobed interlaced knotwork tool, inside a border of 

‘roof-top’ tools, in the centre. Plain edges. Double blue and pink 

headbands. Sewn on three (split?) thongs. Spine covered with 

later parchment. Pastedown and one free endpaper, wrapped 

round the ¢rst and last gatherings, at each end; watermark, a 

bull’s head (resembling Briquet 14950; Milan 1499, Ferrara 

1505). From the same shop: (1) Christie’s: London, 17 Nov. 1976, 

lot 276: Aegidius Columna, Expositio super libros elenchorum 

Aristotelis,Venice: S. de Luere for A. Torresano, 1500; ‘Liber M. 

Pauli Zobii [Giovio]’. (2) London, BL, Henry Davis Gift, P. 903: 

A. Janus Parrhasius, Comentarii in raptum Proserpinae Cl. 

Claudiani, Milan: Guillaume Le Signerre fratres, 1501. (3) 

Christie’s Giovio sale, 1 June 1977, lot 176, Raimondo Marliani, 

Opuscula geographica antiqua (sixteenth-century manuscript). 


Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851); purchased ‘At Wise’s 

1st auction of Thorpe’s Books’, lot 1345, for »0. 4. 6; see Books 

Purchased (1832), 3, and Financial Statements (1828^32; 1837^ 

40, Library Records b. 4), no. 16, ‘Books purchased by the 

Librarian’. 



B-147 Benignus Salviatus, Georgius 

Propheticae solutiones. 


a1 v Benignus Salviatus,Georgius: [Preface addressed to] Ubertinus 

Risalitus. Incipit: ‘[C]ontendisti a me, Vbertine Risalite, ut opinionem 

meam circa futuram ecclesiae Christi renouationem 

aperirem . . .’ 

refs. Gian Carlo Garfagnini, ‘Benigno Salviati e Gerolamo 

Savonarola. Note per una lettura della‘‘Propheticae solutiones’’ ’, 

Rinascimento, 29 (1989), 81^123, 94^193; the letter edited on 94. 

a2 r Benignus Salviatus, Georgius: Propheticae solutiones. 

[Dialogue with Ubertinus Risalitus.] Incipit: ‘[S]cire cuperem, mi 

pater Benigne, an uerum sit quod plerique dicunt . . .’ 

Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani, [8 Apr.] 1497. 4 o . 


GW 3845; HC 2779; BMC VI 686; Pr 6371; CIBN B-227; Sheppard 

5252. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes Nesius, Oraculum denovosaeculo. Florence: Lorenzo 

Morgiani, 8 May 1497 (N-006); 

2. Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula, De iniusta excommunicatione 

pro Hieronymi Savonarolae innocentia. [Florence: 

Societas Colubris (Compagnia del Drago), Feb. 1498] (P-293(1)); 

3. Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula, Defensio Hieronymi 

Savonarolae adversus Samuelem Cassinensem. [Florence: 

Bartolommeo di Libri, after 1 Apr. 1497] (P-295). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf (c.1825); bound for the 

Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on 

both covers. Size: 211 ¿ 144 ¿ 17 mm. Sizeof leaf: 206 ¿ 133 mm. 

Contents list, in a contemporary hand, on front endleaf, containing 

all items in order as bound at present. 

Provenance: Matteo Carosi (£. c.1600); signature on a1 r of item1. 

Anonymous sale (13 Jan. 1825), lot 507.Purchased for »6. 6. 0; see 



B-148 Benivieni, Domenico 

Dialogo della verita' della dottrina predicata da 

Savonarola [Italian]. 

a1 r Benivieni, Domenico: Dialogo della verita' della dottrina predicata 

da Savonarola [here called ‘frate Hieronymo da Ferrara’]. 

Incipit:‘[S]alute. Do[menico]: O Philalete, quanto ho io gia lungamente 

desiderato la presentia tua . . .’ 

[Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, after 8 May 1497]. 4 o . Postdates 

Johannes Nesius, Oraculum de novo saeculo, N-006, which is 

mentioned in the text; cf. CIBN. 


r 

A three-line woodcut initial ‘S’on a1 . 

GW 3846; HCR 2786; BMC VI 660; Pr 6241; CIBN B-228; 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Hieronymus Savonarola, Expositio orationis dominicae 

[Italian]. Expositione del pater noster. Florence: Antonio di 

Bartolommeo Miscomini, 1494 (S-086); 

2. Hieronymus Savonarola, Expositio in septem gradus 

Bonaventurae, with Italian trans. by Filippo Cioni. [Florence: 

Bartolommeo di Libri, not before Feb. 1497/8] (S-083); 

3. Hieronymus Savonarola, Sermonefatto ai suoi frati nella vigilia 

di Natale. [Florence: Gian Stephano di Carlo da Pavia, c.1505?] 

(S-096A); 

4. Hieronymus Savonarola, Epistola contra sententiam excommunicationis, 

with Italian trans. by Filippo Cioni. [Florence: 

Johannes Petri, after 19 June 1497] (S-075). 

Binding: Modern quarter calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. 


‘Simulato’on a6 v deleted in black ink. 

Provenance: Edward Henry Charles James Fox-Strangways, 7th 

Earl of Ilchester (1905^1964); sale, lot 107. Purchased at the 

Ilchester sale in 1963; see BLR 7,4 (1964), 221. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. I9.7(5). 

B-149 Benivieni, Domenico 

Epistola responsiva alle calumnie contro Savonarola 

[Italian]. 

r 

a1 Benivieni, Domenico: Epistola responsiva alle calumnie contro 

Savonarola, [addressed to a friend.] Incipit:‘[P]erche essendomi io 

gia per una mia apologia e probatione della doctrina et prophetie 

. . .’ 

[Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani, 1497]. 4 o . GWassigns this edition to 

Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri.

410 bentivoglio, antonio galeazzo 

[b-149^b-153 


A four-line woodcut initial on a1 r . 

GW 3847; HCR 2785; Go¡ B-325; BMC VI 686; Pr 6384; Sheppard 

5255. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century brown cloth; bound for the Bodleian 


Provenance: The British Museum, [18]67(?); date of accession on 

a8 v : ‘6 JU 67’; duplicate stamp on a1 r and a8 v . Transferred to the 

Bodleian in Oct. 1913; see ‘List of Duplicate Incunabula’ 

(Library Records c. 1054), no. 24. 


B-150 Benivieni, Girolamo 

Canzone e sonetti dell’amore e della bellezza divina, con 

commento [Italian]. 


[*2 r ] ‘Tauola delle canzone et sonetti’. 

[*3 r ] ‘Emendatione d’alcuni errori piu notabili’. 

v 

[* 4 ] Benivieni, Girolamo: [Introductory letter addressed to] 

Johannes Franciscus Picus de Mirandula. Incipit: ‘[A]llo illustre 

principe Giouanfrancesco Pico Mirandulano, Hieronymo 

Benivieni salutem. Hanno ultimamente gli honestituoi moniti. . .’ 

a1 r Benivieni, Girolamo: ‘Proemio’. Incipit: ‘[H]auendo io gia sono 

piu anni infra eprimi sudori de la mia giouentu alcuni uersi raccolti 

. . .’ 

a3 r Benivieni, Girolamo: ‘Commento’. Incipit: ‘Le dolce rime etc. 

[P]oi che cos|' piace ad alcuni dalla optima uolunta . . .’ 

r 

a7 ‘Canzone e sonetti’.‘[L]e dolce rime e gli amorosi uersi > Che di 

occulto uenen mio cor gran tempo’. 

a7 r Benivieni, Girolamo: Commento. Incipit: ‘[V]ano e certo alla 

uera recti¢catione della anima . . .’ 

refs. The commentary surrounds and follows each poem. 

r1 r Benivieni, Girolamo: ‘Deploratoria’.‘[I]te stanchi miei uersi, ite 

dolente > Rime mie, inculte a ricercar del porto’. 

v 

r5 Benivieni, Girolamo: [Letter addressed to] Niccolo' da 

Correggio. Incipit:‘[I]nhumano e' certamente e da ogni bene composto 

iudicio alieno excellentissimo signore denegare . . .’ 

v 

r6 ‘Argumento’. Incipit:‘[P]ascea amor l’alma in el diuin suo obiecto 

> Amor quel che ogni ben cerca e disia . . .’ 

r6 v Benivieni, Girolamo: ‘Amore’.‘[G]ia lieta al nuouo ciel la bella 

Aurora > Dal balcon d’oriente si monstraua’. 

Florence: Antonio Tubini, Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, 

Venetus and Andrea Ghirlandi, [7 or 8] Sept. 1500. Folio. Some 

copies are dated 8 Sept. 1500; see GW. 

collation: [* 4 ] a^n 8 o 6 oo 10 p 8 q 10 r s 6 . 

GW 3850 (+ var. dated 8 Sept.1500); H *2788; Go¡ B-328; BMC VI 

693; Pr 6424; BSB-Ink B-279; CIBN B-230; Roberto Ridol¢, 

‘Girolamo Benivieni e una sconosciuta revisione del suo 

Canzoniere’, Biblio¢lia, 66 (1964), 213^34; Sack, Freiburg, 542; 


COPY 

Binding: Gold-tooled English red morocco, with gilt-edged 

leaves; bound by C[harles] Hering; label inside the front endleaf. 


Occasional manuscript corrections in black ink. 

Provenance: John Hunter (eighteenth/nineteenth century); 

anonymous sale, 2 Feb. 1813, purchased by Heber for »7. 7. 0; 

Heber’s note on front endleaf. Richard Heber (1773^1833); see 

Catalogue, 9 (1836), lot 445, sold for »3. 13. 6. Purchased for 



B-151 Bentivoglio, Antonio Galeazzo 

Oratio ad AlexandrumVI nomine Bononiensium habita. 

[a1 v ] Salazar, Ferdinandus de: [Letter addressed to] Johannes de 

Sala. Incipit: ‘Orationem, quam nuper luculentissimam habuit 

ad Ponti¢cem Maximum Reipublicae Bononiensis nomine 

Antonius Galeacius Prothonotarius Bentiuolus . . .’ 

[a2 r ] Bentivoglio, Antonio Galeazzo: Oratio ad Alexandrum VI 

nomine Bononiensium habita. Incipit: ‘Gaudio maximo, beatissime 

pater, maximaque laetitia a¡ecti sunt Bononienses . . .’ 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, not before Sept. 1492]. 4 o . 


GW 3852; HC 2791; Go¡ B-330; BMC XII 8; Pr 3705; Oates1484^5; 


COPY 






[a1 v ] Salazar, Ferdinandus de: [Letter addressed to] Johannes de 


ad Ponti¢cem Maximum Reipublice Bononiensis nomine 

Antonius Galeacius Prothonotarius Bentiuolus . . .’ 

r 

[a2 ] Bentivoglio, Antonio Galeazzo: Oratio ad Alexandrum VI 


pater, maximaque letitia afecti(!) sunt Bononienses . . .’ 


[Rome: Stephan Plannck, not before Sept. 1492]. 4 o . 



B-231; Oates 1483; Sheppard 2963. 

COPY 

Boxed with A-241; see there for details of binding and provenance. 


Manuscript title in an early hand on [a 1 r ]. 




r 

[a1 ] Salazar, Ferdinandus de: [Letter addressed to] Johannes de 


ad Ponti¢cem Maximum Reipublice Bononiensis nomine 

Antonius Galeatius Prothonotarius Bentiuolus . . .’ 

[a1 v ] Bentivoglio, Antonio Galeazzo: Oratio ad Alexandrum VI 


pater, maximaque l�titia a¡ecti sunt Bononienses . . .’ 


[Rome: Eucharius Silber, not before Sept. 1492]. 4 o . 


GW 3854; H *2790; Go¡ B-332; BMC IV 114; Pr 3864; BSB-Ink 

B-288; CIBN B-233; Sack, Freiburg, 543; Sheppard 3055^6.

-153^b-156] berchorius, petrus 

411 

FIRST COPY 

Boxed with A-241; see there for details of binding and provenance. 


Early manuscript pagination: 13^16. 


SECOND COPY 

Binding: Cloth. Size: 205 ¿ 143 ¿ 9 mm. Size of leaf: 191 ¿ 

130 mm. 

Various pencil entries on [a1 r ]. 

Provenance: Purchased for ‘Fl. 3’, from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 

Catalogue 3 (1885), no. 24; see Library Bills (1885), no. 210. 


B-154 Berberius, Johannes 

Viatorium utriusque iuris. 

a2 r [Note on the contents.] Incipit: ‘Hoc opusculum iuris viatorium 

merito intitulatum . . .’ 

r 

a2 ‘Prime . . . partis . . . rubrices’. 

a3 r Berberius, Johannes: Viatorium utriusque iuris. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[V]ias suas dominus demonstret michi et semitas suas edoceat 

me pater luminum a quo omne donum de sursum’’. Jacobi .i. 

capi[tulo] [Iac 1,17] . . .’ 

refs. See Schulte II 380. 

[Strasbourg: Johann Pru« ss, 1493]. 8 o . 

collation: a^z h m AÊ 8 F 10 . 


B-290; Sack, Freiburg, 544^5; Sheppard 430. 

COPY 

Gatheringb misbound in the order b1, 4, 3, 2, 7, 6, 5, 8. On F10 rb bearer 

type, inked by mistake, comprising lines 1^17 of E 1 v ; see GW 

Anm. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards, four bosses on each cover lost; remains of a 

metal clasp. Title-label at the head of the upper cover. On both 

covers triple ¢llets form a double frame; the inner frame with 

mitred corners. In the central compartments a plait-work roll; 

on the upper cover in the inner frame a round £ower stamp; in 

the outer frame a roll of a classical design; on the spine, a 

lozenge-shaped stamp. Size: 160 ¿ 105 ¿ 40 mm. Size of 

leaf: 150 ¿ 98 mm. 

Author name on title-page, folio references in table of contents, 

and pagination on rectos only supplied by an eighteenth-century 

hand. 

Provenance: Tegernsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Quirinus; on 

back pastedown ‘Attinet Tegernsee’, on a2 r : ‘Monasterij 

Tegernseensis’ in an eighteenth-century hand. Duplicate from 

the Royal Library, Munich; on front pastedown, a pencil note: 

‘Non est Dupl. Conf. in ¢ne’ crossed out and ‘Dupl’ written 

beneath; old shelfmark ‘Inc. 284’. Acquired between 1847 and 

c.1892, possibly in 1850; not found in Catalogus (1843) with 

Appendix. 


B-155 Berchorius, Petrus 

Liber Bibliae moralis. 

[a1 r ] [Berchorius, Petrus]: Liber Bibliae moralis. [Also known as 

Reductorium morale, lib. XVI.] Incipit: ‘[C]um iam per opacam 

nature siluam £ores proprietatum lecturus percurrerim . . .’ 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum IV 238^41 no. 6426, 

J. Engels, ‘Berchoriana. Notice bibliographique sur Pierre 

Bersuire, supplement au Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’, 

Vivarium, 2 (1964), 62^124, at 63, and Marie-He¤ le' neTesnie' re,‘Le 

Reductorium morale de Pierre Bersuire’, in L’enciclopedismo medievale, 

ed. Michelangelo Picone (Ravenna, 1994), 229^49, at 247^ 

9. 

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 9 Apr. 1474. Folio. 

collation: [a^f 10 g 8 h 8+1 i 10+1 k^p 10 q r 8 s^z 10 A^C 10 D 12 ]. 

Woodcut half-border on [a1 r ]; woodcut initials. 


B-291; CIBN B-235; Sack, Freiburg, 547; Sheppard 1793; 

Wegener, Zainer, 36. 

COPY 

On [D 12 r ] partly inked bearer type. 



A few sixteenth-century marginal notes. 

Provenance: Purchased for »0.14. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 

10. 




r 

[a2 ] ‘Tabula specialis in librum sequentem moralis reductorii byblie 

secundum ordinem alphabeti’. 

[c10 v ] [First colophon.] 

v 

[c10 ] [Verse.] ‘Libri autor claret, porro quis recta registra > Addit ei, 

scire haud opus est. Deus hunc beet ora’; 2 hexameters. 

[d1 r ] ‘Registrum moralizacionum biblie secundum ordinem capitulorum’. 

[e1 r ] Berchorius, Petrus: [Liber Bibliae moralis. Also known as 




[L9 v ] [Second colophon.] 

[Strasbourg]: C.W., 7 Sept. 1474. Folio.The‘Tabula’ is dated 7 Oct. 

1474. The printer has been identi¢ed tentatively as Clas Wencker 

or Conrad Wolfach. 

collation: [a^c 10 d^f 8 g 10 h 12 i k 8 l 10 m n 8 o 6 p q 10 r 6 s 10 t 8 u 12 x 8 y 10 

z A^C 8 D E 10 F 6 G 10 H 8 I^L 10 ]. 


CIBN B-236; Oates 140; Sack, Freiburg, 548; Sheppard 281. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [L10]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt tendril roll on 

spine; worn. Size: 384 ¿ 275 ¿ 77 mm. Sizeofleaf: 373 ¿ 267 mm. 

Leaf [L9 v ] formerly used as back pastedown. 



Provenance: Thomas Rodd; ‘Rodd Oct. 1819 »1. 1. 0’, note by 

Heber, and purchased by him. Richard Heber (1773^1833); 

stamp; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 717, sold for »2. 6. 0. J. T. 

Hand (£. 1834^1837), 1835; signature on endleaf; sale (1837), lot 

170; purchased at his sale for »0. 5. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1837), 4. 


412 berengarius de landora 

[b-157^b-159 



[a2 r ] Berchorius, Petrus: [Liber Bibliae moralis. Also known as 




[Cologne]: Bartholomaeus de Unkel, 17 Mar. 1477. Folio. 

collation: [a^y 10 z 8 A B 10 C 12 D^S 10 T 6 V 10 ]. 


B-293; CIBN B-237; Hillard 321; Oates 626; Sheppard 861, 862; 


FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [V10]. 

The text of [D9] and [D10] has changed places. Instructions to the 

reader by way of correction are printed at the end of the text on 

[D 8 v ], [D9 v ], and [D10 v ]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf. Size: 302 ¿ 220 ¿ 


Early manuscript signatures. 



Provenance: Purchased for »1. 1. 0: see Library Bills (1829^32), 

no. 243, ‘Books purchased by the Librarian’, item 6, and Books 




SECOND COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [V 10]. 

The text of [D 9] and [D 10] has changed places. Instructions to the 

reader by way of correction are printed at the end of the text on 

[D8 v ], [D9 v ], and [D10 v ]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century brown calf. Size: 298 ¿ 218 ¿ 


Occasional chapter numbers and signatures supplied in an early 

hand. 

On [a2 r ] a six-line initial is supplied in blue with reserved white 

decoration; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 


Provenance: Lie' ge, Augustinian Canons, Sancta Crux; on [a2 r ]: 

‘Liber fratrum sancte Crucis conuentus Leodiensis’. Francis 

Douce (1757^1834); this book does not contain a book-plate. 




Repertorium morale (ed. Johannes Beckenhub). 

a1 r Beckenhub, Johannes: [Letter addressed to the reader.] Incipit: 

‘Etsi adolescentiam studio litterarum, viriles annos correcture 

impressorum deuouerim . . .’ 

refs. Dated Nuremberg, 4 Feb. 1489. 

a 1 r ‘Dictionarii ad lectorem epygramma’. ‘Si variis ornata libris 

penetralia curas > More tuo facias illa patere mihi’; 26 elegiac distichs. 

a2 r Berchorius, Petrus: Repertorium morale.‘Prologus’. Edited by 

Johannes Beckenhub. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘A. a. domine deus, ecce nescio 

loqui, quia puer ego sum.’’ Sicut dicit Bernhardus in quodam sermone 

. . .’ 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 6427 and J. Engels, 

‘Berchoriana. Notice bibliographique sur Pierre Bersuire, supplement 

au Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’, Vivarium, 2 (1964), 

62^124, at 64. 

a3 r Berchorius, Petrus: Repertorium morale. ‘Prima pars 

Dictionarii’. Edited by Johannes Beckenhub. Incipit: ‘In primis 

notare possumus, quod ista dictio A tripliciter potest sumi . . .’ 

[Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 4 Feb. 1489. Folio. 

collation: a 8 b^z aa^zz hh 6 mm t‹ t‹ 8 . Leaf a2 is signed a. 

GW 3866; HC *2798 = 2801; Go¡ B-340; Pr 2066; BSB-Ink B-294; 

CIBN B-239; Hillard 322; Rhodes 317; Sack, Freiburg, 549; 


COPY 

Wanting q4 and the blank leaf t‹ t‹ 8. 

Volume 1 only. 

Binding: Contemporary German (Nuremberg, Kyri� workshop 

no. 113) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, one boss and four 

corner-pieces on each cover lost; two clasps lost; rebacked with a 

gold-tooled spine in the eighteenth century; worn. Letter-stamping 

at the head of the upper cover. On both covers triple ¢llets 

form a frame. On the upper cover the inner rectangle is ¢lled 

with merrythoughts and £eurons; the frame is decorated with a 

rosette and a foliate sta¡ on three sides, with a lozenge-shaped 

£eur-de-lis stamp at the head. On the lower cover the inner rectangle 

is divided by ¢llets into four triangular compartments; in 

the compartments the round rosette stamp; in the frame a 

lozenge-shaped stamp with a gri⁄n. For the stamps see Kyri� 

pl. 227, nos 7, 8, 10. Size: 349 ¿ 240 ¿ 80 mm. Size of leaf: 340 ¿ 

228 mm. 

Old shelfmark ‘C.15’. On t‹ t‹ 7 v :‘Amor meus cruci¢xus est. Burelli’. 

On [a 2 r ] and [a3 r ] twenty one-line initials are supplied in azure on 

a burnished gold ground, the gilt with punch-dotting, the azure 

initials with foliate scrolling in white and dark blue, within segmented 

frames of red and pale green. Other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red and occasionally blue; red 


Provenance: Laurentius Burellus (�1502), Bishop of Sisteron 

(1499^1502); on [a 1 r ]: ‘Hos dictionarii libros 3 es emi anno salutis 

1489 o [corrected from 1499], quos patribus et fratribus meis carmelitis 

in meorum delictorum expiationem dedi. Oretur, queso, 

pro me et pro hiis, quorum elemosinis ista volumina et plurima 

alia [michi crossed out] adeptus [e crossed out] sum conuentui 

nostro diuionensi. Burelli’. Dijon, Burgundy, Carmelites; on 

[a 2 r ] (a1 r ) ‘Carmel. Diuion.’ Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial 

book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. 


B-159 Berengarius de Landora 

Lumen animae (ed. Matthias Farinator). 

[A2 r ] ‘Tabula’. [Edited by Matthias Farinator.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uamuis 

Athenarum Grecorumque multiplicata volumina miris odoriferisque 

fragrantia . . .’ 

[a2 r ] [Berengarius de Landora pseudo-; Gotfridus Vorowiensis]: 

Lumen animae. [Version B.] ‘Prologus’. [Edited by Matthias 

Farinator.] Incipit: ‘[S]ummi mihi ponti¢cis fauente gratia eius 

pariter ad instinctum hunc decreui . . .’ 

refs. Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, ‘The Texts called 

Lumen Animae’, Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 41 (1971), 5^ 

113, at 74^8. A substantially altered recension of the Lumen

-159^b-161] berlinghieri, francesco 

413 

Animae A (by Berengarius de Landora), compiled by Gottfried of 

Vorau in 1332; on authorship see Kaeppeli I 194 no. 566, Rouse 

and Rouse, 25^41 and 50^2 (this edition) and VLV 1050^4. 


Lumen animae. [Version B. Edited by Matthias Farinator.] 

Incipit: ‘[P]linius libro de mirabilibus mundi hoc eciam inquit . . .’ 

[x7 v ] ‘Tabula’. [Edited by Matthias Farinator.] 

v 

[x9 ] [Berengarius de Landora pseudo-; Gotfridus Vorowiensis]: 

Lumen animae. [Version B.] ‘Secunda pars’. [Edited by Matthias 

Farinator.] Incipit: ‘[A]thanasius in epistola ad Altisiodorum: 

‘‘Tunc in dei veraciter accendi poteris caritate . . .’ 

[Augsburg]: Anton Sorg, 3 Sept. 1477. Folio. 

collation: [AÊ 10 F 8 a^f 10 g 8 h^z aa 10 bb 8 cc^hh 10 ii 6 ]. 

H *10329; Go¡ L-393; BMC II 344; Pr1650; Hillard1261; Sheppard 

1238. 

COPY 

The blank leaf [a1] has been torn away. 

On [A1 v ] a blind impression of seventeen lines of [cc6 r ], on [F8 v ] 

that of four lines of [D 5 v ], on [C1 v ] that of three lines of [D6 v ], and 

on [ii6 r ] that of seven lines of [ii3 r ], a few words inked. 

Binding: Contemporary German (Augsburg) (called U¡enheim, 

Hauptwerkstatt by Schwenke^Schunke^Rabenau 259, but the 

tools are the same as those ascribed to the Augsburg ‘Head-overheels 

Binder’ by David Rogers,‘A Glimpse into Gu« nther Zainer’s 

Workshop at Augsburg’, Buch und Text im15. Jahrhundert/Books 

and Text in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Lotte Hellinga and Helmar 

Ha« rtel,Wolfenbu« ttler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, 2 

(1981), 145^63, pls IV^V); blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, 

two clasps lost; rebacked; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library 

on both covers. On both covers ¢llets form a triple frame; the 

inner frame with mitred corners. In the central compartment, 

two di¡erent lozenge-shaped stamps: a £eur-de-lis and an ‘m’ 

(Rogers no.16); in the inner frame, four round evangelists’stamps 

(Schwenke^Schunke 99 no. 51; Rogers 19^22), a lozenge-shaped 

head of Christ (Schwenke^Schunke 83 no.10; Rogers no. 8), and a 

lozenge-shaped pomegranate (Schwenke^Schunke 121 no. 136; 

Rogers no. 9); in the middle frame, a square stamp with an angel 

(Schwenke^Schunke 96 no. 24; Rogers nos 1^4); in the outer 

frame, a ‘Maria hilf’-scroll (not Rogers no. 5). Size: 300 ¿ 223 ¿ 




Provenance: Nathaniel Crynes (1686^1745); on [A1 r ]: ‘D. D. N. 

Crynes’. Bequeathed in 1745. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: L 3.4 Jur.; Auct. 1Q 2.4. 


B-160 Berengarius de Landora 

Lumen animae (ed. Matthias Farinator). 

[A 2 r ] ‘Tabula’. [Edited by Matthias Farinator.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uamuis 

Athenarum Grecorumque multiplicata volumina miris odoriferisque 

fragrantia . . .’ 



Lumen animae. [Version B.] ‘Prologus’. [Edited by Matthias 

Farinator.] Incipit: ‘[S]ummi mihi ponti¢cis fauente gratia eius 

pariter ad instinctum hunc decreui . . .’ 


[a2 v ] [Berengarius de Landora pseudo-; Gotfridus Vorowiensis]: 

Lumen animae. [Version B. Edited by Matthias Farinator.] 

Incipit: ‘[P]linius libro de mirabilibus mundi hoc etiam inquit . . .’ 

r 

[x4 ] ‘Tabula’. [Edited by Matthias Farinator.] 

[x6 r ] [Berengarius de Landora pseudo-; Gotfridus Vorowiensis]: 

Lumen animae. [Version B.] ‘Secunda pars’. [Edited by Matthias 

Farinator.] Incipit: ‘[A]thanasius in epistola ad Altisiodorum: 

‘‘Tunc in dei veraciter accendi poteris charitate� . . .’ 

[Strasbourg: Printer of the 1481 ‘Legenda Aurea’], 22 Mar. 1482. 

Folio. 

collation: [A^C 8 D 10 a^m 8 n 6 o^z aa^¡ 8 gg 10 ]. 

HC *10333; Go¡ L-396; BMC I 97; Pr 413; Hillard 1263; Oates 172^ 

3; Rhodes 1127; Sack, Freiburg, 2215; Sheppard 339. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [A1] and [gg10]. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century English gold-tooled calf, shortly 

before 25 June 1600; bound for the Bodleian Library; two clasps 

lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp on the upper 

cover. Stamped on the upper cover with the arms, on the lower 

cover with the crest, of George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon. The 

gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 295 ¿ 


Provenance: Donated by George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon 

(1547^1603); on [A2 r ]: ‘R’ associated with books donated by 

Carey; see Benefactors’ Register I 8; not found in James, 

Catalogus (1605); see James, Catalogus (1620), 303; Jensen, 

‘Benefactors’ Register’, no. 15. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: L 1. 10 Th.; M 5. 3 Th. (Catalogus 

(1620)). 


SECOND COPY 

Not in Sheppard. 

Wanting leaves [x 6^8], gatherings [y], [z], and [aa^gg], and the 

blank leaf [A1]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper over pasteboards. 

Paper label at the head of the spine, giving the title of the work 

and the name of the editor. Size: 289 ¿ 213 ¿ 40 mm. Size of 

leaf: 281 ¿ 200 mm. 

Early marginal annotations in a German hand, consisting of 

some comments on the text, also ‘nota’ marks and extraction of 

key words. Notesby Lawn on the texton the recto ofthe front endleaf, 

and, on a loose sheet of paper, folio references. 

Initials are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Dr Brian Lawn (1905^2001); book-plate; catalogue, 

p. 68. Bequeathed in 2001. 

shelfmark: Lawn d.7. 

B-161 Berlinghieri, Francesco 

Geographia [Italian and Latin]. 

[*1 v ] [Note on contents.] 

[* 2 r ] [Table of contents.] ‘In quale libro et in quale capitolo et in quale 

tabula qualunque regione et qualunque isola maggiore posta sia’. 

[* 2 v ] Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Dedicated to Federico 

da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.] ‘[C]onsiderando meco, qual uia 

fusse, > per qual potessi ognhuomo al ciel redire, > la ragion questa 

innanzi a glocchi adduxe’; 31strophes of 3 verses each and a single 

verse. On the previous plan to dedicate the work to Muhammed 

II, see Firenze e la scoperta dell’America: Umanesimo e geogra¢a

414 bernardinus senensis 

[b-161^b-163 

nel ’400 Fiorentino, ed. Sebastiano Gentile (Florence, 1992), no. 

112. 

r 

aa1 Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Prologue. Dedicated 

to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. ‘[G]ia l’auriga di 

Titano adorno el sagiptario.’ 

v 

aa1 Ficinus, Marsilius: ‘Apologus ad Federicum Urbini ducem’. 

Incipit:‘[Q]uem Iuppiter omnipotens orbis totius dominus ad terreni 

orbis imperium procreauit . . .’ 

refs. See Kristeller, Supplementum Ficinianum I, p. xliii, no.V17; 

this edn is listed in P. O. Kristeller, Marsilio Ficino and His Work 

after 500 Years (Florence,1987),121; Marsilio Ficino, Lettere, ed. 

Sebastiano Gentile, I (Florence, 1990), p. clxxv. 

r 

aa2 Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Books I and II. 

Dedicated to] Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. 

‘[G]eographia e della parte intera.’ 

r 

dd4 Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia.‘Distantie eleuationi de 

siti soli posti nelle tabule’. [Dedicated to] Federico da 

Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. [Eight maps.] 

r 

ee1 Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book III. Dedicated to] 

Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. 

hh5 r [Table of distances. Six maps.] 

a1 r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book IV. Dedicated to] 


b7 r [Table of distances. Four maps.] 

b10 r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book V. Dedicated to] 


[�1 r ] [Table of distances. Five maps.] 

e1 r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book VI. Dedicated to] 


[**1 r ] [Table of distances. Five maps.] 

f1 r Berlinghieri, Francesco: Geographia. [Book VII. Dedicated to] 


r 

f8 [Table of distances.Three maps.] 

[Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, before Sept. 1482]. 

Folio. In two issues, the second of which has an added ¢nal leaf 

with a register and a colophon, apparently in sixteenth-century 

types (Go¡). 

collation: [* 2 ] aa 10 bb^dd 8 ee 6 ¡ gg 8 hh 6 ii 4 a 6 b 10 c d 8 [� 4 ] e 8 [** 4 ] 

f 10 . Gathering f is misnumbered. 

31 copper-engraved maps; see B. Maracchi Biagiarelli, ‘Niccolo' 

Tedesco e le carte della geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri 

autore-editore’, in Studi o¡erti a Roberto Ridol¢, ed. B. B. 

Maracchi and D. Rhodes (Florence, 1973), 377^97. 

GW 3870; H *2825 (2nd issue, with mention ofthe ¢rst); Go¡ B-342; 

BMC VI 629 (both); Pr 6121; BSB-Ink B-296; CIBN B-241; 

Campbell, Maps, 124^5 and 133^5, nos 148^78; Eames 66500 

(1st), 66501 (2nd); Hillard 323; Rhodes 319; Sander 927; 

Sheppard 5063. Facsimile: Geographia. Florence 1482, ed. R. A. 

Skelton,Theatrum OrbisTerrarum III/4 (Amsterdam, 1966). 

COPY 

Wanting leaf f 10 (blank in some copies); the maps are backed. 

First stage as GW, not as GW (Anm.). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century German brown russia, the spine 

gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns, the cover with the arms of 

Carl Theodor, Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria, the two 

shields with the arms of Bavaria, Ju« lich, Cleves, Berg, Mo« rs, 

Bergen-op-Zoom, Veldenz, Mark, and Ravensberg: see 

Siebmacher I/1, 16 pl. 20; see also Byw. A 3.8 and Auct. 5Q 

inf. 2.1^4 (B-320(1)). Size: 445 ¿ 298 ¿ 65 mm. Size of 

leaf: 427 ¿ 278 mm. 

On f 9 v a colophon supplied in manuscript. Occasional manuscript 

notes. 

Provenance: Angelo Maria Bandini (1726^1803); given by him to 

Carl Theodor, Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria (1724^ 

1799); inscription on [* 1 r ]: ‘Potentissimo et serenissimo principi 

CaroloTheodoro, comiti et electori Palatino, veterum monumentorum 

indagatori liberalissimo, Francisci Berlingherii geographiam 

per Nicolaum Alemannum Florentiae impressam anno 

circiter MCCCCLXXX, in qua prima chalcographiae specimina 

prodierunt, in ipsa Italia rarissimam, Angelus Mar[ia] Bandinius 

I.V. D., vt tanto principi studiorumque omnium fautori eximio 

quod erat in votis rem faciat gratissimam, devotus numini maiestatique 

eius D. D. D.’. Anonymous sale (27 May 1840), lot 132. 



B-162 Bernardinus de Rechaneto 

Indulgentia, 1489. 

Printed side Bernardinus de Rechaneto: [Indulgence for the bene¢t 

of the members of the Confraternity of SS. Francis and Anthony 

of Padua at Paris, contributing to the convent’s college for poor 

students.] 

refs. Codex documentorum sacratissimarum indulgentiarum 

Neerlandicarum, ed. Paul Fredericq, Rijks Geschiedkundige 

Publicatie« n, Kleine Serie, 21 (The Hague, 1922), 389^90, no. 256. 

[Gouda: Printer of Godevaert van Boloen (Collaciebroeders?), 

1489]. Broadside. 

Size of type area: 198 ¿ 136 mm.Woodcut initial ‘U’. 

GW 3875; C 954 = 5502; BMC IX 111; Pr 8941; Campbell^ 

Kronenberg I 262a = Campbell ; E 439; HPT II 422; ILC 

373; Sheppard 6913. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound in a modern guard-book, assembled in its present form in 

1954. Size of leaf: 168 ¿ 225 mm. 

Printed on parchment. From the damage to the verso, it seems 

that the leaf was once used as a pastedown. 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 4Q 1.21(2). 

shelfmark: Arch. B b.5(21). 

SECOND COPY 

Printed on parchment. From the slight damage to the recto and 

from the holes in the outer margin, it seems likely that this leaf 

was once used as a pastedown. 

Binding: Modern cloth wallet. Size of leaf: 167 ¿ 208 mm. 

Provenance: Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); book-plate; purchased 

from McLeish in 1955 for »0. 18. 0. Presented in 1978 by 

John Ehrman. 

shelfmark: Broxb. 95.9. 

B-163 Bernardinus Senensis 

Della confessione [Italian]. 

2 r Bernardinus Senensis: [Introduction.] 

refs. Bernardinus, Operette volgari integralmente, ed. D. Pacetti 

(Florence, 1938), 51^4. 

2 v Bernardinus Senensis: Della confessione.

-163^b-165] bernardinus senensis 

415 

refs. Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. Pacetti, 55^134. See De 

Sancti Bernardini Senensis operibus: ratio criticae editionis, ed. 

D. Pacetti (Florence, 1947), 116^18. 

7 v [Durazinus], Michael; de Emporio: Sermone della regolata 

lingua. Incipit: ‘[T]ra li altri me occorre questo dicto, ‘‘labia eius 

stillantia(!) mirram primam’’, Cant.i. [Ct 5,13] Notare si debba 

che l’amore driza la lingua e insegna a parlare . . .’ 

2 r [Durazinus], Michael: Sermone di mercatanzia spirituale. 

Incipit: ‘‘‘[O]pera enim illorum sequntur(!) illos’’, Apocalipsis. 

[Apc14,13] Secundo el precepto di Iesu Christo ciascuno exercitar 

si debbe secundo el talento di tenuto . . .’ 

3 v [Durazinus], Michael: ‘Sermon del Pater noster’. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[P]ater noster qui es in celis’’, Mat. sexto capitulo. [Mt 6,9] La 

presente oratione e' excellentissima fra tutte le altre e digna, 

perche e' facta da Christo . . .’ 

r 

6 ‘Cominciamento di Confessione Sacramentale’. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[I]n nomine patris et ¢lii et spiritus sancti amen. Sit nomen 

domini benedictum, benedicite pater’’. El sacerdote rispondera, 

‘‘Dominus sit in corde tuo et in labiis tuis, vt digne et competenter 

annuncties(!) peccata tua� . . .’ 

6 v [Durazinus], Michael: ‘Sermone di preparatione a la communione’. 

Incipit: ‘‘‘[M]ortui enim estis et uita vestra abscondita 

est cum Christo deo’’, Colo. tertio capitulo [Col 3,3]. Morti in verita' 

sete e la vostra vita e' nascosta con Christo . . . 

3 r Tommasuccio [da Foligno]: Visione della festa d’Ognissanti. 

Incipit:‘[T]enendo una ¢ata il beatoTomasuzoo inuerso la cita' de 

Nocea . . .’ 

[Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, c.1494]. 4 o . 

collation: 8 l 4 . The gatherings are not 

signed, but the ¢rst half of each gathering is marked, at the head 

of the page, with letters in alphabetical order. 

Three woodcuts, also woodcut initials. 

GW 3879; H 2838 = 2927; R 831; BMC V 378; Pr 5670; Essling 730; 

Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. Pacetti, 117; Sander 942; 


COPY 


leaf: 206 ¿ 150 mm. 





De contractibus et usuris. 

[a2 r ] ‘Tabula capitulorum’. 

[b1 r ] Bernardinus Senensis: De contractibus et usuris [sermons 32^ 

45 of ‘De evangelio aeterno’]. 

refs. Bernardinus Senensis, Opera omnia, I- (Florence, 1950^ ), 

IV, pp. li^lii, 117^416. See Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. 

Pacetti, 18^19, 23^5; see also Raymond de Roover, San 

Bernardino of Siena and Sant’Antonino of Florence: The Two 

Great Economic Thinkers of the Middle Ages, Kress Library of 

Business and Economics publication, 19 (Boston, 1967), passim. 


not after 1474]. Folio. 

collation: [a 8 b^d 10 e^k 8.10 l 12 m 8 n^q 8.10 r 8 s 6 t 8 ]. Collation as 

GW. 


Ohly, ‘Reyser’, 10; Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. Pacetti, 19; 

Rhodes 320; Sack, Freiburg, 551; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Late ¢fteenth-century German blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards; bound for the Dominicans in Wroc�aw, 

Schwenke^Schunke^Rabenau 50. Clasps, decorated with £oral 

ornament, hinged to lower board. Formerly chained: staplemark 

of hasp in head of the lower cover. On both covers triple ¢llets 

form an outer frame decorated with a repeated £oral stamp. 

The inner rectangle is divided into small triangular-shaped compartments 

by a fret, consisting of an interlocking saltire and 

lozenge, each formed of triple ¢llets; the fret is decorated with a 

repeated £oral stamp and a repeated foliate sta¡ stamp. The triangular 

compartments are decorated with a lozenge-shaped 

£oral ornament stamp, a small triangular pelican in piety stamp 

(Schwenke^Schunke 212, no. 76,Wroc�aw), and a robed and tonsured 

saint, Adalbertus, with book and sta¡ stamp (Schwenke^ 

Schunke 130, no. 20,Wroc�aw). On the lower cover only, there is a 

small rosette stamp at the intersections of the ¢llets forming the 

fret. The spine is decorated with the £oral stamp used in the 

frame. Size: 300 ¿ 215 ¿ 60 mm. Size of leaf: 292 ¿ 210 mm. 

Occasional early marginal notes. Inside the upper cover, is a note 

in black ink, in a ¢fteenth-centuryhand, providing references perhaps 

to Gallus, Malogranatum. On the front endleaf is a shorttext 

on nobility, in a ¢fteenth-century hand, with incipit: ‘ ‘‘Nobilitas 

est quedam de merito veniens laus parentum’’, Boecius libro 3 o 

prosa xx [from Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio, III 6,7; ed. 

Ludwig Bieler, CCSL 94 (Turnholt, 1984), 46] > Si igitur ¢lii 

nobiles censendi sunt, necesse est quod a parentum virtutibus 

non discedant . . .’ 

Initials at the beginning of each sermon are supplied in interlocked 

red and blue; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Wroc�aw, Silesia, Dominicans; book-label inside 

the upper cover. Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); book-plate; purchased 

from McLeish in 1938 for »9. 10. 0. Presented in 1978 by 

John Ehrman. 



Quadragesimale de christiana religione. 


a2 r Bernardinus Senensis: ‘Prohemium’. 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, I, 3^4. 

a2 v Bernardinus Senensis: Quadragesimale de christiana religione. 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, I, pp. xlix^li, 5^191, 204^531, II 

(Florence, 1950), 5^470. See Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. 

Pacetti, 3^15. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, ends ‘ . . . vulgari sermone 

reserabo vobis’; in the incunable edition, this is followed 

by: ‘Recurre ad legendam de impressione sacrorum stigmatum 

quam que dicit. Quam reuelare dignetur dominus noster Iesus 

Christus. Qui cum patre et spiritu sancto regnat triumphator gloriosus 

in seculorum secula. Amen’. 

H 1 r ‘Tabula sermonum’. 

H1 v ‘Conclusio totius operis’. 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, II 472. 

H 1 v Bernardinus Senensis [pseudo-; Johannes de Peckham 

Pseudo-; Guido de Marchia]: Disputatio inter mundum et

416 bernardinus senensis 

[b-165^b-167 

religionem. ‘O Christi vicarie monarcha terrarum, > Vir matris 

ecclesie £os patriarcharum’. 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, I 192^203. See Walther, Initia, 

12544 and Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 30300. Normally found after 

sermon 16.Walther ascribes to Peckham under the title ‘De monachis’, 

Chevalier to Guido; Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. 

Pacetti, 113 records attribution to both. 

[Lyons: Janon Carcain, c.1490]. 4 o . 

collation: a-z h m k A^G 8 H 4 . 

Type: 66 G, here with a twice crossed ‘P’ with a scrolled stem. 

GW 3883; C 955; Go¡ B-347; not in Pr; Bernardinus, Operette volgari, 

ed. Pacetti,113^14; Sheppard 6636. 

COPY 

Leaves repaired in gatherings a and H. 

Binding: Contemporary, perhaps Netherlandish, blind-tooled 

calf over pasteboards. Rebacked. Two holes for thongs on the 

outer edge of each cover. On both covers triple ¢llets form two 

concentric frames, the outer undecorated, the inner decorated 

with a circular rosette stamp and a lozenge-shaped doubleheaded 

eagle stamp. The inner rectangle is divided into lozengeshaped 

and triangular compartments, decorated with a whole or 

part of a lozenge-shaped foliate ornament stamp. David Rogers 

has noted, inside the upper cover, that the binding was repaired 

in 1956 by E. E. Wilmot. Size: 235 ¿ 175 ¿ 47 mm. Size of 

leaf: 230 ¿ 163 mm. 

Manuscript fragments lining the covers removed in 1956 and 

bound as Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. misc. c.18* (SC 47899), fols 

61^2. The paper leaves, repaired by Wilmot, are badly mutilated, 

and contain manuscript material in perhaps one hand, probably 

dating from the end of the ¢fteenth century. On fol. 61 v a text, 

entitled ‘Tenor vero cedule propositorum paprice > de qua ¡ertur, 

sequitur et est talis’, with incipit ‘Venerabilis domine o⁄cialis Led-e[ 

], > procurator et eo nomine Geurici [ ].’ 

Occasional marginal notes. Some words deleted or scratched out 

in the Disputatio inter mundum et religionem. 

Pagination in black ink. 

Provenance: George Bryghtman (¢fteenth/early sixteenth century); 

inscription on H 4 v : ‘Iste liber pertinet Georgio 

Bryghtman’. Henry Ma[ ]; possibly Henry Massey (b. 1698/9); 

see A-523; signature on a2 r , with end of surname destroyed by 

damage to the edge of the leaf. Purchased in 1956; see ‘Notable 

Accessions: Printed Books’, BLR 6,1 (1957), 391. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. F2.3. 


Sermo de gloriosaVirgine Maria. 

r 

[a1 ] Bernardinus Senensis: Sermo de gloriosaVirgine Maria [part 

of ‘Tractatus de Beata Virgine Maria’]. In this edition sermon 8 

only. 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, II, 371^97 [here as sermon 61of 

‘Quadragesimale’]. See Bernardinus, Operettevolgari, ed. Pacetti, 

31^4. 

[Cologne: Ulrich Zell, before 10 Oct. 1470]. 4 o . The copy in 

Besanc� on, Bibliothe' que Municipale has a purchase note date of 

10 Oct. 1470. 

collation: [a^c 8 d 2 ]. 

GW 3884; HC 2833; Go¡ B-348; BMC I 183; Pr 828; Bernardinus, 

Operette volgari, ed. Pacetti, 32; Oates 313^14; not in Sheppard; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [d2]. 

Binding: Twentieth-century half calf. Size: 216 ¿ 153 ¿ 9 mm. 



marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Hubert Greville Palmer (nineteenth century); 

armorial book-plate. Christopher A.Webb (£. 1942^1973). Given 

by Webb; see Friends of the National Libraries, Report (1975), 5. 



Sermones de evangelio aeterno. 


r 

[* 2 ] ‘Tabula totius operis’. 

[*3 v ] ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 

a2 r Bernardinus Senensis: [Prologue.] 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, III (Florence, 1956), 3^4. 

a2 r Bernardinus Senensis: Sermones de evangelio aeterno. [Also 

known as Sermones de caritate.] 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia, III, LII^LVI 4^459, IV 

(Florence, 1956), 5^606, V (Florence, 1956), 5^344. See 

Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. Pacetti, 15^27. Sermons in 

incunable edition begin with a ‘sermo proemialis’, and are then 

numbered I^LXVI; in the modern critical edition, the ‘sermo 

proemialis’ is numbered I, with the last sermon as LXV. 

[Basel: Johann Amerbach, c.1489]. Folio. See 

Amerbachkorrespondenz, I 43, for the suggestion that the date of 

printing may not have been before1491. 

collation: [*] 8 [�] 6 a^y 8.6 z aaîi 8 ll^xx 8.6 yy 6 zz 8 . GWcollates ‘ 8 6 . . .’BMC collates‘ 8 6 . . .’ Leaves in ¢rst 

two gatherings numbered, but not signed. 


B-300; Oates 2797; Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. Pacetti, 19; 

Sack, Freiburg, 553^5; Sheppard 2430. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and zz8. 

Leaf [*1] rebacked. 

Binding: Old parchment, the leaves edged in blue. Size: 305 ¿ 


Marginal annotations, mostly in contemporary hands in black 

ink. On [*1 r ] in a contemporary hand, in black ink, notes for use 

by priests, including questions for those to be baptized. In lower 

margin of vv1 r a report of the ¢nding of Christ’s tunic at Trier in 

1513: ‘O Bernardine diue, Iam de anno domini m ccccc xiii > adinuenta 

est, deo volente, tunica illa inconsutil[is] Christi > vera, 

Treueris que est vetustissima ciuitas’; this is listed in an inventory 

of the relics preserved at Trier, which was printed perhaps at 

Augsburg in c.1515 (the Bodleian copy is pasted on to the inside 

of the upper cover of Auct. 6Q inf. 2.3,Vincentius Bellovacensis, 

Speculum historiale. [Augsburg: Monastery of SS. Ulrich and 

Afra], 1474 (V-134)); according to this inventory, the tunic was 

brought back to Trier from the Holy Land by S. Helena (c.255^ 

c.330); relocated by Archbishop Johann I of Trier (1190^1212, 

Gams 318) in 1196; the inventory dates the rediscovery of the

-167^b-171] bernardus claravallensis 

417 

tunic to 1512, during the archiepiscopate of Richard von 

Grei¡enklau (1511^31, Gams 318); on the tunic and its history 

see J. Gildemeister and H. von Sybel, Der heilige Rock zu Trier 

und die zwanzig andern heiligen ungena« hten Ro« cke (Du« sseldorf, 

1845). In lower margin of xx6 r : ‘Prima[m] parte[m] artic[uli] iam 

habui 1729’, of yy 4 r : ‘hunc ar[ticulum] i[am] habui 1730’, and of 

ss3 r : ‘Arti[culum] i[am] habui 1731’. Note marks and underlining 

in black ink. 

Partial rubrication on a6 v â7 r-v only: three-line initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining 

in red. One four-line initial ‘T’ is supplied in black ink on hh1 r . 

Provenance: Godfridus Cor[ ] (£. 1561); inscription on [*1 r ] partially 

cancelled. Old shelfmark inside the upper cover: 

‘Na.10.W.*’. Book-plate removed. the shelfmark implies a date of 

acquisition c.1885; probably the copy bought from Joseph Baer & 

Co., Catalogue143, no. 590, for Marks 8; see Library Bills,17 May 

1884. 



De vita christiana. 

[a2 r ] Bernardinus [Senensis]: [Prologue.] 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia,VI 3^4. 

r 

[a2 ] Bernardinus [Senensis]: De vita christiana. 

refs. Bernardinus, Opera omnia,VI 53*, 5^61. See Bernardinus, 

Operettevolgari, ed. Pacetti, 28^31. 

[Utrecht:Wilhelmus Hees, 1475]. 4 o . 

collation: [a^f 8 g 6 ]. 

GW 3894; HC 2838a = H 2890; Pr 8852; Campbell 262; HPT II 452; 

ILC 375; Bernardinus, Operette volgari, ed. Pacetti, 29; Sheppard 

6865. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper 

boards, probably bound for Klo�; the gold stamp of the 


of leaf: 195 ¿ 140 mm. 

Some interlinear corrections in black ink in a small, contemporary 

hand. 

A ¢ve-line initial ‘S’on [a 2 r ] is supplied in red, with extensions into 

the margin and £oral decoration, with pen-work decoration in 

black ink, and a four-line initial ‘S’, with extensions into the margin, 

is supplied in red on [c1 r ]. Paragraph marks are supplied in 

red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854). 

Purchased for »5. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1826), 3, where the 

author is called ‘Bernardus’, the printer is given as ‘[N. 

Ketelaer]’, and the date ‘[1473].’ 


B-169 Bernardus Carthusiensis 

DialogusVirginis Mariae misericordiam elucidans. 


A2 r Bernardus Carthusiensis: ‘Prologus’. Incipit:‘ ‘‘[E]xaltate illam 

quantum potestis. Maior est enim omni laude’’, Ecci. xliii o [Sir 

43,33]. Nam exaltare laudibus virginem gloriosam Mariam autoritas 

sacre scripture plerique locis mandat . . .’ 

A 3 r Bernardus Carthusiensis: DialogusVirginis Mariae misericordiam 

elucidans. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[Q]ui elucidant me, uitam eternam 

habebunt’’, Ecci.xxiiii [Sir 24,31]. O verbum iocundissimum 

omni acceptione dignum . . .’ 

r 

I6 [Author’s colophon, dated1491.] 

I6 v ‘Registrum’. [Table of contents.] 

Leipzig: [Conrad Kachelofen], 1493. 4 o . 

collation: A^H 6 I 8 . 


B-337; Oates 1271^2; Sheppard 2076. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German blue paper boards, with 

leaves edged in red. Size: 215 ¿ 146 ¿ 13 mm. Size of leaf: 210 ¿ 

135 mm. 


blue or red, and some paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Inscription on A1 r : ‘J. O. Katolischer Priester des 

XIX Jahrhunderts’. Old shelfmark: ‘. . . 1.Q 27’, on label on spine 

and verso of front endleaf (see B-170); also a note, probably in the 

same hand: ‘Paebstlicher Unsinn und ihn unter dem Volke, als 

unumstoesliche Warheit ausgebreitet, um dasselbe am 

Narrenseil nach seinen Absichten herum zu fuehren’. Purchased 


shelfmark: Auct. 1Q 6.56a. 

B-170 Bernardus Carthusiensis 

DialogusVirginis Mariae misericordiam elucidans. 


r 

A2 Bernardus Carthusiensis: ‘Prologus’. Incipit:‘‘‘[E]xaltate illam 

quantum potestis. Maior est enim omni laude’’, Ecci. xliii o [Sir 

43,33]. Nam exaltare laudibus virginem gloriosam Mariam autoritas 

sacre scripture plerique locis mandat . . .’ 

A3 r Bernardus Carthusiensis: DialogusVirginis Mariae misericordiam 

elucidans. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[Q]ui elucidant me uitam eternam 

habebunt’’, Ecci.xxiiii [Sir 24,31]. O verbum iocundissimum 

omni acceptione dignum . . .’ 

L4 r [Author’s colophon, dated1491.] 

L4 v ‘Registrum’. [Table of contents.] 

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 1497. 4 o . 

collation: A^K 6.4 L 6 . 



COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German turquoise paper boards. 


Partial rubrication on A1 r and A2 r only: capital strokes and underlining 

in red. 

Provenance: Heavily erased inscription on A1 r : ‘Ex libris 

Canonicorum regul[ ]’ Old shelfmark: ‘ . . . 1.Q 27’ on label on 

spine, in the same hand as the note in B-169. Purchased for »0. 7. 

0; see Books Purchased (1860), 11. 

shelfmark: Auct. 1Q 6.56b. 

B-171 Bernardus Claravallensis 

De consideratione. 

[a2 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: De consideratione. [Dedicated to] 

Eugenius III, Pont. Max.

418 bernardus claravallensis 

[b-171^b-173 

refs. PL CLXXXII 727^808; Bernardus, Opera, ed. J. Leclercq 

and H. M. Rochais (Rome, 1957^77), 8 vols, III 393^493. On the 

manuscript used as printer’s copy (Utrecht, 

Universiteitsbibliothek, MS. 2 C 6) see Boekdrukkunst (1973), 

nos 52a^b, with earlier literature. 

[Utrecht: Nicolaus KetelaerandGerardus de Leempt, 1474]. Folio. 

collation: [aê 8 ]. 

GW 3913; CR 976; Go¡ B-367; BMC IX 7; Pr 8843; Boekdrukkunst 

(1973), 52b; Campbell 263; CIBN B-255; HPT I11^13, II 446; ILC 

376; Oates 3304; Sheppard 6856. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Bernardus Claravallensis, Epistolae. Brussels: [Fratres Vitae 

Communis], 11 Apr. 1481 (B-174). 

Wanting [e 1, 2]. 

Leaves [a2] and [c1] detached, [a3] torn. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Netherlandish(?) blind-tooled calf; 

endpapers watermarked with the arms of Amsterdam and two 

lions supporting a shield, with the letters ‘IPFH’. Size: 277 ¿ 


Early marginal notes, including a note on Pope Eugenius on [a 2 r ]. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue or red with reserved white 

decoration; capital strokes in yellow. 

Provenance: Nicolaus Le Lohier (£. 1613); on [e7 v ] of item 2: ‘Ex 

libris Nicolaj Le Loh[ier] pastoris de Glons > emptus 4 

[Cauale]ris . . . 5 a Feb. 1613’, followed by two short notes. Georg 

Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 

680; purchased for »1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 4. 



De consideratione, et al. 

[a1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: De consideratione. [Dedicated to] 

Eugenius III, Pont. Max. 


[d6 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis: De con£ictu civitatis Babylon et 

Jerusalem. [Also known as Parabola II.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 761^5; Bernardus, Opera,VI/2, 267^73. GW 

lists as pseudographic. 

[e3 r ] Cyprianus [pseudo-; Augustinus pseudo-; Hugo de Sancto 

Victore pseudo-]: De duodecim abusionibus saeculi. [Also 

known as De duodecim abusionum gradibus, De xii abusivis saeculi.] 

refs. PL IV 947^60; PL XL 1079^88. See CPL 1106, which 

ascribes to Pseudo-Cyprianus of Carthage. 

[Augsburg: Anton Sorg, c.1475^7]. Folio. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 6 e 8+1 ]. 


GW 3914; H *2887 + 5900; Go¡ B-368; BMC II 345; Pr1652 + 1655; 

BSB-Ink B-308; Oates 913; Rhodes 321; Sack, Freiburg, 559; 


COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half black morocco. Size: 306 ¿ 


Manuscript signatures vij^xj and G^L in red in the inner margin. 

Woodcut initials touched in red; initials are supplied in red; red 

capital strokes. 

Provenance: Probably acquired after 1738; not found in Fysher, 

Catalogus. 



Epistolae. 

[a1 r ] ‘Tabula epistolarum’. 

[b1 r ] [Guilelmus, Abbas Sancti Theoderici: Sancti Bernardi vita 

prima, liber I, cap. XI: Miraculum de prima epistola.] 

refs. PL CLXXXV 255^6 no. 50. 

[b1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Epistolae. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 68^514, 578^80, and 623; Bernardus, Opera, 

VII 1^402; VIII 1^230, 335^7, and 398^9. The penultimate letter 

also printed in Bernardus, >’Eloge de la nouvelle chevalerie.Vie de 

saint Malachie. >’Epitaphe, Hymne, Lettres, ed. Pierre-Yves 

>’Emery, Sources chre¤ tiennes, 367 (Paris, 1990), 400^6. On 

authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 295 letters, letter 77 counted 

twice in the tabula. Corpus epistolarum nos 1^44, 77, 45^76, 77 

(incipit only), 78^121 (including letter 84 bis ), 124^6, 255, 127^41, 

254, 142^91, 195^6, 192^3, 197^8, 310; [poem and ¢rst distich as 

described below]; 199^200; [second distich]; 201^28, 231^2, 230, 

233^52, 122^3, 256^66, 268^71, 267, 272^85, 288^9, 291^6, 253, 

290; ‘Epistolae extra corpus, series antiqua’ nos 374 and 415. 

Wanting letters 194, 229, 286^7, 297^309 of the ‘Corpus 

epistolarum’. 

r 

[g10 ] ‘Narratio pulcra metrica et dragmatica(!) de santo Bernardo 

abbate’. [Elsewhere entitled Bona metra de sancto Bernardo.] 

‘[M]ira loquar, sed digna ¢de, Bernarde, quid hoc est? > Viuis 

adhuc? Viuo. Non es, rogo, mortuus? Immo’; 16 hexameters, the 

last one incomplete. 

[g10 r ] ‘Lactis virginei ros infusus faciei > Bernardi dat ei lactea verba 

Dei’; 1 distich (versus unisoni). 

v 

[g10 ] ‘O Bernarde pater, hic dulcia qui posuisti > Fac me, qui scripsi, 

regnum conscendere Christi’; 1 distich (versus caudati). 

[k1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Meditationes de interiori 

homine, cap. 15.] ‘De miseria et breuitate huius vite et de vera 

s[apien]cia’. 

refs. PL CLXXXIV 506^8. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 

71. 

[k1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘De temptationibus et 

ocio’. Incipit: ‘[S]eruum Dei gratis Deo seruientem non cessant 

sollicitare vicia . . .’ 

refs. See Haure¤ auV 111 v . 

[k1 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘De bona et mala voluntate’. 

Incipit: ‘[O]mnia genera viciorum ex aliquo [modo?] male 

consuetudinis . . .’ 

refs. See Haure¤ au IV 214 r . 

[k1 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Arnulphus de Boeriis: 

Speculum monachorum.] ‘Speculum . . . super emendatione vite 

hominis religiosi’. 

refs. PL CLXXXIV 1175^8 (the last paragraph is not present in 

the incunable edition). On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 73. 

[k2 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘De gratia et libero arbitrio’ 

[addressed to] Guilelmus, abbas Sancti Theoderici. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 1001^30; Bernardus, Opera, III 165^203. 

r 

[k7 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Apologia . . . ad Cluniacenses de 

concordia ordinum siue excusatio eius ad eosdem’ [addressed to] 

Guilelmus, abbas Sancti Theoderici.


419 

refs. PL CLXXXII 898^918; Bernardus, Opera, III 81^108. 

[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 1474]. Folio. 

collation: [a 4 bê 10 f 8 g h 10 i 8 k 10 ]. 



COPY 


Gathering [a] bound last. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for Klo�. Size: 




Provenance: Halberstadt, Saxe-Anhalt, Conventual 

Franciscans; on [b1 r ]: ‘Conventus Halberstad[ensis] Fratrum 

Minorum Strict[�] Observ[anti�]’. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� 

(1787^1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 679; purchased for »0.14. 




Epistolae. 

[a2 r ] ‘Tabula epistolarum’. 

v 

[b1 ] [Guilelmus, Abbas Sancti Theoderici: Sancti Bernardi vita 

prima, liber I, cap. XI:] ‘Miraculum de prima epistola’. 

refs. PL CLXXXV 255^6 no. 50. 

r 

[b2 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Epistolae. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 68^514 and 578^80; Bernardus, Opera,VII 

1^402; VIII 1^230, and 335^7. The last letter also printed in 

Bernardus, >’Eloge, ed. >’Emery, 400^6. On authorship see 

Glorieux, Migne, 70. 309 letters. Corpus epistolarum nos 1^83, 

84 bis -146, 148^228, 231^54, 84, 255^307, 230, 147, 310; ‘Epistolae 

extra corpus, series antiqua’, no. 374. 

r 

[y6 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Lectio prima’. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 609^12; Bernardus, Opera, VIII 377^9 no. 

398. First of eight lectiones. 

v 

[y6 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermo primus in natali sancti 

Victoris.] ‘Lectio secunda’. 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 371^3; Bernardus, Opera, VI/1, 29^32. Nos 

two, three, and four of eight lectiones. 

[y8 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermo secundus [in natali sancti 

Victoris.] ‘Lectio quinta’. 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 373^6; Bernardus, Opera, VI/1, 33^7. Nos 

¢ve, six, seven, and eight of eight lectiones. 

Brussels: [Fratres Vitae Communis], 11 Apr. 1481. Folio. 

collation: [a 6 b^x 8 y 10 ]. 

GW 3924; HC 2871; Go¡ B-384; BMC IX 172; Pr 9333; 

Boekdrukkunst (1973), 94; Campbell 268; CIBN B-260; Hillard 

328; HPT II 397; ILC 382; Oates 3851; Sack, Freiburg, 563; 


COPY 

Bound with B-171; see there for details ofbinding and provenance. 


Wanting gathering [a] containing the table. 


On [b2 r ] a six-line initial is supplied in blue with reserved white 

decoration and pen-£ourishing in red. Other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in blue or red; capital strokes in yellow. 



Epistolae. 

a2 v [Guilelmus, Abbas Sancti Theoderici: Sancti Bernardi vita 



a3 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Epistolae. 

refs. See B-174. 309 letters, here erroneously counted as 310. 

n4 v Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Lectio prima’. 


r 

n5 Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermo primus in natali sancti 



n5 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermo secundus [in natali sancti 

Victoris].‘Lectio quinta’. 


n6 v [Colophon.] 

r 

n7 ‘Tabula epistolarum’. 

Paris: [GeorgWolf], 30 May1494. 4 o . On the ascription toWolf see 

BMC and CIBN; Sheppard, however, points out that it is impossible 

to say whether Wolf and Johann Philippi together or either 

alone was responsible; CIBN assigns to [Georg Wolf] alone, GW 

to [Pierre Levet]. 


GW 3925; HC 2874; Go¡ B-385; BMC VIII 148; Pr 8299; CIBN 

B-261; Hillard 329; Oates 2991; Rhodes 322; Sack, Freiburg, 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartita. 

[Paris]: GeorgWolf, [c.1492] (C-107(2)). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English half calf over faded 

marbled pasteboards. Size: 237 ¿ 173 ¿ 32 mm. Size of 

leaf: 227 ¿ 165 mm. 

Early marginal notes, some in Greek, in various hands. On n9 v 

and n 10 r/v references to various passages in the Epistolae added 

in a seventeenth-century(?) hand. 

On a2 v a four-line (French?) ‘F’and, on a3 r a seven-line (French?) 

‘S’ are supplied in gold with red and blue in¢ll within a red and 

blue frame, highlighting in white; the same style as in item 1. 

Other initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: John Estmond (¢fteenthth/sixteenth century); 

‘Joannis Estmondi’; inscription on a 1 r of item 1, followed by a 

note in Greek:‘hJmw’n to; polivteuma ejn oujranoi’~ uJpavrcei’. 

Richard Farmer (1735^1797); inscription on front pastedown; 

not found in his sale catalogue. Francis Douce (1757^1834); 




Epistolae. 

v 

a1 [Guilelmus, Abbas Sancti Theoderici: Sancti Bernardi vita 



r 

a2 Bernardus Claravallensis: Epistolae. 

refs. See B-174. 309 letters, here erroneously counted as 307; the 

last letter without a number. 

r 

r1 Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Lectio prima’. 

refs. See B-173.


[b-176^b-178 

r1 r Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermo primus in natali sancti 



r2 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermo secundus [in natali sancti 

Victoris.] ‘Lectio quinta’. 


r2 v [Colophon.] 

r3 r ‘Tabula epistolarum’. 

Basel: [Nicolaus Kesler], 1 Dec. 1494. Folio. 

collation: a 8 b^r 6 . 



COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Bernardus Claravallensis, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 

Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1495 (B-188). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Netherlandish(?) half calf, endpapers 

watermarked with the arms of Amsterdam. Size: 302 ¿ 


On a2 r a six-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-£ourishing in 

red. Other initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Lampertus Pascualis (�1497); name on a2 r of item1 

‘Frater Lampertus Pascualis’. Moers, North Rhine-Westphalia, 

S. Maria; on a 1 r of item 1, ‘Iste liber pertinet ad conuentum fratrum 

beate Marie in Moersa ex parte fratris Lamperti Pascualis 

ex anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo septimo. 

Oretur pro prop[ ]’. Johannes Bunninger (sixteenth century); 

on a1 r of item 1,‘Sum Johannis Bunningeri in perpetuum’. 

Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773^1843); book-plate 

with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.e.12’; see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, part of lot 2300. Purchased 

together with B-184 (Auct. 2Q 1.20) for »1. 8. 0; see Books 




Flores. 

[a2 r ] [Guilelmus de Sancto Martino Tornacensi]: ‘Prologus’. 

Incipit: ‘[C]um enim non essem alicuius(!) exercicio magno 

opere occupatus . . .’ 

refs. On authorship see Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum,1731/ 

1 (+ supplement) and also Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, I 130^1. 

v 

[a2 ] Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Flores. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est Deus? 

Qui est? Merito quidem nil competencius eternitati . . .’ 

[r1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Capitula subsequencia sunt de quibusdam 

sentenciis venerabilis patris beate Bernhardi, in quibus 

continentur verba quedam melli£ua de beata Dei genitrice 

Maria’. Incipit: ‘[N]on est, quod me delectet magis . . .’ 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 1731,2. 

r 

[r4 ] [Guilelmus de Sancto Martino Tornacensi]: ‘Versus’.‘Fragrat 

Bernhardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus > E quibus hic tractus liber 

est in scripta redactus’; 2 leonine hexameters. 


[s1 r ] ‘Capitula’. 

[Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt, not after 1470]. Folio. 

collation: [a b 10 c 8 d 6 eî 10 k 8 l 6 m^q 10 r 6 s 8 ]. 

GW 3928; H *2925; Go¡ B-388; BMC II 403; Pr 1949; Sheppard 

1383. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [l 6], [r 5^6] and [s 5^8]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German half calf. Size: 337 ¿ 


On [a 2 r ] a ¢ve-line initial is supplied in gold with pen-work in¢ll in 

red and yellow and some pen-£ourishing. Some principal initials 

are supplied in interlocked red and blue with pen-£ourishing. 

Running headings, initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 


Provenance: Lu« beck, Stadtbibliothek; stamp and duplicate 

stamp. Purchased in 1864 for »0. 12. 0; see Invoice Book (1862^4, 

Library Records d. 430). 



Flores. 

r 

.j. 2 ‘Tabula secundum alphabetum’. 

.j.5 r ‘Bernardi £ores faciunt animam redolere > Per sanctos mores 

cum vult peccata dolere’; 2 hexameters (versus collaterales). 

v 

.j. 5 ‘Quandobeatus Bernardus intrauit Cistertium’.‘[A]nno milleno 

centeno cum duodeno > Uno coniuncto numeri non exule puncto’; 

40 leonine hexameters, all but the ¢rst couple are versus collaterales. 

refs. See Jean Leclercq, EŁ tudes sur saint Bernard et le texte de ses 

e¤ crits, Analecta sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, 9 (Rome, 1953), 180, 

note1. 

r 

.j. 6 ‘Nota de claustro’.‘Claustrum nolenti mors est, sedvitavolenti. > 

Claustrum claustrales reddit quasi spirituales’; 16 leonine hexameters, 

all starting with the word ‘claustrum’. 

r 

.j. 6 ‘Quando beatus Bernardus factus est abbas’.‘[A]nnus millenus 

ter quinus connumeratur > Nec non centenus, vir sanctus quando 

creatur’; 8 hexameters (versus collaterales). 

refs. See Leclercq, EŁ tudes sur saint Bernard, 180, note 1. 

r 

.j. 6 ‘Quanto tempore vixit abbas’. ‘[A]nnis terdenis octo, sed non 

sine penis > Hanc vallem rexit, multos ad sidera vexit’; 21 leonine 

hexameters. 


.j.6 v ‘[A]nnos sex decies et tres etatis habebat > Celi quando quies 

hunc a mundo rapiebat; 8 hexameters (versus collaterales). 


.j.6 v ‘Bona metra de sancto Bernardo’.‘[M]ira loquar, sed digna ¢de, 

Bernarde, quid est hoc? > Uiuis adhuc? Viuo. Non es, rogo, mortuus? 

Imo’; 16 hexameters, the last one incomplete. 


.j.6 v ‘O pater alborum, dux et rector monachorum, > Consors sanctorum, 

duc nos ad regna polorum’; 2 hexameters (versus unisoni). 

v 

.j. 6 ‘[A]nno milleno centeno quo minus vno > A Christo nato, tunc 

cepit griseus ordo’; 2 hexameters. 

a2 r ‘Relatio de beato Bernardo abbate’. Incipit: ‘[B]ernardus egregius 

Cisterciensis ordinis propagator, qui iniciatus est anno 

dominice incarnationis millesimo nonagesimo octauo . . .’ 

a2 r ‘Pax est in verbis id odoriferis opus herbis > Nempe gerit £ores 

Bernardi nobiliores’; 2 leonine hexameters. 

a2 v [Guilelmus de Sancto MartinoTornacensi]: ‘Prologus’. Incipit: 

‘[C]um enim non essem alicui exercitio magnopere occupatus . . .’ 


r 

a3 ‘Annotatio capitulorum’.


421 

a3 v ‘Fragrat Bernhardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus > E quibus hic 

tractus liber est in scripta redactus’; 2 leonine hexameters. 

v 

a3 Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Flores.‘Liber primus exceptionum 

collectarum de diuersis opusculis beati Bernardi egregii 

Clareuallensis abbatis’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est Deus? Qui est? Merito 

quidem nil competencius eternitati . . .’ 

refs.Table of contents preceding each book. 

v4 r Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘De quibusdam sermonibus venerabilis 

patris Bernardi, in quibus continentur verba quedam melli£ua 

de beatissima Dei genitrice Maria’. Incipit: ‘[N]on est, 

quod me magis delectet . . .’ 


Cologne: Johann Koelho¡, the Elder, 14[82]. Folio. 

collation: .j. 6 a^q 8 r s 6 t v 8 . 

GW 3929; HC *2926; Go¡ B-389; Pr 1058; Oates 540; Sack, 

Freiburg, 566; Sheppard 801; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 231. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves .j. 1, a 1, and v 8. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco; endpapers 

probably older Netherlandish, watermarked with the Maid of 

Holland and crowned GR. Size: 320 ¿ 225 ¿ 27 mm. Size of 

leaf: 287 ¿ 207 mm. 

On a2 r : ‘Flagrat(!) Bernardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus > E quibus 

hic tractus liber est in scripta redactus’added in red in a contemporaryhand. 

On a 2 v the same hand added a heading ascribing 

the Prologus to Guilhelmus monachus sancti Martini 

Tornacensis.The arabic ¢gures 82 have been added to the printed 

date ‘M.cccc.’, probably in the printing-shop see GW (Anm.) 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red, principal initials 

with reserved white decoration; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager- 

Catalog (1884), no. 157, for 6 Marks; see Library Bills 17 May 

1884. 



Flores. 

r 

A2 ‘Relatio de beato Bernardo abbate’. Incipit: ‘[B]ernardus egregius 

Cisterciensis ordinis propagator, qui iniciatus est anno 

dominice incarnationis millesimo nonagesimo octauo . . .’ 

r 

A2 ‘Pax est in verbis id odoriferis opus herbis > Nempe gerit £ores 

Bernardi nobiliores’; 2 leonine hexameters. 

A2 v [Guilelmus de Sancto MartinoTornacensi]: ‘Prologus’. Incipit: 

‘[C]um enim non essem alicui exercitio magnopere occupatus . . .’ 


A2 v ‘Annotatio capitulorum’. 

A3 r ‘Fragrat Bernardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus > E quibus hic 

tractus liber est in scripta redactus’; 2 leonine hexameters. 

A3 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Flores. ‘Liber primus £orum siue 

excerptionum collectarum de diuersis opusculis beati Bernardi 

egregii Clareuallensis abbatis’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est Deus? Qui est? 

Merito quidem nil competencius eternitati . . .’ 

refs.Table of contents preceding each book. 

r 

o4 Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘De beatissima virgine Dei genitrice 

de quibusdam sermonibus venerabilis patris Bernardi, in quibus 

continentur verba quedam melli£ua de beatissima Dei genitrice 

Maria’. Incipit: ‘[N]on est, quod me magis delectet . . .’ 


o6 v [Colophon.] 

o6 v ‘Florida melli£ui Bernardi prata peragrans > Hinc tibi nectareas 

collige, lector, opes’; 1 elegiac distich. 

p1 r ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 

Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, for himself and Durand Gerlier (or 

Jean Petit), 20 Nov. 1[4]99. 8 o . The colophon reads: ‘1099. xij. 

calendas Decembris’. 

collation: A bô 8 p 4 . GWomits last gathering. 

GW 3930; HC 8220; C 992; Go¡ B-390; BMC VIII 120; Pr 8198; 


COPY 

Wanting p 2, 3, 4 and the blank leaf o 8. 

Leaf p1 is bound after A1 and mounted at the foot. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf; marbled pastedowns. 


Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Paris, St Martin-des-Champs, Cluniacs; on p1: 

‘Bibliothec� S. Martini’. Probably acquired after 1738; not in 

Fysher, Catalogus. 



Homiliae super evangelio Missus est angelus Gabriel. 

[a1 r ] Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Homiliae super evangelio Missus 

est angelus Gabriel. [Also known as In laudibus virginis matris.] 

refs. Four sermons. PL CLXXXIII 55^88; Bernardus, Opera, IV 

13^58. 

[Cologne: Printer of Augustinus,‘De ¢de’, c.1473]. 4 o . The printer 

has been identi¢ed with Goiswin Gops and with Johann Schilling 

(see Corsten, Anfa« nge, 44^5 and Needham, ‘Cologne Partners’, 

126^8). 

collation: [a^d 8 ]. 


B-324; Oates 570^1; Sheppard 839; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 236. 

COPY 



On front endleaf,‘Vis consilij exper[iri] mole ruit sua vim temperatam 

in sublime prouehit Deus’ in an early hand. 



Homiliae super evangelio Missus est angelus Gabriel. 

A1 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Homiliae super evangelio Missus 



D4 r ‘Speciales ¢gure et multum notabiles ex compendio biblie cum 

magna diligentia enucleate in omnibus quasi sermonibus ad laudem 

beate Marie servientibus’. Incipit:‘Marie conceptio et natiuitas 

signum fuit reparationis humane . . .’ 

refs. See Haure¤ auV 58 r .Twelve ¢gurae. 

[Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, between 2 Aug. 1487 and 26 Nov. 1489]. 

4 o . As dated in HPT. 

collation: AÊ 6 . 

On A1 r a woodcut depicting the Annunciation; woodcut initials.


[b-181^b-183 

GW 3933; HC 2864 = H 2865; C 963; Go¡ B-400; BMC IX 193; Pr 

9389; Campbell 281 = 280; CIBN B-271; HPT II 420; ILC 384; 

Inventaris, 182; Oates 3921; Scha« fer 42; Sheppard 7216. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Bonaventura, Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis. Antwerp: 

Gerard Leeu, 2 Aug. 1487 (B-456); 

3. Sermones compositi super particulis antiphonae Salve regina. 

Alost: Thierry Martens, 9 July 1487 (S-182); 

4. Michael Francisci de Insulis, Quodlibet de veritate fraternitatis 

Rosarii [Gouda: Gerard Leeu, between 1483 and 11 June 1484] 

(F-095(1)); 

5. Michael Francisci de Insulis, Decisio de septem doloribus BVM. 

Antwerp: Thierry Martens, [not before 1496; not after 1497] 

(F-093). 

Binding: Contemporary Flemish (Mechelen) blind-tooled calf 

over wooden boards, two clasps lost; rebacked. Within a border 

is a double intersecting frame, on both covers. Within the outer 

frame, two rectangular stamps, one with hare and hound, the 

other with hare, bird, and hound, and a lozenge-shaped £eur-delis 

stamp; atthehead and footofeach cover is a rectangular stamp 

with the inscription ‘Aue Maria’. In the inner rectangle is a 

lozenge-shaped stamp with a double-headed eagle and a minute 

round stamp with the head of Christ. Along the lower edge: 

‘Tractatus et sermones de beata virgine’. Index tabs of red paper 

in the last two items. On the binding see Prosper Verheyden, ‘De 

paneelstempel Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ten-Troon’, De Gulden Passer, 

24 (1946), 19^32, at 30, and reproduced as pl. 5, and Foot, 

‘Monasteries and Dragons’, 197. Size: 210 ¿ 145 ¿ 57 mm. Size of 

leaf: 202 ¿ 131 mm. 

Manuscript table of contents on former front pastedown, now 

raised, and early marginal notes, all probably in the hand of 

Petrus de Manso: on l 5 v of item 2,‘Deuotam meditationem super 

Aue Maria vide in Stimulo amoris sancti Bonauenture capitulo 

xvi o 3 e partis, et similiter super Salue regina capitulo xix o ibidem. 

Per aliam meditationem breuem et deuotam super Aue Maria 

quere inter opuscula domini .P. de Aillyaco cardinalis, et similiter 

expositionem cantici Magni¢cat etc.’. On n4 r of item 3, ‘Item 

deuotam meditationem super Salue regina vide in Stimulo 

amoris sancti Bonauenture capitulo xix o 3 e partis.’ On d 6 r of item 

4,‘Preterea ex alio ampliori tractatu psalterii beate Marie, de quo 

autor in prologo huius compendii mentionem facit, tracta sunt 

aliqua singularia in codice sequenti contenta ad laudem christifere 

Marie etc.’, followed by a gathering of originally 12 leaves 

(three leaves cut out between fols 6 and 7) in manuscript with the 

title on fol. 1 r : ‘Sequuntur singularia breuiter excerpta a tractatu 

psalterii beate Marie magistri Alani de Rupe doctoris sacre theologie 

ordinis predicatorum. Instructio pulcherrima et profunda, 

quam reuelauit virgo Maria Alano sponso suo nouello’, incipit: 

‘Accidit semel, quod beatissima virgo Maria, domina nostra predulcissima, 

apparuit sponso suo nouello petenti quomodo illam 

et alios sanctos deberet pie et deuote venerari . . .’; fol. 7 r : 

‘Sequuntur septuaginta due excellentie salutationis angelice predicto 

nouello sponso Marie a domino Jhesu reuelate’, incipit: 

‘Jhesus ad sponsam et matrem suam Mariam. O dilectissima 

mater mea Maria et sponsa, mihi placet te laudari in tua salutatione 

angelica . . .’ 

Initials are supplied in red with reserved white decoration; occasional 

red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Mechelen, Flanders, Be¤ guines; see binding note. 

Petrus de Manso (Peter Verhoeven, ¢fteenth/sixteenth century); 

inscription on A 1 r ; ‘Pertinet michi Petro de Manso presbitero, 

confessori \olim/ [added later] religiosarum sororum deThabor’ 

(possibly Thabor, near Sneek, Friesland, S. Elizabeth, Mons 

Oliveti), with later additions ‘deinde curato beghin[ ] Machlin[ ]’, 

‘quod post obitum meum de conuentui(!) Rubee Vallis in Zonia’ 

(rest deleted),‘Oretur queso pro me .p.’. Zonie« nbos at Oudergem, 

Brabant, Roo- or Roedenclooster, Augustinian Canons, S. 

Paulus; on A 1 r :‘Bibliothec� Rube� Vallis’. On former back pastedown,‘22 

7bris 1792 N o 424 C’. Louvain; on front pastedown ‘N. 

1015 R. F. Charlis Presbr. Lov. 1808’. Purchased for »0. 16. 0; see 

Library Bills (1829^32), no. 243, item 9, and Books Purchased 

(1831), 2. 



Sermones super Cantica canticorum (ed. Johannes de 

Ripa). 

[*2 r ] ‘Tabula rubricarum super expositionem in canticis canticorum’. 

v 

[* 4 ] [Johannes de Ripa?]: ‘Serue Dei, Bernarde, meis ne desere 

ceptis, > Quem precibus sacris deuotum nomine dicunt’; 8 hexameters; 

l. 6 is ‘Nomine de Ripa stat dictus namque Johannes’. 

r 

a1 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones super Cantica canticorum. 

‘Expositio . . . in canticis canticorum Salamonis’. Edited 

by Johannes de Ripa. 

refs. 86 sermons. PL CLXXXIII 785^1198; Bernardus, Opera, I 

3^255; II 3^320. 

Pavia: Nicolaus Girardengus, 18 Dec. 1482. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] aû 8 x 6 y 8 . 

GW 3935; HC 2857; Go¡ B-428; BMC VII 1007; Pr 7081; CIBN 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [*1] and y8. Sheets e1.8 and e2.7 are 

transposed. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, the spine gold-tooled, 

edges red. Size: 285 ¿ 200 ¿ 45 mm. Size of leaf: 274 ¿ 188 mm. 



initials and paragraph marks are supplied alternately in red or 

blue. 

Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773^1843); 

book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.d.7’: seeLee, Royal 

Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, part of lot 2300(?). Purchased 




Sermones super Cantica canticorum (ed. Gregorius 

Britannicus). 

[*1 r ] [Johannes de Ripa?]: ‘Serue Dei, Bernarde, meis ne desere ceptis, 

> Quem precibus sacris deuotum nomine dicunt’; 8 hexameters; 

l. 6 is ‘Gregorio fratri nato de stirpe Britanna’. 

[*1 v ] ‘Tabula rubricarum super expositionem in canticis canticorum’.


423 

a1 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones super Cantica canticorum.‘Expositio 

. . . in canticis canticorum Salamonis’. [Stated 

to be edited by Gregorius Britannicus.] 


Brescia: Angelus Britannicus, 28 Jan. 1500. 4 o & 8 o . According to 

GW, re-edited from the 1482 edition (H 2857) by Gregorius 

Britannicus (Go¡). 

collation: [* 2 ] a^s 8 t 4 . 


GW 3938; HR 2860; Go¡ B-431; BMC VII 981; Pr 7002; Sheppard 

5798. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Gregorius I, Pont. Max., Commentum super Cantica canticorum. 

Salamanca: Juan Giesser, de Seligenstat, 5 May 1508. 

Binding: Contemporary French (Parisian?, judging from former 

pastedowns, now Inc. c. F97.2; see M-158) blind-tooled calf, two 

clasps lost; rebacked. On both covers a frame formed by a £oral 

roll; on the inner rectangle a di¡erent £oral roll is impressed in 

four vertical stripes. Size: 192 ¿ 140 ¿ 40 mm. Size of leaf: 188 ¿ 

135 mm. 

Former pastedowns now bound as Inc. c. F97.2 (see A-355, B-450, 

and C-031). 

Beginnings of two Latin prayers on the rear endleaf. 

Provenance: Cambrai, Hainaut, Brothers of the Common Life, 

or of S. Hieronimus; on [*1 r ] partly deleted inscription ‘Pertinet 

fratribus sancti Hieronymi domus Cameracen[sis] quem fratri 

christiano dedit et misit ex Louanio anno 1515 prima Junii dominus 

Rolandus Sterlant’. Cambrai, Hainaut, Discalced 

Carmelites; on front endleaf deleted inscription ‘Ex libris conuentus 

Cameracensis Carm[elitarum] Discalcita[ ]’; on [* 1 r ] a 

partly deleted inscription ‘Carmelitarum Discal[ ] con[ven]tus 

[Cameracensis]’. Sheppard records that this item was purchased 

in 1957. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. I22.1500.1(1). 


Sermones super Cantica canticorum [Italian] Sermoni 

sopra la cantica. 

a1 r ‘La tabula dele rubrice dela expositione deli sermoni . . . sopra la 

cantica’. 

r 

a2 Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Sermones super Cantica canticorum 

[Italian]. Incipit: ‘[A] voi, fratelli, certo si debono dire 

altre cose h altramente che a seculari . . .’ 

Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 30 June 1494. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b 6 cê 8 f 6 g^k 8 l 6 m n 8 o^q 6 . 

v 

On a2 a woodcut of theThrone of Mercy. 

GW 3939; HR 2861; Go¡ B-432; BMC VI 769; Pr 6066; Sheppard 

5002. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century half parchment. Size: 194 ¿ 210 ¿ 


Provenance: Inscription on front endleaf ‘Il P. Girolamo M a 

Borro da Linario [Linari, diocese of Luni-Sarzana, near 

Fivizzano] de’ Pred[icato]ri compro' questo libro x due parpaiole 

in Milano x imparar parlar tedesco italianato. 1666’. Augustus 

Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773^1843); book-plate with handwritten 

shelfmark ‘AA.e.13’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40^1 no. 

23; sale, pt I, part of lot 2300. Purchased together with B-176 for 




Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis [¢rst 

collection]. 

[a1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 

[Pars hiemalis.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 35^56; Bernardus, Opera, IV 161^96. 

[a7 r ] Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Homiliae super evangelio Missus 


refs. Four sermons. PL CLXXXIII 55^88; Bernardus, Opera, IV 

13^58. 

[b7 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 87^162,359^72,161^81,183^6, 376^98, 253^ 

74; Bernardus, Opera, IV 197^273, 277^81, 273^6, 282^334; VI/1 

28^9; IV 334^80; V 110^72. 

[g8 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘Sermo secundus vnde 

supra’. [= In cena domini. Also known as Sermo de excellentia 

ss. sacramenti et dignitate sacerdotum.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIV 981^92. 

[h1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 

[Pars aestivalis.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 273^92, 666, 291^316, 665^6, 316^34, 397^ 

416, 333^9, 341^4, 415^30. PL CLXXXIV 1001^10. PL 

CLXXXIII 429^86; Bernardus, Opera, V 73^213, 228^60, 262^ 

88, 294^303, 327^70, 417^23. On authorship see Glorieux, 

Migne, 72 and Jean Leclercq,‘Sermon pour l’Assomption restitue¤ 

a' Bernard’, in Recueil d’e¤ tudes sur Saint Bernard et ses e¤ crits, 2 

(Rome, 1966), 261^70. 

[n5 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis: [Epistola.] ‘Sermo ii vnde supra’. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 578^80; Bernardus, Opera, VIII 335^7; 

Bernardus, >’Eloge, ed. >’Emery, 400^6. ‘Epistolae extra corpus, 

series antiqua’, no. 374. 

[n6 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 343^60, 489^514. PL CLXXXIV 1031^50. 

PL CLXXXIII 513^36; Bernardus, Opera, V 304^26, 399^417, 

423^40. PL CLXXXIV 1031^50; Bernardus, Opera, V 440^7, 

370^98. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 72 and Jean 

Leclercq,‘Les sermons synodaux attribue¤ s a' Bernard’, in Recueil 

d’e¤ tudes sur Saint Bernard et ses e¤ crits, 1 (Rome, 1962), 113^31, at 

124^6. 

[q1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones in psalmum Qui habitat. 

refs. 17 sermons. PL CLXXXIII185^254; Bernardus, Opera, IV 

383^492. 

r 

[t1 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de diversis. ‘De nimia 

quadam fallacia presentis vite’. 

refs. 35 sermons. PL CLXXXIII 537^626 (sermons 1^32), 647^ 

65 (sermons 40^2); Bernardus, Opera,VI/1, 73^221 (sermons 1^ 

32), 234^61 (sermons 40^2). On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 

70. 

r 

[y5 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: De quattuor parabolis. ‘De ¢lio 

regis’. 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 757^61 (I), 770^1 (V); PL CLXXXX 961^6 

(VI = Gilberti Foliot London. episcopi epistola 287); PL 

CLXXXIII 761^5 (II); Bernardus, Opera,VI/2, 261^7 (I), 282^5


[b-185^b-186 

(V), 288^95 (VI without the introduction), and 267^73 (II). Four 

parables. 

r 

[y10 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: De tribus ordinibus ecclesie. [Also 

known as Sermones de diversis, sermo 35, or Sermo ad abbates.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 634^7; Bernardus, Opera, V 288^93. On 

authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 

[z1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermones] exhortatorii ad fratres. 

[Also known as Sermones de diversis, sermones 36 and 37 or 

Sermo de altitudine et bassitudine cordis and Sermo in labore 

messis II.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 637^44; Bernardus, Opera, V 214^16 and 

222^8. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 

r 

[z3 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermones] consolatorii ad fratres. 


Sermones in labore messis I and II.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 644^7; Bernardus, Opera, V 217^19 and 

220^2. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 

[z4 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Epistola . . . in sermonem sequentem’. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 921; Bernardus, Opera, III 213. Bernardus, 

>’Eloge, ed. >’Emery, 48^50. 

[z4 r ] ‘Tituli’. 

v 

[z4 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermo exhortatorius ad milites 

templi. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 921^40; Bernardus, Opera, III 214^39. 

Bernardus, >’Eloge, ed. >’Emery, 50^132. 

[z9 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Sermo] ad clerum in concilio 

Remensi congregatum. 

refs. PL CLXXXIV 1079^86. On authorship see Glorieux, 

Migne, 72 and Jean Leclercq, ‘Les sermons synodaux attribue¤ s a' 

Bernard’, in Recueil d’e¤ tudes sur Saint Bernard et ses e¤ crits, 1 

(Rome, 1962), 113^31, at 117^20. 

r 

[A1 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Capitula sermonis sequentis ad 

clericos’. 

[A1 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermo] exhortatorius ad clericos. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 833^56; Bernardus, Opera, IV 69^116. 

[A9 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Sermo] exhortatorius ad 

clericos. 

refs. PL CLXXXIV1085^96 (for the end cf. Bernardus, Opera,V 

67). On authorship see Glorieux, Migne,72 and Leclercq,‘Les sermons 

synodaux’, 113^17. 

r 

[B2 ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Bernardus de Toledo: 

Sermones] super Salve Regina. 

refs. Four sermons. PL CLXXXIV 1059^78. On authorship see 

Glorieux, Migne, 72. 

r 

[B7 ] [Colophon.] 

[B8 r ] ‘Tituli sermonum’. 

Mainz: Peter Schoe¡er, 14 Apr. 1475. Folio. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 8 e 6+1 fî 10 k 8 l^p 10 q r 8 s 6 t^z A B 10 ]. 


CIBN B-262; Hillard 334; Oates 32^3; Sack, Freiburg, 575; 

Sheppard 65. 

COPY 


no. 119) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, one boss and four 

corner-pieces on each cover lost, remains oftwo metal clasps with 

£oral decoration; spine split and daubed with paint. Formerly 

chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the lower cover. On 

both covers triple ¢llets form a frame; the inner rectangle is ¢lled 

with merrythoughts, lozenge-shaped £oral ornaments and small 

£ower stamps. In the frame are foliate stamps combined with 

small round £owers and larger six-petalled £owers; for the 

stamps see Kyri� pl. 239, nos 1, 2, 4^6, 8, 11. Size: 425 ¿ 295 ¿ 



On [a1 r ] and [t1 r ] nine-line initials are supplied in interlocked red 

and blue with may£ower in¢ll in red and blue and some pen-£ourishing 

in red. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red and occasionally blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Petrus Munich (�after 18 Mar. 1489); on [B9 r ]: 

‘Hunc librum spectabilis vir dominus Petrus Munich Doctor 

bone memorie, parrochialis ecclesie in Amberg rector, eidem parrochiali 

ecclesie in Amberg in sui memoriam et pro salute anime 

sue testatus est die xviii marcii1489’. Amberg, parish church of S. 

Martinus; on front endleaf, ‘Ecclesi� Parochialis S: Martini 

Amberg�’. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); booklabel; 

see sale (1835), lot 676; several other Amberg books also 

have a later Klo� provenance. Purchased for »1. 16. 0; see Books 




Sermones de tempore et de sanctis [second collection]. 

[a2 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 

pars hiemalis. 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 35^56, 87^130; Bernardus, Opera, IV 161^ 

270. 

[d 6 v ] [Nicolaus Claravallensis: Sermones.] 

refs. Four sermons. PL CXLIV 847^53 and CLXXXIV 827^32; 

PL CXLIV 557^63 and CLXXXIV, 832^8; PL CXLIV 839 and 

CLXXXIV 839^46; PL CXLIV 853^7 and CLXXXIV 845^50. 

refs. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 60 and Schneyer, 

Repertorium, IV nos. 18, 16, 17 and 19. See also Jean Leclercq, 

‘Les collections de sermons de Nicolas de Clairvaux’, in Recueil 

d’e¤ tudes sur Saint Bernard et ses e¤ crits, 1 (Rome, 1962), 47^82. 

[e8 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII129^32,135^7,131^5,137^62,359^65,365^6, 

365^72; Bernardus, Opera, IV 270^334; VI/1, 28^9; IV 334^44. 

[h4 r ] Guerricus, Abbas Igniacensis [pseudo-]: ‘Sermo . . . de puri¢candis 

et adornandis cordium a¡ectibus’. 

refs. PL CLXXXV 79^89. Not included in Guerric d’Igny, 

Sermons, ed. J. Morson and H. Costello, 2 vols, Sources 

Chre¤ tiennes, 166, 202 (Paris, 1970^3), cf. I 79^80; see Schneyer II 

249 no. 19. See also Jean Leclercq, ‘La collection de sermons de 

Guerric d’Igny’, in Recueil d’e¤ tudes sur Saint Bernard et ses e¤ crits, 

1 (Rome, 1962), 159^71, at 167^8. 

[h 8 v ] ‘Sententia de eodem’. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui vult in pace dimitti, conetur 

esse Symeon . . .’ 

[h8 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 161^86, 375^82, 392^8, 383^92, 253^9, 263^ 

74, 259^62; Bernardus, Opera, IV 344^76; VI/1, 37^9; IV 377^80; 

V 1^12, 34^42,13^34, 42^51, 56^72, and 51^5. 

[n1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 

pars aestivalis. 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 273^92, 666, 291^324, 665^6, 323^34, 397^ 

404; Bernardus, Opera,V 73^148, 150^60, 149^50, 160^84.


425 

[q7 v ] [Nicolaus Claravallensis?]: ‘Sermo de priuilegiis beati 

Johannis’. 

refs. PL CXLIV 627^37 and 184, 991^1002. On authorship see 

Glorieux, Migne, 60 and Schneyer, Repertorium, IV no. 1 (also 

Schneyer, Repertorium, IX 493). See also Leclercq, ‘Les collections 

de sermons’, 47^82. 

[r4 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 403^8, 412^16, 333^44, 371^6; Bernardus, 

Opera, V 185^91, 197^209; VI/1, 40^3; V 209^13; VI/1, 29^32; 

VI/1, 33^7. 

[s7 r ] Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-; Nicolaus Claravallensis]: 

‘Sermo . . . in festa beate Marie Magdalene’. 

refs. PL CXLIV 660^6 and 185, 213^20. On authorship see 

Glorieux, Migne, 60 and Schneyer, Repertorium, IV no. 4 (also 

Schneyer, Repertorium,VIII 376). See also Leclercq, ‘Les collections 

de sermons’, 47^82. 

[t2 r ] Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-; Bernhardus 

Cluniacensis]: ‘Dominica nona epistola beati Bernardi abbatis 

ad Matheum Albanensem episcopum super omelia sua de villico 

iniquitatis’. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 661 (letter only) and 184, 1021^32. On 

authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 72. 

[t6 v ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 644^7, 639^44, 415^30. PL CLXXXIV 

1001^10. PL CLXXXIII 669^71, 429^48; Bernardus, Opera, V 

217^61; VI/1, 266^7; V 262^88. On authorship see Glorieux, 

Migne, 70 and Leclercq,‘Sermon pour l’Assomption’, 261^70. 

[y5 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘Item sermo de beata 

Maria’. 


Migne, 72. 

[y8 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 634^7, 447^86, 343^60, 489^514; 

Bernardus, Opera, V 288^303, 327^70, 417^23, 304^26, 399^417, 

and 423^40. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 

r 

[D4 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Eodem die de triplici genere 

bonorum et vigilantia super cogitationibus’. 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 579^83. Bernardus, Opera, VI/1, 144^9 

(sermo XVI de diversis). On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 

v 

[D5 ] Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 513^36; Bernardus, Opera,V 440^7,370^98. 

r 

[E8 ] [Colophon.] 

[E9 r ] ‘Tabula in sermones’. 

refs. The table of contents omits several sermons which form 

part of the collection and in other parts bears only a minimal relationship 

to the actual contents. 

Brussels: [Fratres Vitae Communis], 9 June 1481. Folio. 

collation: [a^l 8 m 6 n^z A^D 8 E 10 ]. 

GW 3941; HC *2845 = 2911; Go¡ B-433; BMC IX 172; Pr 9334; 

BSB-Ink B-316; Campbell 273 = 267; CIBN B-263; Hillard 332; 

HPT II 397; ILC 389; Oates 3852^3; Sheppard 7181. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled paper 


leaf: 287 ¿ 204 mm. 

On [a1 r ] list of abbreviations and symbols in an early hand. 

On [a2 r ] a eight-line initial is supplied in blue with reserved white 

£oral in¢ll on a red ground and with pen-£ourishing in brown. 

Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital 


Provenance: On [a 2 r ] a cancelled inscription ‘Ex libris fr [ . . .] S. 

Gregorii’ in an early hand. On [a2 r ] in a nineteenth-century 

German hand ‘J. S. L. Mu« cker’. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� 

(1787^1854); book-label; see sale (1835), lot 677. Purchased for 




Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis [repr. of 

¢rst collection]. 

r 

A2 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 



r 

B2 Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Homiliae super evangelio Missus 



v 

C6 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 



L1 r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘Sermo secundus vnde 

supra’. [= In cena domini. Also known as Sermo de excellentia 

ss. sacramenti et dignitate sacerdotum.] 


v 

L4 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 

[Pars �stivalis.] 


r 

S7 Bernardus Claravallensis: [Epistola.] ‘Sermo secundus vnde 

supra’. 


v 

S7 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 



Y6 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones in psalmum Qui habitat. 


Cc1 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de diversis. ‘De nimia 



Hh4 r Bernardus Claravallensis: De quattuor parabolis. ‘De ¢lio 

regis’. 


Ii2 v Bernardus Claravallensis: De tribus ordinibus ecclesie. [Also 



v 

Ii3 Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermones] exhortatorii ad fratres. 



messis II.] 


Ii6 r Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermones] consolatorii ad fratres. 




v 

Ii7 Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Epistola . . . in sermonem sequentem’.


[b-187^b-188 


Ii7 v ‘Tituli’. 

v 

Ii7 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermo exhortatorius ad milites templi. 


v 

Kk6 Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Sermo] ad clerum in concilio 



Kk8 v Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Capitula sermonis sequentis ad 

clericos’. 

Ll1 r Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermo] exhortatorius ad clericos. 


r 

Mm2 Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Sermo] exhortatorius ad 

clericos. 


v 

Mm6 Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Bernardus de Toledo: 



r 

Nn5 ‘Tituli sermonum’. 

r 

Oo2 [Anonymous letter addressed to] Peter Drach. Incipit: ‘Placuit 

mihi vehementer diebus superioribus . . .’ 

refs. Dated Heidelberg, 31 Aug. [14]81. 

r 

Oo2 [Alphabetical index.] 

Pp6 r ‘I nunc, i tandem totum, Bernarde, perorbem > Protinus exilias, 

ne tua fama cadat’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

[Speier]: Peter Drach, [after 31 Aug. 1481, not after 1482]. Folio. 

collation: A^N 8 n 6 O^Z Aa 8 Bb 10 Cc^Mm 8 Nn^Pp 6 . 

GW 3942; HC *2846 = H 2842; Go¡ B-437; BMC II 491; Pr 2339; 

BSB-Ink B-321; CIBN B-246; Sack, Freiburg, 576; Sheppard1700. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German half pigskin over wooden 

boards, with two metal clasps. Lozenge-shaped £eur-de-lis 

stamp on both covers. Size: 297 ¿ 208 ¿ 80 mm. Size of 

leaf: 285 ¿ 202 mm. 


Provenance: Bernardus Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1457^ 

1523). Schwa« bisch-Gmu« nd, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, S. 

Ludovicus; inscription on A 2 r : ‘Pertinet ad PP Franciscanos 

Gamundi� ex Bibliotheca Adelmannica empta’. Georg Franz 

Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label; see sale (1835), lot 678. 




Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis. 

a2 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 



a7 r Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Homiliae super evangelio Missus 



b7 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 87^130; Bernardus, Opera, IV 197^270. 

d3 r [Nicolaus Claravallensis: Sermones.] 


v 

e2 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 129^62, 359^72; Bernardus, Opera, IV 270^ 

3, 277^81, 273^6, 282^334; VI/1, 28^9; IV 334^44. 

g 1 v Guerricus Abbas Igniacensis [pseudo-]: ‘Sermo. . . de puri¢candis 

et adornandis cordium a¡ectibus’. 


g 3 v ‘Sententia de eodem’. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui vult in pace dimitti, conetur 

esse Symeon . . .’ 

g3 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 161^86, 376^98, 253^74; Bernardus, Opera, 

IV 344^76; VI/1, 37^9; IV 377^80; V 110-72. 

k1 v Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘Sermo ii vnde supra’. [= In 

cena domini. Also known as Sermo de excellentia ss. sacramenti 

et dignitate sacerdotum.] 


k 4 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis 

[pars aestivalis]. 

refs. PL CLXXXIII 273^334, 397^404; Bernardus, Opera,V 73^ 

109, 112^48, 150^84. 

n 2 v [Nicolaus Claravallensis?]: ‘Sermo de priuilegiis beati 

Johannis’. 


n 5 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 403^16, 333^44,371^6; Bernardus, Opera,V 

185^209; VI/1, 40^3; V 209^13; VI/1, 29^37. 

o6 r Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-; Nicolaus Claravallensis]: 

‘In festo beate Marie Magdalene’. 


p1 v Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-; Bernhardus Cluniacensis]: 

‘Dominica nona epistola beati Bernardi abbatis ad Mattheum 

Albanensem episcopum super omelia sua de villico iniquitatis’. 


p4 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 415^30. PL CLXXXIV 1001^10. PL 

CLXXXIII 669^71, 429^48; Bernardus, Opera, V 228^61; VI/1, 

266^7; V 262^88. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70 and 

Leclercq,‘Sermon pour l’Assomption’, 261^70. 

r2 v Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Sermo de beata Maria.] 


r 4 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 


refs. PL CLXXXIII 447^86; Bernardus, Opera,V 294^303, 327^ 

70, 417^23. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 

t 1 v Bernardus Claravallensis: [Epistola.] ‘Sermo secundus vnde 

supra’. 


t 2 r Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, 



y 3 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones in psalmum Qui habitat. 


B3 v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermones de diversis. ‘De nimia 



G1 r Bernardus Claravallensis: De quattuor parabolis.‘Parabola . . . 

de ¢lio regis’. 

refs. See B-185.


427 

G5 r Bernardus Claravallensis: De tribus ordinibus ecclesie. [Also 



G5 v Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermones] exhortatorii ad fratres. 



messis II.] 


H1 r Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermones] consolatorii ad fratres. 




r 

H2 Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Epistola . . . in sermonem sequentem’. 


r 

H2 Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermo exhortatorius ad milites templi. 


v 

H6 Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Sermo] ad clerum in concilio 



I1 v Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermo] exhortatorius ad clericos. 


K1 v Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Sermo] exhortatorius ad 

clericos.‘Sermo secundus vnde supra’. 


K4 r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Bernardus de Toledo: 



K8 r [Colophon.] 

j1 r ‘Registrum perutile omnium punctorum tactorum in sermonibus 

. . . secundum ordinem alphabeti’. 

v 

j6 ‘Tituli sermonum’. 

Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1495. Folio. 

collation: a^c 8 d^z AÎ 6 K j 8 . 


BSB-Ink B-323; CIBN B-267; Sack, Freiburg, 578; Sheppard 

2488. 

COPY 



On a2 r a nine-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-£ourishing in 

red extending into the inner and lower margins. Other initials are 

supplied in red and occasionally blue; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 



Sermones de tempore et de sanctis [Dutch]. 

[*2 r ] ‘Die tafele van sinte Bernardus sermonen van dat winter stuck’. 

[*2 v ] ‘Die tafel van den somerstucke van sinte Bernardus sermonen’. 

a 1 r [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘[H]ier beghint dat boeck van sinte 

Bernaerdus sermonen . . .’ 

a1 r Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis 

[Dutch]. [Part I: winter.] Incipit:‘[T]is soe ingeset van den heyligen 

vaders, dat men die sonderlinghe grote hoechtiden voercomen sal 

mit ynnighen vasten . . .’ 

refs. For the manuscript tradition see J. Deschamps, 

Middelnederlandse Handschriften uit Europese en Amerikaanse 

Bibliotheken (Leiden, 1971), 254^6 no. 92 and J. van Mierlo, ‘De 

heilige Bernardus in de Middelnederlandse letterkunde’, Ons 

Geestelijk Erf, 27 (1953), 230^58, at 241^2. 

A1 r [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘[H]ier beghint dat somerstuck van 

sinte Bernardus sermonen . . .’ 

r 

A1 Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis 

[Dutch]. [Part II: summer.] Incipit:‘[D]ie leeu van Iudas geslachte 

heeft verwonnen . . .’ 

Zwolle: Pieter van Os, 27 May 1495. Folio. 

collation: [* 4 ] a^y A^G 6 H 4 I K 6 L 4 M^Y 2 A 6 B 4 C 6 . Leaf [*2] 

signed I. 

27 woodcuts, three woodcut borders. 

GW 3948; HCR 2854; Go¡ B-435; BMC IX 88; Pr 9145; BSB-Ink 

B-318; Campbell 276; CIBN B-269; HPT II 450; ILC 391; Oates 

3618^19; Scha« fer 43; Sheppard 7010^11. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch half calf; £oral tooling on 

spine; edges red; endpapers watermarked ‘J. Honig & Zoonen’; 

see H. Vorn, De papiermolens in de provincie Nord-Holland 

(Haarlem, 1960), for example I 123. Size: 265 ¿ 205 ¿ 50 mm. 


On [*1 r ] prayer in an early Dutch hand: ‘OO suuer ioncfrouwe 

Maria, weest mijn voersprecster altijt. O mechdelicke vrouwe, 

deelt mij mede van dijnre gracien. O fonteijn der genaden, veruolt 

die armoede mijnre sielen mit die volheit dijnre liefden. O solaes 

mijnre herten, sterct mij in allen dochden doer die menichuoldicheit 

dijnre sedelicker manieren. O’. 

The woodcuts partly coloured in yellow, green, and blue, and 

labelled in red or ink. On a1 r , A1 r , and occasionally elsewhere, 

initials are supplied in blue with reserved white decoration, and 

pen-work in¢ll and frame in red, touched with light green wash; 

principal initials are supplied in red with some pen-£ourishing; 

other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital 


Provenance: Inscription on 2 C 6 r : ‘Dit boeck hoert heer Symon 

Jansz[oon] alias Meyssen’ in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand. 

Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 

1834. 


SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Otto von Passau, Boeck des gulden throens. Haarlem: Jacob 

Bellaert, 25 Oct. 1484 (O-026(1)). 

Wanting [* 1] (the title, with woodcut). 

Binding: Sixteenth-century (Dutch?) blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards, two metal clasps and catches; much worn. On 

both covers ¢llets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is 

divided by ¢llets into triangular compartments. In the inner 

frame an unidenti¢ed round stamp; in the outer frame two concentric 

borders of cresting. Size: 293 ¿ 205 ¿ 72 mm. Size of 

leaf: 270 ¿ 190 mm. 

Decoration from the Ijsselstreek; see Aafje B. Lem and Lydia S. 

Wierda, ‘De Ijsselstreek’, Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen, 

Randversiering in Nordneederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende 

eeuw, ed. A. S. Korteweg (Zutphen, 1992), 116^29. On a1 r , 

A1 r and, occasionally, elsewhere initials are supplied in blue with 

reserved white decoration, pen-work in¢ll and a frame in red; 

principal initials are supplied in red with some pen-£ourishing;


[b-189^b-192 

other initials are supplied in red or blue, paragraph marks are 

supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Purchased for »1.1.0; see BooksPurchased (1851),8. 



Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris. 

a1 r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Bernardus Silvestris(?)]: 

Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris. ‘Epistola . . . super re 

familiari gubernanda’. Addressed to Raymundus, miles. 

refs. PL CLXXXII 647^51 (ep. 456). C. D. M. Cossar, The 

German Translations of the Pseudo-Bernhardine‘Epistola de cura 

rei familiaris’, Go« ppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 166 

(Go« ppingen, 1975), 97^102. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 

70 and Cossar p. ii; ascribed to Bernardus Silvestris in LThK II 

248. See also Gerhard Eis, Mittelalterliche Fachliteratur 

(Stuttgart, 1962), 29. 

a3 v Gerson, Johannes: De modo vivendi omnium ¢delium. 

refs. Gerson, Oeuvres,VIII no. 399, 1^5. 

[Paris]: Philippe Pigouchet, [c.1498]. 4 o . 


GW 3980; Pr 8210; CIBN B-281; Sack, Freiburg,561; Sheppard 6315. 

COPY 

Leaf a6 v is without Pigouchet’s device; see GWAnm. Bound with 

A-444; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of 

leaf: 182 ¿ 126 mm. 




blue. 



Floretus. 

a2 r ‘Prohemium’. 

a2 v [Bernardus Claravallensis pseudo-]: Floretus (cum commento).‘[N]omine 

Floretus liber incipit ad bona ceptus > Semper 

erit tutus eius documenta sequutus’; leonine hexameters alternate 

with the commentary. 

refs. Liber Floretus, ed. Arpa¤ d Orba¤ n, Mittellateinisches 

Jahrbuch, Beiheft 16 (Kastellaun and Hunsru« ck, 1979); see 

Walther, Initia, 11943. Also ascribed to Bonaventura and 

Johannes de Garlandia, see Henkel, Schultexte, 250^3; VL V 

756^9. 

a3 r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]stud est prohemium huius libri, quod 

diuiditur in tres partes . . .’ 

refs. The commentary of the Auctoresocto; see also A-485. 

[Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, c.1492]. 4 o . Assigned to [Antoine 

Caillaut] by GW (in Proctor’s Caillaut Type 5), but reattributed 

to Pigouchetby BMC. Sheppard dates to [c.1492], GW to [1490^5]. 

collation: aî 8 . 

GW 4005; C 991; Pr 7966; BSB-Ink F-159; Sheppard 6306. 

COPY 



Wanting the blank leaf i 8. 

Early marginal annotations: the same ‘nota’ marks appear in one 

contemporary hand in items1, 3, and 4, thus suggesting that these 

items, at least, travelled together before they were bound in the 

present binding. 


two-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied alternately in 

red or blue. 



Floretus. 

a1 v ‘Prohemium Floreti’. 

a2 r Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: Floretus (cum commento). 

‘[N]omine Floretus liber incipit ad bona ceptus > Semper erittutus 

eius documenta secutus’. 


r 

a2 [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]stud est prohemium huius libri, quod 



[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1491]. 4 o . 

collation: a^g 6 h 4 i 6 . 

r 

‘Accipies’ woodcut on a1 ; see Schreiber^Heitz no. 18. 


F-160; Schramm VIII p. 20; Schreiber V, 3432; Sheppard 1000; 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes deVerdena, Sermones‘Dormi secure’de tempore et de 

sanctis. Basel: [Printer of Me¡reth, ‘Sermones’ (Berthold 

Ruppel)], 28 June 1489 (J-205). 

Wanting h4. 


boards, one metal clasp. Yellow-edged leaves. On both covers 

double ¢llets form an intersecting double frame; the inner rectangle 

is divided by double ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments; 

in each compartment a small rosette stamp. Size: 225 ¿ 


Former front pastedown, now raised, a fragment of a late thirteenth-century 

parchment manuscript containing antiphons; former 

rear pastedown, now raised, a fragment of a twelfth-century 

parchment breviary with neums. 

Notes possibly concerning the following places: Langsdorf, 

Liecht, and Steinbach near Gie�en in Hesse; on a1 r of item 1, a 

note on sermons:‘dominica prima post festum natiuitatisgloriose 

semper uirginis Marie [8 Sept.] > dedicacio ecclesie in Sternbach 

honeste celebratur’and abiblical quote:‘Ex suis operibus cognoscitur 

. . . vt dicit saluator non . . .’ (not identi¢ed, similar to Mt 7). 

On a1 v of item 1, ‘Tullius 2 o Rethorice: Non su⁄cit haberi quod 

oportet dicere, sed requi[re]tur ipsum negotium dicere, prout 

qualitas auditoris exigit et requirit’ and a list of 12 rules for a 

preacher, incipit:‘Cautela prima, quod [ullus] [presentator] vereri 

d[ebet] de reuerencia exhibenda domini nostri Ihesu Christi et 

gloriose virginis Marie. Secunda, quod numquam proferat 

nomen Dei, beate virginis uel alicuius sancti sine ad[iectiuo] . . .’ 

On t 6 v of item1and a2 r of item 2,‘Doctores enim theologi allegantur 

uel in quolibetis uel supra . . .’ Copious marginal notes, occasional 

glosses in German, cf. g4 r . On i6 r copies of two letters 

relating to impediments to marriage, the ¢rst one by the plebanus 

of Liecht and dated 30 Jan. [14]96, the second one by Johannes


429 

Starck, viceplebanus of Langsdor¡. On the rear pastedown, a list 

of feast days and of names, some in German. 

Red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Acquired between 1835 and 1847; see Catalogus 

(1843), Appendix, 93. 


B-192A Bernardus Claravallensis 

Floretus. 

r 


Aa1 v ‘Prohemium Folreti(!)’. 

Aa2 r Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: Floretus (cum commento).‘[N]omine 


erit tutus eius documenta secutus’. 


Aa2 r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]stud est prohemium huius libri, 

quod diuiditur in tres partes . . .’ 


[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, c.1494]. 4 o . 

collation: Aa^Gg 6 Hh 4 Ii 6 . 

‘Accipies’ woodcut on Aa1 r ; see Schreiber^Heitz no. 18. 


F-162; CIBN B-289; Sack, Freiburg, 567; Schramm VIII p. 22; 

Schreiber V 3433; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 234. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Passio S. Meynradi. Basel: Michael Furter, 20 Sept. 1496 

(M-213(2)). 

Wanting Ff6 and the blank leaf Ii6. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) blue paper boards. Scar of an 

index tab on a1 of item 2. Remains of a paper label covering label 

in red and gilt at the head of the spine. Size: 203 ¿ 142 ¿ 13 mm. 


Notes in German in an eighteenth-century hand(?) on the back 

endleaf of item 2; see M-213. 



Bequeathed in 1834. This item was stolen from the Bodleian by 

Bruno Pagano (b. c.1942), using the name ‘C. B. Poli’ on 12 June 

1978, and was recovered on 14 Sept. 1978. The valuation ‘»3200’ 

was pencilled in on the front pastedown by the thief.The ink-written 

shelfmark‘Douce 92’ has been bleached from inside the upper 

cover, as have the impressions of the circular Douce stamp from 

both the title-leaves; the paper shelf number has also been almost 

completely removed from the foot of the spine. The site of the 

Douce book-plate has been covered up by pasting over it a copy 

of the anonymous [Trotter] book-plate, which does not belong 

here. Now restamped; a new Douce book-plate has been inserted. 



Floretus. 

Aa1 v [Prohemium.] 

Aa2 r Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: Floretus (cum commento).‘[N]omine 


erit tutus eius documenta secutus’. 


Aa2 r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]stud est proemium huius libri, quod 



Cologne: [Heinrich Quentell], 1499. 4 o . 

collation: Aa^Gg 6 Hh 4 Ii 6 . 

On A1 r a woodcut depicting a nativity scene. 


F-164; Oates 780; Schramm VIII p. 24; Schreiber V, 3434; Sack, 

Freiburg, 569; Sheppard 1045; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 235. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf Ii 6. 

Interleaved, with a German translation in rhymed couplets written 

in a ¢fteenth-centuryhand, incipit:‘Hy« e hebtsich an ein pu� ech 

zehantt, > Das ist von hu� bschen plu� mlein genant . . .’, see Henkel, 

Schultexte, 251. 


boards, one central boss and four corner-pieces on each cover, 

remains of two metal clasps; rebacked. On both covers ¢llets 

form a triple frame. In the central compartment a large round 

rosette stamp; in the middle frame, stamped scrolls with the 

inscription ‘MARIA’ in capitals; in the outer frame, a lozengeshaped 

£eur-de-lis stamp. Size: 225 ¿ 150 ¿ 30 mm. Size of 

leaf: 205 ¿ 132 mm. 

Occasional early interlinear notes. 


(1845), 4. 



Floretus. 

a2 r ‘Prohemium’. Incipit:‘[A]ntequam lecturam commenti tam sublimis 

tanquam profunde indaginis aggredi presumam . . .’ 

r 

a2 Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: Floretus (cum commento). 

‘[N]omine Floretus liber incipit ad bona cetus(!) > Semper erit 

tutus eius documenta secutus’. 


a2 v Gerson, Johannes: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[I]ncipit liber 

nomine Floretus a beato Bernardo Clareuallis metrice accumulatus 

ex pluribus sacre scripture voluminibus ad eruditionem vniuscuiusque 

in ¢de catholica. In cuius tituli continuatione quattuor 

tanguntur cause . . .’ 

refs. The author is here called Jarson. 

r 

m1 ‘Floreti tabule’. 

Lyons: Johannes Fabri, 21 June 1494. 4 o . Presumably reprinted 

from GW 4014, according to BMC. 

collation: a^z 8 h m 6 . 

GW 4016; HC *7183; C 990; Go¡ B-396; BMC VIII 307; Pr 8626; 

BSB-Ink F-161; Hillard 340; Sheppard 6685. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; gilt roll on turn-ins; ¢llets on 

spine; edges red; marbled pastedowns. Size: 253 ¿ 175 ¿ 35 mm. 



Provenance: George Dunn (1865^1912); book-label. On rear 

endleaf, note by Quaritch dated 15 May [19]19. Sir Robert 

Leicester Harmsworth, Bart (1870^1937); sale (15^17 Mar. 1948), 

lot 4584. Purchased in 1948; see BLR 2 (1948), 229. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. F2.1494.1.


[b-195^b-199 


Meditationes de interiori homine, et al. 

[a1 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: Meditationes de interiori 

homine. [Also known as De cognitione humanae conditionis.] 

‘Contemplationes de interiori homine’. 


Migne, 71. 

r 

[b3 ] Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: De bona conscientia. 

[Also known as De conscientia aedi¢canda or Meditationes de 

interiori domo, cap. 1^22.] 


Migne, 71. 

r 

[c6 ] Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: De miseria vitae. 

‘Meditationes De miseriavite’. Incipit:‘[O] miseravita, que tantos 

in prosperis decipis, tantos seduxisti, tantos excecasti . . .’ 

refs. On authorship see GW. 

[c7 r ] ‘Oratio beati Bernhardi’. Incipit: ‘[O] dulcissime Christe, bone 

Hiesu, sicut desidero, sic tota mente peto . . .’ 

[c7 v ] ‘Alia oratio’. Incipit: ‘[D]omine Hiesu Christe, Christe qui es 

vnicus cum patre et spiritu sancto, piis precibus humiliter te 

deprecor . . .’ 

[Augsburg: Anton Sorg, c.1475, not after 1476]. Folio. 

collation: [a 10 b 6 c 7 ]. 



COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) blind-tooled calf imitating an 

earlier style. Size: 280 ¿ 212 ¿ 15 mm. Sizeof leaf: 271 ¿ 197 mm. 

Early marginal notes; on [a1 r ] glosses on the adjectives‘incomprehensibilis’, 

‘delectabilis’, ‘laudabilis’ and ‘amabilis’, incipit: 

‘Philosophus dicit: Sic se habet intellectus noster ad 

manifestissimam . . .’ 




(1846), 4. 



Meditationes de interiori homine. 

r 

[a1 ] Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: Meditationes [de interiori 

homine. Also known as De cognitione humanae conditionis.] 

‘Liber de contemplatione’. 


[Paris: Au Sou¥et Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii), c.1475]. 4 o . 

collation: [a 10 b c 8 ]. 

GW 4024; C 966; Go¡ B-402; BMC VIII 15; Pr 7901; CIBN B-293; 

Rhodes 323; Sheppard 6112. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) blind-tooled calf (BM Duplicate 

List dates c.1830). Size: 213 ¿ 153 ¿ 12 mm. Size of leaf: 203 ¿ 

144 mm. 

Principal initial is supplied in interlocked red and blue; other 


blue. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.c.11’; see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, part of lot 2271(?). London, 

British Museum; shelfmark ‘IA 39231’; duplicate stamp. 

Transferred to the Bodleian in Oct. 1913; see ‘List of Duplicate 

Incunabula’ (Library Records c. 1054), no. 29. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. e. F1.1475.1 




a1 r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: Meditationes [de interiori 



[Paris: Antoine Caillaut, c.1483^4]. 4 o . 


GW 4026; BMC VIII 46; Pr 7930B; CIBN B-294; Sheppard 6186. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century half blue morocco, for the Bodleian 

Library; paper wrappers from a German book bound in. Size: 



Provenance: Purchased for 45 Francs from Anatole Claudin, 10 

July 1900, no. 98404; see Library Bills (1900). 




r 

a2 ‘Annotatio capitulorum’. 

a5 r Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: Meditationes [de interiori 


refs. Each chapter is preceded by a short summary; see B-195. 

[Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1492. 8 o . 

collation: a^d 8 . 



COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century green cloth, for the Bodleian 




Provenance: Collation note signed ‘J. Baer’. Purchased from 

Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog, 1884, no. 572, for 6 

Marks; see Library Bills, 17 May 1884. 




[*2 r ] ‘Annotatio capitulorum’. 

a1 r Bernardus [Claravallensis pseudo-]: Meditationes [de interiori 


refs. Each chapter is preceded by a short summary; see B-195. 

[Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, after 1492]. 8 o . Reprinted from 

Amerbach’s edition of 1492 (Go¡ B-404; Bod-inc. B-198), whose 

date is reproduced. Strasbourg is falsely named as the place of 

printing in the colophon (see BMC V p. xxxii). 

collation: [* 4 ] a^g 4 . 

GW 4033; HC 2884; Go¡ B-405; BMC V 379; Pr 5696A; Oates1927; 

Sheppard 3995.


431 

COPY 

Holes in g2 and g3 pasted over; text is supplied in an early hand. 

Binding: Twentieth-century half blue morocco, for the Bodleian 


Provenance: Purchased on 4 Aug. 1902 from Jacques Rosenthal 

(1854^1937). 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. f. G7.1492.1 

shelfmark: Inc. f. I4.3. 



a2 r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: Meditationes [de interiori 



[Lyons: Printer of Baldovinus Sabaudiensis (GW 3208), before 19 

Jan. 1492/3?]. 4 o . Dated tentatively [after 1500?] by GW; Pr dates 

[c.1495]; CIBN dates [before 19 Jan. 1492/3] on the basis of an 

ownership inscription reported by Pellechet no. 2116. 

collation: a b 6 . 

GW 4041; HC 2881; BMC VIII 347; Pr 8701A; CIBN B-298; 


COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century parchment; marbled pastedowns. 



initials are supplied alternately in red or blue. 

Provenance: Presented in 1964; see Friends of the Bodleian 

Annual Report (1964). 



Meditationes de interiori homine [English.] 

A1 v [Prologue by the translator,‘a deuoute student of the vnyuersytee 

of Cambrydge’.] Incipit: ‘[F]ull prou⁄table ben to vs traueylyng 

pylgrymes . . .’ 

refs. Dated 12 Sept. 1495. 

A2 r [Table of contents.] 

r 

A3 Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Meditationes de interiori homine 

[English.] Incipit: ‘[M]any there ben that knowe [and] vnderstonde 

many other thynges . . .’ 

Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 9 Mar. 1496. 4 o . 

collation: A 8 BÊ 6 . 

On A1 r a woodcut depicting a monk (probably St Bernard); on E6 v a 

woodcut depicting the cruci¢xion; woodcut initials. 

GW 4043; Pr 9699; Du¡ 41; Sheppard 7439; STC 1916. Facsimile: 

English Experience, no. 847 (Amsterdam, 1977). 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes de Hildesheim, The most excellent treatise of the three 

kynges of Coleyne. Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, [c.1496] 

(J-165(1)); 

3. Salomon et Marcolphus, Dialogus [English]. Antwerp: Gerard 

Leeu, [between 27 July 1489 and1492] (S-045). 

Until 1869, this volume also contained: 

4. Ars moriendi [English.] [Westminster: William Caxton, c.1491] 

(A-454; present shelfmark: Arch. G f.9); 

5. Governayle of helthe and Medicina stomachi. [Westminster: 

William Caxton, 1489] (G-168; present shelfmark: Arch. G f.10). 


Library, in the style of the Tanner collection, but rebacked. Size: 


On E 6 v :‘God by god be my begynnyng’. 

Provenance: Unread inscription at the head of A2 r of item 1. On 

F6 v of item 1, inscription ‘Liber iste pertinet Johanni Michell j[ ] 

teste(?) Roberto Ebeley(?) . . . cum multis aliis’ in a sixteenth-century 

hand.ThomasTanner (1674^1735); name on A 2 r of item1and 

on A1 r of item 2. Bequeathed in 1735. 

shelfmark: Tanner 178(2). 


Modus bene vivendi. 

v 

a1 ‘Tabula huius operis’. 

a2 r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Thomas de Frigido Monte 

(Froidmont)]: Modus bene vivendi. 

refs. PL CLXXXIV1199^1306. On the authorship see Glorieux, 

Migne, 74. 

Venice: Bernardinus Benalius and Matteo Capcasa, 16 Dec. 1490. 

4 o . 


GW 4046; HR 2892 = H 2891; Go¡ B-412; Pr 4875; Sheppard 3981. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco; bound for 

the Bodleian Library. Size: 230 ¿ 170 ¿ 10 mm. Size of 

leaf: 221 ¿ 159 mm. 


Provenance: Purchased in 1860 for »0. 3. 0; see bill from Parker 

dated Oct. 1860, Library Bills fol. 218; see Books Purchased 

(1861), 7. 




a1 v ‘Tabula huius operis’. 

r 

a2 Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Thomas de Frigido Monte 



Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 30 May 1492. 8 o . 

collation: a^k 8 l m 6 . 


T-335; CIBN B-301; Sheppard 3985. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf m 6. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter green morocco; the 

spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns; for Boutourlin. Size: 



An initial is supplied in red; red capital strokes. 


book-plate and shelfmark no. 480, see Catalogue (1831); not 

found in Catalogue (1841). Purchased for »0. 4. 0; see Books 




[b-204^b-208 



[*1 v ] ‘Tabula huius operis’. 

r 




Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 30 May 1494. 8 o . 

collation: [* 2 ] a^n 8 . 

GW 4048; HCR 2896; Go¡ B-414; BMC V 375; Pr 4888; CIBN 

B-302; Oates 1921^2; Sheppard 3996. 

COPY 

Leaf n 8 repaired. 

Leaf [*2 v ] is here blank, described in other copies as containing 

the printer’s device. 

Binding: Modern parchment. Size: 158 ¿ 112 ¿ 14 mm. Size of 

leaf: 153 ¿ 98 mm. 

Provenance: Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932). Presented in 

1913. 



Modus bene vivendi [Italian]. 

[*1 v ] [Prologue by the translator.] Incipit:‘Essendo sta piu h piu uolte, 

o Laura in Christo ¢gliola mia, con piatosissima importunita 

rechiesto da la bona memoria . . .’ 

[*3 r ] ‘La tabula de questo libro deuotissimo’. 

[*4 v ] [Colophon.] 

r 


(Froidmont)]: Modus bene vivendi [Italian]. ‘El modo del ben 

uiuer’. Incipit: ‘[C]arissima molto a mi in Christo sorella, auendo 

me tu za longo tempo pregato che io scriuesse h destinasse ad te 

qualche parola admonitoria al ben uiuere . . .’ 

Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [c.1494]. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^d 8 e^g 6 hô 8 . 

GW 4052; HR 2897; Go¡ B-417; BMC V 375; Pr 4902; Sheppard 

3997. 

COPY 

Binding: Parchment. Size: 220 ¿ 162 ¿ 14 mm. Sizeofleaf: 210 ¿ 

149 mm. 

Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark suggests 

a date of 1886. 



Modus bene vivendi [Italian]. 

[*1 r ] [Prologue by the translator.] ‘Sermone composto dal traductore 

di questa opera in uulgare a Laura sua ¢gluola religiosa’. Incipit: 

‘Essendo stato gia piu h piu uolte, o Laura in Christo ¢gluola mia, 

con piatosissima importunita richiesto dalla buona memoria . . .’ 

[* 3 r ] ‘La tauola di questi deuotissimi sermoni’. 

a1 r Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Thomas de Frigido Monte 

(Froidmont)]: Modus bene vivendi. ‘Del modo del ben uiuere’. 

Incipit: ‘[C]arissima molto a me in Christo sorella, hauendomi tu 

gia lungo tempo pregato che io scriuessi h destinassi a te qualche 

parola amonitoria al ben uiuere . . .’ 

Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini, 

27 Jan. 1495/6. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] aî K l^p 8 . 

On [*1 r ] a woodcut depicting St Bernard handing the book to a nun. 


GW 4053; H *2898; C 960; Go¡ B-418; BMC VI 683; Pr 6359; 

BSB-Ink T-336; CIBN B-305; Hillard 347; Sander 956; Sheppard 

5245. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering o. 


leaf: 191 ¿ 125 mm. 

Provenance: Alessandro, Count Mortara (�1855). Purchased in 

1852 from Count Mortara. 

shelfmark: Mortara 489. 


De planctu Beatae MariaeVirginis. 

[a1 r ] Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-; Oglerius deTridino]: De 

planctu Beatae MariaeVirginis [version B.] 

refs. Altprovenzalische Marienklage des XIII. Jahrhunderts, ed. 

W. Mushacke, Romanische Bibliothek, 3 (Halle an der Saale, 

1890), 41^50; C.W. Marx,‘The Quis dabit of Oglerius de Tridino, 

Monk and Abbot of Locedio’, Journalof Medieval Latin, 4 (1994), 

118^29, at 122^9. Other versions have been edited by K. Chr. J.W. 

deVries, De Mariaklachten, Zwolse drukken en herdrukken voor 

de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden, 48 

(Zwolle, 1964), 59^64 and 277^92 [version A] and in PL 

CLXXXII 1133^42 [version C]. On the authorship see H. Barre¤ , 

‘Le Planctus Mariae attribue¤ a' Bernard’, Revue d’asce¤ tique et de 

mystique, 28 (1952), 243^66, at 252^9 (where it is suggested that 

the De planctu is an extract from the Tractatus in laudibus Sancte 

Dei Genitricis), and VL I 793^4. 

[Cologne: Printer of Dictys (Arnold Ther Hoernen), c.1470]. 4 o . 

For the dating see Needham,‘Cologne Partners’, 106^8. 


GW 4055; C 986; Go¡ B-420; Pr 983; CIBN B-307; Sheppard 749; 


COPY 





De planctu Beatae MariaeVirginis. 

r 

[a1 ] Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-; Oglerius de Tridino 

(Trino)]: De planctu Beatae MariaeVirginis [version B.] 


[Cologne: Nicolaus Go« tz, c.1475]. 4 o . 


GW 4060; C 985; Go¡ B-424; BMC I 239; Pr 1116; CIBN B-308; 

Oates 599; Sheppard 848; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 244. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century red cloth, for the Bodleian Library. 

Size: 198 ¿ 140 ¿ 10 mm. Size of leaf: 190 ¿ 130 mm.

-208^b-211] bernardus de gordonio 

433 




a date of1884. 



Speculum de honestate vitae, et al. 

[a1 r ] Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-; Bernardus Silvestris(?)]: 

Speculum de honestate vitae. [Also known as Formula honestae 

vitae.] Incipit: ‘[P]etis a me, ¢li et frater, quod nunquam et nusquam 

aliquem a suo prouisore audiui petisse . . .’ 

refs. PL CLXXXIV 1167^82, but with slightly di¡erent incipit. 

On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 73^4. 

[a4 v ] Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-]: ‘Octo puncta mediante 

quibus peruenitur ad perfectionem vite spiritualis’. 

refs. PL CLXXXIV1181^6. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 

74. 

[Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1475]. 4 o . Dated by CIBNaccording to the 

state of the type; GWand Sheppard date [c.1473]. 



B-356; CIBN B-311; Hillard 349; Oates 390; Sheppard 685^6; 


FIRST COPY 

Bound with A-026(1); see there for details of binding and provenance. 


Occasional marginal notes in a seventeenth-century hand, also 

found in other items in the volume. 


SECOND COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards; bound for Klo�. 






see sale (1835), lot 617. J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837), 1836; 

inscription on front pastedown; sale (1837), lot 71; purchased for 




Speculum de honestate vitae, et al. 

a1 r Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-; Bernardus Silvestris(?)]: 

Speculum de honestate vitae. [Also known as Formula honestae 

vitae.] 


r 

a3 Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-]: ‘Octo puncta mediante 

quibus peruenitur ad perfectionem vite spiritualis’. 


Migne, 74. 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1497^9]. 4 o . Dated by CIBNaccording 

to the state of the type; GW dates [c.1490^6], Sheppard [1491^ 

1500]. Pr did not distinguish this edition from GW 4075. 



GW 4077; H *2902; Go¡ B-446; Pr 3769; BSB-Ink B-359; CIBN 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes Burckardus Argentinensis, Ordo missae. Rome: 

Stephanus Guillireti, 22 Oct. 1509; 

2. Bonaventura, De praeparatione ad missam. [Rome: Eucharius 

Silber, c.1500] (B-428); 

3. Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones circa confessionem seu 

Sacramentum poenitentiae. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1495] 

(T-193); 

5. Nicolaus [de Blony], De sacramentis. Logron‹ o: Arnaldo 

Guillen, de Brocar, 11 Oct. 1510; 

6. (bound within item 5:) Hieronymus Savonarola, In Psalmum 

XXX (31): Expositio vel Meditatio in psalmum In te domine speravi. 

[Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, c.1499] (S-076); 

7. Albertus de Ferrariis, De horis canonicis. [Rome: Stephan 

Plannck, 1491^1500] (F-018D). 



Red-edged leaves. Size: 212 ¿ 153 ¿ 24 mm. Size of 

leaf: 206 ¿ 141 mm. 

Copious marginal notes in all items in Gomes’s hand in brown 

ink. 

Provenance: Juan Gomes (sixteenth century); inscription in the 

lower margin of a1 r of item 1 in brown ink: ‘Juan Gomes 

Madrigal’. John Selden (1584^1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 28, 

‘J. Burkard. Ordo missae’. Presented in 1659. 

shelfmark: 4 o B 6(4) Th. Seld. 

B-211 Bernardus de Gordonio 

Practica, seu Lilium medicinae. 

v 

[a1 ] Del Tuppo, Francesco: [Letter addressed to] Bernardinus 

Ghelardinus. 

refs. Fava^Bresciano II 48^9, n. 3. 

[a2 r ] Bernardus de Gordonio: [Introduction.] Incipit:‘[I]nterrogatus 

a quibusdam, Socrates quomodo posset optime dicere . . .’ 

[a2 r ] [Table of contents.] 

[a2 v ] Bernardus de Gordonio: Practica, seu Lilium medicinae. 

Incipit: ‘[F]ebris est calor innaturalis mutatus in igneum . . .’ 

refs. See George Sarton, ‘Lilium medicinae’, in Mediaeval 

Studies in Honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, ed. Urban T. 

Holmes and Alex J. Denomy (Cambridge, Mass., 1948), 239^56, 

and Luke F. Demaitre, Doctor Bernard de Gordon: Professor and 

Practitioner (Toronto, 1980), particularly 51^9. For the relationship 

to the ‘Lilium medicinae’of Gilbertus, see Sarton 239 ¡. 

Naples: Francesco delTuppo, for Bernardinus Gerardinus, 20 May 

1480. Folio. 

collation: [a^h 8 i k 6 l^z A 8 B 6 C 8 ]. 

GW 4080; H *7795; Go¡ B-447; Pr 6683; BSB-Ink B-333; Fava^ 

Bresciano II 48^9 no. 58; Osler, IM 198; Sheppard 5463. 

COPY 

Wanting [a1] [Sheppard notes that this is blank, not as GW]. 


leaf: 247 ¿ 187 mm. 

Early marginal annotations. On [C8 v ] notes in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand.

434 beroaldus, philippus 

[b-211^b-214 

Provenance: Hieronymus Taurinus (sixteenth century); signature 

in lower margin of [a2 r ]. Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, 

Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803^1869); purchased at 

his sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 1149, for »2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1859), 67. 

shelfmark: Auct. Q sup. 1.21. 

B-212 Bernardus Parmensis 

Casus longi super quinque libros Decretalium. 

[a1 r ] [Title-page.] 

[a1 v ] ‘Tabula’. 

r 

[a3 ] Bernardus [Parmensis: Introduction.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[R]ex paci¢cus’’, 

premissa salutatione, sic pone casum. In ista constitutione, 

rex paci¢cus, id est dominius noster Iesus Christus pia sua miseratione 

ab initio mundi disposuit seu preuidit subditos suos fore 

pudicos, paci¢cos et modestos . . .’ 

r 

[a3 ] Bernardus [Parmensis]: Casus longi super quinque libros 

Decretalium. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[F]irmiter credimus’’. Nota quod post 

symbolum apostolorum . . .’ 



Husner)], 1484. Folio. 

collation: [a^y 8.6 z 8 A 6 BÊ 8.6 FÎ 8 ]. 


456. 

COPY 

Leaf [a 1] torn; [I 8] damaged. Some leaves repaired in guttering. 

Binding: Contemporary German(?) blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards, with bevelled edges. Remains of catches; two 

clasps lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of 

the upper cover. On both covers double ¢llets form two frames, 

the inner rectanglebeing subdivided bydouble ¢llets into triangular 

compartments. On the upper cover the inner rectangle is decorated 

with the following repeated stamps: a circular rosette, a 

circular deer, a circular swan, a circular double-headed eagle, a 

lozenge-shaped eagle, and a circular cross motif. On the lower 

cover the frames are decorated with the lozenge-shaped eagle 

stamp, small, circular evangelist stamps, and a circular unicorn 

stamp, all repeated; the inner rectangle is decorated with these 

stamps, also the stamps from the upper cover and an oval-shaped 

S. Barbara, all repeated, and a circular Cruci¢xion, and circular 

Madonna and Child. Parchment endleaves and pastedowns. 


The gatherings are signed by hand. Early marginal notes. 

Provenance: Thomas Williamson (sixteenth century); signature 

on [a1 r ]. Ralph Hedingham (sixteenth century); damaged inscription 

on [I8 v ]: ‘pertinet Radulph Hedyngham’. Thomas Grey (sixteenth 

century); signature on verso of lower parchment endleaf: 

‘Magistri Tho. Grey Specsals’. Probably acquired between 1674 

and 1738; see Fysher, Catalogus, I 143, but not in Hyde, 

Catalogus (1674). 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: B 5.8 Jur.; C 4.16 Th.; C 1.4 Jur. 


B-213 Bernardus, Johannes 

Vocabulista ecclesiastico [Italian and Latin]. 


a1 r [Verse.] ‘Signe¢cata(!) volens scripturae noscere sacrae > Haec 

legat, explanat saxea uerba pie’; 2 elegiac distichs. 


a2 r 

[Forte], Johannes Bernardus: [Introduction.] Incipit: 

‘[P]lerosque diuino cultui dedicatos esse cognoscimus . . .’ 

a 3 r 

[Forte], Johannes Bernardus: Vocabulista ecclesiastico 

[Italian]. Incipit: ‘Ah ah ah. El propheta quasi piangendo diceua, 

ah ah ah signore dio . . .’ 

Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani, 17 Nov. 1496. 8 o . 

collation: a^r 8 s 4 . 

GW 4091; CR 1000; Go¡ B-359; BMC VI 685; Pr 6365; Oates 2427; 


COPY 

Wanting a1, the title-page, which has been replaced by a typefacsimile. 


leaf: 135 ¿ 95 mm. 

Early marginal note in red on p 4 v . 

On a2 r a six-line initial ‘P’, on c2 v a three-line initial ‘C’, and on s4 r 

initials ‘X’,‘Y’, and ‘Z’, are all supplied in red. 

Provenance: Dominus Fabianus de Clusereto (£. 1503); inscription, 

in red, on s4 v : ‘Libellus iste est mei dompni Fabiani de 

Clusereto, quem emi Florentiae decem soldorum die 28 Jan. 

1503’. Giacomo, Count Manzoni (1816^1889) Catalogue, part II 

(1893), no. 3678. Purchased in 1893; purchase not identi¢ed in 

Library Bills. 

shelfmark: Inc. f. I9.1496.1. 

B-214 Beroaldus, Philippus 

Annotationes centum (ed. Hieronymus Salius 

Faventinus). 

a1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Ulrich von 

Rosenberg. 

refs. Philippus Beroaldus, Annotationes Centum, ed. Lucia A. 

Ciapponi, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 131 

(Binghamton, NY, 1995), 53^6. For the dedicatee see Beroaldus, 

Annotationes Centum, ed. Ciapponi, 6, note 3. 

a3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Annotationes centum. Edited by 

Hieronymus Salius Faventinus. 

refs. Beroaldus, Annotationes Centum, ed. Ciapponi, 57^163, 

with this edition discussed on 31. 

v 

h3 ‘Hendecassyllabon’.‘Vldrici nitidos lares adite > Centenae simul 

annotationes’; 26 hendecasyllables. 

refs. Beroaldus, Annotationes Centum, ed. Ciapponi, 164. 

h3 v [Erratum.] Incipit: ‘Vbi enarratur uersus ille satyrici poetae . . . 

Nomina dicuntur tituli debitorum presertim . . .’ 

Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, for himself and 

Benedictus Hectoris, 1488. Folio. 

collation: a b 6 c^h 4 . Leaf a3 signed fiii. 


B-360; CIBN B-336; Rhodes 332; Sheppard 5338. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae. Bologna: Franciscus de 

Benedictis for Benedictus Hectoris, 1487 (P-483). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco. On both covers 

double gold ¢llets form a frame, decorated with a dentelle roll; 

foliate and £oral roll on turn-ins; the spine gold-tooled; marbled

-214^b-216] beroaldus, philippus 

435 

pastedowns and endpapers; the gold stamp of the Bodleian 

Library on both covers. Size: 320 ¿ 220 ¿ 35 mm. Size of 

leaf: 310 ¿ 203 mm. 

Some early marginal annotations. 

Provenance: Sir Thomas Saunders Seabright, (1723^1761); 

armorial book-plate: see Howe, Book Plates, 26406. Purchased 

from Harding & Lepard, Catalogue (1830), no. 3562 for »2. 2. 0; 

see Library Bills (1829^32), no. 19, manuscript note on a2 r of item 

1, and Books Purchased (1829), 17. 

shelfmark: Auct. O 4.27(2). 


Annotationes centum, et al. 

a1 r [List of contents.] 

a2 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Ulrich von 

Rosenberg. 

refs. see B-214. 

a3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Annotationes centum. 

refs. see B-214; this edition is discussed in Beroaldus, 

Annotationes Centum, ed. Ciapponi, 31^2. 

c6 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Hendecasyllabon’.‘Vldrici nitidos lares 

adite > Centenae simul annotationes’; 26 hendecasyllables. 

refs. see B-214. 

c6 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Francesco Casati. 

Incipit: ‘[C]onsueuerunt religiosi agricolae primitias frugum diis 

immortalibus dicare . . .’ 

c7 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Contra Seruium annotationes’. [Also 

known as Annotationes in commentarios Servii Vergilianos.] 

Incipit: ‘[S]eruius, qui doctissimus a Macrobio nuncupatur, commentarios 

scripsit . . .’ 

e3 v [Concluding note addressed to] Francesco Casati. Incipit: 

‘[H]aec sunt uir praestantissime, quae partim in grammatica . . .’ 

e3 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Hendecasyllabon ad libellum’.‘I curre ad 

dominum citus libelle > I recta ad nitidi lares Casati’; 16 hendecasyllables. 

v 

e3 Beroaldus, Philippus: Annotationes in Plinium. Incipit: ‘In 

libro tertio, ubi sermo sit de Latinis populis . . .’ 

f1 r Politianus, Angelus: ‘Prefatio’ [addressed to] Lorenzo I de’ 

Medici. 

refs. Ma|« er I 213^17. 

f3 r [List of authors.] 

refs. Ma|« er I 218^19. 

f4 r [List of contents.] 

refs. Ma|« er I 220^3. 

v 

f5 Politianus, Angelus: Miscellanea centuria prima. 

refs. Ma|« er I 224^311. 

n1 r Calderinus, Domitius: ‘Ex tertio libro obseruationum’. Incipit: 

‘[V]ideo ‘‘a’’ praepositionem, quum in multas uariaque signi¢cationes 

pateat . . .’ 

n3 v Calderinus, Domitius: [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Sic mihi 

perpetuae contingant murmura laudis > Et bona post funus hora 

superstes eat’; elegiac distichs. 


o1 r Politianus, Angelus: Panepistemon. 

refs. Ma|« er I 462^73. 

o6 r Politianus, Angelus: Lamia. [Praelectio in priora Aristotelis 

Analytica.] 

refs. Angelo Poliziano, Lamia: praelectio in priora Aristotelis 

‘Analytica’, ed. Ari Wesseling, Studies in Medieval and 

Reformation Thought, 38 (Leiden, 1986), p. xxxiii (version C), 3^ 

115. 

r 

q1 Beroaldus, Philippus: [Introduction dedicated to] Hannibal 

Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘[L]ibuit has quoque annotaciunculas, inclyte 

Hannibal Bentiuolae . . .’ 

r 

q1 Beroaldus, Philippus: Appendix annotamentorum post 

Suetonii enarrationes. Incipit: ‘Plerique omnes ecclesiasticae litteraturae 

studiosi anxie et sitienter . . .’ 

q6 r [Epilogue addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Lector candide, 

o¡endes opinor interdum o¡endicula . . .’ 

q6 v Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Epigram] ‘ad librum’. ‘I liber 

Hannibalis genio su¡ultus et aura > Nec tu nasutum rhinocerota 

time’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

q6 v Tugerius Pontre[mulensis; Ugerius Pontremulensis]: 

‘Tetrastichon’.‘Venerit unde tibi liber hic si forte requiris > Crede 

mihi caelo nobile uenit opus; 2 elegaic distichs. 

refs. This epigram is ascribed to Ugerius Pontremulensis in 

Suetonius,Vitae XII Caesarum (Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 5 

Apr. 1493). 

r 

r1 Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Sigismondo 

Gonzaga. Incipit: ‘[A]ccipe, splendidissime et ultramondane 

Marchio, reuerendissime Protonotarie . . .’ 

r 

r1 Pius, Johannes Baptista: Annotamentum. Incipit: ‘[S]ubsiciuis 

horis et tumultuariis, quod aiunt . . .’ 

s5 v Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Valedictory letter addressed to] 

Sigismondo Gonzaga. Incipit: ‘[H]abes, reuerendissime prothonotarie, 

haec qualiacumque annotamenta . . .’ 

Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, for Angelus Britannicus, [17 

Dec.] 1496. Folio. The colophon reads: ‘saturnalibus 

M.cccc.xcvi’. For the date of this edition, see BMC. 

collation: a 6 aa 4 b c 8 d^m 6 n 4 o 6 p 4 q^s 6 . 

GW 4114; HC 2946; Go¡ B-465; BMC VII 991; Pr 7039; BSB-Ink 

B-361; CIBN B-337; Hillard 355; Sack, Freiburg, 591; Sheppard 

5813. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper 

boards; bound for Klo�; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library 

on both covers. Size: 318 ¿ 220 ¿ 21 mm. Size of leaf: 309 ¿ 

204 mm. 


see sale (1835), lot 219. Presumably the copy purchased for 

»1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 2, where it is listed as 

‘Annotationes doctorum virorum in grammaticos, oratores, 

poetas’. 

shelfmark: Auct. P 4.34. 


Annotationes in commentarios Servii Vergilianos. 

a1 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Francesco Casati. 

Incipit: ‘[C]onsueuerunt religiosi agricolae primitias frugum diis 


a1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: Annotationes in commentarios Servii 

Vergilianos. Incipit: ‘[S]eruius, qui doctissimus a Macrobio nuncupatur, 

commentarios scripsit in Virgilium maximae elegantiae 

nec minoris eruditionis . . .’


[b-216^b-220 

e5 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon ad libellum’.‘I curre ad 

dominum citus, libelle, > I recta ad nitidi lares casati’; 16 hendecasyllables. 

Bologna: Henricus de Colonia, 12 Nov. 1482. 4 o . 

collation: a b 8 cê 6 . 

GW 4115; HR 2944; Go¡ B-466; BMC VI 816; Pr 6543A; CIBN 

B-339; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf e6. On a1 r , last line, variant: ‘mus. ut magnus 

vir . . .’ (see CIBN). 

Binding: Brown calf with gilt-edged leaves, bound by [John] 

Clarke (£. 1821^1859) and [Francis] Bedford (1800^1884), presumably 

for the 1st or 2nd Earl of Leicester, between 1841 and 

1850. Size: 204 ¿ 138 ¿ 9 mm. Size of leaf: 201 ¿ 133 mm. 

Provenance: Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Earls of Leicester; shelfmark 

‘A1.B8’on front endleaf. Purchased in 1953. 

shelfmark: Holk. e.2. 


Annotationes in commentarios Servii Vergilianos. 

a1 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Francesco Casati. 

Incipit: ‘[C]onsueuerunt religiosi agricolae primicias frugum diis 


a1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: Annotationes in commentarios Servii 

Vergilianos. Incipit: ‘[S]eruius, qui doctissimus a Macrobio noncupatur, 

commentarios scripsit in Virgilium maxime elegantiae 

nec minoris eruditionis . . .’ 

d7 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon ad libellum’.‘I curre ad 

domum citus, libelle, > I recta ad nitidi lares casati’; 16 hendecasyllables. 

[Milan: Simon Magniagus(?), c.1483^5]. 4 o . Prassigns to [Casal di 

SanVaso: Antonius de Corsiono]; see BMC VI p.xxviii. 

collation: a b 8 c 6 d 6+1 . 

29 leaves: GWcounts eight leaves in gathering d. Pellechet describes 

a copy with an eighth leaf, containing on the verso‘Sonetto contra 

pestilentia’, not mentioned by GW. 

GW 4116; Pr 7274; Pellechet 2206; Sheppard 4980. 

COPY 



shelfmark: Auct. O inf. 1.35(3). 


Carmen de die dominicae passionis. 

r 


a2 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Carmen de die dominicae passionis. 

‘Uenit mesta dies, rediit lachrymabile tempus > Sancta salutiferi 

celebrantur funera Christi’; hexameters. 


[Paris]: Jean Lambert, [c.1493]. 4 o . 


GW 4119; Pr 8294A; Claudin II 232^3; Sheppard 6458. 

COPY 

The Bodleian copy is illustrated in Claudin. 

Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century quarter brown morocco; 


leaf: 176 ¿ 125 mm. 

Early marginal annotations, some cropped. 

Provenance: Cancelled inscription on a6 v in a contemporary 

hand: ‘Istius libri possessor est Jacobus Dol . . .’ Anatole 

Claudin; slip pasted on the front endleaf. Purchased for Francs 

40 from A. Claudin, Paris, 29 Dec. 1899, no. 94894; see Library 

Bills (1900). 



Carmen de die dominicae passionis. 


v 

[* 1 ] Beroaldus, Philippus: Carmen de die dominicae passionis. 

‘[V]enit moesta dies, rediit lachrimabile tempus > Sancta salutiferi 

celebrantur funera Christi’; hexameters. 


[Erfurt]: Heidericus and Marx Ayrer, [c.1498]. 4 o . 

collation: [* 6 ]. Gathering numbered but not signed. 

Woodcut on [*1 r ]; see Schramm XIII pl. 325. 

GW 4120; Schramm XIII p. 7 and pl. 325; Schreiber V, 3439; not in 

Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Parchment manuscript wrappers, from a ¢fteenth-century 

antiphonary(?), with German neumes on a ¢ve-line stave. 

Formerly bound with, among other items, Poeniteas cito. 

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1499 (Donaueschingen sale catalogue, 

lot 265); probably rebound separately in Germany in the 

twentieth century. Size: 174 ¿ 134 ¿ 3 mm. Size of leaf: 166 ¿ 

122 mm. 

Copious contemporary interlinear manuscript notes. 

A two-line initial ‘V’ is supplied in black ink on [*1 v ].Woodcut is 

coloured in red, yellow, and green wash. Contemporary manuscript 

foliation: 23^38. 

Provenance: Donaueschingen, Baden-Wu« rttemberg, Court 

Library of Princes zu Fu« rstenberg; Donaueschingen shelfmark: 

‘Donau.Inc.81’, on label on the upper cover; sale, London: 

Sotheby’s, 1 July 1994, lot 47. Purchased in 1994 for »13,089.67; 

see ledger (1993/4), no. 569. 



Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris. 


v 

[* 1 ] Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Sidlovitius. 

Incipit: ‘[P]ortium Catonem Tusculanum illum, qui optimus orator, 

optimus senator, optimus imperator, est habitus . . .’ 

refs. See Krautter 16, and 23 n. 55, in which part of this letter is 

quoted. 

A1 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris. 

Incipit:‘[M]agna ac venerabilis res est eloquentiaviri ornatissimi, 

cuius bono nihil prestabilius . . .’ 

B3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: De optimo statu et principe. Incipit: 

‘[P]ars philosophiae est et ea quidem pulcherrima uiri clarissimi 

administrare rempublicam . . .’ 

Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 Dec. 1497. 4 o . 

collation: [* 2 ] A^D 8 E 4 . 



5387^8.


437 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Gaius Caecilius Plinius Secundus, Epistolae. Bologna: 

Benedictus Hectoris,19 Oct. 1498 (P-380); 

2. Gaius Caecilius Plinius Secundus, Ad Traianum epistolae 46. 

[Venice]: Johannes deTridino,Tacuinus, 11 May 1502. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English calf; perhaps bound for the 

Bodleian Library; with the gold stamp of the Library on both 

covers. On both covers double gilt ¢llets form a frame; single gilt 

¢llets on edges of boards; scroll on entwined bands on turn-ins; 

six compartments on the spine separated by double ¢llets; 

sprinkled turquoise-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns; green 

silk bookmark. Size: 213 ¿ 160 ¿ 35 mm. Size of leaf: 204 ¿ 

147 mm. 

From the evidence of missing text provided in both items 1 and 2 

in manuscript in the same contemporary hand, that of Guillaume 

Bude¤ (1462^1540) it is clear that at least the ¢rst two items have 

been travelling together from an early stage; on these notes see 

P-380. Aworm-hole shows that item 2 and Beroaldus were travelling 

together before they were put into the present binding. 

Some pointing hands in the margins. 

Manuscript foliation in black ink. 

Provenance: Guillaume Bude¤ (1467^1540). Thomas Hearne 

(1678^1735), 1708; signature and note on a1 r of item 1: note in 

Hearne’s hand: ‘This edition (collated with a MS t ) I bought in an 

auction in the year 1708 in Oxon . . .’; Hearne’s number:‘MS 90 E 

Pr 88’. Bequeathed to William Bedford (�1747). Listed in John 

Whiston’s list, MS. Rawl. D. 1167, fol. 12, no. 24: ‘Plinii Secundi 

Epistol� ^ Bonon. 1497. The above book is collated through with 

a manuscript’; the title of item 1 is con£ated with the imprint of 

item 3. Richard Rawlinson (1690^1755). Bequeathed in 1755. 

shelfmark: Auct. L 4.3(3). 

SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Philippus Beroaldus, De felicitate. Bologna: Benedictus 

Hectoris,13 Apr. 1499 (B-225(1)); 

3. Philippus Beroaldus, Heptalogos. Bologna: Benedictus 

Hectoris,18 Dec. 1498 (B-226); 

4. Philippus Beroaldus, Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris. 

Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris,1499 (B-222); 

5. Philippus Beroaldus, Oratio proverbiorum. Bologna: 

Benedictus Hectoris,17 Dec. 1499 (B-227). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch gold-tooled red morocco; 

see Foot,‘Incunable Collector’, no. 42. Size: 210 ¿ 150 ¿ 26 mm. 


Manuscript contents list in Gerard Meerman’s hand on the front 

endleaf.‘2101’on the verso of the front endleaf. 

Partial rubrication: some initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red ink. 

Provenance: Gerard Meerman (1722^1771); manuscript catalogue 

(MMW S 145 III, fol. 5 v , no. 645b); armorial book-plate; 

contents list (see above). Johan Meerman (1753^1815); purchased 

at his sale, vol. II, p. 77, lot 223, for £. 14: see Books Purchased . . . 

at the Sale of M. Meerman, p. 3, with auction number on label at 

the head of the spine. 


(B-221) Beroaldus, Philippus 

Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris et al. 

[Venice: Georgius de Rusconibus, c.1508]. 4 o . Dated from BMC 

(It). GW dates to [sixteenth century], BSB [1505?], IGI [after 

1500], Pr [after 1500(?)], R [c.1500]. 

collation: [a 4 b^n 8 ]. 

Some woodcut initials. 

GW IV col. 27; H 2961a; R 424; Go¡ B-477; BMC (It) 89; Pr 5712; 

BSB-Ink B-374; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century half brown morocco; bound for the 


135 mm. 

Early marginal annotations. 

Provenance: Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not found in 

Catalogus (1843), with Appendix; the shelfmark suggests a date 

of c.1850. 



Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris. 

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a1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Sigismund 

Gossinger. Incipit: ‘[S]citi elegantisque conuiuatoris est non tam 

apparatu ferculorum instruere . . .’ 

a3 r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Argumentum’. Incipit: ‘[P]ater qui tres 

¢lios habebat, unum scortatorem, alterum aleatorem, tertium 

ebriosum . . .’ 

a3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris. 

Incipit: ‘[N]on ignoro iudices quanto onere causa nostra 

prematur . . .’ 

refs. See D. Schmid, Die‘Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris 

de vitiositate disceptantium’ von Philippus Beroaldus und ihr 

Ein£u� auf die deutsche Fastnachtsdichtung (Freiburg in der 

Schweiz, 1947), particularly 4^30. 

Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1499. 4 o . Pr does not distinguish 

between Go¡ B-471 and B-472. Sheppard notes that the1499 edition 

described by BMC is GW 4131. 



B-344; Oates 2501; Rhodes 333; Sack, Freiburg, 593; Sheppard 

5398. 

COPY 





De felicitate. 

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[*2 r ] Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jakob II von 

Baden, Archbishop of Trier. 

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a1 Beroaldus, Philippus: De felicitate. Incipit:‘[M]agna res est, viri 

ornatissimi, et omnibus horis omnium uotis expetita felicitas . . .’ 

d7 r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Distichon ad auditores extemporaliter 

e¡usum’. ‘Felix cui constant bona corporis et bona mentis > Nec 

non fortunae munera parca deae’; 1 elegiac distich.


[b-223^b-225 

[Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Endecasyllabon’ [addressed to] 

Giovanni II Bentivoglio.‘Felix o nimis et beate princeps, > Cuius 

presidio est beata felix’; 10 hendecasyllables. 

d7 r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Eiusdem endecasyllabon’ [addressed 

to] Germania. ‘O Germania muneris repertrix > Quo nil utilius 

dedit uetustas’; 28 hendecasyllables. 

Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1 Apr. 1495. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^d 8 . 

GW 4132; HC 2969; Go¡ B-482; BMC VI 828; Pr 6606; BSB-Ink 


d7 r 

COPY 

Wanting gathering [*]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Manuscript foliation, perhaps by Ulisse Aldrovandi. 

Provenance: Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522^1605); inscription on d8 r : 

‘Tum perlegi die 23 August 1571 > Ego Ulisses Aldrovandus 

in . . .’ John Benjamin Charles Heath, Baron Heath (1790^1879); 

sale, Sotheby’s, 24 Apr. 1879, sold for »0. 9. 0. Ingram Bywater 

(1840^1914); Elenchus, no. 619. Bequeathed in 1914. 





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a2 Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jakob II von Baden. 

Incipit: ‘[S]oleo ipse mecum, illustris Marchio, cumprimis admirari 

iuuenes illos . . .’ 


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a3 Beroaldus, Philippus: De felicitate. Incipit:‘[M]agna res est viri 


e3 r [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Distichon ad auditores extemporaliter 


non fortunae munera parca deae’; 1 elegiac distich. 

e3 v [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Endecasyllabon’ [addressed to] 




v 

e3 [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Eiusdem endecasyllabon’ [addressed 



Bologna: Caligula de Bazaleriis, 1 Apr. 1495. 4 o . Reprinted from 

the edition of Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1 Apr. 1495, with 

the date in the colophon unchanged (Sheppard and BMC VI 836). 

collation: aê 4 . 



COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Leonellus Chieregatus, Sermo in publicatione confoederationis 

inter Alexandrum VI et Romanorum reges. [Rome: Johann 

Besicken, after 12 Apr. 1495] (C-187); 

3. Petrus Hispanus, Flores. Strasbourg: Matthias Schuerer, May 

1513; 

4. Ladislaus de Macedonia, Oratio habita Norimbergae coram 

Senatus Principum et omnium ordinum sacri Romani Imperii, pro 

expeditione inTurcos. [Nuremberg?], 29 Nov. 1522; 

5. Hieronymus Gebweiler, Epitome. Gendorf bei Baldramsdorf: 

Johann Setzer, Aug.1530; 

6. Johannes Regiomontanus, De magnitudine cometae. 

Nuremberg: Fridericus Peypus, 1531; 

7. Franciscus Bella¢nus, De origine et temporibus urbis Bergomi. 

Descriptio agri et urbis Bergomatis M. A. Michaelis.Venice: I. A. 

and Brothers de Sabbio, May 1532; 

8. Magistratuum regni Neapolitano. Salerno, 1544; 

9. Johannes Sturmius, Dialogi duo in partitiones oratorias 

Ciceronis. Paris: Jean Loys, deThielt, 1543; 

10. Paulus III, Pont. Max., Bulla ‘Laetare Hierusalem’. Louvain: 

Servatius Zassenus, Jan. 1545; 

11. Fridericus Nausea, Super deligendo futurae in Germania 

Synodi loco Catacrisis una cum Coloniae et Ratisbonae civitatum 

topothesia.Vienna: Johann Singriener, 1545; 

12. Concordata nationis Germanicae cum Sancta Sede Apostolica 

pro ipsius ecclesiae unione. Louvain: Antonius Maria Bergaigne, 

1554; 

13. Pius IV, Pont. Max., Motus proprius super parrochialium ac 

aliarum ecclesiarum curatarum collationibus. Brescia: for 

Johannes Baptista Bozola, 1563; 

14. Georg Meier, Testamentum: psalm cxxvi. Dresden: Mattheus 

Stoeckel, 1570; 

15. Octavius Bandinius, Oratio in obitum Cosmi Medicis, 19 June 

1574. Florence: Juntae, 1574; 

16. Marcus Antonius Muretus, Oratio in funere Karoli IX 

Gallorum Regis. Florence: Juntae, 1574; 

16a. Benedetto Betti, Ordine dell’apparato fatto da’ Giovanni della 

Compagnia di San Giovanni Vangelista. Florence, 1574; 

17. Achilles Statius, Oratio obedientalis. Rome: Josephus de 

Angelis, 1574; 

18. Achilles Statius, Lusitanorum regum insignia. [Rome: 

Josephus de Angelis, 1574]; 

19. Pontius Scalma, Oratio de observantia. Piacenza: Franciscus 

Comes, 1575; 

20. Camillus Lomatius, Actio gratiarum, 6 June 1575. Piacenza: 

Franciscus Comes, 1575; 

21. Calendarium et index festorum et ieiuniorum secundum 

Metropolitanae Ecclesiae Pragensis. Prague: Michael Peterle, 

1578; 

22. Chronologia ecclesiastica. Bologna: Societas Typographiae, 

1580; 

23. Paulus Radegius, Decas tertia thesium de historia ¢dei 

Christianae. Basel: Heirs of Johann Oporinus, 1582; 

24. Georg Zigli, Libertatis Germanicae querela. Libertatis 

Helveticae. [N. pl.: n. pr.], 1586. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English half calf over marbled 

paper boards, bound uniformly with other books of the ‘G. 

Pamph.’ collection. Size: 200 ¿ 148 ¿ 55 mm. Size of leaf: 191 ¿ 

137 mm. 

Occasional ‘nota’ lines against sections of the text, and a pointing 

hand, in faded black ink, on d2 v . 

Provenance: Charles Godwyn (1700?^1770). Bequeathed in1770. 

shelfmark: G. Pamph. 1829(1). 



A1 r [Title-page.]


439 

A1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letteraddressed to] Jakob IIvon Baden. 

Incipit: ‘[S]oleo ipse mecum, illustris Marchio, cumprimis admirari 

iuuenes illos . . .’ 

A3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: De felicitate. Incipit:‘[M]agna res est viri 


r 

D4 [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Distichon ad auditores extemporaliter 


non fortunae munera parca deae’; 1 elegiac distich. 

D4 r 

[Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Endecasyllabon’ [addressed to] 




r 

D4 [Beroaldus, Philippus]: ‘Eiusdem endecasyllabon’ [addressed 



Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 Apr. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: A^C 8 D 4 . 

GW 4134 (+ Anm.); HC Addenda, *2971; Go¡ B-484; BMC VI 844; 

Pr 6641; BSB-Ink B-367; CIBN B-346; Sheppard 5393^4. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with B-220(2); see there for details of binding and acquisition. 



SECOND COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half calf, with mottled 

blue paper boards. Size: 215 ¿ 160 ¿ 9 mm. Size of leaf: 209 ¿ 

152 mm. 

Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Elenchus, no. 620. 




Heptalogos. 


a2 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes 

Vartimbergensis. Incipit: ‘[M]ulta me, amabilissime mi 

Iohannes, ut tibi libellum hunc nominatim dedicem hortantur. . .’ 

a3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Heptalogos. [Also known as Septem 

sapientes.] Incipit: ‘[M]agnum miraculum est homo viri ornatissimi, 

maximum miraculum est sapiens homo . . .’ 

c7 r [Verse.] ‘Respicito ¢nem uitai. Noscito temet. > Optima mensura 

est, sponsio damna dabit’; 2 elegiac distichs. 



GW 4138; HC, Addenda, *2974; Go¡ B-487; BMC VI 844; Pr 6640; 

BSB-Ink B-375; Sheppard 5392. 

COPY 





Oratio proverbiorum. 


a1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Christopherus 

Vaitimillius. Incipit: ‘[C]omplusculi ex Boemia scholastici ad 

capiendum ingenii cultum . . .’ 

a3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Oratio proverbium. Incipit: ‘[S]ocrates 

ille philosophorum fons, uiri clarissimi, quem oraculum 

Apollinis sapientissimum mortalium esse prodidit . . .’ 

c8 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epilogus’. Incipit:‘Habetis uiri clarissimi 

sententias populares, non populari opinor. . .’ 


collation: a^c 8 d 4 . 



COPY 



Wanting the blank leaf d4. 



Orationes et poemata. 

a1 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Martinus ‘Boemus’. 

Incipit: ‘[C]ollegi nuper oratiunculas nonnullas uariis a me temporibus 

. . .’ 

a1 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Orationes. Incipit:‘[P]rudentis litterarum 

professoris o⁄cium est, uiri prestantissimi . . .’ 

d 7 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epigramma’ addressed to Ludovicus 

Sforza. ‘Hesperios inter ductores Inclite princeps > Principe quo 

status hic sospite, sospes erit’; elegiac distichs. 

refs. Poem located among ‘Orationes’. 

d7 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus 

Chalcus. Incipit: ‘‘‘Opusculum de nuptiis Bentiuolorum’’, quod 

nuper excucudi tibi . . .’ 

refs. Beroaldus’s Nuptiae Bentivolorum was written to celebrate 

the marriage of Annibale Bentivoglio and Lucrezia d’Este in1487. 

d 8 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Nuptiae Bentiuolorum’. Incipit: 

‘[G]entem Bentiuolorum multos iam annos Bononiae £orentissimam 

. . .’ 

e 7 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon’, addressed to the book. 

‘Quo tu quo properas recens, libelle? > Extra limina cur cupis 

uagari?’; hendecasyllables. 


f 2 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to Minus Roscius.] 

Incipit: ‘[J]ohannes Boccatius homo in lingua uernacula disertissimus 

centum fabulosas . . .’ 

refs. Letter located among ‘Orationes’. 

f2 v [Historia ex Boccatio conversa. Translated by Philippus 

Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uo tempore Octauius Caesar nundum(!) 

cognominatus Augustus . . .’ 

g2 v ‘Mythica hystoria’. Translated [by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: 

‘Cyprus insula est quondam nouem regnorum sedes . . .’ 

refs. Located among the‘Orationes’. 

g 8 v Beroaldus, Philippus: Poemata. ‘Qualia lasciuo dedit oscula 

saepe tonanti > Dardanius Phrygia raptus ab arce puer’; elegiac 

distichs. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 15109, [not in Walther], 5820, [not in 

Walther], [Letter], 20485, 20104, 12575, 19004, 4408, [not in 

Walther], [not in Walther], 16435, 9683, [not in Walther], [not in 

Walther], 13105, [not in Walther], [not in Walther], 15485, [not in 

Walther], [not inWalther], 15253. 

h8 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus 

Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[S]uperrime(!) cum feriatus essem, vir prestantissime 

. . .


[b-228^b-230 

refs. Letter located among ‘Poemata’. 

Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, for himself and 

Benedictus Hectoris, 1491. 4 o . 

collation: aî 8 k 4 . 



COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled brown paper boards. Size: 



Provenance: Johann Conrad Feuerlein (1725^1788); armorial 

book-plate; see Warnecke 513. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count 

Boutourlin (1763^1829); shelfmark no. 461, see Catalogue (1831); 

not found in Catalogue (1841).Purchased for »0. 7. 6; see Books 






a 2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius 

Burellus. 


a3 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter in verse addressed to the 

readers.] ‘[P]alladiae mentes, melior pars aetheris alti > Aspicite 

hec oculis aurea dona bonis’; 10 elegiac distichs. 

refs. Renouard, Badius II 160. See Walther, Initia, 13578. 

a 3 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Martinus‘Boemus’. 

Incipit: ‘[C]ollegi nuper oratiunculas nonnullas uariis a me temporibus 

. . .’ 

a 4 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Orationes. Edited by Jodocus Badius 

Ascensius. Incipit: ‘[P]rudentis litterarum professoris o⁄cium 

est uiri prestantissimi . . .’ 

e 2 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epigramma’ addressed to Ludovicus 

Sforza.‘Hesperios inter ductores Inclyte princeps > Principe quo 



e 2 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus 

Chalcus. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘Opusculum de nuptiis Bentiuolorum’’, quod 


e 3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Nuptiae Bentiuolorum’. Incipit: 


. . .’ 

f 2 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon’ addressed to the book. 

‘Quo tu quo properas recens, libelle? > Extra limina cur cupis 

uagari?’; hendecasyllables. 


f 5 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to Minus Roscius.] 

Incipit: ‘[J]ohannes Boccatius homo in lingua uernacula disertissimus 



f5 v [Historia ex Boccatio conversa. Translated by Philippus 



g6 r ‘Mythica hystoria’. Translated [by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: 


refs. Located among the ‘Orationes’. 

h4 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Poemata. Edited by Jodocus Badius 

Ascensius. ‘Qualia lasciuo dedit oscula saepe tonanti > 

Dardanius Phrygia raptus ab arce puer’; elegiac distichs. 


i3 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus 


. . . 


k6 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Epigramma Ascensii ad lectores’. 

‘Nunc Beroaldinas studiosi quaerite merces > Lugdunum appulsas 

dexteritate noua’; 4 elegiac distichs. 

refs. Renouard, Badius II 160. 

Lyons: JohannesTrechsel, 4 Sept. 1492. 4 o . 


GW 4145; H 2951 = HC *2952; Go¡ B-492; Pr 8600; BSB-Ink B-381; 

Renouard, Badius, II 158^60; Sack, Freiburg, 596; Sheppard 

6661. 

COPY 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century(?) English mottled 

and plain calf, ‘Cambridge style’; blind-tooled; inside a border 

formed by double ¢llets an outer panel of mottled calf; within 

this a panel of plain calf and an inner rectangle of mottled calf; 

each panel de¢ned by double blind rules. Size: 207 ¿ 142 ¿ 


List of contents on a 1 v , perhaps by Robert Burton. Early marginal 

annotations in various hands. Pen-work scribbles in black ink on 

h5 v and i7 r , probably by A. Condys. 

Manuscript pagination is supplied in black ink. 

Provenance: Nicolaus Rusticus (sixteenth century); the Nicolao 

di Gianandrea Rustici who, in 1526, received a grant from the 

Council of Lucca ‘pro se exercendo in curia Serenissimi Regis 

Angliae’; see Marino Berengo, Nobili e mercanti nella Lucca del 

Cinquecento, Biblioteca di cultura storica, 82 (Turin, 1965), 133 

n. 1; name written twice on a 1 r in ex libris inscriptions. Johannes 

More (sixteenth century); name in upper margin of h 5 v . A. 

Condys (sixteenth century); signature on k6 v . Robert Burton 

(1577^1640); signature on a1 r ; see Kiesling, Robert Burton, 28 

no. 143. Bequeathed in 1640; see Benefactors’ Register I 362. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4 o C 97 Art. 




r 


a2 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Laurentius 

Burellus. 


r 

a3 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter in verse, addressed to the 

readers.] ‘Palladiae mentes, melior pars aetheris alti > Aspicite 

hec oculis aurea dona bonis’; 10 elegiac distichs. 


a3 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Martinus‘Boemus’. 

Incipit:‘Collegi nuper oratiunculas nonnullas variis a me temporibus 

. . .’ 

a4 v Beroaldus, Philippus: Orationes. [Edited by Jodocus Badius 

Ascensius.] Incipit: ‘Prudentis litterarum professoris o⁄cium 

est, viri prestantissimi . . .’

-230^b-232] bertholdus 

441 

d8 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epigramma’ addressed to Ludovicus 

Sforza.‘Hesperios inter ductores Inclyte princeps > Principe quo 



e1 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus 

Chalcus. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘Opusculum de nuptiis Bentiuolorum’’, quod 


v 

e1 Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Nuptiae Bentiuolorum’. Incipit: 


. . .’ 

r 

f1 Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon’ [addressed to the book.] 

‘Quo tuo(!) quo properas recens, libelle? > Extra limina cur cupis 

vagari?’; hendecasyllables. 


f3 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to Minus Roscius.] 

Incipit: ‘[J]ohannes Boccatius homo in lingua vernacula disertissimus 



f4 r 

[Historia ex Boccatio conversa. Translated by Philippus 



v 

g3 ‘Mythica hystoria’. [Translated by Philippus Beroaldus.] Incipit: 


refs. Located among the ‘Orationes’. 

h1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: Poemata. [Edited by Jodocus Badius 

Ascensius.] ‘Qualia lasciuo dedit oscula saepe tonanti > 

Dardanius Phrygia raptus ab arce puer’; elegiac distichs. 

refs. Se B-228. 

h8 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus 


. . . 


k6 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Epiramma(!) Ascensii ad lectores’. 

‘Nunc Beroaldus studiosi quaerite merces > Lugdunum appulsas 

dexteritate noua’; 4 elegiac distichs. 


Paris: [Michel Tholoze, for] Denis Roce (or Jean Du Pre¤ ), 12 Oct. 

1499. 4 o . 

collation: a^h 8 i k 6 . 


B-383; Hillard 366; Oates 3164^6; Renouard, Badius, II 161; 


COPY 

Binding: English twentieth-century diced brown morocco, with 

gold-tooled centre-piece and gilt-edged leaves. Size: 203 ¿ 140 ¿ 


A marginal note on i 3 v in a contemporary hand:‘Murena the ¢sh - 

called the lamprey’. On k 6 r in a contemporary hand: ‘[ ]a [ ] 

cutle[¢sh?].’ 

Provenance: George Dunn (1865^1912); book-plate; pencil 

inscription ‘G D Aug. 1902’; see Jenkinson (1923), 71, no. 1193. 

Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); purchased by Bywater at Dunn 

sale, Feb. 1914, lot 832; Elenchus, no. 622b. Bequeathed in 1914. 




r 


a1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Martinus ‘Boemus’. 

Incipit:‘Collegi nuperoratiunculas nonnullas uariis a me temporibus 

. . .’ 

a2 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Orationes. Incipit: ‘Prudentis litterarum 

professoris o⁄cium est, uiri prestantissimi . . .’ 

v 

f7 Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epigramma’ [addressed to] Ludovicus 

Sforza, Duke of Milan.‘Hesperios inter ductores inclite, princeps 

> Principe quo status hic sospite sospes erit’; hexameters. 

f8 r Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus 

Chalcus. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[O]pusculum de nuptiis Bentiuolorum’’, quod 

nuper excudi tibi . . .’ 

g1 r Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Nuptiae Bentiuolorum’. Incipit: 


. . .’ 

h4 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Endecasyllabon’ [addressed to the 

book.] ‘Quo tu quo properas recens, libelle? > Extra limina cur 

cupis uagari?’; hendecasyllables. 


v 

h8 Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to Minus Roscius.] 

r 

i1 Incipit: ‘[J]ohannes Boccatius homo in lingua uernacula disertissimus 



‘Historia ex Boccatio conversa’. [Translated by Philippus 



k 6 r 

‘Mythica historia Latinum’. [Translated by Philippus 

Beroaldus.] Incipit: ‘[C]yprus insula est quondam nouem 

regnorum sedes . . .’ 

refs. Located among ‘Orationes’. 

n2 r Beroaldus, Philippus: Poemata. ‘Qualia lasciuo dedit oscula 

saepe tonanti > Dardanius Phrygia raptus ab arce puer’; elegiac 

distichs. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 15109, [ ], 5820, [ ], [Letter], 20485, 

20104, 12575, 19004, 4408, [ ], [ ], 16435, 9683, [ ], [ ], 13105, [ ], [ ], 

15485, [ ], [ ], 15253. 

r 

o4 Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus 

Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[?N]uperrime cum feriatus essem, vir prestantissime 

. . . 


[Bologna]: Benedictus Hectoris, 1 Nov. 1500. 4 o . 

collation: a^q 8 . 



COPY 

Wanting gatherings g^q. Bound with: 

2. Isocrates, Oratio ad Demonicum. Bologna: Benedictus 

Hectoris, 1502. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, bound for the Bodleian 


Frames and underlining in red ink on a1. 

Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; acquired after1738 

and before 1835; see Catalogus (1843), I 241. 

shelfmark: 4 o Y 50(1) Jur. 

B-232 Bertholdus 

Horologium devotionis. 

r 

a1 [Title-page.]

442 bertrandi, petrus 

[b-232^b-234 

a2 r Bertholdus: Horologium devotionis. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam secundum 

beatum Gregorium,‘‘Omnis Christi actio nostra est instructio� 

. . .’ 

refs. See Kaeppeli I 241^2, no. 671. 

[Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1490]. 8 o . A copy in Basel 

University Library has a rubricator’s date of 1490. 

collation: a^g 8 h 10 . 

36 woodcuts, by (according to BSB-Ink) the ‘Meister des Haintz 

Narr’; see Schramm XXI pls 679^709. 

GW 4175; H *2990 (I) = HC *2993 = H *8928; Go¡ B-506; BMC III 

753; Pr 7635; BSB-Ink B-398; Oates 2799^800; Rhodes 340; Sack, 

Freiburg, 604; Schramm XXI 27 and pls 679^709; Schreiber V, 

3442; Sheppard 2435. 

COPY 

Binding: Parchment. Size:165 ¿ 118 ¿ 15 mm. Sizeof leaf: 160 ¿ 

107 mm. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Underlining 

and capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Purchased at sale, Catalogue of Books and 

Manuscripts . . . (London: Christie, Manson, and Woods, 30 July 

1889), lot 6, for »1. 1. 0. 


B-233 Berti, Giustino 

Rappresentazione di San Paolino vescovo di Lucca 

[Italian]. 


a1 v Berti, Giustino: Rappresentazione di San Paolino vescovo di 

Lucca. ‘Diuoti di Giesu che qui presente > uenuti siete per ueder 

lamorte’. 

a8 v Berti, Giustino: Orazione di Santa Croce di Lucca.‘O gloriosa 

Croce Sancta e pretiosa > o uolto sancto di Christo saluatore’; 24 

lines of rhythmic verse. 

[Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini?, c.1500]. 4 o . 

BMC suggests that this edition may have been printed by an 

unknown printer using Miscomini’s material. 


Five woodcuts; see Kristeller 322a, with two of the woodcuts illustrated 

in pls149 and161. 

GW 4178; R 836; BMC VI 695; Pr 6433; Cioni, Rappresentazioni, 

252 (LXXXII,1); Kristeller 322a; Sander 6328; Sheppard 5280. 

COPY 



shelfmark: Mortara 900(7). 

B-234 Bertrandi, Petrus 

Libellus de iurisdictione ecclesiastica contra Petrum de 

Cugneriis. 

aa1 r Bertrandi, Petrus: Libellus de iurisdictione ecclesiastica contra 

Petrum de Cugneriis. Incipit: ‘[L]ibellus iste con£atus est et 

compositus per dominum Petrum Bertrandi . . . Philippus, dei 

gratia Francorum rex, dilecto et ¢deli nostro episcopo 

Eduensi . . .’ 

Paris: Johann Philippi, 2 Apr. 1495. 4 o . Issued with Vita et 

Processus sancti Thomae Cantuariensis martyris super libertate 

ecclesiastica (Go¡ T-159; Bod-inc V-147); Sheppard treats these 

as one item in each case. 

collation: aa 8 bb 10 . 

GW 4179; HC (+ Addenda) 3002; Go¡ B-516; BMC VIII148 (II); Pr 

8239; BSB-Ink B-402; Oates 3096^7; Rhodes 341; Sheppard 

6373^6. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Vita et Processus sancti Thomae Cantuariensis martyris super 

libertate ecclesiastica. Paris: Johann Philippi, 27 Mar. 1495 

(V-147(1)). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf, with older calfonlaid. 

Sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 223 ¿ 170 ¿ 28 mm. Size of 

leaf: 215 ¿ 161 mm. 

Some marginal notes. On the front endleaf, manuscript notes 

about the Vita et processus S.Thomae. 

Provenance: Edward Burton (b. 1698); inscription on front endleaf 

in Hearne’s hand: ‘This book belongs to Edward Burton, 

Esq.’; armorial book-plate: a cross engrailed, between four roses; 

crest: a dexter gauntlet; motto: ‘Dominus providebit’. Thomas 

Hearne (1678^1735); signature on front endleaf dated ‘Sept. 10 

1734’. Richard Gough (1735^1809). Bequeathed by Gough. 

shelfmark: Gough Kent103(2). 

SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 



(V-147(2)). 

Wanting bb5.6. 

Binding: English mottled and plain blind-tooled calf; inside an 

outer panel of mottled calf a panel of plain calf; and an inner rectangle 

of mottled calf; ‘Cambridge style’; the spine, gold-tooled; 

c.1700. Size: 233 ¿ 167 ¿ 28 mm. Size of leaf: 222 ¿ 157 mm. 

Notes by Douce on front endleaf and on a separate sheet, tipped 

in at the end of the volume. Eighteenth/nineteenth-century note 

on bb10 r about printing in England. 

Frame supplied in red ink: single vertical lines divide the page into 

two columns, with double horizontal lines above the printed text 

and a single onebelow, enclosing it. An eighteenth-century woodcut 

is pasted in on a 1 v . 

Provenance: Philibert de Cha[ ] (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); 

cropped inscription on a1 r of item 1. Martinus Doversinus (sixteenth 

century); name on back endleaf. Cancelled inscription on 

aa1 r . Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571^1631); signature a1 r of item 1, 

two other signatures inside the upper cover described as facsimile 

(probably by Douce). Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial bookplate. 



THIRD COPY 

Bound with: 



(V-147(3)); 

3. Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartita. 

[Paris]: GeorgWolf, [c.1492] (C-107(1)). 

Impression of bearer type on bb 10. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English calf; blind ¢llets form a 

border with a £oral tool at the corners. Size: 235 ¿ 175 ¿ 37 mm. 

Size of leaf: 228 ¿ 160 mm.

-234^b-235] bessarion, johannes, cardinal 

443 

Some marginal notes in a seventeenth-century hand. Notes, 

including list of contents, on front endleaves, in Thomas Baker’s 

hand. 

Provenance: Heavily cancelled inscription on a1 r of item 1. Sir 

Henry Cocke (1538^1610); name on a1 r of item 1. Richard 

Watkinson (£. 1601^1640); gift from Ursula, Lady Coke; cancelled 

signature and inscription, in a contemporary hand, on a1 r 

of item 1: ‘Liber Ricardi Watkinson, ex dono colendissimae suae 

dominae dominae Vrsulae Cock, vxoris Henr. Cocke, militis’; 

inscription on m 6 v of item 1: ‘Richardus Watkinson, Aulae 

Pembrochianae in Academia Cantabrigiae alumnor, apud 

Willingham in Comitatu Lincolniense natus, Ecclesiarum 

Broxborniae et Hoddesdoniae in Comitatu Hertfordiae ac 

Diocaesis Londini, me jure tenet ex dono colendissimae suae 

dominae dominae Vrsulae Cocke, Broxborniae viduae relictae 

ac nuper vxoris domini sui colendissimi, benignissimi ac dignissimi 

Henrici Cocke, Equitis aurati defuncti, Co¡erarii illustrissimo 

Domino nostro Jacobo dei gratia Angliae, Scociae, 

Franciae et Hiberniae Regis etc. A[nn]o domini 1609’. Richard 

Watkinson (£. 1636); gift from his father in 1625; inscription on 

m6 v of item 1, in the same hand as that of Watkinson senior’s 

inscription above: ‘Ricardus Watkinson de Bernards Inn, 

London ac nuper de Glemsford in Comitatu Su¡olciae, hoc 

anno domini1636 me jure tenet ex donovenerabilis viri doctissimi 

D. Ricardi Watkinson patris sui anno domini 1625’; signature on 

a 1 r of item 3. Dudley Loftus (1619^1695); signature on a1 r and a2 r 

of item1. James Margetson, Archbishop of Armagh (1600^1678); 

inscription inside the upper cover: ‘Empt. e Bibliotheca 

Margetsoniana’, in hand of Baker. Thomas Baker (1656^1740); 

see Korsten, 10, no. 68; inscription on a1 r and a2 r of item 1: ‘Tho. 

Baker Coll. Jo. Socius eiectus’. Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851), 

Catalogue 1829, part III, no. 7710. Purchased from Thorpe for 

»1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1832), 2, and Thorpe Catalogue 

(1832), part II, no. 2994. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4 o A 88 Th. BS. 


FOURTH COPY 

Bound with: 



(V-147(4)). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for the Bodleian 


On bb10 v notes in a contemporary hand, on the humours: ‘est, 

quia non potuit dicere, dixit erit > erit bene vtinam bene > cor 

sapit, et pulmo loquitur, fel commovet iram > splen ridere facit, 

et iecur cogit amare’: for the couplet ‘cor sapit . . . cogit amare’, 

seeWalther, Proverbia, 3428. 

Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654). Presented in 1659; see 

MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 34:‘Thoma Cantuariensis.Vita’. 

shelfmark: 4 o T 1 Th. Seld. 

B-235 Bessarion, Johannes, Cardinal 

Adversus calumniatorem Platonis. 

r 

[a2 ] [List of contents.] 

[c2 r ] Bessarion, [Johannes], Cardinal: Adversus calumniatorem 

Platonis. [Translated by Nicolaus Perottus.] 

refs. For book IÎV, Bessarion, In calumniatorem Platonis libri 

IV, ed. Ludwig Mohler, Quellen und Forschungen aus dem 

Gebiete der Geschichte, 22 (Paderborn, 1927), 3^631; parallel 

Greek and Latin texts. For Nicolaus Perottus as the translator 

see John Monfasani,‘Bessarion Latinus’, Rinascimento, 2nd ser., 

21 (1981), 165^209. Book V is known elsewhere as ‘De erroribus 

interpretis Legum Platonis’, book VI as ‘De natura et arte’; see 

Monfasani 184; on the manuscript used for this edition, Venice, 

Biblioteca Marciana, Marc. lat. Z 228, see G. Lombardi, ‘Dal 

manoscritto alla stampa’, in Gutenberg e Roma: Le origini della 

stampa nella citta' dei papi (1467^1477), ed. M. Miglio and O. 

Rossini (Naples, 1997), 29^40, at 33^5. 

v 

[A6 ] [Verse colophon addressed to the reader.] ‘Aspicis, illustris lector, 

quicunque libellos > Si cupis arti¢cum nomina nosse, lege’; 4 



Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [before 13 

Sept. 1469]. Folio. 

collation: [a 8 b 6 c^r 10 s 12 t v 10 x 12 y 10 z A 8 ]. 

GW 4183; HC *3004; Go¡ B-518; BMC IV 7; Pr 3300; BSB-Ink 

B-404; CIBN B-357; E. Gordon Du¡, Sweynheym and Pannartz: 

Notes and Collations, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 

([Edinburgh?, 1907]), 10 no. 15; Oates 1359; Rhodes 342; 


FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1], [A7^8]. 

Leaf [d1] bound after [d9]. 

Binding: English gold-tooled russia, c.1789^90; bound for the 

Bodleian Library by Christian Samuel Kalthoeber; ticket on 

front endleaf. On both covers two narrow and a wide ¢llet form a 

frame with small £oral tools at the corners; roll of oval dots and 

lozenges on the edges of the boards; each of seven compartment 

on the spine is contained by two gilt ¢llets; in the second author 

and title; in the fourth printer’s name; in the ¢ve other compartments 

a small eight-petalled £ower tool; marbled pastedowns, 

and gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Library on both 

covers. Size: 350 ¿ 249 ¿ 55 mm. Size of leaf: 334 ¿ 225 mm. 

Some ‘nota’ marks and pointing hands. Note on collation, by 

Ingram Bywater, dated Apr. 1884, and attached to the front 

endleaf. 

South German decoration. Principal initials at the beginning of 

each book are supplied in blue, pink or red on burnished gold 

grounds, the gilt with punch-dotting, the initials with foliate 

scrolling, within segmented frames of red and green, blue, and 

green, or red and blue, and with ¢ne foliate border extensions in 

red, pink, green, blue, grey, and gold, and dotting in silver, now 

oxidized to grey-black. On [c2 r ] the foliate border includes the 

coat of arms of Georg Beck. Paragraph marks and chapter numbers 

supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Georg Beck [Peck] (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); 

coat ofarms (see above): sable, on a chevron gules, three crescents 

reversed argent. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^ 

1792); Catalogue (1789), lot1546, was, according to the annotated 

sale catalogue, sold to van den Bergh for Fl. 60, the equivalent of 

»5. 5. 0, according to the exchange rate used by Thomas Payne at 

the sale; described as ‘m[aroquin] r[ouge], d[ore¤ ] s[ur] t[ranche]’. 

The decoration is described . . . ‘dont la premier page est orne¤ e 

d’une lettre capitale, & d’ornements peints en or & en couleurs’; 

Pinelli Sale Catalogue (1789), lot 6419 was, according to the 

annotated sale catalogue, bought in by Edwards, the auctioneer, 

at »5. 10. 0; the present binding is English and made for the

444 biblia 

[b-235^b-236 

Bodleian Library; it is not impossible that this is the Crevenna 

copy, rebound, but it is more likely that it is the Ma¡eo Pinelli 

(1735^1785) copy sold to the Bodleian by James Edwards after 

the sale, although Edwards in his Catalogue ofa Select Collection 

of Ancient and Modern Books (London, 1790), no. 5, o¡ered the 

copy for »8. 8. 0; possibly bought with a rebate by the Bodleian; 

for an analogous case see E-041(1). Purchased in for »6. 6. 0; see 



SECOND COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter brown morocco with goldtooled 

spine and marbled boards, bound for Bywater. Size: 317 ¿ 


Pagination in black ink; page numbers also added to list of contents. 

Marginal annotations in black ink in a number of di¡erent 

hands. 

Initials are supplied in blue, within a red pen-work frame andwith 

red pen-work in¢ll, and with some colouring in green. Paragraph 

marks are supplied in red or blue. Numbers or titles of books are 

supplied in black ink. 

Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Elenchus, no. 629; 

probably purchased in 1878 for M.150, from Beck’sche 

Verlagsbuchhandlung, No« rdlingen; slip from catalogue, no. 68, 

pasted in on the pastedown. Bequeathed in 1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. B 3.1. 

BIBLIA 

The Bible editions are listed in an approximately chronological 

order, with a few modi¢cations following the GW. The 

relation between printed editions and manuscript sources is 

too complex to organize them in one or several sequences of 

exclusive textual traditions, but an outline of the textual history 

can be found in the section called ‘The Dynamic 

Development of Texts’ in Kristian Jensen,‘Printing the Bible 

in the Fifteenth century; Devotion, Philology and 

Commerce’, in Incunabula and their Readers: Printing, 

Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century, ed. 

Kristian Jensen (London, 2003), 115-38, with references to 

earlier literature on the topic. The following editions contain 

the same set of texts, with minor variations: (Group1) B-237; 

B-238; B-239; B-240; B-241; B-242; B-243; B-244; B-246; 

B-248; B-249; B-252; B-260; B-263; B-264; B-269; B-278. 

(Group 2) B-247; B-259; B-261 (Jensen, p. 119, note 38). 

(Group 3) B-266; B-268; B-273; B-274; B-277 (Jensen, p. 

119, note 41). (Group 4) B-245; B-253 (Jensen, pp. 119-20, 

note 43). (Group 5) B-255 (Jensen, p. 120, note 56). (Group 

6) B-262 (Jensen, p. 120, note 60). (Group 7) B-259 (Jensen, 

B-236 Beys, Matthaeus de 

Extractum e libro Johannis deTurrecremata de e⁄cacia 

aquae benedictae. 

Printed side Beys, Matthaeus de: Extractum e libro Johannis de 

Turrecremata de e⁄cacia aquae benedictae. Incipit: ‘[S]anctus 

Alexander primus papa et martyr, quintus a beato Petro, qui 

sedit anno a passione domini . . .’ 

[Turin: Franciscus de Silva, c.1500]. Broadside. As assigned and 

dated by Sheppard; GWattributes to [Jacobinus Suigus de Suico, 

c.1495], using type 97 G (reproduced in BMC VIII pl. lii F , Lyons, 

Suigus, 98 G), but Sheppard notes a di¡erent paragraph mark and 

‘M’. 

Type: 94 G (reproduced in Le cinquecentine piemontesi: I: Torino, 

ed. Marina Bersano Begey (Turin, 1961), 260^1); ‘assignment by 

Dr Dondi (Turin B[iblioteca] N[azionale]). By kindness of D. 

Rhodes’ (Sheppard). Type area: 220 ¿ 145 mm. Watermark: A 

hand surmounted by a £ower. One eight-line woodcut initial ‘S’ 

on the recto; see Le cinquecentine piemontesi: I, 260. 

GW 4193; Pr 7228; Sheppard 5955. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Statuta Genuae. Bologna: Caligula de Bazaleriis, [4 July], 30 

June 1498 (S-304(2)). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf, with blue marbled paper 

boards, yellow-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and goldtooled 

spine. Size: 270 ¿ 195 ¿ 28 mm. Size of leaf: 263 ¿ 

184 mm. 

Provenance: Sir George Bowyer (1811^1883). Presented in 1842. 

shelfmark: Bowyer 48(2). 

p. 120, note 61). (Group 8) B-276 (Jensen, p. 120, note 60). 

(Group 9) B-284 (Jensen, p. 121, note 128). (Group 10) 

B-251; B-254; B-256; B-257; B-265; B-267; B-271; B-272; 

B-275; B-279; B-281; B-286; B-289 (Jensen, p. 121, note 67). 


B-270; B-290 (Jensen, p. 121, note 74). (Group 13) B-280; 

B-282; B-285; B-291; B-292; B-293; B-303 (Jensen, p. 122, 


15) B-287; B-288 (Jensen, p. 122, note 85). (Group 16) B-295 

(Jensen, p. 122, note 88). (Group 17) B-296 (Jensen, p. 122, 


19) B-297 (Jensen, p.122, note 96). (Group 20) B-298; B-301; 

B-304 (Jensen, p.123, note112). (Group 21) B-299 (Jensen, p. 

122, note 98). (Group 22) B-300 (Jensen, p. 122, note 101). 

(Group 23) B-302; B-307; B-309 (Jensen, p. 123, note 104). 


B-306 (Jensen, p. 123, note 108). (Group 26) B-308 (Jensen, 

p. 123, note 116). (Group 27) B-310; B-311; B-312 (Jensen, p. 

123, note 118).

-236] biblia 

445 

Entries describing Bibles di¡er from other entries in the following 

ways: 

Biblia sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem, ed. Robert Weber, 2 

vols (Stuttgart, 1969) is used as a standard.With reference to 

the Psalter, ‘Ps (G)’ stands for the Psalterium Gallicanum. 

The entries in this catalogue indicate the di¡erences from 

this standard displayed by the incunable editions. These differences 

are of three kinds. First, some texts occur in a di¡erent 

order. The order in the incunable edition is indicated 

without further comment. Many texts included in incunable 

editions are not included inWeber’s edition.Their position in 

the incunable edition is indicated, as is their position relative 

to the texts of Weber’s edition. These additional texts are 

listed separately before the catalogue entries, and the entries 

refer to this list by number. In many editions ‘argumenta’, 

often of a few lines only, precede some books of the Bible. 

The occurrence of such‘argumenta’ has been noted, but incipits 

have not been provided. 

References to prefatory material and other texts not 

appearing in Biblia latina, ed.Weber: 

01. Hieronymus, Epistola ad Paulinum (Epistola 53). Incipit: 

[Frater Ambrosius tua mihi munuscula perferens detulit 

similiter et suauissimas litteras]. PL XXII 540^9; 

Stummer 222^32; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 1^3; Berger, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 1; Schild 42^8; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium 

biblicum, 284. 

02. IÎI Par. [Incipit: Quomodo Grecorum historias magis 

intelligunt]. PL XXIX 401^4; Stummer 241^2; Bruyne, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, 31^2; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 327. 

Praefatio S. Hieronymi. 

03. Iob. [Incipit: Si aut¢scellam iuncotexerem autpalmarum 

folia complicarem]. PL XXIX 61^2; Stummer 248; 

Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 39; Berger, ‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 56; 

Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 357. Praefatio S. 

Hieronymi. 

04. Prv. [Incipit: Tribus nominibus vocatum fuisse 

Salomonem scripture manifestissime docent]. PL XXIII 

1011; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 119^20; Berger, ‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 

130; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 456. 

Hieronymus, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticen. 

05. Prv. [Incipit: Tres libros Salomonis, id est Proverbia, 

Ecclesiasten et Canticum canticorum]. PL XXIX 403^4; 

Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 118^19; Berger, ‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 131y; 

Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 455. Praefatio S. 

Hieronymi iuxta LXX. 

06. Ecl. [Incipit: Memini me ante hoc ferme quinquennium]. 

PL XXIII 1009^12; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 120; Berger, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 138; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

462. Hieronymus, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticen. 

07. Sap. [Incipit: Liber Sapientie apud Hebreos]. PL CXIII 

1167; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 121; Berger, ‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 142; 

Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 468. Isidorus, 

Etymologiae,VI,1,30. 

08. Ier. [Incipit: Hec interpretatio Hieronymi est. Si quid in ea 

noverit]. PL CXIV 9; Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’,133; Stegmu« ller, 

Repertorium biblicum, 485. 

09. Ier. [Incipit: Joachim ¢lius Josie, cuius terciodecimo 

anno]. PL XXV 495 (517); Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 128; 

Berger,‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 160; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

490. Excerpt from Hieronymus, Commentarium 

in cap. I Danielis. 

10. Bar. [Incipit: Liber iste qui Baruch nomine prenotatur]. 

PL CXIV 63^4; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 133; Stegmu« ller, 


11. Twelve Prophets. [Incipit: Regule sunt he, sub quibus signi¢cationibus]. 

Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 136; Berger, 


501. Excerpt from Hieronymus, Praefatio Commentarii 

in Ioel. 

12. Os. [Incipit: Temporibus Ozie et Ioathe]. Bruyne, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, 136^7; Berger,‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 174; Stegmu« ller, 


13. Ioel. [Incipit: Sanctus Johel apud Hebreos post Osee ponitur]. 


Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 511. 

14. Ioel. [Incipit: Johel ¢lius Phatuel describit terram duodecim 

tribuum]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 4; Stegmu« ller, 

Repertorium biblicum, 510. Excerpt from Hieronymus, 

Epistola ad Paulinum 

15. Ioel. [Incipit: In hoc propheta idcirco nec reges nec tempora 

sunt prenotata]. Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’, 149; Stegmu« ller, 


16. Ioel. [Incipit: Johel de tribu Ruben natus]. Bruyne, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, 147; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 509. 

Excerpt from Isidorus, De ortu et obitu Patrum. 

17. Am. [Incipit: Ozias rex cum religionem sollicite emularetur]. 

Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’,137^8; Berger,‘Pre¤ faces’, no.184; 


18. Am. [Incipit: Amos propheta, pastor et rusticus et 

ruborum mora distringens]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 4^5; see 


512. Excerpt from Hieronymus, Epistola ad 

Paulinum. 

19. Am. [Incipit: Hic Amos propheta et pastor non fuit pater 

Ysaie prophete]. See Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 150; Berger, 


513. 

20. Abd. [Incipit: Jacob patriarcha habuit fratrem Esau, qui 

ob ruborem corporis sui]. incl. [Hebrei dicunt]. Bruyne, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, 138; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 519; 


21. Ion. [Incipit: Jonam sanctum Hebrei a⁄rmant ¢lium 

fuisse mulieris vidue Sareptane]. PL CXVII 127; 

Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’,138^9; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

524. 

22. Ion. [Incipit: Jona columba et dolens ¢lius Amathi]. See 

Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 147; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium 

biblicum, 521.

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23. Mi. [Incipit:Temporibus IoatheetAchazetEzechieregum 

Juda]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 139; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium 

biblicum, 526. 

24. Na. [Incipit: Naum prophetam ante adventum regis 

Assyriorum]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 139^40; Stegmu« ller, 


25. Hab. [Incipit: Quattuor prophete in duodecim prophetarum 

volumine continentur]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 140^1; 


26. So. [Incipit: Tradunt Hebrei cuiuscunque prophete pater 

aut avus ponatur in titulo]. PL XXV 1338; Bruyne, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, 141^2; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

534. 

27. Agg. [Incipit: Hieremias propheta ob causam periurii 

Sedechie regis]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 142; Stegmu« ller, 


28. Za. [Incipit: Secundo anno Darii regis Medorum]. PL 

XXV 1387; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 143; Stegmu« ller, 


29. Mal. [Incipit: Deus per Moysen populo Israel preceperat]. 

Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’,143^4; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

543. 

30. Mal. [Incipit: Malachias, qui interpretatur angelus 

domini]. Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’, 146. Isidorus, Prooemium. 

31. Mcc. [Incipit: Machabeorum libri duo prenotant prelia]. 



32. Mcc. [Incipit: Machabeorum libri licet non habeantur in 

canone Hebreorum]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 151; Berger, 


552. Isidorus, Prooemium. 

33. Four gospels. [Incipit: Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt]. 

PL XXVI 15^23; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 155^6; 


596. 

34. Mt. [Incipit: Matheus ex Iudea sicut in ordine primus 

ponitur]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 170^1; Schild 90; Berger, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 199; see Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

590^1. 

35. Mt. [Incipit: Matheus cum primo predicasset evangelium 

in Judea]. PL 114,63; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 183^4; Berger, 


589. 

36. Mc. [Incipit: Marcus evangelista Dei electus et Petri in 

baptismate ¢lius]. PL CIII 279^80; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 

171^2; Berger, ‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 225; Stegmu« ller, 


37. Lc. [Incipit: Lucas Syrus natione Anthiocensis, arte medicus]. 

PL XXX 643^4; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 172; Berger, 


620. 

38. Io. [Incipit: Hic est Johannes evangelista, unus ex discipulis 

Domini]. PL XCII 633^6; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 173; 

Schild 90^1; Berger, ‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 236; Stegmu« ller, 


39. Rm. [Incipit: Romani sunt qui ex Iudeis et gentibus crediderunt]. 

PL CL 103; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 215^17; Berger, 


674. 

40. I Cor. [Incipit: Epistola prima ad Corinthios multas causas 

diversasque complectitur]. PL CLIII 121^2; Bruyne, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, 239; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 690. 

41. II Cor. [Incipit: In secunda ad Corinthios epistola quasi in 

parte superiori]. PL CLIII 217^18; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 

239; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 697. 

42. Act. [Incipit: Canit psalmista ‘‘Ambulabunt de virtutibus 

in virtutes’’]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 209^10; Berger, 


633. 

43. Act. [Incipit: Lucas Antiocensis natione Syrus, cuius laus 

in evangelio canitur]. Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’, 209; see Berger, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, nos 244^5; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

637, 640. 

44. Can. Eps. [Incipit: Non ita est ordo apud Grecos]. PL 

XXIX 821^32?; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 255^6; Berger, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, no. 290; see Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

809. 

45. Iac. [Incipit: Jacobus qui appellatur]. PL XXIII 609; 

Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’, 257^8; Stummer 260^1; Schild 62^3. 

46. IÎI Pt. [Incipit: Simon Petrus ¢lius]. PL XXIII 607; 

Bruyne,‘Pre¤ faces’, 258; Stummer 261; Schild 63. 

47. IÎII Io. [Incipit: Joannes apostolus quem Jesus dilexit]. 

See PL XXIII 623. 

48. Iud. [Incipit: Judas, frater Jacobi]. PL 23,613; Bruyne, 

‘Pre¤ faces’, 258; Stummer 262; Schild 63. 

49. Apc. [Incipit: Omnes qui pie volunt vivere in Christo]. PL 

CC 862^3; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 262^3; Berger, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 

no. 320; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 839. 

50. Apc. [Incipit: Johannes apostolus et evangelista a Cristo 

electus]. PL CXIV 709; Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 261; Berger, 


834. 

51. Apc. [Incipit: Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi Iohannis tot 

habet]. Bruyne, ‘Pre¤ faces’, 7. Excerpt from S. 

Hieronimus, Epistola ad Paulinum. 

52. Gabriel Brunus, Tabula alphabetica. Quentin 83^6. 

53. Translatores seu interpretes Biblie. [Incipit: Notandum 

quod translatores et interpretes Biblie multi fuerunt]. PL 

CXIII 23^6; Quentin 84. 

54. Quatuor sunt modi seu regule exponendi Sacram 

Scripturam. Incipit: [Notandum quod omnis Sacra 

Scriptura quadriformi ratione distinguitur siue exponitur]. 

Quentin 84. 

55. Inc. Litera gesta docet, quid credas allegoria. Walther, 

Initia, 10358; Quentin 84. 

56. Menardus Monachus, Epistola ad Jacobum de Ysenaco. 

Incipit: Rogatus nuper a vobis in loco solitudinis mee. 

Quentin 78 and Stummer 159.

-236^b-237] biblia latina 

447 

57. Capitularelectionum etevangeliorum. [Incipit: Dominica 

prima in adventu Domini]. See PL LXXVIII 1367 and 

CLI 949. 

58. Ps. Alexander de Villa Dei. Incipit: Registrum Biblie. 

Walther, Initia, 17610; Wulf 389^90, 397^8; Fabricius, 

Bibliotheca latina mediae et in¢mae aetatis, I 

(Hamburg, 1734), 179; Johannes de la Haye, Biblia maxima, 

I (Paris,1660), I1^10; Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

1175^85; Quentin 85; Doctrinale (ed. Reichling) 

XLIIÎII. 

59. Aristeas [pseudo-]. Incipit: Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus. 

Trans. Mathias Palmerius Pisanus. Incipit: [Hi 

sunt viri qui ex cunctis Judeorum tribubus perfecti sunt]. 

See H. T. Andrews in R. H. Charles, Apocrypha and 

Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1913), II 

83^122. Alberto Vaccari, ‘La fortuna della lettera 

d’Aristea in Italia’, Scrittura di erudizione e di ¢lologia, 

I, Storia e letteratura, 42 (Rome, 1958), 1^23, and 

Civilta' cattolica (1930), 308^26. For the Greek original, 

see also J.^G. Fevrier, La date, la composition et les 

sources de la lettre d’Ariste¤ e a' Philocrate, Bibliothe' que 

de l’e¤ cole des hautes e¤ tudes, 242 (Paris, 1925). 

60. Fontibus ex Grecis Hebreorum quoque libris. Walther, 

Initia, 6750; Stummer 159; Darlow^Moule 911; 

Quentin 80; BMC III 745. 

61a. Generat., Exodus, Levi., Numeri, quoque Deutro. 

61b. Genesis, Exo., Leui., Numerorum, Deuteronomi. 

61c. Gignit et exit. Leuiticus. Numeri quoque Deut.; Ios. 61a 

and 61c partly edited in Quentin 81; cf. Walther, Initia, 

7141 and 7146. 

62. Marcus Romanis, sed Johannes Asianis. Quentin 81. 

63. Qui memor esse cupit librorum bibliothece. Walther, 

Initia, 15546; Quentin 78. 

64. Ad diuinarum litterarum verarumque diuitiarum amatores 

exhortatio. Incipit: [Qui terrenis opibus divites ¢eri 

volunt . . .]. Quentin 82. 

65. Stephen Langton, Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum. 

Incipit: ‘[A]az: apprehendens, uel apprehensio . . .’ 

See Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1669, and A. d’Esneval, 

‘Le perfectionnement d’un instrument de travail au 

de¤ but du XIIIe sie' cle: les trois glossaires bibliques 

d’Etienne Langton’, in Culture et travail intellectuel 

dans l’occident me¤ die¤ val, ed. G. Hasenohr and J. 

Longe' re (Paris, 1981), 163^75. 

B-237 Biblia Latina [42 lines] 

Vol. 1. 

[1 r /a 1 r ] Hieronymus: [Letteraddressed to] Paulinus.‘Epistola sancti 

Iheronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 

refs. Pref. no. 1. 

[4 r /a 4 r ] [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[226 r / z8 r ] [OrMan.] 

[226 r / z8 r ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. II Esr entitled 

‘Liber Neemie’. 

[239 r / B1 r ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[261 r / D1 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[280 r r 

/ E10 ] [Iob.] [‘Prologus in Iob secundum hebraicum’, supplied 

by the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no. 3; preceded by the Prologus sancti Hieronymi in 

libro Iob and followed by Iob. 

[292 v / G2 v ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’, supplied 

by the rubricator.] Preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

Vol. 2. 

[1 r /a1 r ] [Prv.] 

[11 v v 

/ b1 ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no. 6, followed by Ecl. 

[15 v v 

/ b5 ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[101 v / l1 v ] [Bar.] [‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no. 10, followed by Bar. 

[105 r / l5 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[162 r r 

/r1 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’, supplied 


refs. Pref. no. 31, followed by IÎI Mcc. 

[190 v v 

/t9 ] [Mt.] [‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’, 

supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no. 34; preceded by Jerome’s prologue and followed by 

Mt. 

[207 r / x6 r ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’, supplied 


refs. Pref. no. 36, followed by Mc. 

[217 r / y6 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in ewangelium secundum 

Lucam’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no. 37, followed by Lc, where verses 1^4 are called 

‘Prohemium’. 

[235 r / A4 r ] [Io.] [‘Prologus in ewangelium secundum Iohannem’, 


refs. Pref. no. 38, followed by Io. 

[248 r / B7 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti 

Pauli apostoli ad Romanos’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

[249 r / B8 r ] [‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’, supplied 



[249 v / B8 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 

refs. Rm^Hbr, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’, 

referred to as prologus by the rubricator in the case of Rom I and 

II Cor (PL CXIV 551) and Gal. 

[285 r r 

/ F1 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’, 


refs. Pref. no. 42, followed by Act. 

[301 v /G7 v ] [IacÎud.] [‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’, supplied by 

the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no.44, followed by IacÎud, each letter preceded byan 

‘argumentum’. 

[310 r r 

/I1 ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus in Apocalipsim’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no. 50, followed by Apc. 

[Mainz: Printer of the 42^line Bible (Johann Gutenberg and Peter 

Schoe¡er), c.1455]. Folio. 

collation: Vol.1: [aî 10 k 10+1 l m 10 n 6+1 o^z A 10 B C 10+1 DÎ 10 K 4 ] 

[324 numbered leaves in Bodleian copy]; vol. 2: [a^p 10 q 10+1 r^z 

A^C 10 D 12 E 10+1 F G 10 H 4+1 I 10 ] [319 numbered leaves in 

Bodleian copy].

448 biblia latina 

[b-237^b-238 


CIBN B-361; Severin Corsten, ‘Die Gutenbergbibel in heutiger 

Sicht’, Imprimatur, NS 9 (1980), 67^79; de Ricci, Mayence, 34; 

Hillard 369; Ilona Hubay, ‘Die bekannten Exemplare der 

zweiundvierzigzeiligen Bibel und ihre Besitzer’, in Johannes 

Gutenbergs zweiundvierzigzeilige Bibel. Kommentarband 

(Munich, 1979), 127^55, at 144, no. 24; Eberhard Ko« nig, Zur 

Situation der Gutenberg-Forschung: Ein Supplement, 

Sonderausgabe des Kommentars zum zweiten Faksimile des 

Berliner Exemplars mit grundlegenden Beitra« gen (Mu« nster, 

1995), no. 32; Paul Needham, ‘The Paper Supply of the 

Gutenberg Bible’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of 

America, 79 (1985), 303^74, P22; Oates 14^15; Sack, Freiburg, 

608; Sheppard 15^17. Facsimiles: Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1913^14, 

reprint New York, 1960; Johannes Gutenbergs zweiundvierzigzeilige 

Bibel, ed. Paul Schwenke (Leipzig,1923), at16 no. 33; Editions 

les Incunables, Paris, 1985 (Mazarine copy). 

FIRST COPY 

Bound in two volumes (Gn^Ps and PrvÂpc). 

For this copy see Continental Shelf, no.16, and Wonderful Things, 

no. 24. 

Stubs from excised blank leaves are visible after fols 92 and 250. 

This copy is of the earlier impression throughout; see P. 

Schwenke, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des ersten Buchdrucks 

([Berlin,1900]), 17. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French (Nicolas-Denis Dero“ me (le 

jeune), with his ticket dated1785, in use1785^9) gold-tooled green 

morocco; marbled pastedowns; see Barber, ‘Baroque to 

Neoclassicism’, no. 33: ‘double panel of £eur-de-lis and similar 

type rolls with ¢ve petalled £owers at the corners’; the gold 

stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. See Otto Mazal, 

‘Die Bucheinba« nde der erhaltenen Exemplare der zweiundvierzigzeiligen 

Bibel’, in Johannes Gutenbergs zweiundvierzigzeilige 

Bibel. Kommentarband (Munich, 1979), 158^75, at 168^9. Size: 

416 ¿ 300 ¿ 74 and 416 ¿ 300 ¿ 75 mm. Size of leaf: 400 ¿ 

286 mm. 

An early hand has corrected the text and supplied words in brown 

ink, most frequently in the ¢rst volume. One letter supplied by the 

rubricator has been erased. On the last two blank leaves ([318 r - 

319 v /I9 r Î10 v ]) ofvolume 2 in a contemporaryhand:‘Summa hystorica 

Biblie magistri Petri Pictauiensis’, incipit: ‘Considerans 

hystorie sacre prolixitatem necnon et di⁄cultatem . . .’ with drawing 

of biblical pedigrees (from Adam and Eve to Samuel). 

Principal initials are supplied in pink with gold highlighting and 

pen-£ourishing in red, blue, and pale green, or in blue with white 

highlighting and pen-£ourishing in red and blue; others in blue 

with pen-£ourishing in red and pale green or in red with pen- 

£ourishing in blue. Headings are printed or supplied in red. 

Headings are supplied in alternating red and blue letters. Initials 

are supplied alternately in red and blue; red capital strokes; 

according to Ko« nig ‘Mainzer(?) Kalligraphie’. 

Provenance: Erhard Neninger (c.1420^1475), Mayor of 

Heilbronn; presented by him to the Carmelites of Heilbronn not 

later than 1474, according to an inscription on the original binding 

(recorded by Franc� ois-Xavier Laire, Indexlibrorum abinventa 

typographia ad annum 1500, part I (Sens, 1791), p. 9), but subsequently 

lost in the rebinding by Derome: ‘Erhardus Neninger 

magister civium in Heylsprum, qui dedit illud fratribus Sanctae 

Mariae de monte Carmeli ad urticas, prope dictam civitatem’. 

Heilbronn Carmelites, S. Maria ad urticas extra muros; 

inscription on [a1 r ]: ‘Carmeli Heilbronnensis’. Presented by the 

city of Heilbronn to Axel Oxenstierna (1583^1654) in 1633. 

Cardinal E¤ tienne Charles de Lome¤ nie de Brienne (1727^1794); 

Laire, Index librorum, 5^11, no. 6. Purchased for »100; see 

Macray 275 and Books Purchased (1793), 1. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. M 1.1,2; Arch. G b.5 (vol. 2). 

shelfmark: Arch. B b.10,11. 

SECOND COPY 

Binding: Blue cloth. Size: 405 ¿ 294 ¿ 8 mm. Size of leaf: 386 ¿ 

280 mm. 

Fragment of 2 leaves ([a9, 10] ofvol.1), Hubay no.33, p.147. Second 

impression. 

On [a 9 r ] note: ‘From the celebrated Mazarine bible’; on [a10 r ]: 

‘Mazarine Bible. De Bure N o 25 thinks it is anterior to the psalter 

of 1457 on account of the miniated capitals; but the colouring is 

weak or rather inaccurate’. 

Initials are supplied alternately in red and blue; red headings and 

capital strokes. 

Provenance: Possibly Bamberg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Anna; 

see sale (London: Sotheby’s, 15 June 1799), 116; in Douce’s copy 

of the catalogue annotated ‘2 leaves d’. Francis Douce (1757^ 

1834). Bequeathed in 1834. The rest of the volume later belonged 

to Giovanni Francesco de Rossi (�1854); see Eberhard Ko« nig, 

Zur Situation der Gutenberg-Forschung: Ein Supplement, 

Sonderausgabe des Kommentars zum zweiten Faksimile des 

Berliner Exemplars mit grundlegenden Beitra« gen (Mu« nster, 

1995), 25, who mentions that, after the publication of his article 

on the paper supply, Paul Needham discovered that these two 

leaves are from the De Rossi copy now in theVatican, Biblioteca 

Apostolica. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. M 1.2*. 

shelfmark: Arch. B b.11*. 

B-238 Biblia Latina 

[a 1 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. [‘Epistola sancti 

Iheronimi prespiteri ad Paulinum episcopum de omnibus diuine 

hystorie libris’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[a 3 v ] [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[n8 v ] [OrMan.] 

[n9 r ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

[o 5 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. Esr III is here entitled Esr II and Esr IV Esr III. 

[p8 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[q 8 r ] [Iob.] [‘Prologus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[r5 r ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum prophete Dauid de 

Christo’, supplied by the rubricator.] Preceded by the ¢rst of 

Jerome’s prefaces only. 

[t 1 r ] [Prv.] 

[t8 r ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus in libro Ecclesiastes’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[t 11 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[A8 v ] [Bar.] [‘Prologus in Baruch’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[A 10 v ] [Ez^Mal.]


449 

[E1 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’, supplied 



[F7 v ] [Mt.] [‘Prologus super Matheum’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Pref. no.34; preceded by Jerome’s prologue and followed by 

Mt. 

[G6 v ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus . . . in Marcum ewangelistam’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


v 

[H1 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus super Lucam’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[I1 r ] [Io.] [‘Prologus super Iohannem’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


r 

[I10 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus in epistolas Pauli apostoli’, supplied 


[I10 v ] [‘Alius prologus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


r 

[I11 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 

refs. Rm^Hbr, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’ 

(referred to as ‘prologus’ by the rubricator throughout). 

v 

[L10 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in Actus apostolorum’, supplied 



v 

[M9 ] [IacÎud.] [‘Prologus . . . super epistolas canonicas’, supplied 


refs. Pref. no.44, followed by IacÎud, each letter preceded by an 

‘argumentum’ (referred to as ‘prologus’ by the rubricator 

throughout). 

[N2 v ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus in libro Apocalipsis’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after1461]. Folio. At the end of 

vol. 2, the copy in Freiburg im Breisgau UB has the date of rubrication1461, 

at the end ofvol.1,1460; according to Paul Needham, 

‘The Text’, 55, ‘its textual state shows that it was copied from a 

Gutenberg Bible all of whose relevant quires were of the 1st 

setting’. 

collation: [aî 12 k 10 l^r 12 s 12+1 t^z A^M 12 N 8 ]. 

GW 4203; HC *3033; Go¡ B-528; BMC I 51; Pr 196; CIBN B-363; 

Oates 68, 69; Rhodes 344; Sack, Freiburg, 610; Schorbach, 

Mentelin, 1; Sheppard 126. 

COPY 

Slipped type on [a12 r ]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco. Size: 405 ¿ 295 ¿ 


At the beginning of each book, a short summary has been added 

in a ¢fteenth-centuryhand. Atthebeginning ofthevolume, atitlepage 

has been added in an eighteenth-century German hand; the 

verso bears a 22-line description of the book in a cursive and 

roman hand within a frame with a small medallion, depicting 

the cross in a landscape. On [C6 r ] contemporary handwritten 

guide-letters and correction marks. 

Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue with 

pen-£ourishing in red; other initials are supplied in red or blue; 

headings, chapter numbers and paragraph marks supplied in 

red; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: George and William Nicol; their auction (London, 

Evans,18 July1825), lot 224. Purchased byThomasThorpe (1791^ 

1851) for »189. Thorpe, Catalogue (1826), no. 31 o¡ered at »220; 

then again o¡ered at auction (London, Evans, 28 April 1826), lot 

296 (ex informatione Paul Needham). Purchased for »94.10. 0, see 

Macray 285 and Books Purchased (1826), 3. 

shelfmark: Auct. M 3.6. 


r 

[a1 ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti 

Jheronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 


[a3 v ] [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[s4 r ] [OrMan.] 

[s4 r ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

v 

[t3 ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[v9 v ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[y3 v ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus in Iob secundum hebraicum’. 



[z3 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 

¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

[ 2 a1 r ] [Prv.] 

[ 2 a9 r ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[ 2 r 

b2 ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[ 2 h6 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 

refs. Pref. no. 10; followed by Bar. 

[ 2 r 

h9 ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[ 2 n2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[ 2 v 

p1 ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[ 2 v 

q3 ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[ 2 r1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[ 2 s4 v ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[ 2 r 

t4 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[ 2 t4 v ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[ 2 r 

t5 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


referred to as‘prologus’ in the case of I and II Cor (PL CXIV 551). 

[ 2 r 

y2 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


[ 2 z5 r ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



[ 2 A1 r ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus beati Iohannes in Apocalipsim’. 


[ 2 r 

A7 ] [Colophon.] 

Mainz: Johann Fust and Peter Schoe¡er, 14 Aug. 1462. Folio.


[b-239^b-240 

collation: [ 1 a^h 10 i k 8 l^z 10 A B 8 ]; [ 2 a^n 10 o 12 p^z 10 2 A 6+1 ]. Not 

as GW: see note below. On the state of this edition see Needham, 

‘TheText’, 56; for further variants see CIBN. 


CIBN B-364; de Ricci, Mayence, 79; Hillard 370; Oates 22^6; 


FIRST COPY 

Bound in four volumes (GnÎII Rg 9,16; III Rg 9,16^Ps; PrvÎI 

Mcc; MtÂpc). 

In this copy, leaves 71^80 form a single gathering ([ 1 h]), but leaves 

have been cut away after [ 1 h4] and [ 1 h7] (as in the British Library 

copy, shelfmark IC.102) and after [ 1 x 3] and [ 1 x 6] (as the British 

Library copy, shelfmark IC.101). With the red-printed heading 

on [ 1 a 1 r ] and [ 2 a1 r ], but without the explicit and printer’s device 

on [B8 v ] and the explicit of the Apocalypse on [ 2 A7 r ]. On [ 2 f3 r ], 

lines 43 and 44 of column two have been reversed. The colophon 

is the second of the two forms of the seven-line version described 

by GW, as in BL, IC.101: ‘ . . . Arti¢co� |a adinuentione . . . 

Maguntn� . . . ioh’em . . . con|ummatu� ’. Six blank leaves with red 

ruling at the beginning and end of column two. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French gold-tooled red morocco; 

probably bound by Richard Weir for Justin, comte MacCarthy 

Reagh; on both covers foliate dentelle with thistle-shaped pots 

with £owers in the corners; £oral and foliate roll on turn-ins; in 

the compartments of the spine a £oral tool surrounded by stars 

and tendril stamps; lined with blue silk; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 410 ¿ 300 ¿ 40, 405 ¿ 

297 ¿ 37, 410 ¿ 295 ¿ 43, 410 ¿ 297 ¿ 33 mm. Size of leaf: 393 ¿ 

284 mm. 

Manuscript table of contents in an early hand on endleaf of each 

volume. Early foliation ofeachvolume. On [ 2 f3 r ] the reversed lines 

43 and 44 of column two have been corrected in manuscript. On 

[ 2 A7 v ] notes in a contemporaryhand:‘Ex libro Innocencii pape de 

o⁄cio misse. Quia corde creditur ad justiciam ore . . .’ (the beginning 

of Innocent III, Sermo 21, PL CCXVII 547); ‘Sequitur de 

duodecim partibus symboli vtriusque tam apostolici quam constantinopolitani. 

Petrus: Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem 

. . .’; ‘Sequitur symbolum constantinopolitanum quod habet 

duodecim clausulas. Prima: Credo in vnum deum patrem omnipotentem 

. . .’ In a di¡erent hand, two lines of verse: ‘Nunc lege, 

nunc canta, nunc c[um] feruore labora, > sic erit hora breuis et 

labor prope leuis’ (Walther, Initia, 12451); followed by: ‘Ista sunt 

remedia quedam contra accidiam. > Nota quod super libros 

sapienciales valde bonam exposicionem fecerunt Holcot et Hugo 

de sancto Caro, ambo ordinis predicatorum.’ Instructions for 

rubrication and corrections in early black ink. 

Major initials are supplied in gold with in¢ll in dark blue and red 

with white highlighting, others in interlocked red and blue with 

pen-£ourishing in red and blue. Headings and chapter numbers 

are supplied in alternating red and blue letters, initials supplied 

alternately in red and blue; yellow capital strokes; text enclosed 

within red rules. 

Provenance: Paris, Jesuits; faded inscription in each volume: 

‘Collegii Parisien. Societat. Jesu’, at the head of the ¢rst printed 

page. Louis Ce¤ sar de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallie' re 

(1708^1780), who bought the book from the Jesuits for1800 livres; 

see Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothe' que de l’Arsenal, vol. 

VIII (Paris, 1899), 54 n. 2; sale (1767), lot 14. Paul Girardot de 

Pre¤ fond (�after c.1800), who bought the book at the Vallie' re sale 

for 2500 livres; pencil note on front endleaf of volume 1: ‘N o . 289 

P.’ Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744^1811); sold to him by 

Pre¤ fond c.1775. Guillaume de Bure (1734^1820) mistakenly identi¢es 

this copy with thatbelonging to Pre¤ sident Achille de Harlay; 

see Bibliographie instructive (Paris, 1763), 41 and also de Ricci, 

Mayence, 79; but see the description of the Harlay copy in 

Jacques Le Long, Bibliotheca sacra (Halle, 1783), III 99. Pietro- 

Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792); sale (1789), lot 67; in 

the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 1460. 

Purchased through Payne for »127. 15. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1790), 1. 

shelfmark: Auct. M 1.4^7. 

SECOND COPY 

First volume only (GnÎob 32,5). Gatherings [z], [A], and [B] (Iob 

32,5^Ps) have been partly supplied in manuscript. Wanting [r 9] 

and the manuscript leaves [z 3], [A 3], [A 6], and [B 4.5]. The manuscript 

leaves [z 1, 2] and [z 4^8] already formed part of this volume 

when it was purchased in 1750. Subsequently these were supplemented 

by 14 more leaves from the same manuscript ([z9, 10], [A1, 

2, 4, 5, 7, 8] and [B1^3, 6^8]), which were acquired in 1818 with the 

Canonici collection, see Henry Cotton, A Typographical 

Gazetteer (Oxford, 1831), 339 and Macray 223. Leaves [a1] and 

[q10] mutilated. 

Printed on parchment.With the red-printed heading on [a1 r ]. The 

text of [h4 r ] and of gatherings [k] and [y] is of a di¡erent setting. 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century plain calf; rebacked; 

the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 


Occasional early and sixteenth-century marginal notes. Early 

signatures. 

In the printed gatherings [a^y]: On [a 1 r ] an illuminated £oral border 

in gold, blue, red, and green; lower margin and lower part of 

outer margin cut o¡. Initials are supplied in gold with in¢ll in red 

or blue with white highlighting and within a frame of blue or red 

respectively; principal initials also with £oral extensions into the 

margin. Headings are supplied in ink. Chapter numbers are supplied 

in alternating red and blue letters. In the manuscript gatherings 

[z^B]: Principal initials are supplied in gold with blue in¢ll 

with white highlighting, within a red frame with white highlighting 

or vice versa. Other initials are supplied alternately in red and 

blue; headings and colophon with the coat of arms of Fust and 

Scho« ¡er are supplied in red. Headings and chapter numbers are 

supplied in alternating red and blue letters. 

Provenance: Nicolas Joseph Foucault (1643^1721); armorial 

book-plate. Purchased in 1750 for »2. 10. 0; see Library Records, 

Registrum C, and Macray 223. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: A 5. 6 Th. 


THIRD COPY 

Fragments. 

Three fragments of leaf [t3] only, printed on parchment. Bound 

with a large number of other miscellaneous fragments in a modern 

guard-book. Sizes of fragments: 25 ¿ 113 mm; 156 ¿ 77 mm; 

131 ¿ 95 mm. 

Notes by Douce. 

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757^1834). Bequeathed in 1834 

shelfmark: Douce Fragm. b.1(1). 


Part II only:


451 

[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

[B9 v ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[C2 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[I6 v ] [Bar.] [‘Prologus in librum Baruch’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[K1 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[O2 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’, supplied 



[Q4 r ] [Mt.] [‘Alius prologus in Matheo’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


Mt. 

[R6 v ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus Marcy ewangeliste’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[S4 v ] Hieronymus: [Prefatio in euangelium secundum Lucam.] 



v 

[T7 ] [Io.] [‘Prologus . . . in ewangelium Iohannis’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


v 

[V7 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in epistolam ad Romanos’, supplied 


[V8 r ] [Prologus specialis ad Romanos.] 


[V8 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 

refs. Rm^Hbr, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

[Z1 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in Actus apostolorum’, supplied 



[aa4 v ] [IacÎud.] [Prologus in epistolas canonicas.] 



[aa10 v ] [Apc.] [Prologus beati Iohannes in Apocalipsis.] 


[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 24 May 1466]. Folio. 

One of the Munich copies bears the rubricator’s date 24 May 

1466. The year-date 1466 is found in copies at Augsburg Stadtund 

Staatsbibliotek, Munich Staatsbibliothek, and Wolfenbu« ttel 

Herzog August Bibliothek, the latter in the hand of Johann 

Ba« mler (GW); see Needham,‘TheText’, 57. 

collation: [a^k 10 l m 12 n^x 10 y z A 12 B^G 10 H 12 I 8+1 K L 10 M 12 

N 10 O 10+1 P^T 10 V X 12 Y Z aa 10 bb 8 ]. 


CIBN B-365; Hubay, Augsburg, 356; Oates 108^9; Rhodes 345; 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Biblia latina (part I only). [Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not 

after 1468] (B-241(2)). 

Second part (PrvÂpc) only. Wanting the two blank leaves 

[bb7^8]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf; marbled pastedowns; 

by Charles James Aitken; covers loose. Size: 404 ¿ 290 ¿ 105 mm. 



On [B1 r ] an initial ‘I’ is supplied in red with foliate scrolling in 

white, decoration in blue and green and gold dotting; an initial 

‘P’ is supplied in blue withwhite highlighting on a dark red ground 

with highlighting in yellow; £oral extensions between the two columns 

and into the lower margin in red, blue, and green with some 

gold dotting. Principal initials are supplied in various colours 

with foliate scrolling. Headings in alternating red and blue letters. 

Other initials are supplied alternately in red and blue; red capital 

strokes. On [bb 6 v ] a rubricator’s note: ‘Amen etc.’. 

Provenance: Munich, Augustinian Hermits, SS. Johannes 

Baptista et Evangelista; inscription on [a1 r ] of item 1 ‘Monast. 

Monacen. Or. Erem. S. P. Aug.1606’. No indication of ownership 

in item 2. Purchased for »15; see Books Purchased (1841), 4. 

shelfmark: Auct. M 2.13(2). 


[a1 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. 



[s 2 r ] [OrMan.] 


[t2 r ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. [Numbered II and III by the rubricator.] 

[v8 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[y2 r ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



[y12 r ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] Preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

[B9 v ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus in ecclesiastes’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[C2 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[I6 v ] [Bar.] [‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’).] 


[K1 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[O2 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’, supplied 



[Q4 r ] [Mt.] [‘Argumentum in ewangelium secundum Matheum’, supplied 



Mt. 

[R 6 v ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus in ewangelium secundum Marcum’, supplied 



[S4 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefatio . . . in ewangelium secundum Lucam’, 




[T7 v ] [Io.] [‘Prologus in ewangelium secundum Iohannem’, supplied 



[V7 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’, 


[V8 r ] [‘Prologus specialis ad Romanos’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[V 8 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


[Z1 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’, 

supplied by the rubricator.]


[b-241^b-242 


[aa4 v ] [IacÎud.] [‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 



[aa10 v ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus beati Iohannes in Apocalipsis’, supplied by 



[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 1468]. Folio. 

collation: [a^k 10 l m 12 n^x 10 y z A 12 B^G 10 H 12 I 8+1 K L 10 M 12 

N 10+1 O^T 10 V X 12 Y 10 Z 12 aa 10 bb 8 ]. 


Hillard 371; Oates 107 (I only); Sheppard169^71. FIRST COPY 

Bound in two volumes (Gn^Ps and PrvÂpc). 

Wanting the blank leaves [A 12] and [bb 7^8]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century, English (London) blue morocco, 

c.1790, by Heinrich Walther, with his ticket; bound for the 

Bodleian Library; on both covers single ¢llets form a border; single 

gilt ¢llets on edges of boards; Greek key-pattern roll on turnins; 

gilt edges; sewn onto six double cords; on the cords a line of 

dots; between each set, a Greek frieze roll; marbled pastedowns; 

the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 413 ¿ 300 ¿ 60 

and 412 ¿ 305 ¿ 60 mm. Size of leaf: 395 ¿ 285 mm. 

In both volumes contemporary manuscript signatures and guideletters. 

In vol. 1, a border on [a1 r ]: three foliate sta¡s in gold, with leaves 

and £owers in dark blue, dark red, and green, in the inner, upper, 

and outer margins; two sta¡s arranged crosswise in the lower 

margin. An initial on [a1 r ] is supplied in burnished gold, the gilt 

with punch-dotting, with dark blue in¢ll and within a red frame. 

Border on [a 4 r ]: two foliate sta¡s in the upper and lower margins, 

connected with a broader bar in burnished gold, the gilt with 

punch-dotting, with edging in red and blue. Some principal initials 

are supplied in gold and colours with foliate extensions. 

Headings are supplied in red, initials and paragraph marks are 

supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining. In 

volume two, principal initials are supplied in red, dark blue, or 

green with reserved white decoration and £oral in¢ll, with pen- 

£ourishing in red. Headings, initials, and paragraph marks are 


Provenance: Vol. 2: Ulrich Zell (¢fteenth century). Ahlen, North 

Rhine-Westphalia, diocese of Mu« nster, Augustinian Nuns, S. 

Maria Rosa; on a strip of parchment pasted on an endleaf at the 

end ofvolume two:‘Vniuersis et singulis hoc scriptum inspecturis 

constat honorabilem virum Vlricum Zeel, impressorie artis 

magistrum, presentem bibliam, sermones Jacobi voraginis de 

tempore et sanctis, summam Pisanelle promptuariumque exemplorum 

sanctis contulisse virginibus in oppido Alen degentibus, 

ut suas annuatim Deo omnipotenti fundant preces pro eius 

anima et suorum parentum. Et promotoris horum librorum 

nomine Johannis Teydincho¡ natione Alensis, confratris domus 

fratrum Coloniensis, collatoris horum voluminum, voluntas fuit 

vltima quod prescripta permanerent in loco non alienando quomodo’; 

inscription on [B10 r ]:‘Libri C½nobij Ahle’ St Maria Rosa’; 

this appears not to refer to vol. 1 of the present set, which is decorated 

di¡erently. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^ 

1792); sale (1789), lot 69, described as bound ‘en carton’; in annotated 

catalogue marked down to P[iet] d[en] H[engst], the 

auctioneer, for Fl. 75. Fl. 75 corresponded to »6. 10. 6, according 

to the exchange rate used by Thomas Payne at the sale; the item 

was purchased for »25. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 1, and 

Notitia (1795), 3. 

shelfmark: Auct. M 1.8,9. 

SECOND COPY 

Part I (Gn^Ps) only. Bound with B-240; see there for details of 

binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 380 ¿ 272 mm. 


Principal initials are supplied in red with pen-£ourishing in green 

and other colours and drawings of grotesque faces; other initials, 

headings, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital 


shelfmark: Auct. M 2.13(1). 


[a 1 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. 



[v 3 r ] [OrMan.] 

[v3 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[x2 r ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[y 10 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[A 5 v ] [Iob.] [‘Prologus secundus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[B6 v ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber y« mnorum’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

Preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

[E 1 r ] [Prv.] 

[B10 r ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus in Ecclesiasten’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[F 3 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[M10 r ] [Bar.] [‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[N3 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[S2 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’, supplied 



[V5 r ] [Mt.] [‘Argumentum in ewangelium secundum Matheum’, supplied 



Mt. 

[X8 v ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus in ewangelium Marci’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[Y7 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in ewangelium Luce’, supplied by 




[aa 5 v ] [Io.] [‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’, supplied 



[bb8 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio. . . in omnes epistolas Pauli’, supplied 


[bb 8 v ] [‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’, supplied by 



[bb 9 r ] [Rm^Hbr.]


453 

refs. Rm^Hbr, each letter preceded byan‘argumentum’referred 

to as ‘prologus’ by the rubricator in the case of I and II Cor (PL 

CXIV 551). 

[ee8 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’, 



[gg2 v ] [IacÎud.] [‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 



[hh1 r ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’, supplied by 



[Basel: Berthold Ruppel, c.1469]. Folio. As dated by Needham, 

‘The Text’, 58, from paper evidence; Sheppard and GW date 

[c.1468]. 

collation: [a^l 10 m n 8 o^s 10 t v 12 x^z A^C 10 D 12 E^H 10 I K 12 L^ 

X 10 Y Z aa 8 bb^¡ 10 gg hh 8 ]. 



COPY 

Bound in two volumes (Gn^Ps; PrvÂpc). At the end of volume 

two is bound: 

2. Nicolaus de Hanapis, Auctoritates utriusque Testamenti. 

[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, c.1468] (N-046). 

Wanting the blank leaf [l10]. 

This copy does not contain the directions to the rubricator. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled russia; marbled pastedowns. 

Size: 410 ¿ 300 ¿ 60 and 412 ¿ 300 ¿ 85 mm. Size of 

leaf: 395 ¿ 282 mm. 

On [a 1 r ] a six-line initial is supplied in interlocked blue and red 

with pen-£ourishing and a grotesque head in the same colours 

extending into the margins. Headings, chapter numbers, initials, 


underlining. 

Provenance: Georg/Jo« rg Bu« rla¢nger (¢fteenth century); inscription 

on [F2 r ]: ‘Jerg Bu« rla¢nger’. Uttenweiler, Wu« rttemberg, 

Augustinian Hermits; on [a 1 r ] and [E1 r ] the inscription: ‘Fratrum 

Eremitarum S: Augustini Uttenwil�’. Purchased for »8. 2. 6; see 


shelfmark: Auct. M 3.10,11(1). 





[z5 v ] [OrMan.] 

[z5 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[A 8 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[C9 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[E8 r ] [Iob.] [‘Prologus super libro Iob’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

Preceded by the Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob and followed 

by Iob. 

[G1 r ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber ymnorum uel soliloquiorum’, supplied by the 


[K1 r ] [Prv.] 

[L1 v ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus in libro ecclesiastes’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[L5 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[T10 v ] [Bar.] [‘Prologus in Baruch’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[V4 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[cc1 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libro Machabeorum’, supplied 



[ee7 v ] [Mt.] [‘Alius prologus in Matheo’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


Mt. 

[gg5 r ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus Marci ewangeliste’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[hh5 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus in Luca ewangelista’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 



[kk2 v ] [Io.] [‘Prologus in Iohanne’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


v 

[ll5 ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in epistolis Pauli’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 

[ll6 v ] [‘Alius prologus in epistulis Pauli ad Romanos’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


[ll7 r ] [Rm^Hbr.] 

refs. Rm^Hbr, each letter preceded by an‘argumentum’ (mostly 

referred to as ‘prologus’ by the rubricator). 

[pp3 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in Actus apostolorum’, supplied 



[qq10 r ] [IacÎud.] [‘Prologus super epistolas canonicas’, supplied by 



‘argumentum’ (referred to as ‘prologus’ by the rubricator). 

[rr8 r ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus in libro Apokalipsis’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 8 Mar. 1470]. Folio. 

The copy at Strasbourg, Grand Se¤ minaire, bears the rubricator’s 

date 8 Mar. 1470, the one at the BnF 1470. See Paul Needham,‘A 

Gutenberg Bible used as Printer’s Copy by Heinrich Eggestein, 

c.1469’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 9 

(1986), 43 and 73 n. 12; CIBN suggests [c.1469^70]. 

collation: [a^p 10 q 8 r^z A^H 10 I 10+1 K^Z aa^ll 10 mm 8 nn^qq 10 

rr 8 ss 6+1 ]. 


CIBN B-367; Hillard 372; Oates 110; Sack, Freiburg, 613; 

Sheppard 173. 

COPY 

Bound in two volumes (Gn^Ps; PrvÂpc). 

Without the four leaves of rubrics described by BMC. 

In the last gathering, the half-sheet which forms the sixth leaf is 

misbound as the ¢fth. 

Binding: Vol. 1 bound in contemporary German blind-tooled 

calf over wooden boards, two clasps. Title- and shelfmark labels 

on the upper cover.‘94’on spine. On the upper cover single ¢llets 

form a double frame; the inner rectangle is ¢lled with lozengeshaped 

£oral ornaments. On the lower cover single ¢llets form a 

double frame; in the inner rectangle, merrythoughts, made up by


[b-243^b-244 

repeated headed-outline tools, surround lozenge-shaped £oral 

ornaments. On both covers an unidenti¢ed stamp within the 

outer frame.Vol. 2 bound in contemporary German pigskin over 

wooden boards, with tools identical to those on volume 1; two 

clasps, corner-pieces, and central boss lost. Title written on the 

upper cover; shelfmark label on the upper cover. ‘98’ on spine. 

On both covers ¢llets form a double frame; in the inner rectangle, 

merrythoughts, made up by repeated headed-outline tools, surround 

lozenge-shaped £oral ornaments. The inner rectangle is 

surrounded by a row of small foliate-sta¡ stamps; within the 

outer frame, a renaissance ornament. Size: 402 ¿ 305 ¿ 110 and 


Copious early marginal notes. Manuscript catchwords. 

Bibliographical notes in the hand of Klo� on the front endleaves 

of both volumes. 

Principal initials are supplied in gold and colours with £oral 

extensions into the margins and some gold dotting. Other initials 

are supplied in red, blue, and, occasionally, green; red headings, 

chapter numbers, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Heinrich Parreut [Parayt] (£.1483); gave the bookto 

the Carthusians of Marienzell in Nuremberg; on a paper strip 

pasted on the front pastedown of vol. 2, an inscription: ‘Iste liber 

est cartusiensium Nu« rmberge, eis datus cum multis alijs ex testamento 

magistri Heinrici de Paray« t, quondam plebani inVtzhofen. 

Anno domini 1483.Vide in speculo morali in principio’; on rear 

pastedown of vol. 2, a similar strip with the inscription: 

‘Karthusiensium Nu« remberge et liber iste’. Nuremberg, 

Stadtbibliothek; armorial book-plate with the inscription: ‘Bib. 

Nor.’ on [a2 r ] and [K1 r ]; see Warnecke 1473 and Leiningen- 

Westerburg 463. Leaf [a1 r ] appears to be supplied from another 

copy, as it is of slightly smaller size, has worm-holes in di¡erent 

places and is rubricated and illuminated by di¡erent hands from 

the rest of the volume; the provenance information given there 

(‘Ad Bibliothecam aulicam Eystettensem’ [Eichsta« tt, Bavaria, 

Fu« rstbischo« £iche Hofbibliothek]) refers to this other copy, not to 

B-243. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); notes (see 

above). Purchased for »45; see Books Purchased (1826), 3. 

shelfmark: Auct.Y 3.5,6. 




[a4 r ] [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[q2 v ] [OrMan.] 

[q3 r ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[r 1 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[s6 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[t8 r ] [Iob.] [‘Prologus secundus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[v6 r ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’, supplied by the 


[z1 r ] [Prv.] 

[z8 r ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus in Ecclesiasten’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[A1 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[F8 v ] [Bar.] [‘Prefatio in librum Baruth’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[F10 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[K8 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’, supplied 



[N1 v ] [Mt.] [‘Argumentum in euuangelium secundum Matheum’, 



Mt. 

[O6 r ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus in euuangelium secundum Marcum’, supplied 



[P3 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefatio . . . in euuangelium secundum Lucam’, 




r 

[Q5 ] [Io.] [‘Prologus in euuangelium secundum Iohannem’, supplied 



v 

[R3 ] [Hieronymus]: [‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli ad 

Romanos’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

[R4 r ] [‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


[R4 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 

refs. Rm^Hbr, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (some 

entitled ‘prologus’ by the rubricator). 

[T8 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’, 



[V9 v ] [IacÎud.] [‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 



[X4 v ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus in Apocalipsim’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[Strasbourg: The R-Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), 

c.1473]. Folio. As dated by Paul Needham in The Estelle Doheny 

Collection, I lot 16 (Christie’s: 22 Oct. 1987), and Needham, 

Sch�yen, lot 6; the former dating to [not after1470] was ¢rst questioned 

by Scholderer, FiftyEssays,153^4; see also Needham,‘The 

Text’, 55, where he notes that this edition was copied from 

Mentelin’s edition of [not after 1461] (Bod-inc. B-238). 

collation: [a^l 10 m 8 n^v 10 x y 8 z 10 A^L 10 M N 6 O^X 10 ]. 

Collation as GW, not as BMC. 


B-414; CIBN B-371; Hillard 373; Oates 92^3; Sheppard 210. 

COPY 

Bound in two volumes (Gn^Ps and PrvÂpc), originally bound 

together. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French gold-tooled red calf; by 

Nicolas-Denis Derome (le jeune), with the binder’s ticket dated 

1785, in use 1785^9; endleaves watermarked 1782; see Barber, 

‘Baroque to Neoclassicism’, no. 34: ‘Seven panel spine, corner 

decoration, £ower centres with dotted lozenge’; marbled pastedowns; 

the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 

Size: 416 ¿ 280 ¿ 53 and 416 ¿ 285 ¿ 50 mm. Size of leaf: 400 ¿ 

264 mm. 

Occasional marginal notes, some ofthem early. Marginal notes in 

vol. 2 washed out. Manuscript signatures.


455 

On [a2 r ] a ten-line initial is supplied in gold, with pen-£ourishing 

in red and beige extending into the inner margin. Red headings, 

paragraph marks, and underlining. A later, probably nineteenthcentury 

hand supplied initials in gold on red or blue and added 

‘Finis’ in gold, surrounded by a £oral ornament in blue and gold, 

on [X 10 r ]. 

Provenance: Cardinal E¤ tienne Charles de Lome¤ nie de 

Brienne(?) (1727^1794): possibly the copy described by Laire, 

Index,1 (1791),100,101. Not in Notitia (1795). Date of acquisition 

unknown; the shelfmark suggests a date before 1821; certainly in 

the Library by 1843: see Catalogus (1843), I 254. 



Volume 1. 

[a2 r ] [Bussis], Johannes Andreas [de: Editor’s preface addressed to] 

Paulus II, Pont. Max. 

refs. Bussi 56^7. 

[a 2 v ] ‘Tabula’. 

[a3 v ] Palmerius [Pisanus], Mathias: [Letter addressed to] Paulus II, 

Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[C]um et antea semper, beate Pontifex, intellexerim 

. . .’ 

refs. On the dedication see Giovanni Mercati, Codici Latini Pico 

Grimani Pio, Studi e Testi, 75 (Vatican City, 1938), 288; Edoardo 

Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane del quattrocento e del cinquecento, 2 

vols (Milan, 1992), I 200^1. 

[a3 v ] Aristeas [pseudo-]: Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus. 

Translated by Mathias Palmerius Pisanus. 

refs. Pref. no. 59. H.T. Andrews in R. H. Charles, Apocryphaand 

Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, II (1913), 83^122, with this 

edition noted on 90; see also A-381. 

[c2 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. 


[c 4 v ] [GnÎ Par.] 

[x 2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to II Par]. [Also known as Alius prologus [to IÎI 

Par].] 

refs. Pref. no. 2; in other editions, this follows ‘Prefatio sancti 

Hieronymi in librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralypomenon’. 

[x2 v ] [II Par.] 

[y8 r ] [OrMan.] 

[y8 r ] [IÎI Esr.] 

refs. II Esr here entitled ‘Neemias’. 

[z9 v ] [III Esr.] 

refs. III Esr here entitled ‘II Esr’. 

[A 6 r ] [TbÊst.] 

[C4 r ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 

refs. Pref. no. 3; preceded by ‘Prologus in Iob’. 

[C 4 v ] [Iob^Ps (G).] 

refs. Ps (G) preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prologues only. 

Volume 2. 

[G2 r ] [Prv.] 

[H1 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


[H 1 v ] [Ecl^Ct.] 

[H6 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


[H 6 v ] [Sap^Lam.] Lam, except with introduction, ‘[E]t factum est 

postquam in captiuitate . . .’, appended to ¢rst chapter. 

[P 10 r ] ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 

refs. Pref. no. 10, followed by Bar^Dn. 

[T7 r ] ‘Alius prologus’ [to Os]. 

refs. Pref. no. 12; preceded by ‘Prologus in librum duodecim 

prophetarum’. 

[T7 v ] [Os.] 

[T 10 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


[T10 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[V 1 r ] [Ioel.] 

[V2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


[V 2 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref no. 18; in other editions, called ‘argumentum’. 

[V2 v ] ‘Tercius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 19, followed by Am. 

[V2 v ] [Am.] 

[V5 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 

refs. Pref. no. 20, followed by Abd. 

[V 5 r ] [Abd.] 

[V5 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


[V 6 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 22, folowed by Ion. 

[V6 r ] [Ion.] 

[V 7 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 

refs. Pref. no. 23, followed by Mi. 

[V7 r ] [Mi.] 

[V 8 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


[V9 r ] [Na.] 

[V9 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


[V10 v ] [Hab.] 

[X1 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


[X1 v ] [So.] 

[X2 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


[X3 r ] [Agg.] 

[X3 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


[X 4 r ] [Za.] 

[X7 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 

refs. Pref. no. 29, followed by Mal. 

[X 7 v ] [Mal.] 

[X8 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


[X 9 r ] [IÎI Mcc.] 

[aa1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 

refs. Pref. no. 35; preceded by ‘Epistola beati Hieronymi ad 

Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelia’ and ‘argumentum’ 

(Pref. no. 34). 

[aa2 r ] [Mt.] 

[bb 5 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


[bb5 v ] [Mc.] 

[cc4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


[cc4 v ] [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’.


[b-245^b-246 

[dd9 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


v 

[dd9 ] [Io.] 

[¡1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 

refs. Pref. no. 39; preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti Hieronymi in 

omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[¡2 r ] [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[¡7 v ] [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’, here entitled ‘Prologus’. 

[gg5 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. Incipit: ‘[P]ost actam a Corinthiis penitentiam 

. . .’ 

[gg5 r ] [II Cor^Hbr]. 

refs. Pref. no. 42, followed by II Cor^Hbr. Gal^Hbr each preceded 

by ‘argumentum’, the one before Gal being entitled 

‘Prologus’. 

[ii5 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Act]. 


[ii5 v ] [Act.] 

[kk10 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


v 

[kk10 ] [IacÎud.] 

refs. Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[ll7 v ] [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


[ll8 r ] ‘Alter prologus’. 


r 

[ll8 ] [Apc.] 

[mm7 r ] [Verse colophon addressed to the reader.] 

refs. Darlow^Moule 909, Bot¢eld 48 and Copinger, Incunabula 

Biblica, 37. 

[nn1 r ] [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [not before 

15 Mar.] 1471. Folio. 

collation: Vol. 1: [a b 8 c^g 10 h 8 i^m 10 n 12 o^r 10 s t 8 v^z A 10 B 8 C^ 

E 10 F 12 ]; vol. 2: [G^L 10 M 8 N^R 10 S 8 T^Y 10 Z 12 aaêe 10 ¡ 8 gg^ 

kk 10 ll mm 8 nn^qq 10 rr^tt 8 ]. 

GW 4210; HC *3051; Go¡ B-535; BMC IV12; Pr 3316; CIBN B-368; 

Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 13; Darlow^Moule 6081; Oates 

1362; Quentin 76^7; Sheppard 2629. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1], [F12], [G1], and [tt8]. 

Bound in two volumes. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco; the gold 

stamp of the royal arms of France, surrounded by the collar of 

the Order of the Holy Ghost, on both covers of each volume. 

Spine gold-tooled with various stamps, including a repeated 

£eur-de-lis, and a £oral(?) monogram surmounted by a crown. 

Circular paper label bearing French Royal Library shelfmark 

‘A.61.2’on spine of vol. 2. Size: Vol. 1: 395 ¿ 290 ¿ 65 mm; vol. 2: 


Rubrication in vol. 2 only: on [G2 r ] a twelve-line initial ‘P’ is supplied 

in interlocked red and purple, with purple pen-work in¢ll, 

and surrounded by red pen-work decoration, extending into the 

guttering; on [R3 v ] a seven-line initial ‘E’ is supplied in yellow 

with reserved white decoration, inhabited by a crowned lion rampant(?) 

in yellow and black. Other initials are supplied in red or 

purple or interlocked red and purple, some with extensions into 

the margins or guttering. In some cases, pencil outlines of 

sketches of initials are still visible. 

Provenance: Paris, Bibliothe' que Royale; circular stamp on [a 2 r ], 

arms on binding (as above); former Royal Library shelfmark: 

‘A.61’on front endleaf of vol. 1, and ‘A.61.2’ on [G2 r ] and [G3 r ] of 

vol. 2: see Catalogue des Livres Imprime¤ s de la Bibliothe' que du 

Roy, I (Paris, 1739), A3 r , cols 1^2; further shelfmarks on [a2 r ] of 

vol. 1 ‘A.106 a ’ and on front endleaf of vol. 2 ‘A.106 b ’. Purchased 

for »35; seeBooks Purchased (1804), 1, and Macray 285. 



[a 1 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti 

Jheronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 





[t 3 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 


[y3 v ] [Iob.] [‘Alius prologus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[z3 v ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’, supplied by the 


[ 2 a 1 r ] [Prv.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[ 2 a9 r ] [Ecl.] 


[ 2 b 2 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[ 2 h6 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’. 


[ 2 h 9 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[ 2 n2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[ 2 p 1 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[ 2 q3 v ] [Mc.] [Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum.] 


[ 2 r1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[ 2 s4 v ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[ 2 t 4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[ 2 t4 v ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[ 2 t 5 r ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of I and II Cor). 

[ 2 y2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


[ 2 z5 r ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



[ 2 A1 r ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus in Apokalipsim’, supplied by the rubricator.]


457 


Mainz: Peter Schoe¡er, ‘In vigilia Mathie’ (i. e. 23 Feb.) 1472. 

Folio. For dating see CIBN and Hillard. See Needham, ‘The 

Text’, 57. 

collation: [ 1 a^h 10 i k 8 l^z 10 A B 8 ]; [ 2 a^n 10 o 12 p^z 10 2 A 6+1 ]. 

Collation as GW; CIBN collates ‘[ . . . A 6 (5+1)]’. 


CIBN B-369; Hillard 374; IGI VI 1636Â; Oates 31; Sack, 


COPY 


On [ 2 h6 r ] the red-printed explicit of Lam is inverted. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English blind and goldtooled 

blue morocco; on the turn-ins, double zig-zag line with circles 

in the triangular compartments; marbled pastedowns; gold 

stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 425 ¿ 290 ¿ 

50 and 424 ¿ 290 ¿ 50 mm. Size of leaf: 410 ¿ 276 mm. 

Early marginal notes concerning the reading of the Bible in 

church and refectory throughout the year, the divisions of the 

text being marked by handwritten letters in the margins. 

On [ 2 o12 v ] a date of ‘1472’ is supplied by the rubricator; on [ 2 q3 v ] a 

date of ‘72’; [ 2 A 7 r ] a date of ‘1472 o ’ and signed ‘J. G.’. On [ 1 a1 r ] a 

£oral three-quarter border is supplied in red, green, and blue 

with some gold-dotting; garlands in upper and lower margins; a 

seven-line initial is supplied in gold on a blue background with 

pen-£ourishing in white. On [ 1 a4 r ] £oral three-quarter border is 

supplied in red, green, and blue with some gold-dotting; a crown 

in the centre of the upper margin; gold initial incorporated into 

the inner margin. Other initials, headings, and foliation are supplied 

in red. Some principal initials (see [ 1 t 3 v ], [ 2 d5 r ], [ 2 l7 r ], and 

[ 2 l10 v ]) are supplied in colours at a later stage. On [ 2 d5 r ] the monogram 

‘FAC’ and date ‘1567’ inserted in red initial, probably the 

signature of the second illuminator. From gathering [ 2 m], initials 

are supplied in gold and a di¡erent palette, with £oral extensions 

into the margins; on [ 2 s4 v ] a historiated initial depicting a saint 

holding a chalice; on [ 2 t 5 r ] a historiated initial depicting a saint 

holding a sword. 

Provenance: B. M.; on [ 1 a 6 v ]: ‘Ede, bibe, lude, epula, anima mea; 

post mortem non est voluptas. 1551. B. M. selten Rich’. 

Christophorus Prastinger (£. 1551); on [ 1 b3 r ]: ‘Christophorus 

Prasttinger legit in hoc libro etiam’, followed by several inscriptions 

of the name. Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771^1823); 

armorial book-plate on front pastedown of each volume; sale 

(1824), lot 607. Purchased for »36. 15. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1824), 3. 




Iheronimi ad Paulinum prespiterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 



[q10 v ] [OrMan.] 

[r 1 r ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[r9 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[t5 v ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[v 9 r ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



r 

[x9 ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloqueorum’. Preceded by the 


[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

v 

[B8 ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[C1 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[H10 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’. 


[I2 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[N3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[Q1 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[R4 r ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


r 

[S2 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[T6 r ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[X1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Preuacio(!) in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli ad 

Romanos’. 

v 

[X1 ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[X1 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as‘prologus’ in the case of Rm, I and II Cor and Gal). 

[Z7 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Preuacio(!). . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


v 

[aa9 ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



r 

[bb5 ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


[cc1 r ] Menardus Monachus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de 

Ysenaco. 


[cc4 v ] [Guido Vicentinus: In summarium Biblie ad lectorem.Verses 

from ‘Margarita bibliae’.] 

refs. Pref. no. 63.The authorship is ascribed by BSB-Ink. 

[cc5 r ] ‘Tabula canonum’. [Eusebian canons.] 

[Basel: Bernhard Richel, not after 1474]. Folio. The copy in the 

Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., has the date of rubrication 

1474.Woodcut initials. 

collation: [a 12 b^y 10 z A 6 B^N 10 O P 6 Q^S 10 T V 8 X^Z aa bb 10 

cc 6 ]. 

GW 4212; H *3041 = 3043; Go¡ B-537; BMC III 736; Pr 7526; 


COPY 


Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf. Size: 397 ¿ 300 ¿ 86 and 



Woodcut initials painted in red and blue. Headings supplied in 

red; red paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining.


[b-247^b-249 

Provenance: No.‘999’on endleaf. Purchased from Payne & Foss 

for »26. 5. 0: see Library Bills (1827), no. 95, and Books Purchased 

(1827), 3; inscription on endleaf. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. Z 1.1,2. 

shelfmark: Auct. 1Z 2.1,2. 




[a 3 r ] [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 




[s8 v ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[v1 v ] [Iob.] [‘Prologus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[v10 r ] [Ps (G).] [‘Liber ympnorum’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

Preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

[ 2 a 1 r ] [Prv.] 

[ 2 a8 v ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[ 2 b 1 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[ 2 g9 v ] [Bar.] [‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[ 2 h 2 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[ 2 m 2 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’, supplied 



[ 2 o 1 r ] [Mt.] [‘Argumentum in ewangelium Mathei’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


Mt. 

[ 2 p2 r ] [Mc.] [‘Prologus in ewangelium secundum Marcum’, supplied 



[ 2 p9 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio. . . in ewangelium secundum Lucam’, 




[ 2 r1 r ] [Io.] [‘Prologus in ewangelium secundum Iohannem’, supplied 



[ 2 r9 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefatio in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli ad 

Romanos’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

[ 2 r 10 r ] [‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’, supplied by 



[ 2 r 10 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of Rm, I and II Cor and Gal). 

[ 2 v4 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’, 



[ 2 x5 v ] [IacÎud.] [‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 



[ 2 y3 r ] [Apc.] [‘Prologus in Appocalipsim’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[Basel: Berthold Ruppel and Bernhard Richel, not after 1474]. 

Folio. As dated by GW; CIBN dates [c.1472/3]. The copy in the 

Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. has the date of rubrication 

1474. 

collation: [a^y 2 a^v 10 x y 8 ]. 

Type: The second part (PrvÂpc) is printed with Richel’s type 119. 

Woodcut initials in the second part. 

GW 4213; H *3038 = 3044; Go¡ B-538; BMC III 714 & 736; Pr 7447 

& 7531; BSB-Ink B-416; CIBN B-370; Sheppard 2296 & 2362. 

COPY 


Binding: Contemporary German (Ingolstadt: Kyri� workshop 

no. 45, Johann Grellin) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, 

with remains of two metal fastenings; corner-pieces and central 

bosses lost. On the upper cover of volume 1, a metal V (for 

Vetus), on volume 2, N (for Novum). Shelfmark labels on both 

covers. On both covers of volume 1, ¢llets form a triple frame; 

the inner rectangle is divided by double ¢llets into lozenge-shaped 

compartments. In the compartments a large round rosette stamp, 

a palm-leaf stamp, a lozenge-shaped £oral stamp, a stamp with 

two intersecting arches, and a scroll with the inscription: ‘I. 

Grellin’. Within the middle frame, quatrofoils, four acorns and 

two £owers; within the outer frame, the palm-leaf, rosette 

stamps, and the scroll. Additional stamps on volume 2: a small 

round stamp with a stag, lozenge-shaped stamps with a doubleheaded 

eagle and a standing ¢gure, and a set of four evangelists. 

For the stamps see Kyri� pl. 93, nos1^3, 5^9. Size: 400 ¿ 300 ¿ 90 

and 400 ¿ 295 ¿ 85 mm. Size of leaf: 384 ¿ 286 mm. 

Copious marginal notes and some German glosses by various 

early hands, one of which has added ‘C[asus] S[ummarii]’ mainly 

in the lower margins of several books in volume1; see also the edition 

from Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 Jan. 1480 (B-276). 

On [a2 r ] and [v10 r ] an initial and a £oral border are supplied in several 

colours and gold. Woodcut initials in part II painted in various 

colours. Other initials, headings, chapter numbers are 

supplied uniformly in both volumes in red; paragraph marks are 


Provenance: Johannes Schert (�1517); inscription on back pastedown 

ofvolume 2:‘Ego Johannes Schert de Geylndor¡ [tunc temporis 

inserted] d[iui]norum cooperator in Dinckelspuhl Emi 

Totum Corpus Biblie Anno Domini 1476 citra fest’ Michaelis 

archangeli pro quatuor £or[enis] reynens’et quartale £or[eni] pro 

inligatura vij lib’, facit libra 30 denarii’. On front pastedown of 

volume 2, ‘Iste liber per’ (no more written). Augsburg; erased 

and mostly unread inscription on [a 1 r ] of volume 1, ending in 

‘Auguste Vindel[icorum]’. Purchased from Longman, Rees, 

Orme, Brown, and Green, Catalogue (1830), no. 427, for »10; see 





[a2 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti 


libris’. 

refs. Pref. no. 1.


459 


[B5 v ] [OrMan.] 

v 

[B5 ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[C9 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[G1 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

r 

[I1 ] [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus’. 



[K4 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[O2 r ] [Prv.] 

[P3 r ] [Ecl.] [‘Prologus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[P7 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[aa5 v ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


[aa9 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[hh3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


v 

[mm1 ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

v 

[nn8 ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[oo9 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[qq8 v ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[ss2 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[ss3 r ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


v 

[ss3 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of IÎI Cor and Gal). 

v 

[yy1 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


[zz10 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in epistolas canonicas’. 



[AA8 r ] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 

refs. Pref. no. 50, followed by Apc. Preface ascribed to 

Hieronymus in this edition. 

[Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, c.1475]. Folio. 

collation: [a^h 10 i 8 k^n 10 o 8 p^v 10 x 8+1 y z A^C 10 D E 8 F 6 G^Z 

aa bb 10 cc dd 8 eeîi 10 kk ll 6 mm^zz AA 10 BB 8 ]. 

GW 4214; HC 3039; Go¡ B-539; Pr 1173; CIBN B-378; Hillard 375; 

Oates 659^60; Rhodes 346; Sheppard 883; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 249. 

COPY 


Wanting [q 10] and the blank leaf [BB 8]. 

Binding: Both volumes bound uniformly in contemporary 

German (Du« lmen?), blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, 

remains of two clasps; remains of corner-pieces on the second 

volume only; bosses lost; tawed leather index tabs. On both 

covers double ¢llets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is 

divided by double ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In 

the compartments two di¡erent stamps: a round eagle and a 

lozenge-shaped £eur-de-lis; within the outer frame a blind-tooled 

scroll with the inscription: ‘Ihesus’, four stamps with the symbols 

of the evangelists in each corner, a round £ower stamp, and an 

octagonal lamb-and-£ag stamp; for the stamps see Weale^ 

Taylor pl. vii, nos 4, 5 and also no. 95; see also Goldschmidt I 

249. Size: 320 ¿ 225 ¿ 105 and 312 ¿ 230 ¿ 90 mm. Size of 

leaf: 308 ¿ 217 mm. 

Manuscript catchwords. Table of contents on [O1 r ] in an early 

hand. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue or red with pen-£ourishing 

in red or violet with in¢ll in green; other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red or blue; red headings, capital strokes, 


Provenance: Hermann Proninck (£. 1484); bequeathed the book 

to a convent; on [a1 v ] and on [O1 v ] the inscription: ‘Anno domini 

Mcccclxxxiiij decimo die mensis Januarij obijt dominus 

Hermannus Pronynck vicarius et magister fabrice ecclesie 

Mon[asterii] qui dedit et legauit hunc librum conuentui [name 

deleted] [ordinis] [ ]. Orate ¢deliter pro anima eiusdem et omnium 

suorum.’ Old shelfmarks ‘A.20’ and ‘A.21’ on front pastedowns. 

Weddern, near Du« lmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Carthusians, 

Castrimaria/ Castrum Beatae Mariae; inscriptions: ‘Liber 

[Carthusiensium Mariecastri prope Dulmaniam?]’on parchment 

endleaf of vol. 1 and front pastedown of vol. 2 deleted. Joseph 

Niesert (1766^1841); inscription dated 1819; see sale (1843), lots 

28, 29, bought byThomas Rodd, according to a note by Bandinel 

in the Bodleian copy of the sale catalogue. Purchased for »10. 0. 0; 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1466.c.1,2. 

shelfmark: Auct.V 3.2,3. 




libris’. 



[q 9 v ] [OrMan.] 



[t 4 v ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[x 1 v ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



[x 10 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloqueorum’. Preceded by the 


[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

[B8 v ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[C1 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[H10 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’. 


[I 2 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 



[Q 1 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 


refs. Pref. no. 36, followed by Mc.


[b-250^b-251 

[S2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 





r 

[X1 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli ad 

Romanos’. 

[X1 v ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


v 

[X1 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of Rm, I and II Cor and Gal). 

v 

[Z7 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


[aa9 v ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



[bb5 r ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


v 

[bb10 ] [Date.] 


Ysenaco. 

refs. See Pref. no. 56. 

[cc4 v ] [In summarium Biblie ad lectorem.] 


r 

[cc5 ] ‘Tabula canonum’. [Eusebian canons.] 

[Basel: Bernhard Richel], 1475. Folio. 

collation: [a^g 10 h 8 i^r 10 s 8 t 6 v^y 10 z 8 A 6 B^N 10 O P 6 Q^S 10 T V 8 

X^Z aa bb 10 cc 6 ]. 


GW 4215; HC *3053; C 1024; Go¡ B-540; BMC III 736; Pr 7524; 



COPY 

Wanting gathering [cc] (the additions of Menardus Monachus). 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin. On 

both covers triple ¢llets form three concentric frames; the inner 

rectangle is decorated with a large lozenge-shaped stamp and 

four corner-pieces. In the frames three di¡erent rolls with 

Renaissance ornaments; in the spaces between the frames, a different 

triangular stamp. Size: 385 ¿ 285 ¿ 125 mm. Size of 

leaf: 370 ¿ 267 mm. 

Major woodcut initials painted in various colours, minor ones in 

red; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Inscription on endleaf: ‘1817. 11 April P..m Aus. N o 

113 Et T.90’. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); booklabel 

on the front pastedown; see sale (1835), lot 700. Purchased 


shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 2.2. 


[a2 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Prologus in 

Bibliam’. 


[a 4 r ] [GnÎV Rg.] 

refs. Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[n1 r ] ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 


librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralypomenon’. Slight variation in 

the incipit of the ¢rst preface to IÎI Par. 

[n1 v ] [IÎI Par.] 

[p2 v ] [OrMan.] 

[p 2 v ] [IÎI Esr.] 

refs. II Esr entitled ‘Neemias’ in this edition. 

[q6 r ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this edition. 

[r 4 v ] [TbÊst.] 

[s6 v ] ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


[s 7 r ] [Iob^Ps (G).] 

refs. Iob preceded by ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded by the ¢rst 

of Jerome’s prologues only. 

[x 1 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 

refs. Pref. no. 4; preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[x1 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[x 1 v ] [Prv.] 

[x8 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 

refs. Pref. no. 6, followed by Ecl^Ct. 

[x 8 v ] [Ecl^Ct]. 

[y2 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


[y 2 v ] [SapÎs.] 

refs. Is preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[B7 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 


[B7 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 9; preceded by ‘Prologus’. 

[B7 v ] [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[D 6 r ] [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 

captiuitate . . .’ 

[D6 r ] [Lam.] 

[D 8 r ] ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


[D8 r ] [Bar^Dn]. 

[G 2 r ] ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



[G 2 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 

refs. Pref. no. 12, followed by an ‘argumentum’and Os. 

[G2 v ] [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[G5 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


[G5 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 15, followed by argumentum (Pref. no. 14), and 

Ioel. 

[G5 r ] [Ioel], preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[G6 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


[G6 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions, called ‘argumentum’. 

[G 6 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[G6 v ] [Am.] 

[G8 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


[G8 v ] [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’.


461 

[G8 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


[G 9 r ] [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (Pref. no. 22). 

[G9 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 

refs. Pref. no. 23, followed by ‘argumentum’and Mi. 

[G 9 v ] [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[G11 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 

refs. Pref. no. 24, followed by ‘argumentum’and Na. 

[G11 r ] [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[G 12 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


[G12 v ] [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[H 1 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 

refs. Pref. no. 26, followed by ‘argumentum’and So. 

[H1 r ] [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[H 2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


[H2 v ] [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[H 3 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 

refs. Pref. no. 28, followed by ‘argumentum’and Za. 

[H3 r ] [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[H5 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


[H6 r ] [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[H7 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


[H7 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[H 7 r ] [IÎI Mcc]. 

[K1 v ] ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 


Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelia’. 

[K 1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


[K2 r ] [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

[L 2 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


[L2 v ] [Mc.] 

[L 9 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 



[L 9 r ] [Lc.] 

[M 10 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


[M10 v ] [Io.] 

[N 9 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



[N 9 v ] [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[O1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


[O 1 v ] [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[O5 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


[O 6 r ] [II Cor^Hbr]. 


[P10 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


[P 10 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[Q1 r ] [Act.] 

[R2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 

refs. Pref. no. 44, followed by IacÎud, each letter preceded by 


[R7 r ] [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


[R7 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[R8 r ] [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

[R12 ] [Colophon.] 

[S1 r ] [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn and Nicolaus de 

Frankfordia, 1475. Folio. 

collation: [a^h 10 i^l 12 m^s 10 t v 12 x^z AÊ 10 FÎ 12 K^M 10 N 12 

O^Q 10 R 12 S 10 T 12 V 10+1 ]. 


B-419; CIBN B-377; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 24; Darlow^ 

Moule 910; Quentin 79; Sheppard 3338. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [a1], and [a2], the place of which has been 

taken by a manuscript facsimile. 

Leaf [V11] mounted. 

Binding: English calf, c.1790, bound for the Bodleian Library; 

on both covers single gilt ¢llets form a border; single gilt ¢llets 

on edges of boards; Greek key-pattern roll on turn-ins; marbled 

pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Library on 

both covers; according to Morelli, the previous binding was 

French. Size: 285 ¿ 210 ¿ 75 mm. Size of leaf: 275 ¿ 185 mm. 

Some early marginal notes. Note on [a 3 r ] presumably refers to 

Paulus (Paulinus), ¢rst bishop of Tivoli, c.366. 

On [a2 r ] a fourteen-line initial ‘F’ is supplied in reserved white, 

with red pen-work in¢ll and decoration and extensions into the 

margin. Other initials are supplied in red or blue, some having 

pen-work in¢ll and decoration in the other colour, with extensions 

into the margins. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or 

blue. Capitals touched with yellow wash. 

Provenance: Ma¡eo Pinelli (1735^1785); see Morelli (1787), I no. 

128; sale (1789), lot 5037. Purchased for »5.7. 0; the annotated sale 

catalogue gives no name of purchaser, but the same price as 





Hieronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 




[s 4 r ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[t3 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 


[y 3 v ] [Iob.] [‘Secundus prologus’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[z 3 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 

¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only.


[b-252^b-253 

[C1 r ] [Prv.] 

[C9 r ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[D2 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[K6 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


[K9 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[P2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


v 

[R1 ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

v 

[S3 ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[T1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[V4 v ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


r 

[X4 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[X4 v ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Roma[nos].’ 


r 

[X5 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of I and II Cor and Gal). 

r 

[aa2 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


[bb5 r ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



[cc1 r ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 


Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 16 Nov. 1475. Folio. 

collation: [a^h 10 i k 8 l^z 10 A B 8 C^P 10 Q 12 R^Z aa bb 10 cc 8 ]. 


B-420; CIBN B-373; Hillard 376; Oates 980^1; Sack, Freiburg, 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [cc 8 ]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English binding for Lord Harley; 

gold-tooled red morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 412 ¿ 


Occasional sixteenth-century marginal notes. 

On [a 1 r ] an eight-line initial is supplied in red, black, grey, and 

green; a painted circle in grey between the two columns. Other 

initials and headings are supplied in red; red capital strokes and 

underlining; the text surrounded by double rules. 

Provenance: Edward, Lord Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford 

(1689^1741); upper corner of the endleaf cut o¡; perhaps the 

copy listed in London, BL, MS. Harley 3886, fol. 22; bought by 

Thomas Osborne; see Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae, I no. 


shelfmark: Auct.Y 3.1. 


[a1 r ] [Bussis] Johannes Andreas [de]: [Editor’s preface addressed to] 

Paulus II, Pont. Max. 

refs. See B-245. Preceded by a short note on the inclusion of 

Bussis’s preface. 

[a1 r ] ‘Tabula’. 

[a1 v ] Palmerius [Pisanus], Matthias: [Letter addressed to] Paulus 

II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[C]um et antea semper, beate Pontifex, 

intellexerim . . .’ 


r 

[a2 ] Aristeas [pseudo-]: Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus. 

Translated by Mathias Palmerius. 

refs. Pref. no. 59; see also A-381. 

[b1 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti 

Hieronymi ad Paulinum presbyterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 


r 

[b3 ] [GnÎ Par.] 

[o6 r ] ‘Prologus secundus’ [to II Par]. 


v 

[o6 ] [II Par.] 


[q8 v ] [IÎI Esr.] II Esr is entitled ‘Liber Neemie.’ 

v 

[r7 ] [III Esr.] 

refs. Entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition; wanting IV Esr. 

[s2 v ] [TbÊst.] 

[t5 r ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Alter prologus in Iob secundum Hebraicum’. 

refs. Pref. no. 3; preceded by the ‘Prologus sancti Hieronymi in 

libro Iob’and followed by Iob. 

[t5 v ] [Iob^Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorumvel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by 

the ¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

[y1 r ] [Prv.] 

[y8 r ] ‘Prologus in Aeclesiasten’. 


[y8 r ] [Ecl^Ct.] 

[z2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


r 

[z2 ] [Sap^Lam.] Lam, except with introduction, ‘[E]t factum est 

postquam in captiuitate . . .’, appended to ¢rst chapter. 

[E7 r ] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 

refs. Pref. no. 10; followed by Bar^Dn. 

[H4 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

[H7 ] [Ioel.] 

[H8 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


r 

[H8 ] ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions called ‘argumentum’. ‘Alius 

prologus’ [to Os]. 

[H8 r ] ‘Tercius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 19, followed by Am. 

[H10 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 

refs. Pref. no. 20, followed by Abd. 

r 

[I1 ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


[I1 r ] 

refs. Pref. no. 12.‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 22, followed by Ion. 

[I1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 

refs. Pref. no. 23, followed by Mi. 

r 

[I3 ] ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 

refs. Pref. no. 24, followed by Na. 

[I4 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 

v 

[H4 ] 

refs. Pref. no. 25, followed by Hab.


463 

[I5 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 

refs. Pref. no. 26, followed by So. 

r 

[I6 ] ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 

refs. Pref. no. 27, followed by Agg. 

[I7 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 

refs. Pref. no. 28, followed by Za. [Os.] 

[I10 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ma]. 

refs. Pref. no. 29, followed by Ma. 

[H6 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


[H7 r ] 

[K1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[K1 r ] [IÎI Mcc.] 

[L10 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 

refs. Pref. no. 35, preceded by ‘Epistola beati Hieronymi presbyteri 

ad Damasum Papam in quattuor Euangelistas’, and ‘argumentum’ 

(pref. no. 34). 

r 

[L10 ] [Mt.] 

v 

[M10 ] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[N7 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[O9 r ] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[P8 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[P8 v ] ‘Prologus spetialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[P9 r ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of I and II Cor). 

v 

[S3 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in Actibus apostolorum’. 


[T5 r ] ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 



[V2 v ] [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


[V3 r ] ‘Alter prologus in Apocalypsin’. 


v 

[V8 ] [Colophon.] 

r 

[X1 ] [Stephen Langton]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 9 Dec. 

1475. Folio. 

collation: [a 8 b^t 10 v x 12 y z A^S 10 T V 8 X^Z 10 ]. 


B-421; CIBN B-374; Rhodes 347; Sheppard 1406. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [Z 10]. For another copy, di¡erently set up, 

of the second sheet (outer forme) of gathering [f] see J-095. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) plain calf, marks of two leather 

ties; rebacked. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at foot 

of the upper cover. Size: 467 ¿ 335 ¿ 134 mm. Size of leaf: 460 ¿ 

317 mm. 

Endleaves from a thirteenth-century manuscript breviary on 

parchment (removed to MS. Lat. liturg. a. 6, fols 27^9). 

Occasional manuscript headings. 


initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Acquired before 1738; see Fysher, Catalogus, I 

(1738), 152. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: B 6. 7 Th. 



a1 v Romerus, Blasius: [Prefatory letter addressed to] ThomasTaqui 

[seeking the latter’s support.] Incipit: ‘[N]obili uiro Thome Taqui, 

Blasius professione Populeti monachus . . .’ 

a 1 v Taqui,Thomas: [Reply to Romerus’s letter.] Incipit:‘[A]rdue religionis 

uiro Blasio Romero Populeti monacho, Thomas Taqui 

salutem.Tanto me impetu epistole tue . . .’ 

a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to Paulinus]. 


a 3 r [GnÎV Rg.] 


n1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 


librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralypomenon’. Slight variations in 


n1 v [IÎI Par.] 

p2 v [OrMan.] 

p 3 r [IÎI Esr.] 

refs. II Esr is entitled ‘Neemias’. 

p10 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. III Esr is here entitled ‘II Esr’, and IV Esr ‘III Esr’. 

r4 r [TbÊst.] 

s6 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


s6 v [Iob^Ps.] 



y 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 

refs. Pref. no. 4; preceded by ‘Epistola sancti Hieronymi presbiteri 

ad Chromatium et Heliodorum episcopos, de libris 

Salomonis’. 

y1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


y 1 v [Prv.] 

y8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 

refs. Preface no. 6. 

y 8 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

z2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 

refs. Pref. no. 7, followed by SapÎs, the latter preceded by 


z 2 r [SapÎs]. Is preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

bb7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 

refs. Pref. no. 8, followed by Jerome’s Prologue. 

bb 7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


bb7 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

dd 5 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


dd6 r [Lam.] 

dd7 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


dd 7 v [Bar^Dn].


[b-254 

gg6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 

refs. Pref. no. 11; Preceded by ‘Prologus in librum duodecim 


gg6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


gg 6 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

gg8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


hh1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


hh1 r [Ioel]; preceded by ‘argumentum’ (Pref. no. 14). 

hh2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 




hh 2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


hh2 v [Am.] 

hh 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


hh4 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

hh4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


hh5 v [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 22). 

hh5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


hh5 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

hh7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


hh7 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

hh7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


hh 8 r [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

hh9 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


hh 9 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 27). 

hh10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 

hh10 r [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

hh 10 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


ii1 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ii 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


ii4 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ii4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


ii5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ii 5 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

ll7 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



ll7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


ll 8 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

mm 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


mm2 v [Mc.] 

mm 9 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


mm9 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

nn10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


nn10 v [Io.] 

nn11 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



nn11 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

pp3 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


pp3 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

pp7 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


pp7 v [II Cor^Hbr]. 


r 

rr2 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


rr2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


v 

rr2 [Act.] 

ss5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 

refs. Pref. no. 44, followed by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

ss5 [IacÎud.] 


tt2 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


tt3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

tt3 [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

tt8 v [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Naples: Mathias Moravus [and Biagio Romero], 1476. Folio. 

collation: aê 10 f 8 g 10 h i 8 k^m m n^r 10 s t 8 u 10 x 8 y z h aaêe 10 ¡ 

gg 8 hh 10 ii^ll lm 8 mm^qq 10 rrûu 8 xx 10 yy 2 z 8 . 

GW 4220; HC 3059; C 1019; Go¡ B-545; BMC VI 862; Pr 6696; 

BSB-Ink B-422; CIBN B-380; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 31; 

Darlow^Moule 910; Fava^Bresciano 110; Oates 2513^14; 


COPY 

Wanting a1, h10, and hh4.7. 

Leaf uu 1 misbound fourth in the gathering. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf. Formerly chained: 

staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover; on both covers 

double ¢llets form aborder; two sets ofvertical double ¢llets separate 

a narrow and a wide rectangle; a small £ower tool in each corner; 

the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Front 

board nearly detached. Size: 322 ¿ 218 ¿ 85 mm. Size of 

leaf: 317 ¿ 204 mm. 

On 2 z8 v and the recto and verso of the following rear endleaf, 

tables, in red and black ink, in a ¢fteenth/early sixteenth-century 

hand, giving the order of the books of the Bible, and the names of 

some Medieval commentators for each book. Some marginal 

notes in Gn, in a seventeenth-century hand. Some notes in 

English. Occasional pointing hands and underlining in black ink. 

Partial rubrication only: in Gn some initials and verse numbers 

are supplied in red. Chapter numbers added in upper margins in 

black ink. 

Provenance: Margaret, Lady Capell (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); 

inscription on 2 z7 v , apparently in the hand of Roger


465 

Philpot: ‘Istum librum habemus ex dono m[at]r[on]e mee 

Margarete Capell, uxoris Willelmi Capell, Armigeri, ¢lieThome 

Arundell militis’. Roger Philpot (£. 1497^1501); signature on 2 z 7 v . 

Edward Bernard (1638^1697); Wanley’s list, p. 1, no. 92. Among 

the books purchased in 1697 from Bernard’s widow. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: I 3. 5 Th. 





libris’. 



[p4 r ] [OrMan.] 

[p4 r ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[q 2 r ] [III Esr.] 

refs. [q6 v ] ends with the incipit of IV Esr, but the two following 

leaves have been cut out. 

[q 7 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[r10 v ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’. 



[t1 r ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber himnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[x 1 r ] [Prv.] 

[x 7 v ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in Ecclesiasten’. 


[x10 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

refs. Sap is preceded by Pref. no. 7. 

[D4 v ] [Bar.] ‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’. 


[D 6 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[H4 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[K 1 r ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[L5 r ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelum(!) secundum Marcum’. 


[M1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[N1 v ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[O 1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[O1 r ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[O 1 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as‘prologus’ in the case of Rm, I and II Cor, and Col). 

[Q3 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


[R6 v ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 


argumentum. 

[S1 r ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


[S6 r ] Menardus Monachus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de 

Ysenaco. 


[S9 v ] [In summarium Biblie ad lectorem.] 


v 

[S9 ] [Date.] 

[Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner], 1476. 

Folio. 

collation: [a 10 b 10+2 c d 10 e 12 fg 10 h 8 i^p 10 q 10^2 r 10 s 8 t^z AÊ 10 F 8 

G H 10 I 8+1 K 6 L M 10 N 8 O P 10 Q 6+1 R S 8+2 T^Y 8 Z 10 ].The second 

insert in gathering [b] is half a leaf only. Gathering [q] originally 

consisted of ten leaves, but two leaves have been cut out after [q6]. 


B-423; Oates 1068; Sack, Freiburg, 617^18; Sheppard 1414^15. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting [S7, 8, 10] and gatherings [T]^[Z] (‘Interpretationes 

Hebraicorum nominum’). 

The incipit on [a 2 r ] printed in black. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia; 

on both covers double ¢llets form a double frame; within the 

outer frame an acorn and £ower roll; within the inner a dentelle 

roll; marbled pastedowns. Size: 413 ¿ 290 ¿ 110 mm. Size of 

leaf: 388 ¿ 253 mm. 

Manuscript table of contents with German glosses in an early 

hand on [a 1 r ]. Early marginal notes in various hands, occasional 

glosses in German ([a8 r ]) and Hebrew ([L4 v ]). On [L2 v ] an excerpt 

from Guilelmus Parisiensis, Postilla. List of the books of the Old 

Testament in a nineteenth-century hand on endleaf at the end of 

the volume. 

Woodcut depicting ‘Sanctus Hieronymus’ writing pasted onto 

[a 1 v ]. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red foliation, 


Provenance: Wiblingen, Wu« rttemberg, Benedictines, S. 

Martinus; on [a 2 r ] an inscription: ‘Monasterij Wiblingen’. 

Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 

1834. 


SECOND COPY 

Bound in two volumes; GnÎI Mcc; MtÂpc. The second part 

bound with A-223(2); see there for details of binding and provenance. 


Without gatherings [T]^[Z] (Interpretationes Hebraicorum 

nominum). 

The incipit of IV Esr on [q 6 v ] and the date ‘1476’on [S9 v ] erased. 

shelfmark: Auct.Y 3.7,8(1). 


a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Prologus in 

Bibliam’. 


a4 v [GnÎV Rg.] 







p 9 v [OrMan.] 

p 9 v [IÎI Esr.]


[b-256 


q8 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’, and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this edition. 

s1 v [TbÊst.] 

t3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


t4 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. 



y 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 

refs. Pref. no. 4; preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

y2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


y2 v [Prv.] 

y9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


y9 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

z3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


z 3 v [SapÎs.] 


k8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 


k8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 9. Preceded by ‘Prologus’. 

k 8 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B7 r [Introduction to Lam]. Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

B 7 r [Lam.] 

B9 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


B9 r [Bar^Dn.] 

E 5 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



E 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


E5 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


E8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


E 8 r [Preface.] 

refs. Pref. no. 14; in other editions called ‘argumentum’. 

E8 r [Ioel.] 

E 9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 






E 9 v [Am.] 

F1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


F 1 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


F2 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


F2 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


F4 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


F5 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F6 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


F 6 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


F 7 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


F 8 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

F10 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


G 1 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G 2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


G2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


G2 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

I1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



I1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


I2 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

K2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


K 2 v [Mc.] 

K9 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


K 9 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

L10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


L 10 v [Io.] 

M9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



M 9 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N1 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


N 1 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


N 6 r [II Cor^Hbr]. 


O10 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


O10 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


P 1 r [Act.] 

Q 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


Q2 r [IacÎud.] 


Q7 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc].


467 


Q7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Q7 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q12 v [Colophon.] 

r 

R1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 



collation: a^z h m k A^L 10 M 12 N^P 10 Q 12 R^T 10 U X 8 . 


B-424; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 28; Darlow^Moule 910; 

Lowry, Jenson, 245 no. 49; Oates 1641^2; Quentin 79; Sheppard 

3275. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a 1 and H 10, also X 8, containing the 

register. 

Leaf O6 is made up. Gathering g is bound in the order 1^ 

3,5,6,8,9,4,7,10, the sixth leaf being duplicated. Leaf T 9 is bound 

after V8. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French blue morocco; on both 

covers, within a border formed by a broad ¢llet, a £oral and foliate 

dentelle; spine and turn-ins gold-tooled; lined with red silk; 



Occasional marginal annotations. 

Some initials are supplied in red or blue, or interlocked red and 

blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capitals touched with 

yellow wash. Text enclosed within double red rules. 

Provenance: Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792); 

printed label, on endleaf, of the sale (1789) part I, lot 72; in annotated 

catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 55. Purchased 

through Payne for »4. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 1. 



a 2 r Hieronymus: [Letter to] Paulinus.‘Prologus in Bibliam’. 


a4 r [GnÎV Rg.] 




librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralypomenon’. 

refs. Slight variations in the incipitofthe ¢rst preface to IÎI Par. 


p 2 v [OrMan.] 

p2 v [IÎI Esr.] 

refs. II Esr here entitled ‘Neemia’. 


refs. III Esr here entitled ‘II Esr’and IV Esr ‘III Esr’. 

r4 v [TbÊst.] 



s7 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. 



x1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

x1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


x 1 v [Prv.] 

x8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


x 8 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

y2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


y2 v [SapÎs.] 


37 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 


3 7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


37 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

5 6 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

56 r [Lam.] 

5 8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


58 r [Bar^Dn.] 

82 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



82 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


82 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

85 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


85 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


85 r [Ioel.] 

8 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 






8 6 v [Am.] 

88 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


8 8 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

8 8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


89 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

8 9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


89 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

8 11 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


811 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

8 12 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


812 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

9 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


91 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

92 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


92 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’.


[b-257^b-258 

93 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


r 

93 [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

95 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


r 

96 [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

97 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


97 r ‘Alius prologus’. Incipit: ‘[M]achabeorum librum licet non 

habeantur . . .’ 

97 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

111 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



111 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


112 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

122 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


v 

122 [Mc.] 

129 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


r 

129 [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

1310 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


v 

1310 [Io.] 

149 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



149 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

151 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


v 

151 [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

155 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


r 

156 [II Cor^Hbr]. 


1610 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


1610 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

171 [Act.] 

r 

182 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


182 r [IacÎud.] 


187 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


v 

187 ‘Alius prologus’. 


187 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

1812 [Colophon.] 

A1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn and Nicolaus de 

Frankfordia, 1476. Folio. 

collation: a^h 10 i^l 12 m^s 10 t v 12 x y 1^6 10 7^10 12 11^13 10 14 12 15^ 

17 10 18 12 A 10 B C 12 . 

GW 4223; HC 3063; Go¡ B-548; BMC V 193; Pr 4165; Copinger, 

Incunabula Biblica, 27; Darlow^Moule 910; Oates 1662; Quentin 

79; Rhodes 349; Sheppard 3342. 

COPY 

Gatherings v and x are bound between those signed 1 and 2. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French mottled calf, possibly by 

Richard Weir for Justin, comte McCarthy-Reagh, given the 

Toulouse provenance, with gold-tooled spine with a £ower and 

thistle tool in a lozenge made up of minute circles, crosses, and 

rosettes; on the turn-ins a roll of thistles; the gold stamp of the 


of leaf: 281 ¿ 192 mm. 

Pointing hands and some marginal notes in black ink. 

Manuscript foliation in black ink. On a 1 r a manuscript verse, in 

Italian, in an early hand, giving advice for avoiding the plague; 

incipit: ‘Al male percusivo e pestilente’. On a1 v a table in a seventeenth-century 

hand, listing the books of the Bible with the number 

of the folio where they begin. 

On a2 r a thirteen-line initial ‘F’and on a4 v a sixteen-line initial ‘I’, 

are both supplied in blue, with in¢ll, decoration, and extensions 

into the margins, in red. Other initials are supplied in red, some 

with reserved white decoration, somebeing decorated withyellow 

in¢ll. Some capital strokes in red, other capitals touched with yellow 

wash. Inscription on 18 7 v in same yellow colour as decorative 

in¢ll of capitals: ‘Finita est ista bibia miniandi per uenerabilem 

uirum dominum Stephanum de Pir[ ]s archiepresbyterum de 

Uignola et per me dominum Gulielmum de Marachys rectorem 

sancti Christofori pentrio(?) 1479 die xxi maii’. 

Provenance: Toulouse, Minims, S. Rochus; inscription on a2 r : 

‘Bibliothec� Minimospondan� conuentus sancti Rochi ad 

Tolosam’.‘No. 48’, on a2 r . Justin, comte McCarthy-Reagh (1744^ 

1811); note inside the upper cover; see Catalogue (1815), lot 69. 




[*]1 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 

‘Prologus in Bibliam’. 


[*]3 r [GnÎI Par.] 

q9 r [OrMan.] 

q 9 v [IÎI Esr.] 

r8 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

s3 r [TbÊst.] 

refs. Est preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

s6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Iob]. 

refs. Preceded by ‘Prologus . . . in Job’. 




x6 v [Prv.] 

y 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


y6 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

refs. Ct preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



y 10 v [SapÎer.] 

refs. Is preceded by ‘argumentum’.

-258] biblia latina 

469 

[F3 v ] [Lam.] 

refs.What in other editions is the introduction (‘[E]t factum est 

postquam in captiuitate. . .’) is here atthe end ofthe last chapterof 

Ier. 

[F5 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Bar]. 


[F5 v ] [Bar^Dn]. 

2 H3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 

refs. Pref. no. 12. Preceded by ‘Prologus sancti Jeronimi presbiteri 

in libros xii prophetarum’. 

2 H3 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

2 H5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


2 H6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 

2 H6 r [Ioel.] 

2 H7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


2 H6 v [Am.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’, which in other editions is 

entitled ‘Alius prologus’. 

[I 1 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 

refs. Pref. no. 20 

[I1 v ] [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[I 2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


[I2 r ] [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[I 2 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


[I3 r ] [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[I 4 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


[I4 v ] [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[I5 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


[I5 v ] [Hab.] Preceded by two‘argumenta’. 

[I6 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


[I6 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. Incipit: ‘[I]osias regem Iudem, cuius . . .’ 

[K1 r ] [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[K 1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 

[K2 r ] [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[K2 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


[K 3 r ] [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[K5 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


[K 6 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[K6 r ] [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[L 1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


[L1 r ] [IÎI Mcc.] 

[N 1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 

refs. Pref. no. 33; preceded by ‘Prephatio sancti Hyeronimi presbiteri 

in libros quatuor Euangeliorum’, known also as ‘Epistola 

beati Hieronymi ad Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelia’. 

[N 2 r ] ‘Mystica declaratio facierum quatuor euangelistarum’. 

[Known in other editions as ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]).] 

refs. Pref. no. 35; preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[N 2 v ] [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[O4 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


[N4 r ] [Mc.] 

v 

[P1 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Lc]. 


[P1 v ] [Lc.] 

refs.Verses 1^4 here called ‘Alius prologus’. 

[Q4 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


[Q4 r ] [Io.] 

r 

[R4 ] ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 

refs. Pref. no. 39; preceded by ‘Prologus beati Hieronimi presbiteri 

in epistolas Pauli’. 

v 

[R4 ] [RmÎ Cor.] 


F5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


F6 r [II Cor^Hbr]. 


r 

[S7 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Act]. Incipit: ‘[L]ucas euangelista 

apostolorum actus . . .’ 

[S7 r ] [Act.] 

[T9 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


[T9 r ] [IacÎud]. 


r 

[V3 ] Hieronymus [pseudo-; Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to 

Apc]. 


v 

[V3 ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[V3 v ] [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[V9 r ] [Colophon.] 

r 

[X1 ] [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


[Vicenza]: Leonardus Achates de Basilea, 10 May 1476. Folio. 

collation: [* 4 ] aî 10 k 6 l-r i | 10 s 8 t u 6 v 8 x^z 10 [A 10 B^D 8 E^H 10 ] 

2 8 6 8 10+1 10 8 8 10 12 10 14 

H [I K L M N^Q R ] F G [S T V^Y Z ]. Collation 

as GW. BMC collates‘. . . x^z 10 h 10 A^C 8 D^G 10 H 8 I K 6 L 8 M 10+1 

A^D 10 E^G 8 H 10 I 12 KÔ 10 P 12+1 ’. Sheppard collates as BMC ‘. . . 

M 10+1 AA^DD 10 EE^GG 8 HH 10 II 12 KK^MM 10 NN 12 ’. 

491 leaves (GW); 490 leaves (BMC). 

GW 4224; HC 3060; Go¡ B-549; BMC VII1031; Pr 7122; Copinger, 

Incunabula Biblica, 26; Darlow^Moule 910; Oates 2667^8; 

Quentin 80; Sheppard 5885. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [V 10]. 

Bound in the following order: Interpretationes nominum 

Hebraicorum, Gn^Sir, MtÎI Pt, SoÎI Mcc, Is^Hab, I IoÂpc. 

The blank leaf [*1] is bound at the end of the gathering. 

Binding: Parchment; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on 

both covers. Size: 300 ¿ 210 ¿ 100 mm. Size of leaf: 288 ¿ 

192 mm. 


On [*2 r ] a ¢fteen-line Italian (Vicenza?) initial ‘F’ is supplied in 

pink and yellow on a blue ground, decorated with foliate extensions 

in blue, red, and green, edged with white, extending into 

the gutter and the margins, against a background of gold, edged 

with black and grey, and a gold dot in the guttering. On a3 r a


[b-258^b-259 

seventeen-line Italian initial ‘I’ is supplied in red, green, blue, and 

grey, edged with white, and decorated with foliate extensions in 

the same colours, edged with white and with gold dots, against a 

background of blue and gold, edged in black and grey. See Pa« cht 

and Alexander II,113 no. pr.111. Other initials are supplied in red 

or blue. 

Provenance: George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758^1834); sale 

(1821), lot 43: ‘a very indi¡erent copy’; purchased for »0. 19. 0; see 

Books Purchased (1821), 2 and the annotated sale catalogue. 



Volume 1. 

[a2 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Prologus in 

Bibliam’. 

refs. Pref. no.1. On this edition see also Denise Hillard,‘Les e¤ ditions 

de la Bible en France au xv e sie' cle’, in LaBibleimprime¤ edans 

l’Europe moderne, ed. Bertram Eugene Schwarzbach (Paris, 

1999), 68^82, at 68^71. 

r 

[a4 ] [GnÎI Par.] 


[s1 r ] [IÎI Esr.] 

refs. II Esr also entitled ‘Neemias’. 

[s10 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[v6 v ] [TbÊst.] 

v 

[x10 ] ‘Prologus in Job secundum Hebraicum’. [Also known as Alius 

prologus.] 


[y1 r ] [Iob^Ps (G)]. 

refs. Ps (G) preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prologues only. 

Volume 2. 

[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

r 

[B9 ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


[B9 v ] [Ecl^Lam.] 

refs.Wanting the prologue to Ier. Slight variations at the beginning, 

with ‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate . . .’ added to 

Lam. 

[I7 r ] ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


[I7 v ] [Bar^Dn.] 

[M8 r ] [Os^Mal.] Preceded by ‘Prologus in librum duodecim prophetarum’. 

[O3 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


r 

[O3 ] [IÎI Mcc.] 

[Q4 v ] [Mt.] Preceded by ‘Epistola beati Hieronymi ad Damasum 

Papam in quatuor Euangelistas’, and an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

[R6 ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


[R6 v ] [Mc.] 

[S4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


[S4 v ] [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

[T7 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. Incipit: ‘[H]ic est [I]ohannes euangelista . . .’ 


[T7 v ] [Io.] 

[V7 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



r 

[V8 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 

refs. Each letter is preceded by ‘argumentum’, those before IÎI 

Cor and Gal entitled ‘Prologus’ in this edition. 

r 

[Z5 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


[Z5 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 43; in this edition it appears as part of the‘Prefatio’ 

above. 

[Z5 r ] [Act.] 

[aa8 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


[aa8 r ] [IacÎud.] 


r 

[bb4 ] ‘Prologus’. [In other editions entitled ‘Alius prologus’]. 


[bb4 r ] [Apc.] 

r 

[bb10 ] [Verse.] ‘Me duce carpe viam, qui celum ascendere gestis > 

Unde orior, deus est qui me descendere iussit’; 15 hexameters. 

refs. Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 70. 

[bb10 r ] [Verse colophon]. ‘Iam tribus vndecimus lustris Francos 

Ludouicus > Rexerat; Vlricus Martinus itemque Michael’; 5 hexameters. 


r 

A1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz, and Michael Friburger, 

[between 22 July 1476 and 21 July 1477]. Folio. 

collation: [a^y 10 z A 12 B^Z aa bb] 2 A B 10 C 8 . 

GW 4225; HC 3058; Go¡ B-550; BMC VIII 8; Pr 7845; CIBN B-379; 

Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 30; Darlow^Moule 910; Oates 

2871; Sheppard 6091. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a 1] and [C 8]. 


Binding: Nineteenth-century French gold-tooled red morocco, 

by Boze¤ rian the younger; the spine gold-tooled, gilt-edged leaves, 

and marbled pastedowns. Size: Both volumes: 392 ¿ 287 ¿ 

50 mm. Size of leaf: 371 ¿ 256^261 mm. 

Now Auct. M 2.15*, but previously loosely inserted, is a copy of 

the letter from John Taylor (1704^1766), Registrary of the 

University of Cambridge, dated 20 Dec. 1740, relating to the 

forged date of the copy in the Cambridge University Library: see 

Oates p. 19; on Taylor, brie£y Librarian of Cambridge University 

Library, see David J. McKitterick, Cambridge University 

Library: A History: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 

(Cambridge, 1986), passim. Many marginal notes washed out, 

but occasional annotations still visible. 

Contemporary French decoration, partly un¢nished. On [a2 r ] of 

vol. 1, a seven-line initial ‘F’ is supplied in gold. On [a 5 r ] of vol. 1, 

a six-line initial ‘I’ is supplied in reserved white on faded gold 

ground, with border decoration of black pen-work, gold leaves, 

and faded leafy scrolls in left margin, and partially ¢lling head 

and lower margins; two red berries in lower margin. Other initials 

are supplied in red or faded blue or interlocked red and blue. 

Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Running titles supplied in 

red or red and blue in volume one, irregularly in black ink in a 

contemporary hand in volume two. Capitals touched with yellow


471 

wash. In volume two, the text is enclosed within double red rules. 

Irregular foliation in black ink. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘E.g.6’: see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, pt I, lot 725. Purchased for »35. 10. 0; 

see Books Purchased (1844), 6, where the date is given as 1475. 



r 

[* 2 ] [Table.] 



libris’. 




v 

[B5 ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 



r 

[I1 ] [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus’. 



v 

[K4 ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[O2 r ] [Prv.] 

r 

[P3 ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[P7 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 




[hh3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[mm1 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[nn8 v ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 





[qq8 r ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[ss2 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[ss3 r ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[ss3 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of IÎI Cor and Gal. 

v 

[yy1 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 





[AA8 r ] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 



[Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, not after 1477]. Folio. 

collation: [* ** *** a^h 10 i 8 k^n 10 o 8 p^v 10 x 8+1 y z A^C 10 D E 8 

F 6 G^Z aa bb 10 cc dd 8 eeîi 10 kk ll 6 mm^zz AA 10 BB 8 ]. 

GW 4226 (Anm.); HC 3040; Go¡ B-551; BMC I 246; Pr1174; Hillard 

379; Sheppard 890; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 250 and 1123. 

COPY 


Wanting the blank leaf [N 10]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf imitating earlier 

style; blind stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 

310 ¿ 230 ¿ 90 and 310 ¿ 230 ¿ 83 mm. Size of leaf: 287 ¿ 

209 mm. 

Manuscript tables of contents on front endleaf of both volumes. 

Occasional early marginal notes and corrections. At the end of 

vol. 2 are bound 39 manuscript leaves on di¡erent paper ([1^3 10 

4 4^1 5 6 ]) containing [Stephen Langton’s] ‘Interpretaciones de 

hebreo siroque ad latinum per alphabetum latinarum litterarum’ 

in a ¢fteenth-century hand, incipit: ‘Interpretaciones per A litteram. 

Aac apprehendens vel apprehensio . . .’; i.e. Pref. no. 65. 

The manuscript heading ‘Tabula compendiosa omnium librorum 

biblie’on [* 2 r ]. 

In the Tabula, principal initials are supplied in red or blue with 

pen-£ourishing in grey. Other initials are supplied in red or blue; 

headings in blue or red; red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and 

underlining. Other principal initials are supplied in red or blue, 

occasionally with £oral decoration (foliate sta¡) in beige, green, 

and blue and in¢ll in brown, blue, and beige, and pen-£ourishing 

extending into the inner margin in blue or red; on [O 2 r ] an uncoloured 

drawing for a painted initial. Initials are supplied in red or 

blue; red headings, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. 

On [BB 7 r ] drawing of a cross by the rubricator lettered 

‘Deus meus et omnia’. 

Provenance: Erased ownership inscription on [*2 r ] of the Tabula 

and on [O 2 r ]: ‘Conu[entus] [unread placename] f[ra]trum min[orum] 

Recoll[ectorum]’. Purchased for »47. 5. 0; see Books 






libris’. 



[q10 v ] [OrMan.] 

[q 10 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 



[v9 r ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



[x8 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber y« mnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[B1 r ] [Prv.] 



[C1 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[H10 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


[I 2 v ] [Ez^Mal.]


[b-261^b-262 



v 

[Q1 ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

r 

[R4 ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[S2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 





r 

[X1 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 



v 

[X1 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


(referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of I and II Cor and Gal). 

v 

[Z7 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 




argumentum. 

[bb5 r ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 


v 

[bb10 ] [Colophon, with a note on the ‘Tabula canonum’.] 


Ysenaco. 


[cc4 v ] ‘Tabula canonum’. 

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 30 July 1477. Folio. 


cc 6 ]. 


B-425; Oates 986^7; Rhodes 350; Sack, Freiburg, 619^20; 


FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [a 1] and gathering [cc] (the epistle of 

Menardus etc.). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; on both 

covers a £oral roll forms a border, within which are triple ¢llets. 

Within the second ¢llet a cresting roll with a small £oral tool; 

another £oral tool in the corners; single ¢llets form a double 

frame; within the outer is the cresting roll decorated with the 

small £oral roll; marbled pastedowns and gau¡ered edges. Size: 


A few sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. 

Major initials are supplied in blue or red with decoration in several 

colours and pen-£ourishing extending into the margins; 

minor initials, running headings, and paragraph marks are supplied 

alternately in red and blue, with Cologne style reserved 

white £oral decoration; occasionally, red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Horstmar, diocese of Mu« nster, Jesuits; on [a 2 r ] an 

inscription: ‘Missionis Horstmarie So[cieta]tis Jesu’. Purchased 



SECOND COPY 

Fragment of 25 leaves: X9,8,7,6, V7, Y1^4, Z7,6, X1, V2,6, X5,4,3,2,10, 

Z 5,4,Y 7^10. 

shelfmark: Inc. b. G97.1(8). 


[a2 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti Iheronimi 

ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie libris’. 



[r 2 r ] [OrMan.] 

[r2 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[s4 r ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[v 5 v ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[x9 v ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



[y 9 r ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloqueorum’. Preceded by the 


[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

[B 9 r ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in Ecclesiasten’. 


[C2 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[I 1 v ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


[I4 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[P 1 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[R1 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[S5 r ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[T 4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[V 9 r ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[Y1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli ad 

Romanos’. 

[Y1 v ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[Y 1 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of Rm, IÎI Cor and Gal. 

[cc 1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


[dd4 v ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



[dd1 r ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


[dd 7 r ] [Colophon.] 

[dd7 v ] Menardus Monachus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de 

Ysenaco. 


[dd10 r ] ‘Registrum secundum ordinem librorum’. 

[ee2 r ] [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’.


473 


Basel: Bernhard Richel, 8 Sept. 1477. Folio. 

collation: [a b 10 c 12 d^k 10 l 10+1 m^q 10 r 8 s 6 t 8 v^z 10 A 12 B^D 10 E 12 

F G 10 H 10+1 I 4 K 8 L M 10 N 8 O 6 P 12 Q 8 R^Z aa^hh 10 ]. 


GW 4228; HC *3064; C 3303 (‘Interpretationes Hebraicorum 

nominum’); Go¡ B-553; BMC III 737; Pr 7532; BSB-Ink B-426; 

Oates 2755, 2756; Sack, Freiburg, 621^2; Sheppard 2373. 

COPY 

Without gatherings [ee]^[hh] (the ‘Interpretationes Hebraicorum 

nominum’). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco, probably 

bound for comte MacCarthy Reagh; crown-and-foliage tool on 

turn-ins; marbled pastedowns, the spine gold-tooled; the same 

tools as Auct. L 5.19 and Auct. N 2.31, both from MacCarthy 

Reagh; however, this edition is not found in the catalogues of 

MacCarthy Reagh’s sales from 1779, 1789, or 1815. Size: 402 ¿ 



On [a2 r ] a ten-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-£ourishing in 

red. Other initials are supplied and woodcut initials painted alternately 

in red and blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red and 

occasionally in blue; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744^ 

1811)(?).Purchased from John & Arthur Arch for »10. 10. 0; see 

Books Purchased (1830), 3; Library Bills (1829^32), no. 202. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. Z 2. 

shelfmark: Auct. 2Z 2.1. 




libris’. 



[B 5 v ] [OrMan.] 

[B5 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 


[G 1 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[I1 r ] [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus’. 



[L1 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[P 2 r ] [Prv.] 

[Q3 r ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus’ [in ecclesiasten]. 


[Q7 r ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[bb 5 v ] [Bar.] ‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’. 


[bb9 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[ii 3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in liberos(!) Machabeorum’. 


[nn1 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[oo8 v ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[pp 9 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



v 

[rr8 ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[tt2 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

r 

[tt3 ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[tt3 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



[zz1 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


r 

[AA10 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in epistolas canonicas’. 



r 

[BB8 ] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 



[Cologne: Nicolaus Go« tz, after 1480]. Folio. As dated by CIBN; 

Sheppard and GW date [c.1477^8]. 

collation: [a^h 10 i 8 k^n 10 o 8 p^z A^C 10 D E 8 F 6 G H 10 I 8 K 6 L 

M 8 N 10 O 8 P^Z 10 aa^cc 10 dd ee 8 ¡^kk 10 ll mm 6 nn^zz AA BB 10 

CC 8 ]. 


B-400; Oates 601; Sack, Freiburg, 623; Sheppard 853; Voullie¤ me, 

Ko« ln, 251. 

COPY 


Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [x1]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, bound for the 

Bodleian Library. Size: 300 ¿ 220 ¿ 72 and 300 ¿ 220 ¿ 80 mm. 


On paper slip pasted on the front pastedown, two lists of ten mandata 

of biblical books. On the verso of an endleaf at the beginning 

ofvolume 1, a ¢fteenth-century hand wrote a‘Prologus quidem in 

bibliam primus’, incipit: ‘He omnia liber vite e quo . . . Secundum 

quod dicit beatus . . .’ Copious marginal notes in gathering [a] and 

in the Gospels; a few throughout; some in German. After [G 3] is 

bound in a paper slip with notes in a ¢fteenth-century hand. 

Manuscript note by Klo�. Bibliographical note by W. A. 

Copinger in volume two. 


strokes and underlining in gatherings [a], [P], and [nn]-[rr] only. 

Provenance: On a paper slip pasted on the nineteenth-century 

front pastedown,‘Iste liber primus biblie et s[ecundus? ad idem?] 

preter inligationem eorum 36 constat albis monete Coloniensis 

[quibus] Colonie emi anno 1478’. Probably Georg Franz 

Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854). Purchased for »31. 10. 0; see Books 





Incomplete [no complete copy available]. 

[p1 r ] [I SamÎV Rg]. Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[O1 r ] [Prv.] 

[P 2 v ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus’ [in ecclesiasten]. 

refs. Pref. no. 6, followed by Ecl.


[b-264^b-265 

[P6 v ] [Ct^Sir 39,32]. 

[Cologne: Nicolaus Go« tz, after 1478]. Folio. As dated by CIBN; 


collation: [a^m 10 n o 8 p^v 10 x 8 y z 10 A^D 10 E 8 F 10 G 8 H 6 I^L 8 

M 10 N 8 O^R 10 S 6 T^Z 10 aa 10 bb 8 cc 10 dd 8 ee ¡ 10 gg 8 hh^rr 10 ss 8 

tt^xx 10 yy zz 8 AA 8 ]. 

GW 4230; C 1020; Go¡ B-555; Pr 1119; CIBN B-391; Hillard 380; 

Oates 602; Polain 4205 (I); Sheppard 854^5;Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 252. 

FIRST COPY 

Gatherings [p]^[v] and [x] ofvol.1 (I SamÎV Rg) and [O]-[R] and 

leaf [S 1] of vol. 2 (Prv^Sir 39,32) only. 

Binding: Paper boards. Size: 290 ¿ 215 ¿ 27 mm. Size of 

leaf: 285 ¿ 205 mm. 

Manuscript signatures and foliation from 136 to 244. 

Initials and occasional headings are supplied in red; red capital 

strokes. 

Provenance: London Library; cancelled stamp; sale (1966), lot 

29. Purchased in 1966. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. G3.7. 

SECOND COPY 

Bound in a modern guard-book of miscellaneous fragments. 

Formerly bound with Nonius Marcellus, De proprietate sermonum. 

Antwerp: Christophorus Plantinus, 1565 (8 o D 118 Linc.). 


One leaf only, containing Lv 19,26^21,18. Size of fragment: 235 ¿ 

162 mm. 

‘Marcellus Junii manus autograph. postliminio emendatus’ in a 

sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. 

Initials are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Provenance (of 8 o D 118 Linc.): Franciscus Junius 

(1589^1677). Probably Thomas Barlow (1607^1691). Bequeathed 

in 1691. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 8 o D 118 Linc. 




Bibliam’. 




n 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 





p2 v [OrMan.] 


q 6 r [III Esr.] 










Salomonis’. 



x 1 v [Prv.] 








m7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 


m 7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


m7 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

bb 6 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


bb6 r [Lam.] 

bb 8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


bb8 r [Bar^Dn.] 

ee4 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



ee4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


ee4 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ee7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


ee7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ee7 r [Pref. no. 14]. 

ee 7 r [Ioel.] 

ee8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


ee 8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 




ee8 v [Am.] 

ee10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


ee 10 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 22). 

ee10 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


¡ 1 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


¡ 1 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


¡ 3 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


¡ 4 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡ 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


¡5 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡ 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 

¡6 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 27).


475 

¡7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


r 

¡ 7 [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


r 

¡ 10 [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

gg1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


gg1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


gg1 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

ii1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



ii2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


ii2 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

kk2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


v 

kk2 [Mc.] 

kk9 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


r 

kk9 [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

ll10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


v 

ll10 [Io.] 

mm9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



mm9 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

nn1 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


v 

nn1 [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

nn5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


r 

nn6 [II Cor^Hbr]. 


oo10 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


oo10 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

pp1 [Act.] 

r 

qq2 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 

refs. Pref. no. 44, followed by an ‘argumentum’, with variations. 

gg2 r [IacÎud.] 


qq7 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


v 

qq7 ‘Alius prologus’. 


qq7 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

qq12 [Colophon.] 



Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 

1478. Folio. 

collation: a^h 10 i^l 12 m^t 10 v 14 x^z h m 10 aa^gg 10 hh 8 ii^ll 10 mm 12 

nn^pp 10 qq 12 A 10 B C 12 . 



Oates 1779^80; Rhodes 351; Sheppard 3569. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and C12. 

Gathering ee misbound: 1,2,4,5,6,7,3,8,9,10. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Spanish mottled calf, with goldtooled 

spine and border, marbled pastedowns and gilt-edged 

leaves; endleaves watermarked ‘Pavlar’and a stag with the lettering 

‘GVRLA’. Armorial stamp of the Discalced Carmelites on 

both covers; see Enciclopedia universal europeo-americana, XI 

1120. Covers rather worn. Size: 302 ¿ 215 ¿ 77 mm. Size of 

leaf: 294 ¿ 193 mm. 

Occasional early marginal annotations. 

Provenance: Inscription on A1 r : ‘Esta biblia es del convento . . . 

viedra’; given the arms on the binding, the language of inscription, 

and the later provenance, a house of Discalced Carmelites 

in Spain. E. Temple (£. 1814); note on front endleaf, signed: ‘E. 

Temple, Madrid, 26th Jany. 1814’. Purchased for »5. 15. 6; see 




[a1 v ] [Table of contents.] ‘Locus librorum numerus dinoscitur ordo’. 



libris’. 



[q10 v ] [OrMan.] 

[q10 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 


[t4 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 




[x8 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hy« mnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[B 1 r ] [Prv.] 



[C 1 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 



[I 2 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 





Mt. 



[S2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 





[X 1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[X 1 v ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’.


[b-266^b-267 


[X1 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


referred to as ‘prologus’ in the case of IÎI Cor and Gal). 

[Z7 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 




argumentum. 

r 

[bb5 ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 


[bb10 v ] [Colophon.] 

r 

[cc1 ] Menardus Monachus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de 

Ysenaco. 


v 

[cc4 ] ‘Tabula canonum’. 

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 14 Apr. 1478. Folio. 


cc 6 ]. 



COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled half pigskin over 

wooden boards covered with leaves from a liturgical manuscript 

on parchment; two metal catches lost. Vertical impression of 

crocketed cresting. Letter ‘A’ on the lower part of the spine. 

Green-edged leaves. Size: 425 ¿ 285 ¿ 125 mm. Size of 

leaf: 410 ¿ 270 mm. 

On [a2 r ] an initial is supplied in blue on burnished gold ground, 

the gilt with punch-dotting, the initial with foliate scrolling, 

within a segmented frame of red and pale green, and with foliate 

border extensions including gold dotting. Some principal initials 

are supplied in red with pen-£ourishing in blue or in blue with 

pen-£ourishing in red. Other initials are supplied in red and occasionally 

in blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 


Inventio crucis/Sancta crux; on [a1 r ] a partially erased inscription: 

‘Ad Bibliothecam Fratrum Minorum Conventualium S. 

Francisci Herbipol[ensis] 1673’; printed label on [a2 r ]. Georg 

Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label on rear pastedown, 

but not found in his sale catalogue. Purchased from Payne 

and Foss (1832), no. 113 for »3. 3. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 3 

and Library Bills (1829^32), no. 428. 




Bibliam’. 









p2 v [OrMan.] 

p 2 v [IÎI Esr.] 



refs. III Esr here entitled ‘II Esr’, IV Esr ‘III Esr’. 

r 3 v [TbÊst.] 



s 7 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. 






Salomonis’. 

x 1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


x1 v [Prv.] 

x 8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


x8 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

y 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 




3 7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 





36 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

36 r [Lam.] 

58 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


5 8 r [Bar^Dn.] 






8 2 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



8 5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


85 r ‘Argumentum’. 


8 5 r [Ioel.] 

86 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 



refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions called ‘Argumentum’. 



86 v [Am.] 



8 8 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

88 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


8 9 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

89 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi].


477 






8 12 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 



91 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 




9 2 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 27). 



9 3 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



9 6 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

9 7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 










112 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 



12 2 v [Mc.] 



12 9 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 



13 10 v [Io.] 




14 9 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



15 1 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



15 6 r [II Cor^Hbr]. 






17 1 r [Act.] 

18 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 

refs. Pref. no. 44, followed by an ‘argumentum’. 








1812 v [Colophon.] 

r 



Venice: LeonardusWild, for Nicolaus de Frankfordia, [July] 1478. 

Folio. 


17 10 18 12 A 10 B C 12 . 

GW 4233; HC 3067; Go¡ B-558; BMC V 264; Pr 4456; BSB-Ink 

B-430; Darlow^Moule 910; Quentin 79; Rhodes 352; Sack, 


COPY 



boards, with one metal clasp and remains of the second; ¢ve 

bosses lost on each cover; rebacked, but partly re-using old 

spine. ‘Cologne style’. On both covers triple ¢llets form a double 

frame; within the outer frame stamps of the symbols of the 

Evangelists, one at each corner, and a lozenge-shaped dragon 

stamp; within the middle frame a circular £oral stamp, a circular 

dragon stamp, and a Cruci¢xion stamp (similar to Schwenke^ 

Schunke 81 no. 9). Inner rectangle formed by triple ¢llets and 

divided by triple ¢llets into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments, 

with both dragon stamps, a circular lamb-and-£ag 

stamp, a Virgin-and-Child stamp; and a lozenge-shaped stamp 

with two lions(?). Most of stamps very worn. Size: 310 ¿ 220 ¿ 


Parchment pastedowns from a ¢fteenth-century manuscript, 

containing an unidenti¢ed legal commentary. 

Some marginal annotations. 

On a 2 r a 15^line initial ‘F’ is supplied in interlocked red and blue, 

with purple pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margins in 

purple, decorated with yellow and red. On a4 v an 18^line initial 

‘I’ is supplied in interlocked red and blue, with purple pen-work 

and extensions into the margins and yellow decoration. Initials, 

at beginning of individual books or prologues, are supplied in 

red or blue, often with reserved white decoration, with red or purple 

pen-work in¢ll, extensions into the margins, and yellow or 

green decoration. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Steinfeld in der Eifel, Premonstratensian conventof 

S. Maria and S. Potentinus; cancelled ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

inscription on a2 r : ‘Liber ecclesie sancte Marie sanctique 

Potentini in Steynuelt’. Purchased, with four other Bibles, for 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bibl. Lat. 1478 c.1. 

shelfmark: Auct.V 3.8. 





libris’. 



[q 10 v ] [OrMan.]


[b-268^b-269 

[q10 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 


v 

[t5 ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 






[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

v 

[B8 ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[C1 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

r 

[H10 ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


[I2 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

v 

[N3 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 




Mt. 



r 

[S2 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



r 

[T6 ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[X1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

v 



[X1 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



[Z7 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


v 




r 




r 


Ysenaco. 





cc 6 ]. 


B-431; Hillard 382; Oates 992; Sack, Freiburg, 625; Sheppard 

1453. 

COPY 

Binding: Forel. Size: 387 ¿ 285 ¿ 115 mm. Size of leaf: 382 ¿ 

270 mm. 

Early marginal notes in ink and in red. 

On [a2 r ] a historiated initial is supplied in blue with white highlighting; 

within a red frame, Jerome seated at a desk; in the guttering, 

a £oral ornament in red, green, and blue. Principal initials are 

supplied in gold and colours with £oral extensions into the 

margins and some gold-dotting. Other initials are supplied either 

in interlocked red and blue with pen-£ourishing in blue; or, alternately 

in red and blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 


see sale (1835), lot 712. Purchased for »5. 10. 0; see Books 




Incomplete. 


Jeronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 


[a5 v ] [Gn^Rt.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

r 

[ll2 ] [Mt.] 

[mm8 r ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


v 

[nn8 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[pp7 r ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[rr1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[rr1 v ] [‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’.] 


[rr2 r ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



[vv9 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


r 

[yy7 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in epistolas canonicas’. 



[zz6 v ] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 



[Cologne]: Nicolaus Go« tz, [c.1478]. Folio. As dated by CIBN; 


collation: [a^m 10 n o 8 p^v 10 x 8 y z 10 A^D 10 E 8 F 10 G 8 H 6 I 8 K L 10 

M N 6 O^R 10 S 6 T^Z aa 10 bb 8 cc 10 dd 8 ee ¡ 10 gg 8 hh^rr 10 ss 8 tt^ 

xx 10 yy zz AA 8 ]. 


B-432; CIBN B-390; Oates 600; Sheppard 857^8; Voullie¤ me, 

Ko« ln, 253. 

COPY 

Bound in two volumes (Gn^Rt; MtÂpc). 

Wanting the blank leaf [a1] and leaf [b1], gatherings [p]^[kk] (I 

SmÎI Mcc), the blank leaf [ll1]; and leaves [zz7^8] and [AA5^8]. 

Leaves [a4^5], [c2], [k1], [l9] and [rr10] are mutilated, the missing 

text being supplied in sixteenth-century hands. Several leaves 

mutilated or damaged. 

By an error of imposition, the text on [tt5 v ] and [tt6 v ] has changed 

places. 

Binding: Paper boards. Size: 275 ¿ 215 ¿ 32 and 270 ¿ 215 ¿ 

30 mm. Size of leaf: 265 ¿ 190^5 mm. 

Early marginal notes. Notes concerning the error of imposition 

on [tt5 r/v ] and [tt6 r/v ].


479 

Principal initials are supplied in red with some pen-£ourishing, 

including grotesque faces; other initials and paragraph marks 

are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Sayn near Koblenz, Premonstratensians, BVM; an 

endpaper pasted over the armorial book-plate on the front pastedown 

of vol. 1, see Leiningen-Westerburg 302 and Warnecke no. 

1853; inscription on front endleaf of volume 1: ‘Fratres nostri, ut 

videtur, his bibliis usi sunt in choro, pro recitandis inde lectionibus, 

saltem circa annum 1500: quia paulo post, alia forma breviarii, 

est introducta: vide divisionem lectionum in libris 

Regum, et simul breviaria illius temporis. in hac spactura deest 

cap. 13. et 14 Genesis: si tibi vacat, inscribas.’ Georg Franz 

Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label; see sale (1835), lot 697. 


shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1476 d.1,2. 


a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti 


libris’. 


a4 v [GnÎV Rg.] Most books preceded by Jerome’s preface; Ios also 

preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

q5 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 

refs. Pref. no. 2; preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti Hieronimi in 

librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon’. Slight variations in 


q5 v [IÎI Par.] 

t1 v [OrMan.] 

t 1 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

v2 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 


x9 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

A4 v [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 


libro Iob and followed by an ‘argumentum’and Iob. 

B5 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


E1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 

refs. Pref. no. 4; preceded by ‘Epistola sancti Hieronymi presbyteri 

ad Chromatium et Heliodorum episcopos de libris 

Salomonis’. 

E1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


E 1 v [Prv.] 

E10 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


F 4 r [Ct.] 

F5 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie.’ 


F 5 v [SapÎs.] 

refs. Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

K10 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


K 10 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


K10 v [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 6 r [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


N8 v [Ez^Dn.] 

Q 8 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



Q 9 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete.’ 


Q9 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R2 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


R2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


R 2 v ‘Argumentum’. 


R2 v [Ioel.] 

R 3 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


R3 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


R 4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


R4 r [Am.] 

R 6 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 

refs. Pref. no. 20. The passage beginning ‘[H]ebrei hunc dicunt 

esse . . .’ is not headed ‘Alius prologus’, but forms part of this 

prologue. 

R6 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R7 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


R7 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R8 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


R 8 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R10 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


R 10 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S1 r ‘Prologus in Abacuch prophetam’. 


S 1 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S2 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


S 3 r [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S 3 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


S4 r [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S 5 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


S5 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S 8 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


S9 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S 10 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


S10 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


X 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 


Damasum Papam in quattuor euangelistas’. 

X 2 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 

refs. Pref. no. 35.


[b-270^b-271 

X2 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


v 

X2 ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

X3 r [Mt.] 

Y6 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


Y6 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Y7 r [Mc.] 

15 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


15 v ‘Breuiarium in Lucam’. 

16 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

v 

210 ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


210 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

r 

31 [Io.] 

41 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

42 r ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


v 

42 [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

47 v ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


v 


52 v ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


r 

53 [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

56 v [Gal^Hbr.] 

refs. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

71 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 




r 

85 ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


85 v [IacÎud.] 


91 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 

Johannis apostoli’. 


92 r [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsin’. 

refs. Pref. no. 50, followed by an ‘argumentum’and Apc. 

v 

98 ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur [nunc] metricus ordo’. 

refs. 12 hexameters; Pref. no. 61c. 

98 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


v 

98 [Date ‘M.CCCC.LXXIX’]. 

101 r [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


r 

108 [Verse.] 


[Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1479. Folio. 

collation: a^y A^T 10 U 12 X 1^8 10 9 10 8 . 



2407. 

COPY 

Sheppard notes: ‘Without the Interpretationes hebraicorum 

nominum’; this text is, however, not part of this ed. (see note at 

the end of the volume). 

Sheets 22.9 and 23.8 have changed places in binding. 

Binding: Contemporary German/Austrian blind-tooled pigskin 

over wooden boards, two clasps lost. On the upper cover ¢llets 

form a triple frame; the inner rectangle is divided by ¢llets into 

vertical compartments. In the compartments and within the 

outer frame, a palm-leaf stamp; within the central frame, a large 

rosette stamp. On the lower cover ¢llets form a triple frame; the 

inner rectangle is divided by ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. 

In the compartments a small £ower stamp; within the 

middle frame, a palm-leaf stamp; within the outer frame, a large 

rosette stamp alternating with the small £ower stamp. The gold 



Reinforcing strips from a ¢fteenth- or early sixteenth-century 

German document on parchment, issued by Jo« rig Lo« b con¢rming 

the purchase of land in Asch. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red underlining. 

Provenance: Hall in Tyrol, Jesuits; on a1 v : ‘Societ. Jesu Hal�’, on 

a 2 r : ‘Coll. Soc. Jesu Hal�’. Old number ‘14’on a2 r . Ma¡eo Pinelli 

(1735^1785); see Morelli I, no. 131 and sale (1789), lot 5040. 

Purchased for »1. 8. 0; the annotated sale catalogue gives no 

name of purchaser, but the same price as Books Purchased 

(1789), 1. 



a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. 

refs. Pref. no. 1. On this edition see Hillard, ‘Les e¤ ditions de la 

Bible’, 72^3. 







m10 v [IÎI Par.] 

p2 v [OrMan.] 


refs. II Esr is entitled ‘Neemias’. 


refs. III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition, and IV Esr ‘III Esr’. 

r 4 v [TbÊst.] 



s 7 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. 






Salomonis’. 

x 1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


x1 v [Prv.] 

x 8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


x8 v [Ecl^Ct.] 


refs. Pref. no. 7.


481 



3 7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 





56 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

5 6 r [Lam.] 



5 8 r [Bar^Dn.] 






8 2 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

8 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 




85 r ‘Argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

85 r [Ioel.] 

8 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 



refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions entitled ‘Argumentum’. 



86 v [Am.] 

8 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


88 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



89 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 







812 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 








92 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



9 3 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



9 5 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

96 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 







Damasum Papam in quattuor Euangelia’. 



r 

112 [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 



v 

122 [Mc.] 

129 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio’ [to Lc]. 


r 

129 [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 



v 

1310 [Io.] 

r 

149 ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 

refs. Pref. no. 39; preceded by ‘Prefacio sancti Hieronymi in 


v 




v 




r 





v 



171 r [Act.] 

r 







v 





r 



Lyons: Perrinus Lathomi, 1479. Folio. 

collation: aî 10 k l 12 m^s 10 t u 12 x y 10 1 12 2^6 10 7^10 12 11^13 10 14 12 

15^17 10 18 12 A^C 10 D 8 . 

GW 4237 (Anm.); HC 3074; Go¡ B-562; Pr 8539; Copinger, 

Incunabula Biblica, 42; Darlow^Moule 911; Oates 3188; 


COPY 

Wanting a1 and the blank leaf D8. 


Binding: Blind-tooled calf; double ¢llets form a frame; watermark 

in the endpapers, the letters ‘MIFRE’ in a scroll under a 

shield with a crowned ‘M’; the gold stamp of the Bodleian


[b-271^b-272 

Library on both covers. Size: Both vols: 290 ¿ 210 ¿ 50 mm. Size 

of leaf: 286 ¿ 193^200 mm. 

Some pointing hands and ‘nota’ marks. 

Some initials are supplied in interlocked red and black, occasionally 

with pen-work in¢ll in red and black ink. Other initials and 

paragraph marks are supplied in red. Underlining in red. 

Capitals touched with yellow wash. 

Provenance: Inscriptions on a 2 r and x1 r , mainly unread under 

ultraviolet light:‘Ex bibliotheca Parisiensi . . .’Former shelfmarks 

inside the upper covers, of vol. 1: ‘3 A 28’; and of vol. 2: ‘3 A 29’. 

Purchased from D. Speare for »10. 10. 0: see Library Bills (1814), 

no. 44, and Books Purchased (1814), 1. 



a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus.‘Prologus’. 


a 5 r [GnÎV Rg.] 


n3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




n 3 v [IÎI Par.] 

p3 v [OrMan.] 


refs. II Esr here also entitled ‘Neemias’. 

q2 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 


r5 r [TbÊst.] 

s 7 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 








Salomonis’. 



x4 r [Prv.] 






y 4 v [SapÎs.] 


m7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 


m8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


m 8 r [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A5 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

A5 v [Lam.] 

A7 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


A7 r [Bar^Dn.] 

D2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



D2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


D2 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


D 4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


D4 v ‘Argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

D 4 v [Ioel.] 

D5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


D 5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


D5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


D 6 r [Am.] 

D7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


D 7 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


D 8 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


D 9 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


D10 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


E1 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


E2 v [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


E3 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


E4 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


E7 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 




E 8 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

H1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



H 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


H2 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

I 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 

refs. Pref. no. 36.


483 

I2 r [Mc.] 

I8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


I8 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

K9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


K9 v [Io.] 

L8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



L8 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M2 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


M2 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M6 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. Pref. no. 41. 

v 

M6 [II Cor^Hbr]. 


O1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


r 

O1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


O1 r [Act.] 

r 

P2 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


P2 r [IacÎud.] 


P7 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


v 

P7 ‘Alius prologus’. 


P7 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P12 v [Colophon.] 

r 

Q1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 



collation: a^z h m k AÊ 10 F 6 G 8 HÔ 10 P 12 Q^S 10 T U 8 . 



Lowry, Jenson, 249 no. 76; Quentin 79; Sheppard 3290. 

COPY 

Wanting a 1^4, U 7. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century tree calf; single gilt ¢llets form a 

border; gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 

Rebacked. Size: 333 ¿ 227 ¿ 82 mm. Size of leaf: 325 ¿ 204 mm. 

On a5 r an 11^line Italian (Venice) initial ‘I’ is supplied in red and 

pink on a gold ground, with foliate decoration in green and blue, 

and with pen-work extensions into the guttering in black ink, with 

gold dots; see Pa« cht and Alexander II,111no. pr. 89. Some initials, 

particularly at the beginnings of books or prologues, are supplied 

in redwith purple pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margins, 

or blue with red pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margins. 

Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. 


(1799), 1. 



[a 1 v ] [Table of contents.] ‘Locus librorum numerus dinoscitur ordo’. 

[a2 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti Hieronimi 

ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie libris’. 



[q10 v ] [OrMan.] 

v 

[q10 ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 








[B1 r ] [Prv.] 


refs. Pref. no. 6; followed by Ecl. 

[C1 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 



v 

[I2 ] [Ez^Mal.] 



v 

[Q1 ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

r 

[R4 ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[S2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 





r 

[X1 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 



v 

[X1 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



v 

[Z7 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 





[bb5 r ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 


v 

[bb10 ] [Colophon.] 


Ysenaco. 



Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 6 Aug. 1479. Folio. 


cc 6 ]. 



COPY 

Leaf [a 2 r ] is mutilated, an illuminated initial having been cut 

away.


[b-273^b-275 

Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, the spine goldtooled; 


Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper 

cover. Size: 380 ¿ 276 ¿ 100 mm. Size of leaf: 368 ¿ 262 mm. 

Some early German glosses. Occasional early marginal notes. 

On [a2 r ] an initial was supplied, but cut out; only foliate extensions 

in light green, blue, and red with some gold dotting, in the 

inner and lower margins, are preserved. Principal initials are supplied 

in red and blue with pen-£ourishing in red and green. Other 

initials and paragraph marks are supplied alternately in red and 

blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Ensisheim, Alsace, Jesuits; on [a1 v ] an inscription: 

‘Collegij Societatis Jesu Ensishemij 1624’, with a similar inscription 

on [a 2 r ]. Acquired by 1843; see Catalogus (1843), 254 with 

shelfmark as at present. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: U 5.12 Jur. 



a1 v [Table of contents.] ‘Locus librorum numerus dinoscitur ordo’. 



libris’. 


a4 v [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

p1 v [OrMan.] 

p 1 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

p8 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

r3 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

s 4 r [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



t 2 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


B 1 r [Prv.] 

B8 v [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


C 1 v [Ct^Lam.] 

G4 r [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


G 6 v [Ez^Mal.] 

L 2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


N1 v [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

O 1 v [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


O7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



Q1 r [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


R1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli apostoli’. 

R2 r ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


R2 v [Rm^Hbr.] 


T4 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in Actus apostolorum’. 


v 

V4 [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus beati Ihoronimi(!) in vii. epistolas ca[nonicas].’ 



V9 r ‘Prologus . . . in Apocalipsim beati Iohannis’. 



r 

X4 [Colophon.] 

X4 v Menardus Monachus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de 

Ysenaco. 


X7 v ‘Tabula canonum’. 

Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 20 Sept. 1479. Folio. 

collation: a^t 10 v x 6 A^L 10 M 8 N O 10 P Q 8 R^X 10 . 


B-436; Hillard 385; Oates 651; Sheppard 898; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 

254. 

COPY 

Wanting a 2, b 2.9, x 1^D 3, S 10,T 1, and X 10. 

Leaves a1, N1 and X9 are mutilated; leaves v6 v and D4 r dirty and 

damaged. Several leaves torn. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English blind-tooled calf; the 

gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Formerly 

chained: staple-marks of a hasp at tail of the upper cover. Size: 


Early marginal notes, some in English, see s 2 r . 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital 


Provenance: John Haward(?), Canon of St Paul’s, London (sixteenth 

century). John Delapeend (sixteenth century); given to 

him by John Haward(?); on X9 v : ‘Liber Johannis Delapeend’ ex 

dono Johannis [ ] Haward(?) presbiteri canonicique ecclesie diui 

Pauli London’ in a sixteenth-century hand. Acquired before 

1738; see Fysher, Catalogus I (1738), 152. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: C 8.17, C16.13 Th, and C16. 4 Th. 




Bibliam’. 




m10 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




m10 v [IÎI Par.] 

p1 v [OrMan.] 




s 5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 




of Jerome’s prologues only.


485 




Salomonis’. 



x1 v [Prv.] 








37 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 




3 7 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

5 6 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

56 r [Lam.] 

5 8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


58 r [Bar^Dn.] 

8 2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



8 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


82 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 





8 5 r [Ioel]; preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 



8 6 r ‘Alius prologus’. Incipit: ‘[S]ic Amos propheta pastor . . .’ 

86 r ‘Argumentum’. 

refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions called ‘Alius prologus’, and 

printed before the prologue, which, in this edition, precedes it. 

8 6 v [Am.] 





88 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



89 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 22). 







812 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 





r 

91 [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



v 

92 [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



93 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

95 ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


95 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

r 

96 Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 



v 

111 ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



v 

111 ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


112 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

122 ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


122 v [Mc.] 

r 

129 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. Incipit: ‘[L]ukas Syrus natione 

Antiocens . . .’ 

129 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

r 

1310 ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


1310 v [Io.] 

v 

148 ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



149 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



v 




r 







r 

171 [Act.] 

182 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 






v 




v 




Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1480. Folio and 4 o . 

Format of gatherings: aô folio; p mixed folio and 4 o ; q 4 o ; r^s


[b-275^b-276 

mixed; t-y 4 o ; 1^2 mixed; 3 folio; 4^10 mixed; 11 folio; 12^14 

mixed; 15^18 folio; A^C mixed; D folio. C. F. Bu« hler, 

‘Chainlines versus Imposition in Incunabula’, Studies in 

Bibliography, 23 (1970), 141^5 implies 4 o and 8 o , but BMC also 

records this edition as folio and 4 o ; see, in addition, Paul 

Needham,‘Aldus Manutius’s Paper Stocks: The Evidence of Two 

Uncut Books’, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 55 (1994), 

287^307, at 291^2. 


17 10 18 A^D 12 . 



Oates 1674; Sheppard 3356. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf D12. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English calf, c.1790; bound for the 

Bodleian Library; single ¢llets form a border on both covers; on 

the spine six compartments de¢ned by single gilt ¢llets; edges yellow; 

the gold stamp of the Library on both covers; marbled pastedowns. 


Marginal notes, some in an early hand in red ink. 

On a1 r a ¢fteen-line initial ‘F’ is supplied in reserved white, within 

a red pen-work border, decorated with stylized Maiblumen and 

with extensions into the guttering. Other initials and paragraph 


Provenance: Venice, Benedictines; inscription on D11 v :‘Iste liber 

est monachorum congregationis S. Justine de Padua deputatus in 

S. Georgii Maioris Venetiarum. 773’. Ma¡eo Pinelli (1735^1785); 

Morelli (1787), I no. 132; sale (1789), lot 5041. Purchased through 

Peter Elmsley for »1. 10. 0; see the annotated sale catalogue and 






libris’. 


[a 4 v ] [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; chapters preceded 

by Casus Summarii throughout (see the note on [C4 v ] and the 

colophon) 

[r 8 v ] [OrMan.] 


[s8 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[v 5 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[x8 v ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



[z 1 r ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 

¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only.With a short title for each psalm. 

[B3 r ] [Prv.] 

[C 2 r ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in Ecclesiasten’. 


[C4 v ] [Ct^Lam.] Without ‘casus summarii’ in Ct. 

[I 8 v ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


[K2 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[O 5 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[Q1 r ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[R5 v ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


r 

[S5 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[V2 r ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[X4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

[X4 r ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[X4 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



[aa4 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


r 

[bb7 ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



[cc4 v ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 


[dd2 v ] [Colophon with note on the addition of summaries at the 

beginning of each chapter]. Incipit: ‘Anno a natiuitate domini 

Millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo quarto kalendas februarii 

. . .’ 

[dd2 v ] Menardus Monachus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus de 

Ysenaco. 


[dd5 v ] ‘Tabula canonum’. 

[ee1 r ] [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 Jan. 1480. Folio. 

collation: [a 10 b^k 8 l 10 m^z A^K 8 L 8+1 MÔ 8 P 12 Q^Z aa^hh 8 ]. 


Woodcut initials. On [a2 r ] historiated initial ‘F’ depicting Jerome 

writing. On [a4 r ] a woodcut border. Psalms are numbered and 

some have prophetic interpretations. 


B-438; Oates 1159; Sack, Freiburg, 628; Schramm V p. 19; 

Schreiber V 3469; Sheppard 1817^18; Wegener, Zainer, 62. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [dd8]. 

Gatherings [ee]^[hh] bound ¢rst. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century elaborately blind-tooled russia 

over wooden boards; corners raised; marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Occasional early marginal notes. On [y8 v ] a list of the Septem 

Psalmi Paenitentiales written in a sixteenth-century hand (signed 

and dated ‘P. M. 1599’). 

Many of the woodcut initials, including the historiated one, 

painted; initials are supplied in red and occasionally blue; red 


Provenance: Baumburg, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, S. 

Margareta; on [ee 1 r ] an inscription:‘Monasterij Baumburg’ in an


487 

eighteenth-century hand. Purchased from Munich via Thomas 

Rodd for Fl. 30, i.e. »3. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 5. 


SECOND COPY 

Three initials cut away (at the beginning of Hbr, I Pt and I Io); 

missing text supplied in manuscript. 


Binding: Sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden 

boards, with two metal clasps. On both covers triple ¢llets form 

¢ve concentric frames; the inner rectangle is decorated with a 

large lozenge-shaped stamp and four corner-pieces. Within the 

frames four di¡erent rolls with Renaissance ornaments and two 

triangular stamps. Size: 400 ¿ 290 ¿ 88 mm. Size of leaf: 380 ¿ 

260 mm. 

Sixteenth-century marginal notes and signatures.‘Lit. G’ written 

in pencil on endleaf. 

Woodcut initials painted. Initials are supplied alternately in red 

and blue; red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. 

Provenance: Petershausen, near Konstanz, Benedictines, S. 

Gregorius Magnus; on [a2 r ] a woodcut armorial stamp 

‘Monasterii Petridomus’. ‘Dupl’. Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); on 

endleaf an inscription dated 1837; see sale (1843), lot 73. 







libris’. 



[q10 v ] [OrMan.] 

[q 10 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 


[t5 r ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[v 9 r ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



[x 8 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber y« mnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[B1 r ] [Prv.] 

[B 8 v ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[C1 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[H 10 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch’. 


[I2 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 





Mt. 



[S 2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



[T 6 r ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[X1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

v 



[X1 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



[Z7 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


v 




r 




r 


Ysenaco. 


v 

[cc4 ] ‘Tabula canonum’. 

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 14 Apr. 1480. Folio. 


cc 6 ]. 



COPY 

Binding: German blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden 

boards, dated 1615; with two metal clasps, one of which is partly 

lost. On both covers ¢llets form ¢ve concentric frames; the inner 

rectangle is divided by vertical ¢llets into four compartments. In 

the compartments two rolls: crocketed cresting and a foliate 

ornament; within the frames three di¡erent Renaissance rolls 

and the rolls from the central compartment. Size: 408 ¿ 287 ¿ 


Marginal notes and corrections in early hands. 

On [a 2 r ] an initial is supplied in interlocked blue and redwith may- 

£owers and pen-£ourishing in red; dotting in the margins. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue with pen-£ourishing in red; 

other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Capuchins, BVM and 

S. Franciscus; partially deleted inscription on [a1 r ]: ‘Fratrum 

Minorum Capuccinorum Hildesiens[ium]’. Solley, anonymous 

sale (1831), lot 344. Purchased for »3. 9. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1831), 2, and Library Bills (1829^32), no. 252. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct.Y 4.1. 




Hieronymi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine historie 

libris’. 




[B5 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[C 9 v ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 


[I1 r ] [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus’. 


libro Iob and followed by Iob.


[b-278^b-279 

[K5 r ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


r 

[O2 ] [Prv.] 

[P3 r ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus’ [in ecclesiasten]. 


r 

[P7 ] [Ct^Lam.] 




v 

[hh3 ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


[mm1 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[nn8 v ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 





v 

[qq8 ] [Io.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Ioannem’. 


[ss2 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

r 

[ss3 ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


[ss3 v ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



[yy1 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 





r 

[AA8 ] ‘Prologus beati Ioannis in Apocalipsim’. 



Cologne: [Successor of Nicolaus Go« tz(?)], 9 May 1480. Folio. As 

assigned by CIBN; Sheppard and GWassign to [Go« tz] alone. 

collation: [a^h 10 i 8 k^n 10 o 8 p^z A^C 10 D E 8 F 6 G^Z aa bb 10 cc 

dd 8 eeîi 10 kk ll 6 mm^zz AA 10 BB 8 ]. 

GW 4244; C 1025; Go¡ B-569; Pr 1113; BSB-Ink B-440; CIBN 

B-397; Oates 597; Sheppard 859; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 255. 

COPY 


Wanting the blank leaves [a 1], [N 10], [O 1], and [BB 8], and leaves 

[d1], [h3], [l10], [q10] and [N1^2]. 

Leaf [a2] mutilated (painted initial with pen-£ourishing torn out). 

Binding: Bound uniformly in sixteenth-century blind-tooled 

parchment over wooden boards, with two metal clasps on each 

volume. Stamped £oral centre-piece on all covers. Size: 270 ¿ 

200 ¿ 75 and 270 ¿ 200 ¿ 77 mm. Sizeof leaf: 256 ¿ 179^183 mm. 

Bibliographical note by W. A. Copinger on front endleaf. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue and gold with reserved white 

decoration and pen-£ourishing in red; other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark indicates 

a date of acquisition after 1883. 




Bibliam’. 




l 11 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




l 11 v [IÎI Par.] 

n8 v [OrMan.] 

n9 r [IÎI Esr.] 


o5 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. III Esr here entitled ‘II Esr’, and IV Esr ‘III Esr’. 

p 6 v [TbÊst.] 

q6 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


q7 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. 



s11 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

s 11 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


s11 v [Prv.] 

t 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


t6 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

t10 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


t10 v [SapÎs.] 


y 9 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 


y9 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


y9 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

h4 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitatem 

. . .’ 

h 4 r [Lam.] 

h6 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


h 6 r [Bar^Dn.] 

k8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



k8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


k 8 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

k11 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


k11 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


k11 r [Ioel]; preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

k12 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am].


489 


k12 r ‘Argumentum’. 

refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions called ‘Alius prologus’. 



k 12 v [Am.] 

A2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


A2 r ‘Alius prologus’. Incipit: ‘[H]ebrei hunc dicunt esse . . .’ 

refs. Included in pref. no. 20. 

A2 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


A3 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


A3 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


A 5 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


A 6 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A7 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


A 7 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


A 8 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


A9 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A 11 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


A12 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B 1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


B1 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

C 7 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



C 7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


C8 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


D6 v [Mc.] 

E1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


E1 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

E12 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


E12 v [Io.] 

F9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



F9 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G1 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


G1 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


r 

G6 [II Cor^Hbr]. 


H8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


H8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


H9 r [Act.] 

r 

I10 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


I10 r [IacÎud.] 


K5 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


v 

K5 ‘Alius prologus’. 


K5 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

K10 [Colophon.] 

r 

aa1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationeshebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 31 May 1480. 4 o . 

collation: a b 10 c^z h m k A^G 12 H^K 10 aa bb 12 cc 14 . 


B-441; Quentin 79; Sheppard 3630. 

COPY 


Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian(?) mottled calf with goldtooled 

spine. Size: 221 ¿ 153 ¿ 75 mm. Sizeofleaf: 214 ¿ 133 mm. 

‘Nota’ marks and occasional marginal annotations. 

On a 2 r a twelve-line initial ‘F’, and on a4 v a seventeen-line initial 

‘I’, are both supplied in blue, with red pen-work in¢ll and extensions 

into the margins; other initials are supplied alternately in 

red or blue. 

Provenance: Stroncone, Umbria, Franciscans; oval stamp on 

a2 r . Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763^1829); shelfmark 

no. 250, see Catalogue (1831); sale: Catalogue (1841), lot 1. 


shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1480 e.1. 


a 2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti 


libris’. 






librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon’; with slight variation 

in the incipit of the ¢rst preface to IÎI Par. 

q 5 v [IÎI Par.] 

t1 v [OrMan.] 

t1 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 



x 9 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

A 4 v [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’.


[b-280 



B 5 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 





Salomonis’. 



E1 v [Prv.] 

E10 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


F4 r [Ct.] 

F5 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie.’ 


F5 v [SapÎs.] 


K 10 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


K10 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


K 10 v [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N6 r [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


N 8 v [Ez^Dn.] 

Q8 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



Q9 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete.’ 


Q9 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R 2 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 




R2 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

R3 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 






R4 r [Am.] 

R6 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

R 6 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



R 7 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R8 r ‘Prologus in Micham prophetam’. 



R 10 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


R10 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S 1 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


S1 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



S3 r [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S3 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 



S5 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


S 5 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S8 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


S 9 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S10 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


S 10 r ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 32; followed by IÎI Mcc. 

X1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



X2 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


X 2 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


X2 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

X 3 r [Mt.] 



Y 6 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Y7 r [Mc.] 

15 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


1 5 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 


210 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 



31 r [Io.] 

4 1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

42 r ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 



4 7 v ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


47 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

5 2 v ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


53 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

5 6 v [Gal^Hbr.] 


71 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 




8 5 r ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 




9 1 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 

Johannis apostoli’.


491 


92 r [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


98 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 

refs. Pref. no. 61a; with a number of variants from the edition 

[Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1479 (GW 4236; Bod-inc B-270). 14 

hexameters. 



v 

98 [Date‘M.CCCC.LXXXI’]. 



r 

108 [Verse.] 


111 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 



collation: a^y A^T 10 V 12 X Y 10 1^8 10 9 10 8 11 10 12 13 12 . 

GW 4246; HC *3081 = HC 3083; Go¡ B-571; BMC III 745; Pr 7560; 

BSB-Ink B-443; Hillard 388; Oates 2767; Sack, Freiburg, 629; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and1312. 


boards; bosses, corner-pieces, and two clasps lost; ¢llets form a 

double frame close to the edges of the boards; red edges; parchment 

index tabs with printed initials of books. Size: 297 ¿ 210 ¿ 



On a2 r an initial is supplied in red with £oral in¢ll in brown and 

yellow, on a green ground within a blue frame; other initials and 

paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Wolfgang Eiller (£.1619); on10 8 v woodcut armorial 

book-plate with printed inscription: ‘Wol¡gangvs Eiller, 

Ha« bacensis Bauarus, Vicarius Chori Passaviensis, & Canonicus 

Matticensis. M.DC.XIX’ beneath and ‘Spes mea Christus’ 

above. Alto« tting, Conventual Franciscans, S. Anna; inscription 

on a2 r : ‘Ad PP. Franciscanos Veteris Oº tting� Cella IV’. Duplicate 

from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum’ on front endleaf. 

London, British Museum; acquired in 1867; on 13 11 v red stamp ‘7 

OC 67’; shelfmarks: ‘3834.c’,‘3021.e.9’ and ‘IB.37265’; stamp and 

duplicate stamp. On 1311 v red stamp ‘7 OC 67’. Transferred to the 

Bodleian in Oct.1913; see‘List of Duplicate Incunabula’ (Library 

Records c. 1054), no. 9, with A. W. Pollard’s note describing the 

item as a‘Munich duplicate’. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. GS2.1481.1. 



Bibliam’. 




l 3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 



l 3 v [IÎI Par.] 

m 10 r [OrMan.] 

m10 v [IÎI Esr.] 


n 7 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 


o7 v [TbÊst.] 

p 9 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


p9 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. 



|4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

|4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


|4 v [Prv.] 

s2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


s 2 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

s5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


s 5 v [SapÎs.] 


x5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier.] 




x 6 r [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

z1 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

z1 r [Lam.] 

z 2 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


z2 r [Bar^Dn.] 

A 3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



A 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


A3 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


A5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


A 5 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

A6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


A 6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 




A6 v [Am.] 

A8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


A 8 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

A8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


A 8 v [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi].


[b-281^b-282 


B1 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


B2 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


B3 r [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B3 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


B4 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


B4 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


B5 v [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


B 7 v [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


B 8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


B8 v [IÎI Mcc.] 

D 5 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



D 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


D6 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

E4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


E4 v [Mc.] 

F1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


F1 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

F10 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


F10 v [Io.] 

G7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



G8 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

H3 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


H3 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

H6 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


H7 r [II Cor^Hbr]. 


K 1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


K1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


K 1 r [Act.] 

K10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


K 10 r [IacÎud.] 


L4 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


v 

L4 ‘Alius prologus’. 


L4 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

L8 [Colophon.] 

2 

a1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: LeonardusWild, 1481. Folio. 

collation: a b 10 c 8 d 10 d 8 e^k 10.8 l^n 10 o^r 8.10 | 8 s 10 t 8 v^z h 10 A^ 

K 8.10 L 8 2 a b 10 c 12 . 

GW 4247; HC 3082; Go¡ B-572; Pr 4459; Copinger, Incunabula 

Biblica, 52; Darlow^Moule 6084; Oates 1787; Quentin 79; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf a1, [round d]2 and x2. 

Missing text on [round d]2 and x2 supplied in manuscript by a ¢fteenth-century 

hand; a 2 signed a, a 3 a 2, etc. 

Binding: Nineteenth century half gold-tooled brown morocco 

over blue marbled paper boards, with gold-tooled spine. Size: 


Some marginal notes. 

On a2 r an eighteen-line Italian (Venice) initial ‘F’ is supplied in 

maroon, with white decoration, on a gold ground, and decorated 

with £oral in¢ll in maroon, blue, green, yellow, and white. Foliate 

extensions are supplied in red and green, edged with white or yellow. 

On a4 r a nineteen-line Italian initial ‘I’ is supplied in blue on a 

gold ground, with foliate decoration in maroon, green, or blue 

and edged in white or yellow. See Pa« cht and Alexander II, 112 no. 

pr. 95. Black pen-work extensions into the margins with gold dots 

and foliate extensions in green, blue, and maroon. A scroll is supplied, 

partially coloured in pink, as background to the running 

title. Other initials are supplied alternately in red or blue. Some 

paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Inscription on a 2 r :‘Auso di s[uor] a M a perpetua fate 

orazione per me’. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763^ 

1829); book-plate, now covered by pastedown, and shelfmark 

no. 278, see Catalogue (1831); sale: Catalogue (1839), lot 12. 


shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1481 d.1. 


a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola beati 


libris’. 




q 5 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 





t1 v [OrMan.] 

t 1 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 



x 9 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface.


493 






E 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

E 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


E1 v [Prv.] 

E 10 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


F4 r [Ct.] 

F 5 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie.’ 











N8 v [Ez^Dn.] 




Q9 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete.’ 


Q 9 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 












R4 r [Am.] 

R 6 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 




R7 r [Ion.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 






R 10 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S1 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 



S 2 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


S3 r [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S 3 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 



S5 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 



S8 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 



S10 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 



refs. Pref. no. 32; followed by IÎI Mcc. 

X 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



X2 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


X2 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


X 2 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

X3 r [Mt.] 



Y6 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Y7 r [Mc.] 

15 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


15 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 


2 10 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Johannem’. 



3 1 r [Io.] 

41 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

42 r ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Rhomanos’. 



47 v ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


4 7 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



5 3 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

56 v [Gal^Hbr.] 


7 1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 




8 5 r ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 



refs. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’.


[b-282^b-283 






v 

98 ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 

refs. Pref. no. 61a, with a number of variants from the edition 

[Basel: Johann Amerbach],1479 (GW 4236; Bod-inc. B-270). 



98 v [Date ‘M.CCCC.LXXXII’]. 



108 r [Verse.] 


r 

111 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 



collation: a^y A^T 10 V 12 X Y 10 1^8 10 9 10 8 11 10 12 13 12 . 


B-445; Oates 2770; Sack, Freiburg, 630^3; Sheppard 2415. 

COPY 


Wanting the blank leaves a1 and 1312. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf; on both covers, 

within a border formed by a fern-tip roll and two ¢llets, a £oral 

and foliate roll; marbled pastedowns. Size: 286 ¿ 205 ¿ 50 and 

286 ¿ 205 ¿ 60mm. Size of leaf: 277 ¿ 183 mm. 


Initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks are supplied 

in red; underlining in red; yellow capital strokes in some 

gatherings. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘C.d.3’: see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, probably lot 937. Purchased 





Bibliam’. 

refs. Pref. no. 1. On this edition see also Hillard,‘Les e¤ ditions de 

la Bible’, 72^3. 



o5 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 



o5 v [IÎI Par.] 

q7 r [OrMan.] 

q 7 v [IÎI Esr.] 


r6 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 


| 9 r [TbÊst.] 



s 10 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. 



x 9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

x9 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


x10 r [Prv.] 

y 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 



z 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


z1 r [SapÎs.] 


C7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


C 7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


C7 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E6 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

E6 v [Lam.] 

E8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


E8 r [Bar^Dn.] 

H5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



H5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


H 6 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

H8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


H 8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


H8 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

H 9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


H9 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


H 10 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


H10 r [Am.] 

I 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


I2 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


I2 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


I3 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


I5 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


I6 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’.


495 

I7 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


I 7 v [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


I 8 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


I9 v [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

K 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


K2 v [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

K 3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 




K3 v [IÎI Mcc.] 

M1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



M2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


M 2 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Mathei’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’ 

(pref. no. 34). 

M2 v [Mt.] 

N 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


N5 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

N 6 r [Mc.] 

O2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


O3 r ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

O 4 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

P5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


P 5 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

P6 r [Io.] 

Q5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



Q5 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q 10 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


Q10 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R4 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


R4 v [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R7 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

S 9 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 




S10 r [Act.] 

T11 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


T 11 v [IacÎud.] 

refs. Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

V4 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


V5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


V5 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

X2 ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 


[Basel: Johann Amerbach],1479 (GW 4236; Bod-inc. B-270. 

v 

X2 [Poem in praise of the book.] 


X2 v [Colophon.] 

X3 r [Capitulare lectionum.] 


Y1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


[Lyons]: Marcus Reinhart and Nicolaus Philippi, 1482. Folio. 

collation: a^q 10 r | 12 s^z A^K 10 L 12 M 8 N^S 10 T 12 V X 8 Y 10 Z h 12 . 

GW 4249; HC 3085; Go¡ B-574; BMC VIII 245; Pr 8531; Copinger, 

Incunabula Biblica, 56; Sheppard 6586. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a 1 and h 12. 

Leaves |2^4, O5, and P1 are quarto; a2 signed a, a3 signed a2, etc. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German(?) blind-tooled pigskin 

over paper boards. On both covers double ¢llets form a frame, 

with a foliate roll. Triple ¢llets form a double frame; within the 

outer a foliate roll, and a rectangle above and below, each containing 

two £eurons. In the inner rectangle, a £euron at each corner 

and a lozenge-shaped ornament stamp in the middle. Size: 


On a1 r a fourteen-line initial ‘F’ is supplied in interlocked red and 

blue, with red pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the guttering. 

Other initials are supplied in red or blue or in interlocked red 

and blue. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); booklabel: 



Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Auct. M inf. 2.4; Auct. M 3.10. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1482 c.1. 



Hieronimi ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuine hystorie 

libris’. 


[a 4 r ] [GnÎI Par.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[v4 r ] [OrMan.] 

[v4 v ] [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[x 5 r ] [IIIÎV Esr.] 

[z3 v ] [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[B1 r ] [Iob.] ‘Prologus secundus’ [in librum Iob]. 



[C1 v ] [Ps (G).] ‘Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[F 1 r ] [Prv.] 

[F8 r ] [Ecl.] ‘Prologus in ecclesiasten’. 


[G 2 v ] [Ct^Lam.] 

[O3 r ] [Bar.] ‘Prefacio in librum Baruch’. 


[O 5 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 

[T 3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’.


[b-284^b-285 


[Y2 v ] [Mt.] ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Mt. 

[Z4 v ] [Mc.] ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


[aa4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Preuatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 



v 

[bb7 ] [Io.] ANON ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


[cc8 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

v 

[cc8 ] ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Rom[anos].’ 


[cc9 r ] [Rm^Hbr.] 



[¡8 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


r 

[hh4 ] [IacÎud.] ‘Prologus in epistolas canonicas’. 



v 

[ii1 ] [Apc.] ‘Prologus beati Iohannis in Apocalipsim’. 


[ii6 v ] [Colophon.] 

r 

[kk1 ] [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 31 Dec. 1482. Folio. 

collation: [a b 8 c 6 d 8 e 6 f^z A^D 8 E 6 F^T 8 V X 6 Y Z aa^hh 8 ii 6 

kk 10 ll mm 12 ]. 



COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a 1] and [mm 12]. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century German blind-tooled parchment; 

stamped centre-piece with the Cruci¢xion and two di¡erent corner-piece 

stamps on both covers. Size: 318 ¿ 225 ¿ 110 mm. Size 

of leaf: 303 ¿ 202 mm. 

On [a2 r ] an initial is supplied in azure on burnished gold ground, 

the gilt with punch-dotting, the azure initials with foliate scrolling, 

within segmented frames of red, pale green, and grey, and 

with foliate border extensions including gold dotting. Other initials 

are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes. 


S. Franciscus; partially deleted inscription on [a2 r ]: ‘[Fratrum 

Minorum] Capucinorum Hildesiens[ium] catalogo inscriptus N. 

24’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd for »1. 8. 0; see Books 

Purchased (1830), 3 and Library Bills (1829^32), no. 153. 



A2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola beati 


libris’. 


A5 r [GnÎV Rg.] Most books preceded by Jerome’s preface; Ios also 


Z 5 v Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




Z6 r [IÎI Par.] 

DD4 v [OrMan.] 

DD 4 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

FF1 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 


HH 5 v [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

KK7 v [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



MM3 v [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by 

the ¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

a 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

a 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


a1 v [Prv.] 

b 3 r Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


b6 v [Ct.] 

b 8 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


b8 v [SapÎs.] 


i2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


i2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


i3 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

m6 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


n1 v [Ez^Dn.] 

r3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



r3 v ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


r 3 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

r7 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


r 7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


r7 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

r 8 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


|1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


|1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


| 1 r [Am.] 

| 4 r ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

|4 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’.


497 

|4 v ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


| 5 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

|5 v ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


| 6 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

|7 v ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


|8 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

s 1 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


s1 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

s 2 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


s3 r [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

s 4 r ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


s4 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

s 5 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


s5 v [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

t1 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


t2 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

t3 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


t3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


1 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



12 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


12 v ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


1 2 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

13 v [Mt.] 

29 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


29 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

210 r [Mc.] 

3 9 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


310 r ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 


5 7 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


58 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

5 8 v [Io.] 

71 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

71 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Rhomanos’. 


72 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

78 r ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Chorinthios’. 


7 8 r [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



8 4 v [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

89 r [Gal^Hbr.] 


97 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 




r 

115 ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 




r 

123 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 



r 

124 [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


132 r ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 



132 r [Poem in praise of the book.] 


r 

132 [Date ‘M.CCCC.LXXXIII’]. 



v 

1310 [Verse.] 


[Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger], 1483. Folio and 4 o . 

collation: A^Z AAÎI kk LL^PP a^| s^v 8 u 4 x 8 1^8 9^13 10 

14^18 8 19 12 . 

GW 4252; HC *3088; Go¡ B-577; Pr 437; BSB-Ink B-448; Oates 

179; Sack, Freiburg, 634; Sheppard 356. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf A 1 and gatherings 14^19 containing 

‘Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum’. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half calf. Size: 272 ¿ 




initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: On A 2 r a cropped inscription: ‘[Bibliam] quam 

Theodorus Sch[ ] Dalensis ex liberal[itate] Christiani Sto¡ Lud[ ] 

profe�ore in L[ ] justo titulo [ ] 1608 2 dec. Augus[ ] Esto quod 

que[ris] haberi’. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773^ 

1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘C.d.4’: see Lee, 

Royal Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, probably lot 938. 





Bibliam’. 




n8 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 





p 6 r [OrMan.] 

p 6 v [IÎI Esr.]


[b-286 



refs. III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’, IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this edition. 


s1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 





x 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 



x 1 v [Prv.] 




x 12 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


x12 v [SapÎs.] 


B11 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


B 11 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Ier]. 


B11 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D 6 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

D6 r [Lam.] 

D8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


D8 r [Bar^Dn.] 

F10 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



F10 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


F11 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


G 1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


G1 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

G 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


G2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


G2 v ‘Argumentum’. 


G 2 v [Am.] 

G4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


G 4 v ‘Alius prologus’. Incipit: ‘[H]ebrei hunc dicunt esse . . .’ 

refs. Including pref. no. 20. 

G4 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


G5 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


G 6 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


G 7 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


G8 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G 9 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


G9 v [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G 10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


G10 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G 11 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


G11 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

H 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


H2 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

H3 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


H3 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

I9 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



I10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


I10 v [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

L1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


L 1 v [Mc.] 

L7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


L 8 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

M7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


M 7 v [Io.] 

N4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



N 4 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N8 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


N 9 r [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O1 r ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


O 1 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O4 r [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P4 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


P4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


P 4 r [Act.] 

Q 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


Q3 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q 8 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 

refs. Pref. no. 49.


499 



r 

R1 [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R6 v [Colophon.] 

S1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1483. 4 o . 

collation: a^f 12.8 g 8 h^k 12 l m 8 n^p 12 q r 8 | s 12 t 8 v 10 x y 12 AÎ 12 K 8 

L^P 12 Q 8 R 6 S^X 12 . 



Oates 1678; Quentin 79; Sack, Freiburg, 635; Sheppard 3358. 

COPY 

Wanting O3^4, the place of which is taken by duplicates of O5^6. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf, with gold-tooled 

spine. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the 

upper cover. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both 

covers. The upper cover almost detached. Size: 207 ¿ 155 ¿ 


Occasional early marginal notes, with some in red ink in the 

spaces left for initials, probably in the hand of Cuthbert Thornell. 

Spaces left blank, except for a thirteen-line initial ‘I’ on a3 v , supplied 

in black ink, with‘C[uthbert] T[hornell]’ initials in red ink. 

Provenance: W. Webb (£. c.1500); signature on a1 r . Cuthbert 

Thornell (£. 1572); signature and initials, both in red ink, on a 1 r . 

Arthur Charlett (1655^1722); engraved book-plate with monogram 

‘AC’ and motto ‘Animus si �quus, quod petis hic est’: see 

Howe, Book Plates, 5614, and Journal of the Ex-Libris Society, 

III, 71. Nathaniel Crynes (1686^1745); name printed on a1 r . 

Bequeathed by Crynes in 1745. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: A 7. 6 [ ] (on the verso of the front 

endleaf); AA 40 JS(?) (inside the upper cover in red crayon, with 

‘40’’ written across the fore-edge in black ink). 



a1 v Franciscus Moneliensis: [Prefatory letter, praising the work of 

Herbort]. ‘In sacrosanctam ac sacratissimam Bibliam epistola’. 

Incipit: ‘Rettulimus iam iam summum opi¢cem adeo immensum 

. . .’ 

a 2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Prologus in 

Bibliam’. 




o4 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




o4 r [IÎI Par.] 

q 6 v [OrMan.] 

q6 v [IÎI Esr.] 


r 5 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. III Esr here entitled ‘II Esr’, and IV Esr ‘III Esr’. 

t1 r [TbÊst.] 

u3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


u3 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded by 

the ¢rst of Jerome’s prologues only. 

A 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

A1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


A1 v [Prv.] 

A 7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


A7 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

B 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


B3 r [SapÎs.] 


E8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 




F1 r [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

G8 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

G8 v [Lam.] 

H1 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


H1 v [Bar^Dn.] 

K8 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



K8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


K 8 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

L2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


L 3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


L3 r [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

L 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


L4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 




L4 r [Am.] 

L 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


L6 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

L 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 



L 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


L7 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

L 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


L8 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


M1 r [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’.


[b-287^b-288 

M2 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


M 2 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


M 3 r [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


M3 v [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


M6 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M 7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


M7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


M7 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

O6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



O6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


O 7 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’ 

(pref. no. 34). 

O7 v [Mt.] 

P 8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


P8 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Q 1 r [Mc.] 

Q6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


Q7 r ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

Q 8 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

S1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


S 2 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

S2 v [Io.] 

T2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



T2 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


T6 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

U2 r ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


U2 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

U4 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X 7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


X7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


X7 v [Act.] 

z1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


z 1 r [IacÎud.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

z5 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


z 5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


z6 r [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

z10 r ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 

refs. Pref. 61a, with a number ofvariants from the edition [Basel: 

Johann Amerbach],1479 (GW 436; Bod-inc. B-270). 


r 

11 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


47 v Cimbriacus, [Elius] Quintius Aemilianus: [Verse.] ‘Qui primus 

latias e⁄nxit in aere lituras > Et docuit sacros aere notare libros’; 3 


Venice: Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, 31 Oct. 1483. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b^x 8 y 10 A^Xy 8 z 10 1^4 8 . 


B-450; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 59; Oates 1858.5; Quentin 


COPY 

The ¢rst gathering of Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum is 

bound after the second. 

Binding: Contemporary German (Kyri� workshop no. 134) 

blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, with remains 

of metal clasps. On the upper cover quadruple ¢llets form a frame 

in which are a circular rosette stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 5), a 

lozenge-shaped £oral stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 6), a lozengeshaped 

£eur-de-lis stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 9), a small circular 

£oral stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 7) and an acorn stamp (Kyri� pl. 

269, no. 1). In the inner rectangle, repeated merrythoughts, a 

repeated £euron, the acorn stamp, a small circular rosette stamp 

(Kyri� pl. 269, no.10) and a foliate stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 2). On 

the lower cover quadruple ¢llets form a frame in which are the circular 

rosette stamp, the lozenge-shaped £eur-de-lis stamp, a circular 

£eur-de-lis stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 11) and the foliate 

stamp. The inner rectangle, formed by double ¢llets, is divided 

by further double ¢llets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, 

with a small lozenge-shaped £oral stamp at the intersection 

of each pair of ¢llets (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 8), and with the 

lozenge-shaped £oral stamp, the small circular £oral stamp, a 

lozenge-shaped crowned eagle stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 3), a 

lion rampant stamp (Kyri� pl. 269, no. 4), and the lozenge-shaped 

£eur-de-lis stamp.Worn manuscript label on spine. Shelfmark in 

black inkon spine‘R.16. N.55’(?) Size: 326 ¿ 232 ¿ 82 mm. Sizeof 

leaf: 312 ¿ 211 mm. 

Very occasional marginal notes. 


see sale (1835), lot 718. Purchased in 1835 for »1. 0. 0; see 




a1 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur sic metricus ordo’. 

refs. Pref. 61a, with a number ofvariants from the edition [Basel: 

Johann Amerbach],1479 (GW 4236; Bod-inc. B-270). 


Bibliam’. 


a 3 v [GnÎV Rg.] 


o5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par].


501 




o5 v [IÎI Par.] 

q8 r [OrMan.] 

q 8 r [IÎI Esr.] 


r7 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 


t 3 r [TbÊst.] 

v5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


v 6 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. 






Salomonis’. 

A 1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


A1 v [Prv.] 

A 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 



B 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


B2 v [SapÎs.] Is preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E 8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


F1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


F 1 r [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

H1 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

H 1 r [Lam.] 

H2 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


H 2 r [Bar^Dn.] 

L1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



L 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


L1 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

L 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 




L3 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

L4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 




L 4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


L4 v [Am.] 

L6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



L6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


L 6 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

L7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


L 7 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

L8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


L8 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


M1 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


M2 v [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


M3 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


M4 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


M6 v [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


M7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


M 7 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

P1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



P 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 

refs. Pref. no. 35, followed by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

P2 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

P 2 v [Mt.] 

Q4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


Q 4 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Q5 r [Mc.] 

R3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


R 3 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

R5 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

S7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


S7 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

S8 r [Io.] 

T 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



T 8 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

V4 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


V 4 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

V 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


V8 v [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

X 3 r [Gal^Hbr.] 

refs. Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’.


[b-288^b-289 

Y7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


r 

Y7 ‘Alius prologus’. 


Y7 r [Act.] 

v 

ZZ1 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


ZZ1 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ZZ6 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


ZZ6 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

ZZ7 [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ZZ11 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


v 

ZZ11 [Colophon.] 

aa1 r [Langton,Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, 30 Apr. 1484. 4 o . 

collation: ab 8 c 12 d^g 8 (h i) 12 k^t 8 v 12 x y 8 z 2 A^N 8 O 6 P^Z 8 ZZ 12 

aa^dd 8 . 


B-451; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 64; Oates 1859; Quentin 

81; Sheppard 3754^5. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter calf, with gold-tooled 

spine, and marbled paper boards. Occasional parchment index 

tabs. Upper board slightly loose. Size: 240 ¿ 180 ¿ 53 mm. Size 

of leaf: 232 ¿ 166 mm. 

Occasional marginal annotations. On a1 v : ‘Tabula librorum 

Bibli�’, in a sixteenth-century hand. 

On a2 r a contemporary, probably French, ¢fteen-line initial ‘F’ is 

supplied in red and gold, surrounded by a branch border, historiated 

with a seated ¢gure of Jerome, on the left, dressed in 

gold, white with blue sleeves, and holding a book, with a lion at 

his feet, looking back at him. Behind Jerome is a background of 

blue, decorated with gold £oral patterns; behind the lion, in 

front of two windows, is a lectern; through the left window gold 

rays of the sun shine onto Jerome; in the right window, a view of 

a city. To the right of the lion is a small golden table. On A1 v an 

eight-line initial ‘P’ is supplied in gold, with the stem in the form 

of a tree, and the lobe a beaked and winged creature, on a blue 

ground decorated with gold and edged in black, and with gold 

£oral in¢ll on a red ground. Other initials are supplied in red or 

blue, or interlocked red and blue. Paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue. Capitals touched with yellow wash. Pen-work border 

is supplied in red. Foliation in faded black ink. Both columns 

of text framed with double red rules. 

Provenance: Limay, I� le-de-France, Celestines, S. Trinitas; 

inscriptions on dd8 r in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand: ‘Hec 

Biblia est Celestinorum prope Meduntam. Sic signata 7’, and on 

a2 r in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century(?) hand: ‘Ex biblioteca 

Caelestinorum Meduntensium siue juxta Meduntam’. 



SECOND COPY 

Wanting dd 8. 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century gold-tooled panelled 

calf; ‘Cambridge style’; a fern-tip roll forms a border within 

which is a sprinkled panel; a chain-roll forms a frame with £oral 

tools atthe corners, within which atree calfpanel; a cresting £oral 

roll forms a frame within which an inner rectangular panel of 

sprinkled calf; marbled pastedowns and gilt-edged leaves. 


Some marginal annotations and parts of the text crossed through 

in black ink. Manuscript table of incipits of the liturgical epistles 

and gospels on rear endleaves, in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand. Pen-trials on a1 r . 

On a2 a ¢fteen-line initial ‘F’ is supplied in blue, with white decoration, 

on gold ground, edged in red, with £oral in¢ll in red and 

green, and containing the initials ‘MBP’. On a4 r a nine-line initial 

‘I’ is supplied in gold on a red ground, with gold £oral in¢ll. Other 

initials are supplied in red or blue, or interlocked red and blue; 

paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Pen-work borders 

are supplied in red. Both columns of text framed with double red 

rules. 

Provenance: E. W. Somerby (nineteenth century); signature on 

front pastedown. J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); signature on front 

endleaf. Purchased at his sale (1837) lot 74, for »0. 15. 0; see 





Bibliam’. 


a 4 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’. 






p2 v [OrMan.] 

p 2 v [IÎI Esr.] II Esr here also entitled ‘Neemias’. 



s 6 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


s7 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded by 

the ¢rst of Jerome’s prologues only. Here also entitled ‘Liber soliloquiorum’. 




Salomonis’. 



x 1 v [Prv.] 








m7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


m 7 v ‘Alius prologus’.


503 


m7 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

bb 6 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


bb6 r [Lam.] 

bb 8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


bb8 r [Bar^Dn.] 

ee4 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



ee4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


ee4 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ee7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 




ee 7 r [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

ee 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 






ee 8 v [Am.] 

ee10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


ee 10 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 22). 

ee10 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


¡1 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡ 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


¡1 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡ 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


¡3 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡ 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


¡4 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡ 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


¡5 r [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


¡6 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


¡7 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

¡9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


¡10 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

gg1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


gg 1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


gg1 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

ii 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



v 

ii1 ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


ii2 r [Mt.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

v 

kk2 ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


kk2 v [Mc.] 

kk9 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


kk9 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

ll10 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


ll10 v [Io.] 

mm9 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



mm9 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

nn1 ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


nn1 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

nn5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


nn6 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

nn8 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

oo10 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


oo10 v ‘Alius prologus’. 

r 

pp1 [Act.] 

qq1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


qq2 r [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

qq6 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


qq7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


qq7 v [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

[Venice: Nicolaus de Frankfordia, c.1485]. Folio. 

collation: a^h 10 i^l 12 m^t 10 v 14 x^z h m aa^gg 10 hh 8 ii^ll 10 mm 12 

nn^pp 10 qq 12 . 

GW 4256; C 1022; Go¡, Supplement, B-580a; Pr 3265; Sheppard 

3869. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns. 

Upper board detached. Size: 313 ¿ 230 ¿ 95 mm. Size of 

leaf: 305 ¿ 197 mm. 

On a 1 v a note on liturgical lessons in the hand of Henricus Bagher. 

Some watermarks outlined in pencil. 

On a2 r a 14^line initial ‘F’ is supplied in red, with decoration and 

in¢ll in yellow, and edged in gold, and with pen-work extensions 

into the margins, in black ink, decoratedwith gold and red. On a 4 v 

a 14^line initial ‘I’ is supplied in red, with reserved white decoration 

and pen-work in¢ll in brown ink. Other initials are supplied 

in red or blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Henricus Bagher (£. 1498); inscription on a1 v : 

‘Collectum in octa die assumptionis Marie a Domino Doctore 

Hinrico Bagher anno 1498’. Date of acquisition unknown; the 

shelfmark indicates a date after 1883. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1490 c.2.


[b-290 




libris’. 




t 4 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




t4 v [IÎI Par.] 

y6 r [OrMan.] 

y 6 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

z8 v [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this 

edition. 

k1 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

18 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



32 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


G 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 

refs. Pref. no. 4, preceded by ‘Epistola sancti Hieronymi presbyteri 


Salomonis’. 

G1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


G 1 v [Prv.] 

H 1 r Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


H4 r [Ct.] 

H 5 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


H5 v [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N 5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


N6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


N6 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q5 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


Q 8 r [Ez^Dn.] 

U3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



U3 v ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


U 3 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

U5 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


U 6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


U6 r [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

U7 r ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


U7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


U7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


U 7 v [Am.] 

X1 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

X1 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

X2 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


X2 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

X3 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


X3 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

X4 v ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


X5 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

X5 v ‘Prologus in Abacuch prophetam’. 


X 6 r [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

X7 r ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


X 7 r [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

X8 r ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


X 8 r [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Y1 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


Y 1 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Y4 r ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


Y4 v [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Y 5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


Y5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


bb3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



bb4 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


bb 4 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


bb4 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

bb5 v [Mt.] 

dd 2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus. . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


dd2 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

dd 2 v [Mc.] 

ee2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


ee 3 r ‘Breuiarium in Lucam’. 

ee4 r [Lc.] 

gg2 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


gg 2 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

gg3 r [Io.] 

hh5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

hh 5 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 

refs. Pref. no. 39.


505 

hh6 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ii3 r ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Chorinthios’. 


ii3 r [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

ii8 r ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


ii8 v [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

kk3 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

mm2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


mm2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


v 

nn8 ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


nn8 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

oo7 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 



v 

oo7 [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


pp6 r ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur [nunc] metricus ordo’. 

refs. Pref. 61c, the same text as in the edition [Basel: Johann 

Amerbach],1479 (GW 4236; Bod-inc. B-270). 

pp6 r [Poem in praise of the book.] 


r 

pp6 [Date ‘M.CCCC.LXXXV’]. 

pp6 v [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


v 

qq6 [Verse.] 


[Basel: Michael Wenssler], 1485. Folio. As ascribed by Sack, 

Freiburg; Sheppard ascribes to [Strasbourg: Printer of the 1483 

‘Vitas Patrum’]. 

collation: a 10 b^z h m k 1^3 8 4 5 10 G^Z aa^pp 8 qq 6 . 

GW 4257; HC 3092; Pr 424; BSB-Ink B-452; Sack, Freiburg, 636^7; 

Sheppard 345. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf 5 10. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century(?) parchment over wooden boards, 

with remains of two metal clasps. Size: 310 ¿ 215 ¿ 90 mm. Size 

of leaf: 295 ¿ 206 mm. 


Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and green with 

some pen-£ourishing; other initials are supplied in red or green. 

Provenance: Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851), Catalogue (1847), no. 


shelfmark: Auct. Z 1.3. 




libris’. 




s3 v Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




s4 r [IÎI Par.] 

x4 r [OrMan.] 

x 4 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

y6 r [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this 

edition. 

aa6 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

cc4 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



A6 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


D 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

D4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


D 4 v [Prv.] 



E7 v [Ct.] 

F 1 r ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie.’ 




L2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 




L3 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O2 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete.’ 


O5 r [Ez^Dn.] 

R8 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



S1 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete.’ 


S1 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S4 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


S 4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


S4 r [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

S 5 r ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


S5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




S 5 v [Am.] 

S7 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 

refs. Pref. no. 20. Here, the passage beginning ‘[H]ebrei hunc 

dicunt esse . . .’ is not headed ‘Alius prologus’, but forms part of 

this prologue. 

S8 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S8 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


S8 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’.


[b-291^b-292 

T1 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


T 1 v [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T3 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


T 3 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T4 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


T4 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T 5 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


T5 v [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T 6 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


T7 r [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T 7 v ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


T8 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

U 3 r ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


U3 v [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

U4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


U4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Z 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



Z 2 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


Z2 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


Z 2 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

Z3 r [Mt.] 

Aa7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum 

Marcum’. 


Aa7 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Aa 8 r [Mc.] 

Bb8 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


Bb 8 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

Cc 1 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

Dd7 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


Dd 7 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

Dd8 r [Io.] 

Ff2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

Ff 2 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


Ff3 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Ff 8 v ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


Ff8 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Gg 5 v ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


Gg6 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Hh1 v [Gal^Hbr.] 


Ii7 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Ii8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


Ll5 v ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


r 

Ll6 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Mm4 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim beati 



v 

Mm4 [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


Mm10 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 



Mm10 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


Mm10 v [Date‘M.CCCC.LXXXVI’]. 

Nn1 r [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


r 

Nn8 [Verse.] 


ij1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 



collation: a b 10 c^h 8 i 10 k 8 l 6 m^z aa^cc A B 8 C 10 D^Z Aa^Ll 8 

Mm 10 Nn ij [2 3 8 4 10 ]. 


B-455; Oates 2772; Rhodes 354; Sack, Freiburg, 638^9; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a 1 and [4 10] and leaves [2 3^6] of the 

‘Interpretationes’. 



207 mm. 

Early marginal notes, some German glosses. 

Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue or in red 

or blue with pen-£ourishing; other initials and paragraph marks 

supplied alternately in red and blue. 

Provenance: Johannes Widman (£. 1654); on a2 r an inscription: 

‘Adscribor Libris M. Johannis Widmanni Feurbaccensis 

Donatione Nobilissim� Matron� domin� Ann� de Weiler 

nata(!) a' Helwell Vid. Beysing�. Mea, Jesus, Vita Vera, Fide. 

anno: 654(!)’. Purchased for »3. 3. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1841), 4. 



a 2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola beati 


libris’. 


a5 r [GnÎV Rg.] Most books preceded by Jerome’s preface; Ios also 


u 4 v Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




u 5 r [IÎI Par.]


507 

z7 r [OrMan.] 

z7 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

bb1 v [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this 

edition. 

dd 3 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

¡4 v [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



gg 7 v [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


ll1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

ll 2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ll2 r [Prv.] 

mm 3 r Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


mm6 v [Ct.] 

mm8 r ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


mm8 r [SapÎs.] 

refs. Is preceded by an argumentum. 

ss 4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


ss5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ss5 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

xx6 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


yy 1 r [Ez^Dn.] 

B7 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



B8 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


B 8 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

C3 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


C 3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


C3 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

C4 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


C4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


C 5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


C5 r [Am.] 

C 7 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

C 7 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

C8 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


C 8 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D1 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


D1 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D 3 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


D3 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D 4 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


D4 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D5 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


D6 r [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D6 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


D7 r [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D8 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


D8 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E3 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


E 4 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


E 5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


G10 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



H1 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


H1 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


H1 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

H 2 r [Mt.] 

I7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


I 7 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

I8 r [Mc.] 

K8 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


K8 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

L2 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

M 8 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


M8 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

N1 r [Io.] 

O 3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

O4 r ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Rhomanos’. 


O 4 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P1 v ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


P 1 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P6 v ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


P 7 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q 2 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

S1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


S 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 43, followed by Act.


[b-292^b-293 

T7 r ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


v 

T7 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U5 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 

Jehannis(!) apostoli’. 


U6 r [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


X6 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 



X6 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


X6 v [Date ‘M.CCCC.LXXXVI’]. 

Y1 r [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


Y8 r [Verse.] 


r 

AA1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


[Speier: Peter Drach], 1486. Folio. 

collation: a^z aa^cc 8 dd 6 ee^zz AÊ 8 F G 10 H^T 8 V X 6 YAA^ 

EE 8 . 

GW 4259; HC *3093; Go¡ B-582; BMC II 495 and I 119 (note); Pr 

517; BSB-Ink B-456; Oates 1116; Sack, Freiburg, 640; Sheppard 

1710. 

COPY 

Bound in three volumes (Gn^Tb; IdtÎI Mcc; MtÂpc). 


Interleaved. Inked bearer type on I 7 r . 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century parchment; printer’s 

waste used as reinforcing pieces; two leather straps on each 

volume missing. Size: 270 ¿ 205 ¿ 80, 270 ¿ 210 ¿ 80 and 270 ¿ 


Some early manuscript notes, including a Latin prayer on EE8 r 

and Verg. Ecl. 1. 1^3 on EE8 r with the subscription ‘Hec scripsi 

anno 1567 8 o Martii’, followed by the dates 1571 and 1581. Notes 

in a nineteenth-century hand, probably that of van de Velde, on 

many of the inserted leaves. 

On a 2 r an initial is supplied in blue with £oral decoration in green, 

red, and yellow; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue. 

Provenance: Nicolas le Primost (£.1558); on oo 7 v an inscription: 

‘Ce fust escript le xv jo[ur] d’octobre xv cc lviij mois estant clercq de 

Louvain(?) Nicolas le Primost’. Louvain, Brabant, Jesuits; on a2 r 

and G 10 r the inscription: ‘Lovanij Societatis Jesu M. B. O. 29’; 

later inscription on the endleaf. Jean-Franc� ois van de Velde 

(1743^1823); inscription on the endleaf of all volumes. Probably 

the copy purchased for »1. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1852), 10: 

‘s. l. 1846’, in the Bodleian copy corrected in pencil to 1486. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1486 d.1^3. 


a 2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Epistola sancti 


libris’. 









t1 v [OrMan.] 

t1 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

v2 r [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this 

edition. 

x 9 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 






E 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 



E1 v [Prv.] 



F4 r [Ct.] 

F 5 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 











N8 v [Ez^Dn.] 




Q9 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


Q 9 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 












R4 r [Am.] 

R 6 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’.


509 

refs. Pref. no. 20. The passage starting ‘[H]ebrei hunc dicunt 


prologue. 




R7 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



r 

R8 [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



r 

R10 [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S1 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


v 

S1 [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 



r 

S3 [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

S3 ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 



r 

S5 ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 



v 

S8 ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 



r 

S10 Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 




2 v 

a1 ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



2 r 

a2 ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


2 

a2 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


2 a2 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

2 a3 r [Mt.] 

2 b6 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


2 

b6 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

2 

b7 r [Mc.] 

2 r 

c5 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


2 

c5 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

2 v 

c6 [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

2 

d10 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


2 v 

d10 ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

2 

e1 r [Io.] 

2 

f1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

2 r 

f2 ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


2 

f2 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

2 

f7 v ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


2 

f7 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

2 g2 v ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


2 g3 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

2 g6 v [Gal^Hbr.] 


2 i1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


2 i1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


2 k5 r ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


2 k5 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 l1 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 



2 l2 r [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


2 l8 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 



2 l8 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


2 v 

l8 [Date‘M.CCCC.LXXXVI’]. 

2 

m1 r [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


2 r 

m8 [Verse.] 


[Strasbourg: Johann Pru« ss], 1486. Folio. 

collation: a^y A^T 10 U 12 2 a^k 10 l m 8 . 


B-457; Oates 206; Sack, Freiburg, 641; Sheppard 410. 

COPY 


Binding: Bound uniformly in contemporary German 

(Hildesheim, St Godehard; Schwenke^Schunke^Rabenau 120) 

blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, two metal clasps on each 

volume, one of which on volume 1 is partly lost; leather index 

tabs; rebacked. On both covers triple ¢llets form a frame; the 

inner rectangle is divided by double ¢llets into lozenge-shaped 

compartments. In the compartments six di¡erent lozenge-shaped 

stamps: a small and a larger eagle, a £eur-de-lis, a pair of facing 

lions and a £oral ornament. In the frame, ¢ve round stamps: 

stamps lettered ‘ihs’ and ‘mar’ (Schwenke^Schunke 282 no. 119 

and 287 no. 242: Hildesheim, Godehard), a Virgin and Child 

(Schwenke^Schunke 198 no. 30: Hildesheim, Godehard), 

emblems of the Passion (arma Christi; Schwenke^Schunke 81 no. 

19: Hildesheim, Godehard) and a lamb and £ag (Schwenke^ 

Schunke 154 no. 78: Hildesheim, Godehard). Additional stamps 

on volume 2 are round symbols of the Evangelists and a lozengeshaped 

stamp with a heart. Size: 330 ¿ 225 ¿ 65 and 322 ¿ 225 ¿ 


Parchment pastedowns in vol. 2. 

Early marginal notes. On front pastedown of vol. 2,‘No. 8311.’ 

On a 5 r a 15^line initial is supplied in blue with white highlighting 

within a frame of red and gold; a £oral border in the outer margin 

supplied in blue, red, and green. On E1 r a £oral border is supplied 

in brown and green. Principal initials are supplied in blue with 

pen-£ourishing in red and green and occasionally in red with


[b-293^b-294 

pen-£ourishing in violet. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Inscription on a2 r : ‘F. Rolfers(?) 1824’. Purchased 

from Abraham Asher & Co. for »3. 3. 0: see Library Bills (1856^ 

8), no. 84, item 2; Books Purchased (1856), 8. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1486 c.1,2. 


a 1 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur sic metricus ordo’. 





libris’. 


a 4 r [GnÎV Rg.] Most books preceded by Jerome’s preface; Ios preceded 

by ‘argumentum’. 





q8 r [IÎI Par.] 

s 5 v [OrMan.] 

s6 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

t7 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

x 6 v [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

z4 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



h4 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 





Salomonis’. 



A 1 v [Prv.] 

A8 r Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


B 3 r [Ct.] 

B4 r ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


B 4 r [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

F5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


F 5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


F5 v [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I2 r [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


I4 v [Ez^Dn.] 

M3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



M3 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


M3 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

M 5 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


M5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




M 5 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 


M6 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


M 6 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




N1 r [Am.] 

N2 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

N 2 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 3 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


N3 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 4 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


N4 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 5 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


N5 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 6 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


N6 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N7 r ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


N7 v [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N8 r ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


N8 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O1 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


O1 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O3 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


O 4 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


O 4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Q8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



Q8 v ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


Q8 v ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


R 1 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

R 1 v [Mt.] 

S5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


S 5 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

S6 r [Mc.]


511 

T6 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


r 

T6 ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

T6 v [Lc.] 

X5 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


X5 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

X6 r [Io.] 

Y6 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

v 

Y6 ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


Z1 r 

‘Capitulatio siue registrum epistole Pauli ad Rhomanos’. 

Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Z1 r [Rm.] 

Z5 r ‘Prologus in epistolam primam ad Corinthios’. 


Z5 v ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Corinthios’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Z5 v [I Cor.] 

v 

Aa3 ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


Aa4 r ‘Capitulatio epistole secunde ad Corinthios’. Preceded by 


r 

Aa4 [II Cor.] 

Aa6 v ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Galathas’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Aa7 r [Gal.] 

r 

Aa8 ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Ephesios’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Aa8 r [Eph.] 

Bb1 v [Phil^Phlm.] 


Cc1 v ‘Registrum epistole ad Hebreos’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Cc2 r [Gal.] 

Cc5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Cc5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


v 

Cc5 ‘Registrum in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Ee4 v ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


Ee4 v [IacÎud.] 


v 

Ff1 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim beati 



Ff2 r [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


Ff2 r ‘Capitulatio in librum Apocalypsis’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’and 

followed by Apc. 

v 

Ff7 [Colophon.] 

Ff8 r ‘Translatores seu interpretes Biblie’. 


v 

Ff8 ‘Quatuor sunt modi seu regule exponendi Sacram Scripturam’. 


Gg1 r [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


v 

Gg6 [Verse.] 


2 

a2 r [Langton,Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


[Basel]: Nicolaus Kesler,‘24 kal. Novembris’, i.e. 9 Oct. or 24 Nov. 

1487. Folio. 

collation: a^h 8 i 6 k^m 8 n 6 o 8 p 6 q 8 r 6 | 8 s 6 t 8 u 6 x 8 y 6 z 8 h 6 m t‹ A^G 8 

H 6 I^L 8 M 6 N O 8 P 6 Q 8 RÛ 6 X 8 Y Z 6 Aa 8 Bb^Dd 6 Ee^Ff 8 Gg 

2 6 8 

a b c . 

GW 4262; HC *3100; C 1029; Go¡ B-585; BMC III 765; Pr 7664; 

BSB-Ink B-458; Rhodes 355; Sheppard 2475. 

COPY 

Wanting 1 a5. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled russia; rear 

marbled endleaf watermarked ‘1816’; marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Copious early marginal notes at the beginning of the volume. 

On a 2 r an initial is supplied in interlocked red and blue on a blue 

background with yellow highlighting and some pen-£ourishing, 

extending into the inner, upper, and lower margins. Principal 

initials are supplied in colours with pen-£ourishing, sometimes 

depicting grotesque heads or human ¢gures. Other initials and 

paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes 


Provenance: Brussels, Carthusians; on a1 r a partly deleted 

inscription: ‘Liber Cartusi� Bruxellensis’. Augustus Frederick, 

Duke of Sussex (1773^1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark 

‘C.f.5’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 





Bibliam’. 


a4 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

q5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 





t 2 v [OrMan.] 

t2 v [IÎI Esr.] II Esr here entitled ‘Neemias’. 

v2 v [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr here entitled ‘II Esr’, and IV Esr ‘III Esr’. 

x 8 r [TbÊst.] 

z4 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


z 4 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded by 


A1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 



A1 v [Prv.] 

A8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 



B4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


B 4 r [SapÎs.] Is preceded by ‘argumentum’.


[b-295 

F5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


F 6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


F6 r [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

H 8 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

H8 r [Lam.] 

I1 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


I1 r [Bar^Dn.] 

M3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



M4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 



M6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 




M6 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 


M7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 





refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions called ‘Argumentum’and preceding 

the above prologue. 

M8 r [Am.] 

N1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


N1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 



N2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


N 2 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


N 3 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


N4 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 



N 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


N6 v [So.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 



N 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


N8 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


O3 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O4 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


r 

O4 [IÎI Mcc.] 




Q6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


R1 r ‘Registrum’. 

v 

R1 [Mt.] 

S5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


v 

S5 ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

S6 r [Mc.] 

T5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


T6 r ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

T7 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Proemium’. 

v 

X3 ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 



X4 v [Io.] 

r 

Y6 ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



r 

Y6 [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Z3 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


r 

Z3 [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Z7 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


Z8 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

r 

AA3 [Gal^Hbr.] 


CC1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


CC1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


v 

CC1 [Act.] 

DD5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


r 

DD6 [IacÎud.] 


EE3 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


r 

EE4 ‘Alius prologus’. 


EE4 r [Apc.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

r 

EE10 [Colophon.] 

aa1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationeshebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 27 Feb. 1487/8. 4 o . 

collation: a^z h m k A^P 8 Q 6 R^Z AA^DD 8 EE 10 aa^cc 8 dd 10 . 

GW 4263; HC *3099 = H 3097; Go¡ B-586; BMC V 383; Pr 4912; 

BSB-Ink B-460; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 74; Quentin 81; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf a1, and gatherings aa^dd containing 

Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum.


513 

Binding: Parchment, with details of imprintsupplied in black ink 

on spine. Size: 205 ¿ 147 ¿ 72 mm. Size of leaf: 193 ¿ 137 mm. 

Heavily cropped marginal notes. Bibliographical note on paper 

attached to the endleaf, and signed‘W[alter] A[rthur] C[opinger].’ 

Initials and foliation are supplied in black ink. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘C.b.4’: see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, pt I, lot 323(?). Purchased for »0. 18. 




a 1 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur sic metricus ordo’. 




Hieronymi ad Paulinum presbyterum de omnibus diuini(!) historie 

libris’. 




u4 v Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




u 5 r [IÎI Par.] 

z7 r [OrMan.] 

z7 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

bb1 v [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this 

edition. 

dd3 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

¡ 4 v [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



gg 7 v [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


ll 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

ll 2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ll2 r [Prv.] 

mm 3 r Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


mm6 v [Ct.] 

mm8 r ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


mm8 r [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ss4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


ss5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ss 5 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

xx6 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


yy1 r [Ez^Dn.] 

B 7 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



B 8 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


B8 r [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

C 3 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


C3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


C 3 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

C4 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


C 4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




C5 r [Am.] 

C7 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 




C7 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

C 8 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


C8 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D 1 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


D1 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D 3 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


D3 r [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D4 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


D4 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D5 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


D6 r [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D6 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


D7 r [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

D8 r ‘Prologus in· achariam prophetam’. 


D 8 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E3 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


E 4 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

E5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


E 5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


G10 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



H1 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


H 1 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


H1 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

H 2 r [Mt.] 

I7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’.


[b-296^b-297 


I7 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

r 

I8 [Mc.] 

K8 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


v 

K8 ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

L2 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

M8 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


r 

M8 ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

N1 r [Io.] 

O3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

r 

O4 ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Rhomanos’. 


O4 v [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

P1 ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


P1 v [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

P6 ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


P7 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q2 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

S1 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 




T7 r ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


v 

T7 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U5 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 



r 

U6 [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


X6 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


X6 v [Date ‘M.CCCC.LXXXIX’]. 

Y1 r [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


Y8 r [Verse.] 


r 

AA1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


[Speier: Peter Drach], 1489. Folio. 

collation: a^z aa^cc 8 dd 6 ee^zz AÊ 8 F G 10 H^T 8 U X 6 YAA^ 

EE 8 . 

GW 4264; HC 3103 = *3105; Go¡ B-587; BMC II 497; Pr 2378; 

BSB-Ink B-461; Hillard 392; Sheppard 1719^21. 

FIRST COPY 


boards; two bosses, eight corner-pieces, and two clasps lost; 

covers loose. On the upper cover ¢llets form a double frame; the 

inner rectangle is divided by horizontal ¢llets into three compartments. 

On the upper cover are two large round stamps, one with a 

rosette, the other one with an eagle, a pentagonal stamp with a 

standing ¢gure surrounded by rays, an almond-shaped £eur-delis, 

stamped scrolls with the names ‘hermannus’ and ‘iohanes’, a 

small lozenge-shaped £eur-de-lis, and a small round dragon. On 

the lower cover ¢llets form a frame; the inner rectangle is divided 

by diagonal ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. 

Additional stamps on the lower cover are a medium-sized rosette, 

a round stamp lettered‘Johannes’(?), and a larger lozenge-shaped 

£eur-de-lis. For the stamps see Paul Schwenke, ‘Die Buchbinder 

mit dem Lautenspieler und dem Knoten’, in Wiegendrucke und 

Handschriften. Festgabe Konrad Haebler, ed. Isak Collijn and 

others (Leipzig, 1919), 122^44, pl. 2 nos 10, 11, 12 and pl. 3 nos 16, 

30, 33, but the name stamps are not those of Johannes Fogel and 

Hermann von Erfurt as illustrated by Schwenke and 

Goldschmidt, pl. xcix no. 2. Size: 315 ¿ 215 ¿ 117 mm. Size of 

leaf: 292 ¿ 262 mm. 

A few early marginal notes. On a1 r a heading of a table of contents 

in an early hand. Below, in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand, 

Walther, Initia, 15901a with German translation: ‘Quid sis, quid 

fueris, quid eris, semper mediteris, > Sic minus atque minus peccatis 

subycieris. Id est > Wer sich gehrn wenden wolt von su« nden, > 

Der soll alzeit woll ergru« nden > Sein anfang, mittall, vnd sein 

endtt > vnd gott bitten, das er guodt sendtt. > Da� thu, so fehrstu 

woll’. On EE8 v a note: ‘In multiloquis non deerit peccatum’ in a 

contemporary hand. 



Provenance: Scho« nau, Hesse-Nassau, Benedictines, S. Florinus; 

on a 1 r an inscription: ‘Liber Mon[aste]rij S. Florini in Scho« nauw. 

Ordinis S. Benedicti. Quid sis quid fueris quid eris semper mediteris’ 

in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand. Georg Franz 

Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); on a sheet attached to an endleaf, 

an inscription recording the gift of a Bible to Georg Klo� from 

Wilhelm Friedrich Hofnagel, 18 Feb. 1813, followed by a note 

signed by Klo� ‘hoc folium ex alio eiusdem editionis exemplo in 

memoriam donatoris doctissimi quondam, et infelicissimi heic 

transposuimus’; see sale (1835), lot 719. Purchased for »1. 0. 0; see 



SECOND COPY 

Fragments of 22 leaves: a2,4,6,8, xx5^yy4, zz5,6, Q1^3,5, R5^8. 

Binding: Modern brown cloth. Removed in 1953 from the binding 

of Vet. D2 d.7 (Giacomo Zabarella, Opera logica. 

(Frankfurt: Lazarus Zetzner, 1608)). Size of fragments: 250 ¿ 

175 mm. 

Early marginal notes and numerous pointing hands. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red and occasionally 

blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance (of Vet. D2 d.7): Jacobus Raschke; name on a2 r . 

Robert Purves Hardie (1863^1942); presented in 1954 by his 

widow. 



a 1 v ‘Registrum librorum veteris testamenti’. 

a1 v ‘Directorium noui testamenti’. 

a1 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur sic metricus ordo’. 





libris’. 

refs. Pref. no. 1.


515 








s6 r [OrMan.] 

s6 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

t 8 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

u8 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

y5 v [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



z6 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


[t’]3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

[t’]4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


[t’] 4 r [Prv.] 



A 5 v [Ct.] 



B 1 r [SapÎs.] 


G3 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


G 3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 9; preceded by ‘prologus’. 

G3 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

K 3 r [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


K5 r [Ez^Dn.] 

O 2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



O 2 v ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


O2 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O4 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


O5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


O 5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


O5 r [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

O 5 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 




O 6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


O6 r [Am.] 

P 2 r ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 




P2 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P2 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


P2 v [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P3 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


P 3 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P4 v ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


P 4 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P5 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


P 5 v [Hab.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P6 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


P 6 v [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P 7 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


P7 v [Agg.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

P 8 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


P8 v [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q 3 r ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


Q3 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Q 4 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


Q4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


T 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



T 1 v ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


T2 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


T2 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

T2 v [Mt.] 

X 1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


X1 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

X2 r [Mc.] 

Y 2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


Y2 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

Y 3 r [Lc.] 

Aa1 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


Aa 1 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

Aa1 v [Io.] 

Bb4 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

Bb 4 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


Bb5 r ‘Capitulatio siue registrum epistole Pauli ad Rhomanos’. 

Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Bb 5 r [Rm.] 

Cc3 v ‘Prologus in epistolam primam ad Corinthios’.


[b-297^b-298 


Cc4 r ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Corinthios’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Cc4 r [I Cor.] 

Dd2 v ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


Dd2 v ‘Capitulatio epistole secunde ad Corinthios’. Preceded by 


Dd2 v [II Cor.] 

v 

Dd5 ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Galathas’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Dd5 v [Gal.] 

Dd7 r ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Ephesios’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

r 

Dd7 [Eph.] 

Dd8 v [Phil^Phlm.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Ff1 v ‘Registrum epistole ad Hebreos’. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

v 

Ff1 [Hbr.] 

Ff5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


r 

Ff5 ‘Alius prologus’. 

r 

Ff5 ‘Registrum in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Hh5 v ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


Hh5 v [IacÎud.] 


Ii 5 r 

[Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim beati 



v 

Ii5 [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


Ii5 v ‘Capitulatio in librum Apocalipsis’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’and 


v 

Kk5 [Colophon.] 

Kk6 r ‘Translatores eu(!) interpretes Biblie’. 


Kk 6 v 

‘Quatuor sunt modi seu regule exponendi Sacram 

Scripturam’. 


r 

[* 1 ] [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


[*6 v ] [Verse.] 


2 r 

a1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


[Strasbourg: Johann Pru« ss], 1489. Folio. 

collation: a^c 8 dî 6.8 ij k l 6 m 8 n 6 n‹ 6 o p 6 q 8 r 6 | 8 s 6 t 8 v 6 u 8 x 6 y z 8 h 6 

m t‹ 8 A^D 6 E 8 F^H 6 I 8 K^L 6 M 8 N O 6 P 8 Q R 6 S 8 T^X 6 y 8 Z Aa^ 

Cc 6 Dd 8 Ee^Kk [*] 2 a 6 b c 8 . 


B-462; Oates 210; Sack, Freiburg, 643^4; Sheppard 419. 

COPY 

Leaf c8 mutilated and backed. 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over bevelled 

wooden boards, two clasps lost; rebacked. On both covers ¢llets 

form a frame; the inner rectangle is divided by double ¢llets into 

lozenge-shaped compartments. In the compartments a £oral 

ornament stamp; in the frame, a large circular Virgin and Child. 



Principal initials are supplied in red or blue with pen-£ourishing; 

other initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks are 

supplied in red; capital strokes, and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Joachim Mattenclot (£. 1629); at the tail of 1 a1 r a 

deleted inscriptions ‘[Joa] Mattenclot 1629’ and ‘Joachim 

Mattenclot I.V. D.’; faded and only partly read ownership inscription 

at the head of 1 a 1 r : ‘. . . possessor libri’. Purchased, together 

with ¢ve other editions of the Bible, for »12. 3. 6; see Books 






libris’. 



preceded by ‘argumentum’; chapters preceded by ‘Casus 

Summarii’ throughout. 

r2 v Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




r2 v [IÎI Par.] 

u2 r [OrMan.] 

u 2 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

x2 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

y 8 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 









Salomonis’. 



E2 v [Prv.] 

F1 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


F4 r [Ct.] 

F5 r ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


F5 r [SapÎs.] 


L 2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 




L 3 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N6 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


O 2 v [Ez^Dn.] 

R2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 


prophetarum’.


517 

R2 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


R 2 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

R4 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


R 4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




R 4 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

R5 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 






R6 r [Am.] 

S1 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 


S 2 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 



S 3 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


S3 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S 4 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


S4 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S5 r ‘Prologus in Abacuc prophetam’. 



S6 r ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


S4 v [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S5 r ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 



S5 v ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


S 6 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T2 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


T 3 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

T3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


T 3 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


X6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



X6 v ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


X 6 v ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


Y1 r [Mt.] 

Z 2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


Z3 r [Mc.] 

ZZ3 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


ZZ3 r [Lc.] 

Aa5 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


Aa5 v [Io.] 

Bb7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

Bb7 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


Bb8 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Cc4 r ‘Prologus in epistolam primam ad Corinthios’. 


Cc4 r [I Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Dd2 r ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


Dd2 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

Dd4 v [Gal^Hbr.] 


v 

Ff2 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Ff2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Gg4 v ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


v 

Gg4 [IacÎud.] 


Hh3 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim beati 



Hh3 v [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


r 

Hh8 [Colophon.] 

2 

a1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


[Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Fischer)], 1491. Folio. 

As assigned by BMC; Pr and GW assign it to [Basel: Johann 

Amerbach]. 

collation: a^g 8.6 h^n 8.6 o 6 p 8 q^z 8.6 A^F 8.6 G^Z 6.8 ZZ 8 Aa^ 

Hh 6.8 2 a 6 b c 8 . 


B-464; Hillard 393; Sack, Freiburg, 648; Sheppard 2251. 

COPY 

Wanting sheet 2 c 1.8 of the Interpretationes. 

Title cut out and mounted. 


boards; two clasps lost; spine repaired. On both covers ¢llets 

form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by ¢llets into 

lozenge-shaped compartments. In the compartments and the 

frames are three di¡erent stamps: a round eagle, a small lozengeshaped 

£eur-de-lis and a small rosette. Size: 325 ¿ 230 ¿ 90 mm. 


Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue. In gatherings 

a^K, other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 


Provenance: Purchased, together with ¢ve other editions of the 

Bible, for »12. 3. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 5. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1491 c.1.


[b-299 




libris’. 



preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 






s5 v [OrMan.] 

s 6 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

t7 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

x6 v [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

z 4 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



h4 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 





Salomonis’. 



A1 v [Prv.] 



B 3 r [Ct.] 



B 4 r [SapÎs.] 


F5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


F5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


F 5 v [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

I2 r [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


I4 v [Ez^Dn.] 

M 3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



M 3 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 



M 5 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 






M5 v [Ioel.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 


M6 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 






N1 r [Am.] 

N 2 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 


N3 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


N 3 r [Abd.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N4 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


N 4 r [Mi.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N5 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


N 5 v [Na.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 6 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 



N 7 r ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


N7 v [So]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

N 8 r ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 



O 1 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


O1 r [Za.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O3 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


O4 r [Mal.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

O4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


O4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Q 8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



Q 8 v ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


Q8 v ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


R 1 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

R1 v [Mt.] 

S5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


S5 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

S6 r [Mc.] 

T 6 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


T6 r ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

T 6 v [Lc.] 

X 5 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 



X 6 r [Io.] 

Y6 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’.


519 

Y6 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


r 

Z1 ‘Capitulatio siue registrum epistole Pauli ad Rhomanos’. 

Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Z1 r [Rm.] 

r 

Z5 ‘Prologus in epistolam primam ad Corinthios’. 


Z5 v ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Corinthios’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

Z5 [I Cor.] 

Aa3 v ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


r 

Aa4 ‘Capitulatio epistole secunde ad Corinthios’. Preceded by an 


Aa4 r [II Cor.] 

v 

Aa6 ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Galathas’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Aa7 r [Gal.] 

r 

Aa8 ‘Capitulatio epistole ad Ephesios’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Aa8 r [Eph.] 

Bb1 v [Phil^Phlm.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

Cc1 ‘Registrum epistole ad Hebreos’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Cc2 r [Hbr.] 

r 

Cc5 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Cc5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


Cc5 v ‘Registrum in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Ee4 v ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


Ee4 v [IacÎud.] 


v 

Ff1 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 



r 

Ff2 [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


Ff2 r ‘Capitulatio in librum Apocalypsis’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’and 


v 

Ff7 [Colophon.] 

Ff8 r ‘Translatores seu interpretes Biblie’. 


v 

Ff8 ‘Quatuor sunt modi seu regule exponendi Sacram Scripturam’. 


Gg1 r [Capitulare lectionum et evangeliorum.] 


Gg6 v [Verse.] 


2 r 

a2 [Langton,Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 9 Jan. 1491. Folio. 

collation: a^h 8 i 6 k^m 8 n 6 o 8 p 6 q 8 r 6 | 8 s 6 t 8 u 6 x 8 y 6 z 8 h 6 m t‹ A^G 8 

H 6 I^L 8 M 6 N O 8 P 6 Q 8 RÛ 6 X 8 Y Z 6 Aa 8 Bb^Dd 6 Ee^Ff 8 Gg 6 

2 6 8 

a b c . 



COPY 

Without the marginalia on a2 and a7; see GWAnm. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; single gilt ¢llets form 

a frame; gilt ¢llets on the spine; marbled edges and marbled pastedowns; 

endleaves watermarked with a unicorn rampant and an 

orb in a boat, with the inscription: ‘PARMET’; countermark ‘E’ 

with a crown on its side. Size: 308 ¿ 220 ¿ 75 mm. Size of 

leaf: 295 ¿ 196 mm. 

Early marginal notes, occasionally cropped. On a 1 r verses added 

in a ¢fteenth-century hand: ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur sic 

metricus ordo. > Generat Exodus Leui. Numer[i] quoque 

Deutro.; > Iosue, Iudicum, Ruth, Reges et Paralipon’. 


pen-£ourishing in red; other initials and paragraph marks are 

supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); inscription dated 1817; 

see sale (1843), lot 33. Purchased for »1. 6. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1843), 6. 



[*1 v ] ‘Ad diuinarum litterarum verarumque diuitiarum amatores 

exhortatio’. 


[*2 r ] ‘In summarium Biblie ad lectorem tetrastichon’. 

refs. The beginning of pref. no. 63 (2 elegiac distichs). 

[* 2 r ] ‘In ordinem librorum distichon ad eundem’.‘Perspice nunc, lector, 

quis debitus ordo librorum > Biblia quos sociat, ordinat atque 

probat’; 1 distich. 

[*2 r ] ‘Librorum ordo’. 

refs. Pref. no. 61b. 

[*2 r ] ‘Finis’. ‘Sit benedictus Deus et homo de virgine natus > 

Credentes verbis sacris saluare paratus’; 2 hexameters. 

[*2 v ] ‘Summarium’. Incipit: ‘Librorum totius Sacre Scripture in 

Biblia comprehense . . .’ 



libris’. 




r6 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 





v 4 v [OrMan.] 

v5 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

x5 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

A 4 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

C1 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



D 2 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


F8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’.


[b-300 

F8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


v 

F8 [Prv.] 

G7 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


v 

H2 [Ct.] 

H4 r ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


H4 r [SapÎs.] 


N1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


v 

N1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


N1 v [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

r 

P7 [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


Q1 v [Ez^Dn.] 

r 

T4 ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



T4 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


T4 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

T6 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


T7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

T7 [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

T8 r ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 






v 

T8 [Am.] 

U2 r ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 

refs. Pref. no. 20. Here not followed by ‘Alius prologus’, incipit: 

‘[H]ebrei hunc dicunt esse . . .’ 

U2 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U2 v ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


r 

U3 [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U3 v ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


v 

U3 [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U5 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


v 

U5 [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U6 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


v 

U6 [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U7 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


v 

U7 [So]. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

U8 ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


U8 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

X1 ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


X1 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X4 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


X4 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 







12 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


12 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


r 

12 ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

13 r [Mt.] 

25 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


r 

26 ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

26 v [Mc.] 

35 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


35 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

36 v [Lc.] 

v 

52 ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 



r 

53 [Io.] 

64 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

64 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


r 


71 r ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


v 




r 

76 [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

81 r [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

95 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


v 



111 r ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 

v 

111 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 






v 

118 [Poem in praise of the book.] 



2 r 

A1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


2 

E6 r ‘Translatores Biblie’. 

refs. Pref. no. 53.


521 

2 

E6 v ‘Modi intelligendi Sacram Scripturam’. Incipit: ‘Notandum 

quod omnis sacra scriptura quadriformi ratione distinguitur siue 

exponitur . . .’ 

Basel: Johann Froben, 27 June 1491. 8 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^y A^Z1^10 8 11 4 11 2 AÊ 8 . Collation as GW, not 

as BMC; 2 E7^8 are blank. 


B-466; Hillard 394; Oates 2836^7; Sack, Freiburg, 646^7; 


COPY 


boards, ¢ve bosses, four corner-pieces and two clasps on each 

cover; spine loose. On both covers triple ¢llets form a frame; the 

inner rectangle is ¢lled with merrythoughts and £eurons. In the 

frame, a diamond-shaped stamp with a four-petalled £ower. 


The gold stamp of the Bodleian on leather cut out and pasted on 

back pastedown. 

On a2 r an initial is supplied in blue with white highlighting on a 

gold ground; £oral extensions into the inner, lower, and outer 

margin in green, magenta, blue, and yellow with some gold-dotting, 

ending with the drawing of a parrot. Principal initials elsewhere 

are supplied in gold and colours with £oral extensions into 

the margins; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red or blue; red ruling, capital strokes, and underlining. 

Provenance: Ownership inscriptions on [*1 r ] and 2 E6 v crossed 

out. Andreas Morellet; on [*1 r ] name below deleted inscription. 

On the front endleaf, ‘Bible [ ] achette¤ e a' Basle en 1775’. 





Hieronymi ad Paulinum presbyterum de omnibus diuine hystorie 

libris’. 



preceded by an ‘argumentum’; chapters preceded by ‘Casus 

Summarii’ throughout. 

s2 v Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 


librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon’. Slight variation in 

the incipit of ¢rst preface to IÎI Par. 

s2 v [IÎI Par.] 

v 2 r [OrMan.] 

v2 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

x2 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 


y8 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 









Salomonis’. 



v 

E2 [Prv.] 

F1 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


r 

F4 [Ct.] 

F5 r ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


F5 r [SapÎs.] 


L2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


r 

L3 ‘Alius prologus’. 


L3 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

N6 [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


O2 v [Ez^Dn.] 

r 

R6 ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



R6 r ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


R6 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

S2 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 




v 

S2 ‘Alius prologus’. 


S2 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

S3 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 




r 

S4 ‘Alius prologus’. 


S4 r [Am.] 

v 

S5 ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

r 

S6 [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

S6 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


r 

S6 [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

T1 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


r 

T1 [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

T2 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


v 

T2 [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

T3 r ‘Prologus in Abacuc prophetam’. 


v 

T3 [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

T4 ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


T4 v [So]. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

T5 ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 

refs. Pref. no. 27.


[b-301^b-302 

T5 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

T5 v ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


T6 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U2 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


U3 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


v 

U3 ‘Alius prologus’. 


Z2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



Z2 v ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


Z2 v ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


r 

Z3 [Mt.] 

v 

Aa6 Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum 

Marcum’. 


r 

Bb1 [Mc.] 

Cc1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


r 

Cc1 [Lc.] 

Dd5 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


v 

Dd5 [Io.] 

Ff1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

Ff1 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


r 

Ff2 [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Ff5 r ‘Prologus in epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


r 

Ff5 [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Gg4 r ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


r 

Gg4 [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Gg6 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Ii6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


v 

Ii6 ‘Alius prologus’. 




Ll4 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Mm3 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim beati 



Mm3 v [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


2 

a1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


[Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Fischer), c.1493^4]. 

Folio. BMC and BSB-Ink assign to Fischer; Pr and GW to 

[Basel: Johann Amerbach]. 

collation: a 8 b^h 6 i 8 k 6 l 8 m^| s 6 t 8 u 6 v 8 x 6 y 8 z 6 A 8 B 6 C 8 D 6 E 8 F 

G 6 H 8 I 6 K 8 L 6 M 8 N^Z Aa^Ll 6 Mm 8 2 a 6 b c 8 . 

GW 4270; HC *3047; Go¡ B-593; BMC III 695; Pr 7647 = 7642; 

BSB-Ink B-471; Hillard 395; Sack, Freiburg, 649^50; Sheppard 

2252^3. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting 1 a8, which is supplied in photostat from the copy in the 

Birmingham Reference Library. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century plain calf, bound for the Bodleian 


leaf: 303 ¿ 208 mm. 

On the front endleaf, ‘Ordo librorum veteris et noui testamenti’ 

and other notes in a ¢fteenth-century hand. Especially in the 

Gospels, copious manuscript notes, mostly in one ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand; some German glosses. 


other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or, occasionally, 

in blue. 

Provenance: Nicolaus Scho« nborn; on 1 a 1 r an inscription: 

‘Nicolaus Scho« nborn legauit’ in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand. Cancelled inscription on 1 a2 r : ‘Inscriptus cathalogo 

libro[rum]’. Purchased for »0. 16. 16; see Books Purchased 

(1851), 8. 


SECOND COPY 

2 

Wanting gatherings a^c (the Interpretationes nominum 

hebraicorum). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf; watermarkon endpapers: 

arms of Amsterdam and crowned ‘GR’. Size: 305 ¿ 225 ¿ 64 mm. 


On 1 a 1r a note in thehand of Johannes Conradus. Occasional early 

marginal notes. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue; other initials are supplied in 

red. 

Provenance: Johannes Conradus (£.1520); on 1 a 1r an inscription: 

‘Liber magistri Johannis Conradvs curati [correctedfrom curatus] 

et commissarius in Sinthorm anno millesimo quingentesimo 

vicesimo feria 4 a p[ost] visitacionis’. Purchased for »1. 6. 0; see 




A1 v Brunus, Gabriel: ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 


A10 r ‘Translatores Biblie’. 


A 10 v ‘Modi intelligendi sacram scripturam’. 



Bibliam’. 



refs. Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

t 5 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 





y6 r [OrMan.] 

y 6 v [IÎI Esr.] 

refs. II Esr here entitled ‘Neemias’.


523 

z8 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

bb8 v [TbÊst.] 

v 

dd6 ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


dd-[7] r [Iob^Ps (G)]. 



ii1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

ii1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


ii1 v [Prv.] 

kk2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


kk2 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

kk6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


v 

kk6 [SapÎs.] 


pp8 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


pp8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


v 

pp8 [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ss8 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


v 

ss8 [Bar^Dn.] 

yy8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



v 

yy8 ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


yy8 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

zz3 ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


zz3 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


zz3 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

zz4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


r 

zz5 ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions entitled ‘argumentum’. 

zz5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


zz5 r [Am.] 

zz7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


zz7 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

zz8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


zz8 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

zz8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


2 r 

A1 [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

A2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


2 v 

A2 [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

A3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


2 A4 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 A5 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


2 

A5 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 r 

A6 ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


2 

A6 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

A7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


2 A7 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



B2 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



B3 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


B 4 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

E 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



E 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


E2 r [Mt.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

F 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


F6 v [Mc.] 

G 6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


G6 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

I3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


I4 r [Io.] 

K6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



K6 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


L3 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L 8 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


M1 r [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M4 r [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

O 2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 




O2 r [Act.] 

P7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


P7 v [IacÎud.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Q5 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


Q 5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Q6 r [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’.


[b-302^b-303 

Q12 r [Extended colophon, in honour of the book, and naming 

Petrusevangelus de Monte Ulmi as editor]. Incipit: ‘Laus, honor 

et sempiterna gloria summo deo patri omnipotenti . . .’ 

11 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


Venice: Hieronymus de Paganinis, 7 Sept. 1492. 8 o . 

collation: A 10 a^z aa^zz 2 A^P 8 Q 12 1^4 8 5 10 . 

GW 4271; HC *3114 = H 3112 = 3113; Go¡ B-594; BMC V 456; Pr 

5464; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 95; Darlow^Moule 6087; 

Quentin 83; Sheppard 4257^9. 

FIRST COPY 

For this copy see Coates^Jensen 248^9, no. 9. 

Bound in two volumes. The ‘Interpretationes nominum 

Hebraicorum’are bound at the end of vol. 1. 

Binding: English sixteenth-century calf over boards with metal 

catches; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on the upper 

cover of each volume; rebacked. On both covers triple ¢llets 

form an outer frame, and an inner one in which is a £oral roll 

(Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xl, roll no. 624). On the 

upper cover the inner rectangle contains the Bodleian Library 

stamp, on the lower, four small £eurs-de-lys (Ker, Pastedowns, 

pl. xiii, ornament 47), forming a lozenge. Size: Both volumes: 

172 ¿ 120 ¿ 40 mm. Size of leaf: Both volumes: 164 ¿ 107 mm. 

In both volumes, parchment pastedowns from a fourteenth/¢fteenth-century 

theological manuscript, perhaps containing sermons: 

see Ker, Pastedowns, 825b. 

Marginal notes, some in the hand of George London (see below). 

Also in London’s hand, on 5 10 r of vol. 1: ‘Si tibi de¢ciunt medici, 

medici tibi ¢ant > Hec tua mens leta requies bona dieta’. Also on 

verso of back endleaf, again in London’s hand:‘He desyereth you 

in your iiii > sermondes that you shall > with gode grace make at 

brayls(?) > to [ ]che > prayer for the dead > prayer to Saynte > worshippynge 

of images > and that priests shall live chast’. On the 

back endleaf ofvol. 2, a faulty elegiac distich in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand: ‘Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere 

vitam > Homo mensam indignam noverit esse sibi’; with an 

English translation: ‘He doth love with hys wordis, 

to reprove the lyew of those thatt bee absent he 

ys not worthy att any honest mannis table to bee present. Let hym 

know that att thys table he ys not worthy to bee present.’ On endleaves 

of both volumes, copious notes relating to passages of the 

Bible, in an unidenti¢ed sixteenth/seventeenth-century(?) hand, 

which also provided marginal annotations; both in the margins 

and in the endnotes are references to Domingo de Soto, De natura 

et gratia, which ¢rst appeared in Paris in 1549. 

Initials and occasional paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Occasional capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Thomas Warren (sixteenth century); signature on 

1 A1 r of vol. 1, and on the front endleaf of vol. 2. The identi¢cation 

of owners with an Oxford background is supported by the evidence 

of the binding. George London [Lund] (1503^post 1560); 

inscription on 510 r of vol. 1: ‘Ad Georgium Lundu[m] attinet iste 

liber’. Acquired by 1602: see James, ‘Catalogus’ (1602), fol. 27 v ; 

James, Catalogus (1605), 21. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: 8 o B 13 Th.; 8 o B 14 Th. 

shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 1.14,15. 

SECOND COPY 

Wanting gathering 1 A, containing title-leaf and table, also ¡3.6 

and qq8. 

Owing to an error of imposition of the inner forme of gathering 

pp, the text appears in the order: pp1 r , 3 v , 4 r , 2 v , 3 r , 1 v , 2 r , 4 v , 5 r , 7 v , 8 r , 

6 v , 7 r , 5 v , 6 r , 8 v . 

Binding: Early sixteenth-century, English blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards, with remains of metal catch; rebacked. On the 

upper cover triple ¢llets form a double frame. In the inner rectangle, 

a panel stamp of the Tudor rose, surrounded by a garland, 

inscribed:‘Hec rosavirtutis de celo missa sereno Eternum £orens 

regia sceptra feret’, and supported on each side by an angel; in the 

upper left-hand corner is the sun, a shield with a cross and stars in 

the upper right-hand corner, the moon, a shield bearing the arms 

of the City of London, and stars. Below, the binder’s mark and 

initials ‘HI’: see Oldham, Blind Panels, 34^5 and pl. xxxix, RO 

15, and Weale R 108. On the lower cover panel stamp of an 

escutcheon bearing quarterly 1 and 4 the arms of France, and 2 

and 3 the arms of England, ensigned with a royal crown, and supported 

by a dragon and a greyhound; in the upper left-hand corner, 

is the sun, a shield with a cross and stars, in the head righthand 

corner, the moon, a shield bearing the arms of the City of 

London, and stars. Below, the initials ‘HI’: see Oldham, Blind 

Panels, 25 and pl. xxi, HE 24; Weale R 107, and G. D. Hobson, 

Blind-stamped Panels in the English Book-trade, c.1485^1555, 

Supplement to The Bibliographical Society’s Transactions, 17 

(London, 1944), 39. The lower cover detached. Size: 177 ¿ 125 ¿ 


Copious early marginal notes, some in English. Also pen-trials. 

On a1 r an11^line initial ‘F’ is supplied in blue, with reserved white 

decoration; other initials are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Given the early marginal notes in English and the 

date of the binding, the book has presumably been in England 

since the early years of the sixteenth century. Purchased for »1. 5. 


shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1492 f.1. 




libris’. 


a 4 r [GnÎV Rg.] Most books preceded by Jerome’s preface; Ios also 


p7 v Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




p 7 v [IÎI Par.] 

s4 r [OrMan.] 

s4 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface; II Esr entitled ‘Liber 

Neemie’. 

t 4 r [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ and IV Esr ‘III Esr’ in this 

edition. 

x2 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

y 6 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



z 6 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


A1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv].


525 



Salomonis’. 



A 1 v [Prv.] 



B1 v [Ct.] 

F 5 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie.’ 


B2 v [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

F 2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 




F2 v [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

I1 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


I 3 v [Ez^Dn.] 

L3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



L3 v ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


L 3 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L6 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 




L6 r [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

L7 r ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 






L7 r [Am.] 

M 1 r ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

M 1 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M1 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


M 1 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M2 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


M 2 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M3 v ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


M 3 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M4 r ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


M 4 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M 5 r ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


M5 v [So]. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M 6 r ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


M6 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M6 v ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


M7 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N1 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


N1 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


N 2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


P2 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



P3 r ‘Prologus in Matheum’. 


P3 v ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


P 3 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Mathei’. 

P 4 r [Mt.] 

Q6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


Q 6 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Q7 r [Mc.] 

R5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


R5 v ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

R6 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

S 8 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


T1 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

T1 v [Io.] 

U 1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

U1 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


U 2 r [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U6 r ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


U 6 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X2 r ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


X 2 r [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X 5 r [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Z1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Z 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


y‘5 r ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


y‘5 r [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

z2 r 

[Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalipsim beati 



z2 v [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalipsim’. 


z 7 v ‘Biblia quem retinet sequitur nunc metricus ordo’. 


[Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1479 (GW 4236; Bod-inc. B-270); in 

other editions 14 hexameters only. 

z7 v [Poem in praise of the book.]


[b-303^b-304 


[Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, not after 1493]. Folio. 

collation: a^z h m AÊ 8 F 6 G 8 H 6 I 8 Kk 6 K^Z y‘ z 8 . 


B-470; Sheppard 1661^3. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German (Augsburg: Friedrich 

Ziegler) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; two clasps 

lost. On both covers ¢llets form atriple frame.The inner rectangle 

and outer frame are ¢lled with crocketed cresting. In the inner 

frame a roll with portrait medallions and coats of arms, one of 

them lettered ‘F.Z.’; in the middle frame, a roll with four panels 

showing the cruci¢xion, the serpent of brass, Adam and Eve, 

and the resurrected Christ; for the rolls see Haebler, Rollen- und 

Plattenstempel I 510, nos 1, 2, and Weale^Taylor no. 184. Size: 


Occasional early marginal notes and German glosses. Note dated 

1548 on U 2 r ; numerous interlinear and marginal glosses on the 

following leaves. 

On a2 r a Nuremberg-style initial is supplied in azure on a burnished 

gold ground, the gilt with punch-dotting, the azure initial 

with foliate scrolling, within a segmented frame of red and pale 

green, and with a foliate extension into the inner margin including 

gold dotting; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red or blue. 

Provenance: Augsburg, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, S. 

Georgius; on a1 r an inscription: ‘S. Georgij August�’; on a2 r an 

inscription: ‘Bibliothec� S: Georgij August�’. Duplicate from 

the Royal Library, Munich; on front pastedown,‘Dpl’and pencil 

number 3109 n . Possibly the copy purchased for »0. 12. 6; see 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1478 d.1. 


SECOND COPY 

Wanting a 1 (the title-page). 



leaf: 286 ¿ 196 mm. 

On the front endleaf, notes on important church events between 

the years 213 and 1475 in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. 

Occasional early marginal notes and a few longer excerpts. 

On a2 r an initial is supplied in red on a burnished gold ground, the 

gilt with punch-dotting, the red initial with foliate scrolling, 

within a segmented frame of blue and pale green; other initials 

and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital 

strokes. 

Provenance: Robert Johnson (sixteenth century); on t 1 v an 

inscription:‘Robert Jhonson is the true owner of this Latin bible, 

witnes Jhon Williams with many other [ ]e[ ] Benedictus [ ]’ in a 

sixteenth-century hand. Possibly the copy purchased for »0. 12. 6 

(if not the one above); see Books Purchased (1852), 10. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Bib. Lat. 1478 d.2; L.3.10 Jur. 


THIRD COPY 

Wanting f4.5. 




On a1 r in an early hand, six lines of AH 15,22, incipit: ‘Salue festa 

dies que volnera nostra coerces’, also Walther, Initia, 17100. On 

z 7 v a rubricator’s signature ‘1496 .S.V’. 

On a2 r an initial is supplied in blue with some red; other initials 

and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue, some in interlocked 

red and blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Kirchdorf near Villingen, Bavaria; on a 2 r an 

inscription: ‘Co[mmun]it[at]i Cler[icorum] Saecu[larium] in 

co[mmun]e viv[entium] Kirchdor⁄j’. Joseph Niesert (1766^ 

1841); inscription on a 1 r dated1817; see sale (1843), lots 28^9; purchased 

by Thomas Rodd, according to a note by Bandinel in the 

Bodleian copy of the sale catalogue. Purchased for »1. 12. 6; see 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1478 d.3. 




Bibliam’. 



a 4 r [GnÎV Rg.] Each chapter of each book preceded by a summary, 

entitled ‘C.S.’ (‘Casus summarii’). Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

p 6 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




p 7 r [IÎI Par.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

s2 r [OrMan.] 

s2 r [IÎI Esr.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. II Esr 

also entitled ‘Neemias’. 

t2 r [IIIÎV Esr.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

v6 r [TbÊst.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

y 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


y1 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded 

by ‘Casus summarii’. Ps (G) preceded by the ¢rst of 

Jerome’s prologues only. 

m2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

m2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


m 2 v [Prv] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

A1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


A 1 v [Ecl] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

A4 r [Introduction to Ct.] Incipit: ‘Cantica Canticorum Salomonis a 

diuersis doctoribus diuersimode . . .’ 

A 4 r [Ct.] 

A5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


A 5 r [SapÎs.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. Is preceded 

by an ‘argumentum’. 

E4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio’ [to Ier]. 


E 5 r ‘Alius prologus’.


527 


E5 r [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 

‘Casus summarii’. 

G5 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

G 5 r [Lam.] 

G6 v ‘Prefacio’ [to Bar]. 


G6 v [Bar^Dn.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

K 6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



K 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


K6 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


K8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


K 8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




L 1 r [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14); each chapter 

preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

L1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


L1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




L2 r [Am] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

L3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


L4 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 




L4 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


L5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


L 5 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


L6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


L 6 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


L7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


L7 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


L 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


L8 v [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


M 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


M1 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


M1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


M2 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


M4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


r 

M5 [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


M5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


v 

M5 ‘Alius prologus’. 


M6 r [IÎI Mcc.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

r 

O6 ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



v 

O6 ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


O7 r [Mt.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). Each chapter 


v 

P8 ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


Q1 r [Mc] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

r 

Q7 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


Q7 r [Lc.] Verses1^4 here called‘Prohemium’. Each chapter preceded 

by ‘Casus summarii’. 



v 

S1 [Io] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

T1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



r 

T2 [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


T6 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


T6 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


r 

V2 ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


V2 r [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded 


v 

V4 [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each 

chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

X8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 




r 

X8 [Act] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

Z2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


v 

Z2 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’. Each chapter 


Aa1 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


v 

Aa1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


Aa1 v [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded 


Aa6 r [Colophon.]


[b-304^b-305 

aa1 r [Langton,Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


[Lyons]: Mathias Huss, 1494. Folio. 

collation: a 8 b 6 c^z h m A^Y 8 Z Aa aa 6 bb cc 8 . 

GW 4273; HC 3115; Go¡ B-596; Pr 8569; Oates 3194; Sheppard 6615. 

COPY 

Wanting the title and gatherings aa^cc, containing 

‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) half calf; marbled paper boards. 


Some marginal annotations and occasional pen-trials. 

Provenance: On m 8 v : ‘Johannes [ ]is’ in a contemporary hand. 

Purchased with four other Bibles for »12. 3. 6; see Books 





a 1 v [Explanatory note on layout of the tables.] Incipit: ‘Ad euidentiam 

sequentis tabule notandum est quod . . .’ 

a2 r [Alexander de Villa Dei pseudo-]: ‘Tabula super Bibliam per 

versus composita’. 


a8 v Brunus, Gabriel: Tabula alphabetica totius Bibliae. 


a 16 r [Explanatory note on translators of the Bible and commentators.] 


a 16 v [Explanatory note.] ‘Modi intelligendi sacram scripturam’. 

Includes ‘Littera gesta docet’. See pref. nos 54^5. 

2 a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Prologus in 

Bibliam’. 


2 a4 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

q 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI]. 




q 1 v [IÎI Par.] 

s5 v [OrMan.] 

s5 v [IÎI Esr.] 


t5 v [IIIÎV Esr.] Running title for III Esr variously printed as II Esr 

and III Esr. 

x 2 v [TbÊst.] 

y6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


y6 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded by 


k1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 



k1 r [Prv.] 

k8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


k 8 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

A3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


A 3 v [SapÎs.] 


E4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 




E5 r [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

G 6 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


G6 v [Lam.] 

G 8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


G8 r [Bar^Dn.] 

L 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



L 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


L1 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


L3 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


L 3 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

L4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


L 4 v ‘Argumentum’. 




L 5 r [Am.] 

L6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


L 6 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


L7 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



L7 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


L8 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


M1 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


M2 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M3 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


M3 v [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


M 4 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


M 5 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal].


529 


M8 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

M8 Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


N1 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

r 

P2 ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



P2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


P3 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ 

(pref. no. 34). 

r 

P3 [Mt.] 

Q5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


v 

Q5 ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Q6 r [Mc.] 

R4 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


v 

R4 ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

R5 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Proemium’. 



S8 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Joannis’. 

S8 v [Io.] 

r 

U1 ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



r 

U1 [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U5 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


U5 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

X1 ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


X1 r [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

X3 [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by is ‘argumentum’. 

Y7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


v 

Y7 ‘Alius prologus’. 


Y7 v [Act.] 

r 

bb2 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


bb2 r [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by is ‘argumentum’. 

bb7 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


bb7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


v 

bb7 [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

cc4 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


v 

cc4 [Colophon.] 

dd1 r [Langton,Stephen]: ‘Interpretationeshebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 22 Nov. 1494. 4 o . 

collation: a 16 2 a^z h m k A^Yaa bb 8 cc 4 dd^gg 8 hh 4 . 



Quentin 81; Sheppard 4468. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf 2 a1. 


wooden boards; two clasps lost. On both covers triple ¢llets 

form concentric frames; within the outer is a roll with named ¢gures 

of ‘Fides’, ‘Spes’, and ‘Caritas’, and bearing the date ‘1586’: 

see Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel, I 25, roll 2; with the second 

frame is a roll containing coats of arms (lion, eagle, and 

Bavaria) and three crowned heads within wreaths, signed ‘T. A.’: 

see Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel, I 25, roll 1; within the 

inner frame is an ornamental roll. The inner rectangle on the 

upper cover is decorated, at each corner, with a £euron, and in 

the centre with a badly-worn oval-shaped stamp, with initials 

‘IHS’; on the lower cover is a repeated ornamental roll. 

Manuscript label on the spine. Size: 212 ¿ 167 ¿ 80 mm. Size of 

leaf: 198 ¿ 148 mm. 

Marginal annotations. 

Provenance: Jacobus Ha« rtl (£. 1625); inscription on a1 r : ‘Me 

tenet Jacobus Ha« rtl vicarius in Haustetten. 26 A o 1625’. 

Wolfgang Harscher (seventeenth century); inscription on a1 r . 

Caspar Durmair (£. 1663^1693); inscriptions on a1 r : ‘Ex libris 

Caspari Durmair parochi in Reichenkhirchen. 9 April 1663’; and 

on cc4 v :‘Casparus Durmair possessor huius Bibli� camerarius et 

parochus in Raichenkhirchen, 1693’. Erding, Bavaria, 

Capuchins; inscription on a1 r : ‘Loci Capucinorum Erdinge’. 

Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl’ on front endleaf. 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Mason II 8. 



AA1 v Brunus, Gabriel: Tabula alphabetica. 

refs. Revised version. Pref. no. 52. 

BB 1 r ‘Ad diuinarum litterarum verarumque diuitiarum amatores 



BB1 v ‘In summarium Biblie ad lectorem tetrastichon’. 

refs. The beginning of pref. no. 63 (2 elegiac distichs). 

BB 1 v ‘In ordinem librorum distichon ad eundem’. ‘Perspice nunc, 

lector, quis debitus ordo librorum > Biblia quos sociat, ordinat 

atque probat’; 1 distich. 

BB1 v ‘Librorum ordo’. 


BB 2 r ‘Summarium’. Incipit: ‘Librorum totius Sacre Scripture in 

Biblia comprehense . . .’ 

BB4 v ‘Sanctus Hieronymus interpres biblie’. ‘Simachus atque 

Theodotion vel septuaginta > Addo aquilam et quorum nomina 

lata patent’; 4 elegiac distichs. 



libris’. 




r8 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




r 8 r [IÎI Par.]


[b-306 

v6 v [OrMan.] 

v6 v [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

x 7 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

A6 r [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

C3 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob’. 



D4 r [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum vel soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


G 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 



G 2 r [Prv.] 

H1 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


H 4 v [Ct.] 

H 5 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


H5 v [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N 3 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


N3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


N3 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Q1 r [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


Q3 v [Ez^Dn.] 

T5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



T5 v ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


T 5 v [Os.] preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

T8 r ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 


T 8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


T8 v [Ioel.] preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

U 1 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 


U1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


U 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


U1 v [Am.] 

U 3 v ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 

refs. Pref. no. 20; preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Here not followed 

by ‘Alius prologus’, incipit: ‘[H]ebrei hunc dicunt esse . . .’ 

U 4 r [Abd.] 

U4 r ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


U 4 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U 5 r ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


U5 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U 6 v ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


U7 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U7 v ‘Prologus in Abachuc prophetam’. 


U8 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

U8 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


X1 r [So]. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X1 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


X 2 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X2 v ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


X 3 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X5 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


X 6 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


X 7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


Aa2 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



Aa3 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


Aa 3 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Matheum’. 


Aa3 r ‘Registrum in euangelium Matthei’. 

Aa 4 r [Mt.] 

Bb7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus. . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


Bb7 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Marci’. 

Bb 7 v [Mc.] 

Cc7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


Cc 7 r ‘Registrum in Lucam’. 

Cc8 r [Lc.] 

Ee4 v ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 


Ee4 v ‘Registrum in euangelium Johannis’. 

Ee5 r [Io.] 

Ff 6 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

Ff 6 v ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


Ff7 r [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Gg 3 v ‘Prologus in primam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


Gg3 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Gg 8 r ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


Gg8 v [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Hh 3 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Ji8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio. . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


Ji 8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




Ll 4 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’.


531 

Mm2 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 



Mm2 v [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


r 

Mm8 [Poem in praise of the book.] 

refs. Quentin 83. 

Mm8 r [Colophon.] 

2 

A2 r 

[Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


2 

E8 r ‘Translatores Biblie’. 


Basel: Johann Froben, 27 Oct. 1495. 8 o . 

collation: AA 8 BB 4 a^y A^Z Aa^Mm 2 AÊ 8 . 

Woodcut on BB4 v depicting ‘Sanctus Hieronymus interpres biblie’, 

see Hieronymus, Buchillustration, no. 90. 


B-474; Hillard 397; Oates 2840; Rhodes 356; Sack, Freiburg, 

651^3; Schramm XXII p. 46; SchreiberV 3470; Sheppard 2543^4. 

FIRST COPY 

The colophon reads:‘Ha� melburgk’. 

Binding: Contemporary English panelled calf over wooden 

boards, remains of two metal catches on the lower cover. Spine 

and the lower cover damaged. On both covers triple ¢llets form a 

frame; the inner rectangle is ¢lled with two impressions of the 

panel stamp ‘Ecce homo’; see Oldham, Blind Panels, 32, pl. 

xxxvi, Rel. 11. Size: 170 ¿ 122 ¿ 80 mm. Size of leaf: 157 ¿ 

103 mm. 

Former parchment pastedowns, now raised, the one in front from 

a thirteenth-century manuscript psalter, the one at the end from a 

thirteenth-century manuscript of a grammatical work with marginal 

notes and glosses in English in a sixteenth-century hand. 

Late eighteenth-century calculations of the age of the Bible on 

Mm 8 v . Notes, some in English, on the back endleaf. 


Provenance: Richard Moore (sixteenth/seventeenth century); on 

2 E8 v : ‘Richard moores boke’ and below ‘Ex dono [presbiteri] 

Ric[har]d More’. John Evans (£. 1673^1674) and Thomas Evans 

(seventeenth century?); on BB4 v : ‘John Evans May y e 31 st 1674’, 

similar inscriptions dated 1674 and 1673 respectively on J 1 r and 

2 E8 v ; on A1 r : ‘Thomas Evan his hand and [pen]’, similar inscription 

on P4 r . Thomas Williams (late seventeenth century); inside 

the upper cover, under former pastedown, inscription: ‘Thomas 

Williams’. William Thomas (£. 1701); on 2 A1 r : ‘William Thomas 

his book September the 21 1701’. Humphrey and James Larwill 

(£. 1766); on the back endleaf, ‘Humphry Larwill April the 3 

1766’; on AA 1 r : ‘James Larwill [His] Hand May the 11768’. Other 

names scribbled in the book; see D1 r . Purchased in 1940. 

shelfmark: Inc. f. GS2.1495.1. 

SECOND COPY 

The colophon reads:‘Hamelburgk’. 

Wanting gatherings AA and BB (the title-leaf and table), also a1.8, 

y 1, Q 8, Aa 1, D 1,7,8, E 1^8, and theblank leaf A 1; H 5 is mutilated; y 8 is 

bound in place of y1, K8 before K1. 

Binding: Old parchment over pasteboards, both boards covered 

in marbled paper; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both 

covers. No. ‘30’ on spine. Size: 161 ¿ 115 ¿ 60 mm. Size of 

leaf: 153 ¿ 102 mm. 

Copious early marginal notes in English hands; a few in English. 

On Mm8 v a note about Mount Syon and its allegorical meanings: 

‘Syon. Sion mons est in Hierusalem et sepe ponitur pro ipsa ciuitate. 

. .’; beneath, a note in a di¡erent hand‘Be holde and consyder 

the sonne [and] the beames that come from yt’. 

Provenance: Thomas Stephens (sixteenth century); name on 

Kk4 v . On Mm8 v : ‘A T W K R B’ in an early hand. In view of the 

former shelfmark possiblyThomas Barlow (1607^1691); perhaps 

bequeathed in 1691. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 8 o O.30 Linc. 


B-307 Biblia Latina (ed. Petrusevangelus de Monte 

Ulmi and Gregorius Britannicus). 


A 1 v Brunus, Gabriel: ‘Tabula alphabetica historiarum’. 


A9 v [First colophon, dated 29 Dec. 1496]. 

A 10 r ‘Translatores Biblie’. 


A10 v ‘Modi intelligendi sacram scripturam’. Includes verse ‘Littera 

gesta docet’. See pref. nos 54^5 


Bibliam’. 


a 3 v [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

t6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 





aa 7 v [OrMan.] 

aa8 r [IÎI Esr.] II Esr here entitled ‘Neemias’. 

cc1 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

ee 2 r [TbÊst.] 

¡ 8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


¡8 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 

by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prologues only. 

ll2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

ll3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ll3 r [Prv.] 

mm3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


mm 3 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

mm8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


mm 8 v [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr10 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


rr 10 v ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 9. Preceded by Jerome’s ‘Prologus’. 

rr10 v [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

xx 1 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 

refs. Pref. no. 10.


[b-307^b-308 

xx1 v [Bar^Dn.] 

hh8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



hh8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


hh8 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

mm3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


v 

mm3 ‘Alius prologus’. 


mm3 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

v 

mm4 ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


mm5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions entitled ‘Argumentum’. 

mm5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

mm5 [Am.] 

r 

mm7 ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


mm7 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

mm8 ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


mm8 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

mm8 ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


2 

A1 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 v 

A2 ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


2 

A2 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

A3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


2 

A4 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

A5 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


2 

A5 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

A6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


2 A6 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 A7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


2 A7 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



B 2 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



B 3 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


B4 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

E 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



E 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


E2 v [Mt.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

F6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


F6 v [Mc.] 

G6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


v 

G6 [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

I3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


r 

I4 [Io.] 

K6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



v 

K6 [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L3 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


v 

L3 [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L8 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


r 

M1 [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M4 r [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

O2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


r 

O2 ‘Alius prologus’. 


O2 r [Act.] 

v 

P7 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


P7 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

Q5 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


Q6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


Q6 r [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Q12 v [Extended second colophon, in honour of the book, naming 

Petrusevangelus de Monte Ulmi and Gregorius Britannicus as 

editors, and dated 7 Sept. 1496]. Incipit: ‘Laus, honor et sempiterna 

gloria deo patri omnipotenti . . .’ On the date in this colophon 

see BMC VII 978. 

r 

11 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


Brescia: Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus, 29 Dec. 1496. 8 o . 

Sheppard records as 4 o and 8 o . 

collation: A 10 a^x aa^qq 8 rr 10 ss^zz hh mm 2 A^P 8 Q 12 1^4 8 5 10 . 



Quentin 83; Rhodes 357; Sheppard 5789; Veneziani, Brescia, 119. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering 1 A and leaves 59^10, the last being blank. 

Binding: Parchment, with details of imprint on spine in black 

ink. Size: 165 ¿ 125 ¿ 55 mm. Size of leaf: 159 ¿ 112 mm. 

Provenance: Deleted inscription on a 1 r , now unread. Antonius 

Todeschinus (sixteenth/seventeenth century); cancelled inscription 

on 58 v . Joseph Niesert (1766^1841), 1809; inscription on a1 r ; 

label bearing sale number on spine. Purchased at his sale for »1. 0. 

0: see sale catalogue (1843), lot 2735, and Books Purchased 

(1843), 6. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1496 f.1. 


[*1 r ] ‘Sanctus Hieronimus interpres biblie’. ‘Simachus atque 

Theodotion vel septuaginta > Addo aquilam et quorum nomina 

lata patent’; 4 elegaic distichs.


533 

[*2 r ] Brunus, Gabriel: Tabula alphabetica. 

refs. Revised version. Pref. no. 52. 

[* 6 r ] ‘Ad diuinarum litterarum verarumque diuitiarum amatores 



[* 6 r ] ‘Librorum ordo’. 


[*6 v ] ‘Summarium’. Incipit: ‘Librorum totius Sacre Scripture in 

Biblia conprehense . . .’ 



libris’. 



preceded by an ‘argumentum’; chapters preceded by ‘C.S.’ 

throughout (casus summarii). 

aa3 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




aa3 r [IÎI Par.] 

ee3 r [OrMan.] 

ee 3 r [IÎI Esr.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

¡6 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

hh8 v [TbÊst.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

kk 6 r [Iob.] ‘Alius prologus in Iob secundum hebraicum’. 



mm 1 v [Ps (G).] ‘Liber hymnorum soliloquiorum’. Preceded by the 


pp2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 



pp2 v [Prv.] 

qq4 v Hieronymus: [Ecl.] ‘Prologus . . . in librum Ecclesiasten’. 


qq7 v [Ct.] 

qq8 v ‘Prologus in librum Sapientie’. 


qq 8 v [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

yy2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio in Hieremiam prophetam’. 


yy 2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


yy2 r [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

B 4 v [Bar.] ‘Prefatio in librum Baruch prophete’. 


B7 r [Ez^Dn.] 

F 2 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



F 2 v ‘Prologus in librum Osee prophete’. 


F2 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

F5 v ‘Prologus in Johel prophetam’. 




F5 v ‘Item alius prologus’. 


F5 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

F6 v ‘Prologus in Amos prophetam’. 






G1 r [Am.] 

G3 r ‘Prologus in Abdiam prophetam’. 



prologue. 

G 3 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

G3 v ‘Prologus in Jonam prophetam’. 


G 3 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

G 4 v ‘Prologus in Micheam prophetam’. 


G4 v [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

G 6 r ‘Prologus in Naum prophetam’. 


G6 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

G 7 r ‘Prologus in Abacuc prophetam’. 


G7 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

G 8 v ‘Prologus in Sophoniam prophetam’. 


G8 v [So]. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

H1 v ‘Prologus in Aggeum prophetam’. 


H1 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

H2 r ‘Prologus in Zachariam prophetam’. 


H2 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

H5 v ‘Prologus in Malachiam prophetam’. 


H5 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

H6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum’. 


H 6 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


L6 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



L7 r ‘Prologus in Mattheum’. 


L7 r ‘Argumentum in euangelium secundum Mattheum’. 


L 7 r [Mt.] 

N3 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus . . . in euangelium secundum Marcum’. 


N 3 r [Mc.] 

O 2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in euangelium secundum Lucam’. 


O2 v [Lc.] 

P 7 r ‘Prologus in euangelium secundum Iohannem’. 

refs. Pref. no. 38.


[b-308^b-309 

P7 r [Io.] 

Q8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli’. 

r 

R1 ‘Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos’. 


R1 r [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

R6 ‘Prologus in epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


R6 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

S3 r ‘Prologus in secundam epistolam ad Corinthios’. 


S3 r [II Cor.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

S6 r [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

V4 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum’. 


V4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


X7 v ‘Prologus in septem epistolas canonicas’. 


r 

X8 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

Y5 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus in Apocalypsim beati 



v 

Y5 [Apc.] ‘Alius prologus in Apocalypsim’. 


Z5 v [Colophon.] 

2 r 

a1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum’. 


Strasbourg: [Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger], 26 Apr. 1497. Folio. 

collation: [* 8 ] a^z aa^gg 6 hh^kk 8 ll 6 mm 8 nn^pp 6 qq 8 rr 6 ss 8 tt 6 

vv xx 8 yy 6 zz 8 A 6 B C 8 D 6 E 8 F 6 G 8 H I 6 K^X 8 YZ 6 2 ab 10 .The ¢rst 

gathering is numbered but not signed. 

On [*1 r ] a woodcut depicting Jerome. 

GW 4277; HC *3122; R 837; Go¡ B-600; BMC I 111; Pr 479; 

BSB-Ink B-476; Hillard 398; Sack, Freiburg, 654; Schramm XX 

p. 22; Schreiber V 3471; Sheppard 386^7. 

FIRST COPY 


wooden boards; two clasps lost. On both covers ¢llets form two 

concentric frames. In the inner rectangle an ornamental centrepiece 

and corner-pieces; in the frames a £oral roll and a cresting 

roll. Size: 310 ¿ 225 ¿ 95 mm. Size of leaf: 296 ¿ 196 mm. 

Copious early marginal notes in Latin. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue with pen-£ourishing in red 

or interlocked red and blue; other initials and paragraph marks 

are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Purchased, together with ¢ve other editions of the 

Bible, for »12. 3. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 5. 


SECOND COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled sheep. Size: 307 ¿ 225 ¿ 


Early marginal notes in various hands. 


other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red 



book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘C.e.11’: see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 929. Purchased for »1. 9. 0; 




A 1 r [Title-page.] 

A 1 v [Brunus, Gabriel]: ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 


A10 r Tarnslatores(!) Biblie’. 


A10 v ‘Modi intelligendi sacram scripturam’. 


A 10 v [Verse.] 


a1 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 



a 3 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r8 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. Preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti 


Slight variation in the incipit of the ¢rst preface to IÎI Par. 


u6 v [OrMan.] 

u 6 v [IÎI Esr.] II Esr also entitled ‘Neemias’. 

y1 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

z8 r [TbÊst.] 

m5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 

refs. Pref. no. 3; preceded by ‘Prologus in Job’. 

m6 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


cc5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

cc6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


cc6 r [Prv.] 

dd6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


dd6 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

ee2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


ee2 r [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ii8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


ii 8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


kk1 r [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

mm 5 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


mm5 r [Lam.] 

mm7 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


mm 7 r [Bar^Dn.] 

qq2 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



qq 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 

refs. Pref. no. 12.


535 

qq3 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

qq5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


qq5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


qq 6 r [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

qq7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 






qq 7 r [Am.] 

rr1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


rr 1 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


rr 2 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


rr2 v [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


rr4 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


rr5 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


rr6 v [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


rr8 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


rr8 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ss3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


ss4 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ss5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


ss 5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


ss5 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

xx 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



xx 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


xx2 r [Mt.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

yy 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


yy6 v [Mc.] 

zz 5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


zz6 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

mm2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


mm2 v [Io.] 

kk4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 

refs. Pref. no. 39, preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti Hieronymi in 


kk5 r [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 A1 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


2 A1 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 A6 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


2 A6 v [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

B1 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

C7 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 




C 7 r [Act.] 

E3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 

refs. Pref. no. 44; followed by an ‘argumentum’. 

E 3 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

F 1 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 




F1 v [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

F7 v [Colophon, in honour of the book, and naming Petrusevangelus 

de Monte Ulmi as editor]. Incipit: ‘Laus, honor et sempiterna 

gloria summe deo patri omnipotenti . . .’ 

11 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Hieronymus de Paganinis, 7 Sept. 1497. 8 o . 

collation: A 10 a^z h m k aa^mm 8 nn 10 oo^zz hh mm kk 2 A^F 8 1^4 8 5 6 . 



Oates 2129; Quentin 83; Rhodes 358; Sack, Freiburg, 655; 


COPY 

Wanting the title-leaf, A1, and gathering f. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf (c.1825), for the Bodleian 

Library; gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Library on 

both covers. Upper board loose. Size: 185 ¿ 120 ¿ 55 mm. Size of 

leaf: 176 ¿ 108 mm. 

Some marginal annotations and underlining in black ink. 

Some initials supplied in red ink. 

Provenance: ‘B’; inscription on F 7 v : ‘L. acq. Lut. Parisior., 11 8 

1774. B’. Le Coudray Duclos; inscription on 56 v : ‘De la 

Preuostiere aduocat a Orbec. > Ce liure m’a este¤ donne¤ par le 

Coudray Duclos’. Purchased for »0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased 

(1825), 4. 



refs. On this edition see also Hillard, ‘Les e¤ ditions de la Bible’, 

72^3. The contents of this edition are the same as those for B-312 

(checked against the BL copy). 

[Lyons]: Franc� ois Fradin and Jean Pivard, 23 Dec. 1497. Folio. 

collation: h m a 8 b 6 c^z A^Z Aa Bb aa^cc 8 dd 10 . 

GW 4279; HC 3121; Go¡ B-602; BMC VIII 333; Pr 8668; Copinger, 

Incunabula Biblica, 109; Darlow^Moule 6088; Sheppard 6733.


[b-310^b-311 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf dd10. 

Binding: Mottled calf with gold-tooled spine. Size of leaf: 256 ¿ 

170 mm. 

Provenance: Jan Ver[ ]. Jean de La Font, of St. Chamond, 1576; 

inscription: ‘ . . . Jehan de la Font . . . A St. Chamond . . . 1576’. 

Purchased for »1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 7, where the 

place of printing is given as Paris. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1497 d.1. Missing since at least 1994. 


[*]1 r [Title-page.] 

[*] 1 v [Explanatory note on layout of the Bible.] Incipit: ‘[A]d euidentiam 

sequentis tabulae notandum est quod . . .’ 

[*]2 r [Alexander de Villa Dei pseudo-]: ‘Tabula super Bibliam’. 


[*] 5 r Brunus, Gabriel: ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 





a3 v ‘Prefatio sancti Hieronymi presbyteri in Pentateuchum’. 

a 4 r 

‘Summaria super Bibliam a libro Genesis vsque ad 

Palipomenon’. 

2 a1 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. Preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti 



r1 r [IÎI Par.] Each chapter of each book (except Ct) preceded by 

summary, entitled ‘C.S.’ (‘Casus summarii’). 

s8 r [OrMan.] 

s8 v [IÎI Esr.] Each chapter of each book preceded by summary, 

entitled ‘C.S.’ (‘Casus summarii’). II Esr also entitled ‘Neemias’. 

v2 r [IIIÎV Esr.] Each chapterofeach book preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

x 8 v [TbÊst.] Each chapter of each book preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

z6 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 

refs. Pref. no. 3; preceded by ‘Prologus in Job’. 

z 6 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. Preceded by ‘argumentum’. Each chapter of Iob 

preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. Ps (G) preceded by the ¢rst of 

Jerome’s prologues only. 

A 4 r ‘Summaria psalterii’. 




Salomonis’. 



B 1 r [Prv.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

C1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


C 1 v [Ecl.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

C4 v [Introduction to Ct.] Incipit: ‘Cantica Canticorum Salomonis a 

diuersis doctoribus diuersimode exponuntur . . .’ 

C 4 v [Ct.] 

C6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


C6 r [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter of each 

book preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

H 5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


H5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


H5 v [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


L1 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘Et factum est postquam in captiuitatem 

. . .’ 

L2 r [Lam.] 

L3 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


L4 r [Bar^Dn.] Each chapter of each book preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

P 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



P 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


P1 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


P 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


P4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 




P 4 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’, pref. no. 14; each chapter 


P5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


P 5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


P6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


P6 r [Am.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


P 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 




P 8 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


Q1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


Q1 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


Q 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


Q2 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


Q3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


Q 4 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


Q5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


Q 5 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 

‘Casus summarii’.


537 

Q6 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


Q 6 v [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


Q7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


Q8 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


Q8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


R1 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


R 4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


R4 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


R5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 




R6 r [IÎI Mcc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded 


V 2 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



V 3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


V3 r [Mt.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


X7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


X7 r [Mc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


Y6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


Y 6 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Proemium’. Each chapter preceded 


aa3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


aa3 v [Io.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

bb5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



bb6 r [Rm.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


cc 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


cc2 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded 


cc7 r ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


cc 7 v [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded 


dd2 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’, and each 

chapter by ‘Casus summarii’. 

¡ 2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio’ [to Act]. 


¡2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


¡2 r [Act.] Each chapter preceded by ‘Casus summarii’. 

gg6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


v 

gg6 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’, and each 

chapter by ‘Casus summarii’. 

hh4 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


hh4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


hh5 r [Apc.] Preceded by an‘argumentum’. Each chapter preceded by 


hh10 v [Poem in praise of the book.] 


v 

hh10 [Colophon.] 

AA1 r [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum’. 


Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 8 May 1498. 4 o . 

collation: [*] 2 [*] 8 a 10 a^| s^z h m k A^Z aa^gg 8 hh 10 AA^DD 8 

EE 4 . 

73 woodcuts. 



Essling138; Oates 2096; Sander 995; Sheppard 4486. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary (c.1498) Italian (Florentine) darkbrown 

goatskin over wooden boards bevelled inwards. Four clasps (three 

nails forming a triangle), hinging on the upper cover now wanting. 

Catches, originally small and shell-shaped, wanting. A later 

clasp and catch present. Covers decorated with three-line frames 

in blind.These contain a gilt border ofa foliate tool.The tooling in 

the central panel is in gilt: leaves at the corners, a square arabesque 

tool placed point upwards above and below the centre, circular 

centre ornament with IHS inside a ring of S-tools, inside a 

circle of palmettes: for a discussion of the palmette-circle motif, 

see A. R. A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders (Cambridge, 

1989), 83^6, and ¢g. 73. Red edges. Rebacked. Headbands, spine, 

and endleaves new. Old, but not original, spine laid down. Size: 


Provenance: Florence, Dominicans, S. Marcus; cancelled 

inscription on recto of title-page: ‘Pro Hospitio S. Marci de 

Florentia 1620’; inscription on verso of title-page: ‘Ex 

Bibliotheca Novitiorum S. Marci de Florentia’. Purchased from 

Payne and Foss (1832), no. 114 for »2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1832), 3, and Library Bills (1829^32), no. 428. 



h1 r [Title-page.] 

h 1 v [Pivard, Jean: Introductory letter addressed to the reader.] 

Incipit: ‘Ne nesciens et ob id ingratus sacrosanctam diuini 

verbi . . .’ 

h 1 v ‘Pulchra et vtilis diuisio totius Biblie’. 

h1 v ‘In tabulam primam de ordine librorum ad lectorem disticon’. 

‘Perspice nunc, lector, quis debitus ordo librorum’; 1 distich. 

h 1 v ‘Prima quattuor tabulorum’. 

refs. Pref. no. 61c. 

h2 v ‘Tabula secunda continens libros Biblie per ordinem alphabeti’. 

h 2 v [Alexander deVilla Dei pseudo-]: ‘Tertia tabula’. 

refs. Pref. no. 58.


[b-312 

m1 r Brunus, Gabriel: ‘Quarta tabula’. 


m 8 r [Explanatory note about translators of the Bible and commentators.] 


m 8 v ‘Modi intelligendi sacram scripturam’. 


a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus [ep. 53].‘Prologus in 

Bibliam’. 



a4 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Each chapter of 

each book (except Ct) preceded by summary, entitled ‘C.S.’ 

(‘Casus summarii’). 

p6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. Preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti 



p6 v [IÎI Par.] 

s 2 r [OrMan.] 

s 2 v [IÎI Esr.] II Esr also entitled ‘Neemias’. 

t2 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

v6 v [TbÊst.] 

y 1 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 


y2 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


B3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

B3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


B 3 v [Prv.] 

C2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


C 2 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

C6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


C 6 r [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

G5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


G 5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


G5 v [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

I5 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

I5 v [Lam.] 

I7 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


I7 r [Bar^Dn.] 

M6 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



M6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


M 6 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 




M8 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 14). 

N1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


N1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


N 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


N2 v [Am.] 

N3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 


N3 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


N4 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


N4 v [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


N 6 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


N 7 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N7 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


N 8 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

N8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


O 1 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

O1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


O1 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

O 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


O4 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

O 5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 




O5 r [IÎI Mcc.] 




Q5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


Q 5 v [Mt.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

R7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


R 7 v [Mc.] 

S5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


S 5 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

T7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


T 7 v [Io.] 

U 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



U 7 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

X3 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor].

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539 


X3 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

X7 ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


X7 r [II Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

Y1 [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Z4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


Z4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Z5 r [Act.] 

Aa6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


Aa6 v [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Bb3 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


Bb3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 50 

v 

Bb3 [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

aa1 [Langton, Stephen]: ‘Interpretationeshebraicorum nominum’. 


[Lyons]: Jean Pivard, 29 Jan. 1500/1. 4 o . 

collation: h m a 8 b 6 c^z A^Z Aa Bb aa^cc 8 dd 10 . 

GW 4281; HC 3128; Go¡ B-604; Pr 8670; Copinger, Incunabula 

Biblica, 120; Darlow^Moule 6090; Sheppard 6736. 

COPY 

Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled half calf, with goldtooled 

spine. Lower board loose. Size: 267 ¿ 193 ¿ 68 mm. Size 

of leaf: 259 ¿ 167 mm. 

Occasional early marginal notes. Later impressions of inked 

leaves. 

On a2 r an eleven-line initial ‘F’ is supplied in blue with red penwork 

in¢ll. Other initials are supplied in red or blue. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘C.d.6’: see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, pt I, lot 1175. Purchased for »0. 10. 6; 



B-313 Biblia: Novum Testamentum 

a2 r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘Conclamant omnes quemlibet ¢delem qui se 

litteras nosse pro¢tetur . . . 

a2 r ‘Epistola beati Hieronimi ad Damasum Papam in quattuor 

Euangelia’. 

a 3 v [Mt.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

d1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


d1 v [Mc.] 

e 8 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


f1 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

i 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


i3 r [Io.] 

l 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 

refs. Pref. no. 39, preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti Hieronimi in 


l 8 r [Rm^Hbr.] Each letter preceded by ‘argumentum’, which, in 

some cases, is entitled ‘Prologus’. 

s5 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


v 

s5 [Act.] 

x6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


v 

x6 [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

z1 v ‘Prologus [to Apc].’ 

refs. Pref. no. 50. Preface ascribed to Hieronymus in this edition. 

z2 r [Apc.] 

r 

aa6 Haymo, Episcopus Halberstatensis: ‘Prologus’. 

refs. PL CXVIII 817^20. 

aa6 r Haymo, Episcopus Halberstatensis: De Christianarum rerum 

memoria. [Also known as Historiae sacrae epitome.] 

refs. PL CXVIII 819^74. Epitome of Eusebius, Historia 

ecclesiastica. 

v 

ee4 [Explicit, giving details of the history of the work]. Incipit: 

‘Explicit Haymo de Christianarum rerum memoria, qui quod 

Eusebius prolixe facunde tamen . . .’ 

r 

ee5 ‘Tabula’. 

[Louvain: Johannes deWestfalia, after 1476]. 4 o . Dated as HPT. 

collation: a 10 b^z aa^cc 8 dd ee 6 . Leaf a2 unsigned, a3 signed a2, 

a4 a3, etc. 

Type: Only dated use of type 79 G [P.5]. 

HC 8410 = C 5769; BMC IX 157; Pr 6780; Campbell^Kronenberg 

1645; HPT II 501; ILC 397; Polain1844; Sheppard 7143. 

COPY 


Without the unsigned gathering of four leaves containing a table 

of rubrics (as Polain). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English brown morocco, with giltedged 

leaves, stamped with the monogram and motto (‘Deus alit 

me’) on the upper cover, and arms on the lower cover (on a fess 

sable between three ravens as many crescents, in chief a spear 

head), of Revd T.Williams; see Denis Wood¢eld, An Ordinary of 

British Armorial Bookbindings in the Clements Collection, 

Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1958), 45. Bound by 

Charles Lewis (1786^1836); label on front endleaf, ‘Bound by C. 

Lewis. Duke St., St James’. Size: 216 ¿ 146 ¿ 37 mm. Size of 

leaf: 208 ¿ 138 mm. 

On a2 r a ¢ve-line initial ‘B’ is supplied in red, with pen-work in¢ll 

and decoration in reserved white and green, and with foliate 

extensions into the margins and guttering in red and green. 

Other initials are supplied in red, occasionally with red penwork 

in¢ll. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes 


Provenance: Note of ownership(?) on a2 r ; washed out. Augustus 

Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773^1843); book-plate with handwritten 

shelfmark ‘R.e.5’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; 

not identi¢ed in sale catalogue. Revd Theodore Williams (1785^ 

1875); binding stamps, as above; not identi¢ed in sale catalogue. 



B-314 Biblia Latina cum glossa ordinaria 

Volume 1. 



r 

a3 ‘Prefatio . . . in Pentateuchum’.

540 biblia latina cum glossa ordinaria 

[b-314 

a3 v [Walafrid Strabo pseudo-: Glossa ordinaria: marginalis. Gn^ 

Apc]. 

refs. PL CXIII 61^1316, CXIV 10^752. See Stegmu« ller, 

Repertorium biblicum, 1178.1^36. On the ‘glossa ordinaria’ see 

Margaret T. Gibson, ‘The Glossed Bible’, in Karlfried Froehlich 

and Margaret T. Gibson, Biblia latina cum glossa ordinaria: 

Introduction to the Facsimile Reprint of the Editio Princeps, 

Adolph Rusch of Strassburg1480/81 (Turnhout, 1992), pp. vii^xi; 

B. Smalley, ‘Glossa ordinaria’, Theologische Realenzyklopa« die 

XIII 452^7. 

a5 r [Anselmus Laudunensis pseudo-: Glossa ordinaria: interlinearis. 

GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘Temporis, vel ante cetera, vel in ¢lio 

suo. . .’ 

a5 r [Gn^Dt.] 

jd6 r [Ios^Rt.] Ios preceded by ‘prologus’as in ed.Weber, and ‘argumentum’. 

Volume 2. 

a1 r [I SmÎV Rg]. Preceded by ‘Prologus’. 

11 c3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Par]. Preceded by ‘Prefatio’. 

11 c3 v [IÎI Par.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

15 c10 v [OrMan.] 

1 h1 v [IÎI Esr.] II Esr here entitled ‘Neemias’. 

3 h7 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

4 h6 v [TbÊst.] 

7 h1 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 

refs. Followed by ‘Prologus in Job’. 

7 h2 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


Volume 3. 

b1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

b1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


b 1 v [Prv.] 

3 b5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


3 r 

b5 [Ecl^Ct.] 

5 

b4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


5 v 

b4 [Sap^Sir.] 

v 

g1 [Is.] Preceded by ‘Prologus’, as in ed.Weber, and ‘argumentum’. 

7 

g2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


7 r 

g2 ‘Alius prologus’. 


7 

g2 v [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

12 v 

g4 [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


12 g4 v [Lam.] 

14 g8 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


14 g8 r [Bar^Dn.] 

c 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



c1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


c1 v [Os.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

2 

c3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


2 v 

c3 ‘Alius prologus’. 


2 

c3 v ‘Item prologus’. 


2 

c3 v ‘Argumentum’. 

refs. Pref. no. 14. In other editions entitled ‘Prologus’. 

2 

c1 v [Ioel.] 

2 r 

c7 ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


2 

c7 r [Prologus.] ‘Ex epistola sancti Hieronymi ad Paulinum’. 

refs. Pref. no. 18; in other editions called ‘Alius prologus’ or 

‘Argumentum’. 

2 

c7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


2 

c7 v [Am.] 

3 

c6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

3 

c6 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

3 v 

c7 ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


3 

c8 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

4 r 

c2 ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


4 

c2 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

4 v 

c6 ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


4 

c7 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

5 

c1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


5 

c2 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

5 

c4 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


5 

c5 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

5 

c7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


5 

c7 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

6 

c1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


6 v 

c1 [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

7 

c4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


7 r 

c5 [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

3 

a1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


3 r 

a1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


3 

a1 v [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 4. 

f1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 


Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelia’, as in ed. Weber, and 

Nicolaus de Lyra’s ‘Prologus’. 

f1 v ‘Argumentum’. [In other editions entitled ‘Prologus’]. 


f 2 r [Mt.] 

6 f5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc].

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541 


6 

f5 v [Mc.] 

jf 

v 

5 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


jf6 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

r 

b1 ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


b1 r [Io.] 

a1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



r 

a2 [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

3 

a2 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


3 r 

a3 [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

5 

a2 r ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


5 r 

a2 [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

13 r 

a1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


13 

a1 r [Act.] 

r 

a7 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


a7 r Hieronymus: [Prologue to Iac.] 


a7 r [Iac.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

a3 v Hieronymus: [Prologue to IÎI Pt]. 


2 a3 v [IÎI Pt.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

3 a2 v Hieronymus: [Prologue to IÎII Io]. 


3 a2 v [IÎII Io.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’, those for 

II and III Io being entitled ‘Prologus’. 

3 a8 r [Prologue to Iud.] 


3 

a8 r [Iud.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

4 r 

a1 ‘Prologus’. 


4 

a1 v Gilbertus Pictaviensis: ‘Prefatio’ [to Apc]. 


4 

a2 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus alius’. 


4 

a2 r [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch, with the type of Johann Amerbach, for 

Anton Koberger, not after 1480]. Folio. Ascription as Sack, 

Freiburg: see Ferdinand Geldner, ‘Amerbach-Studien’, AGB 23 

(1982), 662^91, at 684^7. GW ascribes to [Strasbourg: Adolf 

Rusch, for Anton Koberger, shortly after 23 Sept. 1481], but 

manuscript notes in the Sion College copy and in Oates 124 are 

dated 1480. Polain assigns to [Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch, for 

Anton Koberger]. Alfred Hartmann rejects the ascription to 

Rusch in Amerbachkorrespondenz, I, 2, n. 2. 

collation: Vol.1: a 10 9¿b 8 5¿d 8 d 6 d 10 a 8 9¿d 8 3¿b 8 b b 6 ; vol. 2: a 8 

14¿c 8 c 10 3¿h 8 c 6 h 6 h 8 h h 6 h 8 c 8 c c 6 c 8 c 6 10¿e 8 e 10 e 8 ; vol. 3: 5¿b 8 

b 6 b b 8 b 10 11¿g 8 g g 6 g 10 4¿d 8 d 6 e e 6 a a 8 5¿c 8 c c 6 a 8 d 8 3¿a 8 ; vol. 

4: 12¿f 8 f 6 f 8+1 b 8 b 6 b 10 8¿a 8 a a 6 a 8 a 6 a^c 8 4¿a 8 a 10 . 

GW 4282 (Anm.); HC *3173; Go¡ B-607; BMC I 92; Pr 299; 

BSB-Ink B-442; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 44; Darlow^ 

Moule 911; Hillard 401; Oates 124; Rhodes 359; Sack, Freiburg, 

656; Sheppard 320^1. Facsimile: Biblia latina cum glossa 

ordinaria: Introduction to the Facsimile Reprint of the Editio 

Princeps, Adolph Rusch of Strassburg 1480/81, by Karlfried 

Froehlich and Margaret T. Gibson (Turnhout, 1992). 

FIRST COPY 

Bound in four volumes, of which the Bodleian possesses only vols 

1, 2, 4. 

Binding: All volumes bound in nineteenth-centuryblue morocco 

over wooden boards (probably original); rebound for the 

Bodleian Library (although Sheppard asserts ‘Klo� rebinding, 

no doubt’). Parchment index tabs. Size: Vol. 1: 500 ¿ 340 ¿ 

100 mm; vol. 2: 500 ¿ 335 ¿ 115 mm; vol. 4: 500 ¿ 336 ¿ 97 mm. 


Bibliographical note by Klo� on front pastedowns ofvols1and 2. 

Initials are supplied in red, blue, or interlocked red and blue, some 

with extensions into the margins. Paragraph marks supplied in 

red. Capital strokes in red. ‘Glosa ordinaria’ on upper edge of 

vol. 1,‘Prophete et Psalmi’on upper edge of vol. 2. 

Provenance: Bernardus Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1457^ 

1523); signature on front endleaves of each volume. Schwa« bisch- 

Gmu« nd, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, S. Ludovicus; 

inscription on a1 r of vols 1 and 2, and on f1 r of vol. 4: ‘Fratrum 

Minorum Coventual[ium] Gamundi�’. Georg Franz Burkhard 

Klo� (1787^1854); bibliographical note in his hand on front 

pastedown of vols 1 and 2. Purchased for »12. 12. 0, see Library 

Bills (1829^32), no. 93, Payne and Foss, A Catalogue of Books 

Printed upon Vellum (London, 1829), no. 127, and Books 

Purchased (1829), 3. It appears that the Library bought a set containing 

vols 1, 2, and 4, now the ¢rst copy, in 1829, and then a second 

set containing vols 2,3, and 4, now the second and third 

copies, in 1831; at that point, vol. 3 was removed, and added to 

the ¢rst copy, making up a complete set. In the ‘full set’, all four 

volumes are in the same blue morocco bindings: Sheppard says 

that these bindings are ‘no doubt’ Klo� bindings; however, 

according to the Payne and Foss catalogue, from which vols 1, 2, 

and 4 were purchased, they were in their original bindings when 

sold. This implies that the three volumes from the 1829 sale and 

vol. 3 from the 1831 sale were all rebound by the Library when 

the set was created: pastedowns with Klo�’s notes must have 

been raised very carefully to avoid damage. There is no evidence 

to suggest that Klo� owned either of the other two Hildesheim 

books. 

shelfmark: Auct. Z 3.1,2,4. 

SECOND COPY 

Vol. 3 only. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco over wooden boards 

(probablyoriginal), rebound for the Bodleian Library. Parchment 

index tabs. Size: 494 ¿ 335 ¿ 105 mm. Sizeof leaf: 468 ¿ 316 mm. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue, green, or interlocked red 

and blue, with reserved white decoration and, in both volumes, 

having pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margins in red, 

green, and blue; other initials are supplied in red, some with 

reserved white decoration; paragraph marks are supplied in red. 



S. Franciscus; heavily erased inscription on b 1 r :‘Ad usum fratrum 

Capuccinorum Hildes’ [ ] inscriptus A’. Purchased at Solley’s 

anonymous sale (29 Apr. 1831), lot 341, as part of third copy, for 

»3. 3. 0: see Library Bills (1829^32), no. 252, and Books Purchased 

(1831), 2. 

shelfmark: Auct. Z 3.3.


[b-314^b-315 

THIRD COPY 

Vols 2 and 4 only. 

Vol. 4 wanting the last two blank leaves, 5 a 9^10. 

Binding: Both volumes: contemporary German blind-tooled 

pigskin over wooden boards, two catches and clasps; ¢ve bosses 

lost on each cover. Manuscript labels on the upper cover, one on 

volume two with the shelfmark ‘A ii’, and on spine, also list of contents 

in a contemporary hand at the head of the upper cover. On 

both covers double ¢llets form a double frame; the inner rectangle 

is divided by double ¢llets into triangular and lozenge-shaped 

compartments, in which are a small lozenge-shaped lion rampant 

stamp (similar to Schwenke^Schunke pl. 188 no. 53/4) and a 

small rosette. Tawed leather index tabs. Size: Volume 2: 500 ¿ 

343 ¿ 105 mm; vol. 4: 500 ¿ 350 ¿ 100 mm. Size of leaf: 473 ¿ 

320 mm. 

Parchment leaves from a ¢fteenth-century manuscript breviary 

used as upper and lower pastedowns of vol. 4. 

Principal initials are supplied, invol. 2, in blue with reserved white 

decoration or in interlocked red and blue, in vol. 4, in blue, red or 

green, with reserved white decoration and, in both volumes, having 

pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margins in red and 

green. Other initials are supplied in red or blue, some with 

reserved white decoration; paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Capital strokes and underlining in red. Contemporary manuscript 

signatures. 


S. Franciscus; partially erased inscription on a1 r of vol. 2: ‘Ad 

usum fratrum Capuccinorum Hildes’ [ ] inscriptus A’; heavily 

erased inscription on f 1 r of vol. 4. Purchased with the second 

copy at Solley’s sale (29 Apr. 1831), lot 341, for »3. 3. 0: see 

Library Bills (1829^32), no. 252, and Books Purchased (1831), 2. 



Volume 1. 


a 1 v [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘Ad intelligentiam ordinis et signorum 

huius sacrosancti libri sciendum est . . .’ 

a2 r Gadolus, Bernardinus: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus 

Tedeschini-Piccolomini, Cardinal of Siena. Incipit: ‘[S]unt complures 

animi, colendissime pater, quibus vehementissime concupiui 

. . .’ Dated Venice, 28 Jan. 1495. 

a2 r [Gadolus, Bernardinus]: ‘De libris Biblie canonicis et non canonicis’. 

Incipit:‘[Q]uia sunt multi qui ex eo. . .’ Karlfried Froehlich, 

‘The Printed Gloss’, in Froehlich and Gibson, Biblia latina cum 

glossa ordinaria, pp. xvi^xvii, at p. xvii gives incipit as ‘Quoniam 

plerique’, as in PL CXIII 19^24. 

a2 v [Gadolus, Bernardinus(?)]: ‘Translatores Biblie’. The editor of 

this edition was Bernardinus Gadolus, as mentioned in the letter 

above to the Cardinal of Siena and in the colophon. According to 

the printing privilege granted to Paganinus de Paganinis on 20 

Sept. 1492 Eusebius [Osornus] Spagnolus and Secundus 

Contarenus acted as co-editors; see Fulin no. 9. 


a3 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. 

refs. PL CXIII 25^30. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

5829 and Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’, 159. 

a3 v Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus secundus’. 

refs. PL CXIII 29^34. See Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’, 159. 

a4 r Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . super epistolas Sancti 

Hieronymi’. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius,’’ etc. Ad euidentiam 

huius epistole quam scribit Hieronymus ad Paulinum presbyterum 

. . .’ See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 2824. 

a 4 v Guilelmus Brito: [Postils on prologue of Hieronymus.] Incipit: 

‘‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius’’, etc. Istam litteram inueni in epistolis 

Hieronymi . . .’ 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 2824. 

a4 v Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 



b4 r [Prologue to Pentateuch.] ‘Prefatio. . . in Pentateuchum’. 

b 4 r Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . in prologum . . . in 

Pentateuchum’. Edited by Bernardinus Gadolus. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[D]esiderii mei’’. Istam epistolam scripsit Hieronymus . . .’ 


b6 r [Walafrid Strabo pseudo-: Glossa ordinaria: marginalis. Gn^ 

Apc]. 


Repertorium biblicum, 1178.1^36. 

c1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[I]n 

principio’’. Omissis diuissionibus curiosis, accipio illam que 

magis . . .’ 

refs. On the printed editions of Nicolaus’ Postils, see Gosselin; 

also Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’, 157^75. On Nicolaus’ use of Rashi, see 

Herman Hailperin, Rashi and the Christian Scholars (Pittsburgh, 

1963), esp. 137^246. Commentary surrounds text in each book. 

c1 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

c1 r [Anselmus Laudunensis pseudo-: Glossa ordinaria: interlinearis. 


suo . . .’ 

hh5 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 

refs. Preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti Hieronymi in librum 

Dabreiamin, qui est Paralypomenon’. Slight variation in the incipit 

of the ¢rst preface to IÎI Par. 

hh7 r [IÎI Par.] 

ccc 4 v [OrMan.] 

ccc6 r [IÎI Esr.] II Esr entitled ‘Neemias’ in this edition. 

¡f4 r [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. 

hhh 1 v [TbÊst.] 

Volume 2. 

lll1 r ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. [Also known as Alius prologus.] 

refs. Pref. no. 3, unusually followed, rather than preceded, by 

‘Prologus in Job’. 

lll 3 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


I 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

I2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


I 3 r [Prv.] 

M5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


M 5 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

P 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


P2 v [Sap^Sir.] 

Volume 3.


543 

Z2 r [Is.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

II3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


II4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


II 4 v [Ier.] Preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

PP7 r [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 

captiuitate . . . 

PP7 r [Lam.] 

RR 7 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


RR7 r [Bar^Dn.] 

FFF 7 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



FFF 7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


FFF8 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HHH 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


HHH5 v ‘Item prologus’. 


HHH 5 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


HHH5 r [Ioel.] 

III 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


III2 r ‘Ex epistola Sancti Hieronymi ad Paulinum’. [Also known as 

Alius prologus.] 


‘Argumentum’, and printed before the prologue, which, in this 

edition, precedes it. 

III 2 v ‘Item prologus’. 


III3 v [Am.] 

KKK 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

KKK3 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KKK5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


KKK 5 v [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KKK8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


KKK 8 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

LLL5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


LLL 6 r ‘Alius prologus’. Incipit:‘[S]ciendum quoniam Niniue in nostra 

lingua . . .’ 

LLL6 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

MMM 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


MMM2 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

MMM 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


MMM6 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

NNN1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


NNN1 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

NNN4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


NNN 4 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

OOO8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


OOO 8 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

PPP3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


PPP4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


PPP4 v [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 4. 

UUU 2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 


Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelistas’. 

UUU 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


UUU3 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


UUU 3 v [Mt.] 

45 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


4 7 r [Mc.] 



7 7 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Proemium’. 

134 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


13 5 v [Io.] 




19 2 r [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



21 8 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



24 7 r [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



34 4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


345 r [Act.] 



387 r Hieronymus: [Prologue to Iac.] 


38 7 v [Iac.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

394 v Hieronymus: [Prologue to IÎI Pt]. 


39 5 r [IÎI Pt.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

405 v Hieronymus: [Prologue to IÎII Io]. 


40 6 r [IÎII Io.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’, with 

those for II and III Io each being entitled ‘prologus’. 

414 v [Prologue to Iud.] 


41 5 r [Iud.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

417 r Gilbertus Pictaviensis: ‘Prefatio’ [to Apc].


[b-315^b-316 


417 v ‘Prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 50. Preface ascribed to Hieronymus in this edition. 

418 r Hieronymus: ‘Ex epistola sancti Hieronymi ad Paulinum’. 


r 

418 [Apc.] 

447 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcherrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 

in catholica ¢de improbantes’. [Also known as Contra per¢diam 

Judaeorum and Probatio adventus Christi.] 

refs. See Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’,177^82, who lists otheralternative 

titles on 177. 

448 r ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 

principale est probandum . . .’ 

4410 r [Colophon.] 

Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, 18 Apr. 1495. Folio. 

collation: a 8 b 6 c^z h m k aa^dd 8 ee ¡ 6 gg^rr 8 ||^vv 6 xx^zz hh mm kk 

aaa-ppp 8 qqq rrr 6 sss^zzz hhh mmm kkk AÛ 8 X Y 6 Z AA^ZZ AAA^ 

SSS 8 TTT 10 UUU^ZZZ 8 1^43 8 44 10 . 

54 woodcuts. 

GW 4283; HC *3174; C 1035; Go¡ B-608; BMC V 458; Pr 5170; 

BSB-Ink B-473; Essling 137; Froehlich, ‘Printed Gloss’, in 

Froehlich and Gibson, Biblia latina cum glossa ordinaria, pp. 

xvi^xvii; Gosselin 42; Oates 2028^9; Rhodes 360; Sack, 

Freiburg, 657; Sander 994; Sheppard 4268. 

COPY 

Bound in four volumes. 


wooden boards, with bevelled edges; two clasps lost on each 

volume. On both covers of each volume, ¢llets form an outer 

frame in which is a cresting roll. Within this, triple ¢llets form 

three further frames, in each a £oral roll. The inner rectangle is 

decorated at each corner with a £euron, and in the centre with a 

large ornamental stamp. Sixteenth-century(?) printed labels on 

spines of each volume. Tawed leather index tab in vol. 1. Size: 

Vol. 1: 360 ¿ 260 ¿ 90 mm; vol. 2: 352 ¿ 257 ¿ 65 mm; vol. 3: 

360 ¿ 260 ¿ 70 mm; vol. 4: 360 ¿ 260 ¿ 75 mm. Size of 

leaf: 340 ¿ 235 mm. 

Occasional marginal annotations. In vol. 4, between 5 2 and 5 3, a 

seventeenth/eighteenth-century manuscript about Lyra’s 

commentary. 

Initials are supplied in red or blue or interlocked red and blue, 

some with extensions into the margins. Paragraph marks are supplied 

in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Polling, diocese of Augsburg, Bavaria, Augustinian 

Canons, SS. Jacobus, Salvator and S. Crux; book-plate: see 

Warnecke 1598; inscription, in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century(?) 

hand, on a 1 r of vol. 1: ‘Monasterii S. Saluatoris et S. 

Crucis in Polling’, repeated on lll 1 r of vol. 2, Z1 r of vol. 3, and 

UU1 r of vol. 4. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

‘Dupl’ on front endleaves of each volume, also shelfmarks ‘A S 

III 33^55i’-‘A S III 36^55i’. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, 

possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 

shelfmark: Auct. 5Q inf. 2.6^9. 


Part I. 

a1 v Brant, Sebastian: [Letter addressed to] Johannes de Dalberg, 

Bishop of Worms. Incipit: ‘Parthorum regem sine munere nemo 

salutat. Ego vero, reuerendissime praesul . . .’ 

a2 r [Gadolus, Bernardinus]: ‘De libris Biblie canonicis et non canonicis’. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uia sunt multi qui ex eo . . .’ 


a2 v ‘Translatores Biblie’. 


a2 v [Contents of part I, in verse].‘Prima refert Moysi liber hic modulamina 

quinque > Dat Genesis mundo principium atque homini’; 


a3 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. Edited by Sebastian Brant. 





a4 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘In moralitates Biblie prologus’. 


a 4 v Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additiones circa prologos’. 

refs. PL CXIII 35^7. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum IV 

194. 

a5 r Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 

refs. PL CXIII 37^50. 

a 7 r ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 

questionis a quodam magistro in sacra pagina de ordine minorum 

auctori additionum fuit missa’. 


a7 v ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


a 8 v Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille fratris 

Nicolai de Lyra ab impugnationibus domini Burgensis’. 


b1 v Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . super epistolas Sancti 

Hieronymi’. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius tua mihi . . .’’ etc. Ad 

euidentiam huius epistole quam scribit Hieronymus ad 

Paulinum presbyterum . . .’ 

b 2 r Guilelmus Brito: [Postils on prologue of Hieronymus.] Incipit: 




b2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 


c 5 v [Prologue to Pentateuch.] ‘Prefatio. . . in Pentateuchum’. 

c5 v Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . in prologum . . . in 

Pentateuchum’. Incipit:‘‘‘[D]esiderii mei’’. Istam epistolam scripsit 

Hieronymus . . .’ 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 2825. Each prologue 

is accompanied by Guilelmus Brito’s commentary. 

c7 v [Walafrid Strabo pseudo-: Glossa ordinaria: marginalis. Gn^ 

Apc]. 


Repertorium biblicum, 1178.1^36. 

d1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘‘‘[I]n 


magis . . .’ 

refs. See B-315. Commentary surrounds text in each book. 

Doering’s corrections occur after Burgensis’additions. 

d1 v [Gn^Dt.] 

d 1 v [Anselmus Laudunensis pseudo-: Glossa ordinaria: interlinearis. 


suo . . .’ 

d6 v Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla moralis. GnÂpc]. 

refs. See Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’, 171^7.


545 

e1 r Paulus Burgensis: [Additions to Nicolaus’s Postils. GnÂpc]. 

Incipit: ‘Circa expositionem litteralem huius primi capitii . . .’ 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 6329. On the authorship, 

see Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’, 370. Burgensis’additions occur following 

the ‘Postilla moralis’at the end of each chapter. 

e 5 r Doering, Matthias: [Corrections to Paulus Burgensis’additions: 

GnÂpc]. ‘Replica’. ‘Correctorium corruptorii Burgensis’. 

Incipit: ‘[P]ost prologum suum, Burgensis ad litteram accedens 

dicit . . .’ On the authorship, see Labrosse, ‘>OEuvres’, 370. 


Part II. 


a 1 v ‘Summarium libri’. ‘Noscere presentis vis forte volumina libri > 

Qui Lyram integrum continet, atque glosas’; 6 elegiac distichs. 

a3 v [IosÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

B 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Par]. Followed, rather than preceded, by the other 

prologue. 

B7 v [IÎI Par.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

I 6 v [OrMan.] 

K 1 r [IÎI Esr.] II Esr here entitled ‘Neemias’. 

O3 v [IIIÎV Esr.] 

Q5 r [TbÊst.] 

Part III. 

a1 r [Title-page]. 

a1 v ‘Summarium huius operis’. ‘Tertia idumei pars vlcera sanat 

Iobab’; 4 elegiac distichs. 

a2 r Hieronymus: ‘Alius prologus’ [to Iob]. 

refs. Followed by ‘Prologus in Job’. 

a 5 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 





Salomonis’. 

x6 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


x7 r [Prv.] 

cc5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


cc5 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

gg4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


gg 4 r [Sap^Sir.] 

Part IV. 


a 1 v [Contents, in verse]. ‘Continet Esaiam, quarta hec, sub rege 

Manasse’; 10 elegiac distichs. 

a2 r [Is.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

q 3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


q4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


q4 v [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

C2 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

C 3 r [Lam.] 

F6 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


F 6 r [Bar^Dn.] 

bb2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 

refs. Pref. no. 11; preceded by ‘Prologus . . . in librum duodecim 


bb 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


bb3 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

dd 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 








ee1 v [Ioel.] 

ee7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


ee8 r [Prologus.] ‘Ex epistola sancti Hieronymi ad Paulinum’. 


‘Argumentum’. 



ee8 v [Am.] 

gg 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

gg6 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

gg8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


hh1 v [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

hh4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


hh 5 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ii7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


ii 7 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

kk3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


kk 4 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ll4 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


ll 5 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

mm 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


mm2 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

mm 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


mm6 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

pp 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


pp3 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

pp 8 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 




pp 8 v [IÎI Mcc.] 

Part V. 

a1 r [Title-page.]


[b-316 

a1 v [Summary of contents, in verse].‘Bis duo, quinta noue pars euangelia 

legis > Quattuor et Christi continet illa rotas’; 7 elegiac distichs. 

a3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 


Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelia’, as in ed. Weber, and 

Nicolaus de Lyra’s ‘Prologus’. 

a3 v ‘Prologus’. 


a 4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


a5 r [Mt.] 

n 4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


n6 r [Mc.] 

s 1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


s2 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Proemium’. 

D 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


D3 v [Io.] 

Part VI. 


a1 v [Contents, in verse].‘Sexta tenet Pauli Tharsensis scripta beati[ ]’; 


a 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



a 3 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

e5 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


e5 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

i 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


i5 v [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

z 8 v Hieronymus [pseudo-]: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 




A1 r [Act.] 

G5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


G 5 v Hieronymus: [Prologue to Iac.] 


G6 r [Iac.] Preceded by an an ‘argumentum’. 

H 6 v Hieronymus: [Prologue to IÎI Pt]. 


H7 r [IÎI Pt.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

K 4 r Hieronymus: [Prologue to IÎII Io]. 


K4 r [IÎII Io.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

L 5 r [Prologue to Iud.] 


L5 r [Iud.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

M 1 v Gilbertus Pictaviensis: ‘Prefatio’ [to Apc]. 


M2 v ‘Prologus’. 


M 3 r [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

R1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: Contra per¢diam Judaeorum. [Also known 

as Pulcherrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam in catholica ¢de 

improbantes and Probatio adventus Christi]. Incipit: ‘[P]rimo 

queritur vtrum ex scripturis receptis a Judeis possit e⁄caciter. . .’ 

refs. See Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’,177^82, who lists alternative titles 

on 177, and Gosselin 415^16, including alternative titles. 

R2 r ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 


R5 r [Colophon.] 

v 

R5 Brant, Sebastian: ‘Epigramma’ [addressed to] the reader. 


Basel: Johann Froben and Johann Petri, 1 Dec. 1498. Folio. 

collation: Part I: a^z 8.6 A^C 6 D^Z 8.6 aa^¡ 8.6 gg hh 8 ; Part II: a^ 

d 8 e f 6 g^r 8 s 6 t 8 v x 6 y z A 8 B^R 8.6 SÛ 8 ; Part III: a^y 8.6 z 8 A^ 

Y 6.8 Z 6 aa^qq 8.6 rr 6 ; Part IV: a^y 8.6 z 8 A^Y 6.8 Z 6 aa^vv 8.6 xx 8 

yy 10 ; Part V: a^y 8.6 z 8 A^K 6.8 L M 6 ; Part VI: a^y 8.6 z 8 A^Q 6.8 R 6 . 

Woodcuts: see Schramm XXI pls 649^75 and XXII pls1085^1105. 

GW 4284 (Anm.); HC *3172; Go¡ B-609; BMC III 791; Pr 7763; 


Moule 912; Froehlich, ‘Printed Gloss’, in Froehlich and Gibson, 

Biblia latina cum glossa ordinaria, pp. xvii^xix; Gosselin 407 no. 

14; Oates 2842; Rhodes 361; Sack, Freiburg, 658; Schramm XXII 


FIRST COPY 

For this copy see Coates^Jensen 252, no. 17. 

Parts I and II only: two volumes of the same set, as they were 

owned by the same person at the beginning of the sixteenth century 

and have travelled together since. 

Wanting the blank leaves hh8 (part I), and U8 (part II). 

Title-page of part I as GWAnm. 

Binding: Bothvolumesbound in parchment; the upper cover and 

spine detached from text block of vol. 2. Size: Vol. 1: 305 ¿ 222 ¿ 

80 mm; vol. 2: 310 ¿ 222 ¿ 70 mm. Size of leaf: Both vols: 301 ¿ 

208 mm. 

Occasional early marginal annotations, and some underlining in 

black ink. 

Initials are supplied in red and occasionally in blue, in vol.1, some 

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1498 c.1^5 as being from there; inscription on a1 r : ‘Pertinet 

domui Jhesu de Sheene’. Thomas Hull (sixteenth century); 

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‘Robert J. Russell �dis Christi Oxon. ex dono Magistri Milonis 

Lighe 1582’. Acquired by 1697; see [Bernard], Catalogus librorum 

manuscriptorum Angli� et Hiberni� in unum collecti cum indice 

alphabetico (Oxford, 1697), no. 2421. 

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hand. Size: 317 ¿ 232 ¿ 60 mm. Size of leaf: 306 ¿ 

215 mm. 

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(c.1550^1626); inscription on a1 r : ‘Robert J. Russell �dis Christi 

Oxon:’. Acquired by 1697; see [Bernard], Catalogus librorum 

manuscriptorum Angli� et Hiberni� in unum collecti cum indice 

alphabetico (Oxford, 1697), no. 2424. 

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shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 351. 

B-317 Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et 

expositionibus Guilelmi Britonis (ed. Paulus 

Mercatellus) 

Volume 1. 

a1 v Franciscus Moneliensis: ‘In sacrosanctam Bibliam epistola’, 

[addressed to] Franciscus Samson. Incipit: ‘[I]nter omnes summos 

optimosque, Diogenes, illum Diogenem . . .’ 

a2 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus in Bibliam’. 



a3 v [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘In epistolas Hieronymi expositio’. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius, etc.’’ Ad euidentiam huius epistole quam 

scribit Hieronymus ad Paulinum presbyterum . . .’ 

refs. see Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 2824. 

a4 r [Guilelmus Brito: Postils on prologue of Hieronymus.] Incipit: 






b5 v Nicolaus de Lyra [pseudo-; Guilelmus Brito]: ‘Expositio in prologum 

Pentateuchum’. Incipit: ‘‘‘[D]esiderii mei’’. Istam epistolam 

scripsit Hieronymus . . .’ 

refs. see Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 2825. Each prologue 

accompanied by Guilelmus Brito’s commentary. 

v 

b5 [Prologue to Pentateuch.] 

b7 r Paulus Burgensis (Paulus de Sancta Maria, Bishop of Burgos): 

‘Prologus in additiones’. 


v 

b7 Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’.

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[b-317 


b10 r ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




v 

b10 ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


b12 r Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille 

fratris Nicolai de Lyra ab impugnationibus domini Burgensis’. 


b12 v [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta Burgensis 

in questione perambula’. 


c1 r [Nicolaus de Lyra: Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[I]n 


magis . . .’ 

c1 v [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’. 

c9 r Doering, Matthias: [Corrections to Paulus Burgensis’additions: 

GnÂpc]. ‘Correctorium corruptorii Burgensis’. Incipit: ‘[P]ost 

prologum suum, Burgensis ad litteram accedens dicit . . .’ 

refs. On the authorship see Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’, 370. Doering’s 

corrections usually occur after Burgensis’additions. 

v 

hh5 ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




hh7 r [IÎI Par.] 

ccc4 v [OrMan.] 

r 

ccc6 [IÎI Esr.] II Esr entitled ‘Neemias’ in this edition. 

¡f4 r [IIIÎV Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. 

hhh1 r [TbÊst.] 

Volume 2. 

r 

cC1 ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. Followed, rather than preceded, by 

‘Prologus in Job’. 

cC4 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


rr2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

rr2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

rr3 [Prv.] 

tt6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


r 

tt7 [Ecl^Ct.] 

uu5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


r 

uu5 [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

II1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


v 

II1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


II2 v [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Includes what in other editions 

is a separate introduction to Lam. 

r 

OO1 [Lam.] 

PP1 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


r 

PP1 [Bar^Dn.] 

BBB8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



BBB 8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


CCC1 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

CCC 12 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


DDD1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 14. Includes what is in other editions a separate 

prologue, beginning ‘In hoc propheta . . .’, pref. 15. 

DDD1 v [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

DDD5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


DDD5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


DDD 6 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


DDD6 v [Am.] 

EEE 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

EEE 4 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

EEE5 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


EEE 6 v [Ion.] 

refs. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 22). 

EEE8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


EEE9 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

FFF4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


FFF 4 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

FFF6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


FFF 7 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GGG3 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


GGG 4 v [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GGG7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


GGG 8 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HHH 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


HHH2 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

III 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


III7 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Aa 1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


Aa2 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 2. 

Ee3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 


Damasum Papam in quatuor Euangelia’ (pref. no. 32). 

Ee 4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 

refs. Pref. no. 35; preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (pref. no. 34). 

Ee5 r [Mt.] 

Ll 4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 

refs. Pref. no. 36.

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Ll5 v [Mc.] 

Nn2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


Nn3 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

Rr1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


Rr3 r [Io.] 

Zz2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



Zz2 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Bbb4 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


Bbb4 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Ddd5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


Ddd5 v [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

61 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


v 



61 v [Act.] 

v 



95 r [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

116 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 




118 r [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

146 r [Colophon, naming the editor.] 

146 v Franciscus Moneliensis: ‘In sacrosanctam et sacratissimam 

Bibliam epistola’, [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Sacrosancta 

dei precepta dictaque condigne formidari ac laudibus . . .’ 

[*1 r ] Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcherrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 


Judaeorum.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimo queritur vtrum ex scripturis 

receptis a Judeis posit e⁄caciter . . .’ 

refs. See Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’,177^82, who lists other alternative 


[*2 v ] ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 


Venice: [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, for] Johannes de 

Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson et Socii, 31 July 1481. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b 12 c^h 10 i k 8 l^p 10 q 12 r^v 10 u^z h m k 10 t‹ 12 A B 10 C 4 

D^N 10 O 12 P 10+1 Q^S 10 T 6 U^Z 10 aA^dD 10.8 eE^gG 10 aaôo 10 

ppp qq 8 rr^vv 10 uu^zz hh mm 10 kk 8 AA^GG 10 HH 12 II^MM 10 

NN 12 OO 8 PP^XX 10 YY ZZ AAA BBB 8 CCC 12 DDD EEE 10 

FFF^HHH 8 III Aa^Pp 10 Qq 8 RrÛv 10 Xx 8 Yy 6 Zz Aaa^Ccc 10 

Ddd 12 Eee 10 F¡ 8 1^4 10 5 12 6^12 10 13 14 8 [*] 6 . 


B-444; Gosselin 26; Labrosse,‘¼uvres’, 155; Lowry, Jenson, 101; 

Oates 1855; Rhodes 363; Sheppard 3742^4. 

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Volume1wanting gatherings cC^Dd (Iob^Mcc); volume 2 wanting 

the blank leaf Ee1. 


Binding: Vol. 1: contemporary German blind-tooled calf over 

boards of pasteboard and wood. Two clasps lost; rebacked. On 

the upper cover ¢llets form a frame, in which is a repeated £oral 

stamp, and a rosette stamp at each corner; in the inner rectangle, 

repeated double merrythoughts, inside which is a £oral stamp. On 

the lower cover double ¢llets form an outer frame, in which is a 

repeated stamp of four scrolls, at least one having the letter ‘M’ 

[Maria?], on a sta¡, and a lozenge-shaped eagle stamp in the two 

lower corners; parts of the upper portion of the frame have been 

repaired with calf decorated with a £oral roll; ¢llets form an inner 

frame, in which is a £oral stamp and a rosette stamp at each corner; 

the inner rectangle is divided by double ¢llets into lozengeshaped 

and triangular compartments, in which is a large £oral 

stamp, and the lozenge-shaped eagle stamp. Vol. 2: nineteenthcentury(?) 

half brown morocco. Size: Vol. 1: 325 ¿ 225 ¿ 

108 mm; vol. 2: 332 ¿ 225 ¿ 66 mm. Size of leaf: Vol 1: 318 ¿ 

198 mm; vol 2: 320 ¿ 212 mm. 

Verses and prayers inside the upper cover, front endleaves, and 

inside the lower cover in the hand that wrote inscription: 

‘P¢storis Ascha¡enburgensis . . .’ (see below); verses inside the 

upper cover, with incipit: ‘Vos precor o iuuenes sacris incumbite 

Musis > Ex quorum manat fontibus omne sophos’; on recto of 

front endleaf, entitled (1) ‘I.P. Epigramma ad fratrem’, with incipit 

‘In primis venerare Deum super omnia fratrem > Quidquid 

habes summi venit ab arce poli’; (2) ‘Ne sit capitosus(!)’, with incipit 

‘Exue duritiem puer intractabilis �ui > Pone supertilium disce 

placere bonis’; (3) ‘Ne preciosum tempus perdat’, with incipit 

‘Temporis haud vlla est grauior iactura putanda > Quo pereunt 

menses, annus, hora, dies’; (4) without title, but with incipit 

‘Mollitiem noctu nebulonum puer inertem > E¡uge, sepe vagis 

nox tenebrosa nocet’; (5) without title, but with incipit ‘Si tibi vis 

credam te poenituisse malorum > Prisca uelim posthac crimina 

non iteres’; (6) ‘Saphicum’, with incipit ‘Quando te carnis reprobe 

pruritus > Vexat, aut noster inimicus acer’; on verso, entitled (1) 

‘Ad studiosos: ut discant sacram scripturam , dimissis c�teris 

mundi vanitatibus’, with incipit ‘Disce sacros libros Christo 

deuote sacerdos > Mystica sit ¢dei noscere cura tibi’; (2) ‘Ad summum 

deum oratio’, with incipit ‘O pater alme Deus natus de virgine 

pura > Maximus et summus rector in arce poli’; (3) ‘Ad 

sanctum spiritum’, with incipit ‘Mane tuum petimus numen, o 

Spiritus alme > Sensibus a nostris nubila crassa fuges’; inside the 

lower cover with incipit:‘Dilige virtutem et sophiam £os, candide 

puer > Nobilis hinc vere tuquebeatus eris’. Inside the upper cover a 

listofthebooks ofthe Bible, GnÊst, in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand, with German translations of the names, and the number 

of chapters in each book, added in a hand of similar date. 

Volume 1: copious early marginal notes; vol. 2: occasional marginal 

notes. Bibliographical note, with initials ‘W[alter] A[rthur] 

C[opinger]’, attached to a 1 r asserting that some of the marginal 

notes are in the hand of Philipp Melanchthon. 

Vol. 1: initials are supplied in red or blue or interlocked red and 

blue; paragraph marks supplied in red or blue; capital strokes 

and underlining in red; rubricator’s date ‘1483’ on k 8 v , q12 r , m10 v , 

2 t12 r , B10 v , O12 v , T6 r ,Y10 r , Z9 r , and aA9 v .Volume 2: on Ee2 r a tenline 

initial ‘Q’ supplied in red, with black pen-work in¢ll and 

extensions into the guttering; other initials, some with extensions 

into the margins, and paragraph marks supplied in red; capital 

strokes and underlining in red. Contemporary lettering in black 

ink on upper edge. 

Provenance: Vol. 1: Jodocus Preiserl (sixteenth century); inscription 

on a1 r : ‘In usum Jodoci Preiserl’. Johannes Mu« llemeyster, 

alias Myll(?) (£. 1517); inscription inside the lower cover:


[b-317^b-318 

‘Johannis Muellemeysters alias Myll vicarius sancte Katharine 

de Fredbergk ex testamento doctoris honorabilis domini 

Johannis Mylls olim rati commissarii E[ ]stadis 1517’. Johannes 

P¢stor (sixteenth century); ‘Muellemeysters [ ] Fredbergk’ struck 

through and the following substituted: ‘P¢storis 

Ascha¡enburgensis emptus ab heredibus dalero v.’. Koblenz 

(Ehrenbreitstein-Koblenz), Hesse, Capuchins; both inscriptions 

on a1 r : ‘Ad vsum fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum Vallis 

Molan�’ and ‘Bibliotheca fratrum CapC Con£uent’. Georg 

Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label: see sale (1835), 

lot 723. Provenance of vol. 2: Bartholomeus Schobarz(?) (sixteenth 

century?); signature on Ee2 r . Cancelled inscription on 

Ee 2 r . Purchased for »0. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 5. 

shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 2.11,12. 


expositionibus Guilelmi Britonis 

Volume 1. 

r 

a2 Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. 

refs. See N-059. 



v 

a3 [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘In epistolas Hieronymi expositio’. Incipit: 

‘ ‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius, etc.’’ Ad euidentiam huius epistole quam 

scribit Hieronymus ad Paulinum presbyterum . . .’ 



‘ ‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius’’, etc. Istam litteram inueni in epistolis 





b6 v Nicolaus de Lyra [pseudo-; Guilelmus Brito]: ‘Expositio in prologum 

Pentateuchum’. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[D]esiderii mei’’. Istam epistolam 

scripsit Hieronymus . . .’ 


c1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis: GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[I]n 

principio’’. Omissis diuisionibus curiosis, accipio illam . . .’ 

refs. See Labrosse, ‘>OEuvres’, 157^75. Commentary surrounds 

the text of each book. 

c1 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’. Jerome’s prologue 

to Pentateuch omitted. 

kk8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. Preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti 



kk-[9] v [IÎI Par.] 

oo-[8] r [OrMan.] 

oo8 v [IÎI Esr.] II Esr entitled ‘Neemias’ in this edition. 

v 

qq5 [III Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. IV Esr omitted. 

rr3 v [TbÊst.] 

tt8 r ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. 

v 

tt10 [Iob.] 

refs. Pref. no. 3; preceded by ‘Prologus in Iob’and‘argumentum’. 

Volume 2. 

r 

A2 [Ps (G).] Preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prologues only. 

12 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 



1 3 r [Prv.] 

34 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


3 4 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

410 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


410 v [SapÎs.] Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

17 1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 




172 r [Ier^Lam.] Ier preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



219 r [Bar^Dn.] 






29 10 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



30 10 r [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 







31 4 r [Am.] 




prologue. 

321 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



323 v [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

32 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


325 v [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

329 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


3210 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

331 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


332 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



336 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



33 8 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



34 1 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

349 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal].

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551 


3410 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

351 Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


352 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 3. 




v 

383 ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 

refs. Pref. no. 35; preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

384 r [Mt.] 

v 

427 ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


428 v [Mc.] 

v 

441 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 



v 

472 ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


473 v [Io.] 

521 v ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



522 r [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

539 ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


539 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

557 ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


557 v [II Cor^Hbr]. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

621 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 




v 

621 [Act.] 



v 

6410 [IacÎud.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 



r 


refs. Pref. no. 50. Preface ascribed to Isidorus in this edition. 

672 v [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

693 v [Printer’s explanation of the book, addressed to] the reader. 

Incipit: ‘Pro expeditione huius operis necnon ad intelligentiam 

omnium in eo positorum, scias, in primis, o lector . . .’ 

refs. BMC V 197. 

v 

693 [Colophon, dated 1482]. 

694 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcherrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 

in catholica ¢de improbantes’. [Also known as Probatio 

adventus Christi.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimo queritur vtrum ex scripturis 

receptis a Judeis . . .’ 



v 

695 ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 


2 

a1 r Paulus Burgensis: ‘Prologus’. 


2 

a1 r Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 


2 a3 r ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




2 a3 v ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


2 a5 r Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille 



2 a5 r [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta Burgensis 



2 a5 v Paulus Burgensis: [Additions to Postils of Nicolaus de Lyra: 

GnÂpc]. ‘Additiones ad postillam Nicolai de Lyra super 

Bibliam’. Incipit: ‘[C]irca expositionem litteralem huius primi 

capituli Genesis . . .’ 


2 b1 r Doering, Matthias: [Corrections to Paulus Burgensis’ additions: 

GnÂpc]. ‘Correctorium corruptorii Burgensis’. Incipit: 

‘[P]ost prologum suum, Burgensis ad litteram accedens dicit . . .’ 

On the authorship see Labrosse, ‘>OEuvres’, 370. Doering’s corrections 

usually occur after Burgensis’s additions. 

2 t6 v [Colophon for ‘Additiones’, dated 1483]. 

[*1 r ] ‘Tabula additionum’. 

Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1482^3. Folio. In three 

parts. Parts I and II are undated. Part III is dated 1482, and the 

‘Additiones’of Paulus Burgensis 1483. The ‘Additiones’, although 

often found with the Bible, are not included in its printed register, 

and are entered separately in Pr and BMC. 

collation: Volume 1: a^c 8 d^f 10 g 8 h 10+1 i k 10 l 8 m^y aa^ll 10 mm 8 

nn^xx 10 yy 12 ; volume 2: AÎ 10 K 8 1^8 10 9 10 8 11^30 10 31 8 32 33 10 

34 12 35 10 36 37 12 ; volume 3: 38^49 10 50 51 8 52^60 10 61 8 62^5 10 66 8 

67^9 10 [*] 2 2 aô 8 p 10 q 8 r^t 6 . 

GW 4287; HC *3165; Go¡ B-612; BMC V 197^8; Pr 4180^1; 


Moule 912; Gosselin 29; Labrosse, ‘¼uvres’, 156; Oates 1675^7; 


COPY 

Bound in three volumes. Gathering [*] bound at the end of vol. 3, 

after gathering 2 t. 

Binding: Parchment. Author, title, andvolume number inscribed 

on spine of each volume in black ink, also some white labels, giving 

imprint; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both 

covers. Size: Vol. 1: 295 ¿ 210 ¿ 80 mm; vol. 2: 295 ¿ 210 ¿ 

85 mm; vol. 3: 295 ¿ 205 ¿ 70 mm. Size of leaf: 284 ¿ 196 mm. 

Atbeginningofeachvolume, a listofthe Biblical books contained 

in that volume, in a seventeenth-century(?) hand. Occasional 

marginal annotations. 

Provenance: Naples, Jesuits; deleted inscription on a1 r : ‘Domus 

probationis Neapolitane’. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758^ 

1834); sale (1821), lot 186; purchased for »0. 15. 0; see Books 

Purchased (1821), 2 and the annotated sale catalogue. 

shelfmark: Auct. M 3.1^3. 



Part I. 

r 

[a2 ] Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’.


[b-319 



[a2 v ] Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus secundus’. 


[a3 v ] [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘Expositio . . . super epistolas Sancti 

Hieronymi’. Incipit: ‘‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius,’’ etc. Ad euidentiam 


. . .’ 

[a4 r ] [Guilelmus Brito: Postils on prologue of Hieronymus.] Incipit: 


Hieronimi . . .’ 


[a4 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 



[b5 v ] Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . in prologum . . . in 




[b5 v ] [Prologue to Pentateuch.] ‘Prefatio . . . in Pentateuchum’. 

[b 7 r ] Paulus Burgensis: ‘Prologus in additiones’. 


[b7 v ] Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 


[b10 r ] ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




[b10 v ] ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


[b12 r ] Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille 



[b 12 v ] [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta 

Burgensis in questione perambula’. 


[c1 r ] Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[I]n 


magis . . .’ 


text in each book. Doering’s corrections occur after Burgensis’ 

additions. 

[c1 v ] [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[Y 3 r ] ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




[Y4 v ] [IÎI Par.] 

[cc 6 r ] [OrMan.] 

Part II. 

[ 2 a2 v ] [IÎI Esr.] I Esr preceded by prologue. II Esr entitled 

‘Neemias’ in this edition. 

[ 2 c1 r ] [III Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. 

[ 2 d 1 r ] [TbÊst.] Each book preceded by a prologue. 

[ 2 g1 r ] ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. [Also known as Alius prologus.] 

refs. Pref. no. 3; preceded by ‘Prologus in Iob’. Unusually followed, 

rather than preceded, by ‘Prologus in Job’. 

[ 2 g 4 r ] [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


[ 2 E 2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

[ 2 E2 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[ 2 E 3 r ] [Prv.] 

[ 2 G6 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


[ 2 G7 r ] [Ecl^Ct.] 

[ 2 I 5 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


[ 2 I6 r ] [Sap^Sir.] 

Part III. 

[ 3 a2 v ] [Is.] Preceded by a prologue and an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 i1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


[ 3 i1 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[ 3 i 2 v ] [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 n 12 v ] [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


[ 3 o1 r ] [Lam.] 

[ 3 p 1 r ] ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


[ 3 p1 r ] [Bar^Dn.] 

[ 3 D 1 r ] ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



[ 3 D 1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


[ 3 D2 v ] [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 E3 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


[ 3 E4 r ] ‘Argumentum’. 

refs. Pref. no.14. In other editions entitled ‘Prologus’. In this edition, 

it includes ‘In hoc propheta . . .’, pref. 15. 

[ 3 E4 v ] [Ioel.] 

[ 3 E8 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


[ 3 E8 v ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[ 3 E 9 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[ 3 E9 v ] [Am.] 

[ 3 F6 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

[ 3 F 7 r ] [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 F8 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


[ 3 F 9 v ] [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 G1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


[ 3 G 2 r ] [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 G 7 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 

refs. Pref. no. 24.‘Sciendum quoniam Niniue in nostra lingua. . .’, 

which in other editions appears as a separate prologue, is here 

included in this prologue. 

[ 3 G7 v ] [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’.


553 

[ 3 G9 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


[ 3 G 10 v ] [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 H4 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


[ 3 H 5 r ] [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 H7 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


[ 3 H8 v ] [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 I 2 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


[ 3 I3 r ] [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 K 6 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


[ 3 K7 v ] [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 3 L 1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


[ 3 L2 r ] [IÎI Mcc.] 

Part IV. 

[ 4 a 3 v ] ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



[ 4 a 4 r ] ‘Argumentum’ [to Mt]. [In other editions entitled Prologus.] 


[ 4 a4 v ] ‘Prologus’. 


[ 4 a5 r ] [Mt.] 

[ 4 g4 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


[ 4 g5 v ] [Mc.] 

[ 4 i2 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


[ 4 i 3 r ] [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

[ 4 n1 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


[ 4 n 3 r ] [Io.] 

[ 4 t2 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



[ 4 t2 v ] [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 4 x4 r ] ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


[ 4 x 4 r ] [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 4 z5 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


[ 4 z 5 v ] [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 4 H1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


[ 4 H 1 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[ 4 H1 v ] [Act.] 

[ 4 L 4 v ] ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


[ 4 L5 r ] [IacÎud.] Each book preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

[ 4 N 6 v ] [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


[ 4 N8 r ] ‘Alius prologus’. 


[ 4 N 8 r ] [Apc.] 

[ 2 Q6 r ] [Colophon.] 

[ 2 R1 r ] Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcerrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 


Judaeorum and Probatio adventus Christi.] Incipit:‘[P]rimo 

queritur vtrum ex scripturis receptis a Judeis posit e⁄caciter . . .’ 



[ 2 R2 v ] ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 


Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1485. Folio. In four parts: (IÎII) 

[undated]; (IV) dated 7 May 1485. 

collation: Part I: [a 10 b 12 c^h 10 i k 8 lô 10 p 6 q 8 r^z AÊ 10 F 12 G 

H 10 I 4 K^P 10 Q R 6 S^X 10 Y 12 Z aa bb 10 cc 6 ]; part II: [aê 10 f 8 g 10 

h 8 i^z A B 10 C D 8 EÔ 10 P 8 ]; part III: [a^g 10 h 12 i^m 10 n 12 o 8 p q 10 

r 8 s 2 t v 10 x y 6 z A^G 10 H I 8 K^N 10 O 8 ]; part IV: [a^l 10 m 8 n^q 10 r 8 

s 6 t^y 10 z 12 A 10 B 8 C^F 10 G 12 HÔ 10 P 8 Q 6 R 8 ]. Collation as GW, 

rather than BMC. 

44 woodcuts. 



Gosselin 409, no. 34; Oates 1004; Rhodes 364; Sack, Freiburg, 

663^4; Schramm XVII p. 8; Schreiber V 3472; Sheppard 1493^4. 

FIRST COPY 

Part II only (I Esr^Sir). Leaf [a1] mutilated, an initial cut away. 

Leaves damaged. 


no.114) blind-tooled calfover wooden boards. On the upper cover 

four corner-pieces, central boss lost, on lower two corner-pieces 

and central boss, two further corner-pieces lost. Remains of 

catches, two clasps lost. Letter-stamping at the head of the upper 

cover ‘Secunda pars lire’. On both covers triple ¢llets form a 

frame, in which is a repeated foliate stamp (Kyri� pl. 229, no. 3), 

and a repeated small £oral stamp (Kyri� pl. 229, no. 4). On the 

upper cover the inner rectangle contains repeated merrythoughts 

with £oral decoration in the centre (Kyri� pl. 229, no. 1 and pl. 

230); on the lower cover the inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets 

into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments, in which 

are two di¡erent £eurons. On the spine, a headed-outline tool 

(Kyri� pl. 229, no. 6), the small £oral stamp, and a small starshaped 

stamp (Kyri� pl. 229, no. 2). Size: 325 ¿ 230 ¿ 85 mm. 



Initials are supplied in red and blue. Capital strokes in red. 

Irregular manuscript signatures in red ink. 

Provenance: Wilfrid Michael Voynich, An Illustrated Catalogue 

of Early Printed Books . . ., Catalogue 28 no. 24, at the price of 

»1. 10. 0, but with a discount of 10% plus »0. 1. 0 postage, giving a 

total of »1. 7. 0. Purchased in 1911; see Library Bills, 9 Jan. 1911; 

Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford 

University Gazette, 22 May 1912,771. 


SECOND COPY 

Part of parts II and III only (PrvÎI Mcc). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) plain calf over wooden boards, 

with remains of metal clasps, rebacked, the spine gold-tooled, lettered 

‘S. Biblia N. Lyrani 1492’, cf. B-319(3) and B-323(1). Size: 


Initials are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Irregular contemporary 

foliation in black ink.


[b-319^b-320 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘D.f.1’: see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, lot 1182(?). Probably the copy purchased 

in either 1844 or 1854 for »2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1844), 6 and Books Purchased (1854), 6. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1492 c.3. 


THIRD COPY 

Bound as gathering [a] in Koberger’s edition of 1487 (B-320(2)). 

Gathering [a] of part I only. 

Binding: Contemporary German(?) blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards. Two clasps lost; rebacked, with gold-tooled 

spine, the spine gold-tooled, lettered ‘S. Biblia N. Lyrani 1492’; 

see Bib. Lat. 1485 c.3 and Bib. Lat. 1492 c.2,4, but now badly 

worn. On both covers quadruple ¢llets form an outer frame, in 

which is half of a lozenge-shaped foliate stamp. Further quadruple 

¢llets form an inner frame, in which is a repeated £oral stamp. 

The inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets into triangular and 

lozenge-shaped compartments, in which is the lozenge-shaped 

£oral stamp or half stamp. Size: 323 ¿ 228 ¿ 108 mm. Size of 

leaf: 309 ¿ 207 mm. 

Principal initials are supplied in red or blue, with pen-work in¢ll 

and extensions into the margins in red, blue, yellow, and green, 

and £oral decoration, edged in black ink, and coloured in pink 

and yellow wash; other initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Heavily deleted inscription on [a1 r ]. Frater Simon 

Heym (£. 1527); inscription on [a1 r ]: ‘Frater Symon Heym [ ] 

posessor huius codicis [ ] Biblie anno 1527’. Augustus Frederick, 


‘D.f.1’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, lot 

1182(?). Probably the copy purchased in either 1844 or 1854 for 

»2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1844), 6 and Books Purchased 

(1854), 6. 





Volume 1. 

a1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. 





a2 v [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘Expositio . . . super epistolas Sancti 

Hieronymi’. Incipit: ‘‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius,’’ etc. Ad euidentiam 


. . .’ 





a3 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53] 



b5 v Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . in prologum . . . in 




b5 v [Prologue to Pentateuch.] ‘Prefatio. . . in Pentateuchum’. 

b 7 r Paulus Burgensis: ‘Prologus in additiones’. 


b7 v Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 


b10 r ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




b10 v ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


b 12 r Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille 



b 12 v [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta Burgensis 



c 1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[I]n 


magis . . .’ 


text in each book. Doering’s corrections occur after Burgensis’ 

additions. 

c1 v [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

xx 3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




xx4 v [IÎI Par.] 

mm6 r [OrMan.] 

Volume 2. 

A 2 v [IÎI Esr.] I Esr preceded by ‘Prologus’. II Esr entitled‘Neemias’ 

in this edition. 

C1 r [III Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. 

D 1 r [TbÊst.] Each book preceded by a prologue. 

G1 r ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. [Also known as Alius prologus.] 



G4 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


Ee 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

Ee 2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Ee3 r [Prv.] 

Gg 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


Gg7 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

Ii 5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


Ii5 r [Sap^Sir.] 

Volume 3. 

AA 2 v [Is.] Preceded by a prologue and an ‘argumentum’. 

II1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


II 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 9. Preceded by ‘Prologus’.


555 

II2 v [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

NN12 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 


OO1 r [Lam.] 

PP1 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


PP1 r [Bar^Dn.] 

CCC1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



CCC1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


CCC 2 v [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

DDD3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


DDD 4 r ‘Argumentum’. 


it includes ‘In hoc propheta . . .’; pref. no. 15. 

DDD 4 v [Ioel.] 

DDD 8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


DDD8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


DDD9 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


DDD 9 v [Am.] 

EEE6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

EEE7 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

EEE8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


EEE9 v [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

FFF1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


FFF2 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

FFF7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 




FFF 7 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

FFF 9 v ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


FFF10 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GGG 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


GGG5 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GGG 7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


GGG8 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HHH 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


HHH3 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

III 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


III7 v [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KKK1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


KKK2 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 4. 

2 a2 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



2 a3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 


2 a3 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


2 a4 r [Mt.] 

2 g4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


2 g5 v [Mc.] 

2 i2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


2 i3 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

2 n1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


2 n3 r [Io.] 

2 t2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



2 t2 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

x4 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


2 

x4 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

z5 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


2 

z5 v [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 

hh1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


2 hh1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


2 hh1 r [Act.] 

2 ll4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


2 ll5 r [IacÎud.] Each book preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 nn6 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prefatio’ [to Apc]. 


2 nn8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


2 nn8 r [Apc.] 

2 qq6 r [Colophon.] 

2 qq6 v Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcerrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 


Judaeorum and Probatio adventus Christi.] Incipit:‘[P]rimo 

queritur vtrum ex scripturis receptis a Judeis posit e⁄caciter . . .’ 



2 rr2 r ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 



[undated]; (IV) 3 Dec. 1487. 

collation: Part I: 1 a 10 b 12 c^h 10 i k 8 lô 10 p 6 q 8 r^z h aa^dd 10 ee 12 ¡ 

gg 10 hh 4 iiôo 10 pp qq 6 rr^vv 10 xx 12 yy zz hh 10 mm 6 ; part II: AÊ 10 F 8 

G 10 H 8 I^Z Aa Bb 10 Cc Dd 8 EeÔo 10 Pp 8 ; part III: AA^GG 10 

HH 12 II^MM 10 NN 12 OO 8 PP^TT 10 UU XX 6 YY ZZ AAA^ 

FFF 10 GGG HHH 8 III^MMM 10 NNN 8 ; part IV: 2 a^l 10 m 8 n^ 

q 10 r 8 s 6 t^y 10 z 12 2 aa 10 bb 8 cc^¡ 10 gg 12 hhôo 10 pp 8 qq rr 6 . 


44 woodcuts.


[b-320^b-321 



Gosselin 409, no. 35; Oates 1012; Rhodes 365; Sack, Freiburg, 

665; Schramm XVII p. 8; Schreiber V 3473; Sheppard 1505^6. 

FIRST COPY 


Wanting the blank leaves 1 a1, Dd8, and 2 a1. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century German mottled calf; marbled 

pastedowns; the spine gold-tooled and lettered ‘B[ibliotheca] 

P[alatina]’. On both covers of each volume, the arms of Carl 

Theodor, Elector Palatine and Elector of Bavaria, the two shields 

over the collar of the Order of S. Hubertus, bearing the arms of 

Bavaria, Ju« lich, Cleves, Berg, Mo« rs, Bergen-op-Zoom,Veldenz, 

Mark, and Ravensberg: see Siebmacher 1/1, 16 pl. 20; see also 

Byw. A 3.8 and Auct. 1Q inf. 2.24. Scars of index tabs. Size: 

Volume 1: 295 ¿ 230 ¿ 78 mm; volume 2: 295 ¿ 222 ¿ 68 mm; 

vol. 3: 295 ¿ 230 ¿ 72 mm; vol. 4: 295 ¿ 225 ¿ 67 mm. Size of 

leaf: 288 ¿ 204 mm. 

Early marginal notes, pointing hands, and underlining in black 

ink. 


Provenance: Carl Theodor, Elector Palatine and Elector of 

Bavaria (1724^1799); shelfmark on front endleaves of each 

volume: ‘Collect. Bibl. pag. 461’. Duplicate from the Royal 

Library, Munich; stamp on a1 v of vol. 1, A1 v of vol. 2, AA1 v of vol. 

3, a 1 v of vol. 4; ‘Dupl’on pencil on verso of front endleaves of vols 

1, and 2, also shelfmarks‘A 80’and ‘C9’on front endleaves of each 

volume. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not 

found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 

shelfmark: Auct. 5Q inf. 2.1^4. 

SECOND COPY 

Part I only. 

Gathering [a] is of Koberger’s edition of 7 May 1485 (B-319(3)). 


boards. Two clasps lost; rebacked, with gold-tooled spine, the 

spine gold-tooled, lettered ‘S. Biblia N. Lyrani 1492’; see Bib. 

Lat. 1485 c.3 and Bib. Lat. 1492 c.2,4, but now badly worn. On 

both covers quadruple ¢llets form a frame, in which is half a 

lozenge-shaped foliate stamp. Further quadruple ¢llets form an 

inner frame, in which is a repeated £oral stamp. The inner rectangle 

is divided by triple ¢llets into triangular and lozengeshaped 

compartments, in which is the lozenge-shaped £oral 

stamp or half stamp. Size: 323 ¿ 228 ¿ 108 mm. Size of 

leaf: 309 ¿ 207 mm. 

Very occasional early notes. 

Woodcuts coloured in red, yellow, blue, and greenwash. Principal 

initials are supplied in red or blue with reserved white decoration, 

and with pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margins in red, 

blue, yellow, and green; other initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Heavily deleted inscription on [a1 r ]. Frater Simon 

Heym (£. 1527); inscription on [a 1 r ]: ‘Frater Symon Heym [ ] 

posessor huius codicis [ ] Biblie anno 1527’. Augustus Frederick, 


‘D.f.1’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, lot 

1182(?). Probably the copy purchased in either 1844 or 1854 for 

»2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1844), 6 and Books Purchased 

(1854), 6. 





Volume 1. 

r 

a2 Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. 



v 

a2 Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus secundus’. 


a3 v [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘In epistolas Hieronymi expositio’. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius, etc.’’ Ad euidentiam huius epistole quam 

scribit Hieronimus ad Paulinum presbyterum . . .’ 








b5 v Nicolaus de Lyra [pseudo-; Guilelmus Brito: Commentary on 

Hieronymus’s prologue to Pentateuch.] Incipit: ‘‘‘[D]esiderii 

mei’’. Istam epistolam scripsit Hieronymus . . .’ 


v 

b5 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio Hieronymi presbyteri in Pentatheum’. 

r 

b7 Paulus Burgensis: ‘Prologus in additiones’. 


b7 v Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 


c1 v ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




c2 r ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


c3 r Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille fratris 

Nicolai de Lyra ab impugnationibus domini Burgensis’. 


v 

c3 [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta Burgensis 



r 

c4 Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘[I]n 

principio creauit deus, omissis diuisionibus curiosis . . .’ 


text in each book. 

c4 v [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

d2 v Doering, Matthias: [Corrections to Paulus Burgensis’ additions: 

GnÂpc]. ‘Correctorium corruptorii Burgensis’. Incipit: 

‘[P]ost prologum suum, Burgensis ad litteram accedens dicit . . .’ 


tt2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. Preceded by ‘Prefatio sancti 



tt-[3] r [IÎI Par.] 

zz-[9] r [OrMan.] 

Volume 2. 

Aa3 r [IÎI Esr.] II Esr entitled ‘Neemias’ in this edition. 

r 

Cc1 [III Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. IV Esr omitted. 

Cc8 v [TbÊst.] 

Gg1 r ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob].


557 

Gg3 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by a ‘Prologus’ and an ‘argumentum’. 

Ps (G) preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prologues only. 

Eee 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

Eee2 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


Eee2 v [Prv.] 

Ggg 6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


Ggg6 v [Ecl^Ct.] 

Iii 4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


Iii5 r [Sap^Sir.] 

Volume 3. 

A1 r [Is.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

I1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


I 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 9. Preceded by a‘Prologus’. 

I2 r [Ier^Lam.] Ier preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

P 1 r ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


P1 r [Bar^Dn.] 

CC 1 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



CC 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


CC2 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

DD3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


DD4 r [Ioel.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

DD8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


DD8 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


DD 8 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


EE1 r [Am.] 

EE 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

EE 7 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

EE8 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


FF 1 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

FF2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


FF 3 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

FF7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 


FF 7 v [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GG 1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


GG2 v [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GG 5 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


GG6 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GG8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


HH1 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HH2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


HH3 r [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

II3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


r 

II4 [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KK1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


v 

KK1 [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 4. 

2 

AA2 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



2 

AA3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mt]. 

refs. Pref. no. 35; preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

2 v 

AA3 [Mt.] 

2 

GG1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


2 r 

GG2 [Mc.] 

2 

HH6 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


2 r 

HH7 [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

2 

NN1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


2 v 

NN2 [Io.] 

TT1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



r 

TT2 [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

XX3 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


r 

XX3 [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ZZ4 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


v 

ZZ4 [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HHH1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


r 

HHH1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


HHH1 v [Act.] 

LLL4 v ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


LLL5 r [IacÎud.] Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

NNN6 r [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prologus’ [to Apc]. 


NNN7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


r 

NNN8 [Apc.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

QQQ5 r [Colophon, attributing commentary, additions, and corrections]. 

r 

RRR1 Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Libellus . . . in quo sunt pulcerrime questiones 

iudaicam per¢diam in catholica ¢de improbantes’. [Also 

known as Probatio adventus Christi.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimo queritur 

vtrum ex scripturis receptis a Judeis possit . . .’ 


titles on 177.


[b-321^b-322 

‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: 

‘[S]ecundum principale est probandum . . .’ 

[Lyons]: Johannes Siber, [after 7 May 1485, c.1488]. Folio. 

collation: Part I: a^z h aa^rr 8 || 6 sstt 6 tt^xx 8 yy 6 zz 10 ; part II: 

Aa 10 BbÎi 8 Kk 6 Ll 10 Mm^Ss 8 Tt 6 Uv^Zz Aaa 8 Bbb Ccc 6 Ddd^ 

Kkk 8 Lll Mmm Nnn 6 Ooo Ppp 8 Qqq 10 ; part III: A^R 8 S T 6 U Xy 

zZ AA^HH 8 II 6 KK^NN 8 ; part IV: AA^HH 8 II^MM 6 NN^ 

PP 8 QQ RR 6 SS^ZZ AAA 8 BBB 10 CCC^PPP 8 QQQ 6 RRR 8 . 

Gathering Nnn 6 , not Nnn 4+1 as GW; Nnn6 is a blank leaf. 

25 woodcuts. 

GW 4290 (Anm.); HC *3163; C 1036; Go¡ B-615; Pr 8542; BSB-Ink 

B-454; Gosselin 27; Labrosse, ‘¼uvres’, 156; Rhodes 366; Sack, 

Freiburg, 666^7; Sheppard 6601. 

RRR2 r 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves, vol. 1: a 1, r 8, cc 8, zz 10; vol. 2: Aa 1, Ff 8, 

Qqq9^10; vol. 3: O8, BB8; vol. 4: SS8, BBB10, QQQ6, RRR7^8. 

Impressions of inked type on Aa2, Qqq8, and the rear endleaf of 

vol. 2; the front endleaf, NN 8 and the rear endleaf of vol. 3. 



no. 112) blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with metal 

clasps and catches (vol. 1: upper clasp only; vol. 2: no clasps; vols 

3 and 4: both clasps). Central boss and corner-pieces on each 

cover lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of 

the lower cover of each volume. Contemporary manuscript label 

on the upper cover of each volume. Vol. 1: On the upper cover 

quadruple ¢llets form a frame, in which is a large rosette stamp 

(Kyri� pl. 225, no. 1), a foliate sta¡ stamp (Kyri� pl. 225, no. 3), 

and a lozenge-shaped dragon stamp (Kyri� pl. 225, no. 2). 

Quadruple ¢llets form an inner rectangle, in which are repeated 

merrythoughts and a repeated £euron stamp. On the lower cover 

quadruple ¢llets form a frame, in which are the rosette stamp and 

the foliate sta¡ stamp. Quadruple ¢llets form an inner rectangle, 

further divided by quadruple ¢llets into triangular compartments, 

each containing the lozenge-shaped dragon stamp.Vol. 2: 

On the upper cover quadruple ¢llets form an outer frame, in 

which are the rosette stamp and the foliate sta¡ stamp; further 

quadruple ¢llets form an inner frame, in which is the rosette 

stamp at each corner. Quadruple ¢llets form the inner rectangle, 

in which are the repeated merrythought stamp and the repeated 

£euron. On the lower cover quadruple ¢llets form a frame, in 

which are the rosette stamp and the foliate sta¡ stamp. The inner 

rectangle, formed by quadruple ¢llets, is further divided by quadruple 

¢llets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, in 

some of which is the rosette stamp, others with a small £oral 

stamp.Vol. 3: on the upper cover quadruple ¢llets form an outer 

frame, in which are the rosette stamp and the foliate sta¡ stamp; 

further quadruple ¢llets form an inner frame, decorated, at each 

corner, with the rosette stamp. The inner rectangle, formed by 

quadruple ¢llets, is divided by quadruple ¢llets into triangular 

and lozenge-shaped compartments, in which is a £euron or a 

£oral stamp. On the lower cover decoration as for the lower 

cover of vol. 1. Vol. 4: decoration on both covers as for vol. 1; 

lower clasp repaired. Size: Vol. 1: 430 ¿ 308 ¿ 105 mm; vol. 2: 

430 ¿ 308 ¿ 85 mm; vol. 3: 430 ¿ 305 ¿ 80 mm; vol. 4: 430 ¿ 

308 ¿ 80 mm. Size of leaf: 414^8 ¿ 290^3 mm. 


South German decoration. Principal initials at the beginning of 

each book are supplied in blue, red or green, on burnished gold 

grounds, the gilt with punch-dotting, the initials with decoration 

in white, yellow or black, within borders of red and green, or red, 

and with foliate extensions and borders in red, green, and blue. 

Other initials are supplied in red or blue, or interlocked red and 

blue, some with extensions into the margins. Paragraph marks 

are supplied in red and blue. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Bamberg, Bavaria, Franciscan friars assisting atthe 

convent of the Poor Clares, S. Clara; inscriptions, in the same ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand, on a 2 r of vol. 1 and AA1 r of vol. 4: 

‘Iste liber pertinet ad domum fratrum apud sanctam Claram 

Bamberge’. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); bibliographical 

note, perhaps in Klo�’s hand on front endleaf of each 

volume: not found in Klo�’s sale catalogue. Augustus Frederick, 


‘D.h.2’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, pt I, lot 

737. Purchased for »6; see Books Purchased (1844), 6. 

shelfmark: Auct.Y 1.1^4. 



Volume 1. 

r 

(A1 [Title-page.] 

r 

(A2 Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. 



v 

(A2 Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus secundus’. 


(A3 v Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . super epistolas Sancti 



. . .’ 

r 

(A4 Guilelmus Brito: [Postils on prologue of Hieronymus.] Incipit: 




r 

(A4 Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 



v 

(B5 [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘Expositio . . . in prologum . . . in 




(B5 v [Prologue to Pentateuch.] ‘Prefatio . . . in Pentateuchum’. 

(B7 r Paulus Burgensis: ‘Prologus in additiones’. 


(B7 v Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 


(B10 r ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




v 

(B10 ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


(B12 r Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille 



(B12 v [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta Burgensis 


refs. PL CXIII 60^2.


559 

(C1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[I]n 


magis . . .’ Commentary surrounds text in each book. Doering’s 

corrections occur after Burgensis’additions. 

(C1 v [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by a‘prologus’and an‘argumentum’, 

Rg by a‘prologus’. 

(XX3 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




(XX4 v [IÎI Par.] 

(mm6 r [OrMan.] 

Volume 2. 

A2 v [IÎI Esr.] I Esr preceded by a prologue. II Esr entitled 


C 5 r [III Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. 

D1 r [TbÊst.] Each book preceded by a prologue. 

G3 r ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. [Also known as Alius prologus.] 



G6 r [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


Ll 2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

Ll2 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Ll 3 r [Prv.] 

Oo2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


Oo3 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

Qq 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


Qq7 r [Sap^Sir.] 

Volume 3. 


AA2 v [Is.] Preceded by a prologue and an ‘argumentum’. 

LL 4 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefacio’ [to Ier]. 


LL4 v ‘Alius prologus’. 

refs. Pref. no. 9. Preceded by a‘prologus’. 

LL 5 v [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

RR7 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit: ‘[E]t factum est postquam in 

captiuitate . . . 

RR 8 r [Lam.] 

SS7 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


SS 7 v [Bar^Dn.] Ez and Dn preceded by prologues. 

FFF7 v ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 



FFF8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


GGG 1 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HHH 4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


HHH4 v ‘Argumentum’. 


it includes ‘In hoc propheta . . .’, pref. no. 15.. 

HHH5 r [Ioel.] 

III1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


III1 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


III 1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


III2 r [Am.] 

KKK1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

KKK 1 v [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KKK3 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


KKK 4 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KKK6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


KKK 6 v [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

LLL 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 




LLL4 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

LLL6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


LLL7 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

MMM2 v ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


MMM3 v [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

MMM6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


MMM 7 r [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

NNN1 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


NNN 1 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

OOO5 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


OOO 6 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

PPP1 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


PPP 2 v [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 4. 

a3 v ‘Alius prologus’ [to Four Evangelists]. 



a4 r ‘Argumentum’ [to Mt]. 


a 4 v ‘Prologus’. 


a5 r [Mt.] 

h 8 v [Hieronymus]: ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


i1 v [Mc.] 

l 2 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


l3 r [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

q1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


q3 r [Io.]


[b-322^b-323 

aa2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



aa2 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

dd4 r ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


dd4 r [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

gg1 v ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


v 

gg1 [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr1 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


v 

rr1 ‘Alius prologus’. 


rr1 v [Act.] 

v 

xx2 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


xx3 r [IacÎud.] Each book preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

zz8 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prefatio’ [to Apc]. 




r 

hh2 [Apc.] 

[*]1 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcerrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 


Judaeorum and Probatio adventus Christi.] Incipit:‘[P]rimo queritur 

vtrum ex scripturis receptis a Judeis posit e⁄caciter . . .’ 

[*]2 v ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 


Strasbourg: [Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger], 1492. Folio. In four 

parts dated: (IÎII) [undated]; (IV) 3 Nov. 1492. 

collation: Vol. 1: (A 10 (B 12 (C-(H 10 (I (K 8 (L-(O 10 (P 6 (Q 8 (R-(Z (h 

(AA-(DD 10 (EE 12 (FF 10 (GG 8 (HH 6 (II-(OO 10 (PP (QQ 6 

(RR-(UU 10 (XX 12 (YY (ZZ (hh 10 (mm 6 ; vol. 2: A^C 8 (D 6 D 10 EÎ 8 

K 6 L 8 M N 6 O^Z Aa^Gg 8 Hh Ii 6 Kk^Nn 8 Oo 6 Pp^Rr 8 Ss 6 Tt 

Uv 8 Xx^Zz hh 6 mm 8 ; vol. 3: AA^ZZ 8 hh 6 mm AAA^RRR 8 SSS 6 

TTT 8 ; vol. 4: aô 8 p 6 q^x 8 y 6 aa bb 8 cc 4 dd^ll 8 mm 6 nn^zz hh 8 mm 6 

kk 8 [etc] [*] 6 . 

43 woodcuts: see Schramm XX pls128^62. 



Gosselin 409, no. 38; Oates 185^6; Rhodes 367; Sack, Freiburg, 

669; Schramm XX p. 22; Schreiber V 3474; Sheppard 367^8. 

FIRST COPY 

Vols 2 and 4 only. 


boards, the spine gold-tooled, lettered ‘S. Biblia N. Lyrani 1492’; 

see Bib. Lat. 1487 c.2 and Bib. Lat. 1485 c.3; two catches on vol. 2, 

remains of two catches on vol. 4; four corner-pieces on each 

volume. Rebacked. On both covers triple ¢llets form two frames; 

in the outer triangular-shaped halves of a large £oral ornament; 

in the inner a repeated stamp of a dragon and scrolls containing 

the inscription: ‘SPES MEA DEUS’. The inner rectangle is 

divided by triple ¢llets into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments, 

in which is a full or half £oral ornament stamp. 

Signature of Johannes Hinselmann(?) on outside of cover of 

vol. 2. Size: Volume 2: 320 ¿ 227 ¿ 81 mm; vol. 4: 320 ¿ 228 ¿ 



On a2 r an eight-line initial ‘Q’ is supplied in blue with red penwork 

£oral in¢ll and extensions into the guttering. Other initials 

are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Johannes Hinselmann(?) (�1538). Sold book to 

Nicolaus Richter de Aysa, 1538: signatures on outside of cover of 

vol. 2 and inscription on a 1 r of vol. 4: ‘Empta per fratrem 

Nicolaum Richter de Aysa anno salutis 1538 a venerabili viro 

domino ve[ ]o sacre pagine licen[tiat]o et testamenti magistri 

Joannis Hinslei(?) executore ve[ ].’Augustus Frederick, Duke of 

Sussex (1773^1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark 

‘D.f.1’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, lot 1182(?). 

Probably purchased in either 1844 or 1854 for »2. 2. 0; see Books 

Purchased (1844), 6 and Books Purchased (1854), 6. 

shelfmark: Bib. Lat. 1492 c.2,4. 

SECOND COPY 

Vol. 4 only.Wanting gathering [*]. 


wooden boards, with metal clasps. On both covers triple ¢llets 

form concentric frames; in the outer, a repeated round £owerhead 

tool; in the central frame, a repeated £oral tool and, in a 

panel at head and tail, a £oral ornament; in the inner frame, a 

cresting roll. In the inner rectangle, a £oral centre-piece and, at 

each corner, a small £oral tool. Size: 324 ¿ 223 ¿ 80 mm. Size of 

leaf: 302 ¿ 208 mm. 

Copious marginal notes. Table of contents on a1 r in a contemporary 

hand. 

On a2 r a nine-line initial ‘Q’ is supplied in interlocked red and 

blue, with extension into the guttering. Other initials, some with 

extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, and a rubric on a 2 r 

are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark may 

suggest a date c.1855. 


THIRD COPY 

Not in Sheppard. Bound with A-146(3); see there for details of 

binding and provenance. 

Gathering g only. Size of fragments: 308 ¿ 217 mm. 

Early annotations on g6 v , including a ‘nota’ mark and a pointing 

hand. 

Two- and three-line initials are supplied in red; occasional capital 

strokes in red. 

shelfmark: Gibson 403*(10). 



Volume 1. 


Aa2 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. 



Aa2 v Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus secundus’. 


Aa3 v [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘Expositio . . . super epistolas Sancti 

Hieronymi’. Incipit: ‘‘‘[F]rater Ambrosius’’. Ad euidentiam huius 

epistole quam scribit Hieronymus ad Paulinum presbyterum . . .’ 

Aa4 r [Guilelmus Brito: Postils on prologue of Hieronymus.] Incipit: 



refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 2824.


561 

Aa4 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 



Ab6 v [Guilelmus Brito]: ‘Expositio . . . in prologum . . . in 




Ab6 v [Prologue to Pentateuch.] ‘Prefatio . . . in Pentateuchum’. 

Ab8 r Paulus Burgensis: ‘Prologus in additiones’. 


Ab8 v Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 


Ac 3 r ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




Ac3 r ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


Ac 4 v Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille 



Ac5 r [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta Burgensis 



Ac5 v Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Commentary 

surrounds text in each book. Doering’s corrections usually occur 

after Burgensis’additions. 

Ac6 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Cb 8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




Cc 1 r [IÎI Par.] 

Cg8 r [OrMan.] 

Volume 2. 

Da 1 r [Title-page.] 

Da2 v [IÎI Esr.] I Esr preceded by prologue. II Esr entitled 


Dc 3 v [III Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. 

Dd4 v [TbÊst.] Each book preceded by a prologue. 

Dg6 r ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. [Also known as Alius prologus.] 



Dg8 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


Eh 1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

Eh1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Eh 2 r [Prv.] 

Ek7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


Ek 8 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

Em 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


Em8 r [Sap^Sir.] 

Volume 3. 


A2 v [Is.] Preceded by a prologue and an ‘argumentum’. 

K3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


K4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


K 5 r [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Q2 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . . 

Q2 v [Lam.] 

R 1 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


R1 v [Bar^Dn.] 

EE 7 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 

refs. Pref. no.11; preceded by ‘Prologus in librum duodecim prophetarum’as 

in ed.Weber. 

EE 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


EE8 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GG 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


GG2 v ‘Argumentum’. 


it includes ‘In hoc propheta . . .’, pref. no. 15. 

GG3 r [Ioel.] 

GG7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


GG7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


GG 7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


GG8 r [Am.] 

HH6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

HH 7 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HH8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


II 1 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

II2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


II 3 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

II 7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na]. 




II8 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KK2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


KK3 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KK6 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


KK7 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

LL1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


LL 2 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

LL4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


LL 4 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

MM7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal].


[b-323^b-324 


MM8 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

r 

NN3 Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


NN4 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 4. 








r 

a5 [Mt.] 

h4 r [Hieronymus]: ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


h5 v [Mc.] 

v 

k4 Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


k5 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

v 

o6 ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


o7 v [Io.] 

r 

v7 ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



v7 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

z3 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


z3 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

bb7 r ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


bb7 v [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ll5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


v 

ll5 ‘Alius prologus’. 


ll5 v [Act.] 

r 

pp4 ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


pp4 v [IacÎud.] Each book preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

v 

rr8 [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prefatio’ [to Apc]. 


ss1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


ss1 v [Apc.] 

xx1 v [Colophon.] 

xx2 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcerrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 




refs. See Labrosse,‘>OEuvres’,177^82, who lists otheralternative 


v 

xx3 ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 



undated; (IV) 12 Apr. 1493. 

collation: Part I: AaÂz Ba^Bz Ca^Cg 8 ; part II: Da^Dz Ea^ 

Es 8 Et 10 ; part III: A^Z AA^PP 8 QQ 6 RR 8 ; part IV: a^z aa^xx 8 . 

Woodcuts. 



Gosselin 409, no. 39; Oates 1025; Sack, Freiburg, 670^1; 

Schramm XVII p. 9; Schreiber V 3475; Sheppard 1518^19. 

FIRST COPY 


Wanting Aa 4 and the blank leaves RR 8 and xx 8. 

Binding: All four volumes bound identically, for the Bodleian 

Library, in nineteenth-century calf, with tawed leather index 

tabs. Size: Vol. 1: 360 ¿ 245 ¿ 83 mm; vol. 2: 360 ¿ 245 ¿ 70 mm; 

vol. 3: 360 ¿ 245 ¿ 70 mm; vol. 4: 360 ¿ 245 ¿ 83 mm. Size of 

leaf: 347 ¿ 223 mm. 


Principal initials at the beginning of each volume are supplied in 

blue, with foliate scrolling in white, on burnished gold ground, the 

gilt usually with punch-dotting, within a segmented frame of red, 

pale green, edged in yellow; in the frame, £oral decoration supplied 

in red, green, blue, yellow, and pink, with dots in gold and, 

occasionally, in silver. Other initials, some with extensions into 

the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Some 

capital strokes in red. Rubrication dated ‘1494’on xx1 v and xx7 v . 

Provenance: Largely erased inscription, on Da1 r , A1 r : ‘Pertinet 

ad Bibliothecam . . .’, according to Sheppard possibly Augsburg, 

Bavaria, Benedictines, SS. Udalrichus et Afra, but too uncertain 

for transcription and the inscription does not follow the pattern 

of a book certainly owned by S. Georgius, B-303(1). Georg 

Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); see sale catalogue (1835), lot 

724, which is marked in the Bodleian copy as being purchased 

for the Library, and appears to be the only evidence for the Klo� 

provenance. Purchased for »1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1835), 5. 

shelfmark: Auct. M inf. 2.7^10. 

SECOND COPY 

Vol. 3 only. 


wooden boards, with remains of leather clasps. The upper cover 

badly worn. On both covers ¢llets form concentric frames; the 

outer, a foliate roll, within this a frame, in which is a foliate sta¡ 

with rosette and, within this, a frame in which is a roll containing 

heads over a £oral background with names; in the inner frame, a 

repeated £eur-de-lis stamp, two small £oral stamps, and a 

£euron. In the inner rectangle, a lozenge-shaped centre-piece 

and four small £eur-de-lis stamps, one at each corner of the rectangle.‘Nicolai 

de Lyra Postilla’on spine in faded black ink. Size: 


Early marginal notes, some in red. 


marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in 

red. Some woodcuts are partially coloured in red. 

Provenance: Heraldic book-plate on A 1 r : quarterly,1and 4, eagle 

dimidiated, 2 and 3, bust of a man wearing a pointed cap facing 

centre; crest, between wings, bust of man wearing pointed cap. 

Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not found in Catalogus 

(1843), with Appendix. 




Volume 1.


563 


Aa2 r Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus primus’. 



Aa2 v Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Prologus secundus’. 


Aa 3 v Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . super epistolas Sancti 



. . .’ 

Aa4 r Guilelmus Brito: [Postils on prologue of Hieronymus.] Incipit: 




Aa 4 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest [ep. 53]. 



Ab6 v Guilelmus Brito: ‘Expositio . . . in prologum . . . in 




Ab6 v [Prologue to Pentateuch.] ‘Prefatio . . . in Pentateuchum’. 

Ab8 r Paulus Burgensis: ‘Prologus in additiones’. 


Ab8 v Paulus Burgensis: ‘Additio super vtrumque prologum’. 


Ac 3 r ‘Copia cuiusdam littereque contra determinationem predicte 




Ac3 r ‘Copia responsionis ad predictam epistolam’. 


Ac4 v Doering, Matthias: ‘Prologus in replicas defensiuas postille 



Ac 5 r [Doering, Matthias]: ‘Replica contra quedam dicta Burgensis 



Ac5 v Nicolaus de Lyra: [Postilla litteralis. GnÂpc]. Incipit: ‘‘‘[I]n 

principio’’. Obmissis diuissionibus curiosis, accipio illam que 

magis . . .’ Commentary surrounds text in each book. Doering’s 

corrections usually occur after Burgensis’additions. 

Ac 6 r [GnÎV Rg.] Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Cb8 r ‘Alius prologus’ [to IÎI Par]. 




Cc1 r [IÎI Par.] 

Cg8 r [OrMan.] 

Volume 2. 

Da 1 r [Title-page.] 

Da2 v [IÎI Esr.] I Esr preceded by a prologue. II Esr entitled 


Dc3 v [III Esr.] III Esr entitled ‘II Esr’ in this edition. 

Dd 4 v [TbÊst.] Each book preceded by a prologue. 

Dg6 r ‘Primus prologus’ [to Iob]. [Also known as Alius prologus.] 



Dg 8 v [Iob^Ps (G)]. Iob preceded by an ‘argumentum’. Ps (G) preceded 


Eh1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Prv]. 



Salomonis’. 

Eh1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


Eh2 r [Prv.] 

Ek7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ecl]. 


Ek 8 r [Ecl^Ct.] 

Em8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Sap]. 


Em 8 r [Sap^Sir.] 

Volume 3. 


A 2 v [Is.] Preceded by a prologue and an ‘argumentum’. 

K3 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Ier]. 


K 4 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


K5 r [Ier.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

Q2 v [Introduction to Lam.] Incipit:‘[E]t factum est postquam in captiuitate 

. . .’ 

Q2 v [Lam.] 

R1 v ‘Prefatio’ [to Bar]. 


R1 v [Bar^Dn.] 

EE7 r ‘Alius prologus’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 

refs. Pref. no.11; preceded by ‘Prologus in librum duodecim prophetarum’as 

in ed.Weber. 

EE7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Os]. 


EE 8 r [Os.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

GG2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Ioel]. 


GG 2 v ‘Argumentum’. 


it includes ‘In hoc propheta . . .’, pref. no. 15. 

GG 3 r [Ioel.] 

GG7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Am]. 


GG 7 r ‘Alius prologus’. 


GG7 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


GG 8 r [Am.] 

HH6 r ‘Prologus’ [to Abd]. 



prologue. 

HH7 r [Abd.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

HH 8 r ‘Prologus’ [to Ion]. 


II1 r [Ion.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

II 2 v ‘Prologus’ [to Mi]. 


II3 r [Mi.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

II7 v ‘Prologus’ [to Na].


[b-324 




II8 r [Na.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KK2 r ‘Prologus’ [to Hab]. 


KK3 r [Hab.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

KK6 r ‘Prologus’ [to So]. 


KK 7 r [So.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

LL1 v ‘Prologus’ [to Agg]. 


LL 2 v [Agg.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

LL4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Za]. 


LL 4 v [Za.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

MM7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Mal]. 


MM 8 r [Mal.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

NN 3 r Hieronymus: ‘Prologus’ [to Mcc]. 


NN4 r [IÎI Mcc.] 

Volume 4. 









a5 r [Mt.] 

h 4 r [Hieronymus]: ‘Prologus’ [to Mc]. 


h5 v [Mc.] 

k 4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Lc]. 


k5 v [Lc.] Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prohemium’. 

o 6 v ‘Prologus’ [to Io]. 


o7 v [Io.] 

v 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to Rm]. 



v7 v [Rm.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

z 3 v ‘Prologus’ [to I Cor]. 


z3 v [I Cor.] Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

bb 7 r ‘Prologus’ [to II Cor]. 


bb7 v [II Cor^Hbr]. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

ll 5 v Hieronymus: ‘Prefatio’ [to Act]. 


ll5 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


ll 5 v [Act.] 

pp4 r ‘Prologus’ [to Canonical Epistles]. 


pp 4 v [IacÎud.] Each book preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

rr8 v [Gilbertus Pictaviensis]: ‘Prefatio’ [to Apc]. 


ss1 v ‘Alius prologus’. 


ss1 v [Apc.] 

xx1 v [Colophon.] 

r 

xx2 Nicolaus de Lyra: ‘Pulcerrime questiones Judaicam per¢diam 




v 

xx3 ‘Probatio incarnationis diuine persone’. Incipit: ‘[S]ecundum 



undated; (IV) 6 Sept.1497. 

collation: Part I: AaÂz Ba^Bz Ca^Cg 8 ; part II: Da^Dz Ea^ 

Es 8 Et 10 ; part III: A^Z AA^PP 8 QQ 6 RR 8 ; part IV : a^z aa^xx 8 . 

Woodcuts. 



Gosselin 410, no. 46; Oates 1046^7; Rhodes 368; Sack, Freiburg, 

672; Schramm XVII p. 10; Schreiber V 3476; Sheppard1545^7. FIRST COPY 


Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English calf over pasteboards; 

on both covers double ¢llets form a frame; two sets of vertical 

double ¢llets separate a narrow and a wide triangle. Edges of 

leaves decorated. Both covers of vols 1, 2, and 4 detached.Vol. 3 

rebacked. Size: Vol. 1: 330 ¿ 233 ¿ 85 mm; vol. 2: 330 ¿ 230 ¿ 

66 mm; vol. 3: 330 ¿ 233 ¿ 65 mm; vol. 4: 331 ¿ 232 ¿ 65 mm. 


Early marginal notes, pointing hands, and underlining in black 

ink. Scribbled notes on endleaves. 

In vol. 4 only, initials are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: John Wickins (sixteenth century); signature on 

Aa 2 r , Da2 r , A1 r . Deleted inscription on Aa1 r , Da1 r , A1 r . Russell 

Scott (late sixteenth/seventeenth century?); signature on Aa 1 r , 

Da1 r , A1 r , a1 r . ‘Ent. May 72 AN’ on Aa1 r , Da1 r , A1 r , a1 r . Acquired 

between 1847 and c.1892; not found in Catalogus (1843), with 

Appendix. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Bib. Lat. 1497 c.1^4. 

shelfmark: Auct. 3Q 4.26^9. 

SECOND COPY 

Vols1 and 2 only. 

Binding: Late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century German 

blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with clasps. On both 

covers of both volumes, ¢llets form an undecorated outer frame, 

within which triple ¢llets form a frame, in which is a roll of heads 

within wreaths, interspersed with £oral ornaments. Triple ¢llets 

form an inner frame, in which is a roll of small £ower petals. 

Triple ¢llets form the inner rectangle, decorated on the upper 

cover with an oval stamp with the arms of the Benedictine monastery 

of Metten: quarterly, 1 and 4, nine £eurs-de-lys, 2 and 3, 

double-headed eagle; with an escutcheon en surtout, on a bend, 

three £eurs-de-lys, the arms of Johann Nablas, Abbot 1595^1628 

(Sheppard gives reference to Zimmermann, Kloster-Heraldik, 

102) and, in each corner of the rectangle, a £eur-de-lis stamp; on 

the lower cover an oval stamp of St Michael and the dragon and, 

in each corner of the rectangle, the £eur-de-lis stamp. Both of 

these stamps are very badly mutilated on vol. 1. For a roll and a 

£eur-de-lis stamp, see C-080, also from Metten. Size: Vol. 1:

-324^b-325] biblia 

565 

333 ¿ 246 ¿ 80 mm; vol. 2: 333 ¿ 246 ¿ 67 mm. Sizeof leaf: 323 ¿ 

217 mm. 


On Aa 1 v a full-page pen-and-ink drawing of the Creator, Adam, 

and Eve in the Garden of Eden.Woodcuts coloured in red, yellow, 

blue, and green wash. On Aa 2 r an initial ‘H’ is supplied in blue on 

a burnished gold ground, the gilt with punch-dotting, within a 

segmented frame of red, pale green, edged in yellow. On Da1 v a 

¢ve-line initial ‘U’ is supplied in blue on a burnished gold ground, 

the gilt with punch-dotting and a £eur-de-lis. Other initials are 

supplied in red or interlocked red and blue, some with extensions 

into the margins. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Michael Mu« nichofer (£. c.1500); gave book to 

Metten, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Michael; coat of arms on binding; 

inscription on Aa 1 r , partially repeated on Da1 r :‘Anno domini 

millesimo quingentesimo et tercio ven[erabi]lis vir Dominus 

Michael Mu« nichofer plebanus quondam in Seebach tum sciencia(?) 

et honestate preditus tradidit nostro Monasterio presentem 

librum cum quibusdam aliis in remedium anime sue et in usum 

fratrum reseruandum’; later inscription on Da2 r : ‘Iste liber est 

Sancti Michaelis Archangeli [ ] in Metten’. Erased inscription on 

Aa2 r . Acquired between 1847 and c.1892; not found in Catalogus 


shelfmark: Auct. 6Q 3.30,31. 

B-325 Biblia [German] 

[a 1 r ] [Hieronymus]: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. 

refs.W. Kurrelmeyer, DieerstedeutscheBibel,10 vols, Bibliothek 

des litterarischenVereins in Stuttgart, 234, 238, 243, 246, 249, 251, 

255, 258, 259, 266 (Stuttgart, 1904^15). Here Kurrelmeyer 3 

(1907), 1^37. 

[a 3 v ] [‘Dy« vorrede der.v. bucher Moy« si’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 3 (1907), 37^43. 

[a4 r ] [GnÎV Rg.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 3 (1907), 44^459; 4 (1907), 1^437; 5 (1908), 1^ 

459. Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘Dy ander vorrede’). 

[m 9 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Dy ander vorrede’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 1^11. Preceded by Prefatio sancti 

Hieronimi in librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon (‘dy« erst 

vorrede des ersten buch Paralipominon’). 

[m 9 v ] [IÎI Par.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 11^251.Without OrMan. 

[o9 r ] [IÎI Esr.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 6 (1909), 252^342. Preceded by Jerome’s 

preface. 

[p 7 r ] [III Esr.] [‘Dy beycht Esdre’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[q1 r ] [TbÊst.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910),1^134. Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[r2 v ] [’Dy erst vorrede des dultigen mans Job’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[r 2 v ] [Iob.] [‘Dy ander vorrede’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910),137^45 and146^237. Followed by the 

Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Dy dritt vorrede’) and 

Iob. 

[s1 v ] [‘Dy ander vorrede’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 238^42. Preceded by the ¢rst of 

Jerome’s prefaces. 

[s2 r ] [‘Dy drytt vorrede’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[s 2 r ] [Ps (G).] 


[v1 r ] [Prv.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 1^86. Preceded by Epistola sancti 

Hieronymi presbyteri ad Chromatium et Heliodorum episcopos de 

libris Salomonis (‘Dy vorrede Salomonis in den beyspilen etc.’). 

[v8 r ] [Hieronymus]: [‘Dy vorrede in Ecclesiasticem(!)’, supplied by 


refs. Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 87^117. Followed by Ecl. 

[v10 v ] [Ct.] 


[v12 r ] [‘Dy vorrede des buchs der wey�heyt’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912), 131. 

[v12 r ] [SapÎs.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 8 (1912),132^528. Is preceded by an‘argumentum’ 

(‘Dy ander vorrede’). 

[A 4 v ] [‘Dy« ander vorrede’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 1^4. Preceded by Jerome’s preface 

(‘Dy« erst vorrede des propheten Jeremie’). 

[A 4 v ] [Ier^Lam.] 


[C1 r ] [Bar.] [‘Die vorred des propheten Baruch’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 223^48. Followed by Bar. 

[C3 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 248^523; 10 (1915), 1^141. 

[G1 r ] [Hieronymus]: [‘Dy vorred des buchs der streytt’, supplied by 


refs. Kurrelmeyer 10 (1915), 142^361. Followed by IÎI Mcc. 

[H 6 v ] [Hieronymus]: [‘Die erst vorred Jeronimi zu dem ewangelisten 

Matheum’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[H 7 r ] [‘Die ander vorrede zu Matheum dem ewangelisten’, supplied 



[H 7 r ] [Mt.] 


[I7 r ] [Hieronymus]: [‘Dy vorred des ewangelisten Marcus’, supplied 



[I7 v ] [Mc.] 


[K 4 r ] [‘Dy vorrede des heyligen ewangelisten sant Lucas yn seynen 

ewangelien’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[K 4 r ] [’Dy« ander vorred de� ewangelisten sant Lucas’, supplied by 


refs. Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 194^5. Not a prologue, but Lc 1,1^4. 

[K 4 v ] [Lc.] 


[L5 r ] [‘Dy vorred des ewangelisten sant Iohannes’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


[L5 v ] [Io.] 


[N 1 r ] [‘Die erst vorrede de� aposteln Pauli’, supplied by the rubricator.]

566 biblia 

[b-325^b-326 


[N1 r ] [‘Die ander vorrede sant Pauls tzu den Romern’, supplied by 



[N1 v ] [Rm.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905),10^60. Preceded by an‘argumentum’ 

(‘Die dry« tt vorrede etc.’). 

[N6 r ] [I Cor^Hbr]. 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 60^277. Each letter preceded by an 

‘argumentum’ (‘vorred’). 

[P4 v ] [Hieronymus]: [‘Dy« vorred yn den den (!) geschischten (!) ader 

wercken der aposteln’, supplied by the rubricator.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 278^410. Followed by Act. 

[Q5 v ] [‘Dy vorred in den episteln sant Jacobs’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[Q5 v ] [IacÎud.] [‘Eyn bewerung sant Jacobs in seyn epistel’, supplied 




[Q10 v ] [Apc.] [‘Dy« vorred in apocalipsi[m]’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[R6 r ] [Table of contents for the Psalms.] 


[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, before 27 June 1466]. Folio. 

Sheppard notes that Schorbach’s dating ‘nicht nach 1461’ is 

based on a manuscript date which should be read 1467, not 1461; 

see pl. viii. 

collation: [a 12 bê 10 f 10+1 gî 10 k 8 l 12 mô 10 p 12 q^t 10 v 12 x^z A 10 

B 14 CÊ 10 F 8+1 G 12 H^K 10 L 8 M 6 N^R 10 ]. 

GW 4295; HC *3130; Go¡ B-624; BMC I 52; Pr198; BSB-Ink B-482; 

Oates 73; Schorbach, Mentelin, 3; Sheppard 132; Karl 

Stackmann, ‘Die Bedeutung des Beiwerks fu« r die Bestimmung 

der Gebrauchssituation vorlutherischer deutscher Bibeln’, De 

captu lectoris. Wirkungen des Buches im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert 

dargestellt an ausgewa« hlten Handschriften und Drucken, 

Festschrift Wieland Schmidt, ed. Wolfgang Milde and Werner 

Schuder (Berlin and New York, 1988), 273^88, at 264^77; Stefan 

Strohm, Deutsche Bibeldrucke 1466^1600, Die Bibelsammlung 

der Wu« rttembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart II/1 

(Stuttgart, 1987), 3^4;VLVI 1276^90, at 1277^80. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [M 6]. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century blind-tooled leather over pasteboards. 

On both covers ¢llets form three concentric frames. In 

the inner rectangle, a triangular stamp used as corner-pieces. In 

the frames, a cresting roll and a £oral roll and an ornamental 

stamp. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers 


Initials and chapter headings are supplied in red; red capital 


Provenance: Halle an der Saale, Marienbibliothek. Johann Peter 

von Ludewig (1670^1743); on [a 1 r ] an inscription: ‘Liber 

Bibliothec� Halensis in templo B.Virginis ex dono Ludovici’and 

below in a di¡erent hand ‘Ex auctione publica redemi d. xx Maii 

M D ccx Ludewig’. On the front endleaf ‘A. J. [or A.V. or A. M.] 

Barth A.1746’. Old shelfmarks ‘N o 660’ on front pastedown and 

‘N. 70’ on the front endleaf. Purchased for »42; see Books 

Purchased (1821), 3 and Macray 308. 



[a1 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. [’Die vorrede oder 

die epistel des heiligen priesters sant Jheronimi zu� Paulinum von 

allen go« ttlichen hystorien der bu« cher vnder der biblien’, supplied 



[a3 v ] [‘Die ander vorrede uber die fun¡ bucher Moysi’, supplied by 





459. Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’ (‘Ein ander vorrede’). 

[o 1 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Ein ander vorrede’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


Hieronimi in librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon (‘die vorrede 

u¤ ber d[as] buch Paralippominon’). 

[o1 v ] [IÎI Par.] 


[q 1 r ] [IÎI Esr.] 


preface. 

[q 9 r ] [III Esr.] 


[s1 r ] [TbÊst.] 


[t 2 v ] [‘Die vorrede u¤ ber das bu¤ ch Job’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[t2 v ] [Iob.] [‘Ein ander prologus oder vorrede uber d[as] buch Job’, 


refs. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 137^45, 146^237. Followed by the 

Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Ein ander vorrede’) and 

Iob. 

[v1 r ] [‘Ein ander vorredu¤ ber den psalter’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[v 1 r ] [‘Aber ein ander vorred uber den psalter’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[v 1 r ] [Ps (G).] 


[y1 r ] [Prv.] 



libris Salomonis (‘Die vorrede uber d[as] bu¤ ch parabole 

Salomonis’). 

[y 8 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Die vorrede Ecclesiastes’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[y 10 v ] [Ct.] 


[z2 r ] [‘Die vorred u¤ ber d[as] buch der wy�heit’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[z2 r ] [SapÎs.]

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567 


(‘Ein ander vorred’). 

[C 6 r ] [‘Ein ander vorred’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


(‘Die vorrede uber den propheten Jheremiam’). 

[C 6 r ] [Ier^Lam.] 


[F1 r ] [Bar.] [‘Die vorrede u¤ ber d[as] buch Baruth’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


[F3 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 


[I 10 r ] Hieronymus: [‘Die vorred uber die bu« cher Machabeorum’, 



[L 7 v ] [‘Die vorred uber Matheum’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[L8 r ] [‘Ein ander vorred u¤ ber sant Matheum xii bott vnnd ewangelist’, 



[L8 r ] [Mt.] 


[M 8 r ] [Hieronymus]: [‘Die vorred uber den ewangelisten Marcum’, 



[M 8 v ] [Mc.] 


[N5 r ] [‘Die vorred uber Lucam den ewangelisten’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


[N5 r ] [’Ein ander vorrede uber Lucam den ewangelisten’, supplied 



[N5 v ] [Lc.] 


[O 6 r ] [‘Die vorred uber Iohannem den ewangelisten’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


[O 6 v ] [Io.] 


[P5 r ] [‘Die vorrede u¤ ber Paulum’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[P 5 v ] [‘Ein andere vorrede’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[P5 v ] [Rm.] 


(‘Aber ein ander vorred uber Paulum’). 

[P10 r ] [I Cor^Hbr]. 



[R8 v ] Hieronymus: [‘Die vorred . . . in d[as] bu¤ ch der botten’, supplied 



[S9 v ] [‘Die vorred uber die canonicas epistolas’, supplied by the 

rubricator.] 


[S9 v ] [IacÎud.] [‘Ein ander vorred’, supplied by the rubricator.] 



[T2 v ] [Apc.] [‘Die vorred uber d[as] bu« ch der heimlichen o¡enbarung’, 


refs. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 470^528. Followed by Apc. 

[T8 r ] [Table of contents for the Psalms.] [‘Die thytellus haben sich hie 

an uber einen ieglichen psalm’, supplied by the rubricator.] 


[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 1470]. Folio. The copy 

in the Gotha Forschungsbibliothek has the note: ‘Ste¡an 

Losniczer Zum Stege Ist dicz puech Amen etc. 1470.’ 

collation: [a^f 10 g 2+1 h^k 10 l 8 m^q 10 r 4 s 10 t 10+1 v 10 x 8+1 y z A B 10 

CÊ 8 F^R 10 ST 12 ]. Collation as BMC, not as GW, exceptthat [r 4 ], 

rather than [r 11 ]. 


B-483; Oates 119; Sack, Freiburg, 673; Sheppard 174; Strohm, 

Deutsche Bibeldrucke, 4^6;VLVI 1276^90, at 1280^2. 

COPY 

Leaf [P9 v ], col. 1, l. 1reads ‘ob er i||t der i|t verdampt . . .’, see GW 

Anm. Gathering [p] misbound after [s]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century blind-tooled russia (bound for the 

Bodleian Library) over wooden boards; two metal clasps; blueedged 

leaves; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 


Foliation in ink by an early hand. Marginal notes in the gospels in 

German by an early hand indicating liturgical lessons. 

On [a 1 r ] a ten-line initial is supplied in green with foliate scrolling 

and red in¢ll with yellow pen-£ourishing, within a light blue 

frame; £oral extensions into the margins in blue, green, and 

magenta with gold dotting. Principal initials are supplied in red 

or blue with pen-£ourishing in brown or red; other initials are 

supplied in red or blue, headings and chapter numbers in red; 

red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Purchased for »50; see Books Purchased (1794), 1 

and Macray 276. 



[a2 v ] ‘Das register u¤ ber die bibeln des alten testaments’. 

[a2 v ] ‘Das register des neu¤ wen testaments’. 

[a 3 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Die epistel des 

heyligen priesters sant Jheronimi zu� Paulinumvon allen go e tlichen 

buo e chern der hystori’. 


[a6 r ] ‘Die vorred in die fun¡ buo e cher Moysi’. 


[a 7 r ] [GnÎV Rg.] 


459. Ios preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘Eyn andere vorred’). 

[r4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Eyn andere vorred u¤ ber Paralipomenon’. 


Hieronimi in librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon (‘die 

vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch Paralipomenon’). 

[r 4 v ] [IÎI Par.] 


[t10 v ] [OrMan.] 


[t10 v ] [IÎI Esr.] 


preface. 

[x 1 r ] [III Esr.]

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[b-327 


[x7 r ] [TbÊst.] 


[z3 r ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch Job nach der au�legung der sibentzig 

au�legern’. 


[z2 r ] [Iob.] ‘Ein andere vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch Job’. 


Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Ein andere vorrede u¤ ber 

das bu� ch Iob’) and Iob. 

[A5 r ] ‘Ein andere vorred u¤ ber die weissagung des propheten Dauid’. 



[A5 r ] ‘Ein andere vorred u¤ ber den psalter’. 


[A 5 r ] [Ps (G).] 


[D6 r ] [Prv.] 



libris Salomonis (‘Die vorred Jheronimi u¤ ber das bu� ch der spru¤ ch 

des weisen ku¤ nigs Salomonis’). 

[E 5 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorrede Jheronimi u¤ ber d[as] bu� ch zu� latein 

genennet Ecclesiastes’. 


[E 9 r ] [Ct.] 


[E10 v ] ‘Die vorrede in das bu� ch der wey�heit’. 


[E10 v ] [SapÎs.] 


(‘Ein andere vorred in den prophetenYsaiam’). 

[K 5 v ] ‘Eyn andere vorred’. 


(‘Die vorred u¤ ber den propheten Jheremiam’). 

[K 5 v ] [Ier^Lam.] 


[M10 v ] [Bar.] ‘Die vorrede u¤ ber d[as] bu� ch des weissagen Baruth’. 


[N3 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 


[S 3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . u¤ ber die bu� cher Machabeorum’. 


[X1 r ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber Matheum’. 


[X 1 v ] ‘Ein andere vorred u¤ ber Matheum den zwelfboten vnd ewangelisten’. 


[X 1 v ] [Mt.] 


[Y4 v ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Die vorred u¤ ber den ewangelisten Marcum’. 


[Y5 r ] [Mc.] 


[Z 3 v ] ‘Die vorred vber den ewangelisten Lucam’. 


[Z4 r ] ‘Ein ander vorrede’. 


[Z 4 r ] [Lc.] 


[aa8 r ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber Iohannem den ewangelisten’. 


v 

[aa8 ] [Io.] 


[bb9 r ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber Paulum’. 


[bb10 r ] ‘Ein ander vorred’. 


[bb10 v ] [Rm.] 


(‘Aber ein ander vorred’). 

[cc6 r ] [I Cor^Hbr]. 



[¡2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred in das bu� ch der wu¤ rckung der .xii. 

botten’. 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 277^8 n. 53. 

[¡2 r ] ‘Die ander vorred’. 


r 

[gg6 ] ‘Die vorrede in die epistolas canonicas’. 


[gg6 v ] [IacÎud.] ‘Die ander vorrede in die epistel canonica sant 

Iacobs’. 



r 

[hh3 ] [Apc.] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch der heymlichen o¡enbarung’. 


r 

[hh10 ] [Colophon.] 

Augsburg: [Gu« nther Zainer, not after 1474]. Folio. For dating see 

note in BMC reprint, referring to presentation of a copy in 1474, 

and Sack, Freiburg. 

collation: [a 10 b 8 c 8+1 d^s 10 t 10+1 v^z A^S 10 T V 8 X^Z aa^hh 10 ]. 

76 woodcut historiated initials at the beginning of each book; see 

Walter Eichenberger and Henning Wendland, Deutsche Bibeln 

vor Luther. Die Buchkunstderachtzehn deutschen Bibeln zwischen 

1466 und1522 (Hamburg [1977]), 29^38. 

GW 4298 (+ Anm.); H *3133; Go¡ B-627; BMC II 323; Pr 1577; 

BSB-Ink B-485; Oates 887; Sack, Freiburg, 674^5; Schramm II 

19 and 24; Schreiber V 3456; Sheppard 1161^2; Karl Stackmann, 

‘Die Bedeutung des Beiwerks fu« r die Bestimmung der 

Gebrauchssituation vorlutherischer deutscher Bibeln’, De captu 

lectoris.Wirkungen des Buches im15. und 16. Jahrhundert dargestellt 

an ausgewa« hlten Handschriften und Drucken, Festschrift 

Wieland Schmidt, ed. Wolfgang Milde and Werner Schuder 

(Berlin, 1988), 273^88, at 282^3; Strohm, Deutsche Bibeldrucke, 

9^11;VLVI 1276^90, at 1282^3. 

FIRST COPY 


The second of the two settings of [M1]^[V8] (fols cccxxxvi^ 

ccccxxi) recorded in GWAnm. 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin 

(Schunke^Schwencke: U¡enheim Hauptwerkstatt; David 

Rogers: Augsburg,‘Head-over-heels binder’) over bevelled wooden 

boards; rubbings of the binding and of individual stamps are 

reproduced in David Rogers, ‘A Glimpse into Gu« nther Zainer’s 

Workshop at Augsburg’, Buch und Text im 15. Jahrhundert/ 

Books and Text in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Lotte Hellinga and 

Helmar Ha« rtel, Wolfenbu« ttler Abhandlungen zur

-327^b-328] biblia 

569 

Renaissanceforschung, 2 (1981), 145^63, pls IV^V. Two bosses, 

four corner-pieces on each cover, and two clasps lost. Book-label 

at the head of the upper cover lost. On both covers triple ¢llets 

form three concentric frames; the inner rectangle is divided into 

lozenge-shaped compartments. In the inner rectangle, a lozengeshaped 

stamp with a dog; in the frames, a large lozenge-shaped 

stamp with a pomegranate (Rogers no. 9; Schwenke^Schunke 

121, no. 136: U¡enheim Hauptwerkstatt), a smaller lozengeshaped 

stamp with the head of Christ (Schwenke^Schunke 83, 

no. 10: U¡enheim Hauptwerkstatt; Rogers no. 8), a square lamband-£ag 

stamp (Schwenke^Schunke 152 no. 22: U¡enheim 

Hauptwerkstatt; Rogers no. 6), a set of four square Evangelist 

stamps (Schwenke^Schunke 96 no. 24: U¡enheim 

Hauptwerkstatt; Rogers nos 1^4), a rosette stamp (Rogers no. 5); 

a palmette stamp (Rogers no. 11) and stamped scrolls with the 

inscription: ‘AUE MARIA’ (Rogers no. 5); for descriptions of 

similar bindings on other books printed by Zainer, see Rogers, 

‘Zainer’s Workshop’, 150^1, and pl. VI. Size: 495 ¿ 330 ¿ 


Pastedowns, consisting of a ‘pull’, printed on one side only, of 

Johannes de Fonte, Compendium librorum Sententiarum. 

[Augsburg: Gu« nther Zainer, 1475^6], were extracted in Feb. 1975, 

and placed in a modern guard-book; see J-154(2). See also 

Rogers,‘Zainer’s Workshop’. 

Early German marginal notes, mainly from Iob onwards. On 

[hh 10 v ] a list in German in an early hand indicating liturgical 

lessons. 

A few woodcut initials painted in several colours. 


Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 


SECOND COPY 


The second of the two settings of [M1]^[V8] (fols cccxxxvi^ 

ccccxxi) recorded in GWAnm. 


bevelled wooden boards, two bosses, four corner-pieces on each 

cover lettered ‘Heirch Meosli 1577’; two clasps, one of which has 

recently been repaired, but is now partly lost. On both covers ¢llets 

form seven concentric frames. In the central compartments a 

triangular ornamental stamp; in the frames stamped £oral and 

ornamental rolls. Size: 465 ¿ 310 ¿ 145 mm. Size of leaf: 445 ¿ 

292 mm. 

On [hh10 r ] a note in German in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand on early editions of the Bible (1448^1518). 

Historiated initials are supplied in several colours. On [a 3 r ] £oral 

extensions into the inner and upper margins in blue, green, and 

magenta with some gold dotting. 

Provenance: Leonhard Rissius (£. 1588); on [a 3 r ] an inscription: 

‘Leonhardus Rissij Lucer Orthodox’. Inspection note on [a2 r ] by 

Amandus von Niderhofen of Altdorf (�c.1566), Canton Uri, 

Switzerland: ‘Besechen v� Beuelch vnser herren vnd gU� tt erkent 

durch Amandum von Niderhofenn vnd Han�en zum [ ]’. 


with handwritten shelfmark ‘M.h.6’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 

40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 1930. Purchased for »3. 6. 0, via Parker, 

from Theodor Weigel (Catalogue (1856), no. 180); see Library 

Bills (1856^8), 130 v and Books Purchased (1856), 9. 



[a2 v ] ‘Das register u¤ ber die bibeln des alten testaments’. 

[a3 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. ‘Die epistel des 

heyligen priesters sant Jeronimi zu� Paulinum von allen go e ttlichen 

buo e chern der hystory’. 


[a 6 r ] ‘Die vorred in die fu« n¡ buo e cher Moysi’. 




459. Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’ (‘Ein andere vorred’). 

[r2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Ein andere vorred u¤ ber Paralipomenon’. 



vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch Paralipomenon’). 

[r2 v ] [IÎI Par.] 


[t7 v ] [OrMan.] 


[t7 v ] [IÎI Esr.] 


preface. 

[v7 v ] [III Esr.] 


[x3 v ] [TbÊst.] 


[y 8 v ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch Job’. 


[y9 r ] [Iob.] ‘Ein ander vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch Job’. 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 137^45 and146^237. Followed by the 

Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Ein andere vorred u¤ ber 

das bu� uch Job’) and Iob. 

[z10 r ] ‘Ain andere vorred u¤ ber die wyssagung des propheten Dauid’. 



[z10 r ] ‘Ain ander vorred u¤ ber den psalter’. 


[z10 r ] [Ps (G).] 


[ 2 a 1 v ] ‘Das register u¤ ber das ander teyl der bibel’. 

[ 2 a1 v ] ‘Das register des nu¤ wen testaments’. 

[ 2 a2 r ] [Prv.] 



libris Salomonis (‘Die vorred Jheronimi u¤ ber d[as] bu� ch der 

spru¤ ch des wysen ku¤ ngs Salomonis’). 

[ 2 b 1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorrede Jheronimi u¤ ber das bu� ch zu� latin 



[ 2 b 4 r ] [Ct.] 


[ 2 b5 v ] ‘Die vorred in das bu� ch der wi�heit’. 


[ 2 b6 r ] [SapÎs.] 


(‘Ein ander vorred in den prophetenYsaiam’). 

[ 2 f 8 v ] ‘Ein andre vorred’. 


(‘Die vorred u¤ ber den propheten Jheremiam’).

570 biblia 

[b-328^b-329 

[ 2 f8 v ] [Ier^Lam.] 


[ 2 v 

i2 ] [Bar.] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber das bu� ch des wissagen’. 


[ 2 i5 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 


[ 2 o2 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . u¤ ber die bu� cher Machabeorum’. 


[ 2 r1 r ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber Matheum’. 


[ 2 r1 v ] ‘Ein andere vorred u¤ ber Matheum den zwo e l¡botten vnd ewangelisten’. 


[ 2 r1 v ] [Mt.] 


[ 2 s4 r ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Die vorred u¤ ber den ewangelisten Marcum’. 


[ 2 v 

s4 ] [Mc.] 


[ 2 t2 r ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber den ewangelisten Lucam’. 


[ 2 t2 v ] ‘Ein ander vorrede’. 


[ 2 v 

t2 ] [Lc.] 


[ 2 v6 r ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber Iohannem den ewangelisten’. 


[ 2 v 

v6 ] [Io.] 


[ 2 x6 v ] ‘Die vorred u¤ ber Paulum’. 


[ 2 x7 r ] ‘Ein ander vorred’. 


[ 2 v 

x7 ] [Rm.] 



2 

x7 v [I Cor^Hbr]. 



[ 2 A7 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred in das bu� ch der wu¤ rckung der .xii. 

botten’. 


[ 2 v 

A7 ] [‘Dye ander vorred’.] 


[ 2 C1 r ] ‘Die erst vorred’. 


[ 2 C1 r ] [IacÎud.] ‘Die ander vorred in die epistel canonica sant 

Iacobs’. 



[ 2 D1 v ] [Apc.] ‘Dievorredu¤ ber dasbu� ch der heimlichen o¡enbarung’. 


[Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner, 

between 1476 and 1478]. Folio. 

collation: Vol. 1: [ 1 a 10 b c 8 d^z 1 A^C 10 ]; vol. 2: [ 2 aô 10 p 8 q 6 r^z 

2 10 6 8 

A B C D ]. 

r 

On [a3 ] a woodcut historiated initial ‘B’ depicting Jerome and 

Paulinus in conversation over a book; 72 similar historiated initials 

at the beginning of each book. On [a7 r ] a woodcut depicting 

God enthroned above Paradise, surrounded by symbols of the 

four evangelists; see Walter Eichenberger and Henning 

Wendland, Deutsche Bibeln vor Luther. Die Buchkunst der achtzehn 

deutschen Bibeln zwischen 1466 und 1522 (Hamburg [1977]), 

45^52. 


B-486; Oates 1070; Sack, Freiburg, 676; Schramm XVIII p. 14; 

Schreiber V 3457; Sheppard 1416; Strohm, Deutsche Bibeldrucke, 

11^12;VLVI 1276^90, at 1283^4. 

COPY 



Binding: Bound uniformly in pasteboards covered with leaves 

from a manuscript antiphonary on parchment, dyed brown. 

Size: 395 ¿ 295 ¿ 66 and 397 ¿ 290 ¿ 65 mm. Size of leaf: 385 ¿ 

262 mm. 

A few early marginal notes, mainly in the Psalms. Manuscript 

catchwords. 

Woodcuts touched in red, yellow, and pink. Initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘M.h.4’: see Lee, Royal 

Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 1928. Purchased for »9. 5. 




[a1 v ] ‘Das register u« ber die bibeln des alten testaments’. 

[a1 v ] ‘Das register des neu« wen testaments’. 

[a2 r ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus.‘Die vorrede oder 

die epistel des hailigen priesters sant Jheronimi zu� Paulinum von 

allen go e tlichen hystorien der bu« cher vnder der biblen’. 


[a 5 v ] ‘Die vorred in die fu« n¡ bu� cher Moysi’. 




459. Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’ (‘Ein andere vorred’). 

[r3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Ein andere vorred u« ber Paralipomenon’. 



vorred u« ber das bu� ch Paralipomenon’). 

[r6 v ] [IÎI Par.] 


[v1 v ] [OrMan.] 


[v 1 v ] [IÎI Esr.] 


preface. 

[x 2 v ] [III Esr.] 


[x9 r ] [TbÊst.] 


[z 4 v ] ‘Die vorred u« ber das bu� ch Job nach der au�legung der sibentzig 

au�legern’. 


[z 5 r ] [Iob.] ‘Ein ander vorred u« ber das bu� ch Job’.

-329] biblia 

571 


Prologussancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Ein ander vorred u« ber das 

bu� ch Job’) and Iob. 

[A6 v ] ‘Ein andere vorred u« ber die weissagung des propheten Dauid’. 



[A7 r ] ‘Ein andere vorred u« ber den psalter’. 


[A7 r ] [Ps (G).] 


[ 2 a1 r ] [Prv.] 



libris Salomonis (‘Die vorrede Jheronimi vber das bu� ch der 

spru« ch des wey�en ku« nigs Salomonis’). 

[ 2 a 10 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorrede Jheronimi u« ber d[as] bu� ch zu� 

latein genennet Ecclesiastes’. 


[ 2 b 4 r ] [Ct.] 


[ 2 b5 v ] ‘Die vorrede in das bu� ch der wey�heyt’. 


[ 2 b 6 r ] [SapÎs.] 


(‘Ein andere vorred in den prophetenYsaiam’). 

[ 2 g 1 v ] ‘Ein andere vorred’. 


(‘Die vorred u« ber den propheten Jheremiam’). 

[ 2 g 1 v ] [Ier^Lam.] 


[ 2 i6 v ] [Bar.] ‘Die vorred u« ber das bu� ch des weissagen Barutch’. 


[ 2 i 9 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 


[ 2 o10 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Dievorred. . . vber diebu� cher Machabeorum’. 


[ 2 q11 r ] [Date 1477.] 

[ 2 r1 r ] ‘Die vorred u« ber Matheum’. 


[ 2 r1 v ] ‘Ein andere vorred u« ber Matheum den zwel¡botten vnd ewangelisten’. 


[ 2 r 1 v ] [Mt.] 


[ 2 s5 r ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Die vorred u« ber den ewangelisten Marcum’. 


[ 2 s5 v ] [Mc.] 


[ 2 t 3 v ] ‘Die vorred u« ber den ewangelisten Lucam’. 


[ 2 t4 r ] ‘Ein andere vorred’. 


[ 2 t4 r ] [Lc.] 


[ 2 v 8 r ] ‘Die vorred u« ber Iohannem den ewangelisten’. 


[ 2 v8 v ] [Io.] 


[ 2 x 9 v ] ‘Die vorred u« ber Paulum’. 


[ 2 x10 r ] ‘Ein andre vorred’. 


[ 2 v 

x10 ] [Rm.] 



[ 2 r 

y6 ] [I Cor^Hbr]. 



[ 2 B2 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred in das bu� ch der wu« rckung der 

zwoo e l¡poten’. 


[ 2 B2 v ] ‘Dye ander vorred’. 


[ 2 C6 v ] ‘Die vorrede in die epistolas canonicas’. 


[ 2 r 

C7 ] [IacÎud.] ‘Die ander vorrede in die epistel canonica sant 

Iacobs’. 



[ 2 r 

D4 ] [Apc.] ‘Die vorred u« ber d[as] pu� ch der heymlichen o¡enbarung’. 


[ 2 r 

D10 ] [Colophon.] 

Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 20 June 1477. Folio. 

collation: Part I: [a^q 10 r 8+1 s^z A^C 10 D 8 ; 2 a^n 10 o 10+1 p 12 q 10+1 

r^z 2 A^C 10 D 10+1 ]. Collation di¡ers from GW; see GWAnm. 

77 woodcuts; woodcut initials; see Eichenberger and Wendland, 

Deutsche Bibeln vor Luther, 59^64. 


B-488; Sack, Freiburg, 677; Schramm IV 7 and 50; Schreiber V 

3459; Sheppard 1236^7; Strohm, Deutsche Bibeldrucke, 14; VL 

VI 1276^90, at 1284. 

FIRST COPY 



250 mm. 

On [a1 r ] a German note in a seventeenth-century hand. 

Woodcuts painted in various colours, woodcut initials touched in 

red. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Franz To« psl (1711^1796). Polling, diocese of 

Augsburg, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, SS. Jacobus, Salvator 

and S. Crux; on front pastedown a book-plate inscribed 

‘Franciscus Pr�positus S. Salvatoris Polling�. A o 1744. Ad 

Bibliothecam ibidem’; see Warnecke 1601. Duplicate from the 

Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum’, duplicate stamp and shelfmark 

‘Inc. typ. N ro 1022’. Purchased for »5; see Books Purchased 

(1851), 8. 


SECOND COPY 


Binding: Parchment. Size: 350 ¿ 265 ¿ 65 and 346 ¿ 260 ¿ 


A few sixteenth-century manuscript notes. On [ 2 L10 r ] German 

notes on the invention of printing and on Martin Luther in an 

eighteenth-century hand signed ‘M.v.S. 1765.’ 

Woodcut initials touched in red; paragraph marks are supplied in 


Provenance: Melchior Stintzing (sixteenth/seventeenth century?); 

on [ 2 L10 r ] an inscription: ‘Daz puch ist des Melchars

572 biblia 

[b-329^b-330 

Stinczen’ in an early hand. Purchased for »6. 2. 6; see Books 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Germ. 1477 c.1,2. 




heyligen priesters sant Jheronimi zu Paulinumvon allen go e tlichen 

bu e chern der hystori’. 


[a4 r ] ‘Die vorred in die fun¡ buo e cher Moysi’. 


[b 1 r ] [GnÎV Rg.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 3 (1907), 44^459; 4 (1907), 1^437; 5 (1908), 

1^459. Chapters preceded by short summaries throughout, 

printed in Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 426^37; 2 (1905), 533^7; 3 

(1907), 462^72; 4 (1907), 439^49; 5 (1908), 464^74; 6 (1909), 404^ 

13; 7 (1910), 531^40; 8 (1912), 532^50; 9 (1913), 526^38; 10 (1915), 

363^72. Ios preceded by ‘argumentum’ (‘Ein andere vorred’). 

[A 5 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Ein andere vorred vber Paralipomenon’. 


Hieronimi in librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon (‘dye 

vorred vber das buch Paralipomenon’). 

[A6 v ] [IÎI Par.] 


[E 3 r ] [OrMan.] 


[E3 v ] [IÎI Esr.] 


preface. 

[F7 r ] [III Esr.] 


[G 6 r ] [TbÊst.] 


[I7 v ] [Iob.] ‘Dy vorred vber das buch Job’. 


Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Ein andere vorred vber 

daz buch Job’) and Iob. 

[L5 r ] ‘Ein andere vorred vber die weyssagung des propheten Dauid’. 



[L5 v ] ‘Ein andere vorred’. 


[L5 v ] [Ps (G).] 


[Q 2 r ] [Prv.] 



libris Salomonis (‘Dye vorred Iheronimi vber das buch der spru« ch 

des weysen ku e nigs Salomonis’). 

[R4 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorrede Jheronimi vber das buch zu latein 



[R8 r ] [Ct.] 


[S 1 v ] ‘Die vorrede in das buch der wey�heyt’. 


[S1 v ] [SapÎs.] 


(‘Ein andere vorred in den propheten Isaiam’). 

[aa 2 r ] ‘Ein andere vorrede’. 


(‘Dye vorrede vber den propheten Jheremiam’). 

[aa 2 v ] [Ier^Lam.] 


[dd5 v ] [Bar.] ‘Dy vorrede vber das buch des weyssagen Baruch’. 


[dd 8 v ] [Ez^Mal.] 


[ll6 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . vber die buo e cher Machabeorum’. 


[oo7 v ] ‘Die vorred vber Matheum’. 


[oo 8 r ] ‘Ein andere vorred vber Matheum den zwelfboten vnd ewangelisten’. 


[oo 8 r ] [Mt.] 


[qq6 v ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Die vorred vber den euangelisten Marcum’. 


[qq 7 r ] [Mc.] 


[rr7 v ] ‘Dy vorred vber den euangelisten Lucam’. 


[rr8 v ] ‘Ein ander vorrede’. 


[rr 8 v ] [Lc.] 


[tt7 v ] ‘Die vorred vber Iohannem den ewangelisten’. 


[tt 8 r ] [Io.] 


[xx3 v ] ‘Die gemayn vorred in alle epistel sancti Pauli’. 


[xx4 r ] ‘Dye su e nderlich vorred in die epistel, die sant Pauls an die ro e - 

mer geschriben hat’. 


[xx4 v ] [Rm.] 


(‘Aber ein ander sunderliche vorred anzaygende, was die meynung 

diser gantzen epistel sei’). 

[yy2 r ] [I Cor^Hbr]. 



[BB3 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . in das buch der wurckung der 

zwel¡botten’. 


[BB3 v ] ‘Die ander vorred’. 


[DD 2 r ] ‘Die gemeyn vorrede in epistolas canonicas’. 


[DD2 r ] [IacÎud.] ‘Die sunderlich vorrede in die epistel canonica 

sant Iacobs’. 



[EE3 r ] [Apc.] ‘Dye vorred vber d[as] buch der heymlichen o¡enbarung’. 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 2 (1905), 470^528. Followed by Apc.

-330^b-331] biblia 

573 

[FF5 v ] [Colophon.] 

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 Feb. 1483. Folio. 

collation: [a 4 b^d 8 e 6 f^z AÔ 8 P 6 Q^Z aa^zz AA^CC 8 DD^ 

FF 6 ]. Collation as GW, not as BMC. 

109 woodcuts; see Eichenberger and Wendland, DeutscheBibelnvor 

Luther, 91^6. 


B-490; Oates 1000^1; Rhodes 370; Sack, Freiburg, 678^80; 

Schramm XVII p. 8; Schreiber V 3461; Sheppard 1485; Karl 

Stackmann, ‘Die Bedeutung des Beiwerks fu« r die Bestimmung 

der Gebrauchssituation vorlutherischer deutscher Bibeln’, De 




Schuder (Berlin, 1988), 273^88, at 284; Strohm, Deutsche 

Bibeldrucke, 19^20;VLVI 1276^90, at 1285^6. 

FIRST COPY 



no. 83; Schwenke^Schunke^Rabenau 12) blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards, two bosses, four corner-pieces on each cover 

and two clasps lost. Letter-stamping at the head of the upper 

cover. Merrythought stamps on the spine. On both covers ¢llets 

form a triple frame; the inner rectangle is ¢lled with merrythoughts. 

In the inner frame a stamp with three £owers, in the 

middle frame a cresting roll, in the outer frame, palm-leafstamps; 

for the cresting roll see Kyri� pl. 169 roll no. 1 (Augsburg) and 

Schwenke^Schunke 80 no. 31. Size: 403 ¿ 277 ¿ 90 and 403 ¿ 


A coloured woodcut of St Mary Magdalene, measuring 113 ¿ 

69 mm, pasted on the endleaf of vol. 1. 

Rubrics in German by an early hand indicating liturgical lessons. 

Woodcuts painted in several colours. 

Provenance: Jo« rg Zwicker (£. 1515); name on the rear pastedowns; 

on the front endleaves inscription: ‘Di� bU� ch hat vn� 

vnser vater Jo« rg Zwicker vmb gotz willen geben v¡ aftermentag 

vor sant valentine amen. Domini 1515 Jar’ [13 Feb. 1515]. 

Anonymous sale (London, Evans, 6 Feb. 1832), lot 270. 

Purchased for »3. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 3 and 

Library Bills (1829^32), no. 348 (dated1832). 


SECOND COPY 



Leaves [x1] and [I1] only. Size of fragments: 384 ¿ 267 mm. 

On both leaves paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital 

strokes and underlining in red. On [x 1 r ] line ¢llers are supplied 

in red; on [I 1 r ] a three-line initial‘D’ is supplied in red. On [x1 r ] and 

on [I1 v ] woodcut initials have been pasted in the gaps left for 

coloured initials to be supplied: that on [x1 r ] shows King David 

with a harp, that on [I 1 v ] show God creating the world; also on 

[X1 v ] a ¢ve-line initial ‘E’ in gold, decorated with red pen-work 

and edged in black, has been pasted in the gap left for an initial. 

shelfmark: Gibson 403(5/1^2). 


aa2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus.‘Epistel des heyligen 

priesters sannt Jheronimi zu Paulinum von allen go e tlichen 

buchern der histori’. 


aa7 v ‘Die vorred in die funf bucher Moysi’. 


aa9 r [GnÎV Rg.] 


459. Chapters preceded by short summaries throughout, printed 

in Kurrelmeyer1 (1904),426^37; 2 (1905),533^7; 3 (1907),462^72; 

4 (1907), 439^49; 5 (1908), 464^74; 6 (1909), 404^13; 7 (1910), 531^ 

40; 8 (1912), 532^50; 9 (1913), 526^38; 10 (1915), 363^72. Ios preceded 

by ‘argumentum’ (‘Ein andere vorred’). 

O4 r Hieronymus: ‘Ein ander vorred vber Paralippomenon’. 



vorred vber das buch Paralippomenon’). 

O5 r [IÎI Par.] 


r 

V1 [OrMan.] 


V1 v [IÎI Esr.] 


preface. 

v 

Y3 [III Esr.] 


Z6 v [TbÊst.] 


r 

d2 [Iob.] ‘Dye vorred u« ber das bu� ch Job’. 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 7 (1910), 134^45, 146^237. Followed by the 

Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Ein andere vorred u« ber 

das bu� ch Job’) and Iob. 

v 

f7 ‘Ein andere vorred u« ber die weyssagung des propheten Dauid’. 



f7 v ‘Ein andere vorred’. 


r 

f8 [Ps (G).] 


2 

a2 r [Prv.] 



libris Salomonis (‘Die vorred Hieronimi u« ber d[as] bu� ch der 

spru« ch des weisen ku« nigs Salomonis’). 

2 

c2 r Hieronymus: ‘Die vorrede Jheronimi u« ber das bu� ch zu� latein 

genennt Ecclesiastes’. 


2 

c8 r [Ct.] 


2 

d2 v ‘Die vorrede in d[as] bu� ch der wei�heit’. 


2 r 

d3 [SapÎs.] 


(‘Ein andre vorred in den propheten Isaiam’). 

2 

n7 v ‘Ein andere vorred’. 


(‘Die vorrede u« ber den propheten Jheremiam’). 

2 

n7 v [Ier^Lam.] 


2 v 

t2 [Bar.] ‘Die vorrede u« ber das bu� ch des weyssagen Baruch’. 


2 

t7 v [Ez^Mal.] 

refs. Kurrelmeyer 9 (1913), 248^523; 10 (1915), 1^141.

574 biblia 

[b-331^b-332 

2 

F3 v Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . u« ber die bucher Machabeorum’. 


2 r 

L3 ‘Die vorred u« ber Matheum’. 


2 

L4 r ‘Ein andere vorred vber Matheum den zwo e lf boten vnd euangelisten’. 


2 

L4 v [Mt.] 


2 r 

O3 [Hieronymus]: ‘Die vorred u« ber den ewangelisten Marcum’. 


2 

O4 r [Mc.] 


2 

Q1 v ‘Die vorred u« ber den ewangelisten Lucam’. 


2 v 

Q2 ‘Eyn ander vorred’. 


2 

Q2 v [Lc.] 


2 r 

T2 ‘Die vorred u« ber Iohannrm(!) den ewangelisten’. 


2 

T3 r [Io.] 


2 

X4 v ‘Die gemein vorred in alle epistel sancti Pauli’. 


2 v e 

X5 ‘Die sunderlich vorred in die epistel, die sant Paulus an die ro- mer geschrieben hat’. 


2 v 

X6 [Rm.] 


(‘Aber ein ander sunderliche vorred anzeygende, was die meinung 

diser gantzen epistel sey’). 

2 v 

Y7 [I Cor^Hbr]. 



2 r 

dd8 Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . in das bu� ch der wurckung der 

zwoo e l¡boten’. 


2 v 

dd8 ‘Die ander vorred’. 


2 

gg7 v ‘Die gemeyn vorrede in epistolas canonicas’. 


2 v 

gg7 [IacÎud.] ‘Dye sunderlich vorred in die epistel canonica sant 

Iacobs’. 


argumentum (‘vorred’). 

2 

ii2 v [Apc.] ‘Die vorred u« ber d[as] bu� ch der heimlichen o¡enbarung’. 


2 r 

kk8 [Colophon.] 

Strasbourg: [Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger], 2 May 1485. Folio. 

collation: Vol. 1: 1 aa^|| ss^zz 1 A 8 B C 4 D^Z 1 aî 8 k 10 l m 8 ; vol. 2: 

2 2 2 8 

a^v w^z A^Z aa^kk . 

109 woodcuts, the ¢rst numbered in inverse roman numbers; see 

Eichenberger and Wendland, Deutsche Bibelnvor Luther, 97^109. 

GW 4304; H *3138; Go¡ B-633; BMC I103; Pr 443; BSB-Ink B-491; 

Rhodes 371; Sack, Freiburg, 681; Schramm XVII p. 22; Schreiber 

V 3462; Sheppard 358; Strohm, Deutsche Bibeldrucke, 21^2; VL 

VI 1276^90, at 1286^7. 

COPY 


Wanting the blank leaves 1 aa 1 and 2 aa 1. 

Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century German blind-tooled 

pigskin over wooden boards; ornamental centre-piece and roll 

with crocketed cresting; two clasps lost. Size: 298 ¿ 215 ¿ 97 and 


On front pastedown of both volumes collation note signed by 

F[idelis] B[utsch] and dated1857. 

Most woodcuts painted in several colours. Principal initials are 

supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Pru« fening, Bavaria, near Regensburg, 

Benedictines, S. Georgius; on 1 a2 r and 2 a2 r an inscription: 

‘Monasterij S. Georgij martyris in Pri£ing’. Old shelfmark 

‘Collect. Bibl. pag. 567’ on the front pastedown of vol. 1. 

Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; duplicate stamp and 

shelfmarks ‘Inc.c.A. (1485) 1555 a ’ and ‘Bibl. Inc. c. A. Stra�burg 

1485’on front pastedown of vols 1 and 2, pencil number ‘498’ on 

endleaf of vol. 1, ‘Duplum’ on endleaf of vol. 2. Butsch-catalogue 


(1858), 12. 

shelfmark: Bib. Germ. 1485 d. 1,2. 



heiligen briesters sant Jheronimi zu� Paulinum von allen go e tlichen 

bu« chern der hystorien’. 


[a 5 v ] ‘Die vorred in die fu« n¡ buo e cher Moy« si’. 




459. Chapters preceded by short summaries throughout, printed 

in Kurrelmeyer1 (1904),426^37; 2 (1905),533^7; 3 (1907),462^72; 

4 (1907), 439^49; 5 (1908), 464^74; 6 (1909), 404^13; 7 (1910), 531^ 

40; 8 (1912), 532^50; 9 (1913), 526^38; 10 (1915), 363^72. Ios preceded 

by ‘argumentum’ (‘Ein andere vorred’). 

[i2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Ein andere vorred u« ber Paralippomenon’. 


Hieronimi in librum Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon (‘die vorrede 

u« ber das bu� ch Paralipomenon’). 

[i 3 r ] [IÎI Par.] 


[o1 r ] [OrMan.] 


[o1 v ] [IÎI Esr.] 


preface. 

[Q 1 r ] [III Esr.] 


[Q10 v ] [TbÊst.] 


[v1 v ] [Iob.] ‘Die vorrede u« ber das bu� ch Job’. 


Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob (‘Ein andere vorred u« ber 

das bu� ch Job’) and Iob. 

[y5 r ] ‘Ein anderevorredeu« ber die wei�sagung des propheten Dauid’.

-332] biblia 

575 



[y 5 v ] ‘Ein andere vorrede’. 


[y5 v ] [Ps (G).] 


[ee1 r ] [Prv.] 



libris Salomonis (‘Die vorrede Jheronimi u« ber das bu� ch der 

spru« che des wey« senn ku« niges Salomonis’). 

[¡8 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorrede Jheronimi u« ber das bu� ch zu� latein 



[gg5 v ] [Ct.] 


[gg7 v ] ‘Die vorrede in das bu� ch der wey« �heit’. 


[gg 8 r ] [SapÎs.] 


(‘Ein andere vorrede in den propheten Isaiam’). 

[qq3 r ] ‘Ein andere vorrede’. 


(‘Die vorrede u« ber den propheten Jheremiam’). 

[qq3 v ] [Ier^Lam.] 


[xx1 v ] [Bar.] ‘Die vorrede u« ber d[as] bu� ch des wey« ssagen Baruch’. 


[xx 6 r ] [Ez^Mal.] 


[GG8 v ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . u« ber die bu« cher 

Machabeorum’. 


[MM3 r ] ‘Die vorred u« ber Matheum’. 


[MM 4 r ] ‘Ein andere vorred u« ber Matheum den zwo e l¡ boten vnd 

ewangelisten’. 


[MM 4 v ] [Mt.] 


[OO8 v ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Die vorredu« ber den ewangelisten Marcum’. 


[PP 1 r ] [Mc.] 


[QQ5 r ] ‘Die vorred u« ber den ewangelisten Lucam’. 


[QQ6 r ] ‘Ein ander vorrede’. 


[QQ 6 r ] [Lc.] 


[TT2 v ] ‘Die vorred u« ber Iohannem den ewangelisten’. 


[TT3 v ] [Io.] 


[XX 3 r ] ‘Die gemey« n vorred in alle epistel sancti Pauli’. 


[XX3 v ] ‘Die sunderlich vorrede in die epistel, die sant Pauls an die 

ro e mer geschriben hat’. 


[XX4 v ] [Rm.] 


(‘Aber ein ander sunderliche vorred anzey« gende, w[as] die mey« - 

nung diser ganczen epistel sey« ’). 

[YY4 r ] [I Cor^Hbr]. 



[ccc8 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die vorred . . . in das bu� ch der wu« rckung der 

zwoo e l¡boten’. 


r 

[ccc8 ] ‘Die ander vorred’. 


[¡f4 r ] ‘Die gemein vorrede in epistolas canonicas’. 


[¡f4 v ] [IacÎud.] ‘Die sunderlich vorrede in die epistel canonica sant 

Iacobs’. 



[ggg6 r ] [Apc.] ‘Die vorrede u« ber daz bu� ch der hey« mlichen o¡enbarung’. 


[hhh9 v ] [Colophon.] 

Augsburg: Johann Scho« nsperger, 25 May 1487. Folio. 

collation: [a 6 b^m 8 n 8+1 o^z A^Z aa^zz AA^ZZ aaa-ggg 8 

hhh 10 ]. 

109 woodcuts; woodcut initials; see Eichenberger and Wendland, 

Deutsche Bibeln vor Luther, 110^18. 

GW 4305; H *3139; Go¡ B-634; Pr 1765; BSB-Ink B-492; Schreiber 

V 3463; Sheppard 1294; Strohm, Deutsche Bibeldrucke, 22^3;VL 

VI 1276^90, at 1287. 

COPY 


Binding: Sixteenth-century German (Tegernsee, Kyri� workshop 

no. 31) blind-tooled leather over bevelled wooden boards, 

two bosses, four corner-pieces on each cover, and two clasps 

lost. On the upper cover ¢llets form four concentric frames; the 

inner rectangle is divided by rolls into vertical compartments. In 

the compartments several di¡erent ornamental and £oral rolls, 

one of which shows a standing ¢gure with erect arms. On the 

lower cover ¢llets form a frame; the inner rectangle is divided 

into three horizontal compartments, the upper and lower ones of 

which are divided by ¢llets into lozenge-shaped and triangular 

¢elds. In the ¢elds, a large round stamp with the arms of 

Tegernsee, two round rosette stamps, a £ower stamp, and a triangular 

foliate stamp. In the frame, a £oral roll. For the stamps see 

Kyri� pl. 69, nos 4, 6, a. Size: 320 ¿ 220 ¿ 75 and 310 ¿ 220 ¿ 


On front endleaf of vol. 1 a few lines of a‘Register vber di� pu e ech’ 

entered in a sixteenth-century South German hand. 

On [a1 r ] and [b1 r ] initials are supplied in blue with highlighting in 

white on burnished gold grounds, the gilt with punch-dotting, 

within a segmented frame of red and green, and with gold dotting; 

in the lower margin, £oral ornament in the same palette with gold 

dotting.Woodcuts painted in various colours and (on [b1 r ]) decorated 

with burnished gold. In gatherings [a], [b], and [ee], paragraph 

marks supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Tegernsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Quirinus. Old 

shelfmark ‘Collect. Bibl. pag. 568’ on front pastedowns of both 

volumes. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; stamp. 

Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773^1843); book-plates

576 biblia 

[b-332^b-333 

with handwritten shelfmark ‘L.e.1’: see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 

40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 1946. Purchased for »5. 7. 6; see Books 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Germ. 1487 c.1,2. 


B-333 Biblia [Low German, with glosses] 

Part II only. 

[L1 r ] [Prv.] 

refs. Die Niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Gerhard 

Ising, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 54/4 (Berlin, 1971), 328^ 

73. Each chapter preceded by a short summary throughout. 

[L10 v ] [Ecl.] 

refs. Die Niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Ising, 374^90. 

[M4 r ] [Note about the Jewish restriction of the readership of Ct, 

which therefore is not translated into German.] 

refs. Die Niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Ising, 390. 

[M4 r ] [Ct]. 

[M5 v ] [SapÎs.] 

refs. Die Niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Ising, 404^ 

639. Sir and Is without Jerome’s prologue. 

[s5 r ] [Ier^Lam.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke,V, ed. Gerhard Ising 

and Charlotte Mu« ller, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 54/5 

(Berlin, 1974), 3^202. Ier without Jerome’s prologue. 

[x 5 r ] [Bar.] ‘Die vorrede van Baruchs boeck’. 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke,VI, ed. Gerhard Ising 

and Charlotte Mu« ller, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 54/6 

(Berlin, 1976), 709 and Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, V, 

ed. Ising and Mu« ller, 203^24. Followed by Bar. 

[x8 v ] [Ez^Dn.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, V, ed. Ising and 

Mu« ller, 225^481. Ez and Dn without Jerome’s prologue. 

[bb7 v ] [Os^Mal.] 


Mu« ller, 482^629.Without prologues or ‘argumenta’. 

[ee1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Dye vorrede . . . van den twen boeken der 

Machabeen’. 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. Ising and 

Mu« ller, 724 and 3^168. Pref. no. 31, followed by IÎI Mcc. 

[hh 1 r ] ‘De vorrede ouer Matheum’. 


Mu« ller, 725^6. 

[hh 1 v ] ‘Eyne ander vorrede’. 


Mu« ller, 726^7. 

[hh 1 v ] [Mt.] 


Mu« ller, 170^235. 

[ii 4 r ] [Hieronymus]: ‘De vorrede ouer Marcum’. 


Mu« ller, 727^8. 

[ii 4 v ] [Mc.] 


Mu« ller, 236^69. 

[kk 2 r ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Dye vorrede ouer den ewangelisten Lucam’. 


Mu« ller, 729^30. 

[kk 3 r ] ‘Eyn ander vorrede’. 


Mu« ller, 270. Not a prologue, but Lc 1,1^4. 

r 

[kk3 ] [Lc.] 


Mu« ller, 270^334. 

v 

[ll8 ] [Hieronymus]: ‘Dievorrede ouer Iohannem den ewangelisten’. 


Mu« ller, 731^2. 

[mm1 r ] [Io.] 


Mu« ller, (1976), 335^87. 

[nn2 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Dye vorrede . . . ouer dye epystolen Pauli to den 

Romeren’. 


Mu« ller, 734^5. 

v 

[nn2 ] [Rm^Hbr.] 


Mu« ller, 735, 388^415, 736^7, 416^40, 737, 441^59, 737^8, 460^8, 

738, 469^77, 738, 478^83, 738, 484^9, 738^9, 490^4, 739, 495^7, 

739, 498^505, 739, 506^10, 739^40, 511^13, 740, 514^15, 740, 516^ 

36. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’, referred to as 

‘vorrede’. 

v 

[qq5 ] Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede . . . auer dat boeck der werckinge 

der apostolen’. 


Mu« ller, 740 and 537^96. Followed by Act. 

[ss4 r ] [IacÎud.] ‘Dye vorrede in de epystolen der regulen’. 


Mu« ller, 741^2, 597^603, 742, 604^11, 743, 612^17, 743, 618^24, 

743, 625, 743, 626^7, 743, 628^9. Followed by IacÎud, each letter 

preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘Dye vorrede’). 

[tt1 r ] [Apc.] ‘Dye vorrede ouer dat boeck der hemelicker apenbaringe’. 


Mu« ller, 744 and 630^63. Followed by Apc. 

Cologne: [Heinrich Quentell, c.1478]. Folio. 

collation: [a 4 b^d 10 e^l 8 m n 6 o^s 8 t 6 v 8 x y 10 z A B 8 C 10 D^G 8 H 

I 10 K 8 L 10 MÔ 8 P 6 Q 10 R S 8 T 10 V^Z aaêe 8 ¡ 6 ggîi 10 kk ll 8 mm 

nn 10 oo 8 pp 10 qq rr 8 ss tt 10 ]. 

r r 

Woodcut border on [hh1 ] and [tt1 ]; see Eichenberger and 

Wendland, Deutsche Bibeln vor Luther, 65^86. 

GW 4308; H *3141; Go¡ B-637; BMC I 264; Pr 1252; Borchling^ 

Claussen 27; BSB-Ink B-494; Oates 720; Schramm VIII p. 19; 

Schreiber V 3466; Sheppard 937; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 257. 

Facsimile: Die Ko« lner Bibel 1478/1479: Erster originalgetreuer 

Nachdruck (Amsterdam and Hamburg, 1979); on the production 

of this Bible see Severin Corsten,‘The Illustrated Cologne Bibles 

of c.1478’, in Incunabula, ed. Davies,79^88;VLVI 977^86, at 980^ 

3. 

COPY 

Gatherings [L]^[tt] only (PrvÂpc). 

Binding: Sixteenth-century blind-tooled German pigskin over 

wooden boards; two clasps lost. On both covers ¢llets form three 

concentric frames. In the inner rectangle an ornamental centrepiece 

and corner-pieces; in the frames two di¡erent £oral rolls 

and a cresting roll. Size: 410 ¿ 295 ¿ 95 mm. Size of leaf: 388 ¿ 

280 mm. 


pen-£ourishing in red and blue; other initials and paragraph

-333^b-334] biblia 

577 

marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Cologne, Jesuits; on [L 1 r ] an inscription: ‘Collegii 

Soc. Jesu Coloniae 1745’. Duplicate from the Royal Library, 

Munich; old shelfmark ‘Inc.s.a. 195’, stamp and duplicate stamp. 

Collation note on front pastedown signed F[idelis] Bu[tsch] and 

dated 1857; Fidelis Butsch, Catalogue (1858), no. 30. Probably 

purchased through Parker in Mar. 1860 for »36. 3. 0; see Parker’s 

bill (dated Mar. 1860) in Library Bills; not identi¢ed in Books 

Purchased. 

shelfmark: Bib. Germ. 1480 b.1. 

B-334 Biblia [Low German, with glosses] 

[a1 v ] ‘De delinghe vnde inholdynghe desses bokes der godliken scrift 

der Biblien’. 


Mu« ller, 668^76. 

[a3 r ] [Note on the reading of the Bible and on the glossesby Nicolaus 

de Lyra.] 


Mu« ller, 676. 

[a3 v ] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus.‘De epistel sunte 

Hieronimi to deme prestere Paulinum van allen boken der godliken 

historien’. 


Mu« ller, 676^85. 

[a 6 v ] Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede . . . in de vif boo e ke Moysi’. 


Mu« ller, 686^7. 

b 1 r [GnÎV Rg.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, I, ed. Gerhard Ising, 

Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 54/1 (Berlin, 1961), 3^705; Die 

niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, II, ed. Gerhard Ising, 

Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 54/2 (Berlin, 1963), 3^334; Die 

niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. Ising and Mu« ller, 689^ 

91; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, II, ed. Ising, 335^559; 

Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. Ising and Mu« ller, 

691^3; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, II, ed. Ising, 559^ 

709; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, ed. Gerhard 

Ising, DeutscheTexte des Mittelalters, 54/3 (Berlin, 1968), 3^291. 

Chapters preceded by short summaries throughout, printed in 

Kurrelmeyer 1 (1904), 426^37; 2 (1905), 533^7; 3 (1907), 462^72; 

4 (1907), 439^49; 5 (1908), 464^74; 6 (1909), 404^13; 7 (1910), 

531^40; 8 (1912), 532^50; 9 (1913), 526^38; 10 (1915), 363^72; 

ascribed to Nicolaus de Lyra in the preceding note. Ios preceded 

by ‘argumentum’ (‘Dat argumentum, de bewysinghe’). 

v6 r Hieronymus: ‘Een ander voerrede’. 


Mu« ller, 693^6. Preceded by Prefatio sancti Hieronimi in librum 

Dabreiamin, qui est Paralipomenon (‘de vorrede sunte Jheronimi 

in dat boek Paralipomenon’). 

v6 v [IÎI Par.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, Gerhard Ising, 

292^391. 

z3 r [OrMan.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, ed. Ising, 392. 

z3 r [IÎI Esr.] 


Mu« ller, 696^7; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, ed. 

Ising, 393^433. Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

h4 r [IIIÎV Esr.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, ed. Ising, 434^90. 

[c’]8 v [Note on the translator of IV Esr and the absence of glosses by 

Nicolaus de Lyra for that book.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, ed. Ising, 490. 

A 1 r [TbÊst.] 


Mu« ller, 697^8; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, ed. 

Ising, 491^508; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. 

Ising and Mu« ller, 698; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, III, 

ed. Ising, 509^31; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. 

Ising and Mu« ller, 698^9; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, 

III, ed. Ising, 532^54. Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

B3 r [Iob.] ‘Devorrede in datboek Job na der iodeschenvthsettinghe’. 


Mu« ller, 699^701; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. 

Gerhard Ising, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, 54/4 (Berlin, 

1971), 3^58. Followed by the Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro 

Iob (‘De ander vorrede in dat boek Job na der vtsettinghe der 

souentich’) and Iob. 

D 1 v [Ps (G).] 


Mu« ller, 702; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Ising, 

59^327. Preceded by the ¢rst of Jerome’s prefaces only. 

H1 v [‘De vorrede in de boeke Salomonis’]. 


Mu« ller, 702^4. Preceded by Epistola sancti Hieronymi presbyteri 

ad Chromatium et Heliodorum episcopos de libris Salomonis (‘De 

sendebref sunte Hieronimi des presters to den biscoppen 

Chromacium vnde Heliodorum van den boken Salomonis’). 

H1 v ‘Een ander vorrede’. 



328^73. Followed by Prv. 

I 2 r Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede sunte Jheronimi in dat boek 

Ecclesiasten’. 



374^90. Followed by Ecl. 

I5 r [Ct.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Ising, 391^ 

403. 

I 8 v ‘De vorrede in dat boek der wi�heyt’. 



I8 v [SapÎs.] 

refs. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Ising, 404^34; 

Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. Ising and Mu« ller, 

705^6; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. Ising, 435^ 

522; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. Ising and 

Mu« ller, 706^7; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, IV, ed. 

Ising, 523^639. Is preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘De 

bewisinghe’). 

Q2 v Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede in den profeten Hieremiam’. 



Q 2 v ‘Ene ander vorrede dar vp’.

578 biblia 

[b-334 

refs. Pref. no. 9; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. 

Ising and Mu« ller, 708; Preceded by a‘prologus’. 

Q 2 v [Ier^Lam.] 


Mu« ller, 708. Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke,V, ed. Gerhard 

Ising and Charlotte Mu« ller, DeutscheTexte des Mittelalters, 54/5 

(Berlin, 1974), 3^202. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’. 

T2 r [Bar.] ‘De vorrede in den profeten Baruch’. 


Mu« ller, 709; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, V, ed. Ising 

and Mu« ller, 203^24. Followed by Bar. 

T4 v [Ez^Dn.] 


Mu« ller, 709^10; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke,V, ed. Ising 

and Mu« ller, 225^395; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, 

ed. Ising and Mu« ller, 710^11; Die niederdeutschen 

Bibelfru« hdrucke,VI, ed. Ising and Mu« ller, 396^481. 

Z1 r ‘Een ander vorrede’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 


Mu« ller, 712. Preceded by ‘Prologus in librum duodecim prophetarum’ 

(‘De vo e rrede in dat boek der twelf Propheten’). 

Z1 r ‘De vorrede in den profeten Osee’. 


Mu« ller, 712^13. 

Z1 r [Os.] 



and Mu« ller, 482^508. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘de 

bewisinge’). 

Z 4 v ‘De vorrede in den profeten Johel’. 


Mu« ller, 713^14. 

Z 4 v ‘Een ander vorrede in den profeten Johel’. 



Z 4 v [Ioel.] 




bewysinghe’). 

Z6 r ‘De vorrede in den profeten Amos’. 


Mu« ller, 714^15. 

Z6 r ‘Een ander vorrede’. 



Z 6 r ‘Noch een ander vorrede’. 

refs. Pref. no. 19; Die niederdeutschen Bibelfru« hdrucke, VI, ed. 

Ising and Mu« ller, 715. 

Z 6 r [Am.] 


Mu« ller, 519^37. 

Z 8 v ‘De vorrede in den profeten Abdiam’. 


Mu« ller, 716; here, the passage beginning: ‘[H]ebrei hunc dicunt 


prologue. 

Z8 v [Abd.] 





aa 1 r ‘De vorrede in den propheten Jonam’. 


Mu« ller, 716^17. 

aa 1 r [Ion.] 





aa2 r ‘De vorrede in den propheten Micheam’. 



aa2 v [Mi.] 





aa 4 r ‘De vorrede yn den propheten Naum’. 



aa4 v [Na.] 





aa5 r ‘De vorrede in den propheten Abacuk’. 


Mu« ller, 718^20. 

aa5 v [Hab.] 




bewisynghe’). 

aa7 r ‘De vorrede yn den propheten Sophoniam’. 


Mu« ller, 720^1. 

aa7 r [So]. 





aa 8 r ‘De vorrede yn den propheten Aggeum’. 


Mu« ller, 721^2. 

aa 8 v [Agg.] 





bb1 r ‘De vorrede in den profeten Zachariam’. 


Mu« ller, 722^3. 

bb1 r [Za.] 





bb 5 r ‘De vorrede in den profeten Malachiam’.

-334] biblia 

579 


Mu« ller, 723^4. 

bb 5 r [Mal.] 





bb6 v Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede . . . in de twe boeke der Machabeen’. 



bb6 v [Hieronymus]: ‘Een ander vorrede’. 


Mu« ller, 724^5, 3^168. Followed by IÎI Mcc. 

dd8 v ‘De vorrede in Matheum’. 


Mu« ller, 725^6. 

ee1 r ‘Een ander vorrede’. 


Mu« ller, 726^7. 

ee 1 r [Note on the symbols of the evangelists.] 



ee 1 r [Mt.] 


Mu« ller, 170^235. 

¡ 4 v [Hieronymus]: ‘De vorrede in Marcum’. 


Mu« ller, 727^8. 

¡ 5 r [Mc.] 


Mu« ller, 236^69. 

gg3 r Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede . . . in dat euangelium Luce’. 


Mu« ller, 730^1. 

gg3 v ‘Een ander vorrede’. 


Mu« ller, 270. Not a prologue, but Lc 1,1^4. 

gg3 v [Lc.] 


Mu« ller, 270^334. 

hh7 r Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede . . . auer Iohannem den ewangelisten’. 


Mu« ller, 731^2. 

hh7 v [Io.] 


Mu« ller, 335^87. 

kk1 v Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede . . . in alle epistolen efte sendebreue 

sunte Pawels’. 


Mu« ller, 733^4. 

kk 1 v ‘De vorrede ouer de epistole Pauli to den Romeren’. 


Mu« ller, 734^5. 

kk 2 r [Rm.] 


Mu« ller, 735, 388^415. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘De 


kk 7 r ‘De vorrede in de erste epistole tho den Chorinthier’. 



v 

kk7 [I Cor.] 


Mu« ller, 736^7, 416^40. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘De 


ll4 r ‘De vorrede in de anderen epistole to den Chorinthien’. 



r 

ll4 [II Cor.] 


Mu« ller, 737, 441^59. Preceded by an ‘argumentum’ (‘De 


ll7 v [Gal^Hbr.] 


Mu« ller, 737^8, 460^8, 738, 469^77, 738, 478^83, 738, 484^9, 738^9, 

490^4, 739, 495^7, 739, 498^505, 739, 506^10, 739^40, 511^13, 740, 

514^15, 740, 516^36. Each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum’, 

referred to as ‘De vorrede vnde de bewysinghe’, ‘De bewysinghe’ 

or ‘De vorrede’. 

nn4 v Hieronymus: ‘De vorrede . . . auer dath boek der werkynghe 

der apostele’. 


Mu« ller, 740^1. 

nn4 v ‘Ene andere voerrede’. 


Mu« ller, 741, 537^96. Followed by Act. 

oo8 r ‘De vorrede in de souenn regulerde epistolen’. 


Mu« ller, 741^2. 

oo8 r ‘De bewisinghe in de souen regulerede epistolen’. 



oo8 r [IacÎud.] ‘De bewisinghe ouer de regulerede epistel sunte 

Jacobs’. 


Mu« ller, 742, 597^603, 742, 604^11, 743, 612^17, 743, 618^24, 743, 

625, 743, 626^7, 743, 628^9. Followed by IacÎud, each letter preceded 

by an ‘argumentum’ (‘De bewisinghe’). 

pp5 v [Apc.] ‘De vorrede auer dat boekder hemeliken apenbaringhe’. 


Mu« ller, 744, 630^63. Followed by Apc. 

r 

qq6 [Colophon.] 

Lu« beck: Stephanus Arndes, 19 Nov. 1494. Folio. 

collation: [a 6 ] b^z h c‹ AÊ 8 F G 6 H I 8 K^M 6 N O 8 P Q 6 R^Z aa^ 

oo 8 pp qq 6 .The signatures of gathering qq start with qq2. 

92 woodcuts; woodcut initials, see Hans Wahl (ed.), Die 92 

Holzschnitte der Lu« becker Bibel aus dem Jahre 1494 (Weimar, 

1917), and Eichenberger and Wendland, Deutsche Bibeln vor 

Luther, 119^34. 

GW 4309; HCR 3143; Go¡ B-638; BMC II 560; Pr 2645; Borchling^ 

Claussen 241; BSB-Ink B-495; Oates 1194; Schramm XI p. 12; 

Schreiber V 3467; Sheppard 1910; Karl Stackmann, ‘Die 

Bedeutung des Beiwerks fu« r die Bestimmung der 

Gebrauchssituation vorlutherischer deutscher Bibeln’, in De 




Schuder (Berlin, 1988), 273^88, at 284^5;VLVI 977^86, at 983^5.

580 biblia: vetus testamentum 

[b-334^b-336 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled russia, bound for the 

Bodleian Library; marbled pastedowns. Size: 417 ¿ 300 ¿ 


Excerpts from Bernhard of Clairvaux, Epistola 125, and the 

ConfessioAdrianiVIpapae in thehand of Gerhard Gravius on a 1 r . 

Some woodcuts with traces of crude colouring in brown. 

Provenance: Gerhard Grave (1598^1675). Hamburg, Cathedral 

Chapter; on a1 r : ‘Antiquam hanc, sub ipsis papatus tenebris editam 

Bibliorum versionem Germanicam, Venerandi Capituli 

Hamb. Bibliothec�, memori� et observanti� ergo consecravit 

Anno 1642 16 April Gerh. Gravius SS. Th: Lic. Cathed. Eccl. 

Past. et Sacrarum Literarum Lector.’ Purchased from Abraham 

(Adolf) Asher in 1850 for »7. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1850), 7; 

and letter to B. Bandinel, dated 24 Sept.1849 (Library Records, d. 

248). 


B-335 Biblia: VetusTestamentum [Dutch] 

r 

[a1 ] ‘Dat prologus vander biblen des ouersetters te duytsche vten 

latine’. Incipit: ‘[O]nse here god voersiende die grote droecheit 

van deuotien . . .’ 

r 

[a2 ] [GnÎV Rg.] Without the prologues to Gn, Ios, and I Sam. 

[ee1 r ] Hieronymus: ‘Die prologe vander Machabeen boecken’. 

Incipit: ‘[T]we boeken der Machabeen beteikenen die striden . . .’ 

Followed by IÎI Mcc. 

r 

[hh9 ] [Colophon.] 

[A1 r ] [IÎI Par.] Without the prologue. 

[E5 r ] [OrMan.] 

v 

[E5 ] [IÎI Esr.] Without Jerome’s preface. 

[F2 v ] [TbÊst.] Tb preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[I7 r ] [Iob.] 

v 

[L5 ] [Prv^Sir.] Without Jerome’s prefaces. 

[R10 r ] [Is.] ‘[H]ier begint dat boec vanYsayas prophecie’. Incipit:‘Die 

welke sine reden is so schone in hebreusche also Iheronimus 

seit . . .’ Followed by Is. 

[X6 v ] [Ier^Lam.] Preceded by Jerome’s prologue (‘Prologhe op 

Iheremiam den propheet’). 

[CC1 v ] [Bar.] ‘Die voersprake van Baruchs boeck’. Incipit: ‘[D]ese 

boec, die Baruch ghenoemt wert . . .’ Followed by Bar. 

[CC6 v ] [Ez.] Preceded by Jerome’s prologue. 

[HH1 r ] [Dn.] Without the prologue. 

r 

[KK1 ] [Os^Mal.] Preceded by Jerome’s preface. 

[MM10 r ] [Colophon.] 

Delft: Jacob Jacobszoen van der Meer and Mauricius 

Yemantszoen, 10 Jan. 1477. Folio. In two parts. 

collation: Part I: [a^z aa bb 10 cc 6 dd 6+1 ee^gg 10 hh 8+1 ]; part II: 

[A^Z AAÊE 10 FF 6 GGÎI 8 KK^MM 10 ]. 

HC 3160; Go¡ B-648; BMC IX 16; Pr 8862; Amelung, 

‘Niederla« ndische Inkunabeln’, 63; Boekdrukkunst (1973), 117; 

Campbell 290; HPT II 399; ILC 396; Machiels, Arend de 

Keysere, B430; Oates 3335^6; Sheppard 6871. 

COPY 

Bound in two volumes (GnÎV Rg, Dn, IÎI Mcc; I ParÎob, 

PrvÊz, Os^Mal). Omitting Psalms. 

Wanting [y1^3] of vol. 1. 

Leaf [y4] repaired. Dn ([HHÎI 8 ]) bound after IV Rg ([dd9]); see 

BMC note. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch gold-tooled calf; vol. 1 

rebacked. Size: 275 ¿ 203 ¿ 55 and 300 ¿ 220 ¿ 60 mm. Size of 

leaf: 268^291 ¿ 190^201 mm. 

Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes in 

vol. 2. Old title-label of vol. 2 pasted on front endleaf. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue with pen-£ourishing in red 

and green or in interlocked red and blue with pen-£ourishing in 

red and yellow. Headings, other initials, and paragraph marks 

are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Berend Frederik Tijdeman (1784^1829)(?); sale (29 

Oct. 1832), lot 11(?). Purchased by Heber(?) for »10. 10. 0, according 

to the price annotated in red ink in Heber’s sale catalogue. 

Richard Heber(?) (1773^1833); ‘Heber 1010?’; perhaps 

Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 1010, sold for »6. 16. 6. Purchased for »5. 

15. 6 according to Books Purchased (1833), 3. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: vol. 1: Vet. Test. Holland., Auct. 

Y 4.9; both vols: Bib. Dutch 1477 d.1,2. 


B-336 Biblia: VetusTestamentum (GnÎob) [French] 

a2 r [GnÎob] [French]. ‘La Bible en francoys’. Incipit: ‘[A]u commencement, 

Dieu crea le ciel et la terre . . .’ The text is a paraphrase 

of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. 

z1 r [The seven ages of the world: ‘les sept a“ ges du monde’]. ‘Les 

eages’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uant Adam et Eue furent boutes hors de paradis 

. . .’ 

A1 r ‘La table’. 

Paris: [AntoineVe¤ rard, c.1488^9]. Folio. As assigned and dated by 

Sheppard; not Pellechet 2360, despite the handwritten identi¢cation 

in the reprint with Pr 7979 and Proctor’s attribution to Guy 

Marchant. 

collation: a^d 8 e 6 f g 8 h 6 i 8 k 6 l^t 8.8.6 v^z 8.6 A 4 . 

Type:112 B.172 leaves, a2-z5 numbered ii^clxvii, with errors.35 lines 

(a3 r ); two columns. Type area: 195 ¿ 133 mm (a3 r ).Two woodcuts: 

v 

on a1 Christ seated in majesty, holding in one hand a book with 

the inscription: ‘Ego alpha sum et o’; symbols of the Evangelists; 

beneath, a £oriated cross; on z5 v Cruci¢xion, with a £oriated 

cross beneath: illustrated in Pierre Aquilon, ‘La Bible abre¤ ge¤ e’, 

Revue franc� aise d’histoire du livre, 2 (July^December, 1972), 167^ 

8. 

Not in GW; Pr 7979; Aquilon,‘La Bible abre¤ ge¤ e’, 147^82, at 175^7; 

Paul Needham, ‘Two Unrecorded French-language Incunabula 

from the Press of Antoine Caillaut, with Additional Notes on his 

Printing before 1492’, in Amelung,‘Niederla« ndische Inkunabeln’, 

339^62, at 349 no. C 31; Sheppard 6246^8; Bettye Thomas 

Chambers, Bibliography of French Bibles (Geneva, 1983), 12, no. 

11. 

COPY 

Wanting b 4.5 and the, presumably, blank leaf z 6. 

Leaves k 3 and k 4 transposed; a 1 partially repaired. 


Library; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian 


leaf: 271 ¿ 187 mm. 

Copious marginal annotations in a sixteenth-century hand, 

translating the text into Latin, and with some commentary. 

Numerous pen-trials and scribbles on front and back endleaves, 

including a horse on recto of back endleaf; ‘Sancta Barbara ora

-336^b-337] biblia 

581 

pro nobis’on recto of front endleaf; faces of creatures in the guttering 

of z5 v . 


Provenance: Jehan Dorin (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); inscription 

on a1 r (damaged): ‘Ce present liure apartient [a moy] Iehan 

Dorin quil > le trouuera si luy rendra [ ]’; signature and pen-trials 

repeated on endleaves. Simon Le Moyne (sixteenth century); signaturebelow 

colophon. Other names, probably later: inscriptions 

on A 4 v : ‘Johanne Kyrby ys a false thefe so saythe Johanne 

Cannone and Thomas Wodrofe’; ‘Thomas Wodrofe ys a crityke 

so sayth George Hayse’; John Kirby; John Cannon; Thomas 

Wodrofe; George Hayse. Acquired by 1835; see Catalogus (1843), 

I 258. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Arch. A 154. 


B-337 Biblia [Italian] 

Part I. 

[*]2 r Squarza¢cus, Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Marco 

Cattaneo, Bishop of Alessandria. Allenspach^Frasso 272^5. 

[*]3 r ‘Tabula de la prima parte de la Biblia’. 

[*]7 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest. 

‘Prologo’.Translated by Niccolo' Malerbi. 

refs. As in La Bibbia volgare, ed. Carlo Negroni, 10 vols 

(Bologna, 1882^7). ‘Prologo’ to Pentateuch, as in La Bibbia volgare, 

ed. Negroni, included as chapter nine of this letter. On the 

translator see Edoardo Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane del quattrocento 

e del cinquecento (Milan, 1992), I 16^35, with a discussion 

of the form of the name on 17^18; for this edition see Edoardo 

Barbieri, ‘EŁ diteurs et imprimeurs de la Bible en italien (1471^ 

1600)’, in La Bible imprime¤ e, 246^59, at 247, with further 

references. 

r 

[a1 ] [Gn^Dt.] 

k6 v ‘Prologo’ [to Ios], followed by [Ios^Rt]. 

n4 v ‘Prologo’ [to Rg], followed by [I SmÎV Rg]. 

v 

t7 ‘Prologo’ [to Par], followed by [IÎI Par]. 

z3 r ‘Prologo’ [to Esr]. 

z3 r ‘Altro prologo’ [to Esr], followed by [IÎI Esr]. 

r 

h5 [III Esr.] 

m4 v ‘Prologo’ [toTb]. 

m4 v [Tb.] 

m8 v ‘Prologo’ [to Idt]. 

r 

k1 [Idt.] 

k6 v ‘Prologo’ [to Est]. 

k6 v [Est.] 

r 

aa4 ‘Prologo’ [to Iob]. 

aa4 v ‘Altro prologo’ [to Iob]. 

aa5 r [Iob.] 

v 

7 [Colophon for part I.] 

cc1 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ps]. Followed by ‘argumento’. 

cc1 v ‘Altro prologo’. 

v 

cc1 ‘Terzo prologo’. 

r 

cc2 [Ps (G).] Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

hh6 r [Squarza¢cus, Hieronymus: Concluding verse.] ‘Laude te 

re¡erischo a te, signore > Che de tal gratia si ma facto degno’; 

ottava rima. 

refs. Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane, I 204. 

ii1 r ‘Argumento de tutta lopera’. 


ii1 r Aristeas [pseudo-]: ‘De settanta due interpreti a Philocrate suo 

fratello’. [Translated by Bartholomaeus Fontius]. Incipit: 

‘[H]auendo tu sempre, o Philocrate, qualum que cosa desiderato 

. . .’ 

Part II. 

2 [*2 r ] ‘Registro’. 

2 [*3 r ] ‘Tabula’. [PrvÂpc]. 

A1 r Hieronymus: ‘Epistola’, [addressed to] Cromatio and Eliodoro. 

A1 r [Prv.] 

B 1 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ecl], followed by [Ecl]. 

B4 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ct], followed by [Ct], followed by [Sap]. 

C3 v ‘Prologo’ [to Sir], followed by [Sir]. 

E 6 r ‘Prologo’ [to Is], followed by [Is]. 

H2 v ‘Prologo’ [to Ier], followed by [Ier-Lam]. 

L5 r ‘Prologo’ [to Bar], followed by [Bar]. 

L 8 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ez], followed by [Ez]. 

O6 r ‘Prologo’ [to Dn], followed by [Dn]. 

P7 v ‘Prologo’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 

P 7 v ‘Prologo’ [to Os], followed by [Os]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

Q 3 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ioel]. 

Q3 v ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Ioel]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

Q4 v ‘Prologo’ [to Am]. 

Q 4 v ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Am]. 

Q7 r ‘Prologo’ [to Abd]. 

Q7 r ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Abd]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

Q 8 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ion], followed by [Ion]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

R1 r ‘Prologo’ [to Mi], followed by [Mi]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

R2 v ‘Prologo’ [to Na], followed by [Na]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

R 3 v ‘Prologo’ [to Hab], followed by [Hab]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

R5 r ‘Prologo’ [to So]. 

R5 v [So]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

R6 r ‘Prologo’ [to Agg], followed by [Agg]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

R 7 r ‘Prologo’ [to Za], followed by [Za]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

S3 r ‘Prologo’ [to Mal]. 

S3 v ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Mal]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

S 4 v Hieronymus: ‘Prologo’ [to Mcc], followed by [IÎI Mcc]. 

Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

Y1 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Damasus, Pont. Max. 

Y 1 v ‘Prologo’ [to Four Evangelists]. 

Y2 r ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Mt]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

Z6 v ‘Prologo’ [to Mc], followed by [Mc]. 

AA 7 r ‘Prologo’, followed by [Lc].Verses 1^4 here called ‘Altro prologo’. 

CC6 r ‘Prologo’ [to Io], followed by [Io], followed by [Act]. 

GG2 r ‘Prologo’ [to Pauline Epistles]. 

GG 2 v ‘Altro prologo’ [to Pauline Epistles]. 

GG3 r ‘Prologo’, followed by [Rm]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

HH1 v ‘Prologo’ [to I Cor], followed by [I Cor]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

HH7 v ‘Prologo’ [to II Cor], followed by [II Cor]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

II 3 v [Gal^Hbr.] Each letter is preceded by an ‘argumento’. 

LL5 r ‘Prologo’ [to Canonical Epistles], followed by [IacÎud]. Iac 

preceded by ‘argumento’. 

MM 3 v ‘Prologo’ [to Apc], followed by [Apc], followed by [Grace]. 

Incipit: ‘Uieni signor Jesu, la gratiadel signor nostro Jesu 

Christo sia con tutti noi. Amen’. 

MM10 r [Valedictory prayer.] Incipit:‘Quale adunque lode et gratie, o 

summo signore porgere . . .’

582 biblia 

[b-337^b-338 

MM10 r [Colophon] followed by [Prayer]. ‘Gloria ti rendo, o mio 

signor benigno > Che di tal gratia tu me ha fatto digno’; 2 lines of 

verse. 


Venice: Gabriele di Pietro, 1477^8. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 

26 Nov. (¢rst gathering, after 23 Dec.) 1477; (II) 15 Jan. 1477/8. 

collation: Part I: [*] [a] b 10 c^z h m k aa 8 cc 10 dd^gg 8 hh^kk 6 ; 

part II: 2 [*] 6 A B 10 CÛ 8 X 4 Y 10 Z AA^LL 8 MM 10 . 

GW 4313; H *3152; R 303 (Psalms); Go¡ B-641 (including P-1077); 

Pr 4200; Barbieri, Le bibbieitaliane, I199^205 no. 4; Bohatta, Lit. 

Bibl. 1032 (Psalms); BSB-Ink B-497; Darlow^Moule 802; 


COPY 

Wanting T3; T4 duplicated. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century(?) parchment; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers, over a central ornamental 

stamp. Two ties lost. Size: 293 ¿ 210 ¿ 120 mm. Size of 

leaf: 285 ¿ 194 mm. 


printed label of the sale (1789) part I, lot 115, inside the upper 

cover; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 

20. Purchased through Payne for »1. 15. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1790), 1. 



Part I. 


v 

a1 ‘Registro’. 

a2 r ‘Tabula de la prima parte de la Biblia’. 

a5 v Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus the priest.‘Prologo’. 

Translated by Niccolo' Malerbi. 

refs. As in La Bibbia volgare, ed. Negroni. 

a8 r Hieronymus: ‘Prefacione . . . nel Pentatheuco’, followed by [Gn^ 

Dt]. 

v 

i7 ‘Prologo’ [to Ios], followed by [Ios^Rt]. 

l8 v ‘Prologo’ [to Rg], followed by [I SmÎV Rg]. 

q7 v ‘Prologo’ [to Par], followed by [IÎI Par], followed by [Or Man]. 

r 

t3 Hieronymus: ‘Prologo’ [to Esr], followed by [IÎI Esr]. II Esr 

here entitled ‘Neemia’, followed by [III Esr]; here entitled ‘II Esr’. 

u7 v ‘Prologo’ [toTb], followed by [Tb]. 

v 

x2 ‘Prologo’ [to Idt], followed by [Idt]. 

x6 v ‘Prologo’ [to Est], followed by [Est]. 

y2 v ‘Prologo’ [to Iob]. 

r 

y3 ‘Altro prologo’ [to Iob], followed by [Iob]. 

aa1 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ps]. Followed by ‘argumento’. 

aa1 r ‘Altro prologo’. 

aa1 v ‘Terzo prologo’, followed by [Ps (G)]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

v 

dd7 ‘Argumento de tutta lopera’. 


dd7 v Aristeas [pseudo-]: ‘De settanta due interpreti a Philocrate suo 

fratello’. [Translated by Bartholomaeus Fontius]. Incipit: 

‘[H]auendo tu sempre, o Philocrate, qualum que cosa desiderato 

. . .’ 

Part II. 

AA1 r Hieronymus: ‘Epistola’ [addressed to] Cromatius and 

Eliodorus. 

v 

AA1 [Prv.] 

v 

AA8 ‘Prologo’ [to Ecl], followed by [Ecl]. 

BB3 r ‘Prologo’ [to Ct], followed by [Ct], followed by [Sap]. 

CC2 r ‘Prologo’ [to Sir], followed by [Sir]. 

r 

DD7 ‘Prologo’ [to Is], followed by [Is]. 

FF5 v ‘Prologo’ [to Ier], followed by [Ier-Lam]. 

HH8 v ‘Prologo’ [to Bar], followed by [Bar]. 

v 

II2 ‘Prologo’ [to Ez], followed by [Ez]. 

LL1 v ‘Prologo’ [to Dn], followed by [Dn]. 

LL8 v ‘Prologo’ [toTwelve Prophets]. 

LL8 v ‘Prologo’ [to Os], followed by [Os]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

r 

MM3 ‘Prologo’ [to Ioel]. 

MM3 r ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Ioel]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

MM4 r ‘Prologo’ [to Am]. 

r 

MM4 ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Am]. 

MM6 r ‘Prologo’ [to Abd]. 

MM6 r ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Abd]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

v 

MM6 ‘Prologo’ [to Ion], followed by [Ion]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

r 

MM7 ‘Prologo’ [to Mi], followed by [Mi]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

MM8 v ‘Prologo’ [to Na], followed by [Na]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

NN1 r ‘Prologo’ [to Hab], followed by [Hab]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

NN2 v ‘Prologo’ [to So]. 

NN2 v [So]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

r 

NN3 ‘Prologo’ [to Agg], followed by [Agg]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

r 

NN4 ‘Prologo’ [to Za], followed by [Za]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

NN7 r ‘Prologo’ [to Mal]. 

NN7 r ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Mal]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

r 

NN8 Hieronymus: ‘Prologo’ [to Mcc], followed by [IÎI Mcc]. 

Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

v 

A2 Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Damasus, Pont. Max. 

r 

A3 ‘Prologo’ [to Four Evangelists]. 

A3 v ‘Altro prologo’, followed by [Mt]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

B6 v ‘Prologo’ [to Mc], followed by [Mc]. 

v 

C5 ‘Prologo’, followed by [Lc].Verses 1^4 here called ‘Prologo’. 

E1 v ‘Prologo’ [to Io], followed by [Io], followed by [Act]. 

G6 r ‘Prologo’ [to Pauline Epistles]. 

v 

G6 ‘Altro prologo’ [to Pauline Epistles]. 

G6 v ‘Prologo’, followed by [Rm]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

H3 r ‘Prologo’ [to I Cor], followed by [I Cor]. Preceded by ‘argumento’. 

H7 r ‘Prologo’ [to II Cor], followed by [II Cor]. Preceded by ‘argumento’, 

followed by [Gal^Hbr]. Each letter is preceded by an 

‘argumento’. 

v 

K6 ‘Prologo’ [to Canonical Epistles], followed by [IacÎud]. Iac 

preceded by ‘argumento’. 

r 

L3 ‘Prologo’ [to Apc], followed by [Apc], followed by [Colophon]. 

L8 r [Preface to the life of St Joseph.] 

refs. Edoardo Barbieri,‘Une vie de Saint Joseph du xv e sie' cle peu 

connue’, Cahiers de Jose¤ phologie, 37 (1989), 208^21 at 208. 

L8 r ‘La legenda del glorioso patriarcha et confessore sancto Joseph’. 

refs. Barbieri,‘Une vie de Saint Joseph’, 208^21, with introduction 

on 197^207 and commentary on 222^46. See also Barbieri, 

Le bibbie italiane, I 213^14. Roland Gauthier,‘Pre¤ sence de Saint 

Joseph dans les e¤ ditions incunables’, in Saint Joseph a' l’e¤ poque de 

la Renaissance1450^1600, Cahiers de Jose¤ phologie, 25 (1977), 98, 

attributes authorship to Malerbi. 

M1 v ‘Tabula de la seconda parte de de(!) la Byblia’. 

Venice: Giovanni Ragazzo, for Lucantonio Giunta, 15 Oct. 1490. 

Folio.

-338^b-340] biblia 

583 

collation: Part I: a^x 8 y 10 aa^dd 8 ee 6 ; part II: AA^PPA^L 8 M 6 . 

Woodcut illustrations: see Alfred W. Pollard, ‘Two Illustrated 

Italian Bibles’, Library, 2nd ser., 11 (1902), 227^42, esp. 231^42, 

James Strachan, Early Bible Illustrations (Cambridge, 1957), 28^ 

31, and Lamberto Donati, ‘Il mistero della Bibbia italiana’, 

Biblio¢lia, 77 (1975), 93^105. 

GW 4317; H *3156; Go¡ B-644; BMC V 500; Pr 5349; Barbieri, Le 

bibbie italiane, I 219^21, no. 11; BSB-Ink B-499; Darlow^Moule 

808; Essling133; Sander 989; Sheppard 4414. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled calf; marbled 

pastedowns and gilt-edged leaves. Bound by ‘Lewis’, presumably 

Charles Lewis (1786^1836), for Henry Drury; named in Drury’s 

ownership inscription. Size: 305 ¿ 208 ¿ 57 mm. Size of 

leaf: 295 ¿ 193 mm. 

Provenance: Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778^1841), 1818; 

inscription on front endleaf: ‘Coll[ated and] perf[ect]: H. Drury. 

Harrow 1818. Bound by Lewis. C.35.2’. Francis Douce (1757^ 

1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. 



Part I. 

[a1 v ] ‘Tabula dei libri de tuto il testamtento uechio’. 

[a7 r ] [Gn^Ps (G)] [Italian]. 

refs. As in La Bibbia volgare, ed. Negroni. II Esr here entitled 

‘Neemias’, III Esr II Esr. The translation is in part anonymous, 

and in part by Niccolo' Malerbi: see Darlow^Moule 5575 and 

Barbieri, Le bibbie italiane, I 192^4. 

Part II. 

[ 2 a2 r ] [PrvÎI Mcc] [Italian]. 


Part III. 

[y1 r ] Hieronymus: [Prologue to New Testament, addressed to] 

Damasus, Pont. Max. 


[y1 v ] [MtÂpc] [Italian]. 

refs. As in La Bibbia volgare, ed. Negroni. Lc 1,1^4 entitled here 

‘il secondo prologo’. In this edition, Act follows, rather than precedes, 

the Canonical Epistles. 

v 

[M5 ] [Colophon.] 

[M6 r ] ‘Tabula deTestamento Nouo’. 

[Venice: Adam de Ambergau], 1 Oct. 1471. Folio. 

collation: Part I: [aî 10 k 8 l 6 m^p 10 q r 8 s^z A^H 10 I K 8 ]; part II: 

[a 10+1 bî 10 k^m 8 n^v 10 x 12 ]; part III: [y 10 z A 8 B C 10 D 8 E^G 10 H 8 

I K 10 L 8 M 6 ]. Collation as GW. BMC collates part I: [[*] a^h 10 i 8 k 6 

lô 10 p q 8 r-z aa^gg 10 hh ii 8 ]; part II: [[** 2 ] AÎ 10 K^M 8 N^V 10 

X 12 AA 10 BB CC 8 DD EE 10 FF 8 GGÎI 10 KK 8 LL MM 10 NN 8 

OO 6 ]. 

GW 4321 (Pt.1 Anm.); HC *3148; Go¡ B-639; BMC V 188; Pr 4146; 

Barbieri, Le Bibbie italiane, I 191^6, no. 2; BSB-Ink B-496; 

Darlow^Moule 5575; Essling 131; Rhodes 372; Sander 985; 


FIRST COPY 

Wanting [ 2 a 1]. 

Bound in three volumes. 

The prologue of Jerome to the NewTestament has the incipit:‘Qui 

comincia il prologo de |an Hieronymo |opra il te|tamento nouo. 

[A]l beati||imo papa Dama|o. . .’ This incipit is not in the BL copy 

or in the second Bodleian copy. 

Cropped single leaf ([a1]) from a copy of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 

De o⁄ciis, etc. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 13 Aug. 1470 

(C-311(1)) bound between [I 10] and [K 1]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English, gold-tooled russia, with 

gold-tooled spine and gilt-edged leaves, probably bound for 

Thomas Coke between 1718 and perhaps 1728. On both covers 

triple ¢llets form frames, in which are two rolls of gold-tooled 

dentelle: see Rogers 256 and 261. On both covers is the armorial 

stamp of Coke of Holkham, impaling Tufton: see Cyril 

Davenport, English Heraldic Book Stamps (London, 1909), 122. 

Vols 2 and 3 each have a back parchment endleaf. Upper board 

of vol. 1 almost detached. Size: Vol. 1: 422 ¿ 286 ¿ 85 mm; vol. 2: 

422 ¿ 288 ¿ 65 mm; vol. 3: 422 ¿ 292 ¿ 44 mm. Sizeof leaf: 410 ¿ 

265 mm. 


Occasional initials are supplied in black ink, with vine-scroll 

decoration. 

Provenance: Cristofalo de Pelegrin (¢fteenth century); inscription 

on the verso of the parchment endleaf in vol. 2: ‘Questo libro 

fu de mes’ Cristofalo de Pelegrin [ ]’. Holkham Hall, Norfolk, 

Earls of Leicester. Purchased in 1953. 

shelfmark: Holk. b.1^3. 

SECOND COPY 

NewTestament (vol. 3) only. 

Headings of gatherings [I^M] cropped. 

Binding: Rough paper boards, with a back parchment endleaf. 

Cropped. Size: 384 ¿ 256 ¿ 35 mm. Size of leaf: 377 ¿ 237 mm. 

The margins of the Apocalypse are ¢lled with a manuscript 

Italian commentary, written in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand, which is continued on the recto of the parchment endleaf, 

and attributed by Barbieri 191^2, to Federico Renoldo da 

Venezia. 

On [y 2 r ] a contemporary Venetian six-line epigraphic initial ‘Q’ is 

supplied in blue, touched with white, on a gold ground, edged in 

black with £oral decoration in brown ink, and inhabited by an 

angel, dressed in white with purple-pink wings, touched with red 

and grey, holding a scroll. Other epigrapic initials are supplied in 

red or blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capitals 

touched with yellow wash. 


Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. M [ ]. 

shelfmark: N.T. Ital. 1471 c.1. 

B-340 Biblia [Czech] Bible Praz� ska¤ 

a2 r Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. 

refs. cf. Pref. no. 1. 

a6 v [GnÎI Par.] 

z2 v [OrMan.] 

z 3 r [IÎI Esr.] II Esr called book of Nehemiah in this edition. 

A5 r [III Esr.] III Esr entitled II Esr in this edition. 

B2 v [TbÎI Mcc.] 

aa 1 r Hieronymus: [Prologue to the Four Gospels.] 

refs. cf. Pref. no. 33. 

aa1 v [MtÎo.] 

¡3 r [Rm^Hbr.] 

ii 8 r [ActÂpc].

584 biel, gabriel 

[b-340^b-342 

mm8 v [Colophon.] 

[*1 r ] [Index of readings from epistles and gospels for Sundays, 

Wednesdays and Fridays]. 

[*7 r ] [Index of readings from epistles and gospels for saints’days]. 

Prague: [Printer of the 1488 Bible (Johann Kamp?)] for Johann 

Pytlik, Johann? Severin, Johann von Sto« rchen, and Matthias 

vom weissen Lo« wen, Aug. 1488. Folio. 

collation: a^g 10 h 8 i^z A 10 B 8 C^Z AA BB 10 CC 8 aa^ll 10 mm 

[* 8 ]. Gathering [*] numbered but not signed. 

GW 4323; HC 3161; Go¡ B-620; BMC III 808; Pr 9468; M. Bos� njak, 

A Study of Slavic Incunabula (Zagreb, 1968), 8; BSB-Ink B-501; 


COPY 


Leaves a2^4 are mounted and cropped; leaf c10 is bound beforeb10, 

and in its place a duplicate leaf from a shorter copy has been 

inserted. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia; marbled 

pastedowns and edges. Size: 314 ¿ 223 ¿ 102 mm. Size of 

leaf: 302 ¿ 190 mm. 


On a 2 r a nine-line initial ‘B’ is supplied in blue with red pen-work 

decoration; other two- to nine-line initials, some with extensions 

into the margins, are supplied in red, blue or interlocked red and 

blue; paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes 

and underlining supplied in red. 

Provenance: Jarome¤ r� , Bohemia, monastery of S. Laurentius; 

inscription on a 5 r in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Conventus D.V. 

Laureti Jaromeritzii’. Laurentius Xaverius Menhart (£. 1674). 

Jacobus Franciscus Chizerowsky(?) (£. 1674); inscription on a6 v : 

‘Dono acceptus a' Domino Laurentio Xaverio Menhart Cive 

Trebiczense 1674. Ex libris P. Jacobi Francisci Chizerowsky(?)’ 

capel. Trebiczen.’ Purchased for »17. 10. 0, from Asher & Co.; see 

letter from Albert Cohn for Asher & Co., to Bandinel, in Library 

Bills (1851^5), no. 328; the invoice in Library Bills (1856^8), no. 

84, item 1; also Macray 361 and Books Purchased (1856), 9. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bib. Boh. 1488 c.1. 


B-340A Biblia [Czech] 

Fragment. 

Kuttenberg: Martin of Tischniowa, 14 Nov. 1489. Folio. 

collation: a^q 10 r^t 12 v^z A 10 B C 12 D^Z 10 m t‹ 8 aa^mm 10 [* 6 ]. 

GW 4324; HC 3162; Go¡ B-621; BMC III 816; Pr 9495; Oates 4036; 

not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Bound with A-146(3); see there for details of binding and 

provenance. 

One leaf only, probably l9. 

A di¡erent setting from the copy in the BL (IB.51804); personal 

communication from J. Gold¢nch to A. Coates, 6 Aug. 2003. 

Size of fragment: 268 ¿ 192 mm. 

Some marginal annotations, also a running folio number in the 

upper right-hand corner, and a (book?) number in the lower 

margin. 

Two three-line initials (both the letter ‘T’) are supplied, one in red, 

the other in blue. Capitals are touched with yellow wash. 

shelfmark: Gibson 403*(12). 

B-341 Biel, Gabriel 

Sacri canonis missae expositio. 

[*2 r ] Biel, Gabriel: ‘Prologus’. Incipit: ‘Sacri canonis misse expositio 

resolutissima . . . [I]n nomine superbenedicte trinitatis, 

patris . . .’ 

r 

[* 4 ] ‘Tabula contentorum’. 

r 

a1 Biel, Gabriel: Sacri canonis missae expositio. ‘Lectura super 

Canone Misse in alma universitateTuwingensi ordinarie lecta.’ 

refs. G. Biel, Canonis misseexpositio, ed. H. A. Oberman and W. 

J. Courtenay, 5 vols (Wiesbaden, 1963^76). 

[Reutlingen:] Johann Otmar, 15 Nov. 1488. Folio. 

collation: [*] [�] 8 [>] 10 a^y 8.6 z 8 A^K 6.8 L^N 6 O^X 8.6 Y 8 Z 10 The 

¢rst three gatherings are numbered but not signed. 

GW 4332; HC *3178; Go¡ B-659; Pr 2714; BSB-Ink B-503; Oates 

1218; Sheppard 1979. 

COPY 


boards. On both covers triple ¢llets form a double frame; in the 

inner frame a repeated stamp of a foliate sta¡, and a rosette in 

the corner; in the inner rectangle a single stamp makes up a merrythought 

pattern, surrounding a repeated £oral stamp; the title 

stamped and gilt on the upper cover; for another book printed by 

Otmar and with the title stamped in gold see H-132(1); centrepieces, 

four corner-pieces, two catches, and two leather clasps all 

lost; with tawed leather index tabs. Size: 310 ¿ 210 ¿ 90 mm. Size 

of leaf: 292 ¿ 194 mm. 

A few early notes and pointing hands. 

Four-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in alternate 

red or blue; red capital strokes, until x5 r , and underlining of headings 

and running heads. Rubrication dated 1496 on [*]3 v and Z7 v . 

Provenance: Joseph Franz Ecker von Ka« p¢ng und Lichteneck, 

Bishop of Freising (1696^1726); on the front pastedown an 

engraved armorial book-plate, Warnecke 558. Duplicate from 

the Royal Library, Munich:‘Duplum’ ‘no 902’. Acquired between 

1847 and c.1892; not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 

shelfmark: Auct 5Q 3.10. 


Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae (ed. 

Wendelinus Steinbach). 

A1 v Bebelius, Henricus: ‘Ad sacerdotes de huius operis utilitate et 

necessitate epigramma’. ‘Vos qui sacrorum ritus et mistica 

Christi’; 9 elegiac distichs. 

A2 r Steinbach, Wendelinus: [Letter addressed to] Fridericus 

Meinberger. Incipit: ‘[C]laret experientia teste, Friderice 

n[oster], bibliopola res quascunque . . .’ 

refs. See VL IX 254. 

A4 v Bebelius, Henricus: ‘Exhortatio Heinrici Bebelii Iustingensis 

ad doctorem Wendelinum vt demissis aliis sua aliquando scripta 

in lucem edat’. ‘Qui modo conaris multo prodesse labore’; 8 elegiac 

distichs. 

A5 r ‘Epitaphium Gabrielis Biel’. ‘Quem modo laudarent Itali vel 

Grecia alumnum’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

r 

A6 Biel, Gabriel: Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae. 

Edited by Wendelinus Steinbach. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam sacerdotali 

dignitate pernecessarium est nosse ritum ac o⁄cii sui ministerium 

. . .’

-342^b-344] biel, gabriel 

585 

refs. See VL I 856.With the text of the Canon. 

Tu« bingen: [Johann Otmar, for Friedrich Meynberger, c.1500]. 4 o . 

collation: AÎ 8 k 6 . 

v 

Woodcut on A5 , the cruci¢xion. 


B-507; Sheppard 2279; Schramm IX p. 21; Schreiber V 3490. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf k 6 . 

Binding: Nineteenth century calf (c.1825), bound for the 

Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on 

both covers. Size:195 ¿ 145 ¿ 15 mm. Sizeof leaf: 189 ¿ 133 mm. 

On A 1 r Latin verses dated 1501, ‘Ad diuam virginem Mariam’; 

incipit: ‘O genus ethereum virgo sidusque salubre’; eight elegiac 

distichs: Hermann Busch, Elegia ad BVM; and ‘Ad sanctam 

Annam’, incipit: ‘Anna parens Ihesu Christi genitricis aueto’; two 

elegiac distichs (Walther, Initia, 12675); on A5 r ‘Epitaphium 

sac[ri] sepulcri saluatoris in Hierusalem’, incipit: ‘Sum deus ex 

euo carnem sumpsi sine neuo’; Walther, Initia, 18702; L. 

Bertalot, ‘Die a« lteste gedruckte lateinische 

Epitaphiensammlung’, in Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni 

Olschki oblata (Munich,1921), Epit. 28; eight leonine hexameters. 

Provenance: ‘Jo.Vogt. 1749’, probably Johann Vogt (1695^1764). 


shelfmark: Auct. 1Q inf.1.2. 


Expositio brevis et interlinearis sacri canonis missae. 

a2 r Biel,Gabriel: Expositiobrevis et interlinearis sacri canonis missae. 

Incipit: ‘Quia sanctus dominus deus sabaoth . . .’ 

refs. Incipit of the interlinear gloss. With the text of the Canon. 

See B-342. 

[Tu« bingen: Johann Otmar, c.1499]. 4 o . Originally assigned by Pr 

and BMC to Strasbourg; as dated in BMC; GW dates [after 

1500]; Sheppard dates [c.1500]. 


Woodcut initials and cruci¢xion woodcut on a1 v . 

GW 4337; HC Addenda 3183; Go¡ B-657; BMC III 703 = I 163; Pr 

750; BSB-Ink B-509; Schramm IX p. 21; Schreiber V 3493; 


COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth; bound for the Bodleian 


On b8 r a manuscript date,‘1623’. 

Provenance: Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 143, 

no. 591, for 6 Marks; see Library Bills, 17 May 1884. 



Sermones (ed.Wendelinus Steinbach). 

Part I. 

[*1 v ] ‘Numerus sermonum cuiuslibet festiuitatis Christi’. 

[*2 r ] ‘Tabula huius operis’. 

r 

a1 Biel, Gabriel: Sermones de festiuitatibus Christi [1^23]. Edited 

by Wendelinus Steinbach. Incipit: ‘‘‘[C]um esset desponsata 

mater Jesu Maria Joseph . . .’’ [Mt I,18] A. Proximus est dies ille 

Domini magnus et gaudiosus . . .’ 

refs. See VL I 855. 

l1 r [Biel, Gabriel]: ‘Monotesseron’. Incipit:‘Textus dominice passionis 

ex omnibus quattuor euangelistis collectus . . .’ 

r 

m1 [Biel, Gabriel]: ‘Fasciculus mirre’. Incipit:‘ ‘‘[V]erba sunt ecclesie’’ 

Cant. i. [Ct 1,13]. Universa amara quae sponsus suus . . .’ 

refs.The commentary on the story of the Passion is numbered as 

Sermo 24. 

n4 r [Biel, Gabriel]: ‘Magnitudinis passionis Christi ostensio’. 

Incipit: ‘Passio domini inter omnes vite huius passiones fuit maxima 

. . .’ 

refs. Text begins in column one, last line but eight. 

o1 r Biel,Gabriel: Sermones de festiuitatibus Christi [25^53]. Edited 

byWendelinus Steinbach. Incipit:‘ ‘‘[S]urrexit. Non est hic’’ Marc. 

vlti. [Mc 16,6] A. Desiderata ac diu optata adest nobis solennissima 

festiuitas . . .’ 


r 

z4 ‘Indulgentie a summis ponti¢cibus concesse pro festo corporis 

Cristi’. 

refs. The computation of the number of days of indulgence 

granted to those who take part in the celebration of Corpus 

Christi is inserted before Sermo 46 on Corpus Christi. 

Part II. 

[**1 v ] ‘Numerus sermonum de festiuitatibus virginis gloriose’. 

r 

[** 2 ] ‘Tabula presentis operis’. 

A1 r Biel, Gabriel: Sermones de festivitatibus gloriosae virginis 

Mariae. Edited by Wendelinus Steinbach. Incipit: ‘‘‘[N]ecdum 

erant abyssi et ego iam concepta eram Prouer.8.’’ [Pr 8,24] Illuxit 

nobis, carissimi, hodie dies festiua . . .’ 


Part III. 

aa2 r Biel, Gabriel: Sermones de sanctis. Edited by Wendelinus 

Steinbach. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[Q]ui non baiulat crucem suam’’ [Lc 

14,27] . . . A. Agimus nunc solennem festiuitatem beatissimi 

Andree . . .’ 


Part IV. 

r 

[��2 ] [Steinbach,Wendelinus: Preface.] Incipit:‘Uisum fuit quibusdam 

valde conducere si sermonis prefati . . .’ 

[��3 r ] B[ebelius], H[enricus]: ‘Elegus’ dedicated to Wendelinus 

Steinbach.‘OVendline, meis nunquam reticende camoenis’; 6 elegiac 

distichs. 

[��3 v ] B[ebelius], H[inricus]: ‘De nobilitate et praestantia sermonum 

et declamationum Gabrielis Byel Theologorum monarche 

peones’. ‘Grandia fundentes populo mysteria christi’; 17 elegiac 

distichs. 

AA1 r Biel, Gabriel: Sermones de tempore. Incipit:‘‘‘[E]cce rex tuus 

venit tib[i] mansuetus� . . . Mat.21. [Mt 21,5] . . . A. Adest, carissimi, 

tempus sacratissimum omni deuotionis cultu . . .’ 


v 

OOO1 Biel, Gabriel: ‘Contra pestilentiam sermo medicinalis’. 

Incipit: ‘‘‘Simile est regnum celorum homini regi qui voluit 

ponere rationem cum seruis suis’’ Matth. 18. [Mt 18,23] Solent 

homines huius seculi regum et principum o⁄ciati . . .’ 

refs. See Klebs^Sudho¡ no. 8. 

PPP5 r [Biel, Gabriel]: ‘Questio de fuga pestis’. Incipit: ‘Utrum 

regnante morbo epidimie liceat, prosit, et expediat suspectas 

loca et personas fugiendo vel repellendo declinare . . .’ 

refs. See Klebs^Sudho¡ no. 8. 

QQQ2 r 

[Biel, Gabriel]: ‘Defensorium obedientie apostolice’. 

Dedicated to Pius II, Pont. Max.

586 biffus, johannes vincentius 

[b-344^b-345 

refs. G. Biel, Defensorium obedientiae apostolicae, ed. and trans. 

H. A. Oberman, D. E. Zerfuss and W. J. Courtenay (Cambridge, 

Mass., 1968). 

SSS8 r [Colophon.] 

[>1 r ] [Table of contents.] ‘Registrum.’ 

Tu« bingen: Johann Otmar, for Friedrich Meynberger, 1499^1500. 

4 o . In four parts dated: (I and III) [undated]; (II) 18 Nov. [14]99; 

(IV) 10 Mar. 1500. 

collation: Part I: [*] aî 8 k l 6 m 8 n 4 o^z h m 8 t� s� 6 ; part II: [**] 6 A^ 

M 8 N 4 O 8 ; part III: aa^qq l[�], 8 ; part IV: [��] 4 AA^DD 8 EE 8+1 

FFÛU AAA 8 BBB 6 CCC GGG^SSS [>] 8 [>>] 6 Gatherings [*], 

[�], [>], and [>>] are unsigned but numbered. 

GW 4340; H *3184 (IÎII) + *3185 (IV); Go¡ B-662; BMC III 703; 

Pr 3234; BSB-Ink B-515; Oates1347; Rhodes 375; Sheppard 2276^ 

7. 

FIRST COPY 

Parts I and II only. 

Binding: Contemporary German (Bamberg, Bavaria, 

Dominican Convent), blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; 

central leather clasp with metal catch and hasp both inscribed 

‘MARIA’. On both covers triple ¢llets form a double frame in 

which are stamps of a foliate sta¡ and of a rosette; in the corners 

a framed circular stamp with the letters ‘p m’, ascribed by Weale 

no. 668 to the Bamberg Dominicans; in the central panel two 

stamps make up a merrythought pattern, surrounded by eight 

small £oral stamps. The title is inscribed in black ink on the 

upper cover. Size: 220 ¿ 160 ¿ 70 mm. Sizeofleaf: 212 ¿ 156 mm. 

With twelfth-century manuscript guard-strips. 

Occasional notes in black ink, and on the rubricated leaves in red. 

On h4 r a four-line initial is supplied in red; some paragraph marks 

are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining in a few 

sections. 

Provenance: Bamberg, Bavaria, Dominicans; stamp on binding 

and sixteenth-century ownership inscription on [*] 1 r :‘Conuentus 

Bambergensis ord[inis] pred[icatoru]m’. Albert Ehrman (1890^ 

1969); armorial book-plate; purchased in1923 for »3.15. 6; accession 

no.‘533’. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman. 


SECOND COPY 

Parts II and III only, part III bound before part II. Impressions of 

bearer type visible on aa 1 r . 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled half pigskin over 

wooden boards; central clasp on both covers lost. Triple ¢llets 

form a rectangle, divided by triple ¢llets into triangular compartments; 

in the compartments on the upper cover a £oral stamp and 

a tendril stamp; on the lower cover the tendril stamp and a scroll 

stamp with the inscription:‘maria’. Size: 223 ¿ 150 ¿ 70 mm. Size 

of leaf: 212 ¿ 141 mm. 

Parchment pastedowns are fragments of a fourteenth-century(?) 

manuscript of the Missal, from the Canon of the Mass. 

Provenance: Andreas Lehmann (sixteenth century); inscription 

on the title-page: ‘Ex libris fr[atr]is andree lehe[n]mann lectoris 

d[e] gamu[ndi]a’. Michael Scho« ¡el (£. 1614); inscription on the 

front pastedown: ‘Ex libris R. D. M. Michaelis Scjoe¡elij, sacerdotis 

Gamu[n]diani, cui[us] sp[irit]us exultet in Deo salutari suo 

A o 1614 13 Aprilis D[omi]nica Misericordi� migrauit hinc.’ 

Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 143, no. 576, for 3 

Marks; see Library Bills, 17 May 1884. 


THIRD COPY 

Part II and IV only, wanting the preliminary gathering of six 

leaves of part II; part IV bound ¢rst. 

Binding: Nineteenth century calf (c.1825); gold-tooled spine; 

bound for the Bodleian Library; gold stamp of the Library on 

both covers. Size: 215 ¿ 155 ¿ 60 mm. Sizeof leaf: 210 ¿ 139 mm. 

Four- and six-line initials are supplied in red or black ink. 

Occasional early notes and pointing hands in black ink. 

Provenance: Franz von Dietrichstein, Prince-Bishop of 

Olomouc (Olmu« tz), later Cardinal (1570^1636); his printed slip: 

‘Ex bibliotheca cardinalis et principis a' Dietrichstain’. Unread 

ownership inscription on aa1 r .‘Purchased at Hamburgh 1825’ for 



B-345 Bi¡us, Johannes Vincentius 

Epistolae et carmina. 

a1 r Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Letter addressed to] Johannes 

Galeaz Sforza, Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘[M]aiorum laudes olim 

citharedos frequenti conuiuio . . .’ 

a2 r Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Carmina dedicated to] 

Johannes Galeaz Sforza; Ludovicus Sforza, ‘Il moro’, Duke of 

Milan; Ambrosius Varisius Rosateus; Jacobus Antiquarius; 

Bartholomaeus Chalcus; Carolus Barbauara; Christophorus 

‘vetus Ducalis sigilli’ (probably Christophorus Lampugnanus); 

Johannes Bentivolus II; Gualtaeus de Basilicapetri; Franchinus 

Gafurius; Franciscus Altovitus.‘M>oenia cum primum uariis fulsere 

¢guris’. 

v 

a8 Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: ‘De libellouenerandi pr[esbiteri] 

Io[hannis] Bi⁄ carmen’.‘Maurus ab innumeris laudatur ubique 

camoenis’; 13 elegiac distichs. 

b1 r Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: [Carmen addressed to] 

Ludovicus Sforza, Duke of Milan. ‘Maure magis toto princeps 

optabilis auro’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

b1 r Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: ‘De eodem libello . . . 

Iohannis Bi⁄ carmen’. ‘Inclyta qui Mauri ducis et complura 

potentum’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

b1 r Hellus, Dionysius: [Carmen addressed to] Johannes Bi¡us. 

‘Surgite Pierides, uester febrescit amicus’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

b1 r Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘Carmen’ [dedicated to] 

Johannes Antonius Varisius and Baptista Baldironus. ‘Si cupitis 

uestrum tolli super aethera nomen’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

b1 v Hellus, Dionysius: [Sonnet addressed to] Johannes Bi¡us. ‘Se 

dopo morte e poy pompa funebre’. 

b1 v Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘De assumptione beatissimae 

Virginis Mariae’.‘Angelicis assumpta choris assumpta tonanti’; 8 


b1 v Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Poem addressed to] Georgius 

Merula.‘Pieridum cultor viridi spectande senecta’; 6 elegiac distichs. 

b2 r Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘In Pygmeum pro defensione 

Francisci Philelphi’. ‘Mollibus in plumis quid stas pygmae et 

recursant’; six elegiac distichs. 

b2 r Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: ‘De statua marmorea. . . Beatrici 

puellae Bononiensi dicata.’ ‘Prisca mihi e⁄gies niveo sub marmore 

vivit’. 

b3 r Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Letter addressed to] Carolus 

Barbavara. Incipit:‘Habes, uir clare, quod per litteras inferius . . .’

-345^b-345b] bindus de senis 

587 

b3 r Barbavara, Carolus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bi¡us. 

Incipit: ‘Venerabili in Christo d[omino] presbytero . . . Quod 

petenti FranciscoTrachedino homini grauissimo recusarem . . .’ 

b3 v Antonius, Plebanus Cremonensis: [Carmen addressed to] 

Johannes Bi¡us. ‘Paegasides et phoebe parens soteria uestris’; 4 


b3 v Cornelius, Andreas: [Carmen addressed to] Johannes Bi¡us. 

‘Tale poeta facis dulci testudine carmen’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

b3 v Mannius Mediolanensis, Andreas: [Carmen addressed to] 

Johannes Bi¡us.‘Bi¡e Tomitanos inter numerande poetas’; 5 elegiac 

distichs. 

b4 r Gilinus [de Ghilinis], Johannes Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] 

Johannes Bi¡us. Incipit: ‘Presbytero Iohanni Bi¡o salutem. Potes 

et in solciensi propinquo tuo . . .’ 

b4 r Bi¡us, Johannes [Vincentius]: [Carmina, one of which is dedicated 

to] Ludovicus Sforza. ‘Sunt tria Sfortiadum toto notissima 

mundo’. 

b4 v Cornelius, Andreas: [Sonnet addressed to] Ludovicus Sforza. 

‘Qual plectro arguto, o qual tonante tromba’. 

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 10 Oct. 1493. 4 o . 


GW 4350; HCR 3194; Pr 5835; Ganda 187; Sheppard 4880. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Franciscus Philelphus: Odae. [Brescia]: Angelus Britannicus, 4 

July 1497 (P-273(2)). 

Binding: Late eighteenth-century English calf (after 1789, perhaps 

1794), bound for Wodhull. On both covers a gilt scrolling 

band forms a border. Size: 195 ¿ 145 ¿ 15 mm. Size of 

leaf: 187 ¿ 133 mm. 

Provenance: Parma, Jesuit College; seventeenth-century 

inscriptions on a1 r and a2 r of item 1: ‘Collegii Societatis Jesu 

Parme’. Ma¡eo Pinelli (1735^1785); see Morelli (1787), II 5461; 

and sale (1789), lot 10363 which comprised the two items here 

bound together, with two others, according to the Bodleian annotated 

copy of sale catalogue sold for »0. 7. 6; the purchaser is not 

named, but was Wodhull. Michael Wodhull (1740^1816); note on 

recto of front endleaf: ‘Mr Woodhull May 6th 1789’, with purchase 

price of book given as »0. 7. 6, and cost of rebinding as 

»0. 3. 0; on back endleaf: ‘July 18th 1794’. John Edmund Severne 

(1826^1899); sale (1886), lot 1972(2); purchased for »0. 17. 0; see 

Library Bills. 

shelfmark: Auct 7Q 6.63(2). 

B-345A Bindus de Senis 

Aureum Bibliae Repertorium sive Aurea Biblia. 

[a1 r ] Rampegollis, Antonius de: [Prologue to the Compendium 

Morale sive Figurae Bibliae, addressed to] members of the congregation 

of his order in Naples (OESA, S. Giovanni a 

Carbonara). Incipit: ‘[R]eligiosis atque honestis uiris in Christo 

dilectis fratribus studentibus Neapolim(!) conuentus ordinis fratrum 

heremitarum sancti Augustini, Anthonius Rampigollis . . .’ 

On the identi¢cation of the author as Antonius de Rampegollis, 

see J.V. Scholderer, ‘A Further Note on Nicolaus Hanapus’, Gb 

Jb (1939), 153^4. 

[a1 r ] ‘Tabula in Reportatorium Bibliae Aureum’. 

[a2 v ] [Bindus Guerrius de Senis: Aureum Bibliae Repertorium sive 

Aurea Biblia.] ‘Abstinentia est meriti augmentatiua, sapientiae 

acquisitiua, religiositatis ostensiua . . . exempli demonstratiua’. 

Incipit: ‘[A]bstinentia est primo meriti augmentatiua, auget enim 

merita etuirtutes. Ideouoluit dominus noster parentes nostros. . .’ 

refs. The prologue alone is by Antonius Rampegollis. The 

Aureum Bibliae Repertorium (identical with the so-called 

‘Distinctiones exemplorum Veteri et Noui Testamentorum’ of 

Nicolaus de Hanapis) is by Bindus Guerrius of Siena; see 

Scholderer,‘Further Note’, 153^4; Zumkeller 62^3, no. 115; Sack, 

Freiburg, 3010. The title ‘Reportatorium Bibliae’ is recorded in 

the explicit on [m10 r ]. 

[Augsburg: Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra, c.1473]. Folio. As 

dated by Sheppard; BSB-Ink dates [c.1475]. 

collation: [aê 10 f 6 g^m 10 ]. 

HC 13678; Go¡ R-13; BMC II 340; Pr 1635; BSB-Ink B-521; Oates 

901; Sack, Freiburg, 3012; Sheppard 1208^9. 

FIRST COPY 



204 mm. 

On [m10 r ] beneath the colophon,‘M.I.S.’ in a sixteenth-century(?) 

German hand. Marginal notes in a late(?) sixteenth-century 

German hand, supplying Biblical references on [a7 r ]. 

The ¢rst three-line initial is supplied in red on [a2 v ]. 


60. 


SECOND COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-centuryhalf calfwithbrown cloth over pasteboards; 

bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 315 ¿ 219 ¿ 


A marginal note, ‘Nota bene’, supplied in a sixteenth-century 

German hand on [g 10 v ]. 

On [a1 r ] a six-line initial ‘R’ is supplied in interlocked red and blue 

with red and blue pen-work and extensions into the margin. 

Elsewhere one- to two-line initials, capital strokes, pilcrows, and 

underlining of headings are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘No. 

1356 n. 2’,‘4980’and ‘Dupl’ in pencil in the upper right-hand corner 

on front endleaf. Acquired between1847 and c.1892, probably 

in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 


B-345B Bindus de Senis 


r 

[* 2 ] [List of chapters.] 




Carbonara).‘Liber manualis ac introductorius in Biblie historias 

¢gurasque Ueteris ac Noui Testamenti peroptimus, Aurea Biblia 

vocitatus’. Incipit: ‘[R]eligiosis atque honestis viris in Christo 


heremitarum sancti Augustini, frater Antonius 

Ampigollus(!) . . .’ 


v 

[a1 ] [Bindus Guerrius de Senis: Aureum Bibliae Repertorium sive 

Aurea Biblia.] ‘De Abstinentia. Abstinentia est meriti augmentantiua(!), 

sapientie acquisitiua, religiositatis ostensiua . . .’

588 bindus de senis 

[b-345b ^b-345d 

Incipit: ‘[A]bstinentia primo est meriti augmentatiua, auget enim 

merita et virtutes. Ideo voluit dominus parentes nostros . . .’ 

refs. On the authorship see B-345A. The title ‘Aurea Biblia’ is 

recorded in the explicit on [p7 r ]. 

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 17 June 1475. Folio. The colophon reads ‘die 

altera post uiti et modesti martirum’ (15 June). 

collation: [* 8 ** 6 a b 10 c 8 dô 10 p 8 ]. 


HC 13681; Go¡ R-12; BMC II 524; Pr 2508; BSB-Ink B-520; CIBN 

R-11; Sack, Freiburg, 3010^11; Sheppard 1799; Wegener, Zainer, 

41. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [p8]. 


Bodleian Library; marbled pastedowns; remains of an index tab 

on [*1]. Size: 308 ¿ 223 ¿ 34 mm. Size of leaf: 293 ¿ 202 mm. 

Manuscript title in black ink is supplied in a sixteenth-century 

German hand on [* 1 r ]. A few marginal notes in red or black ink 

in the same hand, extracting key words and making one correction. 

A few notes in a later German hand. Bibliographical notes 

by Niesert on the verso of the front endleaf. 

Initials and pilcrows coloured, and capital strokes and underlining 

are supplied in red. 

Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766^1841);‘Bibliothecae J. Niesert 

pastoris inVelen1819’on [* 1 r ], with the date of purchase below the 

bibliographical note on the verso of the front endleaf: ‘Ex auctione 

publ. librorum 1819 Lipsi� habita stetit 3 imperiali’; purchased 

at his sale (1843), lot 13744 (dated as 1479) for »1. 0. 0; see 



B-345C Bindus de Senis 


r 

[* 1 ] [List of chapters.] 






uocitatus’. Incipit: ‘[R]eligiosis atque honestis uiris in Christo 

dilectis fratribus studentibus Neapolim(!) conuentus fratrum 

heremitarum ordinis sancti Augustini, frater Antonius 



[a1 v ] [Bindus Guerrius de Senis: Aureum Bibliae Repertorium sive 

Aurea Biblia.] ‘De Abstinentia. Capitulum primum. Abstinentia 

est meriti augmentatiua, sapientie acquisitiua, religiositatis 

ostensiua . . .’ Incipit: ‘[A]bstinentia primo est meriti augmentatiua, 

auget enim merita et virtutes. Ideo voluit dominus parentes 

nostros . . .’ 

refs. See B-345A.The title‘Aurea Biblia’ is recorded in the explicit 

on [p7 r ]. 

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1476. Folio. 

collation: [* 8 ** 6 a b 10 c 8 dô 10 p 8 ]. 


H 13682; Go¡ R-14; BMC II 524; Pr 2512; BSB-Ink B-522; CIBN 

3013; Oates 1156^7; Sheppard 1804. 

COPY 

Wanting the leaf [a5] and the blank leaf [p8]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-centuryhalf calf withbrown cloth over pasteboards; 

bound for the Bodleian Library; manuscript title along 

the lower edge; remains of a parchment index tab on [a1]. Size: 

299 ¿ 222 ¿ 35 mm. Sizeof leaf: 286 ¿ 197 mm. From the inscription 

in the contemporary hand (on the recto of the front endleaf) 

the book appears to have been originally bound with a copy of 

Thomas Aquinas, CompendiumTheologicaeVeritatis. 

A few marginal notes in a contemporary hand, correcting the text 

and supplying one pointing hand. ‘ccc l folia’ in the hand of 

Johannes Bresslauer on recto of front endleaf. 

Some initials coloured, and capital strokes and underlining of 

headings supplied in red. 

Provenance: Johannes Bresslauer (£. 1489); ‘Ego Johannes 

Presslawer percepi hu� c librum ab honorabili d[omino] Jeorgio 

Hagnawer > item pl[e]bano S[ancti] Sp[iritu]s [ ] ocasion[e] ex 

e[cc]lesie suae alt[ ]e ma[ ]lu� is anno 1489 > Sibi librum de uita 

Xpisti’ on recto of front endleaf. ‘ccc l folia’ in the hand of 

Johannes Bresslauer on the same page would seem to indicate 

that the book was formerly bound with another item (the Vita 

Christi mentioned in Bresslauer’s inscription). Munich, 

Franciscan Observants, S. Antonius de Padua; ‘Monachij ad P.P. 

Franciscanos pro bibl.’ in a seventeenth-century German hand on 

[*1 r ]; shelfmark ‘M.5’on the recto of the front endleaf. Duplicate 

from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Duplum No. 1736 n.1’ and ‘69’ 

in pencil on [*1 r ]; ‘Inc. typ. Monast. 1736’, ‘89’ and ‘69’ on front 

endleaf. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; 

not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. 


B-345D Bindus de Senis 


r 

[a2 ] ‘Tabula in Directorium Bibliae Aureum’. 

[b6 r ] [Anonymous preface.] Incipit: ‘[T]anta pollet excellentia prediaconnis(!) 

o⁄cium quod saluator noster . . .’ 

r 

[c1 ] Rampegollis, Antonius de [Pseudo; Bindus Guerrius de Senis: 

Aureum Bibliae Repertorium sive Aurea Biblia.] ‘De abstinentia. 

Abstinentia est meriti augmentatiua, sapientie acquisitiua, religiositatis 

ostensiua . . .’ Incipit: ‘[A]bstinentia est primo meriti 

augmentatiua, auget enim merita et virtutes. Ideo voluit dominus 

noster parentes nostros . . .’ 

refs. Attributed to Antonius Rampigolis with the title ‘Aureum 

r 

Reportorium Bibliae’ in the printer’s colophon on [r8 ]. See 

B-345A. 

[r8 r ] [Colophon.] 

Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1481. Folio. 

collation: [a 8 b 6 cô 8 p q 6 r 8 ]. 

H13683; Go¡ R-16; BMC II 451; Pr 2151; BSB-Ink B-523; Sheppard 

1586. 

COPY 


Binding: Eighteenth-century German tanned sprinkled half 

sheep with triple blind-tooled ¢llets around the borders, over a 

£oral and interlaced ‘Bronz¢rnispapier’ (bronze varnished 

paper) from a woodblock on a red ground, by Joseph Friedrich 

Leopold (1669^1727), Augsburg; see A. Haemmerle, Buntpapier 

(Munich,1961), 207 no.135 and pl XII. Approximate size of sheet: 

345 ¿ 440 mm. Lettering partially visible at tail turn-ins, lower

-345d^b-345f] bindus de senis 

589 

board: ‘GIO. SAC: CAES: MA’, upper board: ‘LEOPOLD: EX’; 

Haemmerle gives lettering as ‘CUM. PRIVILEGIO. SAC: 

CAES: MAI [ . . .] IOS: FRID: LEOPOLD: EXC: AUG: 

VIND:’. Sprinkled red-edged leaves; ‘1223’ on a label at the tail 

of the spine. Size: 279 ¿ 199 ¿ 132 mm. Size of leaf: 268 ¿ 

182 mm. 

Some initials are supplied in brown ink. Headings, section-numbers 

and underlinings supplied throughout the ¢rst pages in an 

eighteenth-century German hand. 

Provenance: Duplicate from Royal Library, Munich; no.‘772’on 

paper slip; ‘Duplum’ in ink on front endleaf. Acquired between 

1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with 

Appendix. 


B-345E Bindus de Senis 



a2 r Rampegollis, Antonius de: Prologue to the Compendium 

[Morale] sive Figurae Bibliae, [addressed to] members of the congregation 


Carbonara). ‘In ¢gurarum Biblie fructuosum et vtile compendium 

quod et aureum alias Biblie Reportorium’. Incipit: 

‘[R]eligiosis atque honestis viris in Christo dilectis fratribus 

Neapolim(!) conuentus ordinis fratrum heremitarum sancti 

Augustini, frater Anthonius Rampigollis . . .’ 


a2 v ‘Tabula in Reportorium Biblie Aureum’. 

a4 r [Bindus Guerrius de Senis]: Aureum Bibliae Repertorium [sive 

Aurea Biblia]. ‘Figurarum Biblie fructuosum et utile compendium.’ 

Incipit: ‘De abstinentia et ieiunio. Meriti augmentatiua . . . 

[A]bstinentia est primo meriti augmentatiua, auget enim merita 

et virtutes. Ideo voluit dominus ne Adam et Euam parentes nostros 

. . .’ 

refs. See B-345A. The title ‘Aureum Reportorium Bibliae’ is 

recorded in the explicit on y5 v . 

[Cologne: Ludwig von Renchen, c.1487]. 4 o . Pr assigns to 

[Strasbourg: Printer of Vitas Patrum]. 

collation: a^t 8 v x 4 y 8 . 

C 5025; Pr 434; CIBN R-14; Sheppard 953; Voullie' me, Ko« ln, 1001. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Poeniteas cito. Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 28 Jan. 1486 (P-397); 

2. Guido de Monte Rochen, Manipulus curatorum. [Louvain: 

Johannes de Westfalia, 1483^5] (G-277). 

Wanting the blank leaves y6^8. 

Binding: Contemporary English blind-tooled calf over wooden 

boards, with a metal catch at the centre of the edge of the lower 

cover; remains of a clasp hinged from the upper cover; formerly 

chained in two places: staple-marks of a hasp at both the head 

and the tail of the upper cover. On the upper cover double ¢llets 

form an intersecting frame; in the outer border are circular ¢rewheel 

stamps, the inner rectangle divided by diagonal double ¢llets 

into four triangular compartments, each with a lozengeshaped 

£oral stamp. On the lower cover double ¢llets form an 

intersecting double frame; in the outer border are lozenge-shaped 

eagle stamps, and the ¢re-wheel and £oral stamps; within the 

outer frame are square stag stamps; the inner rectangle has 

square mythical beast stamps; see Oldham, Blind-stamped 

Bindings, pl. XI, no. 91 and 97. At the head and tail of the spine is 

a rope-type decoration. Title along the fore-edge: ‘Reportorium 

biblie’. Strips of thirteenth/fourteenth-century manuscript 

parchment, written in an English hand, used in the binding, 

partly visible. Size: 220 ¿ 154 ¿ 68 mm. Size of leaf: 210 ¿ 

148 mm. 

Marginal notes at the beginning of the book in a sixteenth-centuryhand, 

supplyingbrackets, underlining, pointing hands, asterisks 

and some section numbers; the same hand probably in all 

three items; the same curly brackets used as nota marks in items 

2 and 3. 

Provenance: Acquired by 1620: see James, Catalogus (1620), 311. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: C 4. 13 Th., as in James. 

shelfmark: C 4.13(3) Linc. 

B-345F Bindus de Senis 


a1 r [Title-page.] ‘Biblia aurea cum suis historiis nec non exemplis 

Ueteris atque Noui Testamenti’. 

a 2 r Rampegollis, Antonius de: Prologue [to the Compendium 





vocitatus’. Incipit: ‘[R]eligiosis atque honestis viris in Christo 


heremitarum sancti Augustini, frater Antonius 



a2 v [Bindus Guerrius de Senis]: Aureum Bibliae Repertorium [sive 

Aurea Biblia]. ‘Capitulum primum. De Abstinentia. Abstinentia 

est meriti augmentatiua . . .’ Incipit: ‘[A]bstinentia primo est meriti 

augmentatiua, auget enim merita et virtutes. Ideo voluit dominus 

parentes nostros . . .’ 

refs. See B-345A. The title ‘Biblia Aurea Ueteris et Noui 

Testamenti’ is recorded in the colophon. 

h6 v [Colophon.] 

h7 r ‘Tabula’. 

[Strasbourg]: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 6 Dec. 14[9]6. 4 o . 

collation: a b 6 c d 4 e f 6 g^k 4 lô 6 p 4 q r 6 s 4 t v 6 x y 4 z 2 h 8 . 

HC 13687; Go¡ R-20; BMC I 110; Pr 474; BSB-Ink B-528; CIBN 

R-16; Oates 192^3; Sack, Freiburg, 3016; Schmidt, Gru« ninger, 27; 

Sheppard 380. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century paper boards. Size: 203 ¿ 144 ¿ 


Some marginal notes (in the ¢rst gatherings) in a sixteenth-century 

French(?) hand, supplying underlining and section numbers. 

Three-line initials (some with pen-work extensions into the margins), 

pilcrows, and capital strokes are supplied in red ink. 

Provenance: Bernhard Wendt; Catalogue 23, no. 13. Purchased 

from Wendt in Feb. 1964 out of the Gordon Du¡ Fund for 

DM220; see label and pencil note, both on the front pastedown. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. G7.1496.

590 birgitta 

[b-345g^b-348 

B-345G Bindus de Senis 

Aureum Bibliae Repertorium sive Aurea Biblia [German] 

Die gu« ldene Bibel. 

r 

[* 1 ] Rampegollis, Antonius de: [Prologue to the Compendium 

morale sive Figurae Bibliae.] ‘Ein Vorred dies bu« chs genant die 

Guldin Bibel. Innhaltend belongung der tugennt vnnd strouf der 

laster.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ies nachuolgend werck und bu« chlim so mitt 

dem allerho« chsten £yss duch einen durchlewchtigen doctor und 

andechtigen vater gemachet ist, mit namen Antonium 

Rampigolis . . .’ 

[*2 r ] ‘Register’. 

[a1 r ] [Bindus Guerrius de Senis: Aureum Bibliae Repertorium sive 

Aurea Biblia].‘Von abbruchundvasten Das erst Capitel. Abbruch 

tu« t das verdienen meren,Weisetheit ernolgen, Geistlicheit erkennen’. 

Incipit: ‘[A]bbruch tu« t des ersten das verdienen meren? 

Wann es meret das verdienen, vnnd sterckt in tugenden, darumm 

wolt vnnser herr das vnnser ersten vater . . .’ 


Augsburg: [Ludwig Hohenwang, c.1477]. Folio. 

collation: [* 6 a^v 10 x 12 ]. 


HC 13690; Go¡ R-21; BMC II 359; Pr 1740; BSB-Ink B-529; 


COPY 

In this copy sheet [v 3.8] is printed normally (see BMC). 

Binding: Contemporary(?) paper boards covered with parchment 

leaves from a c.1200 German manuscript Psalter; remains 

of one leather tie, one lost. Size: 241 ¿ 191 ¿ 48 mm. Size of 

leaf: 237 ¿ 175 mm. 

‘Oratio circa communionem dicenda . . .’ in a sixteenth-century 

hand on a ticket pasted on the front pastedown. A clergyman’s 

note in German arranged under di¡erent titles in a seventeenthcenturyhand 

(partially cut away), attached to the rear pastedown. 

‘580’ in pencil on front pastedown. 

Provenance: Rappoltsweiler, Alsace, church of S. Gregorius; 

‘Sum Eccl[esi]ae Ra� pp.’ on [*1 r ]. Jacob Buschius (sixteenth century?); 

‘Yacob Buschij’ on the front pastedown. Albert Cohn. 

Purchased from Cohn for 110 Marks; see Library Bills (1884), 

no. 186 ‘Guldin Bibel. Augspurg’. 


B-346 Birgitta 

Orationes. 

[*2 r ] [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[H]ee(!) sunt quindecim collecte siue orationes 

illius preclarissime virginis beate Birgitte . . .’ 

[*3 r ] Birgitta [pseudo-]: Orationes. Incipit: ‘[O] Domine Jesu 

Christe eterna dulcedo te amantium . . .’ 

refs. See G. E. Klemming, Birgitta-litteratur. Bibliogra¢ 

(Stockholm,1883), 58^62. 

[*8 r ] Augustinus [pseudo-]: Oratio [pro tribulatis]. Incipit: ‘[O] dulcissime 

domine Jesu Christe, verus deus . . .’ 

[Rome: Stephan Plannck, c.1495]. 8 o . 

collation: [* 10 ]. The gathering is unsigned, but [*5] is 

numbered 2. 

Three woodcuts. 

GW 4368; H Addenda 3209; Go¡ B-679; Pr 3770; BSB-Ink B-538; 

Collijn, Bibliogra¢, I 5^7; Sander 1027; Sheppard 2984. 

COPY 



Wanting the ¢rst leaf, with the woodcut. 

On [* 10] a prayer to the Virgin Mary, incipit: ‘Preces famuli tui 

gloriosa dei genetrix semper virgo maria exaudi . . .’ 



Orationes. 

[a1 v ] Birgitta [pseudo-]: Orationes. Incipit:‘O Domine Jesu Christe, 

eterna dulcedo te amantium . . .’ 


[a6 r ] Augustinus [pseudo-]: Oratio. Incipit: ‘O dulcissime domine 

Jesu Christe, verus deus . . .’ 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 1500]. 8 o . As dated by Accurti. 

Sheppard notes that the type 86 G here measures 84 mm, and is 

after 1500. 


GW 4376; not in Pr; Accurti II 83; Collijn, Bibliogra¢, I 5^7; 


COPY 


For almost the same group of works bound together see 

A-268. Size of leaf: 135 ¿ 103 mm. 

shelfmark: 8 o M 40(6) Th. Seld. 


Revelationes. 

a1 v [Declaration of authenticity.] ‘Epigramma libri presentis’. The 

volume was edited by Petrus Ingemari and the lay brother 

Gerardus on behalf of the Brigittine monastery in Vadstena. 

Incipit: ‘[B]enedictus deus, a quo hoc liber inspiratus est . . .’ 

refs. See Collijn, Bibliogra¢, I 122^3. 

a1 v ‘Phares voluminis infrascripti’.‘Diuide sic numen subscriptum, 

siue volumen’; 5 hexameters, a mnemonic poem listing the works 

of the volume. 

a2 r Turrecremata, Johannes de: ‘Epistola . . . ad omnes christi¢deles’. 

Incipit: ‘[I]ohannes miseracione diuina sacrosancte 

Romane ecclesie tituli . . . Rogati deuota cum instancia per venerabiles 

et religiosos fratres . . .’ Authentication of the 

‘Defensorium’; not found in Kaeppeli III 24^42. 

a 2 v Turrecremata, Johannes de: Defensorium super revelationes 

caelestes S. Birgittae. Incipit:‘ ‘‘[D]ixerunt Iudith, Ozias et presbiteri, 

Omnia quae locuta es vera sunt. Iudith c viij o ’’ [Idt 8,28] . . . 

Ista quippe verba qu� secundum sensum litteralem . . .’ The prologue 

and the ¢rst six chapters only; chapter 5 also contains 

Bonifatius IX, [Bulla, Ab origine mundi, 7 Oct. 1391]; MBR IV 

(Turin, 1859), 616^24; and Martinus V, [Bulla, Excellentum principum,1July1419]; 

not in MBR. See Collijn, Bibliogra¢, I121; not 

found in Kaeppeli III 24^42. 

a 11 r Johannes de Castello: ‘Littera testimonialis’. Incipit: 

‘[V]niuersis et singulis christi¢delibus . . . Ludouicus de Garsis 

vtriusque iuris doctor . . .’ 

a 12 r Jacobus: ‘Instrumentum notarii’. Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine indiuidue 

trinitatis . . . Ego Jacobus, domini diui de Callio publicus 

apostolica et imperiali autoritatibus notarius . . .’

-348^b-349] birgitta 

591 

a12 v Three pages of woodcuts with revelatory texts. Incipit:‘Ego sum 

deus tuus qui tecum loqui volo . . .’ The ¢rst leaf contains four, the 

others three woodblocks. 

b2 r Matthias de Suecia: Prologus. 

refs. Birgitta, Revelaciones lib. I cum prologo Magistri Mathie, 

book I, ed. C.-G. Undhagen (Stockholm,1977), 229^40. 

b5 r Revelationes i^vii. 

refs. Sancta Birgitta, Revelaciones I, ed. Undhagen; 

Revelaciones IV, ed. H. Aili (Stockholm, 1992); Revelaciones V^ 

VII, ed. B. Bergh (Stockholm, 1967^91). Each book is preceded 

by a page of woodcuts, some containing revelatory texts. 

ð10 v One page of woodcuts with revelatory texts. Incipit: ‘Ego sum 

similis carpentario . . .’ 

aa1 r Alphonsus, Bishop of Jae¤ n: Epistola Solitarii ad reges. 

refs. Arne Jo« nsson, Alfonso of Jae¤ n: His Life and Works with 

Critical Editions of the Epistola Solitarii, the Informaciones and 

the Epistola Servi Christi, Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia, 1 

(Lund, 1989). 

r 

bb1 Birgitta: Revelationes viii; Liber celestis imperatoris. Incipit: 

‘[V]idi palacium grande, incomprehensibile magnitudine . . .’ 

dd3 r Birgitta: Regula saluatoris. 

refs. Opera minora. I. Regula salvatoris ed. S. Eklund 

(Stockholm, 1975),‘P tradition’ 100^73. 

ee1 r ‘Prologus in Sermonem angelicum . . .’ 

refs. Opera minora. II. Sermo angelicus, ed. S. Eklund 

(Stockholm, 1972), 75^6. 

ee1 v Birgitta: Sermo angelicus. 

refs. Opera minora. II. Sermo angelicus, ed. Eklund,77^137. 

r 

¡ 4 [Prohemium in orationes.] 

refs. Opera minora. III. Quatuor oraciones, ed. S. Eklund 

(Stockholm, 1991), 65. 

¡4 r Birgitta: Orationes. 

refs. Opera minora. III. Quatuor oraciones, ed. Eklund, D-text, 

66^92. 

A1 r [Prologus in reuelationes celestes.] 

refs. Revelaciones extravagantes, ed. L. Hollman (Stockholm, 

1956), 113^14. 

A1 r Birgitta: Revelationes extravagantes. 

refs. Revelaciones extravagantes, ed. Hollman, 115^232. 

C6 v ‘Vita abbreuiata . . . sancte Birgitte’. Incipit: ‘[B]enedictus sit 

Deus, pater et ¢lius et spiritus sanctus. De cuius priuilegiata 

familiaritate . . .’ 

v 

C10 [Editorial statement on pseudographic texts.] Incipit: ‘Finit 

diuinum uolumen omnium celestium Reuelationum preelecte 

sponse Christi . . .’ 

v 

C10 [Colophon.] ‘Mille quadringenti nonaginta duo simul anni’; 8 

hexameters. 

[a1 r ] [Tabula.] 

r 

[h8 ] ‘Oratio deuota ad Sanctam Birgittam’. ‘[O] Birgitta mater 

bona, dulcis ductrix et partona’; a rhythmic poem. 

[Lu« beck]: Bartholomaeus Ghotan [for Vadstena Monastery, 

before 25 Nov.] 1492. Folio. 

collation: a 12 b^l 10 m 8 n^p 10 q 8 r^z 10 h 8 t� ð aaêe 10 ¡ 8 A^C [ 2 a] 10 

b^g 10 h 8 . 

The woodcuts and woodcut initials are discussed in Collijn, 

Bibliogra¢, I 124^6. 

GW 4391 H 3204*; Go¡ B-687; BMC II 554; Pr 2625; BSB-Ink 

B-530; Collijn, Bibliogra¢, I 117^28; Rhodes 377; Schramm XII 


FIRST COPY 

Wanting n8 which bears on the verso a full page cut of the 

cruci¢xion. 

Binding: Contemporary Dutch(?) blind-tooled calf over wooden 

boards; red edges. Two catches, and two metal corner-pieces at 

the tail of each cover, the two others lost. Two leather straps with 

metal fastening on the spine; remains of two clasps; ¢ve bosses on 

each cover lost. Triple ¢llets form a double frame. In three sections 

of the outer frame a small open rosette stamp, along the 

back a small open £eur-de-lis stamp. On the upper cover: in the 

inner frame an open undulating arch stamp and a small open 

£oral stamp. The inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets into 

lozenge-shaped compartments. On the lower cover: no stamps 

in the frame, but another small rosette stamp at the points where 

the intersecting ¢llets meet the inner frame. Two-thirds of the 

back is wanting. Size: 335 ¿ 240 ¿ 110 mm. Size of leaf: 320 ¿ 

230 mm. 

Front pastedown, now raised, from a parchment manuscript endleaf 

containing the legal decision of a court held at S. Maria 

Novella, Florence 23 Feb. 1442, relating to a disputed canonry in 

the church of St John the Evangelist, ’s Hertogenbosch. 

The woodcuts and principal initials painted in gold and colours; a 

fewother initials are supplied, some printed initials painted in red 

or blue ink, headings and rubrics underlined, printed paragraph 

marks touched with red, and capital strokes. 




SECOND COPY 

Printed on parchment. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English diced calf with 

gilt edges, for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian on both covers; binder’s ticket: bound by Louis 

Cordavau (£. 1799); boards detached. Size: 340 ¿ 230 ¿ 125 mm. 


Woodcuts and principal initials are painted in gold and colours. A 

six-line initial on a6 v is partly painted in gold. Some underlining in 

black ink. 

Provenance: Edward Rouse (sixteenth century); inscription on 

ð10 v :‘Edward Rowce would owe thisbook’; and on e9 v verses written 

by Rowse:‘Possidet aut vellet codicem qui scribit in illo > nunc 

in illo Rowsus candida multa legens’.William Laud, Archbishop 

of Canterbury (1573^1645): ‘Liber Guilielmi Laud. 

Archiepi[scopi] et Cancelarij Vniuersitatis Oxon� 1635’. Donated 

by Laud in 1635; see Coxe, Laudian MSS, p. xxxv. 



Revelationes. 

[*1 v ] [Waldauf von Waldenstein, Florian(?)]: Prologus. Incipit: 

‘Dum illustris ac nobilis vidua sancta Birgitta ex Suetia regali 

orta prosapia . . .’ 

refs. Prologue announcing the ¢nancial backing of Florian 

Waldauf vonWaldenstein for both the German and the Latin editions 

of this work, and of the backing of Maximilian I: see 

Montag, Birgitta, 104^23, 114^16 on the involvement of 

Wolfgang von Sandizell; see VL X 606^11, at 608^9. 

[* 2 r ] ‘Insignia regie maiestatis’. 

[* 2 v ] ‘Arma strennui militis Floriani Waldauf’.

592 birgitta 

[b-349^b-350 

[*3 r ] Turrecremata, Johannes de: ‘Epistola’. Incipit: ‘[I]ohannes 

miseratione diuina sacrosancte romane ecclesie tituli . . . Rogati 

deuota cum instantia per venerabiles et religiosos fratres . . .’ 

Authentication of the Defensorium; not found in Kaeppeli III 

24^42. 

[* 3 r ] Turrecremata, Johannes de: Defensorium super revelationes 

caelestes s. Birgittae. Incipit:‘ ‘‘[D]ixerunt Iudith, Ozias et presbyteri, 

Omnia quae locuta es vera sunt’’ [Idt 8,28] . . . Ista quippe 

verba quae secundum sensum litteralem . . .’ 


[**3 v ] Johannes de Castello: ‘Littera testimonialis’. Incipit: 

‘[V]niuersis et singulis christi¢delibus . . . Ludouicus de Garsis 

vtriusque iuris doctor . . .’ 

[**4 v ] Jacobus: ‘Instrumentum notarii’. Incipit:‘[I]n nomine indiuidue 

trinitatis . . .Ego Jacobus domini diui de Callio publicus apostolica 

et imperiali auctoritatibus notarius . . .’ 

[**5 r ] Three pages of woodcuts with revelatory texts. Incipit: ‘[E]go 

sum Deus tuus qui tecum loqui volo . . .’ The ¢rst leaf contains 

four, the others three woodblocks. 

[** 6 v ] Matthias de Suecia: Prologus. Incipit: ‘[S]tupor et mirabilia 

audita sunt in terra nostra . . .’ 


[** 8 r ] [Declaration of authenticity.] Incipit: ‘[B]enedictus deus a quo 

hoc liber inspiratus est . . .’ 

[**8 r ] ‘Phares voluminis infrascripti’. ‘Diuide sic numen subscriptum, 

siue volumen’; 4 hexameters, a mnemonic poem listing the 

works of the volume. 

a1 r Birgitta: Revelationes i^vii. Incipit: ‘[V]erba domini nostri 

Ihesu Christi ad suam electam sponsam . . . Ego sum creator celi 

et terre, vnus in deitate cum patre et spiritu sancto . . .’ 


z3 v One page of woodcuts with revelatory texts. Incipit: ‘Ego sum 

similis carpentario . . .’ 

z4 r Alphonsus, Bishop of Jae¤ n: Epistola Solitarii ad reges. Incipit: 

‘[O] serenissimi reges et vtinam veri reges in Christo domini 

mei . . . Quoniam moris regum existit velle curiose discutere . . .’ 


A3 r Birgitta: Revelationes viii; Liber celestis imperatoris. Incipit: 

‘[V]idi palatium grande, incomprehensibile magnitudine . . .’ 

C3 r Birgitta: Regula saluatoris. 

refs. Opera minora. I. Regula salvatoris, ed. Eklund, ‘P tradition’, 

100^73. 

D 1 r [Prologus in Sermonem angelicum.] 

refs. Opera minora. II. Sermo angelicus, ed. Eklund, 75^6. 

D1 r Birgitta: Sermo angelicus. 

refs. Opera minora. II. Sermo angelicus, ed. Eklund, 77^137. 

E2 v ‘Prohemium in orationes’. 

refs. Opera minora. III. Quatuororaciones, ed. Eklund, 65. 

E 2 v Birgitta: Orationes. 

refs. Opera minora. III. Quatuor oraciones, ed. Eklund, D-text, 

66^92. 

E 6 r Prologus in reuelationes celestes. 


E6 r Birgitta: Revelationes extravagantes. 


H 3 v ‘Vita abbreuiata sanctae Birgittae.’ Incipit: ‘[B]enedictus sit 

deus pater et ¢lius et spiritus sanctus. De cuius priuilegiata familiaritate 

. . .’ 

H6 v [Editorial statement on pseudographic texts, with colophon.] 

Incipit: ‘Finit diuinum uolumen omnium celestium 

Reuelationum preelecte sponse Christi . . .’ 

r 

[a1 ] [Tabula.] 

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 21 Sept. 1500. Folio. Printed at the 

instigation of Maximilian I. 

collation: [*] 6 [**] a^z A^F 8 G H 6 2 a^f 8 2 g 6 .The ¢rst two sheets 

are unsigned, but numbered. 

The woodcuts and woodcut initials are discussed in Collijn, 

Bibliogra¢, I 185^6. 

GW 4392; HC 3205; Go¡ B-688; BMC II 445; Pr 2124; BSB-Ink 

B-531; Collijn, Bibliogra¢, I 178^86; Rhodes 378; Schramm 

XVII p. 10; Schreiber V 3504; Sheppard1555. COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves A 4 and 2 g 6. 

Leaf H6 blank as GW, not as BMC. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English half calf. Size: 310 ¿ 210 ¿ 


A few early manuscript notes. 

Twelve-, six-, and four-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red; red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Edward Medley (£. c.1512^1515); inscription on 

[*]1 v s 

: ‘Edwardus Medley p[reti]us iij ’. Thomas Marmion 

r 

(�1583); signature on [*] 1 . Presumably passed on to his wife 

Mary, born Shakerley (�1605) who in 1585 married Anthony 

Morgan (1569/70^1608/9). Presented in 1601: see Benefactors’ 

Register I 32 where the date of the colophon has been misinterpreted 

as 1521; James, Catalogus (1605), 17 (B 2. 10 [Th.]); 

Jensen,‘Benefactors’ Register’, no. 60. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: E 4. 10 Th. 

shelfmark: E 1. 2 Th. 


Onus mundi. 

[a2 r ] [Tortsch, Johann]: Onus mundi. Edited by Wolfgang von 

Sandizell, printed at the expense of Georg der Reiche, Duke of 

Bavaria-Landshut. 

refs. Montag, Birgitta, 252^328, with the Latin and German 

text, also 180;VL XI 982^4. 

[d1 v ] [Tortsch, Johann(?)]: Festa S. Birgitte. Incipit: ‘[S]ancta 

Birgitta habet tria festa in anno . . .’ 

[d1 v ] ‘O⁄cium missae in natali Sanctae Birgittae’. Incipit: 

‘[G]audeamus omnes in domino diem festum celebrantes . . .’ 

The text of the O⁄ce on [d1 v ], [d2 r ] line 15 and [d4 r ] are excerpts 

from Birger Gregerson, O⁄cium sancte Birgitte, ed. C.-G. 

Undhagen (Uppsala, 1960), 181^2 and 230^7; the rest is from 

Nicolaus Hermanni, Rosa rorans. Ett Birgittao⁄cium, ed. H. 

Schu« ck (Lund, 1893), 52^3. 

[d3 v ] ‘Oratio bona de Sancta Birgitta’.‘Gaude Birgitta nobilis exorta 

es miri¢ce sponso celesti abilis £orens ex regno Suecie’; rythmical 

verse.The prayer is inserted between two parts of the O⁄ce, but is 

not contained in either of the published O⁄ces; see Montag, 

Birgitta, 162 n. 4. 

[e 1 r ] Birgitta: Revelationes. Incipit:‘[F]ilius loquitur. Si iste uelit me 

honorare . . .’ Chapters 48, 49,10,17, 33,76, and 80 from book IVof 

the Revelationes; see Montag, Birgitta, 162 n. 4. 

[g1 r ] [Tortsch, Johann]: ‘Sermo defensionum et probationum ac 

expositionum’. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[E]xultauit Iesus et spiritu dixit:

-350^b-352] blanchellus, menghus 

593 

Con¢teor tibi Domine pater celi etterre etc. Luce x.�[Lc10,21] Hic 

est sciendum quod secundum Originem . . .’ 

refs. Excerpts from Lucidarius revelationum S. Birgitte; see 

Montag, Birgitta, 163 and 188^9. 

[k5 r ] [Tortsch, Johann(?)]: ‘Oratio in laudem S. Birgitte’. Incipit: 

‘[N]unc autem quia de nunciis Dei ad salutem hominum missis. . .’ 

refs. See Montag, Birgitta, 163 n. 2. 

Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1 Oct. 1485. 4 o . 

collation: [a^c 8 d 4 e 8 f 4 gî 8 k 6 ]. GW gives the collation in two 

parts. 

GW 4399; HC 12012*; Go¡ B-675; BMC IV 106; Pr 3818; Collijn, 

Bibliogra¢, I 46^50; Rhodes 376; Sheppard 3013^14. 

FIRST COPY 

Blind impression of the register on [d 4 r ]: see GW (Anm.). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German dark blue paper boards, 

with reinforcing slips cut from a manuscript. Size: 220 ¿ 155 ¿ 


Three-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red 

capital strokes and underlining of headings; printed paragraph 

marks marked in red. 

Provenance: Acquired between 1835 and 1847; see Catalogus 

(1843), Appendix, 132. 


SECOND COPY 

Gatherings [a]^[d] only. With the register on [d4 r ]. The ‘Onus 

mundi’, ‘Festa S. Birgittae’ and the selected ‘Revelationes’ are, 

according to GW, often found separately. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English calf, in each corner 

Rawlinson’s scallop stamp. The gold stamp of the Bodleian 

Library on both covers. See Oldham, Shrewsbury School 

Bindings, 104. Size: 250 ¿ 140 ¿ 45 mm. Size of leaf: 192 ¿ 

131 mm. 

Some black underlining, and occasional early marginal notes. 

Provenance: Thomas Rawlinson (1681^1725), his note C[ollated] 

& P[erfect]; sale London, T. Ballard (13 Nov. 1732). Richard 

Rawlinson (1690^1755)(?); perhaps purchased at his brother’s 

sale. Perhaps bequeathed in 1755. 


B-351 Blanchellus, Menghus 

Super totam logicam Pauli Veneti expositio et 

quaestiones. 

r 

a1 [Blanchellus, Menghus: Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[C]um uiderem 

Pauli Veneti logicam non parua indigere expositione . . .’ 

a1 r Blanchellus, Menghus: Super totam logicam Pauli Veneti expositio. 

Incipit: ‘[T]erminus quadrupliciter sumitur, uno [modo] pro 

omni re terminante . . .’ Without the text of PaulusVenetus. 

i1 r Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones summularum. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[T]erminus est signum’’ etc. Contra hoc arguitur. Et primo sic. 

Circa idem uersatur . . .’ 

refs. Stated on q2 r to be 49 ‘quaestiones’. 

q2 r Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones suppositionum. Incipit: 

‘Utrum di⁄nitio suppositionis sit bene data. Contra. Primo 

arguitur quod non bene dicitur quod suppositio sit acceptio. . .’ 

refs. Stated on s2 v to be 24 ‘quaestiones’. 

s2 v Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones circa consequentias. 

Incipit: ‘Utrum di⁄nitio consequentie sit bene data que est: 

Consequentia est illatio consequentis ex antecedente . . .’ 

refs. Stated on t3 r to be 12 ‘quaestiones’. 

t3 r Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones. Incipit: ‘Utrum propositio 

particularis inde¢nita et singularis de nomine subiecto pronomine 

. . .’ 

refs. Stated on u6 r to be 18 ‘quaestiones’, stating ‘quare si bene 

numerabis est centenarius’. However, the stated numbers add up 

to 103. 

Treviso: [Michael Manzolus], 10 Apr. 1476. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b 8 c d 6 e 8 f 6 g h 8 i 6 k 8 l^p 6 q 8 r 6 s 8 t u 6 . 

GW 4404; HCR 3227; Go¡ B-691; BMC VI 887; Pr 6467; Rhodes, 

Treviso, no. 34; Sheppard 5503. 

COPY 

Wanting a1, ablank, and p2. Leafa10 isbound after o1.The last leaf 

is backed. 

Binding: Parchment over pasteboards. Size: 290 ¿ 200 ¿ 35 mm. 


At the end of each gathering catchwords are supplied vertically in 

a large hand within a frame. Extensive marginal notes in at least 

two early hands. 


armorial book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘VII.D.f.35’; 

not identi¢ed in Sussex sale catalogues. Purchased for »0. 10. 6; 



B-352 Blanchellus, Menghus 

Supertotam logicam Pauli Veneti expositio et quaestiones 

(ed. Matthaeus Campagna de Cherio). 

a2 r Blanchellus, Menghus: [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[C]um viderem 

Pauli Veneti logicam non parua indigere expositione . . .’ 

v 

a2 Blanchellus, Menghus: Super totam logicam Pauli Veneti expositio. 

Edited by Matthaeus Campagna de Cherio. Incipit: 

‘[T]erminus quadrupliciter sumitur, uno modo pro omni re terminante 

. . .’ Without the text of PaulusVenetus. i1 r Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones summularum. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[T]erminus est signum’’ etc. Contra hoc arguitur. Et primo sic. 

Circa idem versatur . . .’ 

r 

refs. Stated on o8 to be 49 ‘quaestiones’. 

o8 r Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones suppositionum. Incipit: 

‘Utrum di⁄nitio suppositionis sit bene data. [C]ontra primo 

arguitur quod non bene dicitur quod suppositio sit acceptio. . .’ 

refs. Stated on q7 r to be 24 ‘quaestiones’. 

q7 r Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones circa consequentias. 

Incipit: ‘Utrum di⁄nitio consequentie sit bene data que est: 

Consequentia est illatio consequentis ex antecedente . . .’ 

refs. Stated on rt r to be 12 ‘quaestiones’. 

v 

r7 Blanchellus, Menghus: Quaestiones. Incipit:‘Utrum propositio 

particularis inde¢nita et singularis de nomine subiecto pronomine 

. . .’ 

refs. Stated on s9 v to be 18 ‘quaestiones’, stating ‘quare si bene 

numerabis est centenarius’. However, the stated numbers add up 

to 103.

594 blondus, flavius 

[b-352^b-355 

s9 v [Colophon containing a reference to the editor, Matthaeus 

Campagna de Cherio.] 

Venice: Johannes Leoviler, for Franciscus de Madiis, 21 Mar. 

1488. 4 o . 

collation: a^r 8 s 10 

GW 4407; HR 3229; Go¡ B-694. not in Pr; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Paulus Venetus, Tractatus summularum logice. Venice: 

Lucantonio Giunta, 29 Dec. 1517. 

Binding: For the description of the binding see XYL-23. Size: 


Provenance: ‘Loci Sa[n]cte Marie de [erased] 1649’on title-page 

of item1; this has been partly erased and replaced by ‘Conventu S. 

Antonij Fran[ciscorum?]’. Maciano, province of Urbino, 

Franciscan House(?); inscription in the inner margin of sig. c4 v 

of item 2: ‘Sancte Marie Maciani’. Montemaggio, province of 

Urbino, Convent of Observant Friars Minor; modern library 

stamp on the title page of item 1: ‘Libreria de RR.PP. Min. Oss. 

de Montemaggio’. Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); armorial bookplate; 

purchased from Hans P. Kraus in 1950 for »450; accession 

no.‘R 894’. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman. 

shelfmark: Broxb. 30.13(2). 

B-353 Blanchinus, Johannes 

Tabulae celestium motuum earumque canones. 

A2 r Augustinus [Ka« sebrod] Moravus Olomucensis: [Letter 

addressed to] Andreas Stiborius. Incipit: ‘[Q]uantum reipublice 

litterarie profuerit recens imprimendorum caracterum inuentum 

. . .’ Dated 1 Jan. 1495. 

A2 v Blanchinus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Emperor 

Fridericus III. 

refs. G. Bo⁄to, ‘Le tavole astronomiche di Giovanni Bianchini 

in un codice della collezione Olschki’, Biblio¢lia, 9 (1907^8), 

378^88, 446^60, at 450^1. 

r 

A3 Blanchinus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Leonellus d’Este. 

refs. Bo⁄to 454^5. 

A4 r Blanchinus, Johannes: Canones in tabulas celestium motuum. 

Incipit: ‘[P]tholomeus qui merito illuminat[or] diuine artis astrologie 

vocari potest . . .’ 

refs. See Bo⁄to 451. 

r 

a2 Blanchinus, Johannes: Tabule ethereorum motuum. Incipit: 

‘Tabula motus augium communium.’ 

refs. See Bo⁄to 452. 

O6 r Basilius, Johannes: Ad lectorem . . . epigramma. 

refs. Bo⁄to 447. 

O6 r [Note on omitted tables.] Incipit: ‘Notandum quod tabule nonnulle 

videlicet . . .’ 

Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 10 June 1495. 4 o . 

collation: A B a^z h m k 2 A^N 8 O 6 . 


B-547; Rhodes 380; Sheppard 4469. 

COPY 

Binding: Early eighteenth-century(?) mottled calf; double gilt ¢llets 

form a border; gilt ¢llets on spine; endpapers watermarked 

with horse and rider. Size: 206 ¿ 155 ¿ 55 mm. Size of 

leaf: 198 ¿ 152 mm. 

Title written in arabic characters on the front endleaf. 

Provenance: Inscription on A1 r : ‘Maihard’. [ ] Stanley (£. 1816^ 

1817); Heber’s note: ‘Sale by Stanley, July 1817’. Richard Heber 

(1773^1833); not found in Catalogue. Purchased for »0. 1. 6: see 



B-354 Blondus, Flavius 

Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii 

decades. 

a2 r Blondus, Flavius: Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum 

imperii decades. Incipit:‘[R]omanorum imperii originem incrementaque 

cognoscere . . .’ 

S7 r [Colophon.] 

S7 v Campanus, [Johannes Antonius: Verse.] ‘Blonde, pio uiuo moreris 

nil morte dolendum est > Tu famae, domui consulit ille tuae’; 2 

elegiac distichs. Not found in Campanus, Opera omnia. 

S7 v [Campanus, Johannes Antonius: Verse dedicated to Pius II, 

Pont. Max.] ‘Romam instauratam c>oepit cum scribere Blondus > 

Multa illum instaurans contulit Eugenius’; 3 elegiac distichs. Not 

found in Campanus, Opera omnia. 

v 

S7 [Campanus, Johannes Antonius]: ‘Epitaphium’. ‘Hic situs est 

Blondus Priami cui forma, Catonis > Vita,Titi Liuii phama decusque 

fuit’; 3 elegiac distichs. Not found in Campanus, Opera 

Omnia. 

Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 16 July 1483. Folio. 

collation: a^l 8 m^z A^C 10 DÊ 8 F^M 10 N^S 8 . 


B-551; Oates 1824; Rhodes 381; Sheppard 3641. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) Italian half parchment over pasteboards; 

bound for Albergotti(?). Size: 310 ¿ 220 ¿ 66 mm. Size 

of leaf: 296 ¿ 213 mm. 

Manuscript notes, chie£y in Decas secunda, in a contemporary 

and in later hands, some in Italian. 

On a2 r a Venetian eight-line epigraphic initial ‘R’ is supplied in 

gold, on a blue and red background with white ¢ligree on the 

blue, yellow ¢ligree on the red; £oral extension into the inner margin 

in blue, maroon, and green with gold dots and pen-work: see 

Pa« cht and Alexander II 112, no. pr. 101; at the beginning of each 

subsequent book ¢ve-line epigraphic initials are supplied in red, 

blue, and red, or blue over guide letters in brown or black ink. 

Provenance: Inscriptions of ownership on a2 r and S7 v , both 

scored out, the latter covered with an early paper slip. Albergotti 

family (eighteenth century). Dimitrij Petrovich, Count 

Boutourlin (1763^1829); sale (1831), lot 322. Purchased for »0. 10. 




Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii 

decades. 

a2 r Blondus, Flavius: Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum 

imperii decades. Incipit:‘[R]omanorum imperii originem incrementaque 

cognoscere . . .’ 

I8 r [Colophon.] 

I8 r Campanus, [Johannes Antonius: Verse.] ‘Blonde, pio uiuo moreris 

nil morte dolendum est > Tu famae, domui consulit ille tuae’; 2 

elegiac distichs.

-355^b-357] blondus, flavius 

595 

I8 r [Campanus, Johannes Antonius: Verse dedicated to Pius II, 

Pont. Max.] ‘Romam instauratam c>oepit conscribere Blondus > 

Multa illum instaurans contulit Eugenius’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

I8 r [Campanus, Johannes Antonius]: ‘Epitaphium’. ‘Hic situs est 

Blondus Priami cui forma, Catonis > Vita, Titi Liuii fama decusque 

fuit’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

AA1 r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Abbreviationes supra Decades Blondi. 

Incipit: ‘[F]uit autem in urbe Constantinopoli Romanum imperium 

magna cum gloria . . .’ 

refs. Aeneas Silvius, Opera quae extantomnia (Basel,1571),144^ 

281. 

Venice: Thomas de Blavis de Alexandria, 28 June 1484. Folio. 

collation: a^g 8 h 10 iû 8 x 10 A 8 B 14 CÎ AAÊE 8 FF 10 . 

GW 4420 (Blondus only); HC *3249; Go¡ B-699; BMC V 317; Pr 

4758; BSB-Ink B-552; Oates 1875; Sheppard 3815. 

COPY 



boards, two clasps lost. Formerly chained; staple-marks of a 

hasp at head of the upper cover. On both covers triple ¢llets form 

a frame, in which is a triangular £oral stamp; triple ¢llets form an 

intersecting double frame; in the frame a rectangular £oral 

stamp; the inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets into triangular 

and lozenge-shaped compartments with triangular and 

lozenge-shaped £oral stamps; circular rosette on spine; see 

Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xviii, nos 182, 184, 189, 190: 

‘Fruit and Flower Binder’. The gold stamp of the Bodleian 


leaf: 303 ¿ 208 mm. 

Endleaves and pastedowns from Dionysius Halicarnassus, 

Antiquitates romanae, Treviso: B. Celerius, 25 Feb. 1480, books 

9^10; see D-096(3); partly covered by fragment of a ¢fteenth-century 

manuscript of terminist logic. 

Author and title in an early hand on fore-edge. Early marginal 

notes in books I^Vof the Abbreviatio. 

Provenance: Thomas Herrison (seventeenth century?); signature 

on a2 r . John Selden (1584^1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18. 

Presented in 1659. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: B 1.11 Art. Seld.; Auct. N 1.11. 

shelfmark: S. Seld. c.1. 


Italia illustrata (ed. Gaspar Blondus). 

[a2 r ] [Table of contents.] Incipit:‘De Italie nomine, dimensione ac 

forma . . .’ 

r 

[c1 ] Blondus, Gaspar: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Zane, Bishop of 

Brescia. Incipit: ‘Coegerunt me tandem assidue tue uoces, prestantissime 

pater . . .’ 

r 

[c2 ] Blondus, Flavius: ‘In Italiam illustratam prefatio’. Edited by 

Gaspar Blondus. Incipit:‘[C]um multi hystoriam uariis celebrent 

extollantque sententiis tum maxime Alexander Antoninus . . .’ 

[c2 v ] Blondus, Flavius: Italia illustrata. Incipit:‘[I]taliam describere 

exorsi prouinciarum orbis primariam a laudibus eius incipere 

debuimus . . .’ 

Rome: Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, [not before 10] Dec. 

1474. Folio. Although the colophon is dated 5 Dec., the prefatory 

letter is dated10 Dec.; BMC presumes that the bookwas not complete 

before 10 Dec. 

collation: [a 10 b 8 c^g 10 h 8 i 10 k 8 l^s 10 ]. 

GW 4421; HC 3246; Go¡ B-700; BMC IV 33; Pr 3397; Sheppard 

2717. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [a1]; gatherings [m] and [p] are misbound 

between [e10] and [f1]; the last leaf is backed. 

Binding: English eighteenth-century gold-tooled, crushed red 

morocco, stamped with the arms of the Duke of Roxburgh; 

marbled pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; endpapers watermarked 

‘Budgen 1795’, countermark a £eur-de-lis also dated 1795. Size: 


A few early but washed notes still visible. 

Provenance: John Ker,3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1740^1804); sale 

(18 May 1812), lot 8187, possibly for »8. 8. 0. Purchased for »3. 16. 


shelfmark: Auct. 2Q 2.21 


Roma instaurata (ed. Johannes Antonius Pantheus). 

v 

[* 2 ] ‘Index’. 

[*6 r ] Broianicus, Hieronymus: [Verse.] ‘Qui Romam Latium 

Venetos lustrauit abunde’; 4 elegiac distichs. 

[*6 v ] Pantheus, Johannes Antonius: [Versi¢ed preface addressed 

to] Paulus Ramusius Ariminensis. 

refs. See C. Perpolli,‘L’Actio Panthea e l’UmanesimoVeronese’, 

Atti dell’Accademia di Agricoltura, Scienze e Letteratura di 

Verona, 4th ser., 16 (1915), 55. 

a1 r Blondus, Flavius: ‘Praefatio’ [addressed to] Eugenius IV, Pont. 

Max. Incipit:‘[V]rbis Romae rerum dominae ruinarum potius 

quam aedi¢ciorum . . .’ 

a1 v Blondus, Flavius: Roma instaurata. Edited by Johannes 

Antonius Pantheus. Incipit:‘[R]omam in Latio ad Tiberim 

amnem sitam . . .’ 

r 

e6 Blondus, Flavius: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus Foscari, 

Doge of Venice, and the Venetian senate. Incipit:‘[M]agnum, 

Francisce Foscari princeps serenissime uosque amplissimi senatores 

ac uiri patricii, negotium an omnium magis . . .’ 

e6 v Blondus, Flavius: ‘De origine et gestis Venetorum’. Edited by 

Johannes Antonius Pantheus. Incipit:‘[V]enetam urbem ad 

annum salutis sextum quinquagesimum et quadringentesimum 

condi coepisse . . .’ 

g3 v [First colophon dated 20 Dec. 1481.] 

r 

A1 Blondus, Flavius: ‘In Italiam illustratam prefatio’. 

Incipit:‘[Q]uom multi historiam uariis extollant celebrentque sententiis 

tum maxime eam Alexander Antonius . . .’ 

A1 v Blondus, Flavius: Italia illustrata. Edited by Johannes 

Antonius Pantheus. Incipit:‘[I]taliam describere exorsi prouinciarum 

orbis primariam a laudibus suis incipere debemus . . .’ 

M5 v Broianicus, Hieronymus: [Poem.] ‘Itala quam debet Saturno 

turba latenti > Iliadae tantum martia turba suo’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

Verona: Boninus de Boninis, 1481^2. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 

20 Dec. 1481; (II) 7 Feb. 1482. 

collation: [* 6 ] a^f 8 g 4 A^L 8 M 6 . 

GW 4423; HC *3243 + *3247; Go¡ B-702; BMC VII 951; Pr 6920; 

BSB-Ink B-554; Rhodes 382; Sheppard 5701. Micro¢che: Unit 4: 

Chronicles and Historiography Part I, CH 4; Unit 6: Image of the 

World: Travellers’ Tales,TT 6.

596 boccaccio, giovanni 

[b-357^b-360 

COPY 

Wanting the leaves [*1.6] and M6, two being blank, [*6] containing 

the verse by Broianicus and the preface by Pantheus. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, with gold-tooled spine; bound 

for the Bodleian Library; parchment index tabs; the gold stamp 

of the Library on both covers. Size: 310 ¿ 215 ¿ 30 mm. Size of 

leaf: 303 ¿ 193 mm. 

Initials are supplied in red. 

Manuscript annotations in an early hand. On [*4 v ], M5 r , and V3 v 

are extracts on Blondus from Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo, 

Supplementum chronicarum. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 23 

Aug.1483; on leaf BB4 v is a further extract with some supplementary 

information. Manuscript copies of the verses found in the 

edition from Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 16 July 1483; Johannes 

Antonius Campanus, incipit: ‘Blonde, pio uiuo moreris nil morte 

dolendum est’; [Johannes Antonius Campanus, verse dedicated 

to Pius II, Pont. Max.], incipit: ‘Romam instauratam c½pit conscribere 

Blondus’; [Johannes Antonius Campanus], Epitaphium, 

incipit: ‘Hic situs est Blondus Priami cui forma, Catonis’. On M 1 r 

a manuscript copy of the epitaph of Robertus, King of Naples, by 

Franciscus Petrarcha, incipit: ‘Hic sacra magnanimi requiescunt 

ossa Roberti’. 

Provenance: Ghent, Discalced Carmelites, S. Maria de Monte 

Carmelo. Adrianus de Eenhoute (£. 1483). Petrus Brunus (£. 

1483); inscription on M5 v :‘Iste liber pertinet bibliothece conuentus 

gandavij sacri ordinis gloriosissime dei genitricis Marie de 

monte Carmelo, et aduenit eadem anno domini 1483 reverendo 

patre fratre Petro Bruno perornate ex procuratione reverendissimi 

magistri Adriani de eenhoute sacre theologie professoris. 

Orate pro eis.’ Purchased for »1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1822), 2. 



Roma triumphans. 

[a1 r ] Blondus, Flavius: [Letter addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. 

Incipit:‘[Q]uotquot hactenus scriptores et uates opera sua principibus 

inscripsere . . .’ 

[a1 v ] Blondus, Flavius: ‘In Romae triumphantis libros Proemium’. 

Incipit: ‘[A]rdenti uirtute praestantique ingenio ferme omnes sermones 

quos de gestis rebus . . .’ 

[a2 v ] Blondus, Flavius: Roma triumphans. Incipit: ‘[R]eligionem 

deorum culturam esse Nonius Marcellus scribit. Eandem . . .’ 

refs. On the passage omitted in the printing see BMC and also 

Luciano Capra, ‘Un tratto di ‘‘Roma triumphans’’ omesso dagli 

stampatori’, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 20 (1977), 303^22. 

[Mantua: Petrus Adam, de Michaelibus, c.1473]. Folio. For arguments 

for ascribing the book to Mantua see BMC; Pr and GW 

ascribe the book to [Brescia: Printer for PietroVilla]. 

collation: [a^b 10 c^l 8 m 6 nô 8 p 6 q^y 8 z 4 .] 

GW 4424; HCR 3244; Go¡ B-703; BMC VII 927; Pr 6942; Sheppard 

5616. 

COPY 



Early marginal notes with a few corrections to the text in two or 

three hands. Six leaves of ¢fteenth-century manuscript bound at 

the end, on fol. 1 r : Beda, De temporum ratione, extract from lib. I 

ch. 1, De computo vel loquela digitorum (see PL XC 296,7); on fol. 

1 v : pseudo-Valerius Messala Corvinus, Ad Oct. Augustum de progenia 

sua: incipit: ‘Cum frequenter me digna moneat postulatio 

tua gentium, gloriosissime Imperator, ut . . . tui s�culi perenne 

ac immortale decus. C�sar Aug.’ 

On [a1 r ] a contemporary north-east Italian eight-line epigraphic 

initial is supplied in gold on a blue, maroon, and green background 

and a white vine-stem ending in pink blossoms; in the 

inner margin a white vine-stem border touched in pink and incorporating 

a lamb, on a blue, maroon, and greenbackground, edged 

in black, and with a single gold dot; six-line epigraphic initials 

supplied in gold on a green, maroon, and blue backgrounds with 

white or yellow ¢ligree decoration; Pa« cht and Alexander II, 115 

no. pr. 144. 

Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby’s, anonymous sale (23 

Apr. 1857), lot 258, for »1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1857), 9. 



Roma triumphans. 

a1 r Blondus, Flavius: [Letter addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uotquot hactenus scriptores et uates opera sua principibus 

inscripsere . . .’ 

a1 v Blondus, Flavius: In Romae triumphantis prohemium’. Incipit: 

‘[A]rdenti uirtute praestantique ingenio ferme omnes sermones 

quos de gestis rebus . . .’ 

a2 v Blondus, Flavius: Roma triumphans. Incipit: ‘[R]eligionem 

deorum culturam esse Nonius Marcellus scribit. Eandem . . .’ 

v 

z1 [Colophon.] 

z1 v [Verse.] ‘Vrbs antiqua tulit Vercellae Bartholomaeum > Hoc qui 

impressit opus. Brixia nosce uirum’; 2 elegiac distichs. 

Brescia: Bartholomaeus Vercellensis, 1482. Folio. 

collation: * 2 a^b 10 c^l 8 m 6 n o 8 p 6 q^y 8 z 4 . 

GW 4425; HC (+ Addenda) *3245; Go¡ B-704; BMC VII 966; Pr 

6952; BSB-Ink B-555; Sheppard 5745; Rhodes 383. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter red leather over 

grey/green paper boards, the spine tooled with small upright 

£oral gilt tools in the panels, the bands outlined with simple horizontal 

¢llets. Size: 310 ¿ 210 ¿ 34 mm. Size of leaf: 304 ¿ 

198 mm. 

Marginal notes in an early hand in brown ink. 

Provenance: Giacomo Lucchesini (1753^1820): inside upper 

board an erased inscription: ‘Di Giacomo Lucchesini’. 

Purchased in Florence via D. A. Talboys, Oxford, for »1. 0. 0; see 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.12. 


B-360 Boccaccio, Giovanni 

Ameto [Italian]. 

a 2 r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Ameto. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, L’ameto, Lettere, Il Corbaccio, ed. 

Nicola Bruscoli, in G. Boccaccio, Opere, vol. 5, Scrittori d’Italia, 

182 (Bari, 1940), 3^152; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, 

Filocolo, Ameto, Fiammetta, ed. Enrico Bianchi, Carlo Salinari 

and Natalino Sapegno, La letteratura italiana, Storia e testi, 8 

(Milan and Naples, 1952), 903^1057; Comedia delle ninfe 

Fiorentine, ed. Antonio Enzo Quaglio, in Tutte le opere, ed.

-360^b-363] boccaccio, giovanni 

597 

Vittore Branca, vol. 2 (Milan, 1964), 679^835; Giovanni 

Boccaccio, Opere minori in volgare, ed. Mario Marti, vol. 3 

(Milan, 1971), 9^205. 

l5 r [Colophon.] 

l5 r Bononius, Hieronymus: [Sonnet.] ‘Nymphe, satyri, phauni [e] gli 

altri dei’. 

refs. G. Boccaccio, Comedia delleninfe¢orentine (Ameto), ed. A. 

E. Quaglio (Florence, 1963), p. xviii n. 1 ‘‘I’’. In the incunable the 

author is called Hieronymo BononioTrevisano. 

v 

l5 [Sonnet.] ‘Furon duo trombe che d’amor sonaro’. Surrounded by 

the letters P. T. R. S. 

refs. G. Boccaccio, Comedia delleninfe¢orentine (Ameto), ed. A. 

E. Quaglio (Florence, 1963), p. xviii n. 1 ‘‘II’’. 

Treviso: Michael Manzolus, 22 Nov. 1479. 4 o . 

collation: aî 8 k l 6 . 


B-557; Rhodes, Treviso, no. 44; Sheppard 5505. 

COPY 


leaf: 204 ¿ 135 mm. 

Provenance: Joseph Smith (1682^1770); armorial book-plate. 

Ralph Willett (1719^1795); sale (6 Dec. 1813), lot 370. Guglielmo 

Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia 

(1803^1869); purchased at his sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 348, for 




De casibus virorum illustrium. 

r 

[a2 ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Letter addressed to Mainardo de’ 

Cavalcanti.] ‘Prologus’. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, Decasibusvirorum illustrium, ed. Pier 

Giorgio Ricci and Vittorio Zaccaria, in Tutte le opere, ed.Vittore 

Branca, vol. 9 (Milan, 1983). 

[a3 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: De casibus virorum illustrium. 

refs. Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium, ed. Ricci and 

Zaccaria. 

[s6 r ] [Alphabetical index.] 

[Strasbourg: Georg Husner, c.1474^5]. Folio. Polain dates [before 

1479]. 

collation: [a 10 b 12 cê 10 f^s 8 ]. 


Polain 705; Sack, Freiburg, 705; Sheppard 288. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus. [Strasbourg: Georg 

Husner, c.1474^5] (B-377). 

Wanting the blank ¢rst leaf [a 1]. 

Sheet [r4.5] is misbound as the innermost sheet of [d]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French(?) red morocco, the spine 

with £oral gold tooling; gold-tooled edges and turn-ins; lettering 

in French; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian 


leaf: 263 ¿ 183 mm. 

On [a2 r ], [s5 v ] and [s7 r ] of item 1 ‘Ulmae 1473’. 

Provenance: Johannes Sphyractes (1508^1578); on [a2 r ] of item1, 

‘Sum Johannis Sphyract� Basiliensis et amicorum Anno 1559’. 

On [a 2 r ] of item 1, ‘Socini’. Christoph Hagenbach (1596^1668); 

on [a2 r ] of item 1, ‘M. Christophori Hagenbach. anno 49.’ 

Anonymous sale (London: Evans, 13 Jan. 1825), lot 208. 




De casibus virorum illustrium [English] The falle of 

princis. 

a2 r [Lydgate, John]: ‘Prologus’. Addressed to Humfrey, Duke of 

Gloucester. 

refs. John Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Henry Bergen 

(Washington, 1923), 1^13. On the printer’s copy, Manchester, 

John Rylands University Library, English MS. 2, see Ford, 

‘Author’s Autograph’, no. 26. 

a5 r Boccaccio, Giovanni: De casibus virorum illustrium.‘The falle 

of princis, princessis [and] other nobles’. Translated by John 

Lydgate. Dedicated to Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester. 

refs. Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen 13^673; 675^1020. 

H3 r [Lydgate, John]: ‘The wordes of the translatoure’. 

refs. Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen 1021^2. 

H3 r [Colophon.] 

H3 v ‘Greneacres a L’enuoye vpon John Bochas’. 

refs. Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen 1023. 

London: Richard Pynson, 27 Jan. 1494. Folio. 

collation: a^m 8 n 6 o^v A^F 8 G 6 H 4 . 

Nine woodcuts; see Hodnett nos 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 

1956, 1958, and 1960, also BMC. 

GW 4431; HC 3345; Go¡ B-710; BMC XI; Pr 9783; Baer, Die 

Illustrierten Historienbu« cher, p. xlvi, no. 228; Du¡ 46; Lydgate, 

Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen, part IV, 109^15; Oates 4197; 

Sheppard 7535; STC 3175. Facsimile: English Experience, no. 

777 (Amsterdam, 1976). 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf a1 and leaf H4 with the device. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English blind-tooled calf. Size: 


Provenance: Digby (before 1654); on H3 v ‘Decrevi in eternum 

qd’ Dygby’. On H 3 v ‘1559 Nil tam noset(!) quam male(!) societas, 

qd’george rodiat’. On H3 v ‘In the I putte my truste, o Lorde, lete 

me neuer be confounded. > Thomas [ ]ley’; the name erased and 

replaced by ‘Wi: Bromley’; William Bromley (£. before 1654). 

John Selden (1584^1654); MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18. Presented in 

1659. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: L 3.13 Jur.; N 2.8 Jur.; Auct. QQ 

sup. 2.12. 



Decasibus virorum illustrium [French] (trans. Laurent de 

Premierfait). 

Fragment. 

Bruges: Colard Mansion, 1476. Folio. Known in four lissues (A^ 

D); see GW. 

collation: [a 8 bî 10 k l 8 m^q 10 r 8 s t 10 v 8 x y 10 z 12 A^G 10 ]. 

GW 4432; HC 3341; Go¡ B-711; BMC IX 132; Pr 9316; Baer, Die 

Illustrierten Historienbu« cher, p. lviii, no. 281; Boekdrukkunst 

(1973), 102; Campbell (II) 295; Seymour de Ricci,‘Le Boccace de 

Colard Mansion (1476)’, GbJb (1927),46^9; HPT II 395; ILC 400;


[b-363^b-366 

Helmut Kind,‘Die Inkunabeln der Niedersa« chsichen Staats- und 

Universita« tsbibliothek Go« ttingen’, Gb Jb (1982), 120^49, at 129; 

Henri Michel, L’imprimeur Colard Mansion et Le Boccace 

(Paris, 1925); Henry P. Rossiter,‘Colard Mansion’s Boccaccio of 

1476’, in Essays in Honor of Georg Swarzenski (Chicago, 1951), 

103^10; Scha« fer 63; Sheppard 7063. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae [French]. Bruges: 

Colard Mansion, 28 June 1477 (B-405). 

Fragment of a single leaf. Text, col. 2: ‘ot triumphal dore. les |up > 

plications e|toyent ja pre| > ques ordonnes aux dieux > pour dei¢er 

actili j . . .’ 

Binding: Bound in a guard-book. Size of fragment: 131 ¿ 

137 mm. 

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757^1834); a note in the book 

attests that it comes from Douce fragments. Bequeathed in 1834. 

shelfmark: Auct. Q 1.6(2). 


Decamerone [Italian]. 

[*2 r ] ‘Tavola’. 

[*5 r ] Squarza¢cus, Hieronymus: Vita di Boccaccio. 

refs. A. Solerti, Le vite di Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio (Milan 

[1904]), 695^7; see also Allenspach^Frasso 245 n. 2. 

[*5 v ] [Boccaccio, Giovanni: Autoepita⁄o.] 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, Opere latine minori, ed. Aldo 

Francesco Masse' ra, in G. Boccaccio, Opere, vol. 9, Scrittori 

d’Italia (Bari, 1928), 105; Carmina, ed. Giuseppe Velli, in Tutte le 

opere, ed.Vittore Branca, vol. 5/1 (Milan, 1992), 454. 

a1 r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decamerone. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, ed. Vittore Branca, in 

Tutte le opere, ed.Vittore Branca, vol. 4 (Milan, 1976), 3^964. 

Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 20 June1492. Folio. 

collation: [* 6 ] a 8 b^y 6 z 4 . 

On a1 r a woodcut border; 112 woodcuts. 

GW 4449; HC 3277 bis; Go¡ B-728; Pr 4524; Essling 640; Sander 

1060; Sheppard 3888. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Masuccio Salernitano, Novellino. Venice: Johannes and 

Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 21 July 1492 (M-142). 

Wanting the blank leaf [*6]. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English gold-tooled limp 

parchment, formerly chained; two ties lost; with arms stamped 

in gold of George Carew, Lord Carew of Clopton and Earl of 

Totnes; three lions passant in pale. On front endleaf instruction 

to the binder. Size: 316 ¿ 232 ¿ 40 mm. Size of leaf: 314 ¿ 

212 mm. 

Early marginal notes in Italian. 

Provenance: Possibly Edward Dudley, 4th Lord Dudley (�1586); 

on b 4 r :‘mihi Edward Duddley 2306’. George Carew, Lord Carew 

of Clopton and Earl of Totnes (1555^1629). John Selden (1584^ 

1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18. Presented in 1659. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: B 1. 10 Art. Seld. 

shelfmark: S. Seld. c.2(1). 


La Fiammetta [Italian]. 

[a1 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: La Fiammetta.‘Ad Flamettam Panphyli 

amatricem libellus’. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, L’Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, ed. 

C. Delcorno, in Tutte le opere, ed.V. Branca, vol. 2 (Milan, 1984); 

Opere minori in volgare, ed. Mario Marti, vol. 3 (Milan, 1971), 

421^636. 

[o8 r ] [Colophon.] 

v 

[o8 ] [Verse.] ‘Cecus et alatus, nudus puer et pharetratus > Istis quinque 

modis depingitur deus amoris’; 2 hexameters. 


[Padua]: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho and Martinus de Septem 

Arboribus, 21 Mar. 1472. 4 o . 

collation: [a^k 10 lô 8 ]. 



COPY 

Wanting sheet [c 3.8]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English green morocco, edges gilt; 

bound by Charles Lewis(?). Size: 210 ¿ 160 ¿ 23 mm. Size of 

leaf: 202 ¿ 147 mm. 

On the recto and verso of a rear endleaf is an Italian paraphrase of 

two passages from La Fiammetta (see [c1 v ] and [c6 v ]) added in a 

sixteenth-century(?) hand. 

Initials are supplied in red and possibly blue, removed by 

washing. 

Provenance: Purchased for »21; see Books Purchased (1836), 5. 



La Fiammetta [Italian]. 

a2 r Boccaccio, Giovanni: La Fiammetta. ‘Il libro di madonna 

Fiammetta da lei alle innamorate mandato’. 


[Northern Italy: Printer of Antonius de Rosellis,‘De legitimationibus’ 

(H 13975), c.1480^5]. Folio. 

collation: a 10 bî 8 k 6 . Leaf a2 signed ai. 

GW 4457; H 3290; C 1071; R 1147; Go¡ B-735; BMC VII 1125; Pr 

7363; Sheppard 6066. 

COPY 


Di¡erent from both recorded variants: a 9 v , last line reads:‘comincio 

aparlare. >’ 

Binding: Nineteenth-century Italian(?) blind-tooled russia, 

described as ‘romantique cuir brun’ in the typed description 

attached to front endleaf. Size: 290 ¿ 210 ¿ 23 mm. Size of 

leaf: 282 ¿ 195 mm. 

Initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Ulrich Hoepli, sale (18 Feb.1929), lot 46. Eduardo J. 

Bullrich; ‘Ex libris Eduardo J. Bullrich’, gold-tooled morocco 

book-label on the front pastedown. D. L. Alvear (£. 1952); sale 

(1952), lot 58. Purchased at his sale via Quaritch for »130. 

shelfmark: Don. d.131.


599 


Il Filocolo [Italian]. 

[a2 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: Il Filocolo.‘Florio [e] Bianza¢ore chiamato 

Philocolo’. Dedicated to Maria, natural daughter of 

Roberto, King of Naples. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, Filocolo, ed. Antonio Enzo Quaglio, 

in Tutte le opere, ed.Vittore Branca, vol. 1 (Milan, 1967), 61^675. 

Giovanni Boccaccio, Opere minori in volgare, ed. Mario Marti, 

vol. 1 (Milan, 1969), 71^806. 

[B7 r ] [Colophon.] 

r 

[B7 ] Squarza¢cus, Hieronymus: Vita di Boccaccio. 


[B7 r ] [Boccaccio, Giovanni: Autoepita⁄o.] 


Venice: Gabriele di Pietro and Filippo di Pietro, 20 Nov. 1472. 

Folio. 

collation: [a b 10 c^f 8 g 10 h i 8 k^n 10 o^r 8 s 10 t 8 v 10 x 8 y z A 10 B 8 ]. 

GW 4463; HR 3296; Go¡ B-740; BMC V 199; Sheppard 3364^5. 

COPY 

Bound before 67 manuscript leaves of Italian works of Boccaccio 

in a ¢fteenth-century hand, comprising: fol. 1 ra -34 ra Il Filostrato, 

incipit: ‘Molte ¢ate gia, nobellissime done, auene, che jo . . .’; see 

Tutte le opere, ed. Vittore Branca, vol. 2 (Milan, 1964), 17^228; 

fol. 34 ra -56 rb Ninfale Fiesolano; see Tutte le opere di Giovanni 

Boccaccio, ed.Vittore Branca, vol. 3 (Milan, 1974), 291^421; on 

56 rb -61 vb an Italian poem in 112 stanzas, incipit: ‘Signori chari, 

essendo zoveneto > un ziorno foi mestesso maginando . . .’ and 

fol. 62 ra -67 va the Storia di Ippolito e Leonora in Italian prose, incipit: 

‘Per la magni¢ca et bellissima zita di Fiorenza sono dece . . .’; 

see William Roscoe, Frederic Madden, and Seymour de Ricci, A 

Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at 

Holkham Hall, Supplement to the Bibliographical Society’s 

Transactions, 7 (Oxford, 1932), no. 722. 

Wanting the blank leaf [a1] and leaf [m10]. [a2] cut out and reattached. 

In this as in all but one of the surviving copies, two columns 

of text have been printed upside down, on [B8 v ]. The text of 

column one belongs to book IV, chapters 93 and 94, of column 

two to chapter 98; di¡erently set up from leaves [s3 ra ] and [s4 vb ]; 

BMC, followed by GW, explains this as a result of erroneously 

inked bearer type; Neil Harris, ‘Una pagina capovolta nel 

Filocolo veneziano del 1472’, Biblio¢lia, 98 (1996), 1^21 suggests 

that an error in setting up the text of chapters 93 and 94 was discovered 

before the whole sheet had been printed, and that the 

sheets were not discarded but used for printing the last bifolium, 

probably as a result of a shortage of paper. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled russia, 

stamped with the crest of Coke of Holkham. The upper cover 

loose. Size: 328 ¿ 235 ¿ 63 mm. Size of leaf: 312 ¿ 215 mm. 

In the inner margin of [a 2 r ] Italian (Venice?) quarter white vinestem 

border with some gold dotting on a blue, red, and green 

ground incorporating a seven-line epigraphic initial painted in 

gold. At the beginning of each book, initials are supplied in gold, 

surrounded by white vine-stems de¢ned in red, blue or green and 

colours with some gold dotting. Initials and paragraph marks are 

supplied in red or blue. See Pa« cht and Alexander II,110 no. pr. 65. 

Provenance: Cosimo Almeni (seventeenth century?); on the rear 

endleaf: ‘Questo libro e del Caualiere Cosimo Almeni nato in 

Fiorenza, ma discendente della Augustisima Citta' di Perugia, 

Caualiere del hordine di Toscana di S. Stefano Papa e martire’, 

followed by a drawing of a Maltese cross and the motto:‘Sic fortis 

Hetruria crescit Pietas fortitudo nobilitas’. Old shelfmarks 

‘M.S.722’ and ‘A 4 B.11’. Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Earls of 

Leicester. Purchased in 1953. 

shelfmark: Holk. c.2. 


Il Filocolo [Italian]. 

r 

A2 Boccaccio, Giovanni: Il Filocolo. ‘Florio [e] Bianza¢ore chiamato 

Philocolo’. Dedicated to Maria, natural daughter of 

Roberto, King of Naples. 


Y6 v [Colophon.] 

Y6 v Squarza¢cus, Hieronymus: Vita di Boccaccio. 


Y7 v [Boccaccio, Giovanni]: [Autoepita⁄o.] 


v 

Y7 Mombritius, Boninus: ‘In Philocalum’.‘Philocalum quicunque 

legis, ne credito tamen’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

Milan: Dominicus deVespolate, [for himself, Bartolomeo, and the 

brothers Moresini, AntonioValera and Boninus Mombritius], 14 

June1476. Folio. On the identity of the printer and the publishers, 

see Arnaldo Ganda, ‘Il ‘‘tipografo del Servius H 14708’’ ha un 

nome: Domenico Giliberti da Vespolate’, Biblio¢lia, 87 (1985), 

227^66. 

collation: A^R rr S^Y 8 . 

GW 4464; HR 3297; Go¡ B-741; BMC VI 732; Pr 5890; Sheppard 

4902. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf Y8. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled brown morocco, 

bound by Charles Lewis. Size: 345 ¿ 245 ¿ 40 mm. Size of 

leaf: 336 ¿ 225 mm. 

On A 2 r an initial is supplied in red with £oral extensions into the 

upper and lower margins; other initials are supplied in red. 


(1843), 7. 



Genealogiae deorum. 

[a1 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Table of contents.] ‘Prohemium’. 

Dedicated to Hugo II, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uis primus apud gentiles Deus habitus sit . . .’ 

[b1 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum gentilium. 

Dedicated to Hugo II. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, Genealogiedeorum gentilium libri, ed. 

Vincenzo Romano, 2 vols, in G. Boccaccio, Opere, vol. 10, 

Scrittori d’Italia, 200 (Bari, 1951), 1^414; vol. 11, Scrittori 

d’Italia, 201 (Bari, 1951), 433^785. 

[D7 v ] [Bandinus], Dominicus: ‘Tabula rubricarum’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia 

istud opus genealogie deorum gentilium est adeo prolixum . . .’ 

Compiled for Coluccio Salutati (1330^1406), chancellor of 

Florence; on this index see E. H. Wilkins, The University of 

Chicago MS. of the ‘‘Genealogia deorum’’ of Boccaccio (Chicago, 

1927) 20^5, 67^70 and Boccaccio, Genealogie deorum, ed. 

Romano, as above.


[b-369^b-370 

[G14 v ] Dominicus Silvester: ‘Versus super quindecim libris 

Genealogiarum’ (17 hexameters, without verse 18). 

refs. Domenico Silvestri, The Latin Poetry, ed. Richard C. 

Jensen, Humanistische Bibliothek II/20 (Munich, 1973), 180. 

[G14 v ] Zovenzonius, R[aphael: Verse addressed to] Jacobus Zenus, 

Bishop of Padua. 

refs. B. Ziliotto, Ra¡aeleZovenzoni, lavita, icarmi, Celebrazioni 

degli Istriani illustri, 3 (Trieste, 1950), 160, no. 265. 

[G14 v ] [Colophon.] 

Venice:Vindelinus de Spira, 1472. Folio. 

collation: [a^m 10 n 12 o^s 10 t 6 v^y 10 z A B 8 C^F 10 G 14 ]. Leaves 

[B8] and [G14] are blank. 


B-583; Hillard 424; Oates 1615; Rhodes 385; Sheppard 3219^20. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Giovanni Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus. Venice: 

[Vindelinus de Spira], 13 Jan. 1473 (B-375(1)). 

Leaf [b1 r ] reads: ‘Genealogie� deorum gentilium Ioannis boccatii 

de certaldo Ad Vgo > ne� inclytum Hieru|alem & cypri regem. 

Eiu|dem libri prohe� minm’; [p 10 r ] has been left blank in error. The 

last blank leaf ([G14]) is bound twelfth in the gathering. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century calf, the spine gold-tooled; 


leaf: 320 ¿ 215 mm. 


Initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks are supplied 

in red. 

Provenance: Old shelfmark ‘Y.1.13’on endleaf. Erased shelfmark 

or ownership inscription on [a1 r ] of item 1. John Adrian Louis 

Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun and 1st Marquess of Linlithgow 

(1860^1908); armorial book-plate, see Howe, Book Plates, 15273 

or 15274; sale (25 Feb. 1889), lot 285. Paget Jackson Toynbee 

(1855^1932); book-plate; donated byToynbee. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Toynbee 1120. 

shelfmark: Toynbee 3617(1). 

SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Giovanni Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus. Venice: 

[Vindelinus de Spira], 13 Jan. 1473 (B-375(2)). 

Wanting the blank leaves [B 8] and [G 14]. 

Leaves [b1]^[f10] are di¡erently set up: see GW Anm.; [b1 r ]: 

‘Genealogie� deoru� gentiium Ioannis Bocacii de certaldo Ad 

Vgonem > inclytum Hieru|alem & Cypri regem. eiu|dem libri prohoemium’. 

The last two printed leaves, noted in the La Vallie' re 

sale catalogue as being in manuscript, have since been made up 

with leaves from a slightly shorter copy. 


£oral tools on spine; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Libraryon both covers. Size: 335 ¿ 240 ¿ 80 mm. Sizeof 

leaf: 326 ¿ 218 mm. 



pen-£ourishing in red and violet; other initials are supplied in 

red or blue with pen-£ourishing; paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue; yellow capital strokes. 

Provenance: Louis Ce¤ sar de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La 

Vallie' re (1708^1780); ‘V.3810’, not found in his sale (1767). Pietro- 

Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792); printed label of the 

sale (1789), part III, lot 5010; according to the annotated catalogue 

bought by ‘P.d.H’ (P. den Hengst), the auctioneer, at Fl. 32, 

the equivalent of »1. 16. 0 according to the exchange rate used by 

Thomas Payne at this sale. Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765^ 

1853); sale (1830), lot 209. Purchased at the Renouard sale for 





r 

[* 1 ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Table of contents.] ‘Prohemium’. 

Addressed to Hugo II, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Incipit: 


r 

a1 Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum gentilium. 

Dedicated to Hugo II. 


v 

aa1 [Bandinus], Dominicus: ‘Tabula rubricarum’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia 

istud opus genealogiae deorum gentilium est adeo prolixum . . .’ 

See B-369. 

ee2 v Dominicus Silvester: ‘Versus super quindecim libris 



ee2 v [Verse.] ‘Dum tua, Boccaci, propriis Laurentius auget’; 3 elegiac 

distichs. 

ee2 v [Colophon.] 

ee3 r [Register.] 

r 

ft1 Boccaccio, Giovanni: De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, 

£uminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, de nominibus maris. Incipit: 

‘[S]urrexeram equidem fessus a labore quoddam(!) egregio. . .’ 

refs. ed. Manlio Pastore Stocchi, in Tutte le opere di Giovanni 

Boccaccio, ed.Vittore Branca, vols. 7^8 (Milan, 1998). 

Reggio Emilia: Bartholom�us and Laurentius de Bruschis, 

Bottonus, 6 Oct. 1481. Folio. 

collation: [* 10 ] a^l 10 m 14 n^r 10 s 6 t^x 10 y z 8 & 6+1 m 10 aa 6 aa 4 bb 

cc 10 dd 10+1 ee 2+1 ft ct 10 A^C 10 D 8 . Gathering [*] is numbered but 

not signed. 


B-584; Hillard 425; Sheppard 6007^8. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half russia over wooden boards. 



Provenance: Beltramolus Cattaneus (sixteenth century); on D8 v 

inscription in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Hic liber est mei 

Beltramoli Cattanei’. Collation note dated 1899. Paget Jackson 

Toynbee (1855^1932); book-plate; donated byToynbee. 



SECOND COPY 

Wanting gatherings ft^D (De montibus, etc.). 

Binding: Contemporary Italian (Padua?, c.1481) blind-tooled 

dark brown goatskin over wooden boards bevelled inwards; 

rebacked. Four clasps (three star nails, forming a triangle), hinging 

on the upper cover, wanting. Catches (wanting) were in the 

form of inverted triangles with the apex cut o¡ (four nails). 

Covers tooled in blind with ¢ve multi-line frames; border of knotwork 

¢gures of eight between the second and third lines, and of a 

palmette motif between the fourth and ¢fth lines; corners of 

empty borders mitred; a knotwork tool repeated seven times in a


601 

vertical line in the central panel. Upper edge dark green, others 

light brown. No headbands. New endleaves. Same palmettemotif 

border on Darmstadt, Landesbibliothek, II.204: Petrus de 

Abano, Liberdephysionomia, Padua: Petrus Maufer,1474; bound 

with Matheolus Perusinus, Dememoria, Padua: Petrus Maufer, n. 

d., and Conradus Turicensis, De cometis [Venice]: Hans Aurl, 

1474, with anchor watermark (resembling Piccard, Anker, IV 

242: Lienz 1483). With similar, but probably not identical, border-tool: 

San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library, 94926: 

Panegyrici veteres latini, Milan: A. Zarotus, [c.1482]; London, 

BL, IA.23953, S. Bernardus Claravallensis, Opuscula, Venice: 

Simon Bevilaqua, 1495 (BMC V 520). Size: 315 ¿ 205 ¿ 80 mm. 


Occasional early marginal notes in a small neat humanist hand; 

early foliation and running headings. 

Provenance: Purchased at the anonymous sale (23 April 1857), 

lot 261; for »0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1857), 9. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. Q inf. 2.14, Auct. Q inf. 2.15. 




[*1 v ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Table of contents.] ‘Prohaemium’. 

Addressed to Hugo II, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Incipit: 


a1 r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum gentilium. 

Dedicated to Hugo II, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus. 


t1 r [Bandinus], Dominicus: ‘Tabula rubricarum’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia 

istud opus genealogiae deorum gentilium est adeo prolixum . . .’ 

See B-369. 

x6 v Dominicus Silvester: ‘Versus super quindecim libris 



y1 r Boccaccio,Giovanni: De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, £uminibus, 

stagnis seu paludibus, de nominibus maris. Incipit: 

‘[S]urrexeram equidem fessus a labore quodam egregio . . .’ 


k8 r [Colophon.] 

Vicenza: Simon Bevilaqua, 20 Dec. 1487. Folio. 

collation: [*] a^r 8 s 10 t u 8 x 6 y z & k 8 . 

GW 4477; HC *3316 = H 3320; Go¡ B-752; BMC VII 1051; Pr 7179; 

BSB-Ink B-585; Rhodes 387; Sheppard 5945^7. 

FIRST COPY 


leaf: 291 ¿ 197 mm. 


Provenance: Naples, S. Maria intercede, later S. Agnello, 

Basiliens, from 1517 Augustinians from Bologna; see Cottineau 

II 2033; on [*1 r ] ‘e¤ di s. Aniello Danio Napolitano’. On [*1 r ] 

‘V.I.D. Joseph Cocara’. On [*1 v ] and [*8 v ] ‘Melchior Magius 

C.A.C. Rom� 1724’. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

‘Duplum’on front endleaf and old shelfmark ‘od 2897 2 ’. Acquired 

between1847 and c.1892, possibly in1850; not found in Catalogus 



SECOND COPY 

Binding: Contemporary Italian (Veneto?, c.1487) blind-tooled 

half goat over wooden boards. Dark brown goatskin spine 

extending c.65 mm over the sides. Boards bevelled inwards. Four 

clasps (renewed) hinge on the upper cover and are secured by 

three star nails (triangle). Brass catches in the form of an inverted 

triangle with the point cut o¡, decorated with foliate ornament in 

relief round a small boss. The leather pasted onto the boards and 

the edges secured by ¢ve star nails. Decorated in blind in four 

compartments bounded by thick-between-two-thin lines, each 

containing four leaf-tools around a thick-between-two-thin-line 

saltire. Sewn on three double bands. Rebacked. Edges plain or 

brown (the latter from gathering ‘q’ onwards). Single plain headbands. 

Endleaves: original pastedown at the front and one original 

endleaf at the back, watermark: a bull’s head with cross and 

serpent; no exact match in Piccard, Ochsenkopf, but closest to 

XVI 183 (Venice 1487). Size: 232 ¿ 210 ¿ 48 mm. Size of 

leaf: 305 ¿ 197 mm. 

Provenance: Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932); inscription of 

name and number ‘183’; donated byToynbee. 



THIRD COPY 

Binding: Modern quarter parchment; marbled pastedowns. 


First initial is supplied in ink. 

Provenance: Bonaventura de Crema (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); 

inscription on k8 v : ‘Ad usum fratris Bonauenture de Crema 

or[din]is minorum’. Possibly Crema, Lombardy, Franciscans. 

Bought by Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932) from Ulrich 

Hoepli in 1899; book-plate; donated between 1912 and 1923. 





a1 v Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Table of contents.] ‘Prohemium’. 



a6 r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum gentilium. 



p4 v [Bandinus], Dominicus: ‘Tabula’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia istud opus 

genealogiae deorum gentilium est adeo prolixum . . .’ 


r4 r Dominicus Silvester: ‘Versus super quindecim libris 

Genealogiarum’. 


v 

r4 Boccaccio, Giovanni: De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, 




u10 r [Colophon.] 

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 Feb. 1494/ 

5. Folio. 

collation: a^t 8 u 10 . 

Woodcut diagrams at the beginning of each book; woodcut initials. 


B-586; Essling 799; Oates 1978; Rhodes 388; Sack, Freiburg, 706; 

Sander 1077; Sheppard 4214^16.


[b-372^b-373 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half calf; endpapers 

watermarked ‘G & C Cini’ and ‘La Stella’. Size: 325 ¿ 


Provenance: Guilelmus Aurelianus (£. 1508); on a1 r inscription: 

‘Frater Guillelmus Aurelianus minoritanus Gallus h[ab]uit 

Papie 1508’. Deleted ownership inscription on a1 r ‘Iste [ ] signatus 

n o 115’. Old shelfmarks‘F 2’,‘V.2’on a1 r . Dimitrij Petrovich, Count 

Boutourlin (1763^1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark No. 

533, see Catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1841), part III, lot 1148. 



SECOND COPY 



leaf: 310 ¿ 202 mm. 

Provenance: On a1 r deleted sixteenth century(?) inscription: ‘[ ] 

Christoforus Paganinius’; below, an unread inscription. 

Desiderius Mesme(?); on a 1 r an inscription: ‘Desd. Mesme’(?). J. 

du Moulin; armorial book-stamp. Ernest Thorin (nineteenth century); 

bookseller’s label on front pastedown. On rear endleaf old 

number ‘N o 654’. EŁ mile Paul & Co.; on rear endleaf a pencil note 

by the bookseller ‘Emile Paul et Co., Paris 1900, 13 frs.’ Paget 

Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932); book-plate and note ‘Bought for 

13 fr. at sale, Paris 1900.‘‘Bloemfontein Day’’ March 15’; donated 

byToynbee. 



THIRD COPY 

Leaf u1 bound after u8. 

Binding: Italian paper boards. Size: 305 ¿ 223 ¿ 27 mm. Size of 

leaf: 301 ¿ 210 mm. 

Provenance: Augustinus Tertius (sixteenth century). Bergamo, 

Franciscans, S. Franciscus; on a1 r deleted inscription: ‘Augustini 

Tertii Bergomensis Minoritani, et amicorum’. Paget Jackson 

Toynbee (1855^1932); inscription of name and note ‘Romagnoli, 

Bologna, 20 frs. 1899’; donated byToynbee. 





a1 v Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Table of contents.] ‘Prohoemium’. 



a 6 r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum gentilium. 



q 2 v [Bandinus], Dominicus: ‘Tabula’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia istud opus 

genealogiae deorum gentilium est adeo prolixum . . .’ 

s4 r Dominicus Silvester: ‘Versus super quindecim libris 

Genealogiarum’ (17 hexameters). 


s4 v Boccaccio, Giovanni: De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, 




x10 r [Colophon.] 

Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis, de Monteferrato, 25 Mar. 1497. 

Folio. 

collation: a^m 8 n^q 6 r^v 8 x 10 . 

Woodcut diagrams at the beginning of each book; woodcut initials. 

GW 4479; HC *3324 = H 3322; Go¡ B-754. BMC V 504; Pr 5367; 

BSB-Ink B-587; Essling 800; Hillard 426; Oates 2088; Sack, 

Freiburg, 707; Sander1078; Sheppard 4428^31. 

FIRST COPY 

By an error of imposition of the inner formes of the second and 

third sheets of gathering t, the text of t 2 v has changed places with 

that of t 3 v and the text of t6 r with that of t7 r . 




Provenance: Augsburg, Bavaria, Canons Regular, Priory, 

Sancta Crux; on a1 r inscription: ‘Monasterij S. Crucis August�’. 

Old shelfmark ‘Num. 18. Class. 4’. Acquired between 1847 and 

c.1892, possibly in 1850; not found in Catalogus (1843), with 

Appendix. 


SECOND COPY 


third sheets of gathering t, the text of t2 v has changed places with 

that of t 3 v and the text of t6 r with that of t7 r . 


leaf: 313 ¿ 202 mm. 

On the rear pastedown, a list of references added in a nineteenthcentury 

hand. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red 

paragraph marks and underlining. 

Provenance: Hartwig, of Schlitten; on a1 r 

inscription: 

‘Hartvuigus a Sliten’. Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); note on cutting 

of sale catalogue ‘Clement Palmer 1895’, of 12 Southampton 

Row, London; Elenchus, no. 645. Bequeathed in 1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. B 3.11. 

THIRD COPY 

Wanting l 1. 

Sheets t2.7 and t3.6 are di¡erently set up and the text printed in the 

right order. 

Binding: Paper boards. Size: 315 ¿ 225 ¿ 30 mm. Size of 

leaf: 305 ¿ 205 mm. 

Provenance: Don Giacinto Amati (1778^1850); book-label. 

Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932); book-plate and note ‘No. 

180. Vendita Bevilacqua Grazia-La Masa. Venezia. Nov. 1900’; 

donated byToynbee. 



FOURTH COPY 

Wanting the leaf a1. 


third sheets of gathering t, the text of t2 v has changed places with 

that oft3 v and the text of t6 r with that of t7 r .The setting ofsheet a4.5 

di¡ers from thatofthe other Bodleian copies: a 5 v , col.3, l. 20 reads 

‘Genealogi�’ instead of ‘Genologi�’. 

Binding: Modern half parchment; marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Occasional early marginal notes.


603 

Provenance: Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932); book-plate 

and note ‘[Ulrich] Hoepli, Milan, 1899, 10 frs.’; donated by 

Toynbee. 




Genealogiae deorum (books I^XIII only). 

[a1 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum gentilium (books 

I^XIII). Dedicated to Hugo II, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]ui(!) primus apud gentiles Deus habitus sit . . .’ 

refs. See B-369, but a shortened version; see note on [n3 v ]. 

[n3 v ] Dominicus Silvester [de Florentia]: ‘Versus super quindecim 

libris Genealogie deorum gentilium Boccacii’ (17 hexameters). 


[n4 r ] [Alphabetical table of contents.] 

[Louvain: Johann Veldener, 1473^4]. Folio. Tentatively assigned to 

Veldener’s Louvain press by HPT I 18 and Allan Stevenson,‘The 

First Book Printed at Louvain’, Essays in Honour of Victor 

Scholderer, ed. Dennis E. Rhodes (Mainz, 1970), 402^6; see also 

Needham, ‘Cologne Partners’, 123^6; GW assigns to [Cologne: 

Printer of the‘Flores Sancti Augustini’, c.1473]. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 8 e^g 10 h 8 i^n 10 ]. 

GW 4480; HC 3317; C 1077; Go¡ B-750; BMC I 234; Pr 1104; 

Campbell ; ILC 402; HPT II 432; Oates 589; Rhodes 386; 

Sheppard 826^7; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 258. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the outermost sheet of gathering [k] and the blank leaf 

[n 10]. 

The heading on [a1 r ] printed in black. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; £oral 

tool on spine; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the 


of leaf: 285 ¿ 200 mm. 

North European (Flemish?) decoration; principal initials are 

supplied in interlocked red and blue with pen-£ourishing; on [c 1 r ] 

lettered ‘paix’, on [i5 v ] with a drawing of a face. On [a3 r ] a drawing 

of a dragon, on [c6 r ] of a shield with three £eurs-de-lys. On [g1 r ] 

‘Paix etc.’ added in calligraphic writing in blue, on [l 3 v ] in ink. 

Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; 

red underlining; the text enclosed within red rules. 

Provenance: On [a 1 r ] a painted coat of arms: on a crozier, a 

shield, quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, a cross or between two stars and 

two crescents; 2 and 3, gules, a ram passant, a chief of the second. 

Also, in the outer margin, a crozier with oak branch and a scroll 

lettered ‘paix’. On [n3 v ] a pencil drawing of a coat of arms: on a 

crozier, a shield, quarterly, 1 and 4, a star; 2 and 3, a crescent. 

Probably the copy purchased for »3. 3. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1825), 4. 


SECOND COPY 

Gatherings [b] and [c] are misbound after [m]. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century Italian red morocco, the covers 

decorated with fan-pattern and other gold tooling; in the centre 

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De montibus, silvis, fontibus. 

[a1 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, 


‘[S]urrexeram equidem fessus a labore quoddam(!) egregio . . .’ 


Venice: [Vindelinus de Spira], 13 Jan. 1473. Folio. The colophon 

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collation: [aê 10 f 8 g 10 h 8 ]. 


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De claris mulieribus. 

[a1 r ] ‘Rubrice’. 

r 

[a3 ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Letter addressed to] Andreola 

Acciaiuolus. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris, ed. Vittorio 

Zaccaria, in Tutte le opere, 2nd edn, ed. Vittore Branca, vol. 10 

(Milan, 1970), 18^22; Giovanni Boccaccio, Famous Women, ed. 

and trans.Virginia Brown (Cambridge, Mass., 2001), 2^7. 

[a4 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: De claris mulieribus. Dedicated to 

Andreola Acciaiuolus. 

refs. Giovanni Boccaccio, Opere in versi: Corbaccio, Trattatello 

in laude di Dante, Prose latine, Epistole, ed. Pier Giorgio Ricci 

(Milan and Naples, 1965), 712^82 [selections only]. Boccaccio, 

De mulieribus claris, ed. Zaccaria, 22^450; Boccaccio, Famous 

Women, ed. and trans. Brown, 8^475. 

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1473. Folio. 

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[a2 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Letter addressed to Andreola 

Acciaiuolus.] 


[a2 v ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: 

Andreola Acciaiuolus. 


De claris mulieribus. Dedicated to 

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A2 Boccaccio, Giovanni: De claris mulieribus. 


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Teseide [Italian]. 

r 

[a1 ] [Bassi, Pietro Andrea de: Preface.] Incipit: ‘[P]er che, clarissimo 

principe, con elegantissima facundia li philosophanti ne 

dimostra . . .’ 

[b2 r ] Boccaccio, Giovanni: Teseide. 

refs. Teseida delle nozze di Emilia, ed. Alberto Limentani, in 

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r 

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-380^b-382] boethius, anicius manlius torquatus severinus 

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B-381 Bodivit, Guilelmus 

Sermo habitus in dieTrinitatis, 1485. 

[a1 r ] Bodivit, Guilelmus: Sermo habitus in die Trinitatis, 1485. 

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B-382 Boethius, Anicius ManliusTorquatus Severinus 

Opera. 

Part I. 

[*1 r ] [List of contents.] 

[*1 v ] [Table of contents.] 

A1 r Boethius: [Prologue to ¢rst commentary on Porphyrius, 

Isagoge.] 

refs. Boethius, Operum pars I: In Isagogen Porphyrii commenta, 

ed. Samuel Brandt, CSEL, 48 (Vienna, 1906), 3^16. 

r 

A2 Porphyrius: Isagoge.Translated by Gaius MariusVictorinus. 

refs. Porphyrius, Isagoge, trans. Boethius, ed. Lorenzo Minio- 

Paluello, AL, i.6 (Bruges and Paris, 1966). Text seems to ¢nish 

imperfectly. 

A2 r Boethius: [Commentary on Porphyrius, Isagoge.] 


ed. Brandt, 17^132. Begins with book I, chapter 7 of Brandt’s 

edition. 

a1 r Boethius: [Prologue to second commentary on Porphyrius, 

Isagoge.] 


ed. Brandt, 135^47. 

a2 r Porphyrius: Isagoge. Translated by Boethius. 

refs. Porphyrius, Isagoge, trans. Boethius, ed. Minio-Paluello. 

a2 r Boethius: [Second commentary on Porphyrius, Isagoge.] 


ed. Brandt,147^348. Begins with book I, chapter 5 of Brandt’s ed. 

c 1 r Boethius: [Prologue to commentary on Aristoteles, Categoriae.] 

refs. PL LXIV 159^63. Referred to as book I in PL. 

c1 v Aristoteles: Categoriae. 

refs. Aristoteles, Categoriae vel Praedicamenta, trans. Boethius, 

ed. Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, AL, i.1^2 (Bruges and Paris, 1961). 

c1 v Boethius: [Commentary on Aristoteles, Categoriae.] 

refs. PL LXIV 163^294. 

g1 r Boethius: [Prologue to ¢rst commentary on Aristoteles, De 

interpetatione.] 

refs. Boethius, Commentarii in librum Aristotelis Peri; 

eJrmhneiva~, ed. Karl Meiser (Leipzig, 1877), 31^5. 

g1 r Aristoteles: De interpretatione. Translated by Boethius. 

refs. Aristoteles, De interpretatione vel Periermenias, trans. 

Boethius, ed. Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, AL, ii.1 (Bruges and 

Paris, 1965). 

g1 r Boethius: [First commentaryon Aristoteles, Deinterpretatione.] 


eJrmhneiva~, ed. Meiser, 35^225. 

k1 r Judecus, Nicolaus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Pasqualicus. 

Incipit: ‘Nullus fere liber Aristotelis est in ea facultate . . .’ 

k1 v Boethius: [Prologue to second commentary on Aristoteles, De 

interpretatione.] 



k1 v Boethius: [Second commentary on Aristoteles, De interpretatione.] 



k2 r Aristoteles: De interpretatione.Translated by Boethius. 

refs. Aristoteles, De interpretatione vel Periermenias, trans. 

Boethius, ed. Minio-Paluello. 

s1 r Boethius: De divisione. 


s 3 v Boethius [pseudo-; Marius Victorinus, Gaius]: De de¢nitionibus. 

refs. PL LXIV 891^910; Th. Stangl, Tulliana et Mario- 

Victoriniana (Munich, 1888), 12^48; repr. P. Hadot, Marius 

Victorinus: recherches sur sa vie et ses >oeuvres (Paris, 1971), 329^ 

65. 

t 1 r Boethius: Introductio in syllogismos categoricos. [Also known 

as Antepraedicamenta.] 


u 1 r Boethius: InTopica Ciceronis, [dedicated to] Patricius. 

refs. Cicero, Opera,V/1, 269^388, ed. J. C. Orelli and J. G. Baiter 

(Zurich, 1833); repr. PL LXIV 1039^1174. For a possible identi¢cation 

of the dedicatee, see J. Martindale, Prosopography of the 

Later Roman Empire (Cambridge, 1980), II 839^40. 

u1 r Cicero: Topica. 

refs. Cic. Top.. 

v 1 r Boethius: De di¡erentiis topicis.

606 boethius, anicius manlius torquatus severinus 

[b-382 

refs. PL LXIV1173^1216; Boethius, Detopicis di¡erentiis, ed. D. 

Z. Nikitas, Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi: Philosophi 

Byzantini 5 (Paris and Brussels, 1990), p. lxxviii and 1^92. See 

also Boethius, In Ciceronis Topica, trans. and ed. Eleonore 

Stump (Ithaca, NY, 1978). 

x 1 r Boethius: De syllogisimis categoricis. 


y1 r Boethius: De syllogismis hypotheticis. 

refs. PL LXIV 831^76; Boethius, De hypotheticis syllogismis. 

Testo critico, traduzione, introduzione e commento, ed. L. 

Obertello (Brescia, 1969). 

z3 r Boethius: [Prologue to De trinitate.] 

refs. Boethius, The Theological Tractates. The Consolation of 

Philosophy, trans. and ed. H. F. Stewart and E. K. Rand, revised 

S. J.Tester (London, 1973), 2^4; PL LXIV1247^9. 

z 3 r Boethius: De trinitate I. 

refs. Boethius, TheTheological Tractates, 4^30; PL LXIV 1249^ 

56. 

z4 v Boethius: De trinitate II. [Also known as Utrum Pater et Filius.] 

refs. Boethius, TheTheological Tractates, 32^6; PL LXIV 1299^ 

1302. 

z4 v Boethius: ‘Prologus’ to De hebdomadibus. 

refs. Boethius, TheTheological Tractates, 38^40; PL LXIV1311. 

z4 v Boethius: De hebdomadibus. 

refs. Boethius,TheTheological Tractates, 40^50; PL LXIV1311^ 

14. 

z5 r Boethius [pseudo-; Gundissalinus, Dominicus(?)]: De unitate et 

uno. 

refs. PL LXIII 1075^8; ed. P. Correns, BGPTM, i.1 (Mu« nster, 

1891), 3^11. For the suggested attribution to Gundissalinus, see 

M. T. Gibson, L. Smith, and J. Ziegler, Codices Boethiani: A 

Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, Warburg 

Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London, 1995), 5 no. 25. 

z6 r Boethius: Contra Eutychen. [Also known as Liber de persona et 

duabus naturis.] 

refs. Boethius, The Theological Tractates, 72^128; PL LXIV 

1337^54. 

aa1 r [Title-page.] 

aa1 v Boethius: [Preface to De arithmetica, addressed to] Quintus 

Aurelius Memmius Symmachus. 

refs. Boethius, De institutione arithmetica. De institutione 

musica, ed. Johann Gottfried Friedlein (Leipzig, 1867, repr. 

Frankfurt, 1966), 3^5. For the dedicatee see Martindale, 

Prosopography, II 1044^6. 

aa1 v ‘Capitula primi libri’. 

refs. Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, ed. Friedlein, 5^7. 

aa 2 r Boethius: De arithmetica. 

refs. Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, ed. Friedlein, 7^173. 

In this edition, chapter 1 entitled ‘Prohemium’. 

dd 2 r Boethius: De musica. 

refs. Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, ed. Friedlein, 178^ 

371. In this edition, chapter 1 entitled ‘Prohemium’. 

ii 3 r Judecus, Nicolaus: [Letter addressed to] Donatus Civalellus. 

Incipit: ‘[R]ecognoscens superioribus diebus, Donate Musarum 

culte elegantissme . . .’ 

ii 4 v Euclides [pseudo-; Boethius pseudo-]: Geometria II [addressed 

to] Patricius.Translated by Boethius. 

refs. Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, ed. Friedlein, 373^ 

428; Boethius, Geometrie II: ein mathematisches Lehrbuch des 

Mittelalters, ed. M. Folkerts (Wiesbaden, 1970); for this edition 

see ed. Folkerts 41^2. Boethius’ Geometria is a translation or a 

paraphrase of Euclid’s Elements I^V, possibly even the entire 

text of Euclid: see Gibson, Smith and Ziegler, Codices 

Boethiani, and references given there. David Pingree, ‘Boethius’ 

Geometry and Arithmetic’, Boethius, ed. Margaret T. Gibson 

(Oxford, 1981), 155^61, at 157 notes that ‘the Geometria 

Euclidis . . . begins with a dedication to Patricius that echoes the 

title ‘patrician’ given to Symmachus in the preface to the De 

Institutione Arithmetica’. 

r 

ll6 [First colophon, dated 18 Aug. 1492.] 

Part II. 


r 

[* 2 ] ‘Tabula’. 

2 

A1 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De 

consolatione philosophiae.] ‘Prologus’. 

refs. Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia,VII 121^2. On the authorship 

see Pierre Courcelle, La consolation de philosophie dans la 

tradition litte¤ raire (Paris, 1967), 322^3, 414^15, also Nigel Palmer, 

‘Latin and Vernacular in the Northern EuropeanTradition of the 

De consolatione philosophiae’, Boethius, ed. Gibson, 362^409, at 

363 and 399; and Alastair J. Minnis, ‘Aspects of the Medieval 

French and English Traditions of the De consolatione philosophiae’, 

Boethius, ed. Gibson, 312^61, at 354. This commentary 

apparently dates from the ¢fteenth century and is probably the 

workof a German scholar; it is a compilation with glosses ofaversion 

of the commentary of William of Conches being assimilated 

to those of Nicolaus Trevet; see Alastair J. Minnis and L. Nauta, 

‘More Platonico loquitur: What Nicolaus Trevet Really Did to 

William of Conches’, in Chaucer’s ‘Boece’ and the Medieval 

Tradition of Boethius, ed. Alastair J. Minnis (Cambridge, 1993), 

1^33, at 9. 

2 r 

A2 Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 

refs. Boethius, Philosophiae consolationis libri quinque, ed. 

Wilhelm Weinberger, CSEL, 67 (Vienna and Leipzig, 1934); 

Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio, ed. Ludwig Bieler, CCSL 94 

(Turnholt,1984). 

2 r 

A2 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 

philosophiae.] 

refs.Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia,VII 122^72. 

v 

L3 [Thomas Aquinas pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De disciplina 

scholarium.] ‘Prologus’. 

refs. Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia, VII 172^3. See Pseudo- 

Boethius, De disciplina scolarium, ed. O. Weijers (Leiden and 

Cologne, 1976), 29; J. V. Scholderer, ‘Conradus, Boethius and 

pseudo-Boethius’, Speculum, 22 (1947), 257^9. 

L4 r Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. 

refs. Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scolarium, ed. Weijers. An 

anonymous text, probably written in Paris, c.1230^40. 

L4 r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Commentary on De disciplina 

scholarium.] 

refs. Thomas Aquinas, Opera omnia, VII 173^98. See Pseudo- 

Boethius, De disciplina scolarium, ed.Weijers, 29^30. 

P6 r Conradus(?): [Verse.] 

refs. Scholderer, ‘Conradus’, 258. See Walther, Initia, 3183; 

BSB-Ink calls Conradus [Intzverger?]. 

P6 r [Second colophon, dated 26 Mar. 1491.] 

Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1491^2. 

Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 18 Aug.1492; (II) 26 Mar. 1491. 

collation: Part I: [* 2 ] A B 6 a 8 b 10 c d 8 e f 6 g 4 h 6 i 8 k^q 6 r 4 sû uu 

uuu uuuu 6 v 8 x y 6 z 8 aa^kk 6 ll 8 ; part II: [*] 4 2 A 8 B^P 6 .


607 

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BSB-Ink B-618; CIBN B-557; Oates 1803^5; Rhodes 391; Sander 

1100; Sheppard 3885^7; Smith, Arithmetica, 28. 

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with three crescents and ‘GFA’. Size: 313 ¿ 222 ¿ 55 mm. 


Occasional marginal notes to the ‘De interpretatione’ in a sixteenth-century 

Italian hand, mostly washed out, and occasional 

pointing hands. 


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printed label of the sale (1789), part I, lot 1914; in the annotated 

sale catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl. 11. Purchased 

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Opera. 

Part I. 

[*1 r ] [List of contents.] 

r 

[* 2 ] [Table of contents.] 

a1 r Boethius: [Prologue to ¢rst commentary on Porphyrius, 

Isagoge.] 


a2 r Porphyrius: Isagoge.Translated by Gaius MariusVictorinus. refs. See B-382. Text seems to ¢nish imperfectly. 

r 

a2 Boethius: [Commentary on Porphyrius, Isagoge.] 


b6 r Boethius: [Prologue to second commentary on Porphyrius, 

Isagoge.] 


b7 r Porphyrius: Isagoge.Translated by Boethius. 


b 7 r Boethius: [Second commentary on Porphyrius, Isagoge.] 


e1 r Boethius: [Prologue to commentary on Aristoteles, Categoriae.] 


e 1 v Aristoteles: Categoriae. 


e1 v Boethius: [Commentary on Aristoteles, Categoriae.] 


h6 v Boethius: [Prologue to ¢rst commentary on Aristoteles, De 

interpetatione.] 


h6 v Aristoteles: De interpretatione. Translated by Boethius. 


h 6 v Boethius: [First commentary on Aristoteles, De interpretatione.] 


l2 v Judecus, Nicolaus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Pasqualicus. 

Incipit: ‘Nullus fere liber Aristotelis est in ea facultate . . . 

l3 r Boethius: [Prologue to second commentary on Aristoteles, De 

interpretatione.] 


l3 r Boethius: [Second commentary on Aristoteles, De interpretatione.] 


l4 r Aristoteles: De interpretatione.Translated by Boethius. 


r5 r Boethius: De divisione. 


r8 r Boethius [pseudo-; Marius Victorinus, Gaius]: De de¢nitionibus. 


s3 v Boethius: Introductio in syllogismos categoricos. [Also known 

as Antepraedicamenta.] ‘Ad cathegoricos syllogismos introductio’. 


t1 v Boethius: In Topica Ciceronis [dedicated to] Patricius. 


t 1 v Cicero: Topica. 

refs. Cic. Top. 

y4 r Boethius: De di¡erentiis topicis. 


z5 r Boethius: De syllogisimis categoricis. 


h 4 r Boethius: De syllogismis hypotheticis. 


m4 v Boethius: [Prologue to De trinitate.] 


m4 v Boethius: De trinitate I. 


m 6 r Boethius: De trinitate II. 


m6 r Boethius: ‘Prologus’ to De hebdomadibus. 


m 6 v Boethius: De hebdomadibus. 

refs. See B-382.


[b-383^b-384 

m7 r Boethius [pseudo-; Gundissalinus, Dominicus(?)]: De unitate et 

uno. 


m7 v Boethius: Contra Eutychen. 


Part II. 


[*1 v ] ‘Tabula’. 

a1 r Boethius: [Preface to De arithmetica, addressed to] Patricius. 


a1 r ‘Capitula primi libri’. 


a 1 v Boethius: De arithmetica. 


c5 v Boethius: De musica. 


g6 r Judecus, Nicolaus: [Letter addressed to] Donatus Civalellus. 

Incipit: ‘[R]ecognoscens superioribus diebus, Donate, Musarum 

cultor . . .’ 

g 7 v Euclides [Pseudo; Boethius, pseudo-]: Geometria II [addressed 

to Patricius.] Translated by Boethius. 


i 7 v [First colophon, dated 8 July 1499.] 

Part III. 


[* 2 r ] ‘Tabula’. 

a1 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De consolatione 

philosophiae.] ‘Prologus’. 


a2 r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


a2 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



i1 v [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De disciplina 

scholarium.] 


i2 r Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. 


i2 r [Thomas Aquinas,pseudo-: Commentaryon De disciplina scholarium.] 


m 6 r [Conradus(?): Verse.] 


m6 r [Second colophon, dated 10 Feb. 1497.] 

Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1497^9. 

Folio. In three parts dated: (I) [undated]; (II) 8 July 1499; (III) 10 

Feb. 1497/8, the third ¢rst issued separately.BMC treats in two 

parts. 

collation: Part I: [*] 2 a^z h 8 m 10 ; part II: 2 [*] 2 aî 8 ; part III: 3 [*] 4 a^ 

k 8 l m 6 . 

Woodcut initials and 271 woodcut diagrams. 

GW 4512; H *3352; C1124 (II),1118 (III); Go¡ B-768; BMC V 351,V 

350; Pr 4555, 4559; BSB-Ink B-619; CIBN B-558; Oates 1818; 

Rhodes 392; Sander 1101; Sheppard 3911. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled half pigskin, over 

wooden boards, with two metal clasps. On the upper cover double 

¢llets form six compartments; in the two upper and lower ones a 

£euron and a large circular rosette stamp; in the inner central 

compartment is a £oral sta¡ roll; in the outer headed-outlinetools 

make up merrythoughts, incorporating the £euron, and a 

smaller circular rosette stamp. On the lower cover ¢llets form 

three compartments; the £euron in the upper and lower ones, the 

merrythoughts in the central one. Lettered on the upper cover in 

black: ‘F. MINOR. CON. RATIS’ (see also T-090(1)). Label on 

spine, also ‘N 10’ (? shelfmark). Size: 336 ¿ 226 ¿ 75 mm. Size of 

leaf: 315 ¿ 208 mm. 

Occasional marginal notes in a seventeenth-century(?) German 

hand. 

Provenance: Regensburg, Franciscan convent, S. Salvator; lettering 

on the upper cover. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^ 

1854); book-label: see sale (1835), lot 905. Purchased for »0. 7. 0; 

see Books Purchased (1835), 5, where it is described as being in 

two volumes. 

shelfmark: Auct. O inf. 2.10. 

SECOND COPY 


Wanting part I. 

Part III bound before part II; leaf g2 badly torn. 

Binding: Quarter green leather, with gold-tooled spine and 

marbled paper boards. Size: 297 ¿ 209 ¿ 30 mm. Size of 

leaf: 291 ¿ 200 mm. 

A few marginal annotations in a seventeenth-century Italian 

hand, glossing the commentary, and extracting key words. 

Provenance: Inscription, presumably of ownership, cut out from 

3 [*]1 r .‘4XXIV 8 10’on pastedown. Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^ 

1932), 1907; signature on verso of front endleaf; donated by 

Toynbee; Bodleian stamp dated 1 Dec. 1932. 



De consolatione philosophiae. 


r 

a2 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Prologue to commentaryon De consolatione 

philosophiae.] ‘Prohemium’. 


v 

a3 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



v 

a3 Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


r1 r ‘Tabula’. 

A1 r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De 

disciplina scholarium.] ‘Prohemium’. 


A2 r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Commentary on De disciplina 

scholarium.] 


A2 r Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. 


F8 v [Conradus(?): Verse.] 


[Lyons: Jacques Maillet] for Johannes Fabri, [c.1496]. 4 o . GW 

assigns the printing to Johannes Fabri, but the types are 

Maillet’s (see below). 

collation: Part I: a^p 8 q r 6 ; part II: A^F 8 .


609 

Types: 81 G and 70 G, as used in Ovidius, Metamorphoses, 26 Feb. 

1497 (Bod-inc. O-078), signed by Maillet; for a note on these types 

see BMC VIII 303.Woodcut initials. 

GW 4560; Pr 8634; Sheppard 6682. 

COPY 

For this copy see Coates^Jensen 246, no. 5. 

Gathering r bound after gathering F. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; triple ¢llets form a 

border; rebacked. ‘Edward Gwynn’ stamped in gold on the 

upper cover. Size: 233 ¿ 168 ¿ 43 mm. Sizeofleaf: 226 ¿ 152 mm. 

Occasional sixteenth-century marginal notes, probably in two or 

more English hands. Fragment of paper pasted to upper pastedown:‘John 

Faringdon > Mar 28 1610 > 3 books’. 

Provenance: William Godmersham (£. 1469^1510); see Ker, 

Medieval Libraries, 47, 244; inscription on a1 r : ‘Liber fratris 

Willelmi Godmersham monachi Sancti Augustini Cant.’ 

Edward Gwynn (� in or shortly after 1645); name stamped on 

the upper cover. John Selden (1584^1654); Greek motto on a 1 r ; 

see MS. Broxb. 84.10, p. 44:‘Boethius Severinus. De consolatione 

Philosophi� et de disciplina scholarum cum commentis St 

Thom�’. Presented in 1659. 

shelfmark: 4 o B 2 Art. Seld. 



r 


a1 v ‘Tabula’. 

a4 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Prologue to commentaryon De consolatione 

philosophiae.] ‘Prologus’. 







v 

i7 [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De disciplina 

scholarium.] ‘Prologus’. 


r 

i8 Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. 


i8 r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Commentaryon De disciplina scholarium.] 


n5 v [Conradus(?): Verse.] 


Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 14 June 1498. 

Folio. 



B-613; CIBN B-589; Rhodes 400; Sheppard 4234^5. 

FIRST COPY 

Leaves in gathering a and n6 repaired. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper boards; 

bound for Klo�; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both 


Marginal and interlinear annotations; a late ¢fteenth/ early sixteenth-century 

hand provides interlinear synonyms and marginal 

glosses on the commentary many referring to other authors, 

Homer, Aulus Gellius, Euripides, Suetonius, Plinius, and 

Aristotle, the two ¢rst not being mentioned neither in the commentary 

nor in the text itself. A seventeenth-century hand provides 

a few marginal notes on the text only. On a1 r , a school-boy’s 

drawings, in black ink, of a large face, and an armed man with a 

feather/plumed hat and, on n 6 v , an angel, two faces, and a man 

with a feather/plumed hat. 





SECOND COPY 

Binding: Ninetenth-century half calf with blue marbled paper 

boards. Size: 312 ¿ 216 ¿ 19 mm. Size of leaf: 302 ¿ 205 mm. 

Marginal notes and some note marks in a sixteenth-century 

Italian hand, extracting notabilia from the commentary, using 

the format ‘Nota quod . . .’,‘Nota cur . . .’etc. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘VII.D.g.3’: see Lee, 

Royal Bookplates, 41 no. 24; sale, pt V, part of lot 198(?). 


Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. Q inf. 2.15. 




Part I. 


a2 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Prologue to commentaryon De consolatione 



a3 v Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



a3 v Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


r 

r1 ‘Tabula’. 

Part II. 





scholarium.] 


A2 r Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. [Edited by 

Conradus Poseiaen according to GW.] 


F8 v [Conradus(?): Verse.] 


[Lyons]: Perin Le Masson, [c.1500]. 4 o . 

collation: Part I: a^p 8 q r 6 ; part II: A^F 8 . 

GW 4567; Go¡ B-806; not in Pr; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century, half bound, with spine in calf and 

gold-tooled, corners in parchment, and marbled paper boards. 


On a1 v , in a sixteenth-century hand‘De morte Boetii’, with incipit: 

‘[B]oetius, qui et Seuerinus beatus a quibusdam dicitur eo quod 

pro iustitiatuenda et contra Arrianos hereticos composuit librum


[b-386^b-388 

‘‘DeTrinitate’’. . .’, and explicit,‘. . . scilicet liber ‘‘De duabus naturis 

in Christo’’et liber ‘‘De ebdomadibus’’ ‘; on a4 r ‘De fortuna’, 

Incipit: ‘Fortuna potens: tantum > Juris atrox qu� vendicas . . .; 

and ‘De littera Y’; Walther, Initia, 10361; Anthologia Latina, ed. 

Riesse, 632; Poetae Minores Latini, ed. Baehrens IV 149. Both in 

a sixteenth-century French hand, which also wrote early marginal 

and interlinear notes and occasional pointing hands. 

On A1 r an eight-line initial‘S’and on A2 r athree-line initial‘V’, are 

both supplied in interlocked red and blue, with pen-work decoration 

in the same colours, the‘V’ being inhabited by a face. On A 2 r 

a four-line initial ‘V’ is supplied in blue touched with red. One red 

and one blue paragraph mark are supplied on a2 r , with two supplied 

in red on A 1 r and one in blue on A2 r . Capitals touched with 

yellow wash. 

Provenance: Mataille. Lune¤ ville, Lorraine, Minims, giftof Dom. 

Mataille, 1636; inscriptions on a 1 r and a2 r : ‘Ex dono domini 

Mataille, 1636’; ‘De conuentu Lunevill Minimorum’. Old shelfmark 

‘III.e.6’ on pastedown. ‘No. 157’ in pencil on pastedown. 

Purchased from McLeish in 1952 for »20. 0. 0(?); stamp on a 1 v , 

note in pencil on pastedown. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. F2.2. 



Part I. 

r 


a1 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Prefatory letter addressed to] 

Stephanus Geynardus. 

refs. Renouard, Badius II 198^9. 

a2 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Prologue to commentary on De consolatione 



a3 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘Proemium explanationis 

Ascensiane’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uando quidem in exponendis auctoribus 

Seruius grammaticus sex consideranda docuit . . .’ 

refs. See Paul Gerhard Schmidt,‘Johannes Badius Ascensius als 

Kommentator’, Der Kommentar in der Renaissance, ed. August 

Buch and Otto Herding (Boppard, 1975), 63^71. 

r 




r 



a7 r Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘In Boetium De consolatione philosophie 

grammaticalis explanatio’. Incipit: ‘‘‘[C]armina qui quondam’’, 

etc. In explanatione huius operis eum fere mores 

obseruabimus . . .’ 

refs. See Courcelle 331^2. Badius’ commentary follows that of 

pseudo-Aquinas. 

x1 r ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 

x7 v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Commentary on Quint. Inst. 2. 9.] 

‘Explanatio compendiosa’. Incipit: ‘‘‘[P]lura de o⁄ciis’’, etc. Hec 

sunt verba Quintiliani institutionum oratoriarum . . .’ 

x7 r Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: Institutiones 2. 9. 

refs. Quint. Inst. 2. 9. 

Part II. 





scholarium.] 


A2 r Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. [Edited by 

Conradus Poseiaen according to GW.] 


F8 r [Conradus(?): Verse.] 


Lyons: Jean de Vingle, for EŁ tienne Gueynard, 20 Apr. 1498. 4 o . 

BMC describes this edition as 4 o , GWas Folio.There exist two settings 

of the ¢rst gathering. 

collation: Part I: a^x 8 ; part II: A^F 8 . 


GW 4569 (Anm.); H 3409; Go¡ B-808; BMC VIII 313; Pr 8648; 

BSB-Ink B-612; Renouard, Badius, II 196^7; Sheppard 6700. 

COPY 

Wanting the title-page, a1. 

Leaves a 2^3 slightly mutilated; sheet a 4.5 present in both settings 

(see GWAnm.); a8 detached. 


Bodleian Library; green pastedowns; the gold stamp of the 


of leaf: 236 ¿ 161 mm. 

Sixteenth-century marginal notes, some in English. Scribbles and 

pen-trials on F 8 v , including ‘Dominus mihi adiuto > non timebo 

quid > faciat in homo > quid ergo inferum > in homines nihil in > 

cure tunc placidum > sine asperum’. 

Provenance: John Killegrewe and Richard Helliard (£. 1580); 

note of ¢nancial agreement (perhaps the ¢rst draft of an indenture) 

between them on q2 r : ‘The kondicon of this present obligacon 

is more that is thabove bounden John Killigrewe, > his heires 

executres and paye . . . > contente . . . and payed vnto . . . named 

Richard Helliard . . .’ John Thube (sixteenth century?); signature 

on F 8 v . Nicholas Willoughby and William Denston (sixteenthcentury); 

memorandum note of debt owed by Willoughby to 

Denston on F8 v : ‘Memorandum that I . . . Nicholas Willoughbye 

> doth aknoledge that I . . . to owe vnto Willam Denstone > the . . . 

money whiche . . .’ Presented in 1822 as part of the Edward 

Pococke (1604^1691) bequest, according to a note in ‘Catalogus 

Bibliothecae Novae’, fol. 88 r . 




[a1 r ] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


[f8 r ] [Verse.] ‘Hic mea de prora in littus iactetur apertum > Anchora 

parua, cadant ducentia vela faselum’; 2 hexameters. 

[Basel: MichaelWenssler, not after1473]. Folio. BMC dates to [not 

after 1474]. 

collation: [a b 10 c^f 8 ]. 

GW 4514; H *3355; Go¡ B-769; BMC III 719; Pr 7467; CIBN B-560; 

Sack, Freiburg, 709; Sheppard 2311^12. 

FIRST COPY 

The last letter in both lines of the colophon is not printed. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) calfwith gold-tooled spine. Size: 


Initials are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.


611 

Provenance: Jacobus Bobhart Schu« rz (£. 1471?); faded inscription 

on [a1 r ]: ‘Sum Jacobi Bobhart nuncupati Schu« rz I.V.D. 

Comitis Palatini C�sariensis’. Richard Heber (1773^1833); 

stamp on front endleaf and purchase price of »1. 1. 0; see 

Catalogue, 1 (1834), lot 1029. Purchased for »0. 10. 0; see Books 


shelfmark: Auct. N inf. 1.30. 

SECOND COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; gold-tooled spine; the gold 



Early marginal and interlinear notes. 



Provenance: Paulus Sawrer de Erding (£. 1473); inscription on 

[a1 r ]: ‘Boecius de consolatione philosophie fratris Pauli Sawrer 

de Erding ordinis Predicatorum sacre theologie licentiatus . . . et 

ordinis Bababerg’ 1473 73 2’. ‘H 19 1824932’ in an early hand on 

[a1 r ]. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); manuscript bibliographical 

note, apparently on this copy, pasted to pastedown. 


shelfmark: Auct. O 4.25. 



r 

a1 [List of contents.] ‘Registrum quinque librorum Boecii de consolacione 

philosophie’. 

2 

a1 r [Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae.] 


[Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, c.1475]. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b 6 2 a^g 8 h 8+1 i^r 8 s^v 6 . Leaf 2 a1 signed v1, 2 a3 v3. 

GW 4516; H 3354; Pr 964; BSB-Ink B-595; Oates 446; Sheppard 736; 


COPY 

Impression of bearer type on b6 v ; explanatory pencil note: ‘This 

blank impression is from the type of the reverse of n3 > E. B. 

N[icholson] ex relatione E. G. Du¡’. 

Binding: Contemporary German/Polish(?) blind-tooled half 

calf over wooden boards, with metal clasps and catch. On both 

covers triple ¢llets form three compartments: on the upper cover 

the head and tail compartments are decorated with a repeated 

rosette stamp; on the lower cover the upper and lower compartments 

are decorated with the rosette stamp, a shield stamp, and 

another very badly worn stamp; in the central compartment of 

both covers a repeated headed-outline-tool makes up merrythoughts. 

‘Boethius De consulacione’ on upper and lower edges 

in black in a contemporary hand. Two unidenti¢ed fragments of 

parchment manuscript leaves used to reinforce the binding. Size: 


Heavily annotated in an early hand. Bound with 58 leaves of 

manuscript in a ¢fteenth-century hand; fols 1^5: Latin verses, 

‘Salutaris poeta’, with incipit: ‘Aurea lux oritur, pratum pete, collige 

£ores > Et puerile caput clari¢care stude’ (Walther, Initia, 

1798); fols 6^8: [Johannes de Garlandia], ‘Penitencionis poeta’, 

with incipit: ‘Peniteas cito, peccator, cum sit miserator > Iudex. Et 

sunt hec quinque notanda tibi’; see Walther, Initia, 13564; 

Bloom¢eld 3812; VL IV 619^20, with references given there; fols 

9^58: a commentary on Boethius, with incipit: ‘Seneca octauo 

epistola ad Lucillium . . .’, and with sketches in black ink of 

crowned ¢gures. 

Partial rubrication: initials, paragraph marks and occasional 

rubrics are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Chapter numbers 

supplied in black ink. 

Provenance: Pelplin, Gdan¤ sk, Poland, Cistercians, S. Maria; 

inscription on a1 r . John Mozley Stark; Catalogue 4 (1854), p. 4. 

Purchased from Stark in Oct. 1854 for »1. 1. 0: see Library Bills 

(1851^55), 265; Books Purchased (1855), 9. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 70 d.3. 




r 



Pinerolo: Jacobus Rubeus, 25 Oct. 1479. Folio. Format as 

Sheppard and CIBN. GW records as 4 o . 

collation: a^d 8 e 10 . Leaf a2 signed a1, a3 a2, etc. 

GW 4517; H 3358; Go¡ B-770; Pr 7245; CIBN B-562; Sheppard 

6003. 

COPY 


On e10 r , the last line of the colophon reads:‘. . . chr|ti . . .’ 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French, by Nicolas-Denis 

Derome; gold-tooled green morocco; triple ¢llets with rose 

stamp in the centre; six-panel spine with a small classical ornament; 

date on spine; red silk pastedowns, gilt-edged leaves. 

Bound between 1785 and 1789; label on verso of front endleaf; 

endleaves watermarked 1789?; the gold stamp of the Bodleian 

Library on both covers; see Barber, ‘Baroque to Neoclassicism’, 

no. 36. Size: 295 ¿ 207 ¿ 16 mm. Size of leaf: 287 ¿ 194 mm. 

Epigraphic initials are supplied in gold. Pen-work borders are 

supplied in red ink. Some letters touched in gold. The text 

enclosed in eighteenth-century pink rules, probably by Derome. 

Provenance: Justin, comte MacCarthy Reagh (1744^1811); sale 

(1815), lot 1479; ‘m[aroquin]. vert, tabis, l[ave¤ ], r[egle¤ ]’; 

‘Maccarthy Sale’; a note in ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae’, fol. 







[Deventer: Richard Pafraet, 1480^5]. 4 o . 

collation: a^l 8 . 

Type: Sheppard records type 103 G B . 

GW 4519; C1093a; Pr 8962; Campbell^Kronenberg I 306b; HPT II 

406; ILC 408; Sheppard 6930. 

COPY 



Copious early marginal and interlinear notes, apparently in a single 

German(?) hand. On l8 r , the epitaph for Boethius’ wife, 

Epitaphium uxoris Boethii, with incipit, ‘Helpis dicta fui Sicule 

regionis alumna > Quam procul a patria coniugis egit amor’:


[b-391^b-393 

Boethius, Philosophiae consolationis libri quinque, ed. R. Peiper 

(Leipzig, 1871), p. xxxvi, lines 1^2, 7^8, and see Gibson, Smith 

and Ziegler, Codices Boethiani, 11, no. vii, II; in Jacobus de 

Voragine, Legenda aurea also only these four lines; see ed. T. 

Graesse (Leipzig, 1801), 832, chapter clxxxi. Also further verses: 

‘Vt gaudere solet fessus iam nauta labore > Desiderata diu litora 

nota videns > Haud aliter scriptor optato ¢ne libelli > Exultat viso 

lassus et ipse quidem’: attributed toWalafrid Strabo, as one of his 

carmina ad amicos: see Poetae aevi Carolini, I^VI, ed. Ernst 

Du« mmler, MGH II (Berlin, 1884), 402 and Walther, Initia, 

19805; ‘Ut letus ponti spumantis nauita limphas > Munere congaudet 

summi tranasse tonantis > Sic sacro thalamo scriptor sulcante 

libellos’: not identi¢ed. 



Provenance: Johannes Horstmann (£. 1500); signature on l 8 v . 

Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); no inscription but see sale (1843), 

lot 15099, dated 1472. Purchased for »0. 16. 0; see Books 





Part I. 


[b1 r ] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


Part II. 

[f2 r ] Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 



[f4 r ] Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 




collation: Part I: [a 6 b 8 c 10 d e 8 ]; part II: [f^l 10 m 6 n o 10 p 8 q 6 ]. 

Sheppard collates as Polain, not as BMC or GW. 


B-596; CIBN B-561; Polain 725; Sheppard 1431^3. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1], [e7], and [q6]. 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century gold and blind-tooled 

calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 


Marginal and interlinear notes in both black ink and pencil. 

On [b1 r ] a six-line initial ‘C’ is supplied in gold, with red decoration 

and edging, on a grey ground with foliate scrolling de¢ned 

in white, and with a foliate border extension into the margin and 

guttering, in green, grey, blue, pink, and red, with gold dotting; 

also a two-line initial ‘H’ is supplied in gold on a pink ground 

decorated with red. On [f2 r ] an eight-line initial ‘P’ is supplied in 

interlocked red and blue, with brown and green pen-work in¢ll, 

decoration, and extensions into the margin and guttering. Other 

initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph 

marks are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. 

Foliation in black ink. 

Provenance: Richard Furney (�1753); bequeathed by Furney in 

1755. 


SECOND COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1], [e7], [m6], and [q6]. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf; 

marbled pastedowns and fore-edges; the gold stamp of the 


of leaf: 370 ¿ 272 mm. 

On [b1 r ] a six-line initial ‘C’and on [f2 r ] an eight-line initial ‘P’, are 

both supplied in blue, with reserved white decoration, and with 

red pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the guttering; other initials 

and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital 


Provenance: George Mason (1735^1806); sale (20 Jan. 1807); 

purchased by Heber for »0. 17. 6; inscription in Heber’s hand on 

front endleaf. Richard Heber (1773^1833); see Catalogue, 9 

(1836), lot 455. Purchased for »1. 17. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1836), 5. 


THIRD COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae. [Strasbourg: Johann 

Mentelin, c.1473] (I-036(2)). 

Wanting the blank leaves [e8], [f1], [m6], and [q6]; also [q5]; [a1] 

mutilated. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf, re-using an older 

spine, with the stamp of University College, Oxford, in gold on 

the upper cover. As the decoration of the two parts is similar, 

and as marginal notes written in the same hand appear in both 

parts, it is almost certain that they were travelling together from 

soon after 1476. Size: 424 ¿ 299 ¿ 62 mm. Size of leaf: 408 ¿ 

260 mm. 

Early marginal notes, some in the hand of the ‘Tournai purchase 

inscription’ (see below), which perhaps also wrote marginal notes 

in item1, others in a second, contemporaryhand, perhaps the one 

that wrote one of the two‘England repent’ notes. Below these two 

notes, on [a1 r ], in a sixteenth-century(?) hand:‘England repent or 

else thou wilt relent’. 

Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue, with 

pen-work in¢ll and decoration and extensions into the margins 

in red and blue; other initials, some with extensions into the margins, 

and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Underlining in 

red. Capitals touched with yellow wash. 

Provenance: Franciscus [ ] (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); purchased 

at Tournai, for 1 golden £orin; inscription in a ¢fteenth/ 

sixteenth-century hand, on [a1 r ]: ‘Emptus Tornaci. precio £or.’ 

aur.’ a Francisco’. Humphrey Mattingley (b. 1571/2); given by 

him to University College, Oxford in 1590: inscription on [a 2 r ] of 

item 1: ‘Liber Collegii Magn� Aul� Vniuersitatis Oxon’ ex dono 

Humphredi Mattingley nuper eiusdem Collegii commensalis seu 

communarii Anno Domini1590 Januarii 20’. University College; 

book-plate, with shelfmarks:‘L.40.5.6’and ‘E.310.5’; ‘List of Rare 

Books’, p. 3. Deposited in 1941 by the Master and Fellows of 

University College, Oxford. 

shelfmark: Univ. Coll. b.2(2). 



a2 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 


refs. See B-382.


613 




a4 r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. [Edited by Conradus 

Poseiaen.] 


q7 v [Verse.] ‘Curribus ethereis dum sol conscenderat arces > Orbis 

stelliferi, quo £ammant sidera cancri’; 16 hexameters. 


Toulouse: Johannes Parix, 1481. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b 8 c d 10 e f 8 g 10 h^k 8 l m 10 n o 8 p 6 q 8 [*] 6 . Leaf a2 signed ai, a3 aii etc. 

GW 4529; C 1108; Go¡ B-773; Pr 8716; CIBN B-565; Oates 3255; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and q8. 

Gathering [*] bound at the beginning, before gathering a. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French calf; gold-tooled spine, 

marbled pastedowns; endpapers watermarked 1750 and 1751; the 



Early marginal and interlinear notes, pointing hands, and ‘nota’ 

marks. 


with extensions into the margins. Paragraph marks and rubrics 

are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Erased inscription, perhaps 

by the rubricator, in red on q7 v . 

Provenance: Two faded inscriptions on [* 1 r ], one dated 1548. 

Payne and Foss, Catalogue (1837), no. 4649. Purchased for »2. 2. 


shelfmark: Auct. O 4.30. 



[*2 r ] ‘Tabula’. 



r 

g1 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 



v 

g3 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



v 

h4 ‘Compendiosa succinctaque resumptio’. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus liber 

habet septem metra et sex prosas . . .’ 

Cologne: Johann Koelho¡, the Elder, 25 May 1481. Folio. 

collation: [*] 8 a 10 b^d 8 e 6 f^z 8 h m 6 . 

GW 4530; H *3371; Go¡ B-774; Pr 1047; BSB-Ink B-597; Oates 532; 

Rhodes 394; Sheppard 799; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 260. 

FIRST COPY 

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bound for Klo�; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both 

covers. Formerly chained: marks of rusted metal, scars, and holes 

at head of leaves in gatherings h and m. Size: 295 ¿ 220 ¿ 45 mm. 



Initials are supplied in red or blue, some with reserved white decoration, 

some having extensions into the margins. Paragraph 

marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 


sale (1835), lot 909. Purchased for »0. 4. 6; see Books 



SECOND COPY 



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On g1 r a seven-line initial ‘P’and a paragraph mark are supplied in 

blue, the initial within a red pen-work frame and with red penwork 

decoration and extensions into the margins; on m 5 v a paragraph 

mark is supplied in red; underlining in red on g1 r and m5 v . 

shelfmark: Gibson 403*(11/1^5). 



r 

a2 ‘Tabula’. 

r 

b1 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 

phiosophiae.] 


b3 v Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


v 

b3 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



h5 r ‘Compendiosa succinctaque resumptio’. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus liber 


Louvain: Johannes deWestfalia, 1484. Folio. 

collation: a^z 8 h m 6 . 

GW 4534; HC 3377; Go¡ B-778; BMC IX 142; Pr 9234; Campbell 

307 = 308; HPT II 436; ILC 415; Oates 3714; Rhodes, 396; 


COPY 

Binding: Contemporary Belgian(?) calf over wooden boards. 

Triple ¢llets form a border, a double intersecting frame, and 

divide the inner rectangle into triangular and lozenge-shaped 

compartments. Two catches lost: holes repaired; rebacked. 

Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head (repaired) and 

middle of the lower cover. Contemporary manuscript label on 

head of the upper cover; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library 

on both covers. Size: 300 ¿ 220 ¿ 50 mm. Size of leaf: 291 ¿ 

193 mm. 

On b 1 r a ten-line initial ‘P’ is supplied in blue with reserved white 

decoration, with in¢ll of reserved white stylized may£owers, and 

extensions into the margin and guttering, all touched with green; 



Provenance: Michael Brant (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); signature 

on m6 v : ‘Michaelis Brant/ Flandri Axellani’. Louvain, 

Brabant, Pe¤ dagogie du Porc; demolished 1807; inscription on 

a 2 r : ‘Bibliothece Pedagogii Porcensis’. Purchased from [Richard] 

Baynes, Catalogue (1832), no. 3910; for »2. 0. 0: see Library Bills 

(1829^32), no. 343; Books Purchased (1832), 3. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: L 6.3 Art. 

shelfmark: Auct. P 4.29.


[b-396^b-398 



[*2 r ] ‘Tabula.’ 

r 

[* 6 ] Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 



r 




r 



Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 23 June 1486. Folio. 

collation: [* 6 ] a b 8 c^h 6.8 i 10 . 


B-601; CIBN B-572; Rhodes 397; Sack, Freiburg, 713^14; 


FIRST COPY 

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Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards, rebound 

for Klo�; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 


Occasional early notes. 





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Early marginal notes in red and black ink. 

On a 1 r a ten-line initial is supplied in red, with red pen-work foliate 

in¢ll and extensions into the guttering. Other initials are supplied 

in red, with extensions into the margins, or occasionally in 

blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. 

Rubricator’s signature ‘J. L.’and date ‘1487’ in a decorative scroll 

on i8 v . 


‘Duplum’ and number ‘9’, in pencil, on [*2 r ]. Purchased for »0. 

15. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 5. 



De consolatione philosophiae, et al. 

Part I. 


[*2 r ] ‘Tabula’. 

r 

a1 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 



v 






n8 r [First colophon.] 

Part II. 

r 

A1 [Title-page.] 

A1 v ‘Summarium dicendorum in sequenti libro’. 

A3 r Gerson, Johannes: [Preface to De consolatione theologiae.] 

refs. ed. Glorieux IX no. 449, 185. 

A3 r Gerson, Johannes: [De consolatione theologie (verse)]. 

refs. ed. Glorieux IV no. 189, 163^4. 

v 

A4 Gerson, Johannes: De consolatione theologiae (prose). 

refs. ed. Glorieux IX no. 449, 186^245. 

[Cologne]: Johann Koelho¡, the Elder, 1488. Folio. In two parts 

dated: (I) 27 Jan. 1488; (II) 1488. 

collation: Part I: [*] 6 a^c 8 d 6 e^h 8 i 6 k^n 6.8 ; part II: A^C 8 . 

Gathering [*] numbered. Gathering A is signed as follows: A1 unsigned, A2 signed Aij, A3 aiij, A4 aiiij, and A5 av. 


B-577; Sack, Freiburg, 715; Sheppard 815; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 262. 

COPY 

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Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards; bound for 

Klo�; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 

Leather index tabs. Size: 297 ¿ 222 ¿ 28 mm. Size of leaf: 286 ¿ 

209 mm. 

Manuscript additions, in the contemporary hand of the Trier 

inscription, to the title-page. 

Initials are supplied in red or blue. Paragraph marks are supplied 


Provenance: Paulus Merensis (sixteenth century); signature on 

[*]1 r and on recto of the back endleaf. Trier, North Rhine- 

Westphalia, Benedictines, S. Eucharius-Matthias, but for use of 

Benedictine priory of Vilmar an der Lahn; inscription in a sixteenth-century 

hand on [*]1 r : ‘Codex monasterii S. Mathie apostoli 

extra muros Treuire ad vsum pastorieVilmariensis’. Limburg 

an der Lahn, Hesse, Observant Franciscans, 1714; inscription on 

[*]2 r : ‘Bibliothec� Limburgensis, 1714’. Georg Franz Burkhard 

Klo� (1787^1854); book-label: sale (1835), lot 911. Purchased for 






a1 v ‘Tabula’. 

r 

a8 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 



v 

b2 Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


b2 v Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



E4 v ‘Compendiosa succinctaque resumptio’. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus liber 


Hagenau: [Heinrich Gran], 21 Feb. 1491. 4 o . 

collation: a^x 8.8.4 y z 8 h 4 A^F 8.8.4 . 



COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf F 4.


615 


Library. Remains of index tabs. Size: 190 ¿ 145 ¿ 30 mm. Size of 

leaf: 184 ¿ 125 mm. 


Partial rubrication: two initials are supplied in red on a1 v and a2 r , 

and a ten-line initial ‘P’ is supplied in black ink and red on a 8 r . 


and no. ‘4286’ in pencil on a1 r . Acquired between 1847 and 

c.1892, possibly in 1850; not found in Catalogus (1843), with 

Appendix. 




r 


[*1 v ] ‘Tabula’. 

a1 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Preface to commentary on De consolatione 








r 

D1 ‘Compendiosa succinctaque resumptio’. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus liber 


Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 19 Mar. 1491. 4 o . 

collation: [*] 6 a 8 b^r 6 s 4 t^z h A^D 6 . Third leaf only of gathering 

[*] numbered. 

GW 4552; C 1111; Go¡ B-794; BMC IX 67; Pr 9053; Campbell 313; 

CIBN B-583; HPT II 412; ILC 418; Oates 3539; Polain 736; 


COPY 

Variant on D1 r , l. 3: ‘. . . con|o|olatione’, as Polain, but not BMC. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English calf, with double and 

triple gold-tooled ¢llets forming a border and a frame, decorated 

with a gold-tooled £euron at each corner; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers; marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Early marginal notes and pointing hands in black ink. On D6 r^v 

an objection in English in a sixteenth-century hand, to Thomas 

Pounde’s Six reasons of 1580, defending the authority of the 

Roman Catholic church with regard to the interpretation of scripture; 

cf. Robert Crowley, An aunswer to sixe reasons . . . London, 

1581 (STC 6075). 

Provenance: Thomas Bull (sixteenth century); signatures on [*] 1 r 

and note‘pretium 3 s -0’; perhaps to be identi¢ed withThomas Bull 

(�1546). Jo[hn] Barber (sixteenth century); signature on [*]1 r ; perhaps 

to be identi¢ed with John Barber (Pryor) (�1549). Date of 

acquisition unknown; probably acquired after 1738; not in 

Fysher, Catalogus; although the shelfmark may indicate an earlier 

date of acquisition, it was possibly acquired after 1847 and 

before c.1892; not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 




r 


[*2 r ] ‘Tabula’. 

A1 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-]: ‘Prohemium’. [Preface to commentary 

on De consolatione philosophiae.] 


A3 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



A3 r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 8 June 1495. 4 o . 

collation: [*] 6 A^X 8 . 



1534. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf X8. 

Gathering [*] misbound: leaf 3 bound before leaf 2. Gathering G 

bound after H. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English paper boards. 


Early marginal notes, some cropped. On X 7 v , a note about envy 

written in a sixteenth-century hand, with incipit, ‘Inuidia oritur 

ex instinctu et suggestione diaboli. Inuidia diaboli mors . . .’ 

On A3 r a six-line initial ‘C’ is supplied in blue on a yellow background, 

edged with red and decorated with in¢ll of may£owers. 

Other initials are supplied in red or blue. Paragraph marks are 

supplied in red. Some capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Francis Cobden (£. 1637^1645); signature on titlepage. 

Sir Philip Warwick (1609^1682); signature on [*]1 r . Heavily 

cancelled inscription on [*]1 r . Purchased for »0. 7. 6; see Books 







v 


A1 r Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-]: ‘Prohemium’. [Preface to commentary 

on De consolatione philosophiae.] 


A3 r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


r 

A3 Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



r 

E4 ‘Epilogatio’. ‘Compendiosa succinctaque resumptio’. Incipit: 

‘[P]rimus liber habet septem metra et sex prosas . . .’ 

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 31 Dec. 1497. 4 o . The year is sometimes 

recorded as 1496. 

collation: a A 2 aî 6 k 8 l^z h 2 AÊ 6 F 4 . 

r 

Woodcut on a1 showing, on the left, a master at a lectern with a 

book and a rod and, on the right, four scholars: see Schreiber^ 

Heitz pl. 56 (here without the title ‘Versor cum discipulis suis’). 


B-610; CIBN B-587; Oates 771; Schramm VIII p. 23; Schreiber V 

3517; Sheppard 1032; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 266.


[b-401^b-403 

COPY 



Initials are supplied in red or blue. Paragraph marks are supplied 



(1844), 7. 



De consolatione philosophiae [Dutch and Latin]. 

a2 r ‘De tafele’. 

a2 r ‘De prologhe’. Incipit: ‘[A]llen ende sonderlinghe goeder duechdeliker 

. . .’ 

a4 r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [Latin]. 


r 

a4 Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [Dutch]. Incipit:‘[V]an 

vreudgem screet ic wilen eer . . .’ 

refs. See Ge¤ de¤ on Huet,‘La premie' re e¤ dition de la Consolation de 

Boe' ce en ne¤ erlandais’, Me¤ langesJulien Havet (Paris,1895), 561^9, 

at 561^2; Palmer,‘Latin and Vernacular’, in Boethius, ed. Gibson, 

371; Mariken Goris and Wilma Wissink, ‘The Medieval Dutch 

Tradition of Boethius’ Consolatio’, in Boethius in the Middle 

Ages: Latin and Vernacular Traditions of the ‘Consolatio 

Philosophiae’, ed. Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen and Lodi Nauta, 

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 58 

(Leiden, New York, Cologne, 1997), 121^65, at 122, 125^7, 138^ 

65, with the translation and contents discussed on 140^4; 

Mariken Goris,‘Boethius’ Consolatio Philosophiae and the Early 

Printing Tradition’, in The Bookshop of theWorld:The Role of the 

Low Countries in the Book-Trade 1473^1941, ed. Lotte Hellinga, 

Alastair Duke, Jacob Harskamp and Theo Hermans (’t Goy- 

Houten, 2001), 49^54. 

r 

a4 [Commentary on De consolatione philosophiae.] Incipit: ‘[T]er 

eeren ende loue ons heeren Ihesu Christi . . .’ 

refs. See Huet, ‘La premie' re e¤ dition de la Consolation’, 567^9, 

and Goris and Wissink 145^53. 

Ghent: Arend de Keysere, 3 May 1485. Folio. 

collation: a b 6 a^z h A^K M M^R 8 S T 6 V 8 . 

GW 4574 (Anm.); HC 3400; Go¡ B-812; BMC IX 206; Pr 9461; 

Boekdrukkunst (1973), 160; Campbell 322; CIBN B-593; Hillard 

437; HPT II 443; ILC 420; Machiels, Arend de Keysere, 42^5, no. 

16; Machiels, Boekdrukkunst, no. 19; Oates 400^4; Sheppard 

7261^2. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and V8. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Netherlandish or French(?) 

mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine and marbled pastedowns; 

for watermarks on endleaves see Churchill, Watermarks, 542. 



Initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue, or in red. 

Foliation numbers are supplied in red. Some ruling in crayon, 

presumably in preparation for the addition of illustrations. 

Provenance: Palick(?) Backert (£. c.1500); inscription written 

twice on t7 r : ‘Van Palick Backert’. Samuel Weller Singer (1783^ 

1858); perhaps purchased by him in1824 for »2.12.6: price in pencil 

on front endleaf, and note on front endleaf ‘C P May 22 d 1824’, 

in same hand asbibliographical note signed‘W[eller] S[inger]’; his 

sale (20 Feb. 1860), lot 1084. Purchased for »9. 0. 0; see Books 



SECOND COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1, a1 and V 8 . 

Wanting the two-line heading on a 2 r : see Campbell 322 note and 

GW 4574 (Anm.), reproduced in JanWillem Holtrop, Monuments 

typographiques des Pays-Bas au quinzie' me sie' cle (The Hague, 

1868), 114 (100) b (with the heading), c (without the heading). 

Gatherings a and 1 b, containing the table, bound at the end. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf. Engraving by L. 

Duval, of an unnamed eighteenth-century man pasted on the 

front pastedown. Size: 377 ¿ 295 ¿ 72 mm. Size of leaf: 362 ¿ 

267 mm. 

On a2 r a 12^line initial ‘A’ is supplied in blue with red pen-work 

in¢ll and extensions into the margins. Initials are supplied in red 

or blue. 

Provenance: Cutting from a bookseller’s catalogue in French. 

‘280 frs’ in ink on inside of the upper cover. Purchased from 

Payne and Foss, Catalogue of Printed Books and Manuscripts in 

Various Languages (London, 1837), no. 4651, for »2. 12. 6; see 

Books Purchased (1837), 5, and Library Bills (1827^8), no. 44. 



De consolatione philosophiae [German and Latin]. 

Part I. 


[b2 r ] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae. 


r 

[b2 ] [Introduction to De consolatione philosophiae [German]]. 

Incipit: ‘[H]ie hebt sich an das Puech von dem Trost der Weishait 

des Maiesters Boecy. . .’ Sometimes considered to be the translation 

of 1401 by the Benedictine Peter von Kastel. According to 

Palmer, ‘Latin and Vernacular’, in Boethius, ed. Gibson, 362^ 

409, at 364, Peter von Kastel’s translation is lost. On this anonymous 

translation, see VL I 908^27, at 922^3; see also Nigel F. 

Palmer, ‘The German Boethius Translation Printed in 1473 in its 

Historical Context’, in Boethius in the Middle Ages, ed. Hoenen 

and Nauta, 287^302; Palmer notes on 289, note 8, that he used 

the Bodleian copy; Goris, ‘Boethius’ Consolatio Philosophiae 

and the Early Printing Tradition’, 49^54. 

v 

[b2 ] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [German]. Incipit: 

‘[D]ie geticht, die ich ettwen mit wunsamen £eis . . .’ 

Part II. 

[ 2 a2 r ] Thomas Aquinas [pseudo-: Commentary on De consolatione 



Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 24 July 1473. Folio. 

collation: Part I: [a 6 b 8 c^h 10 i 8 k 10 l 8 ]; part II: [ 2 a^f 10 g 6 h i 10 k 8 

l 6 ]. Collation as GW. 


B-593; CIBN B-592; Sheppard 1427; Worstbrock, 

Antikerezeption, no. 41. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin (¢llets 

only) over wooden boards; scars of corner-pieces and catches; 


422 ¿ 293 ¿ 70 mm. Size of leaf: 411 ¿ 281 mm.


617 

Early marginal notes. Note on front pastedown in contemporary 

hand, apparently from Cic. O¡., with incipit,‘Quid preter deos est 

optabilius sapientia, quid prestantius, quid homini melius . . .’: see 

Cic. O¡. 2. 5. 4, with slight variation of text, ‘Quid enim est, per 

deos, optabilius sapientia . . .’; also a quotation from Sen. Ep. 

15. 1. 4: ‘Si philosophari bene est’. ‘Valere enim hoc demum est 

sine hoc aeger est amicus’, and from Ep. 88. 33. 2,‘Magna et speciosa 

res est sapientia’. 

Initials, some with black pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the 

margins, paragraph marks and headings are supplied in red. 


Provenance: Old shelfmarks on [a1 r ]: square printed label 

‘Philologi.XXV.a.17’ and, in pencil, ‘Phlg.XXIX.a.5’ and 

‘XXXI.b.8’ (cancelled). Purchased for »20. 0. 0; see Books 




De consolatione philosophiae [English and Latin]. 

[a2 r ] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [Latin]. 


r 

[a2 ] Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [English]. Translated 

by Geo¡rey Chaucer. 

refs. The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson, 3rd edn 

(Oxford, 1988), 397^469; Chaucer According to William Caxton, 

ed. Beverly Boyd (Lawrence, Kan., 1978), 40^172. See also Boyd 

pp. xv^xviii. On Chaucer’s sources for Boece see Chaucer, ed. 

Boyd, p. xvi, and Minnis, ‘Medieval French and English 

Traditions’, in Boethius, ed. Gibson, 341. 

[m5 r ] Caxton,William: [Printer’s epilogue.] 

refs. Chaucer, ed. Boyd 172^4. 

[m6 r ] Surigonus, Stephanus: ‘Epitaphium Galfridi Chaucer’. 

refs. Chaucer, ed. Boyd174^5. See Caxton, Exhibition, BL, 43^4. 

The epitaph was inscribed on a tablet, and hung on a pillar next to 

Chaucer’s tomb in Westminster Abbey. Surigonus is also the 

author of collection of poems in London, British Library, MS. 

Arundel 249, fols 94^117: see Chaucer, ed. Boyd, p. xv; on verses 

and author see also Painter, Caxton, 92^3. 

[Westminster]:William Caxton, [c.1478]. Folio. 


GW 4576; HC 3399; Go¡ B-813; BMC XI; Pr 9630; Blades, Caxton, 

25; de Ricci, Caxton, 8; Du¡ 47; Caxton, Exhibition, BL, no. 29; 

Chaucer, ed. Boyd, pp. xv,196; Needham, Pardoner, 85, no. Cx 31, 

and 74 no. 16; Oates 4064; Painter, Caxton, 212; Rhodes 402; The 

Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson, 3rd edn (Oxford, 1988), 

1151, Cx; Sheppard 7370^1; STC 3199. Facsimile: English 

Experience, no. 644 (Amsterdam, 1974). 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting [h1] and the blank leaf [a1].Variants from GWas noted in 

Oates 4064.Variant from Du¡ on [m6 r ] line 4: ‘p yerides . . .’ For 

this copy see Caxton, Exhibition, Bodley, no. 11. 



181 mm. 

Occasional note marks and numbers in margins in black ink. 


Provenance: Nicholas Trotter (£. 1519); signature in Greek characters 

on [a 2 r ]. Thomas Fowler (sixteenth century); signature on 

[m5 v ]. Not found in Hyde, Catalogus (1674), but acquired before 

1738: see Fysher, Catalogus, I 107, where he lists two copies. 



SECOND COPY 

Wanting [b 1]. Bound with A-054(1); see there for details of the 

binding, provenance, and former shelfmarks. Size of leaf: 278 ¿ 

195 mm. 

On [d2 v ] a note in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand,‘Wyll[ ]m [ ] > 

what is yors?’ 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 1.21(2). 

shelfmark: Arch. G d.13(2). 


De consolatione philosophiae [French]. 

Fragment. 

Bruges: Colard Mansion, 28 June 1477. Folio. 

collation: [a 8 bê 10 f^q 8 r^t 10 v^z A^K 8 L 4 ]. 

GW 4579; HC 3362; not in Pr; Boekdrukkunst (1973),103; Campbell 

323; CIBN B-595; HPT II 395; ILC 421; Oates 3835; Sheppard 

7064. 

COPY 

Bound with another fragment: 

2. Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium [French]: 

De la Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes. Bruges: Colard 

Mansion, 1476 (B-363). 

Single leaf only, with text in col. 1 of the recto, beginning ‘on 

deboutee je te en|eigneray. . .’ 

According to note on front endleaf of guard-book this fragment 

was removed from the binding of A 9.17 Linc.: Ptolemy, 

Geographiae uniuersae opus (Cologne, 1608). 

Binding: Bound in a guard-book. Size of leaf: 192 ¿ 203 mm. 

Provenance (of A 9.17 Linc.): John Holloway (£. 1609); cancelled 

inscription on title-page: ‘Liber Johannis Holloway emptus 

Oxonii 9 die Decembris Anno Domini 1609 . . .’ Thomas Barlow 

(1607^1691). Bequeathed in 1691. 

shelfmark: Auct. Q 1.6(1). 


De consolatione philosophiae [German] DerTrost der 

Weisheit. 


v 

a1 [Preface.] Incipit:‘In disem Bu« ch das do genant wu« rt Boecius von 

demTrost der Weisheyt . . .’ 

a2 r [Introduction to De consolatione philosophiae [German]].‘Der 

Trost der Weisheit’. Incipit: ‘[H]ie hebt sich an das Bu« ch von dem 

Trost der Weisheit des Maisters Boecii . . .’ 

a3 r Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [German]. Incipit: 

‘[D]ie gedicht die ich etwan mit wunsamen £eis . . .’ 


Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 31 Aug. 1500. 4 o .Worstbrock dates to 

29 Aug. 

collation: a^d 8 e 8+1 f^m 8 n o 6 . 

Nine woodcuts: see Schramm XX pls 2291 (used three times), 2292^ 

4, 2296 (used three times). 


B-617; Sack, Freiburg, 723; Charles Schmidt, Martin and Jean 

Schott, Re¤ pertoire bibliographique strasbourgeois, 2


[b-406^b-409 

(Strasbourg, 1893), 2; Schramm XX p. 30; Schreiber V 3518; 

Sheppard 555; Worstbrock, Antikerezeption, no. 42. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Aelius Donatus, Ars minor, with interlinear glosses in German. 

[Augsburg]: J[ohann] S[cho« nsperger], 1497 (D-147). 

Leaf apparently removed between e 3 and e 4. 


Library; with leather index tabs and marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Occasional early notes. On old endleaves, bound after item 1: on 

the recto, a list of virtues and vices in German; on the verso, the 

Lord’s Prayer, ‘Ave Maria’ and Creed in German, in a ¢fteenth/ 

sixteenth-century hand. 

Provenance of item1: Casparus Degemair (sixteenth/seventeenth 

century); signature on a1 r . Purchased for »0. 12. 0; see Books 




De consolatione philosophiae [Castilian]. 

Part I. 


r 

a2 Ginebreda, Antoni: ‘Prologo’ [Castilian]. Incipit: ‘[P]orque el 

libro de Boecio, De consolacion, es muy necessario a recrear los 

omnes que son en tribulacion . . .’ 

v 

a3 ‘Tabla’ [an abbreviated Castilian version of the ‘Compendiosa 

recensio’]. Incipit: ‘En el primero metro tracta so qual forma 

Boecio llora su trabajo . . .’ 

r 

a7 Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae [Castilian]. Translated 

from Antoni Ginebreda’s Catalan version. Incipit: ‘[L]o cuytado 

que solia ser en grant estudio . . .’ On the background and sources 

of this translation, see Ronald G. Keightley,‘Boethius in Spain: A 

Classi¢ed Checklist of Early Translations’, in The Medieval 

Boethius: Studies in the Vernacular Translations of ‘De consolatione 

philosophiae’, ed. A. J. Minnis (Cambridge, 1987), 169^87, 

at 175^81; and Kaeppeli I 113 no. 292. 

g4 v [First colophon.] 

Part II. 

r 

A1 [Jacobo de Benavente]: Vergel de consolacio¤ n. Incipit: ‘[A]si 

como dize el apostol sant Pedro los omnes . . .’ 

E5 v [Second colophon.] 

Seville: Meinardus Ungut and Stanislaus Polonus, 1497. Folio. In 

two parts, dated: (I) 18 Feb. 1497; (II) 21 Feb. 1497. 

collation: Part I: aê 8 f 6 g 4 ; part II: A B 8 CÊ 6 . 


GW 4584; H 3366; C 5979 (II) = 5980 (II); Go¡ B-818; Pr 9540; 

Haebler, Bibliograf|¤ a ibe¤ rica, 59 (incl. 669); Sheppard 7310; 

Vindel, Arte,V 265: 97. 

COPY 

Wanting E6, containing the table. 

Binding: Old Spanish parchment, with two gold-tooled rosettes, 

a gold-tooled £euron at each corner. Title on fore-edge and on 

spine in black ink. Manuscript text in Spanish on the lower 

cover. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 


Note marks in margins in black ink. 

Provenance: Purchased at the anonymous sale 13 Jan. 1825, lot 

206 for »9; see Books Purchased (1825), 5. ‘Purch’d 1825’ on the 

title-page, in the hand of Bandinel. 

shelfmark: Auct. N inf. 1.3. 


De disciplina scholarium. 


a2 r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[O]sculetur me osculo oris sui’’ [Ct 1,1]. 

Uerba ista scribuntur Canticorum primo . . .’ 

refs. See Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scolarium, ed. Weijers 

28^9, no. 28 and Edda Ducci, Un saggio di pedagogia medievale: 

il‘De disciplina scholarium’dello pseudo-Boezio (Turin, 1967), pp. 

ix, 12. 

a3 r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Commentary on De disciplina 

scholarium.] Incipit: ‘[I]ste presens liber diuiditur in duas partes 

principales, videlicet . . .’ 

a3 r Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. 


Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 9 Oct. 1490. 4 o . 

collation: a^k 6 . 

GW 4597; C 1121; BMC IX 66; Pr 9050; Campbell (II) 326; CIBN 

B-601; HPT II 412; ILC 423; Oates 3537; Sheppard 6966. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English (London) gold-tooled morocco, 

with gilt-edged leaves; bound by Francis Bedford and John 

Clarke, between 1841 and 1850; stamp on front endleaf. Size: 


Provenance: Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Earls of Leicester; shelfmark 

‘A1.B1’on front endleaf. Purchased in 1953. 

shelfmark: Holk. e.3. 


De disciplina scholarium. 


a2 r [Preface.] ‘Prologus’. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[O]sculetur me osculo oris sui’’ 

[Ct 1,1]. Uerba ista scribuntur Canticorum primo . . .’ 

v 

a2 Boethius [pseudo-]: De disciplina scholarium. 


a3 r [Thomas Aquinas, pseudo-: Commentary on De disciplina 

scholarium.] Incipit: ‘[I]ste presens liber diuiditur in duas partes 

principales, videlicet . . .’ 

Strasbourg: [Georg Husner, 1495?]. 4 o . The colophon reads: 

‘M.ccccxv’ (presumably intended as 1495). 

collation: a 8 b^l 8.4 m 8 . 

‘Accipies’ woodcut on a1 r : see Schreiber^Heitz pl. 19. 


B-627; Sack, Freiburg, 726; Schreiber V 3513; Sheppard 536. 

COPY 



Provenance: Numbers on a1 r :‘771’and ‘8’ in pencil,‘397’ in black 

ink. Purchased for »0. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1861), 9. 

shelfmark: 70 d.2.

-410^b-413] bollanus, dominicus 

619 


De arithmetica. 


r 

a2 Boethius: [Preface addressed to Symmachus]. 


a2 v ‘Capitula libri primi’. 


a3 r Boethius: De arithmetica. 


Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 20 May 1488. 4 o . 

collation: a^f 8 . 

43 woodcut tables and diagrams. 


B-592; Schreiber V 3511; Sheppard 1316; Smith, Arithmetica, 25^ 

8. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French gold-tooled olive-green 

morocco; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian 


leaf: 166 ¿ 123 mm. 

Provenance: ‘126’ in faded black ink on front endleaf. Louis 

Ce¤ sar de la Baume le Blanc, duc de LaVallie' re (1708^1780); number 

in lower left corner of rear endleaf ‘V.1795’, showing that the 

book was purchased by Crevenna. Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro- 

Crevenna (1735^1792); printed label of the sale (1789), part I, lot 

1915; in the annotated catalogue marked down to Payne for Fl.11. 

Purchased through Payne with Boethius, Opera (Arithmetica, 

Musica, Geometria only) Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de 

Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1491^2 (B-382), for »0. 19. 0; see Books 




Topica. 

r 

[a2 ] Boethius: Topica. [Also known as De di¡erentiis topicis.] 


[e1 r ] Cicero, MarcusTullius: Topica. 

refs. Cic. Top. 

[f4 v ] Boethius: In Ciceronis Topica commentum, [addressed to] 

Patricius. 


[Rome]: Oliverius Servius, 20 Feb. 1484. Folio. For the ascription 

to [Johannes Schoemberger, for Oliverius Servius], see BMC IV 

132, note. 

collation: [a^d 8 e 6 f^l 8 m^q 6 r 4 ]. Collation as BMC and 

Sheppard. 


GW 4587; HC 3429; Go¡ B-829; BMC IV 130, 133; Pr 3960; 


COPY 

Binding: Old parchment; two ties lost. Size: 294 ¿ 223 ¿ 40 mm. 


Early marginal notes and pointing hands in both red and black 

ink. 

Paragraph marks are supplied in red ink. Running headings supplied 

irregularly in black ink. Irregular manuscript foliation in 

black ink. Title,‘Boetius in Topica’, in black ink on lower edge of 

leaves. 

Provenance: Two shelfmarks on pastedown: ‘T-3’ and ‘G.3’. 

Purchased from Albert Cohn, Catalogue 212, no. 12, for 75 

Marks; see Library Bills, 30 Nov. 1896. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. d. I98.1484.1. 


B-412 Boiardo, Matteo Maria 

Sonetti e canzoni [Italian]. 

a1 v Crottus, Bartholomaeus: ‘Sonetto . . . in laude del conte 

Mattheo Maria e di sua rima amorosa’. 

refs. SeeTiraboschi, Biblioteca modenese II, 197^202, at 202. 

a2 r Boiardo, Matteo Maria: Amores. 

refs. Boiardo, Amorum libri, ed. M. Micocci (Milan, 1990); 

Amorum libri. The Lyric Poems, ed. Andrea di Tommaso, 

Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 101 (Binghamton, 

NY, 1993); see also E. Bigi, ‘La poesia latina del Boiardo’, Il 

Boiardo e la critica contemporanea; Atti del convegno di studi su 

Matteo Boiardo - Scandiano^Reggio Emilia, 25^27 Aprile 1969, 

ed. G. Anceschi (Florence, 1970), 81^96; Stefano Carrai,‘La tradizione 

manoscritta e a stampa dei ‘‘Pastoralia’’di Boiardo’, Italia 

Medioevale e Umanistica, 35 (1992), 179^213. 

Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 19 Dec. 1499. 4 o . 


Woodcut initials. In Boiardo, Opere volgari, ed. Pier Vincenzo 

Mengaldo (Bari, 1962), 350^3, and Paolo Trovato, ‘Per un censimento 

dei manoscritti di tipogra¢a in volgare (1470^1600)’, in Il 

libro di poesia dal copista al tipografo, ed. Amedeo Quondam 

and M. Santagata (Modena, 1989), 43^81, at 51, it has been 

claimed that Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 47 was used as 

printer’s copy for this edition, but the evidence is not conclusive. 

GW 4611; HR 3433; Go¡ B-831; BMC VII 1089; Pr 7258; Sheppard 

6017. 

COPY 

Wanting leaf a1 (the title-leaf) and the blank leaf h10. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century brown quarter morocco. Size: 



12. 


B-413 Bollanus, Dominicus 

De conceptione BeataeVirginis Mariae. 

[a2 r ] Bollanus, Dominicus: [Letter to] Nicolaus Marcellus, Doge of 

Venice. Incipit: ‘Cum ex £orentissimo gymnasio Paduano ad 

patriam reuersus essem . . .’ 

v 

[a2 ] Bollanus, Dominicus: De conceptione Beatae Virginis 

Mariae. ‘Determinatio Dominici Bollani . . . probantis beatam 

virginem ab originali culpa esse preseruatam, soluentis autoritates 

et rationes sentientium eam in originali peccato conceptam, 

sed mox sancti¢catam’. Dedicated to doge Nicolaus Marcellus of 

Venice. Incipit: ‘[N]on paruo dolore animi a⁄cior . . .’ 

[Erfurt: Printer of Bollanus, c.1486^90]. 4 o . 

collation: [a^d 8 ]. 

GW 4617; H *3435; Pr 3114; BSB-Ink B-632; Sheppard 1989.

620 bonatus, guido 

[b-413^b-416 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf. Size: 217 ¿ 150 ¿ 10 mm. 



strokes. 

Provenance: Purchased from John Mozley Stark for »0. 12. 0; 

label with number from Stark’s catalogue: ‘47’; see Library Bills 

[1858] no. 439; Books Purchased (1858), 14. 

shelfmark: I d.117. 

B-414 Bologninus, Bartholomaeus 

Epitoma elegiaca in Ovidii libros Metamorphoseon. 

v 

A1 Politianus, Angelus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomaeus 

Bologninus Bononiensis. 

refs. Giovanni Pesenti, ‘Lettere inedite del Poliziano’, 

Athenaeum, 3 (Pavia, 1915), 284^304, at 297^9; repr. in Ma|« er III 

536^8. Letter dated Fiesole, 17 May 1492. 

A2 r Bologninus, Bartholomaeus: Epitoma elegiaca in Ovidii libros 

Metamorphoseon. Dedicated to Angelus Politianus.‘[T]ersa puer 

claudo perstrinxi corpora versu.’ 

Bologna: Johannes Jacobus de Fontanesis, Regiensis, ‘1492. die 

.19. Aprilis’ [i.e. probably after 17 May 1492]. 4 o . Although the 

colophon has the date ‘1492. die .19. Aprilis’, the preface is dated 

‘.xvi. kal’. Jun.’ (Go¡). 

collation: AÊ 8 . 

GW 4621; HC Addenda *3437; Go¡ B-836; BMC VI 838; not in Pr; 

BSB-Ink B-633; CIBN B-607; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering A. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled papers. Size: 203 ¿ 145 ¿ 





(B-415) Bonaspes, Nicolaus 

Libellus de lepidis gravium divinorumque virorum 

epistolis. 

Paris: [Michel Tholoze, for] Denis Roce and Jean Gourmont, 

[c.1507]. 4 o . Dated from Gourmont’s device (Moreau). 

According to GW, Jean Gourmont’s activity as a publisher began 

in 1507. 


8 leaves. 

GW IV col. 383; H 3579; Go¡ B-844; Pr 8407; BSB-Ink B-651; 

Moreau I 231: 67; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae. Paris: Michael Tholoze, 

for Denis Roce, 6 Dec. 1499 (P-484). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf; the gold stamp of the 

Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 205 ¿ 140 ¿ 16 mm. Sizeof 

leaf: 198 ¿ 132 mm. 


21. 

shelfmark: Auct. N 5.34(2). 

B-416 Bonatus, Guido 

Decem tractatus astronomiae (ed. Johannes Angeli). 

[*1 v ] Canter, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Mu« ller 

[Regiomontanus]. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoties et quam multis in rebus . . .’ 

Letter dated Augsburg, 28 May [1491]. 

[*1 v ] Canter, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Mu« ller. 

‘Carmina . . . super indice nuper huic operi addito’. ‘Que fuerat 

quondam Guidonis ceca Bonati’; 4 elegiac distichs. 

r 

[* 2 ] Bonatus, Guido: ‘In decem tractatus astronomie tabula breuis 

titulorum omnium capitulorum secundum ordinem totius libri’. 

r 

a1 Bonatus, Guido: Decem tractatus astronomiae. Edited by 

Johannes Angeli. Incipit: ‘In nomine domini amen. Incipit liber 

introductorius ad iudicia stellarum . . .’ 

EE7 v [Colophon with acknowledgement of Johannes Angeli.] 

Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 26 Mar. 1491. 4 o . 

collation: [* 14 ] a^z A^Z AAÊE 8 . Gathering [*] is numbered, 

but not signed. 

163 woodcuts and 22 woodcut diagrams; woodcut initials. 


B-652; Sack, Freiburg, 737; Schramm XXIII p. 25; Schreiber V 

3519; Sheppard 1337^8. 

FIRST COPY 


wooden boards; one clasp lost. On both covers ¢llets form a 

frame; the inner rectangle is divided by ¢llets into lozenge-shaped 

compartments. In the compartments a six-petalled £ower, a 

small lozenge-shaped £eur-de-lis and a plait-work stamp; in the 

frame, a palm-leaf stamp and a stamp with a tendril supporting 

two £owers. Size: 225 ¿ 170 ¿ 105 mm. Size of leaf: 213 ¿ 

156 mm. 

Early marginal notes in ink and in red. 

Woodcut initials painted in several colours. Red capital strokes. 

Provenance: Irsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Maria; inscription 

on [*1 r ] ‘Maioris Vrsinensis Bibliothec�’. Augsburg, Bavaria, 

Staats- und Stadtbibliothek; stamp and duplicate stamp; old 

shelfmark ‘4 o Ink. 393’ on spine. Acquired in 1960 by exchange 

from the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg, the exchange 

value being DM 300; see ‘Bodley’s American Friends’, BLR 6,6 

(1961), 643. 


SECOND COPY 

Wanting gathering [*] and leaf EE8 with the printer’s device. 


bevelled wooden boards, remains of two clasps. Formerly 

chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the lower cover. 

Remains of a title-label at the head of the upper cover. On both 

covers ¢llets form a double frame. In the inner rectangle, a 

crocketed cresting roll; in the outer frame, two di¡erent £oral 

rolls. Size: 227 ¿ 165 ¿ 70 mm. Size of leaf: 209 ¿ 154 mm. 

Provenance: Inscription on a1 r ‘Ex parte Erhardi Radolt de 

Augusta. Anno 1491’. Old shelfmark ‘C.III.5’. Augsburg, 

Stadtbibliothek; woodcut book-plate on front pastedown 

(Warnecke 69^71), painted in red, yellow, and green; perhaps 

designed by Christoph Amberger, c.1540^1543; see Albert 

Haemmerle, Die Buchzeichen der freien Reichsstadt Augsburg (n. 

pl., n. d.), nos i^viii. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

old shelfmark ‘Inc. 822 m ’and ‘Dpl’on endleaf. Purchased for »4. 

10. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 14. 

shelfmark: 30 d.4.

-417] bonaventura 

621 

B-417 Bonaventura 

Opuscula. 

a2 r ‘Libri ettractatus sequentes sancti Bonauenture in hoc volumine 

continentur’. 

a3 r Bonaventura: Breviloquium.‘Prologus’. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 k and Balduin Distelbrink, 

no. 1. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. studio et cura PP. Collegii 

a S. Bonaventura, 10 vols (Quaracchi, 1891), V 199^208. 

Bonaventura,Tria opuscula, 4th edn (Quaracchi, 1925), 7^30. 

a 5 v Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Table of contents.] 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1891), V 209^10. 

Tria opuscula, 31^2. 

a6 r Bonaventura: Breviloquium. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, V 210^91. Tria opuscula, 32^ 

285. 

f3 r Bonaventura: Soliloquium. [Also known as De quattuor mentalibus 

exercitiis.] 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 al and Distelbrink no. 23. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1898), VIII 28^67. 

Bonaventura, Decem opuscula ad theologiam mysticam spectantia, 

ed. quarta (Quaracchi, 1949), 43^154. 

h5 r Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum.‘Prologus.’ 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 m and Distelbrink no. 19. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia,V 295^6. Tria opuscula, 289^93. 

h5 v Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum.‘Capitula.’ 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia,V 296. Tria opuscula, 293. 

h 5 v Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia,V 296^313. Tria opuscula, 294^ 

348. 

k 1 r Bonaventura: Lignum vitae. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ak and Distelbrink no. 21. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 68^86. Bonaventura, Decem 

opuscula,155^206. 

k7 r Bonaventura: Epistola continens XXV memorialia. ‘Regula et 

institutio omnium pie et spiritualiter in Christo viuere volentium.’ 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ac and Distelbrink no. 42. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 491^8. Bonaventura, Selecta 

pro instruendis fratribus ordinis minoris scripta, 3rd edn 

(Quaracchi, 1942), 237^57. 

l 2 r Bonaventura: De reductione artium ad theologiam. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 x and Distelbrink no. 3. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia,V 319^25. Tria opuscula, 365^85. 

l 4 v Bonaventura: [De triplici via. Also known as Incendium 

amoris.] ‘Paruum bonum vel regimen conscientie sancti 

Bonauenture quod vocatur fons vite.’ 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 am and Distelbrink no. 18. 


opuscula, 3^39. 

m5 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Prologus.] 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), VI 58. Also 

ascribed to Johannes Marchesinus de Regio, see Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 cb and Distelbrink no. 67. 

m 5 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Table of contents.] 

m6 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96),VI 58^102. 

r 3 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; GilbertusTornacensis; Or Guilelmus de 

Fourmenterie]: Pharetra. [Prologus.] 


refs. On authorship see Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bk and 

Distelbrink no. 178. 

r 4 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Pharetra. 


With tables of contents preceding each book. 

F 1 r Bonaventura: [Quaestiones disputatae de perfectione evangelica 

(2).] ‘Tractatus . . . de paupertate Christi contra magistrum 

Wilhelmum’. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 e 1 and Distelbrink no. 5. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia,V 124^65. 

H1 r Bonaventura: De quinque festivitatibus pueri Jesu. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 aj and Distelbrink no. 15. 


opuscula, 207^27. 

H5 v Bonaventura: De regimine animae. Dedicated to ‘Blanca 

regina Hispaniae’ (Blanca d’Artois). 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ah and Distelbrink no. 16. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 128^30. For the identity of the 

dedicatee, see Opera omnia,VIII 128 n. 1. 

H 6 v Bonaventura: Epistola de tribus qu�stionibus ad magistrum 

innominatum. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 f and Distelbrink no. 46. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia,VIII 331^6. 

I2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-(?); Johannes dePeckham(?): Epistola de 

sandaliis apostolorum.] ‘Epistola . . . de eo quod Christus et apostoli 

et discipuli eius incesserunt discalciati’. 

refs. See Distelbrink no. 45. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 

386^90. Ascribed to Johannes de Peckham(?) by Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 au; not listed in Sharpe, LatinWriters, no. 839. 

I4 r Bonaventura: Epistolae [o⁄ciales (2)].‘Epistola . . . in qua mandat, 

vt fratres sui ordinis caueant a frequentia discursuum, ab 

importunitate questuum, a sumptuositate edi¢ciorum, librorum, 

vestium ac ciborum, a predicatione contra prelatos coram laicis et 

a litigiosa inuasione sepulturarum et testamentorum’. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 l 7 and Distelbrink no. 40. 


I4 v Bonaventura: Epistolae [o⁄ciales (1)].‘Epistola. . . ad ministros, 

prouinciales et custodes de reformandis fratribus sui ordinis’. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 l 1 and Distelbrink no. 39. 


I5 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De tribus ternariis peccatorum infamibus. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), VI 279^85. 

Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dt 

and Distelbrink no. 114. 

I 7 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De septem gradibus contemplationis. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), VII 104^5. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), 

XII 183^6. Ascribed to Thomas Gallus by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 

305 da and 116 g and Distelbrink no. 107. 

K1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta]: Viginti passus de 

virtutibus. [De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. 

Lib. I. Pars II.] ‘Viginti passus . . . de informatione spiritualis vite 

ac virtute et profectu religiosorum’. 


David von Augsburg, ed. S. Lempp (Quaracchi, 1899), 36^57. On 

authorship see Distelbrink no. 238. On the author see VL II 47^ 

58, and Dagobert Sto« ckerl, Bruder David von Augsburg. Ein 

deutscher Mystiker aus dem Franziskanerorden,

622 bonaventura 

[b-417^b-418 

Vero« ¡entlichungen aus dem Kirchenhistorischen Seminar 

Mu« nchen, IV/4 (Munich, 1914), 196^8. 

r 

K4 Bonaventura: Collationes de decem praeceptis. ‘Sermones de 

decem preceptis’. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 aq and Distelbrink no. 55/1. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia,V 507^32. 

L8 r Bonaventura: Apologia pauperum. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 as and Distelbrink no. 26. 


r 

S1 Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Expositio orationis dominicae. [Also 

known as Expositio super Pater noster.] 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum no. 1782. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1895), VII 652^5. 

Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 cr 


r 

S3 Martinis, Octavianus de: Oratio in vitam et merita S. 

Bonaventurae. Dedicated to Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96),VII 845^9. 

Strasbourg: Martin Flach, 31 Oct. 1489. Folio. 

collation: a^c 8 d^g 6.8 h i 6 k^z A^D 8.6 E 6 F 8 G^M 8.6 N^S 6.8 . 



510^11. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German (Regensburg, S. Emmeramus, 

Kyri� workshop no. 29; Schwenke^Schunke^Rabenau 21: 

Bamberg, Blumentopf 31 und 33)) blind-tooled calf over wooden 

boards, two clasps, four corner-pieces and central boss on each 

cover lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of 

the lower cover. Marks of a book-label at the head of the upper 

cover. On the upper cover ¢llets form three compartments; the 

central square is divided into three concentric frames. In the compartments 

at the head and the foot a square stamp with a £owerpot 

(Schunke^Schwenke 78 no. 33: Bamberg); in the outermost 

frame, a rectangular stamp with a foliate sta¡, a round stamp 

with the evangelists in each corner, and a round stamp with the 

arms of S. Emmeramus at the sides; in the middle frame, a 

lozenge-shaped stamp with a double-headed eagle; in the innermost 

frame, a rectangular stamp with a tendril. On the lower 

cover triple ¢llets form four rectangular compartments which 

are subdivided into triangular sections; at each point of intersection, 

a small rosette stamp; in the sections, two lozenge-shaped 

stamps with a dragon and a swan (Schunke^Schwenke 297 no. 

11: Bamberg Blumentopf 33) and a stamped scroll with the 

inscription ‘MARIA’. On the spine, a lozenge-shaped stamp 

with a £oral ornament and a four-petalled £ower; for the stamps 

see Kyri� pl.65, nos a,1, 2,4,5 and pl.66 and Sack, Freiburg,1340. 


A ¢fteenth-century note on the contents on the front pastedown. 

A Contemporary note on S. Bonaventura on a1 r . Occasional early 



Provenance: Regensburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. 

Emmeramus; inscriptions: ‘Monasterii S. Emmerami 

Ratisbon�’ on a1 r and a2 r and an eighteenth-century armorial 

book-plate on front pastedown, see Warnecke 1671; included in 

the 1501 catalogue of the monastery; see Wagner,‘St Emmeram’, 



SECOND COPY 

Front endleaves consisting of ten leaves with manuscript texts in 

two di¡erent ¢fteenth-century hands: 

1. fol. 1 r/v : extracts from Isidore, Seneca, Cicero, Boethius, 

Terence, Apuleius, and Ambrosius; 

2. fol. 2 ra -10 va : book I (here referred to as II), chapters 1^9, of the 

Speculum doctrinale and extracts from book XXV (here referred 

to as XXVI), chapters 72^81, book XXVII (here referred to as 

XXVIII), chapters 45^8, and book XXVIII (here referred to as 

XXIX), chapters 6 and 11, of the Speculum historiale by 

Vincentius Bellovacensis; 

3. fol. 10 va-b : a rhythmic poem ascribed to ‘Bernhardus’ and 

entitled ‘De dulci nomine Jhesu’ (incipit: ‘Jhesu dulcis memoria 

dans v[era] cordis gaudia’) [PL CLXXXIV 1317^20, see Walther, 

Initia, 9837]; 

4. fol.11 ra : a text on the six ages ofthe world ascribed to Hugh of S. 

Victor (incipit: ‘Ab Adam vsque ad diluuium prima etas seculi 

continens annos mille .cc.lvi . . .’); 

5. fol.11 ra -a 2 vb : book XXVI (here referred to as XXVII), chapters 

110^16, of the Speculum historiale byVincentius Bellovacensis. 



204 mm. 

Fragments of two bifolia of a ¢fteenth-century paper manuscript, 

containing a text on the eucharist and the Holy Spirit, formerly 

used as front and back pastedowns in an earlier binding, are now 

bound at the end. 

On a1^2 a manuscript text continued from front endleaves (see 

above). On S 8 r notes in a ¢fteenth-century hand: a note 

‘Patronius Bononie est Ytalie ecclesie episcopus’, followed by a 

poem comprising 18 elegiac distichs; incipit: ‘Quid faciunt leges, 

vbi solapecunia regnat > aut vbi paupertas vincere nullapotest . . .’ 

(Walther, Proverbia, 25032) and several extracts ascribed to 

‘Jero[nimus]’, incipit:‘Nichil est christiano felicius cui promittuntur 

regna celorum . . .’ On S8 v a text entitled ‘Exhortacio quedam’ 

incipit: ‘Si vigilanter attendere vis de vita et passione Christi . . .’ 

Marginal notes in the same ¢fteenth-century hand on the former 

pastedowns. 

Initials, paragraph marks, signatures and catchwords are supplied 

in red or green; capital strokes, and underlining in red. 


21. 



Opuscula. 

Part I. 

[*2 r ] Bonaventura: ‘Prologus’. Incipit: ‘[F]uerat profecto equum . . .’ 

v 

[* 2 ] ‘Tabula alphabetica’. 

a1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Olivi, Petrus Johannis]: Principium 

sacrae scripturae. [Also known as Tractatus de sacrae Scripturae 

praestantia.] ‘Principium in libros sacre scripture’. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[O]stendit mihi dominus £uuium aque viue . . .’’ [Apc 22,1]. 

Probatissime perfectissimeque legis integritas . . .’ 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), I 1^8. 

refs. Ascribed to Petrus Johannis Olivi by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 

II 305 cj and II 327a6, and Distelbrink no. 233. 

v 

a7 Bonaventura: Collationes in Hexaemeron. ‘Luminaria ecclesie 

. . . siue Illuminationes siue de quinque visionibus’.


623 

refs. See Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum no. 1772, Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 at and Distelbrink no. 55/5. Bonaventura, Opera 

omnia (Quaracchi, 1891),V 329^449. 

h5 v 

Bonaventura [pseudo-; Andreae, Antonius(?)]: 

Compendiosum principium in libros sententiarum. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[G]irum celi circuiui sola’’ Eccl[esiasticus] .xxiiii [Sir 24,8]. 

Quam sit libri sententiarum inaccessibilis celsitudo . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bw 


h6 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Sententiae sententiarum Petri 

Lombardi carmine digestae. ‘[O] fons splendoris, vas dulcoris, 

sed amoris.’ 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 12651. Bonaventura, Opera omnia 

(Rome, 1588^96), VI 215^33. Authorship dubious according to 

Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ds, Distelbrink no. 198, and 

Stegmu« ller, Repertorium commentariorum no. 14. 

k2 r Bonaventura: De reductione artium ad theologiam. 


k 4 v Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Prologus.] 


l1 r Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Table of contents.] 


l2 r Bonaventura: Breviloquium. 


p 6 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Prologus.] Incipit: 

‘[E]cce descripsi eam tibi tripliciter . . .’ 


p 7 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Table of contents.] 

p7 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. 


v2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De tribus ternariis peccatorum infamibus. 


v6 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Summa de gradibus virtutum. 

‘Formula aurea de gradibus virtutum.’ 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 646^54. Authorship 

dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bf, Distelbrink 

no. 221 and Opera omniaVIII 646 n. 1. 

x4 v 

Bonaventura [pseudo-; Marchesinus, Johannes?]: 

Confessionale. Incipit:‘[I]n Dei tabernaculo id est in sancta ecclesia 

positus . . .’ 


Ascribed to Johannes Marchesinus de Regio(?) by Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 cc and Distelbrink no. 77. 

z 5 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Matthaeus de Cracovia]: De modo con- 

¢tendi et de puritate conscientiae. Incipit:‘[Q]uoniam fundamentum 

et ianua virtutum . . .’ 


Ascribed to Matthaeus de Cracovia by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 

dn and Distelbrink no. 92. In the title, the ascription to 

Bonaventura is supported by a reference to Johannes Gerson: 

‘cancellarius Parisiensis in tractatu de cognitione castitatis’. 

A5 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Gilbertus Tornacensis Or; Guilelmus 

de Fourmenterie]: Pharetra. [Prologus.] 


A6 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Pharetra. 


M3 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Rodolphus de Bibraco]: Collationes de 

septem donis spiritus sancti. Incipit: ‘[O]mne datum optimum et 

omne donum perfectum . . .’ 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), VI 236^76; 

not the version edited in Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 

1891),V 457^503; di¡erent incipit: ‘Hortamur vos . . .’Authorship 

dubious according to Distelbrink no. 106. 

Q6 v Bonaventura(?); [Johannes de Peckham(?)]: Expositio super 

regulam Fratrum Minorum. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 av; Distelbrink no. 48 and 

Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 839. Bonaventura, Opera omnia,VIII 

391^437. Selecta scripta (Quaracchi, 1942), 1^149. 

S 6 v Bonaventura: [Quaestiones disputatae de perfectione evangelica 

(2).] ‘Tractatus . . . de paupertate Christi contra magistrum 

Guilhelmum’. 


X 2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-?; Johannes de Peckham(?): Epistola de 

sandaliis apostolorum.] ‘Epistola . . . de eo quod Christus et apostoli 

et discipuli eius incesserunt discalciati’. 


X3 v Bonaventura: Apologia pauperum. 


CC5 v Bonaventura: Determinationes quaestionum circa regulam 

Fratrum Minorum. Pars I. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 z and Distelbrink no. 29. 


EE1 r Bonaventura: Quare Fratres Minores praedicent et confessiones 

audiant. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ab and Distelbrink no. 52. 


EE5 r Bonaventura: Epistolae [o⁄ciales (2)]. ‘Epistola . . . in qua 

mandat, vt fratres sui ordinis caueant a frequentia discursuum, 

ab importunitate questuum, a sumptuositate edi¢ciorum, 

librorum, vestium ac ciborum, a predicatione contra prelatos 

coram laycis et a litigiosa inuasione sepulturarum et testamentorum’. 


EE5 v Bonaventura: Epistolae [o⁄ciales (1)].‘Epistola . . . ad ministros, 

prouinciales et custodes de reformandis fratribus sui ordinis’. 


EE6 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Schoonhoven]: Collatio 

de contemptu saeculi. 


dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 be, Distelbrink 

no. 68 and Opera omniaVIII 655 n. 1. 

EE7 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Exercitia quaedam spiritualia. 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bm 


EE7 v [First Colophon.] 

Part II. 

A2 r Bonaventura: ‘Prologus’. Incipit: ‘[F]uerat profecto equum . . .’ 

A2 v ‘Tabula’. 

aa 1 v Martinis, Octavianus de: Oratio in vitam et merita S. 

Bonaventurae. Dedicated to Cardinal Julianus de Rovere. 


aa5 v Pavinis, Johannes Franciscus de: [Canonizationis b. 

Bonaventurae] Relatio. A letter to Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. Incipit: 

‘[B]eatissime pater, circa canonizationem beati Bonauenture . . .’


[b-418 


cc4 v 

[Caracciolus(?)], Robertus: Sermo de laudibus S. 

Bonaventurae. Incipit:‘[Q]uasi stellamatutina in medionebule...’ 


dd1 r Sixtus IV, Pont. Max.: Bulla canonizationis b. Bonaventurae. 


Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1882), I pp. xxxix^xliv. 

dd 2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Bernardus a Bessa]: Speculum disciplinae 

ad novitios.‘Libellus de minimis’. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 583^622. Selecta scripta 

(Quaracchi, 1942), 275^422. Ascribed to Bernardus a Bessa in 

Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 df, Distelbrink no. 216 and Opera 

omniaVIII 583 n.1. 

¡8 v Bonaventura: Epistola continens XXV memorialia.‘Regula et 

institutio omnium pie et spiritualiter in Christo viuere volentium.’ 


gg 3 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta]: Viginti passus de 

virtutibus. [De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. 

Lib. I. Pars II.] ‘Viginti passus siue formula nouiciorum . . . de 

informatione spiritualis vite ac virtute et profectu religiosorum’. 


gg5 v Bonaventura: De regimine animae. Dedicated to ‘Blanca 

regina Hispaniae’ (Blanca d’Artois). 


hh1 r Bonaventura: Epistola de tribus quaestionibus ad magistrum 

innominatum. 


hh 3 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Expositio orationis dominicae. [Also 

known as Expositio super Pater noster.] 


hh5 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Holznicker de Saxonia, Conradus]: 

Speculum BVM. 


Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), 

XIV 232^92. Conradus de Saxonia, Speculum Beatae Mariae 

Virginis, ed. PP. Collegii S. Bonaventurae, Bibliotheca franciscana 

ascetica medii aevi, 2 (Quaracchi, 1904), 1^277. Ascribed to 

Conradus Holzinger de Saxonia by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dp 

and Distelbrink no. 214;VLV 247^51. 

mm 1 v Bonaventura: De praeparatione ad missam. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ai and Distelbrink no. 24. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 99^106. On authorship see 

Franz, Messe, 462^3. 

mm4 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Jacobus de Mediolano, Lector(?)]: 

Instructio sacerdotis ad se praeparandum ad celebrandam missam. 

Incipit: ‘[A]d missam celebrandam sex considerationes 

attendende sunt . . .’ 


Ascribed to Jacobus de Mediolano, lector(?), by Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 cw and Distelbrink no. 146; also Franz, Messe, 

463 n. 1 and DSAM I 1848 and VIII 48^9. 

mm5 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Peckham(?)]: 

Psalterium maius BVM. 


Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), XIV 199^221. 

Ascribed to Johannes de Peckham(?) by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 

305 dk and Distelbrink no. 185; see also Sharpe, Latin Writers, 

no. 839. 

nn 6 v Bonaventura: Corona BVM. 


677^8. 

refs. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire,305 

an and Opera omniaVIII 677 n.6. 

nn6 v Bonaventura: [O⁄cium de passione domini.] ‘Cursus de passione 

domini’. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ap and Distelbrink no. 22. 


oo 2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: O⁄cium de compassione BVM. 

‘Cursus de compassione beate virginis’. Incipit: ‘[D]omine, labia 

mea aperies. Re[sponsio:] Et os meum . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bq 


oo 4 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Carmina in canticum Salve Regina. 

‘Salue, virgo virginum, stella matutina’; rhythmic poem. 


See Walther, Initia, 17182. Authorship dubious according to 

Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bs and Distelbrink no. 65. 

oo 4 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Expositio missae. Incipit: ‘[C]hristus 

assistens pontifex . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Franz, Messe, 463^5; 

Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bn, and Distelbrink no. 137. 

pp 3 v Bonaventura: Laudismus de sancta cruce. ‘Recordare sancte 

crucis, qui perfectam vitam ducis, delectare iugiter’. 


667^9. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 

305 ao and Opera omniaVIII 667 n.1. 

pp 4 r Bonaventura: Soliloquium. [Also known as De quattuor mentalibus 

exercitiis.] 


rr5 v Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum.‘Prologus.’ 


rr6 r Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum.‘Capitula.’ 


tt 1 r Bonaventura: De triplicivia. Prologus.‘Paruumbonum . . . quod 

alias incendium amoris dicitur vel regimen conscientie vel fons 

vite.’ 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia,VIII 18. 

tt1 r Bonaventura: De triplici via. ‘Paruum bonum . . . quod alias 

incendium amoris dicitur vel regimen conscientie vel fons vite.’ 


vv1 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Rodolphus de Bibraco]: De septem 

itineribus aeternitatis. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), VII 145^96; 

Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), VIII 393^482. 

Ascribed to Rodolphus de Bibraco by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 

do and Distelbrink no. 109. 

BB1 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. 

Incipit: ‘[D]e quattuor uirtutibus cardinalibus . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bc 


BB2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Collationes octo ad fratresTolosates. 

Incipit: ‘[V]ide, anima mea innouata, mirabilia veritatis . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 db 

and Distelbrink no. 70. The ¢rst part is taken from the Arbor 

vitae cruci¢xae by Ubertinus de Casali, whose 1485 Venetian


625 

edition has been reproduced with an introduction of C. T. Davis 

(Turin, 1961); see Ernst Knoth, Ubertino von Casale. Ein Beitrag 

zur Geschichte der Franziskaner an der Wende des 13. und 14. 

Jahrhunderts (Marburg, 1903), 9^19; G. L. Potesta' , ‘Ubertin de 

Casale’, DSAM XVI 3^15. 

BB 4 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Thomas a' Kempis]: Alphabetum religiosorum 

[prose.] ‘Alphabetum paruum boni monachi in scola 

Dei’. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^ 

71), XII 502f; Thomas a' Kempis, Opera, III, ed. M. J. Pohl 

(Freiburg im Breisgau, 1904), 317^22. Ascribed to Thomas a' 

Kempis by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dq, and Distelbrink no. 57. 

BB 5 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Alphabetum religiosorum [verse.] 

‘Alphabetum religiosorum incipientium’. ‘Ama paupertatem, sis 

vilibus contentus’; rhythmic poem. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96),VII 565. See 

Walther, Initia, 887. Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 bi and Distelbrink no. 58. 

BB 5 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Hugo Alias] Henricus de Balma: 

Theologia mystica. Incipit: ‘[V]ie Syon lugent eo quod non sit qui 

vadat ad solemnitatem . . .’ 


Ascribed to Hugo de Balma by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 de and 

Distelbrink no. 226. Ascription discussed in the title. 

EE6 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Fascicularius. Incipit: ‘[S]cire debes 

quod, quamuis omnia que in diuina scriptura . . .’ 


On authorship see Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 cy and Distelbrink 

no. 143 (an extract from the De reformatione virium animae by 

Gerardus Zutphaniensis). 

FF2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De pugna spirituali contra septem 

vitia capitalia.‘De duobus necessariis veris bellatoribus’. Incipit: 

‘[E]ya nunc, milites Christi bellum spirituale ingressuri . . .’ 


On authorship see Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 cz and Distelbrink 

no. 102 (an extract from the De reformatione virium animae by 

Gerardus Zutphaniensis). 

FF4 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De septem gradibus contemplationis. 


FF5 r Bonaventura: De quinque festivitatibus pueri Jesu. 


GG 3 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Marchesinus, Johannes]: De ecclesiastica 

hierarchia. Incipit: ‘[I]nuisibilia Dei per ea que facta 

sunt . . .’ 


Ascribed to Johannes Marchesinus de Regio by Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 ca and Distelbrink no. 171. 

II8 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: 

Meditationes vitae Christi.‘Tabula’. 

KK2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: 

Meditationes vitae Christi. 

refs. Johannes de Caulibus, Meditaciones vite Christi, olim S. 

Bonaventurae attribuitae, ed. M. Stallings-Taney, CCCM, 153 

(Turnholt, 1997). Ascribed to Johannes de Caulibus by Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 dr. See also Distelbrink no. 166 (and 164), 

Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 9, no. 4311,1 and Zumkeller 

no. 203. The ascription to Johannes de Caulibus is queried by 

Columban Fischer, ‘Die Meditationes vitae Christi, ihre handschriftliche 

Uº berlieferung und die Verfasserschaftsfrage’, 

Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 25 (1932), 3^35, 175^209, 

305^48, 449^83. 

RR 4 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Opus contemplationis. 


Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), XIV 167^71. 

Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 br 


RR6 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De septem verbis domini in cruce. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia,VIII 674^6. On authorship see 

Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dj (possibly by Johannes de Peckham) 

and Distelbrink no. 110. Authorship dubious according to Opera 

omniaVIII 674 n.3. 

SS 1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes dePeckham(?)]: Philomena. 


dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 di, Distelbrink 

no. 179 and Opera omnia VIII 669 n.3. Ascribed to Johannes de 

Peckham by P. Maximilianus, ‘Philomena van John Pecham’, 

Neophilologus, 38 (1954), 206^17 and 290^300; see also Sharpe, 

LatinWriters, no. 839. 

SS 3 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta]: De vitiis et eorum 

remediis. [De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. Lib. 

II. Pars I. Cap. X^L.] 

refs. David von Augsburg, ed. Lempp, 92^160. On authorship 

see Distelbrink no. 118. On the author see VL II 47^58, and 

Sto« ckerl, Bruder David von Augsburg, 198^9. 

TT 5 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Jacobus, Lector Mediolanensis(?)]: 

De remedio defectuum religiosi. Incipit: ‘[S]implicissimo animo 

hesterna luce me accedebas . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dw 


TT6 v Bonaventura: De perfectione vitae ad sorores. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ae and Distelbrink no. 14. 

Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 107^27; Decem opuscula, 250^ 

309. 

UU 5 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Laus BVM.‘Aue, celeste lilium, aue, 

rosa speciosa’. 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bt 


XX1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Peckham(?)]: 

Psalterium minus BVM. 

refs. See Walther, Initia, 2021. Bonaventura, Opera omnia 

(Rome, 1588^96),VI 497^501. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. 

C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), XIV 189^95. On authorship see 

Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dl and Distelbrink no. 186. 

XX2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Declaratio terminorum theologiae. 

Incipit: ‘[O]mnipotens Deus, pater, ¢lius et spiritus sanctus, vnus 

est deus . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ba 


XX5 r Bonaventura[pseudo-]; Hieronymus: Summa de essentia dei. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome,1588^96),VII 681^4. PL 

XLII 1199^1206; PL L 729^37. Ascription discussed in the title. 

See Distelbrink no. 220. 

XX7 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Amatorium. Incipit:‘[P]resens opusculum 

qui legerit . . .’


[b-418^b-419 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 bl 


ZZ3 v Bonaventura: Collationes de decem praeceptis. 


r 

Aaa5 Bonaventura: [Determinationes quaestionum circa regulam 

Fratrum Minorum. Pars II.] ‘Libellus apologeticus id est excusatorius’. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 z 1 . Bonaventura, Opera 

omnia,VIII 356^74. 

Ccc1 r Bonaventura: Lignum vitae. 


v 

Ddd1 Bonaventura [pseudo-]; Alanus [de Insulis pseudo-]: De sex 

alis seraphim. 

refs. Bonaventura, Operaomnia (Rome,1588^96),VII 684^7; PL 

CCX 273^80. Ascribed to Alanus de Insulis by Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 ct and Distelbrink no. 111. Ascription discussed 

in the title. 

r 

Ddd3 Bonaventura: De sex alis seraphim. 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ag and Distelbrink no. 17. 


Eee5 v [Second colophon.] 


Husner)], 1495. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 1495; (II) 18 Dec. 

1495. 

collation: Part I: [* 8 ] [� 6 ] a b 8 c^f 6.8 g h 6 i^y 8.6 z 8 A^M 6.8 N^Q 6 

R^Y 8.6 Z 8 AA 6 BB 8 CC DD 6 EE 8 ; part II: 2 A 8 B C 6 aa bb 8 cc^ 

qq 6.8 rr^tt 6 vv^zz 8.6 2 AA^QQ 8.6 RR SS 6 TT^YY 8.6 ZZ 8 Aaa^ 

Eee 6 . Gatherings [*] and [�] are numbered but not signed. 

Four full-page woodcuts. 


B-673; CIBN B-616; Rhodes 417; Sack, Freiburg, 741; Schreiber 

V 3521; Sheppard 493. 

COPY 

Bound in two volumes. Edges of z 3 repaired. 

Binding: Both volumes bound uniformly in contemporary blindtooled 

calf over wooden boards, two clasps; rebacked. Title-label 

atthe head of the upper cover. On both covers ¢llets form a double 

frame; the inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets into lozengeshaped 

compartments. Surface perished and stamps unidenti¢able. 

Size: 298 ¿ 218 ¿ 103 and 298 ¿ 215 ¿ 90 mm. Size of 

leaf: 290 ¿ 189 mm. 

Occasional early marginal notes, all in one early hand, especially 

in gatherings M, N, mm^rr, and BB^CC, mainly extracting key 

words. On BB5 r an early manuscript note in the same hand, 

ascribing the text to Hugo de Balma. 

Scroll painted around title and coloured in yellow and green in 

vol. 1, in red and blue in vol. 2. Woodcuts coloured in yellow, 

green, and red and three of them decorated with painted borders. 

On [*2 r ] a four-line initial is supplied in green, highlighted in yellow, 

on a gold background and with two gold dots; similar initial 

in pinkon 2 A2 r . On a1 r a ten-line initial is supplied, on a darkgreen 

ground, in blue de¢ned in black, with white highlighting, gold in 

the area de¢ned by the letter, within a green frame. On aa 1 r a 

seven-line initial is supplied in green, edged in black, highlighted 

in yellow, on a blue background, with a red and a blue rosette and 

an acanthus leaf in the margin. On aa 1 v a nine-line initial is supplied 

in pink on a gold ground with highlighting in white and 

black and foliate extension into the margin in colours, with some 

dotting in red, blue, or gold; on aa6 r a nine-line initial ‘P’ is supplied 

in pink highlighted with acanthus leaf scrolling in black, and 

ending in yellow acanthus leaves, the descender of the letter ¢lling 

the inner margin; in the lower margin a foliate sta¡ in red, yellow, 

green, and silver, now oxidized; in the outer margin a stylized rose 

branch in blue, green, pink, red, yellow, gold, and silver; on hh 1 r a 

ten-line initial is supplied in green on a gold ground with a foliate 

sta¡ in the inner margin in green, yellow, red, and silver, now oxidized, 

and with some dotting. On h6 r athree-line initial is supplied 

in gold with £oral decoration in the outer margin in green, pink, 

and silver and one gold dot. Initials, made up of cadelles, are supplied 

in red or blue, and other initials, sometimes with pen-£ourishing 

into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red 

or blue. 

Provenance: Regensburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. 

Emmeramus; on front pastedowns and on [* 1 r ] of vol. 1 an 

inscription: ‘Monasterij S. Emmeramj Ratisbon�’, similar 

inscription on A2 r ; on [*1 r ] of vol. 1 and on front pastedown of 

vol. 2 an eighteenth-century armorial book-plate, for which see 

Warnecke 1671. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

‘Duplum’and ‘III N 475’on back pastedown of vol. 2. Purchased 


shelfmark: Auct. 4Q 3.2,3. 


Opuscula. 

[*1 v ] Bonaventura: ‘Opuscula sancti Bonauenture . . . in hoc libello 

nouiter impressa’. 

[* 2 r ] ‘Tabula opusculorum sancti Bonauenture que in hoc libello 

continentur’. 

a2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta: De institutione novitiorum. 

De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. Lib. I. 

Pars I.] ‘De interiori homine siue alias de triplici statu religiosorum, 

incipientium videlicet pro¢tientium et perfectorum, et 

primo de informatione nouitiorum’. 


David von Augsburg, ed. Lempp. On authorship see Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 cu and Distelbrink no. 90. On the author see VL 

II 47^58; Sto« ckerl, Bruder David von Augsburg, 192^6. 

b4 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta: De profectu religiosorum 

Lib. I. De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. 

Lib. II.] ‘Liber secundus qui intitulatur de reformatione mentis’. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96),VII 595^612; 

David von Augsburg, ed. Lempp, 63^378. On authorship see 

Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 cv and Distelbrink no. 100. On the 

author see VL II 47^58, and Sto« ckerl, Bruder David von 

Augsburg, 198^9. 

d3 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; David de Augusta: De profectu religiosorum 

Lib. II. De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. 

Lib. III.] ‘Tertius scilicet de processu religionis’. 


David von Augsburg, ed. Lempp, 63^378. 

i1 r Bonaventura: Regula novitiorum. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 475^90; Selecta scripta 

(Quaracchi, 1942), 191^232; see Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ad and 


i7 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Bernardus a' Bessa]: Speculum disciplinae 

[ad novitios]. 

refs. See B-418.

-419^b-422] bonaventura 

627 

n1 v Bonaventura: [De triplici via. Also known as Incendium 

amoris, Parvum bonum, Regimen conscientiae and Fons vitae.] 

‘Itinerarium in seipsum’. 


n8 r Bonaventura: [Soliloquium.] ‘De quattuor mentalibus exercitiis’. 


aa1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-: Oratio.] ‘Stimulus amoris’. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), VII 206; 

Stimulus amoris Fr. Iacobi Mediolanensis, ed. PP. Collegii S. 

Bonaventurae, Bibliotheca franciscana ascetica medii aevi, 4 

(2nd edn Quaracchi, 1949), 3^5; see Distelbrink no. 218. 

r 

aa1 Bonaventura [pseudo-: Stimulus amoris. Forma intermedia.] 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96),VII 206^50; 

Opera omnia, ed. A. C. Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), XII 631^703. See 

also Jacobus Mediolanensis, Stimulus amoris, 2nd edn 

(Quaracchi, 1949), 6^129. A compilation from the work by Frater 

Jacobus lector Mediolanensis; see Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 cx 

and Distelbrink no. 218. Divided into two parts. 

v 

dd6 Bonaventura: [Lignum vitae.] ‘De Jesu Christi vita’. 


ee7 r Bonaventura [pseudo-: Speculum conscientiae.] ‘Speculum 

anime’. 


dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dm (also attributed 

to Johannes de Peckham and Henricus de Hassia), 

Distelbrink no. 215, and Opera omniaVIII 623 n. 1. 

Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, for Angelus Britannicus, 17 

Dec. 1495. 8 o and 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^p 8 q 4 aa^gg 8 . 

GW 4649; HC *3467 (including H 3481); Go¡ B-929; BMC VII 989; 

Pr 7033; BSB-Ink B-672; Sheppard 5811; Veneziani, Brescia, 235. 

COPY 

Binding: Parchment. Size:180 ¿ 130 ¿ 26 mm. Sizeof leaf: 172 ¿ 

118 mm. 

Early foliation. On q4 v early drawings. 

Provenance: Lucio Piacentini (sixteenth century?); on q4 v 

inscription: ‘Sum fratris Lucij Plac[enti]ni professi sancti 

Hyeronimi’ pasted over; later inscriptions: ‘In Monasterio 

Sab[i?]niensi’ possibly a monastery in Sabiona, South Tyrol; and 

‘Julo(?) Pe[ ] de Alaysa[ ]’. Valerio Piacentini (sixteenth/seventeenth 

century):‘D.Valerij Placentini’; inscription in a sixteenth/ 

seventeenth-century hand on a2 r . Cardinal Giuseppe Garampi 

(1725^1792); printed book-label ‘Ex bibliotheca Josephi 

Garampii’ on [*1 r ]. Purchased from Sta« helin & Lauenstein, 

Catalogue 11 (1900), no. 1332 for 22.50 Marks. 



Breviloquium. 

r 

[a1 ] Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Prologus.] 


[a6 r ] Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Table of contents.] ‘Capitula’. 


[a6 v ] Bonaventura: Breviloquium. 


v 

[g9 ] [Colophon.] 

[g10 r ] [Alphabetical index.] Incipit: ‘[T]ametsi in capite huiusce preclari 

opusculi . . .’ 

Nuremberg: [Johann Sensenschmidt], 10 Feb. 1472. Folio. 

collation: [a b 10 c 8 d 6+1 e^g 10 h 4 ]. 


B-653; Sheppard1398. COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century plain calf; marbled pastedowns; 

bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 277 ¿ 195 ¿ 18 mm. Size of 

leaf: 265 ¿ 179 mm. 

Headings, initials, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red 



‘Duplum’and old shelfmark ‘Inc. Typ. N o 2359’on the front endleaf; 

pencil number ‘2577’on rear endleaf. Acquired between1847 

and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not found in Catalogus (1843), with 

Appendix. 



Breviloquium. 

[a1 r ] Bonaventura: Breviloquium.‘Prologus’. 


[a6 v ] Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Table of contents.] ‘Registrum 

huius libelli’. 


v 

[a7 ] Bonaventura: Breviloquium. 


[Augsburg: Anton Sorg, not after 1476]. Folio. 

collation: [a^g 10 h 8 ]. 



COPY 



A few early marginal corrections. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red underlining. 

Provenance: Probably J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); see sale (1837), 

lot 79; purchased for »0. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1837), 5. 



Breviloquium, et al. 

Part I. 

1 

a2 r Bonaventura: Breviloquium.‘Prologus’. 


r 

a6 Bonaventura: Breviloquium. [Table of contents.] 


a6 v Bonaventura: Breviloquium. 


Part II. 

2 

a1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Nicolaus de Hanapis]: Biblia pauperum. 

Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[V]xori Manue concepture ¢lium populi liberatorem 

angelus apparens abstinentiam indixit’’Judic[um] .xiii. [Idc 

13,2] . . .’ 


Ascribed to Nicolaus de Hanapis by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dc,


[b-422^b-424 

Distelbrink no. 64, and Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, nos 

1789/90 and 5815. 

r 

d8 [Colophon.] 

Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1477. 4 o . 

collation: Part I: 1 aê 8 f 6 g 8 ; Part II: 2 a b 8 c 6 d 8 . 

GW 4654; H *3473; Go¡ B-858; BMC XII 16; Pr 4313; BSB-Ink 


3482. 

FIRST COPY 

Part I only. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German(?) paper boards covered 

with leaves from a liturgical manuscript on parchment, dyed 

dark blue. Bound identically with copy 2 (see below). Remains of 

bookseller’s label at the tail of the spine. Size: 221 ¿ 163 ¿ 25 and 


Occasional early marginal notes in red. 




Inventio crucis/Sancta crux; on 1 a2 r 

inscription: ‘Ad 

Bibliothecam Fratrum Minorum Conuentualium S. Francisci 

Herbipoli ad S. Crucem’. J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); name on the 

front endleaf and on 1 g8 v ; sale (1837), lot 79. Date of acquisition 

unknown; other books with neighbouring shelfmarks were 

acquired during the1830s. 


SECOND COPY 

Part II only. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German(?) paper boards covered 

with leaves from a liturgical manuscript on parchment, dyed 

dark blue; see above. Size: 221 ¿ 173 ¿ 19 mm. Size of 

leaf: 213 ¿ 156 mm. 




(1843), 8. 



Commentarius in primum librum Sententiarum Petri 

Lombardi. 

[a2 r ] Bonaventura: [Commentarius in primum librum 

Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.] 

refs. See Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 b, Stegmu« ller, Repertorium 

commentariorum, 111, and Distelbrink no. 2. Bonaventura, 

Opera omnia (Quaracchi, 1882), I. 

r 

[t1 ] Bonaventura: ‘Questiones . . . super primo libro Sententiarum’. 

Incipit: ‘Circa genus cause materialis queritur . . .’ 


c.1474^7]. Folio. Printed in type 2 of the editions ascribed by 

Ohly to Georg Reyser. As dated by GW and Sheppard; Pellechet 

dates [not after 1480] relying on a manuscript date, CIBN [1474^ 

9]. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 8 e 6 f^h 10 i 4 k^m 10 n 8 o^q 10 r 8 s 10 t 2 ]. 


CIBN B-625; Ohly, ‘Reyser’, 27; Pellechet 2710; Sack, Freiburg, 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [a1] and leaves [s3^9]. 



leaf: 400 ¿ 273 mm. 


initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital 


Provenance: Purchased for ». 0. 15.0; see Books Purchased 

(1844), 7. 



Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri 

Lombardi (ed. Thomas Penket). 

r 

a2 Bonaventura: Commentarius in secundum librum 

Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Edited by Thomas Penketh, as 

stated in the colophon. 


v 

mm3 [Colophon.] 

mm3 v ‘Tabula’. 

Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 

1477. Folio. 

collation: a^l 10 m 2 m 8 n^p P q^t 10 v 8 x 10 y z 8 aa 12 bb^kk 8 ll mm 6 . 


BSB-Ink B-659; CIBN B-627; Rhodes 412; Sheppard 3565^6. 

FIRST COPY 


Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half green morocco, 

the spine gold-tooled; endpapers watermarked ‘Al Masso’, 

and in a crowned shield a lion below the initials GM (cf. B-124); 

probably bound for Boutourlin. Size: 265 ¿ 195 ¿ 50 mm. Size of 

leaf: 257 ¿ 182 mm. 

Occasional early marginal notes in red and ink; various hands. 


strokes. 

Provenance: Albergotti family (eighteenth century); o¡set 

inscription on a 2. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763^ 

1829); book-plate and shelfmark no. 168, see Catalogue (1831); 

sale catalogue (1839), lot 265; purchased at his sale for »0. 10. 0; 



SECOND COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German plain dark brown pigskin over 

wooden boards; two clasps; central boss and four corner-pieces 

on each cover lost; rebacked. Size: 295 ¿ 207 ¿ 86 mm. Size of 

leaf: 287 ¿ 197 mm. 

Fragments from a ¢fteenth-century manuscript, containing a 

draft letter concerning events in Vienna and a sermon, used as 

pastedowns. 

On the front endleaf is pasted a fragment from a ¢fteenth-century 

manuscript in German, found used as a bookmark. 

On a 2 r an 18^line £oral initial is supplied in green, magenta, red, 

and grey. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; 


Provenance: Bibliotheca Ingeleriana. Andreas Seidel (£. 1672^ 

1706); on a1 r inscription: ‘Ex reliquijs Bibliothec� Inglerian� 

possidet Andreas Seidel, Culmbac[ensis] pastor Illschwang.


629 

1706’. William Allford (1820^1865); on a1 r armorial book-plate, 

see Howe, Book Plates, 399. Francis Edward Norris (1885^1966). 

Presented in 1952; see BLR 4,3 (1952), 174. 



Legenda maior S. Francisci [Italian]. 

[*1 r ] [Table of contents.] 

a1 r Bonaventura: Legenda maior S. Francisci [Italian].‘La uita del 

glorioso seraphico pa[t]re meser san Francesco’. Incipit: ‘[C]omo 

per il glorioso patre seraphico meser san Francesco . . .’ 

r 

e3 ‘La uita [e] miraculo de sa[n] Francesoho(!)’. Incipit:‘[I]n prima e 

da considerare ch[e] il glorioso patre . . .’ 

r 

o8 ‘La regola de frati minori’. Incipit: ‘[O]norio ueschoue [e] seruo 

de serui . . . Si uole desiderare spesso l’apostolicha sedia . . .’ 

o8 v Franciscus de Assisio: Regula. [Also known as Regola bollata.] 

‘Della regola [e] uita de frati minori’. 

refs. Franciscus de Assisio, Gli scritti, ed. Mariano D’Alatti 

(Rome, 1982), 41^8. 

o11 r Franciscus de Assisio: ‘Il testamento del beato sancto 

Francescho’. 

refs. Franciscus de Assisio, Gli scritti, ed. D’Alatti,146^9. 

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 6 Feb. 1477. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^n 8 o 12 . Gathering [*] numbered but not signed. 

GW 4662; HR 3574; Go¡ B-890; BMC VI 714; Pr 5798; CIBN 

B-629; Ganda 56; Sheppard 4845. 

COPY 

Leaf [*1] repaired; missing text supplied in manuscript facsimile. 

Gathering [*] (the table of contents) bound last. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian gold-tooled red 

morocco; probably bound for Boutourlin. Size: 273 ¿ 195 ¿ 


Provenance: Murata, Lazio(?); on [*4 v ] faded inscription: 

‘Questo libro si e del s. del m[urate?] e ec[clesi]a’ and below 

‘[Quest]o [bel?] libro sie del . . . del monasterio del [murate?] . . .’ 

Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763^1829); book-plate 

and shelfmark ‘No. 169’, see Catalogue (1831); not found in sale 

catalogue. Purchased for »0.18. 0; see Books Purchased (1848), 6. 



De preparatione ad missam. 

r 

a1 Bonaventura: De preparatione ad missam. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, VIII 99^106; see Glorieux, 

Re¤ pertoire, 305 ai and Distelbrink no. 24. On authorship see 

Franz, Messe, 462^3. 

a6 v [Johannes de Peckham: Meditatio de SS. sacramento altaris. 

Also known as Rhythmus de corpore Christi; rhythmic poem.] 

‘Oratio dicenda ad eucharistiam’. 

refs. AH 31, no. 105 (De corpore Christi), strophes 1^11 and 13^ 

15. See Walther, Initia, 2023 and Stegmu« ller, Repertorium biblicum, 

9, no. 4855,2. On authorship see Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 316 

ap., and Sharpe, LatinWriters, no. 839. 

a7 v ‘Oratio dicenda ante missam’. Incipit: ‘[D]eus, qui de indignis 

dignos, de peccatoribus iustos . . .’ 

refs. See Leroquais, Livres d’heures, I 156 (MS. lat. 1347, fol. 

207 v ). 

a7 v ‘Oratio dicenda post missam’. Incipit:‘[O]mnipotens sempiterne 

Deus, Jhesu Christe domine, esto propicius . . .’ 

refs. See Leroquais, Livres d’heures, I 312 (MS. lat. 10433, fol. 

220 v ). 

[Paris: Antoine Caillaut, c.1490]. 4 o . 


GW 4677; Pr 7974A; Sheppard 6196. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red morocco; marbled 

pastedowns. Size: 212 ¿ 143 ¿ 6 mm. Sizeof leaf: 206 ¿ 135 mm. 

Provenance: Purchased for 35 Francs from Anatole Claudin on 

29 Dec, 1899, no. 94612. 




A2 r Bonaventura: De preparatione ad missam. 


[Leipzig:Wolfgang Sto« ckel], 1496. 4 o . 

collation: A 8 . 



COPY 



Occasional early marginal notes. On A 8 v ‘Claros viros decet virtus, 

memoria eius decus perpetuu[m]’ in a sixteenth/seventeenthcentury 

hand. 

Provenance: Purchased for ». 0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 

21. 

shelfmark: 1 d.76. 



a1 r Bonaventura: De preparatione ad missam. 


a7 v ‘Oratio deuota ad eukaristiam’. 


v 

a8 ‘Oratio dicenda ante missam’. Incipit: ‘[D]eus, qui de indignis 

dignos, de peccatoribus iustos . . .’ 


a8 v ‘Oratio dicenda post missam’. Incipit:‘[O]mnipotens sempiterne 

Deus, domine Jesu Christe, esto propitius . . .’ 


[Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1500]. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 . Leaf a3 is signed aii. 


GW 4685; R 1467; Go¡ B-937; Sheppard 3102. 

COPY 



Copious early marginal notes in various hands. 

shelfmark: 4 o B 6 (2) Th.Seld.


[(b-429)^b-433 

(B-429) Bonaventura 


[Paris: Guy Marchant], for Jean Petit, [c.1505]. 8 o . GWassigns to 

[Guy Marchant]. Dated from the state of the device (GW, 

Moreau); Pr dates [c.1500]. 

collation: [a 8 ] b 4 . 


GW IV col. 416; Pr 8034; Moreau, 146: 29; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Lavacrum conscientiae. Rouen: Jacques Le Forestier, [1507]; 

2. Jean Gerson, Opus tripartitum. Rouen: for Pierre Regnault, 

[c.1510]; 

3. Tractatus de septem peccatis mortalibus. Rouen: Pierre Violette 

for Pierre Regnault, [150^]; 

4. Laurentius Dozoli, Tractatus corporis Christi. Paris: Jean 

Lambert, [c.1506]. 

Binding: Early sixteenth-century panel tooled calf over wooden 

boards, clasp lost; rebacked. On both covers ¢llets form a frame; 

the inner rectangle is ¢lled with a blind-tooled panel. On the 

upper cover a framed panel depicting S. Barbara holding a book 

and the martyr’s palm, in front of a tower with three windows. On 

the lower cover a panel lettered around the edges ‘Notam fac 

michi uiam in > qua ambulem > [quia] ad [te leuaui] > animam 

meam’ [Ps 142,8]; the central rectangle is divided into ¢ve horizontal 

compartments, the innermost one ¢lled with triangular 

£oral ornaments, the two outer ones on either side with tendrils 

surrounding animals. For a similar binding see Sta¡an 

Fogelmark, Flemish and Related Panel-stamped Bindings: 

Evidence and Principles (NewYork, 1990), pl. xl. Size: 145 ¿ 95 ¿ 


Front pastedown from a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century printed edition 

of Guilelmus Duranti, Speculum iudiciale, lib. II, part III (De 

expensis que ¢unt extra iudicium), with additions of Johannes 

Andreae, amounting to 32 lines from the end of an ‘a’ column 

(only one word’s width of col.‘b’), with the marginal commentary 

cut o¡ before the end of the page. Rear pastedown from a sixteenth-century 

edition of a work on logic (printer’s waste). The 

gold stamp of the Bodleian Library pasted inside both covers. 

Provenance: Acquired before 1620; see James, Catalogus (1620), 

245, for item 1 in the volume. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: 8 o L 48 Art. 



Soliloquium. 

[a2 r ] Bonaventura: Soliloquium. [Also known as De quattuor mentalibus 

exercitiis.] 


[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 1474]. 4 o and folio. 

collation: [a b 10 c 6 ]. Gathering [c] is in folio. 



COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [c6]. 



A few early marginal annotations. Pencil number ‘5062’on [a 1 r ]. 




Catalogus (1843), with Appendix; the shelfmark suggests that 

this may be a duplicate from Munich, Royal Library acquired in 

1850. 



Soliloquium. 

a2 r Bonaventura: Soliloquium. [Also known as De quattuor mentalibus 

exercitiis.] 


[Gouda: Gerard Leeu, not after 1483]. 4 o . For dating see Pellechet. 



Campbell 337; Chatelain p. 29: 175; CIBN B-640; HPT II 417; 

ILC 437; Oates 3402^5; Pellechet 2672; Rhodes 418; Sheppard 

6904. 

COPY 




shelfmark: Arch. G e.6(4). 


Soliloquium. 

a2 r Bonaventura: Soliloquium. [Also known as De quattuor mentalibus 

exercitiis.] ‘Dialogus . . . in quo anima deuota meditando 

interrogat et homo mentaliter respondet’. 


Paris: Guy Marchant, in part for Jean Petit, 29 July 1499. 8 o . 


v v 

Two woodcuts on a1 and f4 ; woodcut initials. 

GW 4693; HCR 3489; Go¡ B-956; BMC VIII 66; Pr 8020; Sheppard 

6235. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Isidorus Hispalensis, De summo bono. Paris: Jean Petit, 1502; 

3. David de Augusta, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione. 

Lib. IIÎII (De profectu religiosorum). Paris: [Andre¤ 

Bocard for] Jean Petit, [c.1498^1500] (D-036). 

With Petit’s device on the title-page; see Polain, Marques, 146. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half green morocco, 

bound for Boutourlin. Size: 142 ¿ 103 ¿ 28 mm. Size of 

leaf: 135 ¿ 98 mm. 


shelfmark ‘No. 612’, see Catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1841), 

lot 110. Purchased for »0. 10. 0, plus »0. 5. 6; see Books Purchased 

(1842), 24 and 8. 



De triplici via. 


a 2 r Bonaventura(?): De triplici via. Prologus. 

refs. See B-418.


631 

a2 v Bonaventura: [De triplici via.] ‘Incendium amoris’. ‘Paruum 

bonum vel regimen conscientie sancti Bonauenture quod vocatur 

fons vite.’ 


d2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Opus contemplationis. 


Montserrat: Johann Luschner, for the monastery, 27 May 1499. 

8 o . 

collation: a^d 8 . 

On a1 v a woodcut; woodcut initials. 

GW 4708; HC, Addenda, 3500; Go¡ B-972; BMC X 78; not in Pr; 

CIBN B-645; Haebler, Bibliograf|¤ a ibe¤ rica, 66; Kurz 72; Vindel, 

Arte, I 218: 136; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century Spanish gold-tooled blue morocco; 

marbled pastedowns; bound by Subirana and gilt by Emilio 

Brugalla: lettered ‘S+B’ and ‘1499’ on the spine and signed 

‘SUBIRANA-ENC.’and ‘BRUGALLA-DOR.’ Size: 146 ¿ 103 ¿ 


Several reproductions of pages of this edition pasted in at the end 

of the volume. 

Provenance: Jorge Beristayn (1894^1964); name written in ink 

on the penultimate leaf. On the front pastedown a twentieth-century 

ex-libris lettered ‘sb’ [Subirana-Brugalla]. Albert Ehrman 

(1890^1969); armorial book-plate on the front pastedown; 

stamp on the back endleaf; accession no. ‘1807’; bought by him 

in 1936 from Edwin Marcus Baer for »100; blue presentation 

plate from A. and R. E[hrman] to J[ohn] P.W. E[hrman] dated 17 

Mar. 1949 on the back endleaf. Purchased through Quaritch in 

1978 for $2400 at the Broxbourne sale (London: Sotheby’s, 8 

May 1978), lot 380. 

shelfmark: Inc. f. S19.1499.1. 


De castitate et munditia sacerdotum. 

a1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De castitate et munditia sacerdotum. 

Incipit: ‘[V]oce lamentabili et amaro corde, fratres carissimi, 

referre compellor . . .’ Authorship dubious according to 


e5 r ‘Tabula titulorum huius libelli’. 

[Paris: Antoine Caillaut, c.1482^4]. 4 o . 

collation: a^d 8 e 6 . 

GW 4709; C 4373; Go¡ B-861; BMC VIII 44; Pr 7940; CIBN B-646; 

Hillard 451; Sheppard 6183. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English half morocco; bound for 

Douce. Size: 187 ¿ 138 ¿ 9 mm. Size of leaf: 183 ¿ 133 mm. 


Provenance: Bruges, Flanders, Augustinian Hermits of the 

Congregation of S. Gulielmus; on e6 v deleted inscription: 

‘Pertinet monasterio fratrum heremitarum sancti Wilhelmi 

Brugis’. Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial book-plate. 




De castitate et munditia sacerdotum. 

A2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De castitate et munditia sacerdotum. 

Incipit: ‘Voce lamentabili et amaro corde, [f]ratres carissimi, 

referre compellor . . .’ 


v 

F3 ‘Nota bene auctoritates que sequuntur’. Incipit: ‘[I]tem tot mortibus 

digni sunt sacerdotes . . .’ 

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 21 May [14]99. 4 o . 

collation: A^F 6 . 



COPY 



Wanting the blank leaf F 6. 

On A1 r of item 2 an early note in German: ‘O Maria, mater 

vn�derkaren Allelua > Vende van vn� dines ky[n]des carne gracia 

> P[rimus] [Post?] om[nium] [omne?] molle donum h[ ]’, followed 

by ‘Bertoldus’ in a di¡erent hand. 

Provenance: On A1 r of item 2 erased inscription. Purchased from 

Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog, no.170, for10 Marks; see 

Library Bills, 17 May 1884. 



Centiloquium. 

[a2 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Prologus.] 


r 

[a2 ] Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. [Table of contents.] 

[a4 v ] Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Centiloquium. 


Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe, c.1478/9^80]. 4 o . Sometimes 

assigned to [Pieter van Os], but HPT assigns to [Johannes de 

Vollenhoe]. 

collation: [a^n 8 o 10 ]. 


Campbell 333; CIBN B-650; HPT II 448; ILC 427; Oates 3594^ 


COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; marbled pastedowns. 


Principal initials are supplied in blue or red with reserved white 

decoration and pen-£ourishing in red or brown. Other initials 


underlining. 

Provenance: Bethlehem (Herent), near Louvain, Priory, BVM, 

Augustinian Canons; on [o 10 r ] inscription: ‘Iste liber pertinet 

monasterio de Bethleem prope Louanium’. R. C. Edwards (nineteenth 

century?); inscription of name on front endleaf. Purchased 

from James Tregaskis, Catalogue 304, no. 334, for »2. 18. 0; see 

Library Bills, 21 May 1895. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. N11.1479.1. 


Diaeta salutis. 

1 r 

a1 ‘Tabula super dietam salutis et capitula diete salutis’.


[b-437^b-439 

2 

a1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Guilelmus de Lanicia]: Diaeta salutis. 

Incipit: ‘‘‘[H]ec est via, ambulate in ea . . .’’ Ysa[ias] .30. [Is 30,21] 

Magnam misericordiam facit, qui erranti . . .’ 


On authorship see Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dd (by Guilelmus 

de Lavicea) and Distelbrink no. 124 (by Guilelmus de Lanicia). 

Cologne: Johann Koelho¡, the Elder, 1474. Folio. 

collation: 1 a 8 2 a b 10 c^f 8 g 10 . 


Sheppard 786^7; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 273. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Thomas Cantipratensis, Bonum universale de proprietatibus 

apum. [Cologne: Johann Koelho¡, the Elder, 1478^80?] (T-197); 

3. Thomas Aquinas, De venerabili sacramento altaris ad modum 

sermonum. [Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, c.1475] (T-189). 



204 mm. 

On a1 v of item one, bibliographical notes in Niesert’s hand. 

On 2 a1 r a four-line initial is supplied in blue with reserved white 

decoration and pen-£ourishing in red. Headings, chapter numbers 

in the margins, initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining. Similar decoration 

in item 3. 

Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); on a 1 v inscription 

dated 1815; not found in his sale. Purchased for »0. 15. 0; see 



SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Dialogi decemvariorum auctorum. [Cologne: Printer of ‘Flores 

Sancti Augustini’, 1473] (D-043(1)). 



leaf: 270 ¿ 194 mm. 

On former front pastedown (now raised) and four old endleaves 

bound at the beginning, an early inscription of prayers and of a 

text in four columns entitled ‘Documenta peroptima sancti 

Bernardi Clareuall[ensis]’, incipit: ‘Si plene vis assequi quod 

intendis . . .’ On g10 v of item 2 a metric prayer in a ¢fteenth-century 

hand:‘Escas cum potu benedic, Deus, ore tuo tu > Laus ex hoc esu 

sit tibi, Christe Jhesu’. 

Headings, initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red 


Provenance: Jacob van der Straten (£. 1489); on former front 

pastedown, inscription: ‘D[omi]nj Jacop van der straten a[nno] 

lxxxix.’ On the ¢rst old endleaf an inscription: ‘H. de platea [corrected 

from atrio] possessor est istius libri.’ Walincourt, Hainaut, 

near Cambrai, Williamites, Congregation of Augustinian 

Hermits; on ¢rst old endleaf, an inscription: ‘[Ist]e liber pertinet 

monasterio vallis beate Marie [pro]pe Walincourt. Jacobus de 

platea dedit dicto conuentui.’ On the former front pastedown, an 

inscription: ‘Henricus Moreau’; on ¢rst old endleaf: ‘Henricus 

Embracensis’. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773^1843); 

book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘III.A.k.13’: see Lee, 

Royal Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, part of lot 5495. 





[a1 v ] ‘Capitula diete salutis’. 

r 

[a2 ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Guilelmus de Lanicia]: Diaeta salutis. 


[Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, c.1475]. Folio. Often found with 

Themata dominicalia totius anni (Go¡ T-128). Sack, Freiburg, 

dates [c.1476]. 

collation: [a 10 b c 8 d 6 e^h 8 i 6 k l 8 ]. 

GW 4721 (I); H *3526; C 3333; Go¡ B-875; BMC II 515; Pr 2479; 

Sack, Freiburg, 745; Sheppard1776. COPY 

Wanting gathering [l] (the Themata dominicalia). 



The references in the table of contents are corrected by an early 

hand; occasional early marginal notes. On [a2 r ] a marginal note 

in an eighteenth-century hand. 

On [a 2 r ] an eight-line initial is supplied in blue with an ink drawing 

of a dragon; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 



on [a1 r ]. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not 

found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 



Diaeta salutis, et al. 

r 

a2 Bonaventura [pseudo-; Guilelmus de Lanicia]: Diaeta salutis. 

refs. See B-437 

r3 r ‘Tabuia(!) diete salutis’. 

v 

t2 Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Devota contemplatio, 

seu meditatio de nativitate domini. [Meditationes vitae 

Christi, cap.7.] Incipit:‘[A]dueniente nouem mensium termino. . .’ 


t3 v Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De resurrectione a peccato ad gratiam. 

Incipit: ‘[P]aulus apostolus videtur ¢rmiter asserere . . .’ 


Authorship dubious according to Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 ay 


v 

t7 ‘Tabula tractatus de resurrectione hominis’. 

Lyons: Jean Bachelier and Pierre Bartelot, 14 July 1496. 8 o . 

collation: a^t 8 . 

On a1 r a woodcut depicting the cruci¢xion. 

GW 4726; C 1155; Go¡ B-877; Pr 8655; Hillard 453; Sheppard 6711. 

COPY 


leaf: 136 ¿ 92 mm. 

Occasional early marginal notes, some in Italian, in di¡erent 

early hands. On t8 r notes on the Holy Spirit and sin. 

Provenance: Purchased in 1889 from Leo Olschki (1861^1940), 

Catalogue 20, no. 42, for Fr. 50; see Library Bills. 

shelfmark: Auct. Q sup. 3.4.


633 



a2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Guilelmus de Lanicia]: Diaeta salutis. 


r3 r ‘Tabula diete salutis’. 

t2 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Devota contemplatio, 

seu meditatio de nativitate domini. [Meditationes vitae 

Christi, cap. 7.] 


v 

t3 Bonaventura [pseudo-]: De resurrectione a peccato ad gratiam. 


t7 v ‘Tabula tractatus de resurrectione hominis’. 

Paris: Pierre Le Dru, for Jean Petit, 11 Nov. 1499. 8 o . 

collation: a^t 8 . 

One woodcut; one woodcut border; woodcut initials. 

GW 4732; HC 3532; Go¡ B-882; Pr 8319; Hillard 455; Sheppard 

6467. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting n 4. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) calf, rebacked; triple blind ¢llets 

form a border. Size: 135 ¿ 90 ¿ 25 mm. Size of leaf: 130 ¿ 

87 mm. 

Provenance: John Golihill(?) (sixteenth century); name on t8 r : 

‘This is John Gotshill(?)’. Robert Portland (sixteenth century); 

name on t 8 V : ‘Pro anima Roberti Portland’. John Shelley (sixteenth 

century); name on t8 V . Robert Watts (1683^1726); donated 

in 1708; inscription on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Donavit R. 

Watts, Socius Coll. D. Jo. Bapt. Sept.17. 1708’. 

shelfmark: 8 o N 69 Th. 

SECOND COPY 

Avariant with J. Petit’s device on the title-page. 

Binding: Early sixteenth-century English (London: Peter 

Actors?) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, remains of one 

clasp; rebacked. On both covers ¢llets form a frame. In the central 

rectangle on the upper cover a framed panel (90 ¿ 63 mm) consisting 

of three vertical stripes, the central one with two entwined 

dragons, the outer ones with hares within foliage; in the frame lettering 

‘PVISQV>E MON DIEV. . . > RE..S SV>S IE SVIS TENV’. 

In the central rectangle on the lower cover a framed panel (90 ¿ 

61 mm) depicting a double-headed eagle; in the frame an oak 

and acorn border, in the corners a unicorn, a stag and other animals. 

For a similar binding see Goldschmidt 204^5 and pl. XLI. 


On a1 v early English scribbles. 

Provenance: Robert Langford (sixteenth century?); on a 1 v ‘Iste 

liber pertinet ad Robartin Langford’ and ‘Robarte Langforde 

possessor huius libri verus’. John Lyten (sixteenth century?); on 

a 1 v ‘Thys ys John lyten book’. Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); 

armorial book-plate on the front pastedown; purchased from 

Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887^1954) in 1934 for »15; accession 






[a 3 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: 

Meditationes vitae Christi.‘Liber aureus de vita Christi’. 


Augsburg: Gu« nther Zainer, 12 Mar. [14]68. Folio. 

collation: [a 10 b^d 8 e^g 10 h 8 ]. 



COPY 


Leaf [d 5 r ], l. 1:‘h extendens |anatus e|t’, for which see GWAnm. 



207 mm. 

Four-and two line initials are supplied in red over guide letters in 

black or brown ink. Paragraph marks are supplied in red; red 


Provenance: Vienna, Dominicans, S. Maria; on [a 2 r ] inscription: 

‘Iste liber est conuentus beate Marie semper virginis fratrum 

ordinis predicatorum inWienna Austrie’. Purchased for »2. 10. 0; 





a2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Meditationes 

vitae Christi.‘Liber aureus de vita Christi’. 


i5 v ‘Tabula capitulorum’. 

[Augsburg: Johann Scho« nsperger, c.1497^8]. 4 o . Amelung, 

Fru« hdruck, I 42^3 assigns to [Augsburg: Johann Scho« nsperger]. 

Assigned to [Ulm: Johann Zainer, c.1487] in BMC and GW. 


‘Accipies’ woodcut on a1 r ; see Schreiber^Heitz no. 68. 

GW 4745; HC (+Addenda) *3551 = H 3552; Go¡ B-895; BMC II 530; 

Pr 2549 = 2550; BSB-Ink B-685; Sack, Freiburg, 747; SchrammV 

p. 19; Schreiber V 3525 = 3526; Sheppard 1835; Wegener, Zainer, 

75. 

COPY 



shelfmark: Auct. 1Q 7.78 (4). 



r 

a2 Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Meditationes 

vitae Christi.‘Tabula’. 


vitae Christi. 



r 

h7 [Bonaventura: Lignum vitae. Excerpt.] ‘Versiculi arboris vite 

Christi’.‘Jesus ex parte genitus > Jesus spirator natus’. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia,VIII 86^7. 

h8 r Bernhardus [Claravallensis; Stephen Langton(?): Jubilus 

rhythmicus de nomine Jesu.] 

refs. PL CLXXXIV1317^20; A.Wilmart, Le‘‘Jubilus’’ditdesaint 

Bernard, Storia e Letteratura, 2 (Rome, 1944), 146^55 with


[b-443^b-447 

variant texts and arrangement. See also Walther, Initia, 9837; not 

listed in Sharpe, LatinWriters. 

Pavia: [Franciscus Girardengus and Johannes Antonius Birreta, 

for] Jacobus de Paucis Drapis Burgofrancho, 4 Mar. 1490. 8 o . 



GW 4748; HC *3560; Go¡ B-896; BMC VII1004; Pr 7076; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Binding: Parchment. Size:146 ¿ 105 ¿ 10 mm. Sizeofleaf: 146 ¿ 

101 mm. 

Provenance: Marinus Mattola Cerva (sixteenth century?); on a 1 v 

‘Est Marini Mattole� Cerue� Senioris’. Deleted ownership inscription 

on h6 v . The shelfmark indicates a date of acquisition after 

c.1892. 





vitae Christi.‘Liber aureus de vita Christi’. 


i5 v ‘Tabula capitulorum’. 

[Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, c.1496]. 4 o . 

Attributed to Husner by Ernst Voullie¤ me, ‘Zur a« ltesten 

Buchdruckergeschichte Stra�burgs’, ZfB 32 (1915),309^21, at 311. 



B-683; Hillard 457; Sack, Freiburg, 746; Sheppard 381. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century green cloth, bound for the 


140 mm. 

Provenance: Deleted ownership inscription on a2 r . Purchased 

from Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog (1884), no. 154, for 

4 Marks; see Library Bills17, May 1884. 



Meditationes vitae Christi [English] The myrroure of the 

blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste. 

Fragment. 

[Westminster]: William Caxton, [c.1489^90]. Folio. As dated by 

Needham, Pardoner, and BMC; Sheppard dates [1488?], GW 

[c.1490]. 

collation: a^s 8 t 4 . 

Woodcuts: see BMC. 

GW 4764; HC 3564; Go¡ B-903; BMC XI; Pr 9672; de Ricci, 

Caxton, 10; Du¡ 49; Needham, Pardoner, 90, no. Cx 96; Oates 

4101; Sheppard 7408; STC 3260. 

COPY 

Originally bound with MS. Ashmole1144, see Ashmole Catalogue 

(1845), 990^3, at no. XXV. Extracted in 1885. 

Fragment of eight leaves; gathering i only. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English blue cloth. Size: 285 ¿ 


Early foliation 49^63, but in wrong order. 

Provenance: Elias Ashmole (1617^1692). Ashmolean Museum, 

Oxford, 1692.Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860. 

shelfmark: Ashm.1144*. 


Meditationes vitae Christi [Italian] Le deuote meditatione 

sopra la passione del nostro signore. 

r 

a2 Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Meditationes 

vitae Christi [Italian]. ‘Le deuote meditatione sopra la passione 

del nostro signore’. Incipit: ‘[A]propinquando se il termine . . .’; 

explicit: ‘. . . ritorno al sanctissimo corpo nel sepulchro.’ 

r 

e8 [Sonnet.] ‘Se alcuna pieta, o lector, ti moui’. 

Venice: Hieronymus de Sanctis and Cornelio, 1487. 4 o . 


11 full-page woodcuts; woodcut border on a2 r ; woodcut initials; the 

design of the woodcuts are ascribed to Cristoforo Cortese; see C. 

Huter, ‘Cristoforo Cortese in the Bodleian Library’, Apollo (Jan. 

1980), 10^17, at 16 with references to earlier literature. 

GW 4795; R 843; Go¡ B-922; BMC V 461; Pr 5180; Essling 404; 

Sander 1172; Sheppard 4277. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian(?) quarter 

green morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 217 ¿ 160 ¿ 12 mm. 



The ¢rst two woodcuts are partly coloured and decorated with 

gold. 

Provenance: Giuseppe Storck (1766^1836); inscription on a1 r : 

‘G. Storck a Milano 1802’. Sheppard records that this item was 

purchased in 1842, but it has not been identi¢ed in Books 

Purchased. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Mason FF 461. 



Psalterium maius BeataeVirginis Mariae. 

[a1 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Peckham(?)]: Psalterium 

maius BVM. 


[Basel: Martin Flach, c.1473^5]. 4 o . 

collation: [a^c 10 d e 8 ]. 

GW 4798; H *3568; Go¡, Supplement, B938a; Pr 7539; BSB-Ink 

B-689; Sheppard 2386^7. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Gregorius I, Pont. Max., Pastorale, sive Regula pastoralis. 

[Basel: Martin Flach, not after 1472] (G-225). 

Gatherings [b] and [d] have changed places in binding. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century parchment with two leather ties. 



strokes and underlining. On [e 8 v ] rubrication dated ‘1474’. 

Provenance: Au am Inn, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, BVM et 

S. Felicitas; inscription: ‘Monasterij S. F½licitatis in Auu’ in an 

eighteenth-century hand and printed book-label dated 1778 with 

shelfmark ‘H. Patres 6.B’. Duplicate from the Royal Library,


635 

Munich;‘Dpl’on [a1 r ]. Purchased from Munich viaThomas Rodd 

for Fl. 18, i.e. »1. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 17. 


SECOND COPY 





Sermones de morte. 

[a2 r ] Pasqualicus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Lodovicus 

[Antonius] Montaltus. Incipit: ‘[O]mnes homines qui non 

equ[um] aliis ac sibi . . .’ 

[a3 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Gilbertus Tornacensis]: Sermones de 

morte. Incipit: ‘[C]um propriam imperitiam, fratres carissimi, 

sub secreti . . .’Ascribed to Gilbert of Tournai by Distelbrink no. 

201. 

g7 v Andrelinus, P[ublius] Faustus: ‘Ad candidos lectores’.‘Puluereo 

tam sancta situ monumenta latebant > Nunc volitant docti cuncta 

per ora chori’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

refs. See Publius Faustus Andrelinus, ‘Amores’ sive ‘Livia’, ed. 

Godelieve Tournoy-Thoen, Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke 

Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten 

van Belgie« , Klasse der Letteren, 44/100 (Brussels, 1982), 221. 

g7 v [Colophon.] 

v 

g8 [Note about the place of sale.] 

[Paris: Antoine Chappiel, for] Robert Gourmont, [after1500?]. 8 o . 

As dated by GW; Polain dates [c.1498]. 

collation: [a] b^g 8 . 

GW 4803; C 1152 (I); Go¡ B-944; not in Pr; Oates 3170^1; Polain 

802(I); not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes de Tambaco, Consolatio theologiae. Paris: Georg 

Mittelhus, [14]93 (J-199(2)); 

2. Innocentius III, Pont. Max., Liber de vilitate conditionis humanae 

[Paris:] Gaspard Philippe, 14 May 1502. 

Binding: Contemporary French (Paris: Denis Roce) blindtooled 

calf over pasteboards; four leather ties lost. Title-label 

with shelfmark ‘481 M’ on the lower cover. On the upper cover a 

panel (120 ¿ 69 mm) is divided into four compartments, each 

depicting a saint (Jacobus, Barbara, Catharina, Nicolaus), surrounded 

by a three-quarter border lettered D[enis] R[oce] at the 

foot, with oak and acorn and a dragon on the right-hand side. 

On the lower cover is a panel (120 ¿ 55 mm) with a vertical row 

of arches on either side ¢lled with acorns and £owers, surrounded 

byan oak and acorn border with a dragon. For the panels see Gid, 

I no. 258 and II pl. 24 and pl. 30. For a similar panel see Sta¡an 

Fogelmark, Flemish and Related Panel-stamped Bindings: 

Evidence and Principles (New York, 1990), pl. xli. Size: 147 ¿ 


Provenance: Martin Roce (early sixteenth century). Marcoussis, 

Celestines, S. Trinitas; on g7 v ‘Celestinorum de marcoussi . . . Ex 

dono fratris Martini Ruze 481. M’. Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); 

armorial book-plate; accession no. ‘1220’. Presented in 1978 by 

John Ehrman. 



Sermones quattuor novissimorum. 

a2 r [Bonaventura pseudo-: Sermones quattuor novissimorum.] 

Incipit: ‘[A]nimarum salutem pio zelans a¡ectu . . .’ Authorship 

dubious according to Distelbrink no. 210. 

m3 v ‘[R]ubrice huius tractatus’. 

[Paris]: Philippe Pigouchet, for himself and Antoine Caillaut, 

[c.1489^90]. 4 o . 

collation: a^m 8 . 

GW 4807; Go¡ B-945; Pr 7947; Claudin I 302 and 304; Sheppard 

6300. 

COPY 



The device of A. Caillaut coloured yellow and blue. On a 2 initials 

and paragraph marks are supplied in red, red capital strokes and 

underlining. 



Sermones quattuor novissimorum. 

[a1 v ] Peregrinus Italicus: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus de 

Bagnacavallus. Incipit:‘Me diebus istiscum aliquibusloquente. . .’ 

The author describes himself as ‘frater’, and Hieronymus de 

Bagnacavallus as ‘magister ordinis minorum’. 

[a2 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Sermones quattuor novissimorum. 

Incipit: ‘[A]nimarum salutem pio zelans a¡ectu . . .’ See B-449. 

r7 r ‘Rubrice huius tractatus’. 

[Paris: Antoine Chappiel], for Robert Gourmont, [after 1500?]. 8 o . 

collation: [a 8 ] b^r 8 s 4 . 

GW 4809; C 1152 (II); not in Pr; Sheppard 6551. 

COPY 

Fragment of four leaves: [a1.8] and [a4.5]. Size of fragments: 191 ¿ 

137 and 195 ¿ 137 mm. Bound in a guard-book of French fragments 

removed from the binding of Inc. e. I22.1500.1, see B-183. 

shelfmark: Inc. c. F97.2(3). 


Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. 

r 

[a2 ] ‘Registrum sermonum et de tempore et de sanctis cum communi 

sanctorum’. 

[b2 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones de 

tempore. Incipit: ‘‘‘[V]eniet desideratus cunctis gentibus’’ Aggei 

.ii. [Agg 2,8] Si sancti patres domini desiderabant aduentum . . .’ 

refs. See Distelbrink no. 209 and Schneyer, Repertorium,V nos 

1^130 (Servasanctus de Faenza). 130 sermons. Sometimes erroneously 

attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro; see Go¡. 

[F4 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones 

de sanctis. Incipit: ‘‘‘[M]ichi autem absit gloriari nisi in cruce 

domini nostri Jesu Christi’’ Gala. vltimo. [Gal 6,14]. Narrat 

Valerius Maximus . . .’ 

refs. See Schneyer, Repertorium, V nos 131^2, 135^6, 138, 140, 

143^7, 150, 153, 156^7, 161^70, 172, 160, 173^87 (Servasanctus de 

Faenza). Sermons 9, 13, 30, 31, and 34 are not in Schneyer. 

Sermons 14, 32, 36, 37, and 38 are listed as anonymous; see 

Schneyer, Repertorium, VII nos 15 and 9 and Schneyer, 

Repertorium,VIII nos 1, 17 and 19. Sermon 18 is listed among the


[b-451^b-452 

sermons of Matthaeus ab Aquasparta: Matthaei ab Aquasparta, 

Sermones de Beata Maria Virgine, ed. C. Piana, Bibliotheca 

Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi, 9 (Quaracchi, 1962), 20^34; 

see Schneyer, Repertorium, IV 157, no. 94. Some sermons are 

also listed among the sermons of Bonaventura, see Schneyer, 

Repertorium, I 655^6. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. A. C. 

Peltier (Paris, 1864^71), XIII 493^636. 54 sermons. Ascribed to 

Servasanctus de Faenza by Glorieux, Re¤ pertoire, 305 dx, and 


r 

[Q3 ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones 

de communi sanctorum. Incipit: ‘‘‘[B]eati oculi qui vident que 

vos videtis’’ Luce decimo [Lc 10,23]. Docet Anc[elmus] in libro 

de veritate . . .’ 

refs. Schneyer, Repertorium,V nos193^6,188,198^202, 205, 207, 

209, 215, 218, and 223. Bonaventura, Opera omnia, ed. Peltier, 

XIV 1^138. 16 sermons. 

Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479. Folio. Regarded as a variant 

of Campbell^Kronenberg I 336a by Pr and GW. Formerly 

assigned to [Pieter van Os], but see HPT. See also G. Kohlfeldt, 

‘Einige Fa« lle von Inkunabel-Doppeldrucken’, ZfB 20 (1903), 

375^8. 

collation: [a 10 b^z A^T 8 V 6 ]. 

GW 4810; H 3511 = HCR 3512 = HC 8976; Go¡ B-948; BMC IX 80; 

Pr 9122; BBFN 108A; Campbell 336; CIBN B-672; Hillard 458; 

HPT II 448; ILC 435; Oates 3590^1; Sheppard 7003. 

COPY 

Wanting [o2], [s1,2], and [I8]. 

Binding: Contemporary German (Herzogenburg, 

Augustinians; or Oloumouc, Moravia?, Kyri� workshop no. 

13?), blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, four corner-pieces 

and the central boss on each cover and two clasps lost; yellowedged 

leaves; rebacked. Parchment leaf used for reinforcing. 

Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the lower 

cover. On both covers ¢llets form intersecting triple frames. On 

the upper cover the inner rectangle is ¢lled with £eurons surrounded 

by merrythoughts made up of two di¡erent headed-outline 

tools; within the outer frame a lozenge-shaped stamp with a 

dragon and two small rosette stamps; within the second frame a 

repeated wedge-shaped stamp. On the lower cover the inner rectangle 

is divided by triple ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments, 

within which are the headed-outline tools; within the 

outer frame the £euron stamp and two small rosette stamps; 

within the second frame the repeated wedge-shaped stamp. The 

stamps are possibly the same as Kyri� pl. 27, nos 2, 3, 5; the workshop 

is ascribed to Olomouc by Hope Mayo, ‘Olomouc, not 

Herzogenburg: a Group of Gothic Blind-tooled Bookbindings 

Reattributed’, Gb Jb 69 (1994), 264^91; tools on the binding of 

this incunable may be identical to nos 1, 2, 3, and 28. Size: 294 ¿ 


In gathering [a], paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; yellow 

capital strokes and red underlining. On [b 2 r ] a ¢ve-line initial 

is supplied in red with in¢ll in brown on a yellow ground. Other 

initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red and yellow 

capital strokes and red underlining. 

Provenance: J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); see sale (1837), lot 173; 

purchased for »0. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 5. 




a2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones de 

tempore. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[V]eniet desideratus cunctis gentibus’’ Aggei 

.ij. [Agg 2,8] Si sancti patres domini desiderabant aduentum . . .’ 


r 

A1 Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones de 

sanctis. Incipit: ‘‘‘[M]ihi autem absit gloriari nisi in cruce domini 

nostri Jesu Christi’’ Gal. vltimo. [Gal 6,14]. Narrat Valerius 

Maximus . . .’ 


I7 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones de 

communi sanctorum. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[B]eati oculi qu[i] vident que vos 

videtis’’ Lu. x. [Lc10,23]. Dicit Ans[elmus] in libro de veritate . . .’ 


N6 v [Colophon.] 

r 

O1 ‘Registrum alphabetico ordine collectum’. 

Reutlingen: [Johann Otmar],‘Autumni tempore’ 1484. Folio. 

collation: a^z A^D 8 E 6 F 8 G H 6 I 8 K^P 6 . 

GW 4813; H *3515 = 3514; Go¡ B-950; BMC II 585; Pr 2705; CIBN 


COPY 

Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (Inzigkofen: 

Baden-Wu« rttemberg, Schunke^Schwenke^Rabenau 271) over 

bevelled wooden boards; remains of clasp. On both covers ¢llets 

form an intersecting double frame; within the outer frame, a 

pomegranate stamp (Schunke^Schwenke 123 no. 156), a square 

stamp with a swan, and a small open rosette. An inner rectangle 

is divided by ¢llets into three horizontal compartments; in the 

large central compartment plain outline-tools form merrythoughts 

each containing a round rosette stamp and a round stag 

stamp (Schunke^Schwenke 141 no. 70a?); in the upper compartment, 

a large round stamp with a double-headed eagle 

(Schunke^Schwenke 19 no. 455?); in the lower compartment, a 

square lamb-and-£ag stamp. Size: 313 ¿ 210 ¿ 75 mm. Size of 

leaf: 297 ¿ 208 mm. 

Rear pastedown from a ¢fteenth-century manuscript on paper 

containing a theological text in Latin. Reinforcing pieces from a 

manuscript on parchment containing a note about taxes paid in 

kind, in Alemannic dialect. 


Provenance: Johannes Scolaris (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); on 

a2 r : ‘Possidet me Joannes Scolaris, plebanus in Mainwang.’ 

Josephus Dita (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); on a2 r :‘Ex libris fr[atris] 

Jos[ephi] Dita paroch[i] in Niderrimbsingen.’ Erhard Sartor 

(£. 1574). Jacobus Riegger (£. 1574); on z8 r : ‘Jacobus Riegger 

librum hunc, a' M. Janne(!) Erhart Sartore accepi dono. ac suo 

amico optimo. Anno salutis 1574. 23 Julij.’ Rastatt, Baden- 

Wu« rttemberg, Piarists; on a2 r 

inscription: ‘Biblioth. 

Rastadiensis Scholarum Piarum’; on a2 v a stamp. Purchased in 

1884 from Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog (1884), no. 

334, for 8 Marks; see Library Bills, 17 May 1884. 



637 



a2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones de 

tempore. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[V]eniet desideratus cunctis gentibus’’ Aggei 

.ii. [Agg 2,8] Si sancti patres domini desiderabant aduentum . . .’ 


r 

D1 Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones de 

sanctis. Incipit: ‘‘‘[M]ihi autem absit gloriari nisi in cruce domini 

nostri Jesu Christi’’ Gal. vltimo. [Gal 6,14]. Narrat Valerius 

Maximus . . .’ 


N1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Servasanctus de Faenza]: Sermones de 

communi sanctorum. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[B]eati oculi qu[i] vident que vos 

videtis’’Luc. x. [Lc10,23]. Dicit Ans[elmus] in libro de veritate. . .’ 


Q6 v [Colophon.] 

r 

R1 ‘Registrum alphabetico ordine collectum’. 

Reutlingen: [Johann Otmar],‘Autumni tempore’ 1485. Folio. 

collation: a^c 8 d^g 6.8 h^p 8.6 q^z 6.8 A 6 B^L 6.8 M 8 N 6 O 8 P^S 6 . 

GW 4814; H *3517; Go¡ B-951; BMC II 585; Pr 2707; Sack, 

Freiburg, 751^2; Sheppard 1972. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf S6. 

Lines 3^4 of the colophon read ‘. . . |os tanq� q ¢deli populo fructuo|os 

Ser- > nes . . .’ 



196 mm. 

Sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes. 


Provenance: Frater Hugolinus Mauchter (¢fteenth/sixteenth 

century); on a 1 r inscription: ‘Ex libris F. Hugolini Mauchter’. 

Regensburg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Salvator; on a2 r inscription: 

‘Bibliothec� Fratrum Minorum Coventus Ratisbon[ensis]’. 




Speculum Beatae MariaeVirginis. 

[a2 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Holznicker de Saxonia, Conradus]: 

Speculum BVM. 


[Augsburg]: Anton Sorg, 29 Feb. 1476. Folio. 

collation: [aê 10 ]. 



C-522; CIBN B-678; Sack,Freiburg, 755; Sheppard 1232. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [e10]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf. Size: 300 ¿ 210 ¿ 13 mm. 


Initials are coloured in red; red underlining. 


book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘III.G.h.6’: see Lee, 

Royal Bookplates, 40^1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 5484. John Wilks 

(1765?^1854); purchased at his anonymous sale (12 Mar. 1847), 

lot 652, for »1. 11. 0; see Books Purchased (1847), 5. 




[a2 r ] Bonaventura [pseudo-; Holznicker de Saxonia, Conradus]: 

Speculum BVM. 


[Augsburg]: Anton Sorg, 20 Sept. 1477. Folio. 

collation: [a^d 10 e 11 ]. 



C-523; Oates 912; Rhodes 420; Sheppard 1239. 

COPY 


Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century paper boards. Size: 


Woodcut initials coloured in red. Paragraph marks are supplied 


Provenance: Blaubeuren, Baden-Wu« rttemberg, Benedictines, S. 

Johannes Baptista; on [a2 r ] inscription: ‘Monasterij 

Blaupurensis 1632’. John Wilks (1765?^1854); anonymous sale 

(12 Mar. 1847), lot 653. Purchased for »1. 5. 0; see Books 





a1 v Bonaventura [pseudo-; Holznicker de Saxonia, Conradus]: 

Speculum BVM.‘Prologus’. 


r 


b1 r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Holznicker, Conradus]: Speculum 

BVM. 


Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 2 Aug. 1487. 4 o . 

collation: a^l 6 . 

One woodcut; woodcut initials. 

GW 4819; HC 7[3]49; Go¡ B-961; BMC IX 188; Pr 9366; BBFN113; Campbell^Kronenberg 1576; CIBN B-679; HPT II 419; ILC 449; 

Inventaris, 136; Oates 3892^3; Sheppard 7213. 

COPY 



Wanting l6 containing the printer’s device. 

shelfmark: Auct. 1Q inf. 1.11 (2). 


Stimulus amoris. 

a2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]; or Johannes de Palma: Stimulus 

amoris.‘Prologus seu epistola’. 

refs. Bonaventura, Opera omnia (Rome, 1588^96), VII 206; 

Jacobus Mediolanensis, Stimulus amoris, 2nd edn (Quaracchi, 

1949), 1^3. On authorship see Distelbrink no. 217; the alternative 

ascription to Johannes de Palma is found in the colophon. 

a 3 r [Table of contents.]

638 bonifacius viii, pont. max. 

[b-457^b-460 

a4 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]; or Johannes de Palma: [Stimulus 

amoris. Forma longa.] 

refs. See B-419; divided into three parts, rather than two. 

r1 r Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum.‘Prologus.’ 


v 

r2 Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum. [Capitula.] 


r3 r Bonaventura: Itinerarium mentis in Deum. 


[Brussels: Fratres Vitae Communis, between 9 June 1481 and 

1484]. 4 o . As dated in HPT. 

collation: a^t 8 v 6 . 

GW 4820; HC *3475; Go¡ B-962; BMC IX 175; Pr 9341; BBFN109; Campbell 347; CIBN B-680; HPT II 398; ILC 450; Oates 3862; 


COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half parchment. Size: 200 ¿ 157 ¿ 




Provenance: ‘Hamm 1838’. Franc� ois-Joseph Vergauwen (1801^ 

1881); sale catalogue (1884), part I, lot 190. Purchased in 1892; 

see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, 

Oxford University Gazette, 9 May 1893, 477; purchase not identi- 

¢ed in Library Bills. 




r 

A2 Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Stimulus amoris. ‘Prologus seu epistola’. 


r 

A3 [Table of contents.] 

A5 v Bonaventura [pseudo-: Stimulus amoris. Forma longa.] 

refs. See B-457. Edited by Johannes Quentin, according to the 

r 

title on A1 . 

Paris: Georg Mittelhus, 4 Apr. 1493. 8 o . 

collation: A^R 8 . 

GW 4823; HC 3480; Go¡ B-965; BMC VIII 126; CIBN B-682; 

Hillard 460; Oates 3018; Sack, Freiburg, 757; Sheppard 6332. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves R 7^8. 

The variant setting of the ¢rst two gatherings beginning 

‘Stimulus. > diuini amoris deuoti||im j. a |aa� cto > ioha� ne 

bonaue� ture . . .’ 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half tan cloth with marbled paper. 


Manuscript foliation 172^307. 

Provenance: Purchased in 1955; see BLR 5,5 (1956), 226. 

shelfmark: Inc. f. F1.1493.2. 



a2 r Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Stimulus amoris. ‘Prologus seu epistola’. 


a 2 v [Table of contents.] 

a5 r Bonaventura [pseudo-: Stimulus amoris. Forma longa.] 

refs. See B-457. Edited by Johannes Quentin, according to the 

r 

title on a1 . 

Paris: [E¤ tienneJehannot, for] Jean Petitand Denis Roce, [c.1499]. 

8 o . As assigned and dated by Sheppard; GW assigns to [Georg 

Wol¡], but Sheppard notes that the type is 65 G*, and is not 

Wol¡’s; CIBN dates [c.1501^2] from the state of the devices of 

Petit and Roce. 


One woodcut on n4 r . 

GW 4826; C 1130; Go¡ B-967; not in Pr; CIBN I/2 p. 376^7; 


COPY 

Wanting n4, containing a woodcut and the device of Jean Petit. 

On a 2 r , l. 1: ‘. . . Bonane� ture . . .’ 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled blue morocco. Size: 


Some initials are supplied in ink; running headings in ink 

throughout. 

Provenance: Edmund Waterton (1830^1887); on the front endleaf 

a deleted note, followed by inscription: ‘Edmd. Waterton. 

Walton Hall. 1854’. Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846^1911). 

Presented by Mrs Buchanan in 1941. 

shelfmark: Buchanan f.171. 

B-460 Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max. 

Liber sextus Decretalium. 

[a1 r ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uia preposterus est ordo prius humana 

subsidia . . .’ 

[a1 r ] Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 

refs. Decretalium Collectiones, Corpus Iuris Canonici, 2, ed. A. 

E. Richter and A. Friedberg (Leipzig, 1881), 933^6. 

[a3 r ] Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 

refs. Decretalium Collectiones, ed. Richter and Friedberg, 937^ 

1124. See Schulte II 34^44. 

[a3 r ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 

Incipit: ‘Fideli. Errore Grecorum qui dicebant spiritum sanctum 

procedere a solo patre . . .’ 


[Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, c.1470^2]. Folio. 

collation: [a^d 10 e 12+1 f g 10 h 6 i 10 k l 8 m^p 10 q 4 r^v 10 x 12 ]. 



COPY 

The blank leaf [h5] cut away. 



Occasional early marginal notes. Inner portion of a leaf bearing a 

manuscript index, written in a ¢fteenth-century hand, bound at 

the beginning. 

Initials, some with extensions into the margins or pen-work in¢ll 

and decoration, and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Book 

numbers and some chapter titles supplied in black ink in a ¢fteenth-century 

hand. On the upper edge is a stamp ‘S [cross] a’. 

Provenance: Amberg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Bernardinus 

Senensis; inscription on [a 1 r ]: ‘Ad bibliothecam P.P. Francisc.

-460^b-463] bonifacius viii, pont. max. 

639 

Amberge’. Probably Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854): 


Purchased (1835), 5; another copy appears to have been bought 

for »0. 11. 0 from the sale and in 1837; see Library Bills (1837^8), 

no. 30, lot 174, described in the printed sale catalogue as being 

printed in Mainz by Peter Scho« ¡er, but in Sotheby’s annotated 

catalogue this has been corrected to Eggestein; it is possible that 

this copy was returned to Sotheby’s as it does not occur in Books 

Purchased (1837). 








Decretalium.] 


[a4 r ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



[a4 r ] Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


Rome: Georgius Lauer and Leonardus P£ugel, 24 Oct. 1472. 

Folio. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 8 e f 10 g 8 h 6 i 10 k l 8 m 10 n o 8 p 4 q^v 10 ]. 

GW 4852 (Anm.); HC *3589; Go¡ B-980; BMC IV 38; Pr 3413; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a 2] and [v 10]. The last word on [v 4 r ] is 

‘. . . andrrree.’; see CIBN. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper 


leaf: 374 ¿ 271 mm. 

Running headings are supplied in black ink in a ¢fteenth-century 

hand. 



Purchased (1835), 5, where it is recorded as being printed by 

P£ugel in 1473. 








Decretalium.] 


[a2 v ] Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


[a2 v ] Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



Mainz: Peter Schoe¡er, 5 Apr. 1473. Folio. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 12+1 e^g 10 h 10+1 i 12 k l 8 m 6 n^q 10 r 4 ]. 

GW 4853 (Anm.); HC, Addenda *3590; Go¡ B-981; BMC I 29; Pr 

101; BSB-Ink B-703; CIBN B-696; Sack, Freiburg, 761; Sheppard 

56. 

COPY 

Wanting sheets [b1.10], [b5.6], [i1.12], [i6.7], [o5.6], [q1.10], and [q5.6]. 

The outer and middle sheets of each gathering, except [r], are 

parchment; in gathering [r], only the outer is parchment; see 

[Paul Needham], Incunables from the Sch�yen Collection 

(Sotheby’s, NewYork, 12 Dec. 1991), lot 15. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century diced calf; bound for the Bodleian 

Library(?); the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 


Early marginal notes. Manuscript table of contents on [r4 r ] in 

black ink, in a ¢fteenth-century hand. 


marks are supplied in red or blue. Book numbers and chapter 

headings supplied in contemporary black ink. 


(1803), 1. 




[a1 v ] ‘Rubrice libri sexti Decretalium’. 

[a5 r ] Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 



r 

[a5 ] Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 







Rome: Ulrich Han, 24 Dec. 1474. Folio. 

collation: [a 10+2 b 8 c 12 d 6 e 12 f 6 g 10 h 12 i 10 k 6 l 12 m 6 n 10 o 6 p q 8 r 10 s 8 

t 10 v 12 x 10 y 6 z 10 A 6 B C 8 ]. Collation as Sheppard, not as GW, which 

collates‘[ . . . g 10 h 11 . . .]’.There is one more leaf than GWcalls for, 

making 232 leaves in all: the extra leaf is the blank leaf [h1]. 

Gathering [a] is made up of ten leaves, with a bifolium inserted, 

as leaves [a2^3]: see diagram by D. M. R[ogers] on recto of front 

endleaf.The blank leaf [a4] is not so described in GW. 


2680. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. ClemensV, Pont. Max., Constitutiones (cum apparatu Johannes 

Andreae). [Rome: Johannes Bulle, c.1478] (C-367). 

Binding: Contemporary leather over wooden boards, with metal 

catches; two clasps and ¢ve bosses on each cover lost.Three ¢llets 

form a frame, with the inner rectangle being divided by triple ¢llets 

into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments. Size: 


Manuscripttable of contents on a single leaf in a ¢fteenth-century 

hand, inserted between [a1] and [a2]. 

On [a 5 r ] a ¢ve-line initial‘B’ is supplied in blue and edged with red. 

Other initials are supplied in red, blue, or turquoise, some with


[b-463^b-465 

extensions into the margins. Some capital strokes in red. 

Manuscript foliation and chapter headings supplied in black ink. 

Title along the lower edge. 

Provenance: Ried, Tyrol, Capuchins; inscription on [a1 r ]: ‘Loci 

Capucinorum Ried’. Joschius; a note by Klo� inside the upper 

cover describes the contents of the volume as ‘Exempla Joschii, 

unica’. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label; 

sale (1835), lot 2395 (1). Purchased for »0. 19. 0; see Books 





r 

[a2 ] [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris consanguinitatis.] 

Incipit: ‘[C]irca lecturam arboris, diuersis olim diuersum 

modum tenentibus . . .’ 

refs. See Schulte II 215^16 and Stintzing149^85. 

[a3 r ] [Arbor consanguinitatis.] 

[a3 v ] [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis.] Incipit: ‘[A]d 

arborem a⁄nitatis et eius materiam transeamus . . .’ 

r 

[a5 ] [Arbor a⁄nitatis.] 

[a5 r ] Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] Edited by Alexander de Nevo. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia preposterus 

est ordo prius humana subsidia . . .’ 


Decretalium.] 





v 

[a6 ] BonifaciusVIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 



collation: [a 10 ] b^d 8 e f 6 g^m 8 n 6 o^q 8 r 10 s 12 . 


B-705; CIBN B-700; Lowry, Jenson, 244 no. 43; Sheppard 3276^7. 

COPY 

Leaves [a9^10] bound after [a2]. The following sheets belong to 

Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max., Liber sextus Decretalium, Venice: 

Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1479 (Bod-inc. 

B-468): [a1.10], b1.10, c1.10, d1.10, e1.10, p4, r3 and s6. Leafs12 r contains 

the register, and is not blank as in BMC. ‘Anno 1476’ added on 

[a4 r ], in a di¡erent type, at the end of the ‘Super arboribus 

a⁄nitatis’. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German half calf, with early 

knotted parchment index tabs; Sheppard notes that it was bound 

for Klo�. Size: 440 ¿ 295 ¿ 35 mm. Size of leaf: 432 ¿ 271 mm. 

Early marginal notes and pointing hands. On [a1 r ] a manuscript 

note on Nicolaus Jenson and on the Decretals and the printer, 

written by Johannes Christopherus Gu« nther. 

On [a5 r ] a thirteen-line initial ‘B’ is supplied in gold, with blue 

in¢ll, and purple pen-work decoration and extensions into the 

margins, and containing a shield, hanging from a buckled strap, 

bearing the arms of Gottsmann, or, an antelope couped sable; 

and a four-line initial‘Q’supplied in blue, with red pen-work in¢ll, 

decoration, and extensions into the margins. Other initials, some 

with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue. Book numbers and chapter titles are supplied 

in red. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Gottsmann family, Bavaria; coat of arms on [a5 r ]: 

see Siebmacher, Abgestorbene bayerische und fra« nkisch-nordgauische 

Adels-Geschlechter, VI/1, 1, 39 and pl. 39. Johannes 

Christopherus Gu« nther, Geranus (£. 1757); name at the end of 

the note on the Decretals. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^ 

1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2399. Purchased for »0. 10. 0; 





r 

[a1 ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 




Decretalium.] 




v 

[a2 ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



Mainz: Peter Schoe¡er, 9 Jan. 1476. Folio. 

collation: [a^c 10 d 12+1 e^g 10 h 10+1 i 12 k l 8 m 6 n^q 10 r 4 ]. 

GW 4857 (Anm.); HC (+ Addenda) *3593; Go¡ B-985; BMC I 32; Pr 

109; BSB-Ink B-706; CIBN B-698; Sheppard 72. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled leather over 

wooden boards; central boss on each cover and two clasps lost; 

rebacked. On both covers double ¢llets form a double intersecting 

frame and an inner rectangle, the outer border being decorated 

with a small lozenge-shaped foliate stamp and two other small 

foliate stamps, repeated; within the outer frame, a repeated 

‘Maria’ scroll stamp. On the upper cover the inner rectangle is 

divided by lattice-work formed by triple ¢llets and a small lattice-work 

roll into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, 

each decorated with a rosette stamp and a repeated cusp-edged 

stamp. On the lower cover the inner rectangle is divided by triple 

¢llets into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments, each 

decorated with the rosette stamp and the cusp-edged stamp. The 

spine is decorated with the repeated cusp-edged stamp. Large 

contemporary manuscript label on the upper cover; later manuscript 

labels on the spine. Size: 420 ¿ 298 ¿ 55 mm. Size of 

leaf: 410 ¿ 280 mm. 

On [a 1 r ] a14^line initial ‘B’ is supplied in interlocked red and blue, 

with pen-work in¢ll in red and green, and with decoration and 

extensions into the margins in green, and a three-line initial ‘B’ 

supplied in blue. Other initials, some with extensions into the 

margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital 


Provenance: Polling, diocese of Augsburg, Bavaria, Augustinian 

Canons, SS. Jacobus, Salvator and S. Crux; book-plate: see 

Warnecke 1598. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; 

‘Duplum’ written on book-plate in black ink; shelfmarks: ‘Inc. 

Typ. no. 489’, on book-plate. Unidenti¢ed shelfmark/bookseller’s 

mark on [a1 r ]. Purchased from Munich via Thomas Rodd for Fl. 

66, i.e. for »6. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 6. 

shelfmark: Auct. 3Q inf. 2.11.


641 







Decretalium.] 




[a2 v ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



r 

[s6 ] [Verse, addressed to the reader.] ‘Pressos sepe vides, lector studiose, 

libellos > Quos eciam gaudes connumerare tuis’; 4 elegiac 

distichs. 

r 

[s6 ] [Colophon.] 

Basel: Michael Wenssler, 8 July 1476. Folio. 

collation: [a^d 10 e 8 f 10 g h 8 i^l 10 m 8 n 6 o p 10 q 8 r 10 s 6 ]. 

GW 4858; HC (+ Addenda) *3594 = H *3584; Go¡ B-986; BMC III 

723; Pr 7480; BSB-Ink B-707; CIBN B-699; Sack, Freiburg, 763; 


COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, possibly bound for Klo�. 




with extensions into the margins. Paragraph marks are supplied 

in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. Manuscript titles are supplied 

in black ink in the upper margins. 







r 

[a1 ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 




Decretalium.] 




[a2 v ] [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



[s6 r ] ‘Rubrice sexti libri Decretalium’. 

[s6 r ] [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Pressos sepe vides, lector studiose, 

libellos > Quos eciam gaudes connumerare tuis’; 4 elegiac 

distichs. 

[s6 r ] [Colophon.] 

Basel: Michael Wenssler, 10 Dec. 1477. Folio. Di¡erent setting 

from GW 4860. 

collation: [a^d 10 e 8 f 10 g h 8 i^l 10 m 8 n 6 o p 10 q 8 r 10 s 6 ]. 

GW 4859 (Anm.); HC, Addenda *3595; Go¡ B-987; BMC III 724; Pr 

7483; BSB-Ink B-708; CIBN B-701; Sack, Freiburg, 764^5; 


COPY 

Bound with: 

1. ClemensV, Pont. Max., Constitutiones (cum apparatu Johannis 

Andreae). Basel: Michael Wenssler, 2 May 1478 (C-368(1)). 

On [s 6 r ] the last two rubrics appear in reverse order: ‘De regulis 

iuris cxlvii’/‘De verborum signi¢[catione] cxlv’, as in GWAnm. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for Klo�. Remains 

of parchment index tabs. Size: 412 ¿ 297 ¿ 52 mm. Size of 

leaf: 400 ¿ 273 mm. 

Early marginal annotations, pointing hands, note marks, and 

underlining in black ink. 

On [a 1 r ] a13^line initial ‘B’ is supplied in interlocked red and blue, 

with purple pen-work in¢ll and decoration. Other initials, some 

with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, reference letters 

in text, and book numbers are supplied in red. Some chapter 

titles supplied in red, others in black ink, and repeated at the head 

of the pages. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: The two items are decorated in a similar style and 

were presumably together from an early date. Georg Franz 

Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2400(1). 





a1 v Albinianus Trecius, Petrus: [Prefatory letter addressed to] 

VictorTervisanus. Incipit:‘[D]iuturno fessus labore, obseruandissime 

pater, in emendandis iterato immensis Decreti, Decretalium 

Clementinarumque voluminibus . . .’ Letter dated 19 May 1479. 

r 

a2 [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris consanguinitatis.] Incipit: 

‘[C]irca lecturam arboris, diuersis olim diuersum modum tenentibus 

. . .’ 

a3 r [Arbor consanguinitatis.] 

a3 v [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis.] Incipit: ‘[A]d 


v 

a4 [Arbor a⁄nitatis.] 

a5 r 

[Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 



a5 r Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 


a6 v [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



a6 v Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, ‘16 Apr.’ 

[probably after 19 May] 1479. Folio. Preface dated ‘xiiij Caledas 

Junias’ (i.e. 19 May). 

collation: a 10 b^d 8 e f 6 g^m 8 n 6 o^q 8 r 10 s 12 . 



FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf s 12.


[b-468^b-469 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half russia; marbled paper boards. 



ContemporaryVenetian decoration; major epigraphic initials are 

supplied in gold on a ground of red, blue, and green, with ¢ligree 

decoration in white or yellow; Pa« cht and Alexander II,109 no. pr. 

51. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. 

Manuscript foliation supplied in black ink. 


shelfmark no. 235, see Catalogue (1831); sale catalogue (1841), 

lot 416. Purchased for »1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1840), 5. 


SECOND COPY 

Some sheets of this edition are bound with Jenson’s edition of 

1476; see B-464. 



Liber sextus Decretalium, et al. 

Part I. 

a1 v Franciscus Moneliensis: [Prefatory letter, praising the work of 

Nicolaus Jenson, addressed to] Alexander de Nevo. Incipit: ‘[S]i 

utriusque lingue uiros celeberrimos diligentius scrutatus . . .’ 

a2 r [Andreae, Johannes: Super arboribus consanguinitatis.] Incipit: 


. . .’ 

a3 r [Arbor consanguinitatis.] 

a3 v [Andreae, Johannes: Super arboribus a⁄nitatis.] Incipit: ‘[A]d 


a4 v [Arbor a⁄nitatis.] 

a5 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 




Decretalium.] 


a6 r BonifaciusVIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


v 

a6 [Andreae, Johannes: Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



r 

r7 [First colophon.] 

Part II. 

a2 r [Andreae, Johannes]: Gloss on Bulla. Incipit: ‘Johannes. 

Gratiosum hoc nomen per interpretationes, deriuationes vel etymologias 

. . .’ 

a2 r Johannes XXII, Pont. Max.: Bulla‘Quoniam nulli iuris ratio’. 


32. 

a3 r ClemensV, Pont. Max.: Constitutiones. 


1200. See Schulte II 45^50. 

a3 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Constitutiones.] Incipit: ‘Fidei 

catholice. Summa huius concilii hec est . . .’ 

v 

G9 [Second colophon.] 

r 

G10 Decretales extravagantes. 

refs. Decretalium Collectiones, ed. Richter and Friedberg,1238^ 

49. See Schulte II 60 no. 3 and passim. 

Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1479. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 23 

Nov. 1479; (II) 24 Nov. 1479. 

collation: Part I: a 12 b^d 8 e^g 6 6 k^p 8 q 6 r 8 ; part II: a 10 B^F 8 

G 10 H 8 . 


B-711; CIBN B-704; Lowry, Jenson, 249 no. 79; Sack, Freiburg, 

766; Sheppard 3293^4. 

FIRST COPY 

Part I only. 

Wanting the blank leaf r 8. 



leaf: 425 ¿ 276 mm. 

On a5 r , a contemporary south German ten-line initial ‘B’ is supplied 

in blue, with white foliate scrolling, on a gold ground, decorated 

with a repeated small £oral stamp, within an architectural 

frame, in yellow and green, in the vault of which is a coat of arms, 

quarterly1and 4 gules, 2 and 3 argent, over all a pitchfork in bend; 

the whole surrounded by a double border in red and pink, and red 

pen-work decoration. On g2 v a four-line initial ‘I’ is supplied in 

gold, decorated with the small £oral stamp, on a blue ground 

with white foliate scrolling, edged in red, and with red pen-work 

decoration; on k 5 r a four-line initial ‘C’ is supplied in gold, on a 

green ground with white foliate scrolling, edged in red, and with 

red pen-work decoration; on n4 v , an eight-line initial ‘E’ is supplied 

in red, with white foliate scrolling and red pen-work in¢ll 

and decoration. Other initials, some with extensions into the margins, 

are supplied in red, blue, or interlocked red and blue. 

Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in 

red. 

Provenance: Baumburg, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons Regular, 

S. Margareta; inscription on a 1 r : ‘Monasterii Bamburg’. 

Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich(?); pencil no. ‘11’ on 

a1 r and a2 r . Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; 

not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 


SECOND COPY 

Part II only. 


Binding: Contemporary Bohemian(?) blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards; on each cover ¢ve bosses and four corner-pieces 

lost, also two clasps. On both covers a single ¢llet forms an outer 

border; in the upper and lower sections are ¢ve repeated stamps: a 

trefoil stamp, a small star stamp, a left-hand and a right-hand 

curve stamp, and a cresting stamp; in the inner and outer sections, 

a repeated small £oral stamp. Double ¢llets form an intersecting 

double frame, within which is a repeated ‘Maria’ scroll 

stamp and the small £oral stamp. The inner rectangle is divided 

into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments by triple ¢llets 

containing a repeated lattice-work stamp; in the compartments a 

rosette stamp, the small £oral stamp, a larger £oral stamp, a 

£euron, a small star stamp, and a repeated small foliate stamp. 

On the spine a repeated lattice-work stamp and the repeated 

cresting stamp. Size: 445 ¿ 298 ¿ 40 mm. Size of leaf: 431 ¿ 

287 mm. 

Early marginal notes and pointing hands.


643 

On a2 r a nine-line initial ‘I’ is supplied in blue, decorated with red 

pen-work and extensions into the margin. Other initials and paragraph 


Provenance: Tr� ebon� , Bohemia, Augustinian Canons Regular, 

1718; inscription on a2 r : ‘Ex bibliotheca Canonicorum 

Regularium S. Augustini Trebon�, 1718’. Georg Franz Burkhard 

Klo� (1787^1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2412. Not found in 

Books Purchased (1835). 







r 

A2 Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 


v 

A3 BonifaciusVIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


A3 v Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



Speier: Peter Drach, 17 Aug. 1481. Folio. 

collation: AÎ L^N 2 N O 8 P 6 Q 2 P S T 8 X 6 . 


B-712; CIBN B-706; Sack, Freiburg, 767^8; Sheppard 1699. 

A 2 r 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf X6. 

Front endleaf inserted between A1 and A2. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns. 


Manuscript list of ‘tituli’, dated 1494, pasted onto front endleaf. 

Title in a ¢fteenth-century hand on A 1. 

Initials, some with extensions into the margins, paragraph marks, 

titles, and book numbers in upper margin, are supplied in red. 

Capital strokes in red.Titles of works on lower edge of leaves. 

Provenance: Amberg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Bernardinus 

Senensis: inscription on A2 r : ‘Ad Bibliothecam Patrum Francisc. 

Amberge’; stamp on head edge of leaves: ‘S[ancti] [cross] 

B[ernardini]’. Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; pencil 

no.‘14’on A2 r . Acquired between 1835 and 1847, possibly in 1850; 

see Catalogus (1843), Appendix. 







r 

a1 Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 


r 

a2 Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


a 1 r 




Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 Mar. 1482. Folio. 

collation: a 8 e^h 6 iô 8 p 6 q 8 . 

GW 4868; HC (+ Addenda) *3603; Go¡ B-993; BMC II 422; Pr 

2018; BSB-Ink B-713; Sack, Freiburg, 769; Sheppard 1478. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Clemens V, Pont. Max., Constitutiones, cum apparatu Johannis 

Andreae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 15 Jan. 1482 (C-370). 



217 mm. 

Alphabetical index for item 1 in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century 

hand on the recto of the front endleaf; on q8 v of item 1, an alphabetical 

index for item 2 in the same hand, thereby showing thatthe 

two items were bound together soon after they were printed. On 

the two rear endleaves a list of ‘Festa palacij quibus obstantibus 

non tenetur audiencia causarum’ in a sixteenth-century hand. 

Initials, some with extensions into the margins, and occasionally 

decorated with pen-work in¢ll, are supplied in either red or blue. 

Paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.Titles 

and folio numbers are supplied in black ink in the upper margin in 

both items; title in black ink across the fore-edge. 


‘Duplum’ on front endleaf. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, 

possibly in 1850; not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 




r 



. . .’ 

r 

a3 [Arbor consanguinitatis.] 

a3 v [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis.] Incipit: ‘[A]d 


v 


a5 r 




a 5 r 

[Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 


v 

a6 [Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.]: Liber sextus Decretalium. 





r7 r [Colophon.] 

Milan: Johannes Antonius de Honate, for Petrus Antonius de 

Castelliono and Ambrosius de Caymis, 23 July 1482. Folio. 

collation: a 12 bê 8 f 4 g 6 k^p 8 q 6 r 8 . 

GW 4870; H *3602; Go¡ B-994; Pr 5904 (I); BSB-Ink B-714; CIBN 


COPY 

Bound with:


[b-472^b-474 

2. Clemens V, Pont. Max., Constitutiones. Milan: Johannes 

Antonius de Honate, for Petrus Antonius de Castelliono and 

Ambrosius de Caymis, 2 Sept.1482 (C-375). 

Wanting the blank leaf r8. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, possibly bound for Klo�. 


Copious early marginal notes, pointing hands, and underlining. 

Initials are supplied in red or blue, or interlocked red and blue. 

Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Manuscript titles 

supplied in black ink in upper margin. 

Provenance: Rason Goetghebuer (Bonusvicinus) (�1490); 

inscription on a1 r : ‘Frater Raso Boni Vicini professus in 

Trunchinio iuxta Gandauum’. The decoration and the notes of 

the two hands indicate that the two items were together from 

early times. Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); sale 

(1835), lot 2402(1). Purchased for »0. 8. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1835), 5. 




A2 r [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris consanguinitatis.] Incipit: 


. . .’ 

A3 r [Arbor consanguinitatis.] 

A3 v [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis.] Incipit: ‘[A]d 


A4 v [Arbor a⁄nitatis.] 

A5 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 



A5 r Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 





A6 v Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


Venice: AndreasTorresanus de Asula, Bartholomaeus de Blavis de 

Alexandria, and Mapheus de Paterbonis, 26 Sept. 1482. 4 o . 

collation: A B D^R 8 S 10 . 


3759. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. ClemensV, Pont. Max., Constitutiones (cum apparatu Johannis 

Andreae), with XX Extravagantes.Venice: AndreasTorresanus de 

Asula, Bartholomaeus de Blavis de Alexandria, and Mapheus de 

Paterbonis, 3 Aug. 1482 (C-372). 

Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf (north German, 

Cologne?) over wooden boards; central boss and four cornerpieces 

lost on each cover, also two clasps. On both covers double 

¢llets form a border. Triple ¢llets form an intersecting double 

frame; within the outer frame on the upper cover is a repeated 

tendril stamp, and at the corners a small square £ower-petal 

stamp; on the lower, the repeated tendril stamp and a small circular 

£ower-petal stamp. On both covers triple ¢llets form an inner 

rectangle, divided by double ¢llets into triangular and lozenge- 

shaped compartments, decorated on the upper cover with the 

small square £ower-petal stamp in the compartments and at the 

points of intersection the small circular £ower-petal stamp; on 

the lower cover with these two stamps and another smaller 

£ower-petal stamp. Badly worn contemporary manuscript label 

on the upper cover. Parchment index tabs. Spine damaged. Size: 


Parchment manuscript leaves, containing a text on logic, written 

in a fourteenth-century English hand, used as pastedowns on the 

upper and lower covers. Between gatherings A and B, a fragment 

of a leaf, perhaps from the same manuscript, reinforcing the binding. 

The upper pastedown also contains a list of contents in the 

margin, perhaps in the hand of Jacobus de Nussia. 


On A5 r a nine-line initial ‘B’ is supplied in gold, on a blue ground, 

with £oral in¢ll in black ink and red. Other initials are supplied in 

blue. Capital strokes in red. Manuscript running headings are 

supplied in black ink in a contemporary hand. 

Provenance: Jacobus de Nussia (¢fteenth century); inscription 

on A 1 r : ‘Ex pro[cura]cione fratris Jacobi de Nussia, ordinis fratrum 

Dei genitricis Marie de Monte Carmeli, tunc lectoris conuentus 

Coloniensis’; various old shelfmarks, perhaps from 

Cologne, Carmelites, S. Alanus: ‘Lin.9.N.11’, ‘L.6.N.12’, 

‘L.5.N.44’,‘L.n.12’,‘L.7.n.*’. Joseph Niesert (1766^1841); inscription 

dated 1816, on A2 r ; sale (1843), lot 14125. Purchased at 

Niesert’s sale, for »0. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 8. 




r 



. . .’ 

v 

a2 [Arbor consanguinitatis.] 

a3 r [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis.] Incipit: ‘[A]d 


v 






Decretalium.] 


r 

a5 Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


a5 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



Venice: Baptista deTortis, 6 Nov. 1484. Folio. 

collation: a b 8 c^r 6 . 

GW 4874; H *3607; Pr 4627; BSB-Ink B-718; Sack, Freiburg, 771; 


COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for Klo�. Size: 


Early marginal notes, pointing hands, and ‘nota’ marks. On a1 v , a 

list of rubrics in black ink in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand, 

with paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining in red, 

and some lines and concluding rubric in green.

-474^b-475a] bonifacius viii, pont. max. 

645 

On a4 r a 15^line initial ‘B’ is supplied in interlocked red and blue, 

with pen-work in¢ll and decoration in red ink. Other initials, 

some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are 

supplied in red or blue. Folio numbers are supplied in red, with 

that for folio 1 of the text also supplied in green. Capital strokes 

in red. 

Provenance: La Marcke family,Westphalia; coat of arms on a1 r : 

or, a demi-lion rampant gules, issuant from a fesse checky gules 

and argent, with motto, ‘Vive la Marcke’: see Johannes Baptist 

Rietstap, Armorial ge¤ ne¤ ral, pre¤ ce¤ de¤ d’un dictionnaire des termes 

du blason, 2 vols, 2nd edn (Gouda, 1884^7), planche IV, pl. cxli. 

Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); book-label; sale 

(1835), lot 2404 (with date misprinted as 1494). Purchased for 

»0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 5, where the date is given as 

1494. 





v 

A1 [Table of contents.] 

A2 r [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris consanguinitatis.] Incipit: 


. . .’ 

A3 r [Arbor consanguinitatis.] 

A3 v [Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis.] Incipit: ‘[A]d 


A4 v [Arbor a⁄nitatis.] 

A5 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 



A5 r Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] 





A6 v BonifaciusVIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. 


Basel: Michael Wenssler, 1486. Folio. 

collation: A^R 8 S 10 . 

GW 4877; HC *3612; Pr 7511; BSB-Ink B-721; Sack, Freiburg, 773^ 


COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Clemens V, Pont. Max., Constitutiones, cum apparatu Johannis 

Andreae, with XX Extravagantes. Basel: Michael Wenssler, 1486 

(C-374); 

3. Justinianus, Institutiones, with glossa ordinaria of Accursius. 

Basel: Michael Wenssler, 1486 (J-239). 

Leaf A1 repaired, possibly mounted, with section cut out on A1 r 

for the title. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin; two 

clasps lost. On both covers triple ¢llets form a quadruple frame: 

within the outer is a roll with portrait medallions, within the second 

a £oral roll, within the third a roll with ¢gures of Fides, 

Fortitudo, Spes, and Caritas. The inner rectangle is subdivided 

into three rectangular compartments. On the upper cover the central 

compartment contains a panel of Fides and Spes, beneath 

which is the distich‘Impetrat alma ¢des Cristo > quam dante salutem 

expecta > re soror spes animosa solet’; the central compartment 

on the lower cover contains a panel of Caritas and a 

beggar, beneath which is the distich ‘Que vocor insigni caritum 

de > nomine virtus omnia que pie > tas suadet obire sequor’. 

Above the inner rectangle on the upper cover is a blind-tooled 

shield, with the arms bendy of four, inscribed above ‘Hanns [ ]hv[ 

]en’. Green-edged leaves. Size: 347 ¿ 244 ¿ 75 mm. Size of 

leaf: 330 ¿ 221 mm. 

Initials supplied in red or blue. Paragraph marks supplied in red. 

Early manuscript title on spine. 


sale (1835), lot 2258(2); purchased for »0. 9. 6; see Books 

Purchased (1835), 5, where it is dated as 1476. 


B-475A Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max. 


Incomplete copy. 

v 

a1 Albinianus Trecius, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Victor 

Tervisanus. Incipit: ‘Ad reuerendum in Christo patrem dominum 

UictoremTeruisanum beati Cipriani Muriani abbatem . . .’ 

a2 r [Andreae, Johannes: Super arboribus consanguinitatis.] Incipit: 


. . .’ 




r 

a5 Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Liber sextus Decretalium.] 

Edited by Petrus AlbinianusTrecius. 


[Lyons: Johann Siber, between 1485 and Nov. 1494]. Folio. 

Probably issued with GW 7115. For the dating see note in BMC 

VIII 251 on the printer’s device. GW dates [c.1490]. 

collation: a^p 8.6.6 q r 6 s 8 t^x 6 . 

GW 4884; not in Pr; Pellechet 2728 (I); Sack, Freiburg, 777; not in 

Sheppard. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Clemens V, Pont. Max., Constitutiones. [Lyons: Johann Siber, 

c.1490] (C-375A), probably as issued. 

Wanting gatherings a and b (except b 6), and leaves l 6, p 6, q 1, x 2, 

and x 5^6. 

Binding: Contemporary calf over pasteboards; ¢ve ties lost, 

three from the fore-edge, one each from the head and the foot. 


On m6 and o2^3 missing/defective pieces of text are supplied in 

manuscript in an early hand. Some early marginal notes, underlining 

in the text, pointing hands, and nota marks in black ink. 

Manuscript notes in French in a sixteenth-century hand on the 

front pastedown. Occasional scribbles in black ink in the margins, 

and a drawing of a human ¢gure on s4 v . 

One- to ¢ve-line initials are supplied in red or blue, or, occasionally, 

in black ink; paragraph marks are supplied in red. Running 

headings supplied in black ink in a sixteenth-century(?) hand. 

Irregular manuscript foliation supplied in black ink: 10^121. 

Provenance: Dr Graham Airth (1917^1996); purchased byhim in 

the late 1950s from Richard Hatchwell, Malmesbury, for »80.


[b-475a^b-477 

Presented in Aug. 1996 by Mrs Patricia Airth in memory of her 

husband. 




Part I. 

I1 r [Title-page.] 

v 

I1 Brant, Sebastian: [Preface addressed to the reader.] Incipit: 

‘Potuissemus iamdudum decretorum paruarumque Decretalium 

impressione . . .’ 

I2 r Andreae, Johannes: ‘Lectura arboris consanguinitatis’. Incipit: 

‘Circa lecturam arboris, diuersis olim diuersum modum tenentibus 

. . .’ 

I3 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Pro arboris commendatione’.‘Sanguinis ista 

gradus, cognataque iura docebit > Arbor, et a vetito posse cauere 

thoro’; 7 elegiac distichs. 


v 

I3 ‘Arbor consanguinitatis’. 

I4 r [Andreae, Johannes]: ‘Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis’. Incipit: ‘[A]d 


r 

I5 ‘Arbor a⁄nitatis’. 

r 

I5 ‘Titulorum quinque librorum sexti Decretalium secundum 

ordine alphabetica’. 

I5 v ‘Titulorum et capitulorum sexti Decretalium quo ad primum 

eius partialem librum annotatio’. 

I6 v [Woodcut.] ‘Bonifacius octauus’. 

I6 v Brant, Sebastian: [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Debuimus 

totum, lector, tibi candide iuris > Canonici cursum pollicitum, 

ecce tenes’; 6 elegiac distichs. 


a 1 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] Edited by Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia preposterus 


a 1 r Andreae, Johannes: [Summary of each chapter. Edited by 

Sebastian Brant.] Incipit: ‘Sexti libri Decretalium in concilio 

Lugdunensi per Bonifacium octauum editi . . .’ Summaries precede 

each chapter. 

a 1 r Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus 

Decretalium.] ‘Proemium’. Edited by Sebastian Brant. 


a 3 r BonifaciusVIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. Edited 

by Sebastian Brant. 


a 3 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



h8 r [Colophon.] 

Part II. 


AA1 v ‘Titulorum constitutionum Clementis secundum ordinem 

alphabeti annotatio’. 

AA1 v ‘Titulorum et capitulorum primi libri annotatio’. 

AA2 r [Andreae, Johannes]: Gloss on Bulla. Incipit: ‘Johannes. 


. . .’ 

AA2 r [Rubric.] Rubrics precede each chapter. 

AA 2 r Johannes XXII, Pont. Max.: Bulla ‘Quoniam nulli iuris 

ratio’.‘Proemium’. 


AA3 r ClemensV, Pont. Max.: Constitutiones. 


AA3 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Constitutiones.] Incipit: ‘Fidei 

catholice. Partes patent. Secunda ibi, porro tertia ibi, ad hoc. Item 

hec prima pars . . .’ 


KK7 v Clarius, Hieronymus: ‘In extrauagantes Decretales breue 

preludium’, [addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Cum omnis magistratus 

presertim ecclesiastici in decidendis causis et ceteri . . .’ 

KK7 v Decretales extravagantes. 


r 

MM6 [Colophon.] 

Basel: Johann Froben, 1 Sept. 1494. 4 o . 

collation: Part I: I 6 a^c F h^y 8 z 4 h 8 ; part II: AA^KK 8 LL 6 

MM 8 . 

Woodcut: see Schramm XXII pl. 1107; BSB-Ink identi¢es it as the 

work of the‘Meister des Verardus’. 


B-730; Oates 2839; Sack, Freiburg,780; Schramm XXII 46 and pl. 

1107; Schreiber V 3529; Sheppard 2542. 

COPY 

Leaf I4 bound before I3. 

Binding: Modern mill boards (Feb. 1933), with the badly 

damaged remains of an early blind-tooled leather binding preserved 

within the covers. Size: 225 ¿ 165 ¿ 65 mm. Size of 

leaf: 216 ¿ 145 mm. 

Occasional pointing hands and note marks. 

Manuscript title on upper edge of leaves. 

Provenance: Au am Inn, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons, BVM et 

S. Felicitas; inscription on I 1 r : ‘Monasterii S. Felicitatis in Auu’. 

Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dpl’ on verso of 

front endleaf and no.‘1442’on MM8 v of part II. Purchased for 10 

Marks, from Caspar Haugg, Catalogue 78 (1885), no. 25; see 

Library Bills (1885), no. 381. 


B-476A Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max. 


Fragment. 

Venice: Baptista deTortis, [not before 1499]. Folio. 

GW 4900; BMC V 330; Pr 4662; BSB-Ink B-733; Sack, Freiburg, 

785; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Leaf c 5 only. Size of leaf: 413 ¿ 285 mm. 

shelfmark: Rawl. fol. 1(10). 



Part I. 

r 


Aa1 v Brant, Sebastian: [Preface addressed to the reader.] Incipit: 

‘Potuissemus iamdudum Decretorum paruarumque 

Decretalium impressione . . .’ In his preface Brant indicates that 

he re-ascribed to Johannes Andreae divisions which others 

ascribed to Dominicus.

-477^b-478] bonincontrius, laurentius 

647 

Aa2 r Andreae, Johannes: ‘Lectura arboris consanguinitatis’. 

Incipit: ‘[C]irca lecturam arboris, diuersis olim diuersum 

modum tenentibus . . .’ 

Aa3 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Pro arboris commendatione’. ‘Sanguinis 

ista gradus, cognataque iura docebit > Arbor, et a vetito posse 

cauere thoro’; 7 elegiac distichs. 


Aa3 v ‘Arbor consanguinitatis’. 

Aa3 v [Andreae, Johannes]: ‘Lectura arboris a⁄nitatis’. Incipit: 

‘[A]d arborem a⁄nitatis et eius materiam transeamus . . .’ 

Aa5 r ‘Arbor a⁄nitatis’. 

Aa5 r ‘Titulorum quinque librorum Sexti Decretalium secundum 

ordine alphabetica’. 

Aa5 v ‘Titulorum et capitulorum Sexti Dectetalium(!) quo ad primum 

eius partialem librum annotatio’. 

Aa 6 v [Woodcut.] ‘Bonifacius octauus’. 

Aa6 v Brant, Sebastian: [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Debuimus 

totum, lector, tibi candide iuris > Canonici cursum pollicitum, 

ecce tenes’; 6 elegiac distichs. 



Decretalium.] Edited by Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia preposterus 


a1 r Andreae, Johannes: [Summary of each chapter.] Edited by 

Sebastian Brant. Incipit: ‘Sexti libri Decretalium in concilio 

Lugdunensi per Bonifacium octauum editi . . .’ 


Decretalium.] ‘Proemium’. Edited by Sebastian Brant. 


a3 r BonifaciusVIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. Edited 

by Sebastian Brant. 


a 3 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium.] 



Part II. 


AA1 v ‘Titulorum constitutionum secundum ordine alphabetica 

annotatio’. 

AA1 v ‘Titulorum et capitulorum primi libri annotatio’. 

AA2 r [Andreae, Johannes]: Gloss on Bulla. Incipit: ‘Johannes. 


. . .’ 

AA2 r Johannes XXII, Pont. Max.: Bulla ‘Quoniam nulli iuris 

ratio’.‘Proemium’. 


AA3 r ClemensV, Pont. Max.: Constitutiones. 


AA 3 r Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Constitutiones.] Incipit: ‘Fidei 

catholice. Partes patent. Secunda ibi: Porro. Tertia ibi: Ad hoc. 

Item hec prima pars . . .’ 

KK 7 r Clarius, Hieronymus: ‘In extrauagantes Decretales breue 

preludium’, [addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Cum omnis magistratus 

presertim ecclesiastici in decidendis causis et ceteri . . .’ 

KK 7 v Decretales extravagantes. 


MM6 r [Colophon.] 

MM6 r Brant, Sebastian: [Verse addressed] ‘ad studiosos iuris 

alumnos’. ‘Si Clementis opus, post cuncta volumina iuris > 

Canonici cupias perlegere o inuenis’; 7 elegiac distichs. 

Basel: Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 Dec. 1500. 4 o . 

collation: Part I: Aa 6 a^y 8 z 4 h 8 ; part II: AA^LL 8 MM 6 . 

Schematic woodcut diagrams on Aa3 v and Aa5 r . On Aa6 v , a woodcut: 

see Schramm XXII pl. 1107; Schreiber V 3530, refers to 3529, 

which records six roundels, rather than ¢ve. BSB-Ink identi¢es it 

as the work of the ‘Meister des Verardus’. 


B-735; Sack, Freiburg, 787; Schramm XXII p. 46 and pl. 1107; 

Schreiber V 3530; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary German (possibly Augsburg, Kyri� 

workshop no. 84; Schunke^Schwenke^Rabenau12) blind-tooled 

calf over wooden boards, with a boss and four corner-pieces on 

each cover; two clasps lost. Letter-stamping ‘Sext et de’ at the 

head of the upper cover. On the upper cover ¢llets form an outer 

frame, within which with a hunt roll (Kyri� pl. 171, no. 1; 

Schunke^Schwenke pl. 146 no. 14, where it is ascribed to 

Augsburg); further ¢llets form an inner frame, decorated with a 

repeated foliate stamp. The inner rectangle is decorated with a 

repeated circular eagle stamp. On the lower cover ¢llets form a 

double frame, within which is the animal and £oral roll. The 

inner rectangle is divided by triple ¢llets into four triangular compartments, 

each containing the circular eagle stamp. On the spine 

is the repeated circular eagle stamp. On Aa1 r , a pencil note by 

Albert Ehrman ascribes the binding to Tegernsee. Size: 225 ¿ 


On Aa2 r a seven-line initial ‘C’, on Aa3 v a six-line initial ‘A’, and, 

on AA 2 r a nine-line initial ‘I’, are all supplied in blue, with foliate 

scrolling in white, on a gold ground. In the lower margins of Aa2 r 

and AA2 r , and the outer margin of A3 v , £oral decoration are supplied 

in blue, green, maroon, pink, yellow, and red, with silver 

dots. A paragraph mark is supplied in red and underlining in red 

on Aa1 r .Woodcut on Aa6 v coloured in red, yellow, and green. 

Provenance: Old shelfmark ‘104’changed to‘105’ in black ink on 

the fore-edge. Nineteenth-century label with old shelfmarkon the 

back: ‘Z83 (1500)’. Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); armorial bookplate; 

accession no. ‘291’: purchased by Ehrman from McLeish 

and Sons in1929 for »10.10. 0. Presented in1978 by John Ehrman. 


B-478 Bonincontrius, Laurentius 

Fasti. 

a2 r Bonincontrius, Laurentius: [Prefatory letter addressed to] 

Cardinal Julianus [della Rovere], Bishop of Ostia. Incipit: 

‘[M]arcus Varro, Juliane presul dignissime, omnium sententia 

Romanorum doctissimus . . .’ 

a3 r Bonincontrius, Laurentius: Fasti. ‘[S]ume uocalem Citharam, 

beate > Sixte, qui polles patribus uerendis’; odes, consisting of 

stanzas each with 3 sapphic and 1 adonic verse, and poems in elegiac 

distichs. 

Rome: Stephan Plannck, 9 Feb. 1491. 4 o . 

collation: a^g 8 . 


B-716; Sheppard 2958.

648 book of hawking, hunting, and heraldry 

[b-478^b-482 

COPY 


Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco; marbled 

paper boards. Size: 175 ¿ 135 ¿ 13 mm. Size of leaf: 170 ¿ 

123 mm. 

Provenance: J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837); signature on the front 

endleaf; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 80, for »0. 2. 6; see 



B-479 Bonnor, Honore¤ 

L’arbre des batailles [French]. 

a2 r [Bonnor, Honore¤ : Prologue.] 

refs. L’arbre des batailles, ed. Ernest Nys (Brussels and Leipzig, 

1883),1^3; see alsoTheTreeof Battlesof Honore¤ Bonet, an English 

version, with introd. by G.W. Coopland (Liverpool,1949), 15^69. 

v 

a2 [Table of contents.] 

b1 r [Bonnor, Honore¤ : Introduction.] 

refs. L’arbre des batailles, ed. Nys 4. 

r 

b1 [Bonnor, Honore¤ ]: L’arbre des batailles. 

refs. L’arbre des batailles, ed. Nys 5^256. 

Lyons: [Martin Huss], 24 Dec. 1481. Folio. Pr assigns to 

[Guillaume le Roy]. 

collation: a 6 b^q 8 . Leaf a2 signed ai, a3 aii. GW 4915; H 3638; Pr 8506; Sheppard 6592. 

COPY 

Wanting b3^6, h3 and the blank leaves a1 and q8. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French red morocco, with goldtooled 

spine, marbled pastedowns, and gilt-edged leaves. Size: 


Woodcut pasted to the verso of the front endleaf, showing, on the 

left, a knight in armour on horseback, in front of a building, followed 

by a page, with, on the right, a city wall in the background; 

on the verso of the woodcut, text apparently from an edition of 

Francesco Petrarca, De remediis utriusque fortunae, in German, 

and the signature, E4. 

Bibliographical notes by Douce on recto of front endleaf. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Some capitals 

touched with yellow wash. 

Provenance: Jean Baptiste Denis Guyon, seigneur de Sardie' re 

(�1759); signature on a2 r and q7 v . Royal Library, Paris; circular 

stamp on a 2 r ; duplicate stamp on a2 r . Justin, comte MacCarthy 

Reagh (1744^1811). Francis Douce (1757^1834); acquired by 

exchange from MacCarthy Reagh: see note on front endleaf; 



B-480 Bonvicinus de Ripa 

Vita scholastica. 


a2 r [Bonvicinus de Ripa]: Vita scholastica. 

refs. Quinque claves sapientiae . . . Vita scholastica, ed. A. 

Vidmanova¤ -Schmidtova¤ (Leipzig, 1969); see also P. Garbini,‘Per 

la ‘‘Vita scholastica’’ ’, Studi medievali, 3rd series, 31 (1990), 705^ 

37. 

Turin: [Printer of Bonvicinus de Ripa‘Vita scholastica’ (Pr 7227), 

c.1495^1500?]. 4 o . As dated by Sheppard, following Pr; GW 

dates [c.1498/9]; CIBN assigns to [Lyons?: Nicolaus Wol¡?] and 

dates [c.1498]. 


GW 4928; HC 3652; Pr 7227; CIBN B-722; Sheppard 5963. 

COPY 

Binding: Gold-tooled French red morocco, by Padeloup, 

according to Crawford sale catalogue; marbled pastedowns and 

gilt-edged leaves; for the Padeloup family, see Ernest Thoinan, 

Les relieurs franc� ais 1500^1800 (Paris, 1893), 356^70. Inside the 

upper cover a ¢fteenth-century(?) woodcut showing a bishop following 

a tonsured boy carrying a cross into a church, and an 

eighteenth-century(?) engraving of a cow. Size: 198 ¿ 140 ¿ 


On b8 r , annotation in a sixteenth-century hand, giving the name 

of the printer. Three manuscript leaves, containing a work 

entitled ‘Miraculum pro exemplo’. On the recto of the front endleaf, 

bibliographical notes, in a nineteenth-century(?) hand, with 

the suggestion that the‘Miraculum’ is taken from ‘an undescribed 

edition printed by Antonius Zarotus, Milan, 1490, xvii Feb.’, and 

on the verso, in the same hand, some notes about the dress of the 

boys of the Blue Coat School. 

Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis (1780^1870): not found in 

his catalogue; armorial book-plate. William Horatio Crawford 

(1815^1888) of Lakelands, Cork; armorial book-plate; sale (12 

Mar. 1891), lot 418. Purchased through Quaritch for »1. 6. 0; see 

Library Bills, 25 Mar. 1891. 


B-481 Book of Courtesy [English] 

Fragment. 

Westminster: [Wynkyn de Worde, 1491^3]. 4 o . Ascribed to 

Wynkyn de Worde on the basis of the printer’s device; dated on 

the basis of the type which was not in use after 1493. 

Type: 120 G. 23 lines on ‘Bb’. Type area: 138 ¿ 91 mm on ‘Bb’. 

Watermark: Crown above an eight-pointed star. 

HC 4928; Pr 9689; Blades 94; de Ricci, Caxton, 103; Douce Legacy, 

no. 114; Du¡ 54; Sheppard 7425; STC 3304. 

COPY 

Two leaves only, proofs, one signed Bb, the other unsigned, each 

printed on one side: the contents of the leaves are noted in John 

Hodgkin, ‘Proper Terms . . .’, Transactions of the Philological 

Society, Supplement (1907^10), 1^187, at 6, 9, 42, 61, and in 

Rachel Hands, English Hawking and Hunting in‘The Boke of St. 

Albans’ (Oxford, 1975), pp. xlviii^xlix. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco; bound for 

the Bodleian Library. Nineteenth-century(?) paper wrappers surrounding 

leaves. Size of leaves: 195 ¿ 135 mm. 

‘[ ]s’ in black ink. Date‘1676’ in black ink. A note by Douce on the 

inside of the paper wrapper. 


shelfmark: Douce Fragm. e.4. 

B-482 Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry 

[English] 

Part I. 

1 r 

a2 Book of Hawking. Incipit: ‘[I]n so moch that gentill men and 

honest persones haue greete delite . . .’

-482^b-483] book of hawking, hunting, and heraldry 

649 

refs. See E. F. Jacob,‘The Bookof St Albans’, Bulletin ofthe John 

Rylands Library, 28 (1944), 99^118, and Marjorie Gray Wynne, 

‘The Boke of St. Albans’, Yale University Library Gazette, 26 

(1951), 33^6. On the authorship of this and the other works attributed 

to Juliana Berners, see Hands, English Hawking and 

Hunting, pp. xiv^xv, lv^lx. 

1 r 

e1 Berners, Juliana [pseudo-]: Book of Hunting. Incipit: ‘Lyke 

wise as in the booke of hawkyng aforesayd are writyn and 

noted . . .’ 

1 r 

f8 ‘Here now foloyng shall be shewed all the shyreys and the byshopryches 

of the reolme of Englond . . .’ Incipit: ‘Kente. 

Caunturbury. Rouchestre . . .’ 

1 

f8 r 

‘Prouynces of England’. Incipit: ‘Caunturburi and Yorke. 

Sta¡ord, Darby. . .’ 

Part II. 

2 

a1 r [Book of Heraldry.] ‘Liber armorum’. Incipit: ‘Here in thys 

booke folowyng is determyned the lynage of coote armuris . . . 

Beyng in worthenes aarmes for beere by the royall blode . . .’ 

2 

c1 r [Book of Heraldry.] ‘The blasyng of armys’. Incipit: ‘I haue shewyed 

to you in thys booke a foore how gentilmen began . . .’ 

St Albans: [Schoolmaster Printer], 1486. Folio. For an alternative 

identi¢cation ofthe place of printing see James Moran,‘The Book 

of St Albans and the‘‘Schoolmaster Printer’’’, BlackArt, 2 (1963^ 

4), 117^24, and ‘The Book of St Albans’, Coat of Arms, 8 (1964), 

48^53; on the printer, see also Nicolas Barker, ‘The St. Albans 

Press’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 7 

(1979), 257^78. 

collation: Part I: a^c 8 d 4 e f 8 ; part II: 2 a b 6 cê 8 f 10 . 

117 woodcuts of coats of arms in part II. 

GW 4932; HC 2465; Go¡ B-1030; BMC XI; Pr 9828; Du¡ 56; 

Hands, English Hawking and Hunting, p. xvii; Hodgkin, ‘Proper 

Terms’, 6, 9, 42; Oates 4214; Sheppard 7578; STC 3308. 

Facsimile: English Experience, no. 151 (Amsterdam, 1969). 

COPY 

Wanting gatherings 1 a and 2 f. 

Leaves 1 f3^4, 2 d6, 8 cropped. 

Binding: Quarter parchment over blue-grey paper boards. Size: 


Some early annotations, pointing hands, and scribbles. On 2 b 6 r , a 

drawing in black ink, of a coat of arms, quarterly 1 and 4, three 

roundels in chief, 2 and 3 a chevron charged with three(?) molets 

of eight points, between three(?) doves. Bibliographical notes on 

the front endleaf, byThomas Hearne. 

Yellow wash added to the coats of arms, where appropriate. 

Provenance: Thomas Tabe (sixteenth century); name in a sixteenth-century 

hand on 2 b4 v . Thomas Hearne (1678^1735), 28 

Sept. 1732; signature and date, and notes on front endleaf. 

Bequeathed to William Bedford (�1747). Listed in John 

Whiston’s list MS. Rawl. D. 1167, fol. 1, no. 4: ‘Juliana Barnes, or 

the St. Alban’s Chronicles. Imperfect.There is in this book a written 

account of it by Mr Hearne’. Bequeathed by Richard 

Rawlinson (1690^1755) in 1755. 



B-483 Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry 

[English] 

Part I. 

1 

a1 v [Book of Hawking.] Incipit: ‘This present boke shewyth the 

manere of hawkynge and huntynge and also of diuysynge of cote 

armours . . . In so moche that gentylmen and honeste persones 

haue grete delyte . . .’ On the printer’s copy used for this edition, 

the BL copy of GW 4932, see Ford,‘Author’s Autograph’, no. 29. 

1 r 

c6 Berners, Juliana [pseudo-: Bookof Hunting.] ‘Where so euer ye 

fare by fryth or by fell > Mydere chylde take hede howTrystam doo 

you tell’. 

e5 r ‘Here now folowynge shall be shewed all the shyres and the 

byshopryches of the realme of Englonde . . .’ Incipit: ‘Kente. 

Caunterbury. Rochestre . . .’ 

e5 r ‘Prouynces of Englonde’. Incipit:‘Caunterbury.Yorke. Sta¡orde. 

Derby. . .’ 

e5 v [Worde,Wynkyn de(?): Verse.] ‘A faythfull frende wolde i fayne 

fynde > To fynde hym there, he myghte be founde’; 37 lines ofverse. 

r 

e6 ‘Liber armorum’. Incipit: ‘Here in this boke folowynge is determyned 

the lygnage of cote armures . . . Beynge in worthynesse 

armes for to beere by the ryall blood . . .’ 

v 

g3 [Berners, Juliana(?): ATreatise of Fishing.] 

refs. Juliana Berners, A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle, ed. 

‘Piscator’ (Edinburgh, 1885), 1^36. 

i4 v [Worde, Wynkyn de: Note on the composition of the book.] 

Incipit: ‘And for bycause that this present treatyse sholde not . . .’ 

Part II. 

2 

a1 r [Book of Heraldry.] Incipit: ‘I haue shewed to you in this booke 

afore how gentylmen began . . .’ 

Westminster:Wynkyn deWorde, 1496. Folio. 

collation: Part I: aê 6 f g 4 h 6 i 4 ; part II: a^c 6 d 8 . 


GW 4933; HC 2466; Go¡ B-1031; BMC XI; Pr 9704; Juliana 

Berners, A Treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle, facsimile reproduction, 

with introduction by M. G. Watkins (London, 1880); 

The Book Containing the Treatises of Hawking, Hunting, Coatarmour, 

Fishing and Blasing of Arms: As Printed at Westminster 

byWynkyn deWorde . . . with introduction by Joseph Haslewood 

(London, 1810); Du¡ 57; Hands, English Hawking and Hunting, 

pp. xxi^xxii; Hodgkin, ‘Proper Terms’, 6, 9^10, 42; Sheppard 

7442^5; STC 3309; on the copy of the 1486 edition used as printer’s 

copy for this edition see ‘Notable Accessions’, British 

Library Quarterly, 27 (1963^4), 100^101; also Lotte Hellinga, 

‘The Book of Saint Albans 1486’, in Fine Books and Book 

Collecting: Books and Manuscripts acquired from Alan G. 

Thomas and described by his Customers on the Occasion of his 

Seventieth Birthday, ed. C. de Hamel and R. Linenthal 

(Leamington Spa, 1981), 31^4. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

2/4. [William Caxton], Chroniclesof England. [London]:Wynkyn 

deWorde, 1520 (STC 10001); 

3. Chroniclesof England. [London:William de Machlinia, c.1486] 

(C-197(3)) bound between gatherings f and i of 2/4. 

For this copy see Wonderful Things, no. 29. 

Wanting 2 d8. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century gold-tooled parchment, stamped 

with the coat of arms of George Carew, Earl of Totnes: or, three 

lions passant in pale, sable. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a 

hasp at head of the upper cover. Size: 260 ¿ 192 ¿ 50 mm. Size of 

leaf: 253 ¿ 173 mm.

650 boort, henricus 

[b-483^b-484 

On a1 r , a note in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand, ascribing the 

works in this book to Nicholas Upton, with a later note, below, 

attributing the Book of Hawking and Hunting to Juliana 

Berners; and, in a hand of a similar date, ‘He that not wyse, 

patient, stout and hardy > May lament of himselfe, and not of 

destinie’. 

Woodcut coats of arms in part II coloured in yellow and purple 

where appropriate. 

Provenance: Robert Kenne (¢fteenth/sixteenth century); on e8 r 

of item 3: ‘I do beseche you whosoeuer yt be y t shall haue this 

booke whether it be man or woman or chylde to praye for the 

soule of good h Master Kenne(?) for he was the ryght he[ ]r of yt’; 

continued on e 7 r :‘And me Roberte Kenne’. JohnVowell (Hooker) 

(1527^1601); heavily cancelled, and partially damaged, inscription 

on a1 r of item 1, dated 1600; woodcut coat of arms pasted on 

i 4 v : six quarterings: 1. Vowell; 2. Hooker; 3. Bolter, of 

Bolterscombe; 4. Druell; 5. Kelly, of Kelly; 6.Wilford, of Exeter; 

motto: ‘Post mortem vita’; the same coat, but from a di¡erent 

block, appears in Vowell’s Pamphlet of the O⁄ces and Duties of 

Every . . . O⁄cer of the Citie of Excester (London, 1584); see also 

F. T. Colby,‘The Heraldry of Exeter’, Archaeological Journal, 30 

(1873), 245, 250. George Carew (1555^1629), Earl of Totnes; coat 

of arms stamped on binding (see above). John Selden (1584^ 

1654); MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 27 records ‘Nic.Vpton. His heraldry 

with hawking and hunting. Lond. 1636’; Hyde, Catalogus (1674), 

II 242, records ‘Nic. Uptonus. Of Hawking, Hunting, Blazoning 

of Armes, etc.Westminster, 1496’, with the shelfmark ‘P 1. 10 Art. 

Seld.’; no workof this title by this author exists; the date and place 

ofprinting in the Selden catalogue are clearly a misreading, which 

was subsequently corrected in Hyde’s catalogue; the fact that the 

shelfmark of the copy listed by Hyde is identical to the earliest 

shelfmark recorded in this copy shows that this copy was certainly 

in the Library by 1674; that the peculiarities of the description 

in the Selden catalogue have been corrected by Hyde shows 

that this must have been the Selden copy. 

FormerBodleian shelfmarks: P1.10 Art. Seld. (on the recto ofthe 

front endleaf); AA 112 Th. Seld.; Auct. QQ sup. 2.8. 

shelfmark: S. Seld. d.17(1). 

SECOND COPY 

Wanting 1 a1 and 2 d8, both supplied from Haslewood’s facsimile 

edition. 

Leaf e 4 bound in reverse and repaired. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English russia, with 

gold-tooled spine and black pastedowns. Size: 247 ¿ 190 ¿ 


Early marginal annotations, scribbles, and pen-trials, including, 

on 2 b2 r , cropped drawings of heraldic emblems in pencil, and, on 

2 c4 r , drawings, in black ink, of heraldic beasts’ heads; on 1 c6 r , 

‘John Coryat ys a good boye be[ ]’; on 2 d 2 r , ‘John Denys Thomas 

[ ]’; on 2 d6 r , ‘By me Peter’; on 2 d7 v , ‘Gorge Dorney and Roberd 

Eyre [ ]’, ‘Imple hydrias fyll the pot swayne qua[n]do [ ] siderus a 

r[ lyng > thy brayne cum terra te eleuat igitur be¡ore was playne 

ne > te proteictt go backward agayne’. Various bibliographical 

notes by Douce. Blazon of Thomas Beckwith, with motto, on i4 v . 

Woodcut coats of arms coloured in yellow and purple where 

appropriate. Part II paginated in black ink. 




THIRD COPY 

Bound with: 

2. [John Heywood], A mery play betwene Johan Johan the husbande, 

Tyb his wyfe and syr Johan the preest. [London]: William 

Rastell, 12 Feb. 1533 (STC 13298); 

3. [John Rastell], Of gentylnes and nobylyte: a dyaloge betwen the 

marchaunt, the knyght and the plowman . . . [London]: John 

Rastell, [c.1525] (STC 20723). 

Wanting gathering 1 a; also 1 b1^2 and 2 d1^2, 6^8. Missing text of 

gathering 2 d supplied in manuscript in a sixteenth-century hand 

on four and four inserted leaves. Three nineteenth-century blank 

leaves bound after gathering 2 c. 1 b4, 6 transposed by the binder. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; on both covers, 

double ¢llets form aborder; two sets ofvertical double ¢llets separate 

a narrow and a wide rectangle, the spine and metal clasps 

bearing the arms of Ashmole. Both boards detached. Size: 246 ¿ 


Marginal notes: on 1 b3 r , in English, in a seventeenth-century(?) 

hand: ‘What we intend now to eat > grant after dynner or souper 

> Laud, praise and dominion > be unto god for this refection. 

Amen.’; on 1 d4 v : ‘Egonis vnde et popina quid’; on i4 v , pen-trials 

and ‘Claudianus. If rage or lust attempt thy mynde > Auoid the 

cause and conquest ¢nde’; note on the last of the inserted sixteenth-century 

leaves (by Ashmole?), ‘A snakes egg was the 

badge or ensigne that the old Druids carried for their armes. 

Plin. l.29, cap.3’. 

Woodcut coats of arms in part II coloured in yellow and purple 

where appropriate. 

Provenance: Elias Ashmole (1617^1692); signature on b 3 r of 

item 1. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the 

Bodleian Library in 1860. 

Former shelfmark: Ashm. E 38. 

shelfmark: Ashm.1766(1). 

FOURTH COPY 

A made-up copy: wanting leaves 1 a1,6, 1 d1,6, e3,4,5, g3, h1,5,6, 2 c1, 

2 d1,6,7,8. Leaves 1 c 5,6 mutilated, with some loss of text. Many 

other leaves cropped. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf. Size: 257 ¿ 188 ¿ 18 mm. Size 

of leaf: 254 ¿ 175 mm. 

Early scribbles, underlining, and pen-trials. 

Coats of arms coloured, where appropriate, in yellow, maroon, 

and blue. 

Provenance: John Spadderd (sixteenth century); inscription in 

lower margin of i1 r : ‘Hic liber pertanethe ad me, Johannes 

Spadderd, wytteneshed by me’. Thomas Beckwith (1731^1786); 

inscription in lower margin of 2 b 1 v : ‘Tho. Beckwith his old book 

which he values like old gold’. Date of acquisition unknown. 



B-484 Boort, Henricus 

Fasciculus morum. 


[Deventer: Richard Pafraet, between 12 Mar. 1492 and 6 June 

1500]. 4 o . 

collation: a^m 8.4 n 6 o 8 . 

GW 4934 (Anm.); CR 2434 = C 2434a; Go¡ B-1032; BMC IX113; Pr 

9041; Amelung,‘Niederla« ndische Inkunabeln’, 15; Campbell 744; 

CIBN B-724; HPT II 410; ILC 455; Oates 3526; Sheppard 6959.

-484^b-486] bossius, donatus 

651 

COPY 

Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book. Size of leaf: 206 ¿ 

141 mm. 

Wanting gatherings a^h. 

On o8 r , in black ink, in a contemporary hand, ‘O quam di⁄cile 

crimen est prodere vultu’. 


shelfmark: Inc. c. N97.1(7). 

B-485 Borro, Gasparino 

Trion¢, sonetti, canzoni e laude dellaVergine Maria 

[Italian]. 

[*1 v ] ‘Tabula de li Triumphi’. 

[*1 v ] [Simone Dal Castellacio: Letter addressed to] Philippus 

Cavaza and Benedictus Marianus. 

refs. see G. M. Besutti,‘Repertori e sussidi generali. Edizioni del 

secolo XV (1476^1500)’, in Bibliogra¢a dell’Ordine dei Servi, 

Bibliotheca Servorum Romandiolae, 4 (Bologna, 1971), 69^212, 

at 120^5 no. 4, the text of the letter at 120^1. 

a1 r Borro, Gasparino: ‘Triumphi de la gloriosa virgine Maria’. 

Edited by Tomaso de Cremona, Simone dal Castellacio, and 

Giovanni Battista Boneto. Incipit: ‘[P]rima chel tempo miro eternitade 

. . .’ 

refs. See a summary of contents in Besutti 121^2. 

v 

f6 Borro, Gasparino: ‘Il lamento dela morte del beato 

Bonauentura da Forli’. Incipit: ‘[F]uga da me qualunque human 

conforto . . .’ 

g4 v Borro, Gasparino: ‘De la misericordia de Dio’. Incipit: ‘[E]l 

sparso ben che pioue sopra el mundo. . .’ 

g6 v Borro, Gasparino: ‘Laude de la virgina Maria’. Incipit: 

‘[V]ergine sacra al ciel splendida lampa . . .’ 

r 

A1 Borro, Gasparino: ‘Li moralissimi sonetti e cancione deuotissime’. 

Incipit: ‘[D]el mar di questo mondo alpestro e ¢ero . . .’ 

refs. See a summary of contents in Besutti 121^2. 

v 

E10 Loda, Alessandro: ‘Sonetto . . . a l’auctore’. Incipit: ‘[V]olse 

Uirgilio sol per fama eterna . . .’ 

E10 v [Colophon with note on the editors.] 

Brescia: Angelus Britannicus, 23 Oct. 1498. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^g A^D 8 E 10 . 

GW 4942; HCR 3663; Go¡ B-1037; BMC VII 980; Pr 6999; CIBN 

B-727; Hillard 471; Oates 2628.5; Sheppard 5795. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering [*] (the title-leaf and prelims). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century brown morocco; rebacked; 

according to Morelli, a French binding. Size: 213 ¿ 158 ¿ 


Provenance: Faded note on a 1 r . Ma¡eo Pinelli (1735^1785); 

Morelli (1787), IV 2172; sale (1789), lot 2870; according to annotated 

catalogue sold for »0. 5. 6; the purchaser is not named, but 

was Wodhull. Michael Wodhull (1740^1816); on endleaf inscription: 

‘M: Wodhull Feb: 16 th 1790. Pinelli Auction 5s 6d’. John 

Edmund Severne (1826^1899); sale (1886), lot 467; purchased for 

»0. 13. 0; see Library Bills. 


B-486 Bossius, Donatus 

Chronica. 

a1 v ‘GenealogiaVicecomitum Principum Mediolani descendentium 

de Inuorio Ducatus Mediolani’. 

a2 r Bossius, Donatus: Chronica. Dedicated to Johannes Galeaz 

Sforza, Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘[Q]uamuis in¢nitus causarum 

cumulus . . .’ 

y1 r [Series episcoporum et archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium.] 

‘Omnes episcopi et archiepiscopi Mediolani’. Incipit: ‘Barnabas 

apostolus Jesu Christi Cypri ortus . . .’ 

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, for the author, 1 Mar. 1492. Folio. 

collation: a^r 8 s 10 t 6 u 8 x y 4 . 

One woodcut diagram; woodcut initials. 


B-758; CIBN B-729; Ganda175; Hillard 472; Rhodes 429; Sander 

1238; Sheppard 4878. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, the spine gold-tooled. 



Provenance: Dr Francesco Testa (£. 1800); inscription on the 

front pastedown: ‘1800. di Francesco D r Testa Vicentino’. 

Frederic North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766^1827); armorial 

book-plate on front pastedown. Purchased for »1. 10. 0; see 



SECOND COPY 

Binding: Contemporary Italian thick paper wrappers, sewn on 

two bands with string laced through the covers and secured 

inside. Plain edges; title ‘Cronica Bossiana’ in ink along the 

lower edge. Double headbands of green and pale brown thread. 

Title ‘Chronica Bossiana’ in a later hand on the spine. Two endleaves 

at the front, one at the end, folded round the ¢rst and last 

gatherings; watermark, a bull’s head, not in Briquet or Piccard. 

For a comparable binding see Manfred von Arnim, Europa« ische 

EinbandkunstaussechsJahrhunderten (Schweinfurt,1992), no.17. 

Inventories suggest that paper wrappers were more common as 

bindings in Renaissance libraries than surviving examples might 

suggest. Size: 325 ¿ 235 ¿ 30 mm. Size of leaf: 304 ¿ 223 mm. 

Early marginal notes in a humanist hand. Copious earlyadditions 

by the ¢rst owner, chie£y in gathering y (the ‘Series episcoporum 

et archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium’); he has written a chronological 

calculation on the recto of the rear endleaf: ‘Bellouesus 

Ingressus Italia[m] anno mundi: 4072 . . .’ 

Provenance: An early (the ¢rst?) owner has written details of his 

career on the verso of the back endleaf: chaplain of Santa Maria 

di Vimodrone; chaplain of San Ambrogio d’Aplavo/Aplano; 

canon of Santa Maria de Gallarate (1508); these appointments 

were registered by the notaries Leonardus de Ozeno, Lutheus de 

Fontana, and Jo. Antonius de Vasinis of Gallarate; Aplavo/ 

Aplano is unidenti¢ed (possibly Appiano Gentile, Lombardy); 

the other places are all in Lombardy (‘Ozeno’ = Ozzero); this 

owner was perhaps Io[annes] de Tenplis whose death in 1510 is 

recorded in another hand immediately below these entries, evidently 

by a new owner, who succeeded as canon of Gallarate. 

‘Meser Aluisi’; inscription on the front endleaf. Albert Ehrman 

(1890^1969); bought by him from Lathrop Colgate Harper in 

1953 for »80; armorial book-plate on the front pastedown and

652 bossus, matthaeus 

[b-486^b-489 

stamp on theback pastedown; accession no.‘R1166’. Presented in 

1978 by John Ehrman. 


B-487 Bossus, Matthaeus 

De instituendo sapientia animo. 

[a2 r ] Bossus, Matthaeus: [Letter addressed to] Severinus Chalcus. 

Incipit: ‘[M]ecum, mi Seuerine, saepe percogitans . . .’ 

refs. See Giovanni Soranzo, L’umanista canonico regolare 

Lateranense Matteo Bosso di Verona (1427^1502). I suoi scritti e il 

suo Epistolario (Padua, 1965), 254 (dated 19 Sept. 1493). Dated 

Verona, 19 Sept.1495. 

[a4 v ] [Note addressed to the reader.] 

A1 r Bossus, Matthaeus: De instituendo sapientia animo. 

‘Argumentum’. Incipit: ‘[P]rimus incipit liber, in quo describitur 

. . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 55^8. 

v 

Q2 [Note on errata to the reader.] 

Q3 r Aldegatus, Marcus Antonius: ‘Ad lectorem epigramma’. 

‘Illustret quae uere animum sapientia nostrum’; 6 elegiac distichs. 

Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 6 Nov. 1495. 4 o . 

collation: [a 4 ] AÎ 8 k 8 L^P 8 Q 4 . 

GW 4954; HC 3675 = *3677; Go¡ B-1043; BMC VI 828; Pr 6609; 

BSB-Ink B-759; CIBN B-731; Hillard 474; Sack, Freiburg, 789; 


COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; double gilt ¢llets form a border; 

gilt £oral tool in corners; the gold stamp of the Bodleian 


leaf: 195 ¿ 132 mm. 

Early marginal notes in at least two di¡erent hands. 

Provenance: William Garbut (£.1588/9); on [a1 r ] a faded inscription: 

‘Guilielmus Garbut’. Thomas Rawlinson (1681^1725); sale 

(22 Nov. 1727), lot 270. Date of acquisition unknown; probably 

acquired after 1738 but before 1835; not in Fysher, Catalogus but 

in Catalogus (1843), 305. 



Dialogus de veris et salutaribus animi gaudiis. 

r 

a2 Politianus, Angelus: [Letter addressed to] Lorenzo I de’ Medici. 

Incipit: ‘Sapienter ut cetera, Laurenti, facis . . .’ 

a3 r Bossus, Matthaeus: Dialogus de veris et salutaribus animi gaudiis. 

Incipit: ‘[S]i quis est vti sapientem . . .’ 


Florence: Francesco Bonaccorsi, 8 Feb. 1491. 4 o . 

collation: a^k 8 l 10 . 


GW 4955; HC (+ Addenda) *3672; Go¡ B-1041; BMC VI 674; Pr 

6312; BSB-Ink B-760; Oates 2412.5; Sheppard 5221. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf l10. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the gold stamp of 

the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 208 ¿ 136 ¿ 22 mm. 


Provenance: On a 1 r deleted inscription: ‘Liber L ci Benedicti . . .’ 

On a 1 r 

inscription: ‘J. Herbert’ (eighteenth century). Lord 

Wenman; armorial book-plate on front pastedown (Howe, Book 

Plates, 31310); probably Philip, 7th Viscount (1742^1800). Philip 

Augustus Hanrott (1776^1856); sale (5 Aug. 1833), lot 367. 




Epistolae familiares et secundae. 

A1 v Mayno, Jason de: [Letter addressed to] Augustinus Papiensis. 

Incipit: ‘[A]ccepi abs te superioribus, mi Augustine, diebus . . .’ 

r 

A2 Crassus, Balthasar: ‘In libellos et epistolas Matthaei Bossi 

Canonici regularis . . . hexametrum’.‘[O]ptarem meritos tibi commendare 

libellos’. See Soranzo, Bosso,100, and in the index under 

Crasso Baldassare, Grasso Baldassare, and Grasso Bartolomeo. 

A3 r [Bossus, Matthaeus: Letter addressed to] Johannes Antonius 

de Sancto Georgius, Bishop of Alexandria. ‘Praefatio et epistola 

prima’. Incipit: ‘[G]entiles christianique philosophi ac scriptores 

. . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 100 and 255 (letter I). Dated Verona, 1 

May 1498. 

r 

A4 [Table of contents.] ‘Epistolarum numerus causaequae(!) scribendi’. 

A10 v [Bossus, Matthaeus]: ‘Argumentum’. [Note by the author on 

the publication of further letters.] 

b1 r Bossus, Matthaeus: Epistolae familiares. [Part II.] Incipit: 

‘[P]rudenter ne equidem satis operoseue e¡ecerim . . .’ 

refs. 231 letters. See Soranzo, Bosso, 101 and 255^92 (letters II^ 

CCXXXII). 

x6 v Bossus, Matthaeus: Epistolae [secundae]. Incipit: ‘[C]um istic 

agerem, Philippe . . .’ 

refs. Four letters. See Soranzo, Bosso,101^2 and 223^4 (letters I, 

II, XLIII (or XLVI?) and XLIX). 


v 

z6 ‘Registrum’. 

z7 r [Errata.] 

Mantua:Vincentius Bertochus, 9 Nov. 1498. Folio. On this edition 

see Soranzo, Bosso, 99^102 (gives ‘9 Sept. 1498’as the date of the 

imprint). 

collation: A 10 bî K l^y 6 z 8 . 

GW 4956 (+ var.); HC (+ Addenda) *3671; Go¡ B-1042; BMC VII 

934, XII 67; Pr 6911; BSB-Ink B-761; CIBN B-730; Hillard 473; 

Oates 2592; Sack, Freiburg, 790; Sheppard 5638^9. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf z8. 

Gathering b set up as in BMC VII 934 (IB.30686). 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled russia; 

border of vine leaves and grapes; marbled pastedowns. Size: 


Provenance: Milan, Regia Biblioteca Braidense; on A 2 r stamp 

‘Reg. Biblioth. Braidensis’ with monogram RBB; see Girolamo 

Tiraboschi, Vetera Humiliatorum monumenta (Milan, 1766^8), 

III 40 and 51, and Enciclopedia italianaVII 806 [ex informatione 

Pierangelo Bellettini, 29 Aug. 1994]. Luigi Celotti (c.1768^ 

c.1846); sale (1819), lot 220; probably acquired there by Heber; 

note on front endleaf ‘Apr. 1819 Sale by Sotheby 15.6’. Richard 

Heber (1773^1833); stamp on front endleaf ‘Bibliotheca 

Heberiana’; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 745. Purchased for »0. 8. 



-489^b-491] bossus, matthaeus 

653 

SECOND COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf z8. 

Gathering b set up as in BMC VII 934 (IB.30687). 


leaf: 296 ¿ 205 mm. 


(1848), 7. 



Recuperationes Faesulanae. 

H1 v Bossus, Matthaeus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Baroccius, 

Bishop of Padua. Incipit: ‘[S]uperiore anno multorum rogatu . . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 254 (letter CXXXV). 

H2 r ‘Rerum numerus titulique’. 

H 6 v [Note on errata.] 

a1 v Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epistola . . . ad lectorem’. Incipit: 

‘[S]criptionem ecclesiasticam plerique existimant consimilem 

esse uirgini ualentulae . . .’ 

a 2 r Bossus, Matthaeus: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Giovanni de’ 

Medici. Incipit: ‘[A] plerisque saepe rogatus . . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 254 (letter CXXXIII). Dated Fiesole, 

31 Mar. 1492. 

a3 r Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘De tolerandis adversis dialogus’. 

Dedicated to Johannes Philippus [Bossus], his brother. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uoniam cum saepe alias . . .’ 


b8 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Secunda collatio. . . Cur iniqui fortunacius 

agunt’. Incipit:‘[R]edeuntes postridie nosque salutantes amici . . .’ 

c7 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘De gerendo magistratu iustitiaque colenda 

opusculum’. Incipit:‘[C]onstituenti mihi tuis precibus impulso. . .’ 


e 7 r Bossus, Matthaeus: [De honesto cultu feminarum.] ‘Ne foeminea 

ornamenta Bononiensibus restituantur . . . cohortatio’. 

Incipit: ‘[P]udiciciam, quam omnes matronarum decus . . .’ 


f8 r Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio in azimorum die de beata domini 

coena’. Incipit:‘[M]ecum ipse cogitans, quibus ingenii uiribus . . .’ 


g2 r Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio in beata domini coena’. Incipit: 

‘[H]odiernus hic dies, reuerendi patres . . .’ 


g5 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘In magni Aurelii patris natalem festumque 

diem oratio’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uotiens, reuerendi patres uirique clarissimi, 

h�c alma lux . . .’ 


g8 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio. . . in laudem sanguinis domini Jesu 

Christi, qui pie religioseque Mantuae colitur’. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uingentis et eo amplius annis . . .’ 


h3 r Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘In solemni omnium caelitum die oratio’. 

Incipit: ‘[R]efulget hodie nobis, viri patres et commilitones . . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 72. 

h6 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio in beata coena domini’. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uod tentare iamdudum desieram . . .’ 


A1 r Bossus, Matthaeus: [Epistolae familiares. Part I.] ‘Diversarum 

rerum epistolae’. Incipit: ‘[C]um istic agerem, Philippe . . .’ 

refs. 133 letters. See Soranzo, Bosso, 223^54 (letters I^CXXXI). 

Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 20 July1493. Folio. On 

this edition see Soranzo, Bosso, 93^6. 

collation: H 6 a^g 8 h 6 i 4 AÎ k LÔ 8 . 



COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch(?) half calf; endpapers 

watermarked ‘D and G Blauw’; see H.Vorn, De papiermolens in 

de provincie Nord-Holland (Haarlem, 1960), 123. Size: 311 ¿ 



Provenance: Joachim Camerarius (1539^1598); on H 1 r inscription: 

‘Joachimo J[oachimi] F[ilio] Camerario’. J. T. Hand (£. 

1834^1837); inscription dated London 1835 on the front endleaf; 

sale (10 May 1837), lot 175. Purchased for »0. 5. 0; see Books 

Purchased (1837), 6 [another copy was purchased in 1848 for 

»0. 7. 6, Books Purchased (1848), 7.] 



Recuperationes Faesulanae. 

v 

a1 Beroaldus, Philippus: ‘Epistola . . . ad lectorem’. Incipit: 

‘[S]criptionem ecclesiasticam plerique existimant consimilem 

esse uirgini ualentulae . . .’ 

a2 r Bossus, Matthaeus: [Letter to] Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici. 

Incipit: ‘[A] plerisque saepe rogatus . . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 254 (letter CXXXIII). 

a3 r Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘De tolerandis adversis dialogus’. 

Dedicated to Johannes Philippus [Bossus], his brother. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uoniam cum saepe alias . . .’ 


b8 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Secunda collatio. . . Cur iniqui fortunacius 

agunt’. Incipit:‘[R]edeuntes postridie nosque salutantes amici . . .’ 

v 

c6 Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘De gerendo magistratu iustitiaque colenda 

opusculum’. Incipit:‘[C]onstituenti mihituis precibus impulso. . .’ 


v 

e5 Bossus, Matthaeus: [De honesto cultu feminarum.] ‘Ne foeminea 

ornamenta Bononiensibus restituantur . . . cohortatio’. 

Incipit: ‘[P]udiciciam, quam omnes matronarum decus . . .’ 


v 

f6 Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio in agimorum die de beata domini 

coena’. Incipit:‘[M]ecum ipse cogitans, quibus ingenii uiribus . . .’ 


f8 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio in beata domini coena’. Incipit: 

‘[H]odiernus hic dies, reuerendi patres . . .’ 


g4 r Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘In magni Aurelii patris natalem festumque 

diem oratio’. Incipit: ‘[Q]uotiens, reuerendi patres uirique clarissimi, 

haec alma lux . . .’ 


g6 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio. . . in laudem sanguinis domini Jesu 

Christi, qui pie religioseque Mantue colitur’. Incipit:‘[Q]uingentis 

et eo amplius annis . . .’ 


h1 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘In solemni omnium caelitum die oratio’. 

Incipit: ‘[R]efulget hodie nobis, viri patres et commilitones . . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 72.

654 boutillier, jean 

[b-491^b-495 

h4 v Bossus, Matthaeus: ‘Oratio in beata coena domini’. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uod tentare iamdudum desieram . . .’ 


i1 r Bossus, Matthaeus: [Epistolae familiares. Part I.] ‘Diversarum 

rerum epistolae’. Incipit: ‘[C]um istic agerem, Philippe . . .’ 

refs. 133 letters. See Soranzo, Bosso, 223^54 (letters I^CXXXI). 

Bologna: Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, (28 Oct.?) 1493. 4 o . The colophon 

reads: ‘Vigesimo octavo Kallendas Octobres’, interpreted 

by Go¡ as 28 Oct. On this edition see also Soranzo, Bosso, 96. 

collation: aî K lû 8 x 6 . 



COPY 

Binding: Parchment; marbled pastedowns. Size: 222 ¿ 158 ¿ 


On the front endleaves index and table of contents in humanist 

hands. Occasional early marginal notes. 

Provenance: The copy bought at the sale of J. T. Hand (1837), lot 

81, for »0. 4. 0, is no longer in the Library. Ingram Bywater (1840^ 

1914); Elenchus, no. 665. Bequeathed in 1914. 



Sermo de Jesu Christi passione. 

a1 r Bossus, Matthaeus: Sermo de Jesu Christi passione. Incipit: 

‘[D]e immanitate suplicii horrendaque morte parentis . . .’ 

refs. See Soranzo, Bosso, 73^4 and n. 24. 

Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 11 Nov. 1495. 4 o . 




COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth, for the Bodleian Library. 


Provenance: D. S. Steinhauer (seventeenth century); on b 6 v 

inscription: ‘D. S. Staynauer’. Duplicate from the Royal Library, 

Munich; ‘Dpl’ on a1 r . Purchased for ‘Fl. 3’ from Gilhofer & 

Ranschburg, Catalogue 3 (1885), no. 30; see Library Bills (1885), 

no. 210. 


B-493 Bouhic, Henricus 

Distinctiones superV libris Decretalium. 

r 

a2 Bouhic, Henricus: Distinctiones super V libris Decretalium. 

Edited by Franciscus Josserandi. Incipit: ‘[V]enerabilibus et discretis 

viris doctoribus . . .’ 

refs. See Schulte II 266^9 (no. 99). 

aaa1 r ‘[R]epertorium questionum et materiarum’. 

Lyons: Johannes Siber, for Jacques Buyer, 1498. Folio.With table. 

collation: a^l 8 m 4 A^M AA^NN AaÊe aa^nn 8 oo 10 aaa 8 bbb 6 

ccc 8 ddd 6 . 

GW 4964; HC *3682 (incl. C *3632); Go¡ B-1049; BMC VIII 255; 

Pr 8553; BSB-Ink B-629; Claudin III 213^16; Hillard 476; Oates 

3190; Rhodes 431; Sack, Freiburg, 791; Sheppard 6604^5. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves m 4, Ee 8, and oo 10. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century English (Cambridge?) calf over 

wooden boards, two clasps lost; staple-marks at the foot of the 

upper cover; rebacked. On both covers ¢llets form four concentric 

frames; the inner rectangle is divided by horizontal ¢llets 

into three compartments. In the central compartments, a £euron 

and the lettering I[ohn] B[etts], see Oldham, Blind-stamped 

Bindings, 49 n. 3. In the frames, two rolls: the ¢rst lettered 

Justitia, Prudentia, Suavitas, and Lucretia, the second Lucretia, 

Prudentia, and Suavitas; see Oldham pl. lxi, rolls no. 1079 and 


Former pastedowns now removed. 


Provenance: John Betts (�1598); evidence from binding (see 

above). Oxford, Merton College; presented in 1600; on a1 r 

inscription: ‘Liber vniuersitatis Oxon[iensis] ex dono collegij 

Merton’; see James, Catalogus (1605), 224. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: B 3.7 Jur. 


SECOND COPY 

Wanting gatherings Aa^ddd (the ‘Distinctiones super lib. IV,V’, 

and ‘Repertorium’). 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English blind-tooled mottled calf, 

formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper 

cover; rebacked. Size: 437 ¿ 300 ¿ 75 mm. Size of leaf: 425 ¿ 

278 mm. 


Provenance: Richard Layton (1500?^1544); on a1 r inscription: 

‘Liber Ric. Layton’. William Mouse (�1588); on a1 r inscription: 

‘Guliel. Mouse’. John Selden (1584^1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, 

p. 11. Presented in 1659. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: C 1. 1 Jur. Seld. 

shelfmark: B 1.7 Th. Seld. 

B-494 Bourdeille, Helias de 

Contra pragmaticam Gallorum sanctionem. 

[a1 r ] Bourdeille, Helias de: Contra pragmaticam Gallorum sanctionem. 

Incipit: ‘[A] summo celo ueniens in hunc mundum . . .’ 

See LMA II 509. 

Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1486. 4 o . 

collation: [a b 8 c 10 ]. 

GW 4966; HC 3687 = H *8421; Go¡ B-1050; BMC XII 10; Pr 3821; 

BSB-Ink B-768; CIBN B-737; Hillard 478; Sack, Freiburg, 792; 


COPY 




B-495 Boutillier, Jean 

La somme rurale [French]. 

[ 1 a 1 r ] ‘La table du premier liure’. 

[1a10 v ] [Colophon.] 

[1b1 r ] Boutillier, Jean: La somme rurale. Lib. I. Incipit: ‘[O]u nom 

du roy Jhesus Amen. Comme moy, petit clerc indigne . . .’ See 

Guido van Dievoet, Jehan Boutillier en de Somme rural, 

Universiteit te Leuven, Publicaties op het gebied der geschiedenis 

en der philologie, 3/41 (Louvain, 1951), 93^4. 

[ 2 a 1 r ] ‘La table de ce second liure’.

-495^b-497] bovillus, nicolaus 

655 

[ 2 b1 r ] Boutillier, Jean: La somme rurale. Lib. II. Incipit: ‘[P]uis que 

dit et monstre ay des drois . . .’ 

[ 2 v 

k3 ] ‘Coppie du testament du compilleur de ce present liure’. 

Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine domini Amen. Sachent tous que je Jehan 

Boutillier . . .’ 

[ 2 r 

k6 ] [Colophon.] 

Bruges: Colard Mansion, 1479. Folio. 

collation: [ 1 a 10 b^y 8 2 a 4 b^g 8 h 10 i 8 k 6 ]. 

GW 4967; HC 3688; Go¡ B-1051; BMC IX 133; Pr 9320; 

Boekdrukkunst (1973), 104; Campbell 360; CIBN B-738; HPT II 

395; ILC 459; Sheppard 7065. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf [ 2 k6]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century French blind-tooled brown morocco 

with gold ¢llets, signed at foot by ‘Hague¤ ’; on the boards 

gold-tooled calf panels inlaid and painted in various colours, imitating 

Grolier designs; watered silk linings. Nineteenth-century 

¢tted box, covered in red leather; marbled edges and green silk 

linings; key lost. Size: 380 ¿ 280 ¿ 75 mm. Size of leaf: 371 ¿ 

258 mm. 

The three tables of consanguinity on [ 1 r 2 v ], [ 1 r4 v ], and [ 1 r6 v ] supplied 

in manuscript in red and blue. 

On [ 1 b1 r ] and [ 2 b1 r ] initials are supplied in blue with pen-£ourishing 

in red and green; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied 

in red and blue; red foliation, capital strokes, and 

underlining. 

Provenance: Alphonse Honore¤ Taillandier (1797âfter 1867); 

bibliographical note signed A. T. Purchased from Quaritch for 

»220; see Library Bills, 21 Apr. 1874, and Macray 389. 


B-495A Boutillier, Jean 

La somme rurale [French]. 

Abbeville: Pierre Ge¤ rard, 1486. Folio. 

collation: aa 10 a^r i | s t 8 ; AA 4 A^F 8 G 10 H 8 I 6 . 

GW 4968; HC 3689; Go¡ B-1052; not in Pr; CIBN B-739; Oates 

3273; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Two fragments of leaf r 5 only [ex informatione Nicholas Smith, 

Rare Books Dept., Cambridge University Library]. 

Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments. Size of 

fragments: 148 ¿ 217 mm. 

Two- and three-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red or blue. 

Provenance: Acquired from Theodore Hofmann; see letter 

addressed to Dr R.W. Hunt, dated 29 Mar. 1972. 


B-496 Bovillus, Carolus 

De constitutione et utilitate artium humanarum. 

a1 v Bovillus, Carolus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Faber 

Stapulensis. 

refs. Rice 128^9. 

a2 r Bovillus, Carolus: De constitutione et utilitate artium humanarum.‘Prohemium’. 

Incipit: ‘[C]um diligentissimi nature rerum 

indagatores . . .’ 

v 

a2 ‘Operis dispositio’. 

a3 v Bovillus, Carolus: De constitutione et utilitate artium humanarum. 

Incipit: ‘[A]rs est certus modus . . .’ 

v 

c8 Pellitarius, Johannes: ‘Decastichon ad lectores’.‘Candide succincti 

lector cole sensa libelli’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

[Paris: Gaspard Philippe], for Jean Petit, [c.1500]. 4 o . Dated from 

the state of the device by GW; ISTC recrods that it is dated from 

external evidence to before 27 June 1500 by S. Musial, ‘Dates de 

naissance . . . de Charles de Bovelles’, Actes du Colloque 

International . . . Charles de Bovelles 1479^1979 (Paris, 1982), 42 

n. 42. 



GW 4975; not in Pr; Sheppard 6553^4. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Peri Archon (id est de principiis) scientiarum. Paris: Henricus 

Stephanus, 6 Oct. 1513; 

2. Destructio naturarum communium contra reales. [Paris: Georg 

Mittelhus, c.1495] (D-042); 

4. Carolus Bovillus, Physicorum elementorum libri decem. Paris: 

Jean Petit and Josse Bade, 13 Dec. 1512; 

5. Carolus Bovillus, Metaphysicum introductorium. [Paris]: Guy 

Marchant, for Jean Petit, 1503; 

6. Carolus Bovillus, Dominica oratio tertrinis ecclesiasticae hierarchiae 

ordinibus particulatim attributa. [Paris]: Jean Petit, 6 Oct. 

1511; 

7. Carolus Bovillus, Commentarius in primordiale evangelium divi 

Johannis.Vita Raymundi eremitae. Philosophicae aliquot epistolae. 

[Paris]: Josse Bade, 3 Dec. 1511. 



Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; not found in 

Catalogus (1843), although the shelfmark indicates a date of 

acquisition before1835. 

shelfmark: 4 o T 28(3) Th. BS. 

SECOND COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns. 


Date‘1553’on a1 r . 

Paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining in red. 

Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Elenchus, no. 668. 



B-497 Bovillus, Nicolaus 

Contra obtinentes plura bene¢cia. 

r 

[a1 ] Bovillus, Nicolaus: Contra obtinentes plura bene¢cia.‘Breuis 

conclusio a recta via iuris non deuians perutilis’. Incipit: 

‘[H]abens bene¢tium quntumcunque simplex . . .’ 

[Paris: Georg Mittelhus, c.1493]. 8 o . As dated by Sheppard; GW 

[c.1495]. 


GW 4976; C 1225; Pr 8115; Sheppard 6335. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with black cloth; bound 

for the Bodleian Library. Size: 134 ¿ 95 ¿ 9 mm. Size of 

leaf: 128 ¿ 86 mm.

656 brack, wenceslaus 

[b-497^b-500 

Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; acquired between 

1847 and c.1892; not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 


B-498 Braccellus, Jacobus 

De bello Hispano. 

[a2 r ] Braccellus, Jacobus: [Preface addressed to] Philippus Maria 

Sforza. Incipit: ‘[S]olent saepenumero uiri docti . . .’ 

refs. Saxius 538^9. 

[a4 r ] [Poem in praise of the book.] ‘Cur aliena placent tantum quod 

propria te[m]nis > Facta? etiam mentem pagina nostra iuuat’; 4 


refs. Saxius 539. 

[b1 r ] Braccellus, Jacobus: De bello Hispano. Edited by Masellus 

Venia [Beneventanus]. Incipit: ‘[I]nter maxima plurimaque litterarum 

bene¢cia . . .’ 

refs. Jacobus Braccellus, De bello quod inter Hispanos et 

Genuenses seculo suo gestum libri V, in J. G. Graevius, Thesaurus 

antiquitatum ethistoriarum Italiae, I/2 (Leiden,1725),1261^1322. 

[Milan?: Archangelus Ungardus?, c.1476^7]. 4 o . On the printer see 

BMC. Pr and GWassign to [Philippus de Lavagnia, c.1475]. 

collation: [a 4 b^f 8 g 4 h^l 8 m 6 ]. 

GW 4981; HC 3695 = H 3696; Go¡ B-1057; BMC VI 735; Pr 5865; 


COPY 



Sixteenth-century marginal notes. 


sale (1835), lot 812. Henri Ternaux-Compans (1807^1864); 

gilt stamp on both covers: a ram’s head with the initials ‘H T’. 



B-499 Brack,Wenceslaus 

Vocabularius rerum. 


r 

a1 Brack,Wenceslaus: Vocabularius rerum. Incipit: ‘[W]enceslaus 

Brack artium professor et examinator . . .’ See VL I 983. 

h2 v Isidorus Hispalensis: ‘Ethimologie nominum quorundam’. 

refs. Isid. Orig. 10. 

r 

i2 [Brack,Wenceslaus]: ‘De verbis paruula positio ob tabule paruitatem’. 

Incipit: ‘Abalieno as empfrembden . . .’ 

k1 v Brack, Wenceslaus: [De modo epistolandi.] Dedicated to 

Johannes Lantz prepositus in Ho¡en. Incipit: ‘Si iuuat alta recolere 

mente . . .’ 

p1 r Hugo [de SanctoVictore]: Didascalicon. 

refs. Hugo de Sancto Victore, Didascalicon, ed. Charles Henry 

Buttimer, Catholic University of America, Studies in Medieval 

and Renaissance Latin, 10 (Washington, DC, 1939), 1^133. 

[Augsburg: Anton Sorg], 14 Sept. 1487. 4 o . 

collation: [* 4 ] a^n 8 o 4 p^x 8 . 



COPY 

Probably formerly bound with: 

2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De proprietatibus terminorum. 

Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 1488 (GW 7027), but not with the 

Bodleian copy (Auct. O inf. 1.64). 

Binding: Contemporary German (Kyri� workshop no. 154) 

blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, ¢ve bosses on the 

upper cover, four bosses on the lower cover, and two clasps lost. 

Book-label at the head of the upper cover. On both covers ¢llets 

form a frame; the inner rectangle is divided by diagonal ¢llets 

into four triangular compartments. In the compartments a 

rosette with ¢llets emanating from it; along the diagonal ¢llets, 

headed-outline tools. For the stamps see Kyri� pl. 309, nos 1, 11. 

Title on lower edge. Manuscript fragments used as reinforcing 

strips. Printed Tegernsee shelfmark-label ‘L.68.2 o ’ on the upper 

cover. Printed label with no. ‘255’ on spine. Size: 210 ¿ 140 ¿ 


On [*1 r ] a manuscript list of contents in the hand of Ambrosius 

Schwerzenbeck, librarian of Tegernsee (£. 1483/4^1494): 

‘Contenta huius libri: Vocabularium Archonium. Tractatus de 

modo epistolandi Benczeslai Brack. Libri Hugonis de sancto 

Victore in Dydascolicon. Liber Cyceronis de proprietatibus terminorum 

quo ad d[i¡erenti]as in modo signi¢candi’ (last item 

extracted).‘No. 34’ written on the front pastedown. 

Principal initials are supplied in red with pen-£ourishing; other 

initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital 


Provenance: Wolfgangus Foerster (¢fteenth century); name on 

[* 1 r ] in red, crossed out. Heinrich Ku« ntzner (�1544); given by 

him to Tegernsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. Quirinus; on [*1 r ] 

note by Schwerzenbeck: ‘Hunc librum obtulit Deo et sancto 

Quirino martyri Patrono nostro in Tegernsee frater Heinricus 

Ku« nczner de Kophstay« n Hic professus Anno domini 1491 in die 

Ascensionis domini’. ‘Duplum quorum I et II’ on front pastedown. 

No. ‘5052’ on [*1 r ]. Purchased from Albert Cohn, 

Catalogue 160, no. 419, for 12 Marks; see Library Bills, 26 May 

1884. 




A2 r Brack, Wenceslaus: Vocabularius rerum. Incipit: 

‘[W]enczeslaus Brack artis professor et examinator . . .’ See VL I 

983. 

H6 v [Colophon.] 

r 

H7 ‘Tabula’. 

Strasbourg: Johann Pru« ss, 5 Jan. 1489. 4 o . 

collation: A^F 8.6 G 6 H 8 . 

GW 4990; HC Addenda, *3705; Go¡ B-1064; BMC I 122; Pr 541; 


COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf H 8. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco with dark 

blue cloth; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 208 ¿ 150 ¿ 



On A2 r paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in 

red. 

Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich;‘Dpl’on 

A1 r . Purchased from Albert Cohn for 8 Marks; see Library Bills, 

25 Feb. 1886. 


-501^b-504] brant, sebastian 

657 



a1 r Brack,Wenceslaus: Vocabularius rerum. Incipit:‘[W]enczeslaus 

Brack artis professor et examinator . . .’ See VL I 983. 


h7 r ‘Tabula’. 


Husner)], 22 Dec. 1495. 4 o . 

collation: a b 8 c 4 d e 8 f 4 g h 8 . 

GW 4993; H *3708; Go¡ B-1067; BMC I 145; Pr 640; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blue cloth; bound for the Bodleian 


Provenance: On a 4 v a nineteenth-century(?) inscription: ‘Georg 

Wei� chindtarzt(?) geho« rig’. Date of acquisition unknown; the 

shelfmark and the binding suggest a date of c.1884^5. 


B-502 Bradwardine,Thomas 

Arithmetica speculativa. 

r 

A2 Bradwardine,Thomas [pseudo-; Simon Bredon]: Arithmetica 

speculativa. Edited by Petrus Sanchez Cirvelus. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uantitatum alia continua . . .’A commentary on Boethius, De 

aritmetica; see Sharpe, LatinWriters, no. 1632. 

Paris: Guy Marchant, Feb. 1495. 4 o . 

collation: A B 8 . 

Six woodcuts. 

GW 5003; C1231 = 1232; Go¡ B-1071; BMC VIII 61; Pr 7998; CIBN 


6221. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. MS: Julian of Toledo, Liber pronosticarum futuri seculi 

(English, early ¢fteenth century); 

2. Johannes Huswirt, Enchiridion novus algorismi. Cologne: 

Heinrich Quentell,1504. 

Wanting leaves A1 and B8 (with ¢ve woodcuts). 

Leaves A8, B1 and A2^7 bound as fols 29^36 between b4 and c1 of 

item 2; B 2^7 bound as fols 47^52 after d 4 of item 2. A 8 and B 1 

bound before A2. 

Binding: Bound in paper boards, covered with parchment leaves 

from a ¢fteenth-century antiphonary with two gold initials on a 

blue and red ground. Size: 215 ¿ 145 ¿ 10 mm. Size of 

leaf: 202 ¿ 138 mm. 


Provenance: Probably acquired between 1613 and 1620, see SC 

2003. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Th. 4 o T.4. 

shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 476(3). 

B-503 Brandolinus, Lippus Aurelius 

Oratio pro S.Thoma Aquinate. 

[a1 r ] Brandolinus, Lippus [Aurelius]: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal 

Oliverius Carafa. Incipit: ‘[E]tsi singularem erga me beniuolentiam 

tuam . . .’ 

[a2 v ] Brandolinus, Lippus [Aurelius]: Oratio pro S. Thoma 

Aquinate. 

refs. L. Cinelli, ‘I panegirici in onore di S. Tommaso d’Aquino 

alla Minerva nel XV secolo’, Memorie Domenicane, n.s., 30 

(1999), 19^146, at 72 no. 4 and 113^20. 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1488^9?]. 4 o . As dated by CIBN; 

Sheppard dates [1483^7], GW [c.1485^90]. 


GW 5016; HCR 3716; C 1233; Go¡ B-1074; BMC IV 122; Pr 3935; 


COPY 




B-504 Brant, Sebastian 

Das Narrenschi¡ [German]. 

r 

a1 Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡. [Note by the author.] 

refs. Sebastian Brant, Sebastian Brants Narrenschi¡, ed. 

Friedrich Zarncke (Leipzig, 1854), 1; see also VL I 992^1005. 

r 

a2 Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡. ‘Ein vorred in das 

Narrenschi¡’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke,1^4. Sebastian Brant, Das 

Narrenschi¡. Nach der Erstausgabe (Basel1494) mitden Zusa« tzen 

der Ausgaben von 1495 und 1499, ed. Manfred Lemmer, 3rd edn 

(Tu« bingen,1986), 2^6. 

a4 v Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡.‘Von vnnutzen buchern’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 4^114; Brant, 

Narrenschi¡, ed. Lemmer, 6^208. 

v2 v [First Colophon.] 

r 

v3 Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡.‘Der wy� man’. 



v 

v4 [Second Colophon.] ‘End des narrenschi¡s’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 115; Brant, Narrenschi¡, 

ed. Lemmer, 210. 

v5 r ‘Register des Narrenschi¡s’. 

Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 12 Feb. 1499. 4 o . 

collation: a^t 8 u v 6 . 

114 woodcuts; two woodcut borders on each page. 

GW 5047; HC 3742; BMC III 797; Pr 7782; Schreiber V 3560; 

Sheppard 2563. Se¤ bastien Brant. 500e anniversaire de La Nef des 

Folz (Basel, 1994), 182^7. 

COPY 

Wanting k8, m4.5, q5 and r7. 

Leafa 8 is bound after a 1, i 8 bound after e 7, m 5 bound after q 4. f 6, h 8 

and v6 mutilated.The missing text on h8, k8 and v6 has been added 

in manuscript. 

Binding: Old paper boards covered with coloured £oral paper. 


In the Register, numbers added in manuscript. On back pastedown 

‘1677 12 Febr. au� gela« �en ieden menschen zur ba« �erung’. 

Provenance: Sebastian Schedel (�1628); on front pastedown 

printed and coloured armorial book-plate: a moor’s head, with 

motto ‘Ich lass passiern’, inscribed ‘Sebastian Schedel’, see 

Siebmacher, Bu« rgerlicheWappenV,1 pl. 76 for an identical coat of 

arms, but with an uncoloured head, from an Album amicorum

658 brant, sebastian 

[b-504^b-506 

dated Vienna, 7 Feb. 1594. Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial 




Das Narrenschi¡ (expanded text, entitled ‘Das neue 

Narrenschi¡’) [German]. 

a2 r [Ps 106,23 and 26^7]. 

a2 r Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡. ‘Ein forrede in das 

Narrenschi¡’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke,1; Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. 

Lemmer, 2. 

a2 r [Ps 106,23, 26^7, and 4^5 [German].] Incipit: ‘Das sind dye sich 

wagen auf das moo e r . . .’ 

a2 r [Sap14,3^5 [German].] Incipit:‘Du hast geben in dem mo e re einen 

weg . . .’ 

v 

a2 [Woodcut.] ‘Der mag wol vom glu« ckrad sagen’; 4 lines of verse. 

a3 r Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡. [Vorrede, second part.] 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 2^4; Brant, Narrenschi¡, 

ed. Lemmer, 2^6. 

v 

a4 Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡. [Expanded text.] ‘Vnnu« tze 

bucher’. 



s4 r [Colophon.] ‘End des varregonens(!) schi¡s’. Incipit: ‘Hie endet 

sich das neu« schi¡ au� Narrogonia . . .’ 

v 

s4 ‘Register des neu« en narrenschi¡s’. 

Augsburg: Johann Scho« nsperger, 28 May 1498. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b^h 6 i k 4 l 6 m n 4 o^s 6 . 

119 woodcuts; 4 woodcut borders. 


B-823; Schreiber V 3566; Sheppard 1304. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf s6. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century German(?) blind and gold-tooled 

morocco; the central panel diced; marbled pastedowns. Size: 



13. 



Das Narrenschi¡ [Latin] Stultifera navis (with captions). 

a1 r [Title-page with date‘1497’and motto and name of Bergmann de 

Olpe.] 

a1 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 210^11. 

a1 v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 211. Dated Freiburg, 1 

Feb. [14]97. 

a3 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad S[ebastianum] Brant’. 


a 4 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon’. ‘Grandibus possunt numeris 

tonare’; 15 sapphic strophes. 

a5 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 212. 

a 5 v [Ps 106,23 and 26^7].‘Ad Narragoniam’. 

a5 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatostichon’. 


a6 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis 

Narragonice e barbaria in latiale solum exhortatio’. 


a6 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In narragonicam profectionem celeusma’. 


a7 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narrogoniam’. 


a8 v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et 

libelli Narragonici’. 


b2 v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam’. 

refs. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 213. 

r 

b3 Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡ [Latin]. Stultifera navis.‘De 

inutilibus libris’.Translated by Jacobus Locher Philomusus.‘Inter 

precipuos pars est mihi reddita stultos’. 

refs. Chapters 1, 4, and 62 edited in Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. 

Zarncke, 214^15. 

r8 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio’.‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis’; 20 

sapphic strophes. 

r 

s3 [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis me[ch]anicorum’.‘Stultorum 

trahitur collecta caterua virorum’; 20 elegiac distichs. 

s3 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago’. 


s4 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum 

fatuorum additio’. 


s7 r Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de 

Olpe. Incipit: ‘Etsi non dubito, amice iucundissime . . .’ 

s8 r [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe’. 

‘Me rogo commendes nostro, iucunde Johannes’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

s8 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem Bergmanum 

festine adeant’. ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte salutes’; 27 elegiac 

distichs. 

t1 v [Colophon.] ‘Finis stultifere nauis’. 

r 

t2 ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 

Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 Mar. 1497. 4 o . 


117 woodcuts; woodcut border. 

GW 5054; HC 3746 = [not H]C Addenda 3747; Go¡ B-1086; BMC 

III 795; Pr 7776; BSB-Ink B-817; CIBN B-758; Oates 2849; 

Rhodes 435; Sack, Freiburg, 809; Schreiber V 3567; Sheppard 

2557^8; Se¤ bastien Brant. 500e anniversaire, 193. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English russia; 


leaf: 211 ¿ 152mm. 

Copperplate portrait of Sebastian Brant, removed from a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

book about Basel/Amerbach?, 

pasted on verso of front endleaf. Engraving lettered ‘Der Weiber- 

Narr’attached to rear endleaf. Engraving of a book-collector with 

a caption in Latin and German pasted onto rear pastedown. 


Woodcut on b 3 r coloured. Ink drawing of a fool on l8 r . 


This item was stolen from the Bodleian by Bruno Pagano (b.


659 

c.1942), using the name‘C. B. Poli’on12 June1978, and was recovered 

on 14 Sept. The ink-written shelfmark has been bleached 

from inside the upper cover, as have the impressions of the circular 

Douce stamp from both the title-leaves; the paper shelf number 

has also been almost completely removed from the foot of the 

spine. The site of the Douce book-plate has been covered up by 

pasting over it a copy of the armorial book-plate of Sinclair, 

which bears the shelfmark C.VI.17. Now restamped; a new 

Douce book-plate has been inserted. 


SECOND COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf covering early(?) half calf over 

wooden boards, one clasp lost; the lower cover is detached; the 



Some woodcuts coloured in red, green, and yellow. 

Provenance: Purchased fromThomasThorpe, London, for »2. 2. 

0; see Catalogue (1830), no. 5079; Library Bills (1829^32), no.156; 




Das Narrenschi¡ [Latin] Stultifera navis (trans. Jacobus 

Locher; with captions). 

r 

A1 [Title-page with date‘1497’and motto and name of Bergmann de 

Olpe.] 

A1 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem’. 


v 

A1 Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. Dated 

Freiburg,1 Feb. [14]97. 


v 

A3 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad Se[bastianum] Brant’. 


A4 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon’. ‘Grandibus possunt numeris 


A5 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores’. 


A5 v [Ps 106,23 and 26^7].‘Ad Narragoniam’. 

v 

A5 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatostichon’. 


r 

A6 Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis 



v 

A6 Brant, Sebastian: ‘In narragonicam profectionem celeusma’. 


A7 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narrogoniam’. 


v 

A8 [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et 



v 

b2 [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam’. 


b3 r Brant, Sebastian: Stultifera navis. ‘De inutilibus libris’. 

Translated by Jacobus Locher Philomusus. ‘Inter precipuos pars 

est mihi reddita stultos’. 





s3 r [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum’. ‘Stultorum 




r 

s4 Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum 







v 

s8 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem Bergmanum 


distichs. 

t1 v [Colophon by Johannes Bergmann de Olpe.] ‘Finis stultifere 

Nauis’. 

t2 r ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 

[Nuremberg: Georg Stuchs, after 1 Mar. 1497]. 8 o . Reprinted in 

Nuremberg from the edition of Basel: Johann Bergmann, 1 Mar. 

1497 (GW 5054), including the colophon. 

collation: A 8 b^s 8 t 4 . 

117 woodcuts; woodcut initials. 

GW 5055; H *3747; Go¡ B-1087; BMC II 471; Pr 7775; Schramm 

XVIII p. 21; Schreiber V 3568; Sheppard 1651; Se¤ bastien Brant. 

500e anniversaire, 193^4. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; single gilt ¢llets on 

covers; gold-tooled spine; marbled pastedowns. Size: 158 ¿ 


Provenance: Augsburg, Bavaria, Discalced Carmelites, S. Anna; 

on A 1 r ‘Conuentus Augustani Carmelitarum Discalceatorum’. 

Francis Douce (1757^1834). Bequeathed in 1834. This item was 

stolen from the Bodleian by Bruno Pagano (b. c.1942), using the 

name ‘C. B. Poli’ on 12 June 1978, and was recovered on 14 Sept. 

The ink-written shelfmark has been bleached from inside the 

upper cover, as have the impressions of the circular Douce 

stamp from both the title-leaves; the paper shelf number has also 

been almost completely removed from the foot of the spine. The 

site of the Douce book-plate has been covered up by pasting over 

it a copy of the armorial book-plate of Sinclair, which bears the 

shelfmark QQ.ix.18. Now restamped; a new Douce book-plate 

has been inserted. 






r 

a2 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem’. 


a2 r Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. 


Feb. [14]97. 

a4 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad S[ebastianum] B[rant]’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 211^12.


[b-508^b-509 

a4 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon’. ‘Grandibus possunt numeris 


v 

a5 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigrramma(!) in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores’. 


r 

a6 [Ps 106,23 and 26^7].‘Ad Narragoniam’. 

a6 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatostichon’. 


v 

a6 Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis 

narragonice e barbaria in latiale solum exhortatio’. 


r 

a7 Brant, Sebastian: ‘In narragonicam profectionem celeusma’. 


a7 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narrogoniam’. 


b1 r [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et 

libelli narragonici’. 


r 

b3 [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam’. 


b3 v Brant, Sebastian: Stultifera navis. ‘De inutilibus libris’. 







v 

s2 [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis me[ch]anicorum’.‘Stultorum 




r 

s4 Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate qu[o]rundam nouorum fatnorum(!) 

additio’. 


v 

s6 Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de 




s8 v Locher, Jacobus; Philomusus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem 

Bergmunum(!) festine adeant’. ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte 

salutes’; 27 elegiac distichs. 

t1 v [Colophon by Johannes Bergmann de Olpe.] ‘Finis stultifere 

nauis’. 

r 

t2 ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 

t4 r [Colophon.] 

Augsburg: Johann Scho« nsperger, 1 Apr. 1497. 8 o . Reprinted from 

the edition of Basel: Johann Bergmann, 1 Mar. 1497 (GW 5054), 

r 

including the colophon, with added colophon on t4 . 


118 woodcuts. 


B-818; Schreiber V 3569; Sheppard 1298^9. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled olive morocco, edges 

gilt. Size: 154 ¿ 106 ¿ 24 mm. Size of leaf: 150 ¿ 101 mm. 

Paragraph marks supplied in red; red underlining, capitals 

touched in yellow. Hairlines added throughout in earlybrown ink. 

Provenance: Purchased by Heber for »1. 13. 0, according to the 

price annotated in red ink in Heber’s sale catalogue. Richard 

Heber (1773^1833); see Catalogue, 6 (1835), lot 439. Purchased 



SECOND COPY 

Wanting sheet a1.8 and leaves t2^4. 



leaf: 154 ¿ 96 mm. 








r 


A1 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem’. 


v 

A1 Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. 


Feb. [14]97. 

r 

A3 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad Se[bastianum] B[rant]’. 


A3 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Saphicon’. ‘Grandibus possunt numeris 

tonare’; 15 strophes. 

v 

A4 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma in Narragoniam . . . ad lectores’. 


A4 v [Ps 106,23 and 26^7].‘Ad Narragoniam’. 

v 

A4 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatosticon’. 


r 

A5 Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis 



A5 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In narrogonicam(!) profectionem celeusma’. 


A5 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam’. 


B1 r [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et 



B2 v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam’. 


v 

B2 Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschi¡ [Latin] Stultifera navis.‘De 

inutilibus libris’.Translated by Jacobus Locher Philomusus.‘Inter 

precipuos pars est mihi reddita stultos’. 



x4 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio’.‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis’; 20 


v 

x5 [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum’.‘Stultorum 


x6 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 119.


661 

x6 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum 



y2 v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de 


v 

y3 [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe’. 


y4 r Locher, Jacobus; Philomusus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem 

Bergmanum festine adeant’. ‘Ite, rudes numeri, millenas ferte 

salutes’; 27 elegiac distichs. 

y4 v [Colophon.] 

v 

y4 ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 

Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 1 June 1497. 4 o . 

collation: A B 6 C^H 4.6 I K 4 L^V 6.4 x y 6 . 

118 woodcuts. 

GW 5057; H *3749; Go¡ B-1089; BMC I112; Pr 480; BSB-Ink B-819; 

Schramm XX p. 23; Schreiber V 3570; Sheppard 388^9. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English(?) blind and gold-tooled 

calf; endpapers watermarked ‘1811’. Size: 204 ¿ 145 ¿ 19 mm. 


After D5 is pasted a coloured woodcut with a note by Douce, a 

modi¢ed impression of the woodcut on D5 v , cut out of F2 r of the 

edition of Horace, Opera printed in Strasbourg by Johann 

(Reinhard) Gru« ninger on 12 Mar. 1498, cf. Auct. O 2.6 and 

Douce 232. 




SECOND COPY 

WantingV1. 

Binding: Old parchment. Size: 193 ¿ 147 ¿ 22 mm. Size of 

leaf: 191 ¿ 140 mm. 

Woodcut on B 3 r coloured. 

Provenance: On front pastedown inscription: ‘G. de Wind’ 

(seventeenth century). Purchased ‘At Wise’s 1st auction of 

Thorpe’s Books’, lot 599 for »0. 12. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1832), 4, and Financial Statements (1828^32; 1837^40, Library 

Records b. 4), no. 16,‘Books purchased by the Librarian’. 



Das Narrenschi¡ [French] La nef des folz du monde 

(trans. from the Latin version of Locher by Pierre 

Rivie' re; with Latin captions and references in the 

margins). 

r 

a1 [Title-page with woodcut and advertisement for Geo¡roy de 

Marnef.] ‘Hommes mortelz qui desirez scauoir’; 10 lines of decasyllabic 

verse. 


a2 r 

[Rivie' re, Pierre]: ‘Le prologue du translateur’. Incipit: 

‘[C]onsiderant que‘‘Non omnibus vna doctrina est adhibenda . . .’ 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 219^20. On authorship 

see Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 219 note. The translation of 

the Narrenschi¡ is ascribed to Rivie' re in Jean Bouchet, Lesgenealogies, 

e⁄gies et epitaphes des roys de France (Poitiers, 1545), fol. 

78 r . 

a2 r Locher, Jacobus: [Prologus.] ‘Prologue’. [Translated by Pierre 

Rivie' re.] Incipit: ‘[C]omme ie eusse a par moy par long temps et 

grandement cogite . . .’ 

a3 v [Locher, Jacobus: Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et 

libelli Narragonici [French].] ‘Prolude’. [Translated by Pierre 

Rivie' re.] ‘Par tout le monde et regions’; octosyllabic verse. 


v 

a6 [Locher, Jacobus: Argumentum in Narragoniam.] ‘Argument 

en la Nef des folz du monde’. [Translated by Pierre Rivie' re.] 

Incipit: ‘[A] la felicite et saluberrime enseignement . . .’ 

a6 v [Rivie' re, Pierre: Verse.] ‘Cy s’ensuit le premier chappitre’; 7 lines 

of octosyllabic verse. 

r 

b1 Brant, Sebastian: [La nef des folz du monde.] ‘Des liures inutilz’. 

[Translated from the Latin version of Jacobus Locher by Pierre 

Rivie' re.] ‘Le premier fol de la nef suis’; octosyllabic verse. 



v 

v5 [Brant, Sebastian: Socialis nauis mechanicorum; octosyllabic 

verse.] ‘De la nef socalle mechanicque’. [Translated by Pierre 

Rivie' re.] ‘La turbe des plusieurs iniques’; octosyllabic verse. 

v6 v [Brant, Sebastian: De singularitate quorundam nouorum 

fatuorum additio [French].] ‘De la singularite d’aucuns nouueaulx 

folz addicion’. [Translated by Pierre Rivie' re.] ‘Pource que deuons 

auoir soing’; octosyllabic verse. 

v 

x3 [Rivie' re, Pierre: Poem addressed to Pallas Athene.] ‘Or auons 

nous excerce noz beaulx ieux’; 10 strophes of 9 decasyllabic verses 

each. 

x4 r ‘La table de ce present liure’. 

Paris: [Fe¤ lix Baligault?, for] Geo¡roy de Marnef and Johann 

Philippi (Manstener), [not before Dec.] 1497. Folio. GWassigns 

the printing to [Jean Lambert]. 

collation: a 6 b 8 c^x 6 . 

117 woodcuts. 

GW 5058; H 3754; Go¡ B-1094; BMC VIII 178; Pr 8257; CIBN 

B-763; Se¤ bastien Brant. 500e anniversaire, 203; Sheppard 6446. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; triple gilt ¢llets form a border; 

edges of boards and turn-ins gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns. 



book about Basel/Amerbach?, 

pasted on verso of front endleaf. 





Das Narrenschi¡ [French] La nef des folz du monde 

(trans. from the Latin version of Locher by Jean Drouyn; 

with Latin captions). 

a1 r [Title-page with woodcut and advertisement for Guillaume 

Balsarin.] ‘Hommes mortelz qui desirez scauoir’; 10 lines of decasyllabic 

verse. 


a2 r 

[Drouyn, Jean]: ‘Le prologue du translateur’. Incipit: 

‘[C]ognoissant que ‘‘Melius est habundare quam de¢cere� . . .’ 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 226^7. On authorship see 

Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 226 note.


[b-511^b-512 

a2 v Locher, Jacobus: [Prologus.] ‘Prologue’. [Translated by Pierre 

Rivie' re.] Incipit: ‘[C]omme ie eusse a par moy par long temps et 

grandement cogite . . .’ 

a3 v [Locher, Jacobus: Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et 

libelli Narragonici [French Prose].] ‘Prolude’. [Translated by Jean 

Drouyn.] Incipit: ‘[M]aintenant est le monde plain de science . . .’ 

a4 v [Locher, Jacobus: Argumentum in Narragoniam.] ‘Argument 

en la Nef des folz du monde’. [Translated by Pierre Rivie' re.] 

Incipit: ‘[A] la felicite et saluberrime enseignement . . .’ 

r 

a5 [Brant, Sebastian: La nefdes folz du monde.] ‘Des liures inutilz’. 

[Translated from the Latin version of Jacobus Locher by Pierre 

Rivie' re and Jean Drouyn.] Incipit: ‘Le premier fol de la nef 

suys . . .’ 


Zarncke, 228^30. The ¢rst seven lines of each chapter from 

Rivie' re’s translation in octosyllabic verse, followed by a prose 

translation. 

n6 v [Brant, Sebastian: Socialis nauis mechanicorum.] ‘De la nef 

sociale mecanique’. [Translated from the Latin version of 

Jacobus Locher by Pierre Rivie' re and Jean Drouyn.] ‘La turbe 

des plusleurs iniques’.The ¢rst six lines from Rivie' re’s translation 

in octosyllabic verse, followed by a prose translation. 

r 

o1 [Brant, Sebastian: De singularitate quorundam nouorum 

fatuorum additio [French].] ‘De la singularite d’aulcuns 

nouueaulx folz addicion’. [Translated from the Latin version of 

Jacobus Locher by Pierre Rivie' re and Jean Drouyn.] ‘Pource que 

deuons auoir soing’. The ¢rst ¢ve lines from Rivie' re’s translation 

in octosyllabic verse, followed by three more lines of verse and a 

prose translation. 

o2 v [Drouyn, Jean?]: ‘De ceulx qui veullent corrompre le droit adition 

nouuelle’. ‘Voyes le droit auironne’; 7 lines of octosyllabic 

verse, followed by a prose text. 

v 

o4 [Brant, Sebastian: De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus 

inuentio noua [French].] ‘De ceulx qui font toutes choses au contraire 

addition’.‘Celluy qui fait le contraire’. 

refs. See Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 228. Seven lines of 

octosyllabic verse, followed by a prose text. 

o6 r [Drouyn, Jean: Epilogue.] Incipit:‘[M]ere de Dieu, vierge inuiolee 

. . .’ 


o6 r [Colophon with note on translator.] 

Lyons: Guillaume Balsarin, 1498. Folio. 

collation: aô 6 . 

115 woodcuts. 

GW 5059; H 3755; Go¡ B-1095; Pr 8583; CIBN B-764; Sheppard 

6640. 

COPY 

Wanting o 5. 


£oral tools on spine; marbled pastedowns. Size: 253 ¿ 190 ¿ 




Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce 149. 






Olpe.] 

a1 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Epigramma ad lectorem’. ‘[C]armina sint 

quamuis triuiali sculpta moneta’; 7 elegiac distichs. 


a1 v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Sebastian Brant. Incipit: 

‘[S]i fas esset, preceptor iucundissime . . .’ 


Feb. [14]97. 

v 

a3 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad S[ebastianum] Brant’.‘Si mihi 

nunc pean sacros concederet arcus’; 26 elegiac distichs. 


r 

a4 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon’. ‘Grandibus possunt numeris 



‘Nauem stultorum iucundo sco[m]mate promsit’; 8 elegiac distichs. 


a5 v [Ps 106,23 and 26^7]. 

v 

a5 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatostichon’. 

‘Tempore f>oelici currunt presentia cursu’; 5 elegiac 

distichs. 



Narragonice e barbaria in latiale solum exhortatio’.‘Nuper 

ego stultos vulgari carmine scripsi’; 13 elegiac distichs. 


a6 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In Narrogonicam profectionem celeusma’. 

‘Hortor, adeste viri, quos nunc vocat Eurus, eundum est’; 11 elegiac 

distichs. 


a7 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narrogoniam’. Incipit:‘[C]um 

mecum diu multumque cogitassem . . .’ 



libelli Narragonici’. ‘Per cunctas resonant faustissima dogmata 

gentes’. 


b2 v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Argumentum in Narragoniam’. Incipit: 

‘[A]d humani generis foelicitatem . . .’ 









v 

s2 [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum’. ‘Stultorum 


s3 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago’. ‘Finis adest 

operis, nec te, Nicolae, videre’. 


s3 v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de 

Olpe. Incipit: ‘Etsi non dubito, amice iucundissime . . .’


663 

s4 v [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Ad eundem Johannem B[ergmann] de Olpe’. 


r 

s5 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem Bergmanum 


distichs. 


fatuorum additio’.‘Te nostram accepi vertisse, Jacobe, carinam’. 


t1 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus 

inuentio noua’.‘Stultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus’. 


r 

x4 Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Epigramma’. Dedicated to Sebastian 

Brant.‘Augescit merito foelix Germania fama’; 9 elegiac distichs. 


x4 r Beccadelli, Thomas: [Epigramma.] Dedicated to Johannes 

Bergmann de Olpe.‘O cui posteritas nunquam debere negabit’; 2 



x4 v [Colophon.] ‘Finis stultifere nauis’. 

y1 r ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 

Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 Aug. 1497. 4 o . 

collation: a^s 8 t^y 4 . 

117 woodcuts; two woodcut borders. 

GW 5061; HC *3750; Go¡ B-1090; BSB-Ink B-820; CIBN B-759; 

Hillard 482; Oates 2853; Schramm XXII p. 47; Schreiber V 3571; 

Se¤ bastien Brant. 500e anniversaire, 194^5; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Wanting a 1, x 1.4, y 1 and the blank leaf y 4. 

Binding: Contemporary north French or Flemish calf, with 

defective £ap. On both covers ¢llets form a border; the inner rectangle 

is divided by ¢llets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In 

the lozenge-shaped compartments and in the corners a round 

armorial stamp lettered ‘S. TULART: LEVUBLEUR’ or 

‘LEVVALEUR’(?), in the triangular compartments a minute 

stamp; in the border, a smaller round stamp lettered ‘T.L.R.’(?). 

For similar impressions of seals on bindings see Goldschmidt 

134 and 177 and plates II, XCIX, and CIII, and Weale^Taylor 


Provenance: On the verso of the back endleaf inscription: ‘Obiit 

secretarius van(?) Moul(?) 16 Januarij 1650’. Robert Willock; on 

the recto: ‘Nov. 20. 1773 ex dono amiciss. Roberti Willock’. 

Loveday family; sale (London: Sotheby’s, 8 June 1953), lot 25. 

Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); bought by him for »28 from W. H. 

Robinson Ltd., London, in 1953; armorial book-plate; accession 







Olpe.] 







Feb. [14]97. 

a 3 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad S[ebastianum] Brant’.‘Si mihi 



a 4 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon’. ‘Grandibus possunt numeris 





a 5 v [Ps 106,23 and 26^7].‘Ad Narragoniam’. 

a5 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatostichon’. 

‘Tempore f>oelici currunt presentia cursu’; 5 elegiac 

distichs. 




ego stultos vulgari carmine scripsi’. 


a 6 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In Narrogonicam profectionem celeusma’. 

‘Hortor, adeste viri, quos nunc vocat Eurus, eundum est’; 11 elegiac 

distichs. 


a7 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam’. Incipit:‘[C]um 





gentes’. 



‘[A]d humani generis f>oelicitatem . . .’ 



Translated by Jacobus Locher Philomusus.‘Inter precipuos pars 






s 3 r [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum’. ‘Stultorum 


s3 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De Nicolao Renner acuphago’. ‘Finis adest 

operis, nec te, Nicolae, videre’. 









s8 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos vt Johannem Bergmanum 


distichs. 

|1 v ‘De fatuis sagittariis’. ‘Si non vultis indignari’; 28 rhythmic 

strophes. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 215^16.


[b-513^b-514 

|3 v Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Egloga’. Dedicated to Thomas Wolf. 

‘Marcia Roma fuit bello crepitantibus armis’. 

|5 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus 



x 4 r Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Epigramma’. Dedicated to Sebastian 



x4 r Beccadelli, Thomas: [Epigramma.] Dedicated to Johannes 




x 4 v [Colophon.] ‘Finis stultifere nauis’. 

x5 r ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 


collation: a^s 8 |^y 4 . 

117 woodcuts; two woodcut borders. 


B-760; Hillard 483; Sack, Freiburg, 811; Schramm XXII p. 47; 

Schreiber V 3572; Se¤ bastien Brant. 500e anniversaire, 195; 


COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century English diced russia; 


leaf: 207 ¿ 136 mm. 


book on Basel or Amerbach(?), 

pasted on verso of front endleaf. Cut out and mounted on back 

pastedown: ‘Epigramma eiusdem Philomusi in Speculum laicorumVdalrici 

Tengler Vernacula lingua confectum’. 

Provenance: On a1 r inscription: ‘R.B.’ Francis Douce (1757^ 













Feb. [14]97. 

a3 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad Se[bastianum] Brant’.‘Si mihi 

nunc paean sacros concederet arcus’; 26 elegiac distichs. 


a4 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon’. ‘Graudibus(!) possunt numeris 





a 5 v [Ps 106,23 and 26^7] ‘Ad Narragoniam’. 

a5 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Gergmanum(!) de Olpe. . . decatostichon’. 

‘Tempore foelici currunt presentia cursu’; 5 elegiac 

distichs. 




ego stultos uulgari carmine scripsi’; 13 elegiac distichs. 


a6 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In Narraconicam(!) profectionem celeusma’. 

‘Hortor, adeste uiri, quos nunc uocat Eurus, eumdum est’; 11 elegiac 

distichs. 


r 

a7 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam’. Incipit:‘[C]um 



v 

a8 [Locher, Jacobus]: ‘Hecatostichon in proludium auctoris et 


gentes’. 





b2 v Brant, Sebastian: Stultifera navis. ‘De inutilibus’ [libris]. 

Translated by Jacobus Locher.‘Inter precipuos pars est mihi reddita 

stultos’. 





r8 v [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis navis mechanicorum’. ‘Stultorum 

trahitur collecta caterua uirorum’; 20 elegiac distichs. 


operis, nec te, Nicolae, uidere’. 


s1 v Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de 




s2 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos ut Johannem Germanum(!) 


distichs. 

s3 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum 

fatuorum additio’.‘Te nostram accaepi uertisse, Jacobe, carinam’. 


v 

s6 Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus 



r 

t8 Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Epigramma’. Dedicated to Sebastian 



v 

t8 Beccadelli, Thomas: [Epigramma.] Dedicated to Johannes 





r 

u1 ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 

u3 v ‘Fatuus mundanus’.‘Dum me cura tenet sublimia forte petendi’; 


[Lyons]: Jacobus Sacon, 28 June ‘1488’ [i.e. 1498]. 4 o . The printed 

date ‘1488’ is erroneous: see K. Ohly, ‘Die Anfa« nge des 

Buchdrucks in Basel’, ZfB 57 (1940), 259^60. 

collation: a^t 8 u 4 .


665 

119 woodcuts. 

GW 5063; HC 3752; Go¡ B-1093; BMC VIII 336; Pr 8671; BSB-Ink 

B-822; Sheppard 6738^9. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Sheep. Manuscript fragments used as reinforcing 

strips. Size: 208 ¿ 145 ¿ 30 mm. Size of leaf: 206 ¿ 143 mm. 

r 

v 

Provenance: Inscriptions on a1 and u3 : ‘Jeclausa’ or 

‘Declausa’(?). Abbe¤ Fauvel (£. 1700); ‘E bibliotheca D. Abbatis 

Fauvel’; armorial book-plate on front pastedown. Nathaniel 

Crynes (1686^1745). Bequeathed in 1745. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Crynes 802. 


SECOND COPY 

Wanting p 1 and the blank leaf u 4. 

Leaf s6 uncut. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French gold-tooled blue morocco; 

marbled pastedowns and gilt edges. Size:192 ¿ 131 ¿ 24 mm. Size 

of leaf: 186 ¿ 121 mm. 

On n6 v four lines of Latin text added in an early hand. 

Provenance: Erased ownership note on a 1 r . Francis Douce (1757^ 













Feb. [14]97. 

a 3 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Carmen . . . ad Se[bastianum] Brant’.‘Si mihi 



a4 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Sapphicon’. ‘Grandibus possunt numeris 





a5 v [Ps 106,23 and 26^7].‘Ad Narragoniam’. 

a 5 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad Johannem Bergmannum de Olpe . . . decatostichon’. 

‘Tempore foelici currunt presentia cursu’; 5 elegiac 

distichs. 


a 6 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad Jacobum Philomusum subeunde profectionis 


ego stultos uulgari carmine scripsi’; 13 elegiac distichs. 


a6 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘In Narragonicam profectionem celeusma’. 

‘Hortor, adeste uiri, quos nunc uocat Eurus, eundum est’; 11 elegiac 

distichs. 


a7 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologus . . . in Narragoniam’. Incipit:‘[C]um 





gentes’. 





b2 v Brant, Sebastian: Stultifera navis. ‘De inutilibus libris’. 

Translated by Jacobus Locher.‘Inter precipuos pars est mihi reddita 

stultos’. 



v 

r6 Locher, Jacobus: ‘Excusatio’.‘Vertimus naues fatuas latinis’; 20 


r8 v [Brant, Sebastian]: ‘Socialis nauis mechanicorum’. ‘Stultorum 

trahitur collecta caterua uirorum’; 20 elegiac distichs. 


operis, nec te, Nicolae, uidere’. 


v 

s1 Locher, Jacobus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bergmann de 




s2 v Locher, Jacobus: ‘Ad numeros suos ut Johannem Bergmanum 


distichs. 

s3 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum 

fatuorum additio’.‘Te nostram accepi uertisse, Jacobe, carinam’. 


s6 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine viuendi pereuntibus 



t8 r Beccadelli, Thomas: ‘Epigramma’. Dedicated to Sebastian 



t8 v Beccadelli, Thomas: [Epigramma.] Dedicated to Johannes 





r 

v1 ‘Registrum stultifere Nauis’. 

r 

v4 ‘Fatuus mundanus’.‘Dum me cura tenet sublimia forte petendi’; 


Paris: [Georg Wolf, for] Geo¡roy de Marnef, 8 Mar. 1498. 4 o . On 

the date see Hillard. 

collation: a^t 8 v 4 . 

118 woodcuts. 

GW 5064; HC 3753; Go¡ B-1092; BMC VIII 150; Pr 8381; CIBN 


COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century French gold-tooled 

calf by P. Lefebvre; marbled pastedowns. Size: 198 ¿ 134 ¿ 


Provenance: On a1 r the inscription:‘G. . . Bercheri liber’ in a sixteenth 

century hand. On a1 r the inscription: ‘Joannis Symonis 

liber’ in a sixteenth-century hand. Purchased for »0. 18. 0; see 




[b-516^b-517 


Das Narrenschi¡ [French] La nef des folz du monde. 

a1 r [Title-page with woodcut.] ‘En ce liure trouuer pourront les 

saiges’; 10 lines of decasyllabic verse. 

a2 r ‘Le prologue du translateur’. Incipit: ‘[P]ource que les lecteurs et 

auditeurs de l’aage presente . . .’ 


a2 r Locher, Jacobus: ‘Prologue’. Incipit: ‘[A]⁄n de mieulx comprendre 

la substance de ce liure . . .’ 


a3 r ‘Le translateur’. Incipit: ‘[J]cy lesse(!) le hecathostique c’est a 

scauoir . . .’ 


r 

a3 ‘L’argument’. Incipit: ‘[A]insi que les anciens acteurs . . .’ 


a3 v Brant, Sebastian: [La nef des folz du monde.] ‘Des liures 

inutilz’. Incipit: ‘Pour l’introduction de la matiere . . .’ 


Zarncke, 231^3. An anonymous prose translation, see Brant, 

Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 230. 

o6 v [Introductory note.] ‘L’excusation de l’acteur de ce present liure’. 

Incipit: ‘Pourtant que l’acteur de ce liure . . .’ 

r 

p1 [Locher, Jacobus: Excusatio.] Incipit: ‘[O] vous lecteurs de ce 

present opuscule . . .’ 

p1 v [Introductory note.] ‘De la nef socialle mechanique’. Incipit: ‘En 

ce que dessus est cuyda l’acteur . . .’ 

r 

p2 [Brant, Sebastian: Socialis nauis mechanicorum.] Incipit: ‘[J]cy 

est tiree et amenee . . .’ 

p2 r [Introductory note.] Incipit: ‘[J]cy fait l’acteur vne petite inuitation 

. . .’ 

p2 v [Brant, Sebastian: De Nicolao Renner acuphago.] ‘De Nicolas 

Renner et des enchanteurs’. Incipit: ‘[J]cy est la ¢n de mon 

oeuure . . .’ 

p2 v [Introductory note.] ‘De la singularite d’aucuns nouueaulx folz 

addition’. Incipit: ‘A⁄n que aucun qui verroit le latin . . .’ 

v 

p2 Brant, Sebastian: [De singularitate quorundam nouorum 

fatuorum additio.] Incipit: ‘[J]aques Locher, mon escolier et humble 

disciple . . .’ 

p4 r [Introductory note.] ‘De l’ordre de viure corrompue et que inordination 

est cause de la destruction de toutes choses’. Incipit: 

‘Ensuyt l’autre chapitre ouquel l’acteur allegue . . .’ 

p4 v Brant, Sebastian: [De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus 

inuentio noua.] Incipit: ‘[N]’a gueres nous auons blasme . . .’ First 

section only. 

p4 v ‘La table de ce present liure’. 

Paris: [Andre¤ Bocard?, for] Geo¡roy de Marnef, 8 Feb. 1499. 

Folio. BMC assigns doubtfully to Bocard, GW to [E¤ tienne 

Jehannot]. 

collation: a^p 6 . 


GW 5065; H 3756; Go¡ B-1096; BMC VIII 159; not in Pr; Sheppard 

6406. 

COPY 

Wanting leaf p6 containing de Marnef’s device. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century French gold-tooled red morocco 

by Niedre¤ e, with monogram surmounted by a coronet and 


leaf: 255 ¿ 180 mm. 

Provenance: Sale (Paris, 1852), lot 721. Baron Achille de Seillie' re 

(1813^1869): Bibliothe' que de Mello; sale (1887), lot 178. Thomas 

Ryburn Buchanan (1846^1911). Presented by Mrs Buchanan in 

1941. 

shelfmark: Buchanan d.20. 


Varia carmina. 

r 

A1 [Title-page with woodcuts.] ‘Que tibi diua miser christipara carmina 

lusi’; 3 elegiac distichs. 


A1 v Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] 

Wymmarus de Ercklens. Incipit: ‘[Quia] te summa virtute 

virum . . .’ 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 174^5. Dated Basel, 15 

Mar. 1498. 

A2 v Brant, Sebastian: Varia carmina. [Part I.] ‘Ad magni¢cum et 

nobilem virum dominum Adelberum de Rotperg . . . inuectio’. 

‘Quod te cultorem scio virginis intemerate . . .’ 

refs. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 175^84 

nos 1^41. See also Curt F. Bu« hler, ‘The Publication of Sebastian 

Brant’s Varia Carmina’, Gb Jb 37 (1962), 179^82. 

r 

a1 Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine uiuendi pereuntibus 


refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 121^7. Without the two 

concluding distichs addressed to the reader. 

bc4 r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part II.] ‘In Bethicum triumphum 

congratulatio’.‘Si, Fernande, tibi possent mea carmina 

laudis’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 184^5 nos 43^5. 

d1 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum 

regem gloriosissimum in vitam et conuersationem regum Israhel 

et Juda’.‘[H]actenus immensum regnorum enauimus equor’. 

refs. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke,185 no. 46. 

r 

e4 Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part III.] ‘Ad cunctos 

Rhomano imperio subiectos elegiaca exhortatio contra per¢dos 

et sacrilegos Flamingos’.‘[A]ccipite, o reges, quam nostrum polluat 

aeuum’. 

refs. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke,186^7 nos 

47^59. 

h4 v Brant, Sebastian: [Two German-Latin poems.] ‘De causis 

deprauationis rerum omnium’.‘[P]osteaquam impuberes cunnos 

gens stulta petiuit’. 


v 

h6 Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part IV.] 


nos 62^79. 

l5 r Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum 

fatuorum additio’.‘Te nostramaccepivertisse,Jacobe,carinam...’ 


l 8 r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part V.] 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 192 no. 81. 

m1 r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part VI.] ‘Explanatio . . . de 

anticipatione horologii Basiliensium’. 


n1 r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part VII.] ‘Thurcorum terror 

et potentia’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 194^5 no. 86 a .


667 

n4 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad lectorem carminum suorum’. ‘Carmina 

nostra prement multi (scio) lector, ab illis’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 195 no. 86 b . 

[*1 r ] ‘Finis carminum Sebastiani Brant’. ‘Hoc Titionis opus, dulcis 

Wynmare, peractum’. 


[*1 r ] [Colophon.] 

[*1 v ] ‘Registrum carminum S. Brant’. 

Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 May [14]98. 4 o . 

collation: A^D 8 E^H 4.8 I K 4 a 8 bc 4 d^h 8 i 4 8 l 8 m n [* 4 ]. 

Seven woodcuts; two woodcut borders; woodcut initials. 

GW 5068; HC *3731; C1238 (incl.1244); Go¡ B-1099; BMC III 796; 

Pr 7779; BSB-Ink B-808; CIBN B-757; Hillard 485; Oates 2854; 

Rhodes 436; Sack, Freiburg, 803; Schreiber V 3543, 3543a, 3580; 

Schramm XXII p. 47; Sheppard 2561. 

COPY 

With the two additional signatures m and n, the ¢rst having the 

date 23 Apr. 1498 on m 4 r , the latter having the date 1 Sept. 1498 

on n1 r ; see GWAnm. 2 a,b. 



leaf: 211 ¿ 145 mm. 

Provenance: Thierhaupten, Bavaria, Benedictines, SS. Petrus et 

Paulus. Johann Rumpfhart, Abbot of Thierhaupten, 1533^47; on 

A 1 r ‘Jo. Rumpfhart A[bbas]’ and ‘Thierhaupten’. Duplicate from 

the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dpl’ on A1 r . Purchased for »0. 15. 0; 




Varia carmina. 

r 

a1 [Title-page with woodcuts.] ‘Que tibi diua miser christipara carmina 

lusi’; 3 elegiac distichs. 


v 

a1 Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to] Wymmarus 

de Ercklens. Incipit: ‘Q[uia] te summa virtute virum . . .’ 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 174^5. Dated Basel, 15 

Mar. 1498. 

r 

a2 Brant, Sebastian: Varia carmina. [Part I.] ‘Ad magni¢cum et 

nobilem virum dominum Adelberum de Rotperg . . . inuectio’. 

‘Quod te cultorem scio virginis intemerate’. 


nos 1^41. 

A1 r Brant, Sebastian: [Poem on Johannes Reuchlin.] ‘Accipe, 

Vangionem(!) presul venerande, Ioannis’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 195 no. I. Hugo Holstein, 

Johann Reuchlins Komo« dien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des lateinischen 

Schuldramas (Halle an der Saale, 1888), 31^2. 

v 

A1 Bergmann de Olpe, Johannes: [Letter addressed to Johannes 

de Dalberg.] Incipit: ‘[E]piscoporum gloriam, philosophorum 

pater . . .’ Dated Basel, 1 May 1498. See Karl Morneweg, Johann 

von Dalberg: ein deutscher Humanist und Bischof (Heidelberg, 

1887), 258. 

A1 v Ko« chlin [i.e. Reuchlin], Johannes: Scenica progymnasmata. 

[Also known as Henno.] ‘[N]ouus poeta sentiens actoribus’. 

refs. Hugo Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komo« dien. Ein Beitrag 

zur Geschichte des lateinischen Schuldramas (Halle an der Saale, 

1888), 13^30. See Ludwig Geiger, Johann Reuchlin. Sein Leben 

und seine Werke (Leipzig, 1871), 81^91, and Josef Benzing, 

Bibliographie der Schriften Johannes Reuchlins im 15. und 16. 

Jahrhundert, Bibliotheca bibliographica, 18 (Bad Bocklet, 1955), 

12 no. 46. 

B2 v [Note about time and place of performance and players.] 

refs. Holstein, Johann Reuchlins Komo« dien, 30^1. 

r 

B3 Helfant, Valentinus; [Reuchlin, Johannes]: ‘Oratio’. Incipit: 

‘[C]omicos hos ludos, illustris princeps . . .’ The speech was given 

by Valentinus Helfant, but composed by Reuchlin; see Holstein, 

Johann Reuchlins Komo« dien, 35 n. 1. 

v 

B3 Dracontius, Jacobus: ‘Ad iuuentutem Germanicam in 

Johannem Reuchlin . . . panegyris’. ‘[H]uc ades, Aonidum qui 

ludere queris in vmbra’. 


B4 r AdamWerner vonThemar: ‘Ad . . . Johannem Richartzhusen . . . 

carmen’.‘[T]e duce res nostris agitur rarissima terris’. 


B4 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De corrupto ordine viuendi pereuntibus 

inuentio noua’.‘[S]tultorum ingentes culpauimus hactenus ausus’. 

refs. Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke, 121^7. Without the two 

concluding distichs addressed to the reader. 

D5 v Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part II.] 


v 

D6 Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum 


et Juda’.‘[H]actenus immensum regnorum enauimus equor’. 


G2 r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part III.] 

refs. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschi¡, ed. Zarncke,186^7 nos 

47^59. 

K4 v Brant, Sebastian: [Two German-Latin poems.] ‘De causis 

deprauationis rerum omnium’.‘[P]osteaquam impuberes cunnos 

gens stulta petiuit’. 


L2 r Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part IV.] 


nos 62^79. 

O3 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘De singularitate quorundam nouorum 



O5 v Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part V.] 


v 

O6 Brant, Sebastian: [Varia carmina. Part VI.] ‘Explanatio . . . de 

anticipatione horologii Basiliensium’. 


P3 v ‘Finis carminum Sebastiani Brant’. ‘Hoc Titionis opus, dulcis 

Wynmare, peractum’. 


P4 r [Colophon.] 

r 

P4 ‘Tabula carminum S. Brant’. 

Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 1 Aug. 1498. 4 o . 

collation: a 6 b c 4 d 6 e f 4 g 6 h^k 4 l A 6 B C 4 D 6 E F 4 G H 6 I 4 K 6 L 

M 4 N^P 6 . 

Seven woodcuts. 

GW 5069; HC, Addenda, *3732; Go¡ B-1100; BMC I 113; Pr 487; 

BSB-Ink B-809; Schramm XX p. 23; Schreiber V 3544; Sheppard 

399.

668 brentius, andreas 

[b-518^b-522 

COPY 

Without the additional unsigned gathering of four leaves after 

gathering l containing the ‘Turcorum terror et potentia’, dated 1 

Sept.1498. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled English calf by 

Charles Murton. Size: 195 ¿ 140 ¿ 16 mm. Size of leaf: 190 ¿ 

130 mm. 







De origine et conversatione bonorum regum et de laude 

civitatis Hierosolymae. 

A1 v Brant, Sebastian: [Letter of dedication to] Maximilian I, King 

of the Romans. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitanti mihi et quidem saepius (vt 

soleo) iampridem hesitanti . . .’ 

A4 r Brant, Sebastian: De origine et conversatione bonorum regum 

et de laude civitatis Hierosolymae. Incipit: ‘[U]rbem 

Hierosolymam, vti sacre nobis tradunt littere . . .’ 

T3 v Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum 


et Juda prefatio’. Dedicated to King Maximilian I. Incipit: 

‘Superest, inuictissime rex, vt quod . . .’ 

T4 v Brant, Sebastian: [Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum 


et Juda.] ‘Epilogus’. ‘[H]actenus immensum Solymarum su⁄cit 

equor’. 



collation: A^V 8 . 

Two woodcuts; woodcut borders; woodcut initials. 


B-810; CIBN B-767; Oates 2847; Sack, Freiburg, 812; Schramm 

XXII p. 47; Schreiber V 3574; Sheppard 2553. 

COPY 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled quarter calf 

over wooden boards; remains of two clasps. Formerly chained: 

staple-marks of a hasp at foot of the lower cover. Title-label at 

the head of the upper cover. On both covers ¢llets form two vertical 

compartments ¢lled with a roll with a foliate sta¡and a £ower. 

A fragment of eight leaves, consisting of gathering m 8 of Horae 

[Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, c.1495?] has been removed 

from the binding; see H-150. Size: 228 ¿ 157 ¿ 47 mm. Size of 

leaf: 216 ¿ 150 mm. 

Provenance: Johannes Protzer (�1528); on A1 r the inscription: 

‘Johannes Protzer J.V. li[centia]tus M cccc xcviiij Conp[araui]t in 

Germania .xliiij. d.’; see Wagner 85. Purchased for »2. 0. 0; see 



B-520 Breitenbach, Johannes de 

Repetitio (capitulorumV): De statu monachorum et 

canonicorum regularium. 

r 


A2 r Breitenbach, Johannes de: Repetitio capituli i[d est] de statu 

monachorum et canonicorum regularium. Incipit: ‘[R]epetiturus 

dei auxilio implocrato(!) i[d est], de sta[tu] monachorum et canonicorum 

regularium, ne inordinate procedere videar hunc . . .’ 


v 

E6 [Breitenbach, Johannes de?]: ‘Conclusiones cum suis correlariis’. 

Incipit: ‘Conclusio prima. Illud ius quod episcopus habet in 

ecclesias et clericos . . .’ 

[Leipzig: Gregorius Bo« ttiger (Werman), after 22 Nov. 1496]. 4 o . 

collation: A^D 6 E 8 . 



COPY 



Early sixteenth-century(?) marginal notes in black ink. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Some capital 


shelfmark: Diss. D 34(7). 

B-521 Breitenbach, Johannes de 

Repetitio capituli: Sententiam sanguinis ne clerici vel 

monachi. 


r 

A2 [Preface.] 

refs. Decretalium Collectiones, Corpus Iuris Canonici, 2, ed. A. 

E. Richter and A. Friedberg (Leipzig, 1881), 659. 

v 

A2 [Gloss on Sententia sanguinis.] Incipit: ‘Sententiam sanguinis. 

Episcopi non possunt sententias sanguinis ferre infra . . .’ 

A2 v [Gregorius IX, Pont.Max.: Decretales. Lib. III, tit. L, cap. IX.] 

refs. Decretalium Collectiones, 659^60. 

A3 v Cerasianus, Johannes: Repetitio capituli: Sententiam sanguinis: 

Partes principales. Commissioned by Johannes de 

Breitenbach. Incipit: ‘[C]irca primam partem principalem videndum 

est, quid sit irregularitas . . .’ 

I3 r [Table of contents.] ‘Registrum’. 

[Leipzig]: Melchior Lotter, 1499. 4 o . 

collation: A^H 6 I 8 . 

GW 5093; H *3771 = HC 4880; Go¡ B-1106; BMC III 651; Pr 3038; 


COPY 

Several sheets uncut. Leaf I8 backed. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco; bound for 

the Bodleian Library. Size: 233 ¿ 165 ¿ 13 mm. Sizeof leaf: 228 ¿ 

150 mm. 


and nos ‘4’ and ‘2461a’, in pencil, on A1 r . Purchased on 17 Jan. 

1886 from Caspar Haugg, Catalogue 79, no. 477, for 6 Marks: see 

Library Bills (1886), no. 8. 


B-522 Brentius, Andreas 

Oratio CaesarisVesontione habita. 

[a1 v ] ‘Ad Cesarem’.‘Vt possem niueam tuam referre’; 10 hendecasyllables. 

r 

[a2 ] Brentius, Andreas: [Letter addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. 

Incipit: ‘[V]enatoribus gratum munus canes sunt . . .’

-522^b-525] breviarium 

669 

[a2 v ] Brentius, Andreas: ‘Prefatio ad quirites’. Incipit: ‘[C]. Iulius 

Cesar bello Heluetiorum confecto . . .’ 

r 

[a3 ] Brentius, Andreas: Oratio CaesarisVesontione habita. Incipit: 

‘[N]on eadem, commilitones . . .’ 

refs. Based on a speech summarized in Caes. Gal1. 40; DBI XIV 

151: ‘la versione da Dione Cassio della ‘‘Caesaris oratio 

Vesontione habita’’ ^ rielaborata e ampliata sulla base di un confronto 

con il testo dato dal ‘De bello Gallico‘ ’; Paola Casciano,‘A 

proposito di un ‘falso’ umanistico: la‘‘Caesaris oratioVesontione 

Belgiae ad milites habita’’ di Andrea Brenta, professore dello 

Studium Urbis’, in Un ponti¢cato ed una citta' , 515^56, using a 

Vatican manuscript without realising it being a copy of the 

Planck edition, which is a poor reprint of this edition; see M. D. 

Reeve, ‘Modestus, scriptor rei militaris’, in La Tradition vive. 

Me¤ langes d’histoire des textes en l’honneur de Louis Holtz, ed. 

Pierre Lardet, Bibliologia, 20 (Turnhout, 2003), 417^32, at 423. 

[b4 v ] Litavicus [Busatus: Poem praising Brentius.] ‘Quod tua 

Romano Cesar monumenta leguntur’; 2 elegiac distichs. 


v 

[b4 ] Franciscus: [Poem praising Brentius.] ‘Incognitam diu latinis 

nobilem > orationem Cesaris’; 6 lines of verse. The author may be 

Franciscus Afranius Brixias; see also P-433. 

v 

[b4 ] [Fazini?], M[arcus] Lucius (i.e. Lucidus): [Poem praising 

Brentius.] ‘Scripta quidem grece, sed nondum nota latinis’; 3 elegiac 

distichs. 

v 

[b4 ] Ambrosius: [Poem praising Brentius.] ‘Quem muse 

Charitesque contioni’; 6 hendecasyllables. 

[Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, c.1481.] 4 o . 

collation: [a 6 b 4 ]. 

GW 5098; HCR 4229 = H 3780?; Go¡ B-1109; BMC XII 6; Pr 4007; 

CIBN B-778; Sheppard 2837^8. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth. Size: 205 ¿ 145 ¿ 7 mm. Size 

of leaf: 199 ¿ 135 mm. 

Manuscript foliation: 40^9. 


(1837), 7. 


shelfmark: Auct. Q inf. 1.17. 

SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 

1575. Cuttings from various works concerning Caesar and manuscript 

notes in various seventeenth/eighteenth-century hands are 

bound into item 1. Formerly also bound with a broadside, La 

descriptionetdivisiondeGaule (Paris, [c.1510]), nowVet. E1a.1(2). 

Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century parchment. Size: 183 ¿ 


On the front pastedown, an engraved portrait of Aldus Manutius, 

coloured in red, green, and yellow. 

Provenance: On front pastedown, inscription: ‘He� red[ ] D. 

Salust[ ] Cerrene� de Crescent . . .’ William Lucas (b.1620); inscription 

of name on front pastedown; on title-page of item 1, ‘W. 

Lucas A: M: e' Coll. Winton. e' Coll. Exon. Oxon. e' Soc. Linc: 

Inn’. Chelmsford Philosophical Society; stamp on title-page of 

item 1. Chelmsford, Borough Library; book-plate with shelfmark 

‘R 094.1’ and no. 33642. Acquired by 1958; Bodleian accession 

stamp dated 1958. 

shelfmark: Vet. F1 e.122 (2). 

B-523 Brentius, Andreas 

In Pentecosten oratio. 

[a1 v ] Brentius, Andreas: [Introductory letter, addressed to] 

Cardinal Oliverius Carafa. Incipit: ‘Egi hanc oratiunculam, princeps 

optime, non ut industriam ostentarem . . .’ 

[a2 r ] Brentius, Andreas: In Pentecosten oratio. Incipit: ‘[V]t 

maiorum nostrorum consuetudo seruetur ab antiquis quidem 

Grecis . . .’ 

[a10 v ] Brentius, Andreas: [Valedictory note, addressed to the 

reader.] Incipit: ‘Autor pauca huc ex se contulisse pro¢tetur . . .’ 

[Rome: Eucharius Silber, after 18 May 1483]. 4 o . 


GW 5100 (Anm.); HR 3778; Go¡ B-1111; BMC VII 1131; Pr 3807; 

CIBN B-780; Sheppard 3003^4. 

FIRST COPY 





SECOND COPY 

A fragment, consisting of [a1.9] only. Bound with B-090; see there 

fordetails ofbinding andprovenance. Sizeofleaf: 207 ¿ 145 mm. 

Early marginal annotation. 


B-524 Breviarium 

Breviarium Romanum. 

Fragment. 

Incipit: ‘[Lectio vi.] Secundum Matheum. Cum esset desponsata 

mater . . .’; explicit: [Lectio ix.] Iccirco volebat eam dimittere . . . 

et intrepidus.’ 

Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 4 Dec. 1497. 8 o . 

collation: [*] 8 [+ ] 4 1 6 2^10 .10. 11^43 8 43.43 4 44^7 8 48 6 49^63 8 . 

GW 5118; C 1304; BMC V 387; Pr 4934; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 456; 

Essling 916; Sheppard 4035. 

COPY 

Leaf 455 only. Bound in a guard-book with other fragments. 

Binding: Modern guard-book. Size of leaf: 137 ¿ 99 mm. 


shelfmark: Inc. b. I97.1(22). 


Breviarium Romanum [Franciscan use]. 

Fragment. 

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, Bernhard Maler (Pictor) and Peter 

Lo« slein for Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1478. 8 o . 

collation: [*] a^r | s^x 12 xx 8 y 1^16 12 17 8 . 

GW 5147; H *3897; BMC V 245; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 400; 


COPY 

Leaf c10 r-v only, with text beginning: [Ps 86,1] ‘[F]undamenta eius 

in montibus . . .’and ending [Ps 88, 40] ‘. . . testamentum servi tui’. 

Binding: Modern guard-book. Size of leaf: 152 ¿ 57 mm. 

Deleted word on verso in black ink. 

Initials are supplied in red or blue. Some capitals touched with 

yellow wash.

670 breviarium 

[b-525^b-527 

Removed in 1963 from the lower cover of 8 o Z 204 Th.: Ordo 

Romanus de o⁄cio missae (Cologne: Heirs of Arnoldus 

Birckmann, 1561). 

Provenance: Date of acquisition unknown. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. I97.1(1). 


Breviarium Romanum [Augustinian use]. 

H1 r [Tabulae.] 

a 1 r [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘In nomine domini nostri Jesu Cristi, 

Amen. Ordo psalterii secundum morem . . .’ 

s1 v [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

s 4 r [Proprium de tempore.] Incipit: ‘[In capite ieiunii.] Ad magni¢- 

cat. Antiphona.Thesaurizate vobis . . .’ 

A1 r 

[Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘Incipiunt festivitates sanctorum 

. . .’ 

Zaragoza: Georg Coci, Leonardus Hutz, and Wolf Appentegger, 7 

Sept. 1499. 8 o . 

collation: Tabulae: H 8 HH 4 HHH 6 ; Psalterium ^ Proprium de 

tempore: a^h 8 i 6 k^z aa^hh 8 ii 6 ; Proprium de sanctis ^ 

Commune sanctorum ^ O⁄cia annexa: A^Z 8 AA BB 8 CC 6 DD^ 

II 8 KK 12 LL MM 8 NN 4 . 

Woodcuts: see Kurz 79 and Vindel, Arte, IV 291: 88, pls on pp. 292 

and 294. 

GW 5173; not in Pr; Kurz 79; Sheppard 7297; Vindel, Arte, IV 291: 

88. 

COPY 

Part of Psalterium, and Proprium de tempore only. 

Wanting gatherings H^HHH, aê, i6, k1, m4, dd7, and gatherings 

hh and ii. 

Outer margin of t 8 cut away, with some loss of text. cc 6^8 badly 

mutilated. For this copy see Hispanic MSS and Books, 7 no. 20. 

Printed on parchment in black and red. 

Binding: Quarter leather, with parchment-covered boards; 

marbled endleaves and back pastedown. Leather very shrivelled; 

back board detached. Size:178 ¿ 126 ¿ 38 mm. Sizeof leaf: 165 ¿ 

113 mm. 

All illuminated initials cut away. Capitals touched with yellow 

wash. 

Provenance: Purchased in 1961 through Day’s, bookseller, 

Thame, Oxfordshire; unsigned note in ink by David Rogers on 

the front pastedown, with »10 written in pencil on the front 

pastedown. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. S2.1499.1. 


Breviarium Benedictinum (Congregationis 

Bursfeldensis). Pars hiemalis. 

[aa1 r ] [Title-page.] 

[aa3 r ] [Calendarium.] 

refs. P. Volk, ‘Zur Geschichte des Bursfelder Breviers’, Studien 

und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktiner-Ordens und seiner 

Zweige, Neue Folge,15 (1928), 49^92,175^201, 233^58, at 233^ 

46 a full transcription of the calendar, at 60^1a discussion on this 

speci¢c edition. See Also A. Rosenthal, Martyrologium und 

Festkalender der Bursfelder Kongregation, Beitra« ge zur 

Geschichte der alten Mo« nchtums und des Benediktinertums, 35 

(Mu« nster, 1984), 260 ‘B1’. 

[bb1 r ] [Computus.] Incipit: ‘Quia cognitio festorum mobilium horas 

canonicas . . .’ 

[cc] ‘Declaratio cursus hyemalis’. ‘Tempore brumali cursus patet 

ordine tali > Nam primo de dominicis dat quot numero sint’; 11 

hexameters. 

[cc] [Table.] 

[dd1 r ] ‘Prefatio in examinationem, approbationem et rati¢cationem 

breuiarii reformationis . . .’ Incipit: ‘Georgius, Dei et apostolice 

sedis gratia episcopus Lausaniensis, Guillerinus(!) Hugonis, 

archidyaconus Metensis . . .’ Permission for the revision of the 

Breviary accorded by Georgius de Saluzzo, Bishop of Lausanne 

(1440^61; see Gams 284), and by other members of the Council 

of Basle, to Johannes Hagen, Abbot of Bursfeld (1439^69), dated 

Worms, 17 July 1445. 

refs. P. Volk, Urkunden zur Geschichte der Bursfelder 

Kongregation, Kanonistische Studien und Texte, 20 (Bonn, 

1951), 54^5 no. 2. 

[dd1 v ] [Permission for revision of the Breviary.] Incipit: ‘Iohannes 

miseratione diuina Sancti Angeli . . . Humilibus supplicum . . .’ 

Permission for the revision of the Breviary accorded by 

Johannes Carvajal, Cardinal deacon of S. Angelus (1440^69; see 

Eubel II 9 no. 26), to the Abbots of Bursfeld, Reinhausen, and 

Huysburg; dated Mainz, 2 Dec. 1448. 

refs.Volk, Urkunden, 70^1 no. 10. 

[dd2 r ] ‘Littera con¢rmationis ordinarii cum oppositione prioris 

Montis sancti Jacobi extra muros Moguntinenses’. Incipit: 

‘Nicolaus, miseratione diuina tituli sancti Petri ad vincula sacrosancte 

Romane ecclesie . . . Iustis et honestis . . .’ Con¢rmation of 

the revised Breviary by Nicolaus de Cusa, Cardinal legate, to the 

Abbot and prelates of the Congregation of Bursfeld; dated 

Cologne, 6 Mar. 1452. 

refs.Volk, Urkunden, 95^6 no. 22. 

a 1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘In aduentu 

domini super psalmos. Antiphona. Regnum tuum etc. 

Capitulum I ad Thessalonicenses. [D]eus pacis sancti¢cet vos 

per omnia . . .’ 

Aa1 r [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘[B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in consilio 

impiorum . . .’ 

Hh 6 r [Litaniae sanctorum.] ‘Bernharde’, ‘Paule’, and ‘Hilarion’ 

among the confessors; ‘Scholastica’, ‘Katherina’, ‘Barbara’, and 

‘Ursula cum sodalibus’among the virgins. 

Hh 7 v [List of psalms, in alphabetical order.] 

Ii 1 v [O⁄cium BVM.] Incipit: ‘In cursu beate Marie virginis. 

Invitatorium. Ave Maria gratia plena . . .’ 

Ii3 r [O⁄cium defunctorum.] Incipit: ‘Vigilie defunctorum ad vesperas. 

Antiphona. Placebo domino in regione . . .’ 

refs. See K. Ottosen, The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin 

O⁄ce of the Dead (Aarhus, 1993), 192^3. 

Kk 7 r [Hymnarium.] Incipit:‘Feriatis diebus extra adventum et LXX 

ad nocturnum hymnum. Eterne rerum conditor . . .’ 

A1 r [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘Andree apostoli ad vesperas. 

Capitulum. Ad Romanos. [C]orde creditur ad iusticiam, ore 

autem confessio sit . . .’ From S. Andrea to Annuntiatio BVM. 

E4 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘De apostolis ad vesperas. 

Capitulum ad Ephesios. [N]am non estis hospites et aduene . . .’ 

H 8 v [O⁄cium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘In primis vesperis 

super psalmus. Antiphona. Tu, domine, vniuersorum qui nullam 

habes indigentiam . . .’ 

I 3 v [First colophon, dated 20 Aug. 1493.]


671 

I4 r ‘Registrum chartarum partis hyemalis’. 

[Nuremberg]: Georg Stuchs, 1493. 8 o . In two parts dated: (I) 20 

Aug.1493; (II) 13 Aug. 1493. 

collation: Pars hiemalis: Calendarium: [aa 8 bb 4 cc 1 dd 2 ]; 

Proprium de tempore: aô 8 ; Psalterium: Aa^Kk 8 Ll 6 ; Proprium 

de sanctis^Commune sanctorum: A^H 8 I 4 . 

GW 5179 (I); CR 1255; Go¡ B-1128; Pr 2272 (II), 2273 (I); Sheppard 

1643. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf o8. 

Pars hiemalis (I) only. Printed on parchment. Calendar bound in 

the following order: [aa dd bb 1^2 cc bb 3^4]. [cc] a single sheet 

printed on one side only. 

Binding: Contemporary south German blind-tooled pigskin 

over wooden boards, with remains of clasps and metal cornerpieces. 

On both covers ¢llets form concentric frames, with a £oral 

and foliate roll inside the outer frame. Further ¢llets form an 

inner rectangle, with headed-outline-tools forming interlaced 

merrythoughts. On the spine a repeated lozenge-shaped £euron 

(£eur-de-lis) and a repeated lozenge-shaped heart stamp. 

Leather index tabs; not found in Paul Schwenke, ‘Die 

Buchbinderei des Petersklosters’, in Joseph Theele, Die 

Handschriften des Benediktinerklosters S. Petri zu Erfurt 

(Leipzig, 1920), 38^45, nor F. R. Go¡, ‘Fifteenth-century 

Stamped Bindings from the Benedictine Monastery of St Peter 

at Erfurt’, Gb Jb (1969), 274^9. Size: 195 ¿ 135 ¿ 80 mm. Size of 

leaf: 178 ¿ 110 mm. 

In an early hand, on [aa 1 r ], the Lord’s Prayer and the Creed; on 

[aa1 v ], instructions for prayers at liturgical hours (compline, 

prime, etc.), to be performed by a chapter of monks (probably 

the Benedictines at Erfurt), also recommendations of other passages 

from scripture and prayers, and the blessing of the house: 

‘Pro priuatim legentibus completis benedictio[nem] ad lectionem 

collationis noctem quietam tribuat nobis omnipotens et misericors 

Dominus . . .’ and ‘Sequuntur usuales(?), tum versic[uli] et 

collecta ad beatam uirginem . . . O £orens rosa rosa nostri 

Domini speciosa, o uirgo . . .’; on [aa1 v ],‘Agenda capituli post primas’, 

with incipit: ‘Sancta Maria mater Domini nostri Ihesu 

Christi et omnes sancti intercedant pro nobis . . .’ In the 

Calendarium, obits and other manuscript entries dating from 

1483^98, probably in the same hand as the prayers; also several 

manuscript entries relating to Sebastianus Lang, including his 

ordination as sub-deacon, deacon, and priest. 

Provenance: Sebastianus Lang (£. 1609^1611); manuscript notes 

(see above). Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); booklabel; 





BreviariumWindeshemense [Windesheim]. 

[ 1 r 

aa1 ] [Title-page.] 

[ 1 aa2 r ] [Rubricae.] Incipit:‘De aduentu. [A]duentus domini proxima 

dominica post vi kalendas . . .’ 

[ 1 r 

aa7 ] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius habet dies xxxi . . .’ 

1 

A1 r 

[Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘Dominicis diebus. Inuitatorium. 

[A]doremus dominum . . . In I nocturno psalmus. Beatus vir, qui 

non abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’ 

v 

I2 [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

I5 v [O⁄cium defunctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipiunt vigilie defunctorum. 

Ad vesperas. Antiphona. Placebo domino . . .’ 

r 

K3 [Hymnarium. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit:‘In adventu domini ad vesperas 

ymnus. Conditor alme syderum . . .’ 

L1 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘De apostolis in simplicibus festis 

advesperas antiphone et psalmi feriales. Capitulum. Beatus vir 

ut infra.Ymnus. Exultet celum.Versus. In omne terra. Ad magni- 

¢cat antiphona. Ecce ego mitto. In duplici festo super psalmos 

feriales. Antiphona. [E]cce ego mitto vos sicut oues . . .’ 

r 

N4 [O⁄cium BVM parvum.] 

N6 r Su¡ragia. 

N8 v ‘Psalmi quindecim graduum’. 

2 r 

A1 [Hymnarium. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘Ab octaua Pasche vsque 

ad Ascensionem . . .’ 

refs. See AH 27,88. 

2 r 

aa1 [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Dominica 

prima in aduentu. Ad vesperas antiphona. [S]obrie et iuste et pie 

viuamus in hoc seculo. . .’ 

r 

11 [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘In vigilia beati 

Andree. Lectio prima secundum Iohannem. [I]n ill[o tempore] 

stabat Johannes . . .’ 

Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 15 Oct. 1488. 8 o . 

collation: Rubricae, Calendarium: [aa] 8 bb 10 ; Psalterium- 

Commune sanctorum: A^N 8 ; Hymnarium. Pars aestivalis: A 8 ; 

Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis: aa^gg 8 hh 4+1 ii 6 kk^nn 8 

oo 6 ; Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis: 1^3 8 4 10 . Collation as 

Sheppard. GW incorrectly describes the sections, which in the 

Bodleian copy form parts of the Pars hiemalis, as belonging to 

the Pars aestivalis. 

Types: 72 G and 63 G of Thierry Martens, Alost are used: see GW V 

col. 171, 1 b . In the Bodleian copy, the ¢rst section contains 18 

leaves, the second 104, the third 8, the fourth 105 and the ¢fth 34. 

r 

Woodcut on [aa1 ]: on the left, David, with his harp, directs two 

¢gures carrying the Ark of the Covenant into the Temple behind 

him. 

GW 5241 (Erga« nz V); C 1331 = 1332; Pr 9378; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 

545^6; HPT II 420; Inventaris, 165; ILC 481; Jan van Ruusbroec, 

catalogue (1981) 225; B. Kruitwagen,‘Het Breviarium 

Windeshemense, Antwerpen, Gerard Leeu, 1488, 15 October’, 

Het Boek, 3 (1914), 193^202; Proctor, Campbell, III 367 A; 


COPY 

Commune sanctorum bound at end. 

Binding: Contemporary Netherlandish(?) blind-tooled calf over 

bevelled wooden boards, with remains of metal catches and 

clasps. On both covers, double ¢llets form concentric intersecting 

frames; further double ¢llets divide the inner rectangle into triangular 

and lozenge-shaped compartments. On both covers four 

di¡erent sizes of £ower-petal stamps. Stamps very worn. Size: 


On the rear parchment endleaf, manuscript prayers in Latin, written 

in a late ¢fteenth/early sixteenth-century hand, with incipit: 

‘[S]alutifera vulnera dulcissimi amatoris mei Jhesu Christi . . .’, 

‘Domine amantissime Jhesu Christe, benedicti sint claui quibus 

manus pedesque tuos . . .’, ‘Splendide ac intime discem dulcis 

Jhesu hac tua spinea corona . . .’,‘[A]ve sanctissima Maria mater 

dei regina celi . . .’,‘Radix viua mire pietatis oliua . . .’; the last two 

prayers are ascribed to Sixtus IV, Pont. Max., according to the 

note which precedes them; back parchment pastedown contains


[b-528^b-530 

part of an unidenti¢ed text in Dutch, written in a ¢fteenth-century(?) 

hand. 

Note on the verso of the back endleaf in Dutch, in an early hand, 

concerning the rector of Ouden[h]ove. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue, purple or interlocked red 

and blue, with reserved white decoration, and some with red 

pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the margins, touched with 

green; other initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks 

are supplied in red; underlining and capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Erased inscription on verso of front endleaf. 

Johannes Althier (£. 1787^1840); purchase inscription, for 7 Fl. 

on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Althier, Utrecht, Dec. 1826, 7 

£or.’ Thomas Thorpe (1791^1851); Catalogue (1837), part IV, no. 

244; Thorpe catalogue states that this catalogue consisted of 

books purchased from Heber’s library. Richard Heber (1773^ 

1833). Purchased for »0. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 7 and 

Library Bills (1837^8), no. 18. 



Breviarium Aeduense [Autun]. 

[* r ] [Calendarium.] GW notes [*1] as being unknown, although it 

presumably contained the calendar for January and February. 

a 2 r [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘[Inuitatorium.] Adoremus Dominum, qui 

fecit nos Psalmus. Venite. Hymnus. Primo dierum omnium. 

Hymnus. Nocte surgentes. Psalmus. [B]eatus vir qui non abiit in 

consilio impiorum . . .’ 

g3 v [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

h4 r [Proprium de tempore.] Incipit: ‘In vigilia adventus domini ad 

vesperas.Antiphona. Benedictus. Capitulum. [E]cce dies veniunt, 

dicit Dominus et suscitabo. Hymnus. Conditor alme syderum . . .’ 

m6 v [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: In vigilia sancti Andree 

apostoli . . .Ad vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona. Dilexit 

Andream Dominus in odorem suauitatis alleluia. Capitulum. 

[N]am non estis hospites et aduene . . .’ 

T2 r [O⁄cium defunctorum.] 

X 2 v [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘De apostolis.[Capitulum.] 

[V]os amici mei estis, si feceritis quod precipio vobis, dicit 

Dominus . . .’ 

Y 5 v [Rubricae.] Incipit: ‘[V]olentibus horas canonicas secundum 

vsum ecclesie Eduenensis . . .’ 

Y7 v [Colophon, acknowledging the editorial contribution of Simon 

de Vetericastro made on the instructions of Cardinal Jean Rolin, 

Bishop of Autun (1436^83)]. 

Z2 r [O⁄cium BVM parvum.] Incipit: ‘[Antiphona.] [D]omine, labia 

mea aperies . . .’ 

Z 3 v [O⁄cium BVM.] Incipit: ‘Ad vesperas. Antiphona. Missus est 

Gabriel angelus . . . Psalmus. Dixit dominus domino meo. 

Capitulum. [E]cce virgo concipiet . . .’ 

Z 8 v [O⁄cium Conceptionis BVM.] Incipit: ‘In primis vesperis. 

Antiphona. Sicut lilium inter spinas . . . Oratio. [D]eus qui per 

immaculatam virginis conceptionem . . .’ 

Paris: [Ulrich Gering], 10 Mar. 1480/1. 4 o . 

collation: [*] 6 a^z 8 m 10 AÎ kk L^Z 8 aa 6 . 

GW 5246; Pr 7867; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 53; Sheppard 6140. 

COPY 

Wanting [*1], R1 and the blank leavesY8 and Z1. 

In this copy, a 1 r , described by GW as containing the Tabula festorum 

mobilium, is blank, as in Pellechet 2844. 

All red-letter entries in the Calendarium and all rubrics are in 

manuscript, not printed, unlike the copies described by Pellechet 

2844 and GW. 


Binding: Late eighteenth-century French gold-tooled red morocco; 

the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns. Cropped 


On a2 r a six-line initial ‘B’ is supplied in blue with white tracery 

and edging, and with £oral in¢ll decoration in blue, red, and 

white, all on a gold ground; accompanied by a full border within 

red rules, decorated with £owers (in some instances identi¢able 

as poppies) or strawberries in red and green, and other £owers 

and foliage in blue, green, gold, and red, and decorative penstrokes 

in black; a space has been left in the middle of lower margin, 

presumably for a coat of arms. On h4 r a two-line initial ‘E’, 

and on m 6 v a two-line initial ‘I’, are both supplied in gold on a 

blue and maroon ground with white tracery; accompanied by a 

quarter border, with decoration as above, with the addition, in 

each case, of a strawberry in red and green. By a French hand, 

with decoration similar to those in The George Abrams 

Collection (London: Sotheby’s, 16^17 Nov. 1989), lot 47 

(Albrecht von Eyb, Margarita poetica I. Paris: Ulrich Gering, 20 

Nov.1478), lot 50 (Robert Gaguin, Compendium de origineet gestis 

Francorum. Paris: Thielman Kerver for Durand Gerlier and 

Jean Petit, 13 Jan. 1500), and lot 119 (Publius Terentius Afer, 

Comoediae, Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 11 Feb. 

1499). Other initials are supplied in red, blue, or interlocked red 

and blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Red-letter 

entries in the Calendarium and rubrics are supplied in red (see 

above). Capitals touched with yellow wash. Text enclosed within 

single red rules. Some running titles supplied in a seventeenthcentury(?) 

hand. 

Provenance: Cancelled inscription on aa 6 v :‘Lib[er] [ ] et aliorum 

1664’. Purchased for »2. 4. 0; see Library Bills (1837^8), no. 22 

‘Books Purchased by the Librarian’, and Books Purchased 

(1838), 5. 



Breviarium Argentinense [Strasbourg]. Pars hiemalis. 

[ 1 a1 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit:‘Januarius habet dies xxxi, luna xxx . . .’ 

[ 2 a 1 r ] [Rubrica generalis.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uando per A. aduentus 

Domini inchoatur . . .’ 

[ 3 a1 r ] [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘In dominicis diebus ad matutinas. 

Inuitatorium. Adoremus Dominum qui fecit nos . . .’ 

[ 4 a 1 r ] [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Ad mandatum 

reuerendissimi patris et principis illustris domini Ruperti . . . 

Dominica prima aduentus Domini. Ad vesperas. Capitulum. 

‘[E]cce dies uenient, dicit Dominus . . .’ The edition is stated to 

have been commissioned by Rupprecht, Duke of Bavaria, 

Bishop of Strasbourg. This appears to be a con£ation of two 

Bishops of Strasbourg: Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern, Bishop 

(1440^78), and Albrecht von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, 

Bishop of Strasbourg (1479^1506). 

[ 5 a 1 r ] [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit:‘Sequitur nunc de 

sanctis ab adventu usque ad festum Penthecostes. Et primo de vigilia 

Andree apostoli. Secundum Matheum. [I]n illo tempore stabat 

Johannes et ex discipulis . . .’


673 

[f2 v ] ‘Commune de sanctis infra festa pasche et penthecostes’. 

Incipit: ‘In omnibus festis sanctorum . . .’ 

[ 3 r 

f5 ] [Colophon.] 

[Strasbourg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)], 

12 Jan. 1478. Folio. BMC ascribes to [Speier: Georgius de 

Spira]. Printed in type 4 of the editions ascribed by Ohly to 

Georg Reyser. Section 2 belongs to the Directorium Argentinense 

(GW 8437). 

collation: Calendarium: [a 6 ]; Rubrica: [a 8 ]; Psalterium: [aê 10 

f 6 ]; Proprium de tempore ^ Pars hiemalis: [a^l 10 m 8 n 6 ]; Proprium 

de sanctis ^ Pars hiemalis: [a^d 10 e f 6 ]. 

GW 5259; C 1247a; BMC II 484; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 71; 

BSB-Ink B-840; CIBN B-805; Ohly, ‘Reyser’, 41; Schreiber V 


COPY 

Parshiemalis. Proprium detempore, Propriumdesanctis, and part 

of Commune sanctorum only.Wanting the blank leaf [ 3 f6]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English (London) brown tooled 

morocco, with gilt-edged leaves; bound by Francis Bedford and 

John Clarke, between 1841 and 1850. Size: 295 ¿ 215 ¿ 36 mm. 


On [ 1 a1 r ] a six-line initial ‘E’ is supplied in interlocked red and 

blue, with red pen-work in¢ll, decoration, and extensions into 

the inner margin. Other initials, some with extensions into the 

margins, are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. Some 

running titles are supplied in black ink in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century 

hand. 

Provenance: Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Earls of Leicester. 

Purchased in 1953. 

shelfmark: Holk. d. 34. 


Breviarium Augustanum [Augsburg]. Pars aestivalis. 

[ 1 a3 r ] [Preface.] Incipit: ‘Cum sacrosancta Dei ecclesia statuerit, 

quod quisque sacri ordinis . . .’ Friedrich II, Count of 

Hohenzollern, Bishop of Augsburg (1486^1505), is stated to have 

commissioned the edition. 

[ 1 a4 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius habet dies xxxi . . .’ 

[ 1 a 10 r ] [Tabulae.] Incipit: ‘Tabula. Septuagesime . . . Septuagesimam 

alicuius anni propositi . . .’ 

[ 1 a10 v ] [Tabulae.] Incipit: ‘Litteram dominicalem ad annum propositum 

. . .’ 

[ 1 b2 r ] ‘Incipit tabula partis estivalis per ordinem alphabeti’. 

2 a1 r [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘In nomine domini nostri . . . Incipit psalterium 

cum suis pertinentibus secundum modum ecclesie 

Augustensis ordinatum. Dominicis diebus. Inuitatorium. 

Adoremus Dominum, qui fecit nos. Psalmus. [B]eatus vir, qui 

non abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’ 

e 1 r [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

e2 r ‘Preces’ [ad horas minores]. Incipit: ‘Repleatur os meum laude, 

ut cantem gloriam . . . Antiphona. Requiem eternam . . .’ 

e 4 v ‘Su¡ragia minora’. Incipit: ‘De sancta croce. Antiphona. Per 

signum crucis de inimicis nostris libera . . . Collecta. Perpetua 

quesumus, Domine Ihesu Christe . . .’ 

e 5 r ‘Longa su¡ragia’. Incipit: ‘De sancto Iohanne. Responsorium. 

Iste est de sublimibus . . . Pro pace. Collecta. Deus qui omnibus 

sanctis tuis coronam dedisti . . .’ 

e 6 v [Hymnarium.] Incipit: ‘Ad vesperas de sancta Trinitate hymnus. 

O lux beataTrinitas et principalis vnitas . . .’ 

refs. See AH 2,34 and 51,38. 

g1 r ‘Praeparamenta ad missam’. Incipit: ‘Incipit accessus altaris. 

Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia . . .’ 

1 

A1 r [Proprium de tempore ^ de sanctis. Pars estivalis.] Incipit: 

‘Incipit pars estivalis libri horarum iuxta ritum chori ecclesie 

Augustensis. In vigilia Pentecostes. Antiphona.Veni sancte spiritus 

. . .’ 

Y5 r [First colophon.] 

2 

A1 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune sanctorum 

per anni circulum iuxta usum . . .’ 

C7 r [O⁄cium BVM parvum.] Incipit: ‘Hystoria secundum chorum 

Augustensem de commemoratione beate virginis Marie. Ad vesperas 

super psalmos. Antiphona. Gaude regina nobilis virgo . . .’ 

D6 v [Second colophon.] 

Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, Jan. 1493. Folio. 

collation: Calendarium ^ Tabulae: 1 [a 10 b 4 ]; Psalterium: 2 a^c 8 

d^f 6 g 4 ; Proprium de tempore ^ de sanctis: 1 A^X 8 Y 6 ; Commune 

sanctorum: A^D 8 . 

Two woodcuts in the Calendarium, on [ 1 a2 v ] and [ 1 a10 v ]. 

GW 5266 (II, 1^5); H *3793; BMC II 386; Pr 1899 (incl. 1889); 

Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 78; BSB-Ink B-846; Schreiber V 3585; 


FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [ 1 a1] and D8, and [ 1 a2], containing a 

woodcut. 

Gathering g of the Psalterium set up as GW 5266 (I, 3, Anm. 2). 


Bodleian Library. Leather index tabs. Loose upper board. Size: 



The woodcut initial on C 1 r contains the manuscript monogram 

‘GV’ in black ink. 


11. 


SECOND COPY 

Calendarium and Psalterium only. 

Wanting the blank leaf [ 1 a 1]. 

The last gathering is of the setting-up of GW 5266 (I,3). 

Leaf [ 1 a2] backed. 

Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over paper 

boards; rebacked, at which time the upper board was apparently 

put in place of the lower, upside down, and the lower board in 

place of the upper. On the present upper cover triple intersecting 

¢llets form a triple frame; within the outer is a lattice-work and 

£ower-petal roll; within the second is a foliate roll inhabited by 

unicorns(?), dragons, and monkeys. The inner rectangle is 

divided by further triple ¢llets into triangular and lozenge-shaped 

compartments. On the present lower cover a £oral roll forms an 

outerborder.Triple ¢llets form a frame, within which is a repeated 

scallop-shell stamp and a repeated £oral stamp.Within this, triple 

¢llets form the inner rectangle, which is divided into triangular 

compartments by a saltire formed by triple ¢llets and decorated 

with the repeated scallop-shell stamp and a repeated small £oral 

stamp. The triangular areas of the inner rectangle are decorated 

with the lattice-work and £ower-petal roll and the repeated scallop-shell 

and larger £oral stamps. Letter-stamping at the foot of 

the lower cover:‘Psalterium’.The spine is gold-tooled. Size: 350 ¿ 

250 ¿ 22 mm. Size of leaf: 350 ¿ 250 mm.


[b-531^b-532 

Early marginal notes, some in red ink. Early manuscript contents 

table on [ 1 a3 r ]. In Calendarium, on [ 1 a5 r ], ‘Eodem die [26 Mar.] 

anno MDXI aput Mare Hadrianum et in Foro Julio [Friuli] fuit 

ma[xi]mus terre motus quem et Augu[stae] Vindelicorum 

[Augsburg] sentiuimus [p]luit grandini non sine damno’; on 

[ 1 a 6 v ], in red ink, ‘Anno MDX die 21 eiusdem mensis Caesar 

Maximilianus Augustus fuit in nostris aedibus et bibliotheca per 

tres horas’. 

Woodcut and initials are coloured in red, yellow, green, and blue 

wash.Text enclosed within single red rules. 

Provenance: Probably Augsburg, Bavaria, Benedictines, SS. 

Udalrichus et Afra, 1510/11; inscriptions (see above); parliament 

met at Augsburg, 2 Mar.-May1510, and Maximilian I is known to 

have been in Augsburg by at least 10 Apr.: see Hermann 

Wies£ecker, Maximilian I: Die Fundamente des habsburgischen 

Weltreiches (Vienna and Munich, 1991), 400. Charles Chauncy 

(1709^1777); book-plate: see Howe, Book Plates, 5655; not found 

in sale (1790). Francis Douce (1757^1834); armorial book-plate. 




Breviarium Coloniense [Cologne]. 

[*1 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit:‘Januarius habet dies xxxi, luna xxx . . .’ 

It includes: 11 Jan.‘Obitus tercii regis’; 21 Jan.‘Patrocli m’; 30 Jan. 

‘Aldegundis v’; 6 Feb. ‘Dorothee v’; 11 Feb. ‘Desiderii ep et cf’; 1 

Mar. ‘Suicberti ep’; 16 Mar. ‘Heriberti ep et cf’; 26 Mar. ‘Ludgeri 

ep et cf’; 2 May ‘Transl. Cassii et Florencii m’; 13 May ‘Seruacii 

ep et cf’; 29 May ‘Maximini ep’; 4 July ‘Udalrici ep et cf duplex’; 

26 July ‘Ermolai presb’; 10 Oct. ‘Gereonis et soc. eius, duplex 

(red)’; 21 Oct. ‘Undecim milia virginum. duplex (red)’; 23 Oct. 

‘Seuerini ep, duplex (red)’; 12 Nov. ‘Cuniberti ep, semiduplex 

(red)’; 4 Dec.‘Annonis ep’. 

[*1 r ] [Verse.] ‘In iano claris calidisque cibis potiaris > Atque decens 

potus post fercula sit tibi notus’; 4 hexameters for each month of 

the calendar. See Walther, Proverbia, 11795. 

[�1 r ] [Computus.] Incipit: ‘Tabula annorum communium et bisextilium 

. . .’ 

[� 2 r ] [Rubrica generalis.] Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine sancte et indiuiduae 

trinitatis . . .’ 

[�3 r ] ‘Rubrica adventus’. Incipit: ‘[S]equens registrum docet qualiter 

singulis annis per adventum . . . Ad vesperas. Solenniter de festo 

nativitatis Christi ut in loco suo. Deo gratias.’ 

[�8 r ] [Invitatorium.] Incipit: ‘Ita incipientur hore in priuato tam de 

sanctis quam de tempore. Ad matutinum. Pater noster. Aue 

Maria . . .’ 

[�8 v ] [Horae de cruce.] Incipit:‘Sequitur o⁄cium sancti crucis dicendum 

in ¢ne omnium horarum. Antiphona. Adoramus te Christe 

et benedicimus . . .’ 

a1 r [Psalterium feriatum.] Incipit:‘Dominicis diebus ad matutinas. . . 

Invitatorium. Adoremus dominum qui fecit nos . . . Psalmus 

i.[B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’ 

g2 r [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

g3 v [O⁄cium defunctorum.] 

h 1 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune sanctorum 

per totum annum excepto tempore pasca(!). Et primo de apostolis 

in festis duplici. Ad primas vesperas. Antiphona. [E]cce ego mitto 

vos sicut oues . . .’ 

k5 v [Su¡ragium BVM cum su¡ragio de sanctis.] Incipit:‘De domina 

nostra per aduentum. Missus est Gabriel angelus . . .’ 

k 9 v ‘Rubrica de festis’. Incipit: ‘Ex quo clare in locis suis patet qualiter 

festa videlicet summa duplex . . .’ 

k11 v ‘Benedictiones matutinales’. Incipit: ‘Benedictiones ad lectionem 

in matutinam. In festis ix lectiones. In i nocturno. [E]xaudi, 

Domine Jesu Christe, preces seruorum . . .’ 

l1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit pars breviarii 

hyemalis de tempore. Dominica prima aduentus domini ad 

primas vesperas. Antiphona. Benedictus. Capitulum. [E]rit in 

nouissimis diebus preparatus mons domus . . .’ 

y1 r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit secunda 

pars hiemalis berviarii(!) de sanctis. Et primo de sanctis 

Saturnino Crisanto et Daria . . .’ 

m6 v [First colophon.] 

A 1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘In die sancto 

Pasce. Ad mat. Domine labia mea aperies . . .’ 

I9 r [O⁄cium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] 

K 1 r ‘Ordinarius de sanctis in octava pasce venientibus’. Incipit: 

‘Incipit pars estivalis de sanctis . . .’ 

K4 r [Commune sanctorum infra pasca et penthecostes.] Incipit: 

‘Incipit nunc commune sanctorum infra pasca et penthecostes 

servandum. In festo unius apostoli . . . Antiphona. Iustus germinabit 

sicut lilium . . .’ 

K6 r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars estivalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit nunc de 

sanctis infra pasca et penthecostes venientibus . . .’ 

X4 v [Second colophon.] 

X4 v [Valediction.] Incipit: ‘Valete et valeant qui nos male viuere 

optant.’ 

Cologne: Hermann Bumgart, 6 June 1500. Folio. 

collation: Calendarium: [*] 6 [�] 8 ; Psalterium^Commune sanctorum^Proprium 

de tempore. Pars hiemalis^Proprium de sanctis. 

Pars hiemalis: a^g 8 h 10 i 8 k 12 lô 8 p 8+1 q^t 8 v x 6 y z h 8 m 6 ; Proprium 

de tempore. Pars aestivalis^Proprium de sanctis. Pars aestivalis: 

A^H 8 I 10 K^V 8 X 4 . 

GW 5313; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 195; Oates 837; not in 

Sheppard; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 285. 

COPY 

Leaf [�8] bound after [�1]; leaf [�2] signed i, [�3] signed ii, etc. 

Many leaves repaired, especially in gathering e, and g1. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century dark blue straightgrained 

morocco. Scars of index tabs. Size: 260 ¿ 194 ¿ 60 mm. 


Early marginal notes in a number of hands. On A 1 r , a drawing in 

black ink of a seated ¢gure, with hair coloured in gold. Early 

manuscript additions to the Calendarium: 26 May ‘Festum 

Pentecostes’; 12 Aug. S. Clara, 25 Aug. S. Ludovicus, 17 Sept. 

Stigmata of S. Francis (venerated in France), and S. Lambertus, 

27 Sept. S. Elzearus, Count of Ariano (venerated at Apt, 

Vaucluse), 7 Oct. S. Birgitta (Sweden), and 27 Oct. [Translation 

of] Ivo, priest of Tre¤ guier (venerated in Brittany); also a cropped 

note on [*1 r ], referring to theThird Order of Franciscans. 

On a1 r a seven-line initial ‘B’ is supplied in gold, edged in black, 

with foliate decoration, on a blue ground with decoration in 

white and red. A three-quarter foliate-sta¡ border is supplied in 

green, red, blue, brown, and gold; the outer margin is decorated 

with foliage in red and blue, in the centre of which is David playing 

a harp; the border has been cropped. On c4 r a ¢ve-line initial 

‘S’ is supplied in gold with a foliate extension into the inner


675 

margin and with red decoration, on a purple ground with white 

foliate scrolling, edged with red, with red pen-work extensions 

into the inner margin. On c8 v , a stylized foliate initial ‘E’ is supplied 

in blue. On h1 r a ¢ve-line initial ‘E’and on f2 v a ¢ve-line initial 

‘D’, are both supplied in purple, with white foliate decoration 

and edging, on a gold ground. On l1 r a six-line initial‘E’ is supplied 

in gold, with foliate decoration, on a blue ground edged with red, 

and with red pen-work extensions into the inner margin. On A 1 r a 

¢ve-line stylized foliate initial ‘A’ is supplied in gold, touched with 

red and green. Other initials are supplied in red or blue, some with 

reserved white foliate in¢ll, and extensions into the margins in 

black ink or in red. Some initials are coloured over in red or blue, 

paragraph marks stroked in blue or red, capital strokes in red. 

Underlining in red. 

Provenance: Probably in France by the early years of the sixteenth 

century; French associations in additions to 

Calendarium. Giovanni M. Nerli (£. 1860); gift from ‘I.O’; 

inscription in pencil on front endleaf, dated 3 July 1860: ‘Joanni 

M. Nerli > doctissimo eruditissimoque amico > in memoriam itineris 

per multas terras atque > in Dalmatiam nec non et Montem 

Nigrum > cum eo iucunde feliciterque factum > I.O. > dono dedit 

iii mentis Julii > A.D. mdccclx’. Probably Chislehurst, Kent, S. 

Nicholas College Library; shelfmark(?) ‘P.R. I.h.32’; name and 

shelfmark on pastedown. Purchased from E. van Dam on o¡er at 

»150 on 26 Oct. 1971; notes on pastedown and verso of front 

endleaf. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. G3.1500.1. 


Breviarium Constantiense [Constance]. 

[ 1 r 

a2 ] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius habet dies xxxi . . .’ 

[ 1 a8 v ] ‘Benedictiones matutinales’. 

[*1 r ] [Rubrica generalis.] Incipit:‘Pro maiori directione quedam generalia 

sunt . . .’ 

2 

a1 r [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘Incipit psalterium secundum cursum 

Constantiensis dyocesis . . . Inuitatorium. Adoremus Dominum 

qui fecit nos. Psalmus.Venite exultemus . . .’ 

e10 v [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

1 

aa1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘[I]n aduentu 

Domini ad primas vesperas . . .’ 

ab3 r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] 

am9 v [Commune sanctorum.] 

r 

A1 [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘In vigilia 

Penthecostes. Invitatorium. Regem ascendentem . . .’ 

r 

Q1 [Proprium de sanctis. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘In vigilia sancti 

Johannis Baptiste . . . Initium sancti euangelii secundum Lucam. 

Fuit in diebus Herodis regis . . .’ 

2 

aa1 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune sanctorum 

per circulum anni. Et primo de euangelistis. Ad vesperas super 

psalmos. Antiphona. Estote fortes in bello. . .’ 

2 

dd4 v [O⁄cium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘Antiphona. 

Presta, Domine, vt quisquis. Capitulum.Vidi civitatem sanctam 

Hierusalem . . .’ 

[Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger?, c.1488]. Folio. 

Ascription to Gru« ninger doubtful: see BMC. 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 8 ]; Rubrica generalis: [*] 6 ; 

Psalterium: 2 a^d 8 e 12 ; Proprium de tempore, Proprium de sanctis. 

Pars hiemalis: 1 aa^zz ab ac aeâl 8 am 10 ; Proprium de 

tempore, Proprium de sanctis.Pars aestivalis: A^N 8 O P 6 Q^Y z 

Aa^Mm 8 ; Commune sanctorum: 2 aa^dd 8 . 

Watermark: crossed keys; Sheppard notes that this watermark is 

rarely, if ever, found in Gru« ninger’s books.Two woodcuts. 

GW 5321; H[not C] 3826; Go¡ B-1155; BMC I 117; Pr 502; Sack, 

Freiburg, 824; Schreiber V 3594; Sheppard 363. 

COPY 

Wanting the Pars hiemalis; also [ 1 a1.8], the blank leaf Mm8, and 

2 dd8. 

Binding: Contemporary German (Tu« bingen, Kyri� workshop 

no. 124) blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; two catches 

and clasps lost. On both covers triple ¢llets form an intersecting 

frame, within which is a circular evangelist symbol (St John) 

stamp (Kyri� pl. 249, no. 2) and a lozenge-shaped dove stamp 

(Kyri� pl. 249, no. 1). On the upper cover triple ¢llets form a 

further frame, within which is a circular Catherine wheel stamp 

(Kyri� pl. 249, no. 3), and also the inner rectangle, which is decorated 

with a lozenge-shaped lattice-work stamp (Kyri� pl. 249, 

no. 4) and two small foliate stamps (Kyri� pl. 249, nos 5 and 6). 

On the lower cover triple ¢llets form an inner rectangle, which is 

divided by further triple ¢llets into triangular and lozenge-shaped 

compartments, decorated with the Catherine wheel stamp. 

Parchment index tabs. Size: 313 ¿ 220 ¿ 96 mm. Size of 

leaf: 293 ¿ 208 mm. 

Occasional early marginal notes. On back endleaf, a lists of liturgical 

works in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand. 


sale (1835), lot 1519. Purchased from David Nutt (1837), no. 

245 for »1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 7, and Library Bills 

(1837^8), no. 12. 



Breviarium Constantiense [Constance]. 

[ 1 a 1 r ] [Title-page.] 

[ 1 a 2 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Januarius habet xxxi dies, luna vero 

xxx . . .’ 

[ 1 a8 r ] ‘Tabula interualli’. 

[* 1 r ] ‘Tabula pro inueniendis psalmis secundum ordinem foliorum’. 

[*1 v ] ‘Incipit tabula festorum secundum ordinem alphabeti’. 

[*4 v ] ‘Benedictiones’. Incipit:‘Hec benedictiones dantur ad lectiones 

secundum chorum Constantiensis ecclesie. Primo cum agitur de 

tempore et ¢nitus est primus nocturnus dictumque est. Pater noster, 

et ne nos inducas in temptationem . . .’ 

[* 6 v ] ‘Memoria passionis domini’. Incipit: ‘Post matutinas. Patris 

sapientia, veritas diuina, Christus hoc captus . . .’ 

[*8 r ] [Rubricae.] Incipit: ‘Nota a prima dominica octobris usque ad 

adventum . . .’ 

2 a1 r [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘Incipit psalterium secundum ecclesie 

modum Constanciensis . . . dominicis diebus. In primo nocturno. 

Antiphona. Seruite. Psalmus i. [B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in consilio 

impiorum . . .’ 

h5 v [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

h7 v [O⁄cium defunctorum minimum.] Incipit: ‘Incipiunt vespere 

defunctorum. Ad vesperas antiphon. Placebo Domino in regione 

viuorum . . .’ 

h9 v [O⁄cium defunctorum maior.] Incipit: ‘Sequitur vigilia maior. 

In primo nocturno antiphone cum psalmis sequentibus ut in 

minor vigilia. Lectio prima. Parce mihi, domine, nihil enim . . .’


[b-534^b-535 

i1 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit:‘Incipit commune sanctorum per 

circulum anni. Et primo de apostolis. Ad vesperas. Antiphona. 

Estote fortes in bello. . .’ 

m6 v [Commune sanctorum (Pasch.).] ‘Hystoria de festis martyrum 

Christe pascali’. Incipit: ‘In vesperas . . . Antiphona. Filie 

Hierusalem venite et videte . . .’ 

m9 r [O⁄cium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘Antiphona. Presta, 

Domine ut quisquis hec . . .’ 

n1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘In adventu 

domini ad primas vesperas psalmi recipiuntur feriales cum reliquis 

et suis antiphonis. Capitulum. [D]eus pacis sancti¢cet vos 

per omnia, vt integer spiritus . . .’ 

r 

gg1 [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Pars hyemalis de 

sanctis. Et primo in vigilia sancti Andree apostoli. Ad vesperas. 

Capitulum. [B]enedictio Domini super caput iusti . . .’ 

r 

A1 [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit:‘Incipit pars estivalis 

de tempore. Et primo in vigilia Penthecostes. Ad vesperas. 

Antiphona. [V]eni, sancte spiritus, reple tuorum corda ¢delium 

. . .’ 

r 

G1 [Proprium de sanctis. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘Urbani pape et 

martyris si eius festum tempore paschali venerit . . .’ 

R10 v [Colophon.] 

r 

R11 [Orationes.] Incipit: ‘Ad matutinas. Exurge, Domine, adiuua 

nos et redime nos . . . Post confessionem. Ad preces. Per sanctum 

ieiunium . . .’ 

[Strasbourg: Johann Gru« ninger], 25 Jan. 1495. 16 o . 

collation: Calendarium: [a 8 ]; Tabulae: [*] 8 ; Psalterium^ 

Commune sanctorum^Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis^ 

Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis: a^g 8 h 12 i^l 8 m 12 n^y aaêe 8 

¡ 6 gg^kk 8 ll 12 ; Proprium detempore. Pars aestivalis^ Proprium de 

sanctis. Pars aestivalis: AÊ 8 F 10 G^Q 8 R 12 . Gathering [*] numbered 

with upper-case roman numerals, but not signed. 

Woodcut on 2 r 

a1 , showing David on the left kneeling before God. 

GW 5324; H 3829; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 208; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

Wanting [ 1 a1]. 

On h 7 v , 11 lines of type, used as bearers, were inked in error. 


wooden boards, with bevelled edges and two metal clasps. On 

both covers triple ¢llets form a frame, within which is a £oral 

roll. Further triple ¢llets form an inner rectangle, which is divided 

by ¢llets into two rectangular compartments, each decorated with 

the £oral roll. Rolls very worn. Remains of leather index tabs. 

Leaves cropped. Size: 118 ¿ 95 ¿ 57 mm. Size of leaf: 105 ¿ 

74 mm. 

On G 5 r , a prayer, accompanied by a‘signe-de-renvoi’, written in a 

¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand, in the lower margin: ‘Concede 

quaeso, omnipotens deus vt qui beati > Johannis Baptiste solennia 

colimus eius > aput te intercessione muniamur’. Other early marginal 

annotations. 

Some initials are supplied in red or blue. 

Provenance: Purchased from Wilfrid Michael Voynich, 

Catalogue 4, no. 308, for »6. 6. 0; see Library Bills, 24 Oct. 1903. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. g. G8.1496.1. 

shelfmark: Inc. g. G7.1495.1. 


Breviarium Eboracense [York]. 

[11 r ] [Title-page.] 

r 

[12 ] [Rubricae.] 

refs. Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis, ed. 

StephenW. Lawley, 2 vols, Surtees Society, 71, 75 (Durham, 1880, 

1882), I 1^3. 

[12 v ] [Proprium de tempore.] 


Lawley, I 3^652. 

233 r ‘Rubrica de festo dedicationis’. 



234 v ‘In festo dedicationis ecclesie’. 


Lawley, I 656^73. 

v 

241 ‘Rubrica de commemorationibus’. 



r 

242 ‘De commemorationibus’. 


Lawley, I 675^706. 

r 

253 ‘Ordo o⁄ciorum dominicalium’. 


Lawley, I 706^26. 

r 

[261 ] [Calendarium.] 


Lawley, I (3)^(14). 

[267 r ] [Computus.] 


Lawley, I (15). 

[267 v ] [Benedictiones matutinales.] 


Lawley, I (16)^(18). 

271 r [Psalterium feriatum.] 


Lawley, I 727^944. 

336 r [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

338 r [Su¡ragia.] 

r 

341 [Commune sanctorum.] 


Lawley, II 1^82. 

a1 r [Proprium de sanctis.] 






y11 r ‘Tabula super breuiarium’. 

Venice: Johannes Hamman, for Franciscus de Egmondt, 1 May 

1493. 8 o . 

collation: Proprium de tempore. Calendarium. Psalterium. 

Communesanctorum: [1] 2^25 [26] 27^34 8 35 12 ; Proprium desanctis: 

a^x 8 y 12 . 

Woodcut of St William of York on y10 v ; see Sander 1296 and 

Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis, ed. Lawley, II 

p. xii. 

GW 5333; HC 3834; BMC V 424; Pr 5189; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 217; 

Du¡ 59; Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis, ed.


677 

Lawley, I pp. xiii^xv and II p. xii [edition from Bodleian copy]; 

Oates 2035; Sander 1296; Sheppard 4142^3; STC 15856. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting y 11^12, containing theTabula. 

Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century(?) calf, with a gold 

£oral stamp on both covers. Size: 165 ¿ 118 ¿ 52 mm. Size of 

leaf: 153 ¿ 95 mm. 

‘Ad matutinas’, with incipit, ‘Beatus Nicholaus ad huc puerilus 

mult[o] ieiunio macerabat corpus ora pro nobis . . .’, written in a 

¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand on [11 v ]. Prayer on [12 v ], with 

incipit, ‘Salua nos, domine, vigilantes, custodi nos dormientes, 

ut vigilemus . . .’ Some days and dates added in upper margins in 

black ink. 

Provenance: RalphThoresby (1658^1725); inscription on [1 1 r ]:‘E 

libris Rad. Thoresby’. Marmaduke Fothergill (�1731); summary 

of contents on [11 r ] in Fothergill’s hand (Breviarium ad usum 

insignis ecclesiae Eboracensis, ed. Lawley, II p. xv). Edward 

Jacob (1710?^1788). Richard Gough (1735^1809), 1789; gift from 

Jacob: inscription on recto of front endleaf: ‘R. G. 1789 e libris 

Edw. Jacob’. Bequeathed in 1809. 

shelfmark: Gough Missals 6. 

SECOND COPY 

Gathering 32 and k1, 2, 7, 8 only. 

Leaves 32 1, 4, 6, 7 cropped, and the leaves from gathering k badly 

mutilated. 

Formerly pastedowns in A 7. 21 Linc. and A 7. 22 Linc. (Petrus 

Corarrubias, Sermones dominicales. Paris: Jodocus Badius 

Ascensius, 1520). 

Binding: These leaves were extracted from the above volumes in 

1970 and bound in a modern guard-book; see note on recto of 

front endleaf of A 7. 21 Linc. by DMR[ogers]. Sizes of leaves: 

321.8: 145 ¿ 203 mm; 324.5: 145 ¿ 202 mm; 322.7: 145 ¿ 202 mm; 

32 3.6: 143 ¿ 201 mm; k 1.8: 124 ¿ 202 mm; k 2.7: 124 ¿ 192 mm. 

Provenance of A 7. 21and A 7. 22 Linc.: John Barcham/Barkham 

(1572?^1642); inscription on a1 r of A 7.21 Linc.: ‘Liber 

Uniuersitatis Oxoniensis, ex dono Johannis Barchami, collegii 

Corporis Christi socii’. Given by Barcham in 1602: see Macray 

420. 

shelfmark: Inc. c. I4.9. 


Breviarium Frisingense [Freising]. Pars hiemalis. 

[ 1 a 1 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit:‘Januarius habet dies xxxi, luna xxx . . .’ 

[ 2 a1 r ] [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘Inuitatorium dominicis diebus ad matutinas. 

Antiphona. Servite domino. [Psalmus]. [B]eatus vir, qui non 

abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’ 

[h 6 v ] [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

[ 3 a1 r ] [Proprium de tempore.] Incipit: ‘Pars hyemalis de tempore 

secundum breviarium chori ecclesie Frisingensis incipit feliciter. 

Dominica prima in aduentu domini. Ad vesperas super psalmos. 

Antiphona. [V]eni et liber nos, Deus noster . . .’ 

[D6 r ] [First colophon.] 

[ 4 a 1 r ] [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit:‘Incipit pars hyemalis de sanctis. 

In vigilia sancti Andree habeatur . . . 

[ 5 a1 r ] [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune de sanctis. 

Primo de apostolis. Ad vesperas super ps. Antiphona. In pacientia 

vestra possidebitis animas . . .’ 

[ 6 a1 r ] [O⁄cium BVM in sabbato.] Incipit: ‘De beata virgine infra 

adventum domini ad vesperas. Antiphona super psalmos. 

Missus est Gabriel angelus ad Mariam virginem . . .’ 

Bamberg: Johann Sensenschmidt, 1482^3. 4 o . In two parts, dated: 

(I) 17 Oct. 1482; (II) 5 Apr. 1483. 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 6 ]; Psalterium: [ 2 a^g 10 h 12 ]; Proprium 

de tempore: [ 3 a^x 10 y z 8 A B 10 C 8 D 6 ]; Proprium de sanctis: [ 4 a^ 

g 10 ]; Commune sanctorum: [ 5 a 10 b^d 8 ]; O⁄cium BVMin sabbato: 

[ 6 a 8 b 6 ]. 

GW 5343 (1; Anm.); H *3841; BMC I 174; Pr 783, 784; BSB-Ink 


577. 

COPY 

On [a3 r ], line 3, of the Calendarium,‘. . . Dedicato� eccl’e Fri|ing’ 

Sigi|md’i . . .’: see GW (Anm.) 

Gathering [C] contains eight leaves, as GW, not as BMC. 

Gathering [D] misbound between gatherings [x] and [y]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, for the Bodleian Library, with 

leather index tabs. Size: 227 ¿ 170 ¿ 75 mm. Size of leaf: 218 ¿ 

154 mm. 

Benedictions in an earlyhand on three front endleaves. Early marginal 

notes, some in red ink. 

Manuscript foliation in black ink. 

Provenance: possibly a Jesuit inscription: ‘Catalogo inscriptus 

pag. 697’. Purchased for »1. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1845), 5. 



Breviarium Hamburgense [Hamburg]. 

Fragment. 

[Lu« beck: Bartholomaeus Ghotan, c.1484]. Folio. 

collation: No complete copy known: see GW. 

GW 5352; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 48 = 139; Sheppard 1898. 

COPY 

Upper half of a leaf containing twenty lines out of 43, beginning: 

‘Audistis ex lectione euangelicaperi > culum nostrum Ecce enim is 

qui non ex ac . . .’ 

Pastedown on the lower cover of Auct. 6Q 6.75, Speygel der 

dogede. Lu« beck: Bartholomaeus Ghotan, 23 Aug. 1485 (S-276). 


An early note in black ink in central margin. 

Initials are supplied in blue or red. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance (of Auct. 6Q 6.75): purchased for »3. 18. 0; see Books 




Breviarium Herbipolense [Wu« rzburg]. 

[ 1 a1 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit: ‘Sex nonas, Mayus, October, Julius et 

Mars . . .’ 

[ 1 a 6 v ] [Computus.] 

[ 2 a1 r ] of Prop. de sanctis] [Ordinarium o⁄cii.] Incipit: ‘Modus 

orandi secundum chorum Herbipolensem. Pro inicio matutinarum 

dicitur versus. Domine, labia mea aperies . . .’ 

[ 3 a1 r ] [Psalterium feriatum.] Incipit: ‘Dominicis diebus inuitatorium. 

[I]n manu tua, Domine, omnes ¢nes terre. Psalmus. 

[B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in consilio impiorum . . .’ 

[ 1 c 9 v ] [Litaniae sanctorum.]


[b-538^b-539 

[ 1 c10 v ] [O⁄cium defunctorum.] Incipit: ‘Vigilie maiores. 

Invitatorium. Circumdederunt me . . .’ 

[ 1 v 

c11 ] [O⁄cium defunctorum minimum.] Incipit: ‘Item vigilie minores. 

Invitatorium. Circumdederunt . . .’ 

[ 4 a1 r ] [Hymnarium.] Incipit:‘In aduentu Domini advesperas ymnus. 

[V]eni redemptor gentium ostende partum virginis . . .’ 

refs. See AH 2,36. 

[ 5 a1 r ] [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit:‘Incipit commune sanctorum. 

Et primo in nataliciis apostolorum. Ad vesperas super psalmos 

feriales. Antiphona. [E]stote fortes in bello et pugnate cum antiquo 

serpente . . .’ 

[ 6 a1 r ] [Preface, dedicated to] Rudolphus de Scherenberg, Bishop of 

Wu« rzburg, who commissioned the work. Incipit: ‘[R]udolphus, 

Dei gratia episcopus Herbipolensis et Francie orientalis . . .’ 

[ 6 a1 v ] [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘[Dominica 

prima adventus. Lectio tercia.] De gente peccatrici populo gravi 

iniquitate . . .’ 

[ 7 a1 r ] [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘[I]n vigilia 

Pasche. Ad vesperas antiphona. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. 

Psalmus. Laudate domino omnes gentes . . .’ 

[ 8 a1 r ] [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit ordo de festivitatibus 

sanctorum per circulum anni peragendis. In vigilia sancti 

Andree apostoli . . . Lectio prima secundum Iohannem. In illo 

tempore, stabat Johannes et ex discipulis eius duo . . .’ 

[ 1 n5 v ] ‘In dedicatione maioris ecclesie Herbipolensis’. Incipit: ‘Ad 

vesperas super psalmos feriales. Antiphona. Sancti¢cavit dominus 

tabernaculum . . .’. 

Wu« rzburg: Stephan Dold, Georg Reyser, Johann Beckenhub, 

[after 20 Sept. 1479]. Folio. 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 6 ]; Ordinarium o⁄cii: [ 2 a 4 ]; 

Psalterium: [ 3 a b 10 c 12 ]; Hymnarium: [ 4 a 4 ]; Commune sanctorum: 

[ 5 a 10 b 8 c 6 ]; Proprium de tempore ^ Pars hiemalis: [ 6 a^g 10 ]; 

Proprium de tempore ^ Pars aestivalis: [ 7 a b 10 c 8+1 d^f 10 g 8 ]; 

Proprium de sanctis: [ 8 a^n 10 o p 8 ]. 

GW 5356; H 3845; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 250; Schreiber V 

3602; Sheppard 1925^6. 

COPY 

Wanting the Calendarium, [a 1, 5, 6] and [p 1^3]. 

Sheppard notes that GW’s description allows for the Ordinarium 

o⁄cii twice over, once separately after the Calendarium, and 

again as leaves [p 4^7] of the Proprium de sanctis. 


Bound in the following order: Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis, 

Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis, Ordinarium ([p 4^7] of 

Proprium de sanctis), Psalterium, Hymnarium, Commune sanctorum, 

Proprium de sanctis. 

Binding: English calf, 1630s, bound in London by Richard 

Badger for Laud, and stamped in gold with the arms of 

Canterbury, impaled with Laud. Double ¢llets form a border; 

rebacked. Scars of index tabs. Size: 400 ¿ 295 ¿ 110 mm. Size of 

leaf: 388 ¿ 242 mm. 

Manuscript additions are supplied in an early hand in black and 

red ink. 

Principal initials are supplied in blue, maroon, green, or red, with 

foliate scrolling in grey, white, pink or gold, on grounds of green, 

blue, gold or pink, with in¢ll in yellow, white, and edged in red, 

pink, yellow, blue, gold or green, with extensions into the margins 

in green, blue, red, yellow, pink, maroon, and grey, and with gold 

dots. Other initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks 

are supplied in blue and chapter numbers in upper margin in red. 

Capital strokes in blue.Text enclosed by double rules in dry-point. 

Provenance: Probably Wu« rzburg, Bavaria, Cathedral. William 

Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1573^1645); coat of arms on 

binding (see above); presumably acquired by Laud in 1636: 

inscription on [a2 r ]: ‘Liber Guilelmi Laude Archiepiscopi 

Cantuarensis et Cancellarii Universitatis Oxoniensis 1636’. 

Donated by Laud in 1639; see Coxe, Laudian MSS, pp. xxxvii 

and xxiv. 

shelfmark: MS. Laud Misc. 301. 


Breviarium Ilerdense [Le¤ rida]. 

[ 1 v 

a1 ] [Calendarium.] Edited by Lorenzo Fornes. Incipit: ‘Aureus 

numerus KL; Januarius habet dies xxxi . . .’ 

[ 1 a7 v ] ‘Tabula’. 

[ 2 r 

a1 ] [Ordinarium o⁄cii.] Incipit:‘[M]ane surgimus ad matutinas et 

sancta oratione incipimus canticum graduum . . .’ 

[ 2 a5 r ] [Proprium de tempore.] Incipit: ‘[S]abbato prime dominice 

Aduentus Domini . . .’ 

[ 3 a1 r ] [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘[D]ominum, qui fecit nos, venite adoremus 

. . .’ 

[ 4 a1 r ] [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit santurale(!) secundum 

consuetudinem ecclesieYllerdensis. In die natalis Domini ad vesperas 

. . . Oratio. [D]a nobis quaesumus, Domine, imitari quod 

colimus . . .’ 

[ 5 r 

a1 ] [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit:‘Incipit commune sanctorum. 

Et primo de omnibus apostolis facimus festa duplicia . . . 

Capitulum. [F]ratres iam non estis hostes . . .’ 

[ 5 b10 r ] [Colophon naming the editor, publisher and printer.] 

Le¤ rida: Heinrich Botel, for Antonio Palares, 16 Aug. 1479. 4 o . 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 8 ]; Ordinarium o⁄cii and Proprium 

detempore: [ 2 a^l 16 ?]; Psalterium: [ 3 a^d 16 e 8 ?]; Proprium de sanctis: 

[ 4 a^v 10 ]; Commune sanctorum: [ 5 a 8 b 10 ]. 

GW 5363 (3,4; Anm.); H 3848; Pr 9557; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 261; 

Haebler, Bibliograf|¤ a ibe¤ rica, 84; Sheppard 7321; Vindel, Arte, I 

32: 8. 

COPY 

Proprium de sanctis and Commune sanctorum only. 

Leaf [ 5 b10] backed. For this copy see Hispanic MSS and Books, 8 

no. 21. 

Binding: Parchment, with leather ties. Size: 183 ¿ 133 ¿ 37 mm. 


Occasional marginal annotations. On [v10 r ], a text, the title 

cropped, with incipit ‘[ ]riso. Non potest ridere pro celestia predicandi 

qui gloria terrena(?) querit . . .’ and a quotation from 

Bede(?), ‘Christus enim per passionem suam mortem tanquam 

per portam angustam intravit’, in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century 

hand. On [ 5 b 10 r-v ], in the same hand,‘De penitentia distinctio 

tertia in decre[to]’, with incipit ‘Inanis est penitentia quam 

sequens culpa . . .’, Gratianus, Decretum, II, causa 33, Quaestio 

tertia, distinctio tertia, c. 12; the text on the verso, which shows 

through the recto, is now covered by the modern backing sheet. 

On [ 4 a1 r ] a seven-line initial is supplied in interlocked red and 

blue, with red pen-work in¢ll. Other initials are supplied in red, 

blue or interlocked red and blue. Paragraph marks and rubric 

titles are supplied in red. Underlining and capital strokes in red. 

Manuscript foliation and some running titles in black ink.


679 

Provenance: Purchased from William and Thomas Boone in 

1867, for »36; see Invoice Book (1865^7, Library Records d. 431). 



Breviarium Lincopense [Linko« ping]. 

Fragment. 

refs. Breviarium Lincopense, ed. Knut Peters, Laurentius Petris 

Sa« llskapets Urkundsserie, 5/1^4 (Lund, 1950^8). 

Nuremberg: Georg Stuchs, 16 Apr. 1493. 8 o . 

collation: Calendarium: [*] 8 m 10 ; Psalterium ^ O⁄cia annexa: 

AA^HH 8 II 10 ; Proprium de tempore: a^x 8 ; Proprium de sanctis ^ 

Commune sanctorum: A^S 8 T 10 U^Y 8 Z 6 . 

Woodcut. 

GW 5373; HC (+ Addenda) 3852; Go¡ B-1164; BMC II 467 (note); Pr 

2271; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 273; Bohatta (Parma) 131; Collijn, 

Bibliogra¢ I 128; G. E. Klemming, Sverigesa« ldre liturgiska litteratur 

(Stockholm, 1879) 20^2 and pl. 6; Oates 1092^3; Schramm 

XVIII p. 21; Sheppard 1642. 

COPY 

One leaf, signed B. 

The single leaves registered were issued with Klemming. 

Binding: Bound as a plate in Klemming. Size of leaf: 163 ¿ 

125 mm. 

Provenance of leaf unknown. The Bodleian copy of Klemming’s 

bookwas donated by the author via the Swedish Embassy in1879. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Bibliogr. B. 4. 

shelfmark: 258875 c.1 (pl. 6). 


Breviarium Misnense [Meissen]. 

Fragment. 

Meissen: [Printer of ‘Breviarium Misnense’ (Simon Koch?)], 16 

July 1483. Folio. 

collation: Calendarium: [a 6 ]; Psalterium: a^c 12 ; Proprium de 

tempore. Pars hiemalis ^ Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis: a 13 

b 12 c^r 10 ; Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis ^ Proprium de 

sanctis. Pars aestivalis: a^m 10 n 12 o^t 10 v 12 ; Commune sanctorum: 

[a 14 ]. 

Woodcut. 

GW 5390; H 3859; Go¡ B-1168; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 290; 


COPY 

Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments. 

16 leaves only, three having printed signatures: l1, l4, and p4. 

Leaves 1^11 are from the Proprium de tempore, 12^16 from the 

Commune sanctorum. Leaves 4, 5, 10, and 16 cropped. 

Removed from the bindings of six Hebrew books, when these 

were rebound: leaves 1^2 and 12^13 from Opp. Add. fol. II.32, 

leaves 3 and 11 from Opp. Add. 4 o III.9, leaves 4, 5, 10, and 16 

from Opp. Add. 4 o II.90, leaves 6 and 9 from Opp. Add. 4 o III.7, 

and leaves 7 and 8 from Opp. Add. 4 o III.11; leaves 14 and 15 are 

from the binding of an unidenti¢ed copy of the catalogue of the 

Michael collection [a note by Revd H. A. Wilson, on a slip in 

guard-book, dated Mar. 1919, records that this catalogue was 

housed (unreferenced) in the Oriental Sub-Librarian’s study]. 

The leaves as a whole were arranged by Wilson. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century red cloth; bound for the Bodleian 

Library. Size of leaf: Sizes of leaves (pencil numbers followed): 

leaf 1: 307 ¿ 195 mm; leaf 2: 309 ¿ 189 mm; leaf 3: 297 ¿ 

187 mm; leaf 4: 237 ¿ 184 mm; leaf 5: 237 ¿ 186 mm; leaf 6: 

335 ¿ 195 mm; leaf 7: 296 ¿ 178 mm; leaf 8: 292 ¿ 179 mm; leaf 

9: 334 ¿ 197 mm; leaf 10: 212 ¿ 236 mm; leaf 11: 301 ¿ 187 mm; 

leaf 12: 310 ¿ 191 mm; leaf 13: 310 ¿ 189 mm; leaf 14: 287 ¿ 

203 mm; leaf 15: 293 ¿ 203 mm; leaf 16: 237 ¿ 182 mm. 

Initials are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes and underlining 

in red. 




Breviarium Pataviense [Passau]. Pars hiemalis. 

[ 1 v 

a2 ] [Preface.] Incipit: ‘Et si sacerdotem et diuinis addictum clericum 

. . .’ 

[ 1 a3 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit:‘Januarius habet dies xxxi, luna xxx . . .’ 

refs. See Georg-Hubertus Karnowka, Breviarium Passaviense, 

Mu« nchenerTheologische Studien, 44 (St Ottilien, 1983). 

[ 1 a9 r ] [Tabulae.] 

[ 1 r 

a10 ] [Computus.] Incipit: ‘Tabula. Septuagesime . . . 

Septuagesimam alicuius anni propositi . . .’ 

[ 1 a10 r ] [Computus.] Incipit: ‘Litteram dominicalem ad annum . . .’ 

[ 1 a10 v ] ‘Registrum’. 

r 

[* 1 ] [O⁄cium S. Stephani.] Incipit: ‘De commemoratione sancti 

Stephani prothomartyris ad vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona. 

Stephanus autem plenus gratia et fortitudine faciebat . . . 

v 

[* 2 ] [O⁄cium BVM.] Incipit: ‘De veneratione virginis gloriose ad 

vesperas. Antiphona. Ecce tu pulchra es . . .’ 

2 

a1 r [Psalterium feriatum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit psalterium et breviarium 

secundum chorum ecclesie Pataviensis. Dominicis diebus ad 

matutinas. Invitatorium. Regem magnum. Psalmus. Venite. 

Antiphona. Servite domino. Psalmus. [B]eatus vir, qui non abiit 

in consilio impiorum . . .’ 

r 

e6 [Su¡ragia.] Incipit: ‘Su¡ragia feriatis diebus. De sancta cruce. 

[A]doremus crucis signaculum per quod . . .’ 

f1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis [Adventus^LXX].] Incipit: 

‘Incipit pars hyemalis secundum modernum breviarium ecclesie 

Pataviensis. In aduentu Domini ad vesperas super psalmos. 

Antiphona. Benedictus . . . Capitulum. [D]eus pacis sancti¢cet 

vos per omnia . . .’ 

l8 v [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis [S. Marcellus^S. Georgius.]] 

Incipit: ‘De sanctis post Epiphaniam. Marcelli pape tres lectiones. 

Ad vesperas. Capitulum. Ecce sacerdos. Hymnus. Iste 

confessor . . . Collecta. Preces populi tui quesumus, Domine . . .’ 

o4 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis [LXX^Pentecost].] Incipit: 

‘In septuagesima ad vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona. Alleluia 

alleluia. Psalmus. Benedictus. Capitulum. [F]ratres, nescitis quod 

hi qui in stadio. . .’ 

y4 v 

[Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis [S. Ambrosius^S. 

Urbanus].] Incipit: ‘De sanctis infra pascha et ascensionem. De 

sancto Ambrosio.Ad vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona. Ecce 

ego vobiscum. Psalmus. Laudate. Capitulum. Habemus ponti¢cem 

magnum qui . . .’ 

z6 r [Hymnarium.] Incipit: ‘Ille hymnus in adventu domini dicitur 

sabbatinis noctibus ad vesperas . . . Ad completorium. [V]eni 

redemptor gentium, ostende partum virginis . . .’ 

refs. See AH 2,36.


[b-542^b-544 

h1 v ‘Rubrica in anno’. Incipit: ‘[N]ota de feriis. Clama in fortitudine 

. . .’ 

h 4 v ‘Rubrica de festis’. Incipit: ‘Ordo dominicalium o⁄ciorum 

Gregorius papa sic ecclesiastica ordinavit o⁄cia . . .’ 

A1 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit:‘Incipit commune de sanctis. In 

vigilia apostolorum . . . De apostolis ad vesperas super psalmos. 

Antiphona. [N]on vos me elegistis, sed ego elegi . . .’ 

Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 27 Nov. 1490. Folio. 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 10 ]; O⁄cium S. StephaniÔ⁄cium 

BVM in sabbato: [*] 6 ; Psalterium: 2 a^d 8 e 6 ; Proprium de tempore 

et de sanctis; Pars hiemalis: f^z 8 h 6 ; Commune sanctorum: A B 8 . 

Typesetting in Calendarium, Psalterium, Commune sanctorum, and 

extra o⁄ces as GW (Anm.) Woodcuts: see Schramm XXIII pls 25 

and 31, and Schottenloher pls 5^8. 

GW 5426 (Anm.: 1a-3a,4,6a); H *3874; Pr 1888; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 

335; BSB-Ink B-880; Schramm XXIII p. 25 and pls 25 and 31; 


COPY 

Wanting: Calendarium: the blank leaf [a1]; O⁄cium S. Stephani^ 

O⁄cium BVM: [*5]; Proprium de tempore et de sanctis. Pars hiemalis: 

t 8; Commune sanctorum: B 3, 6 and the blank leaf B 8. 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter calf, with 

brown paperboards. Size: 333 ¿ 235 ¿ 43 mm. Size of 

leaf: 327 ¿ 213 mm. 

Sixteenth-century manuscript entries of births and deaths in the 

Calendarium, some in red ink. Following feasts added: 7 Jan. S. 

Valentine, 15 Feb. Translation of S. Leopold, 2 May, Holy Lance, 

13 July, Emperor Henry II, 13 Dec., S. Judoc. Occasional early 

marginal annotations in the text. 

Provenance: Purchased from David Nutt (1837), no. 249 for »1. 4. 

0; see Books Purchased (1837), 7, and Library Bills (1837^8), no. 

12. 



Breviarium Ratisponense [Regensburg]. Pars aestivalis. 

[ 1 a2 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit:‘Januarius. Circumcisio. Octaua sancti 

Stephani . . .’ The edition was commissioned by Henricus IV de 

Abensberg, Bishop of Regensburg; see GW 5433 (Anm). 

[ 1 a8 r ] [Tabula historiarum.] 

[ 1 a 9 r ] [Orationes.] Incipit: ‘[O]remus pro omni gradu ecclesie. 

Sacerdotes tui . . .’ 

[ 2 a1 r ] [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘[Psalmus.] [B]eatus vir, qui non abiit in 

consilio impiorum . . .’ 

[ 3 a1 r ] [Hymnarium.] Incipit:‘[V]eni, creator spiritus, mentes tuorum 

uisita . . .’ 

[ 4 a 1 r ] [Proprium de tempore.] Incipit: ‘In sancta nocte ad vesperas. 

Antiphona. [V]eni, sancte spiritus, reple tuorum . . .’ 

[k4 r ] [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit de sanctis pars estivalis. 

Et primo de sancta [P]etronella. Capitulum. Virgo cogitat. 

Responsorium. Regnum mundi . . . Oratio.[A]diuua nos quesumus 

domine beate Petronelle virginis . . .’ 

[n4 v ] [O⁄cium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘Sancti¢cauit dominus 

tabernaculum suum, hec est domus dei . . .’ 

[ 5 a1 r ] [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit:‘Incipit commune sanctorum. 

Et primo de apostolis. Ad vesperas. Antiphona. Estote fortes in 

bello et pugnate . . .’ 

[Wu« rzburg]: Georgius de Spira (Georg Reyser?), [before 13 June 

1480]. 4 o . Printed in type 4 of the editions ascribed by Ohly to 

Georg Reyser, here working at Wu« rzburg; on Georgius de Spira 

as printer see Frieder Schanze, ‘Der Drucker des Breviarium 

Ratisponense (‘Georgius de Spira’). Zur Schlu�phase der 

Ariminensis-O⁄zin in Stra�burg 1479^1481/82’, Gb Jb 69 

(1994), 67^77. BMC assigns to [Speier]. 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 12 ]; Psalterium: [ 2 a^d 12 

e 10 ]; 

Hymnarium: [ 3 a 6 ]; Proprium de tempore^Proprium de sanctis: 

[ 4 a^z AÔ 8 ]; Commune sanctorum: [ 5 a 8 b 10 ]. 

Woodcuts. 

GW 5433; H *3838 = 3883; C 1292 (= 1293?); R 439; Go¡ B-1176; 

BMC II 485; Pr 3255; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 226 = 369 = 371; 

BSB-Ink B-884; Ernst Consentius, Das Breviarium Ratisponense 

von 1480 aus der Sammlung von Dr. Otto H. F.Vollbehr (Berlin, 

1921); Ohly,‘Reyser’, 46; Schreiber V 3619; Sheppard 1927. 

COPY 

Hymnarius bound after Proprium de tempore and Proprium de 

sanctis. 

Some leaves repaired, particularly in gathering [ 3 b]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, for the Bodleian Library. 

Parchment index tabs. Size: 223 ¿ 156 ¿ 66 mm. Size of 

leaf: 214 ¿ 150 mm. 

Some early annotations. In the Calendarium, three early manuscript 

additions: 18 July ‘Materni epi. et m. . . . Curiensis’ (Chur, 

Switzerland), 20 July ‘Arbogasti epi. et m. . . . Curiensis’, 27 Aug. 

‘Gebhardi epi. Constanciensis’ (Konstanz, Switzerland). 

Initials, many with extensions into the margins, are supplied in 

red; occasional initials are supplied in black ink. Capital strokes 

and underlining in red. Woodcut on [ 1 a12 v ] coloured with red 

strokes. 


a date in the late1850s. 



Breviarium Salzburgense [Salzburg]. 

[ 1 a1 r ] [Preface.] Incipit: ‘Cum in diocesi Saltzburgensi esset magna 

penuria emendatorum codicum horarum canonicarum . . .’ The 

preface mentions that the edition was commissioned by 

Bernhard von Rohr, Archbishop of Salzburg (1466^82). 

[ 1 a 2 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit:‘Aureus numerus. KL. Januarius habet 

dies xxxi, luna xxx . . .’ 


3 a1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit feriale 

breviarii secundum usum ecclesie sancte Saltzburgensis. 

Dominica prima in aduentu Domini ad vesperas super psalmos. 

Antiphona. Benedictus dominus. Capitulum. [D]eus pacis sancti- 

¢cet vos per omnia . . .’ 

n1 r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit:‘Incipit pars hyemalis 

de sanctis . . . In sancti Saturnini martyris antiphona cum collecta 

dicatur ut de uno martyre. Oratio. [D]eus qui nos beati 

Saturnini . . .’ 

q1 r [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit commune de sanctis 

infra pasca et penthecosten. In festo vnius apostoli ad binos. Ad 

vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona. [P]ax vobis ego sum . . .’


681 

[Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘Incipit psalterium secundum 

usum . . .Dominicis diebus inuitatorium. Regem magnum. 

Psalmus. [V]enite exultemus domino iubilemus . . .’ 

v12 r [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

x2 v [Su¡ragia.] Incipit: ‘Sequntur su¡ragia ad vesperas per circulum 

anni. De sancta trinitate sabbatinis noctibus. Antiphona. [T]e 

deum patrem ingenitum te ¢lium . . . 

x5 v [O⁄cium defunctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipiunt vespere mortuorum. 

Antiphona. [P]lacebo domino in regione viuorum . . .’ 

v 

x9 [Hymnarium.] Incipit: ‘In aduentu domini ad vesperas hymnus. 

[C]onditor alme siderum eterna lux . . .’ 

refs. See AH 2,35 and 51,46. 

r 

11 [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘Incipit ordo de sanctis qualiter 

de ipsis per circulum anni cantandum sit. Et primo de communi 

apostolorum . . . Antiphona. [E]stote fortes in bello et pugnate . . .’ 

r 

31 [O⁄cium BVM in sabbato.] Incipit:‘[M]issus est angelus Gabriel 

ad Mariam virginem . . .’ 

41 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit pars estivalis. 

In sancta nocte Penthecostes ad vesperas super psalmos. 

Antiphona. [V]eni, sancte spiritus, reple tuorum corda ¢delium 

. . .’ 

101 r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘Incipit pars estivalis 

de sanctis. Urbani pape et martyris . . . Oratio. [D]a quesumus, 

omnipotens Deus . . .’ 

174 v [O⁄cium in dedicatione ecclesiae.] Incipit: ‘In dedicatione 

ecclesie summum festum facimus. Ad vesperas super psalmos. 

Antiphona. Sancti¢cauit Dominus tabernaculum suum hec 

est . . .’ 

v 


A1 r 

‘Breuiarium gradualis seu o⁄ciorum’. [Also known as 

Directorium missae.] Incipit: ‘Incipit breviarium gradualis seu 

o⁄ciorum per circulum anni . . . Dominica prima in aduentu 

Domini. O⁄cium. [A]d te leuaui . . .’ 

C3 r [O⁄cium et missa SS. Ruperti et Virgilii.] Incipit: ‘Capitulum. 

[P]lures facti sunt sacerdotes idcirco quod morte prohiberentr 

permanere Ihesus . . .’ 

C3 v ‘Registrum breviarii’. 

Venice: Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1482. 4 o . 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 8 ]; Tabulae: [ 2 a 4 ]; Proprium de tempore, 

Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis^Psalterium^ Hymni: 

3 12 8 12 10 14 12 8 

a^l m n o p q r^x y ; Commune sanctorum^Proprium 

de tempore, Proprium de sanctis. Pars aestivalis: 1^8 12 9 14 10^15 12 

16 17 8 ; Directorium missae: A B 12 C 6 . 

GW 5442; H *3931; Go¡ B-1178; BMC V 334; Pr 4799; Bohatta, Lit. 

Bibl., 473; BSB-Ink B-905; Rhodes 442; Sheppard 3868. 

r1 r 

COPY 

Wanting the two gatherings [ 1 a] and [ 2 a], containing the 

Calendarium and Tabulae; also C 3^4 and the blank leaf C 6. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century, south German or Austrian(?) blindtooled 

calf, over wooden boards, with two metal clasps. On both 

covers triple intersecting ¢llets form frames, with a £oral roll 

between the second and third sets. Further triple ¢llets, with a 

£eur-de-lis at each corner, form an inner rectangle, decorated 

with an oval £oral centre-piece on the upper cover, and a circular 

one on the lower cover. Rolls and centre-pieces formerly gilded: 

traces of gilding on the lower cover. The spine is decorated with a 

repeated small foliate stamp. Size: 200 ¿ 153 ¿ 75 mm. Size of 

leaf: 186 ¿ 134 mm. 

Frequent early marginal notes. 

Initials are supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. 


not found in sale (1835). Thomas Thorpe; Catalogue 

(1836), part VIII, no. 343. Purchased for »0. 12. 0; see Books 




Breviarium Sarisburiense [Salisbury]. 

Fragment. 

[Southern Netherlands: Printer of the Sarum ‘Breviarium’ , 

c.1475]. 4 o . For a discussion of the place of printing see HPT I 24. 

collation: Proprium detempore: leaves 4.6 (see GW); Psalterium- 

Commune sanctorum: [a b 8 ]. 

GW 5445; C 1308; Pr 1158; Campbell^Kronenberg 365e; Du¡ 60; 

HPT I 24^5, II 453; ILC 469; Oates 647^8; Sheppard 7267; STC 

15794; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 289. 

COPY 

Two conjugate leaves only, the text, belonging to the Proprium de 

tempore, not continuous. Fol.1contains: Passion Sunday, Matins, 

lect. ixênd of Prime; fol. 2: Palm Sunday, end of Vespers^Feria 

iii, Matins, lect. ii. 

Binding: Bound separately in the present modern guard-book in 

1971: see unsigned note [by D. M. Rogers]. Sizeoffragment: 295 ¿ 


Early annotations, in English hands, and scribbles. 

Provenance: John Upston (£. 1481^1512); partially cancelled 

inscription on recto of conjugate leaves: ‘Ad Joannem [Upston] 

clericum millatensem > attinet iste liber emptus anno domini 15 

millesimo’. John Page (£. 1491^1510); name on verso of conjugate 

leaves. Miles Clifton (sixteenth century); inscription on recto of 

conjugate leaves: ‘Mr. Myles Clyfton et am[ic]orum’. Date of 

acquisition unknown. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. b. G97.1(5). 

shelfmark: Inc. b. N99.1. 




A2 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] 

refs. Breviarium ad usum insignis ecclesiae Sarisburiensis, ed. 

Francis Procter and Christopher Wordsworth, 3 vols 

(Cambridge, 1879^86), I pp. mxlv^mccccl. 

[ 1 a 1 r ] [Benedictiones matutinales.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, unpaginated 

section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives pp. 17^18). 


[ 2 a 1 r ] [Calendarium.] 

refs. Similar to Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, 

unpaginated section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) 

gives pp. 3^14), with variations. 



section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives pp. 15^16), 

with some variations. 

[ 2 a7 v ] ‘Festorum mobilium canon’. 


section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives p. 16).


[b-546^b-547 

[ 2 a7 v ] ‘Nouiluniorum canon’. 


section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives p. 16). 

[ 2 a7 v ] ‘Carmina docentia per nouilunia inuenire pascha’. ‘Post 

regum festa quere nouilunia trina > Post dominica tertia sacrum 

pascha celebra’; 1 distich. 



[ 2 a7 v ] ‘Alia [carmina]’. ‘Post veris equinoctium quere plenilunium > 

Et dominica proxima sacrum celebra pascha’; 5 lines of rhythmic 

verse. 



[ 2 a8 r ] ‘Benedictio salis et aque’. 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 352^4. 

[ 2 v 

a8 ] ‘Benedictio panis et aque’. 


3 

a1 r [Psalterium.] 


v 

k3 [Commune sanctorum.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 355^554, with 

‘In natali unius matrone’at the end, for which see II 556^7. 

r 

n8 ‘Orationes de sanctoWolfado martyre, de sancta Radegunde uirgine, 

de sancta Modwenna uirgine, de sancta Editha uirgine’. 



o1 r ‘In dedicatione ecclesie’. 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, mccccxlix^ 

mccccxcii. 

o7 r ‘In commemoratione sancti Cedde’. 


variations. 

r 

o8 ‘In translatione Cedde’. 


variations. 

r 

p1 ‘In commemorationeThome’. 


slight variations. 

r 

p1 ‘Seruitium beate Marie’. 


di¡erent ending including ‘lectiones de sancta Maria in tempore 

Pasce’. 

r 

H1 [Proprium de sanctis.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, III 305^1120, 

with variations. 

v 

cc3 ‘Rubricae generales’. 



r 

cc4 ‘Uersus de conclusione orationum siue collectarum’.‘Per dominum 

dicas, si patrem presbyter oras > Si Christum memores per 

eundem dicere debes’; 4 hexameters. 

r 

cc4 [Colophon.] 

Venice: Johannes Hamman, for Frederick Egmondt, 1 Mar. 1495. 

16 o . The date ‘post mille|imu� quaterquecente|imu� nonage|imo 

quinto Kalendas Martias’ has been read (e.g. by GW) as 25 Feb. 

1490. GW records as 8 o . 

collation: Pars aestivalis: Proprium de tempore: A^G 8 ; Tabulae: 

[ 1 a 2 ]; Calendarium: [ 2 a 8 ]; Psalterium^Commune sanctorum: 3 a^ 

p 8 ; Proprium de sanctis: H^Z 8 aa bb 8 cc 4 . 

GW 5448; C1312; Pr 5196; Bohatta, Lit.Bibl.,487; Henry Bradshaw, 

‘Printed Sarum Breviaries’, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, p. xliii; 

Du¡ 67; Sheppard 4152; STC 15801. 

COPY 

Leaf A1 partially repaired. 



Early notes on A1 r . Some early scribbles and pen-trials on cc4 r-v . 

Provenance: Thomas Kirton (£. 1547^1559); Rhodes 411, who 

notes an inscription in this book with the date ‘1550’, which has 

not been found; inscription on cc 4 v : ‘Kyrtonus socius collegii 

Corporis Christi’. Richard Gough (1735^1809), 1788; initials and 

date (12 Feb.) on A1 r . Bequeathed in 1809. 

shelfmark: Gough Missals 43. 



[ 1 a1 r ] [Calendarium.] 


section at the beginning (Conspectus (their p. 6) gives pp. 3^14), 

with variations. 

[ 1 a 7 r ] [Computus.] 

[ 1 a 7 v ] ‘Tabula psalterii’. 

A1 r [Psalterium feriatum.] 


K 7 r [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

L1 r [Commune sanctorum.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 364^459, ending 

with‘In natali vnius matrone’, for which see II 556^7. 

N10 r [Rubrics: extracts.] 



N10 v ‘Versus de ¢ne orationum siue collectarum’. ‘Per dominum 

dicas, si patrem presbyter oras > Si Christum memores per 

eundem dicere debes’; 4 hexameters. 

N 10 v ‘Orationes de sancto Wolfado martyre, de sancta Radegunde 

uirgine, de sancta Modwenna uirgine, de sancta Editha uirgine’. 



O1 r [O⁄cium BVM parvum.] ‘Seruitium beate Marie’. 


di¡erent ending, including ‘lectiones de sancta Maria in tempore 

Pasce’. 

P1 r [O⁄cium dedicationis ecclesiae.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, pp. mccccxlix^ 

mccccxcii. 

2 a1 r [Benedictiones matutinales.] 



2 a2 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, pp. v^mxxviii. 

a |k 1 r [Proprium de sanctis. Pars hiemalis.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, III 1^320. 

h |k1 r ‘In festo yconie saluatoris’. 


H1 r [‘In commemorationeThome’.] 


H 1 v ‘Translatio sancti Cedde’. 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 317^19.


683 

H2 v ‘In commemoratione sancti Cedde’. 


H 3 r ‘Commune Paschalis temporis’. 


Beginning of Commune sanctorum. 

Rouen: Martin Morin, 2 June [c.1492]. 8 o . Pr dates to [1497?]. 

collation: Calendarium: [ 1 a 8 ]; Psalterium^Commune sanctorum: 

AÎ 8 K 10 L M 8 N 10 O P 8 ; Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis: 

2 a^x 8 y 6 ; Propriumdesanctis.Parshiemalis: 3 a^f |k 8 g |k 10 h 

|k 4 ; O⁄cia annexa: H 4 . Leaf K5 signed Nv, N5 signed Kv. 

GW 5450; C1314; Pr 8775; Bohatta, Lit.Bibl.,482; Henry Bradshaw, 

‘Printed Sarum Breviaries’, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, p. xliii; 

Du¡ 69; STC 15795.5; Sheppard 6812. 

COPY 

Wanting g 6^7 of Proprium de tempore (O⁄ce for S. Thomas 

Becket); references to S.Thomas Becket and Popes deleted in 

kalendarium. 

Printed on parchment; bound in two volumes. Proprium de tempore 

bound before Psalterium^Commune sanctorum; O⁄cia 

annexa bound before Proprium de sanctis. 

Leaf [ 1 a 8] contains the continuation of the Tabula psalterii, and is 

not blank, unlike GW. 

The year 1492 is printed in the Computus on 1 a7 r . 

Binding: Eighteenth-century English(?) gold-tooled brown morocco; 

within a border formed by a single gilt ¢llet, a repeated 

£oral and a repeated foliate tool form a dentelle; stamped with 

the arms of Michael Wodhull; gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns. 

Both volumes rebacked. Size: Both vols: 150 ¿ 103 ¿ 

45 mm. Size of leaf: 140^2 ¿ 93^8 mm. 

Principal initials are supplied in white on a gold ground, decorated 

with either a strawberry or a £ower in red and green, or 

with dots in red, blue, and white. Each initial is accompanied by 

a half-border within red rules, decorated with £owers (in some 

instances identi¢able as poppies) or strawberries in red and 

green, and other £owers and foliage in blue, green, gold, and red, 

and decorative pen-strokes in black. By a French hand, probably 

from the same workshop that decorated the following books:The 

George Abrams Collection, Sotheby’s, 16^17 Nov. 1989, lots 47 

(Albrecht von Eyb, Margarita poetica I. Paris: Ulrich Gering, 20 

Nov. 1478), 50 (Robert Gaguin, Compendium de origine et gestis 

Francorum. Paris: Thielman Kerver for Durand Gerlier and 

Jean Petit, 13 Jan. 1500), and 119 (Publius Terentius Afer, 

Comoediae. Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 11 Feb. 

1499); see also A-475. Other initials are supplied in red, blue, or 

interlocked red and blue. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or 

blue. Underlining in red. Capitals touched with yellow wash.Text 

enclosed within single red rules. 

Provenance: Michael Wodhull (1740^1816); the gold stamp of his 

coat of arms on the upper cover of each volume; not in Wodhull 

sale; no annotations on endleaves. Richard Gough (1735^1809). 


shelfmark: Gough Missals 67b, 68. 



[*1 r ] ‘Benedictio salis et aque’. 


[* 1 v ] ‘Benedictio panis’. 


11 r [Title-page.] 

12 r [Benedictiones matutinales.] 



13 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, pp. v^mxxviii. 

211 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, I, pp. mxlv^ 

mccccl. 

r 

275 ‘In dedicatione ecclesie’. 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II pp. mccccxlix^ 

mccccxcii. 

r 

287 ‘Seruitium beate Marie’. 


[No complete copy known] [Psalterium.] 


401 r [Commune sanctorum.] 

refs. Breviarium, ed. Procter and Wordsworth, II 355^459, ending 

with ‘In natali vnius electe’ [also known as In natali vnius 

matrone’], for which see II 556^7. 

ð1 r ‘Correctio psalterii’. Incipit:‘Correctiovel potius purgatio ab his 

videlicet . . .’ 

[Venice: Johannes Hamman, c.1494]. 8 o . 

collation: 1^6 [7] 8^19 8 20 4 21^9 [30^1] 32^42 8 ; ð 2 . A single 

unsigned and unnumbered leaf, with text beginning ‘Bn� dictio 

|alis et aq� o|�b j dn� icis x annu� po|t p , ma� . . .’, is bound ¢rst in the 

volume and is not included in the collation. It presumably formed 

part of a gathering, either unsigned or signed with a signature not 

in the numerical series, which contained the Calendarium and 

was placed before the Psalterium, as in some other editions. 

Types: [158 G (title)], 70 (67) G, 61 G (P.6, Haebler ‘mit’5*: 66’). 

Lombard initials. 334 leaves, 2^332 numbered 2^344, with errors 

r 

and omissions. Two columns; 12 : 36 lines and headline. Size of 

type area: 120 (125) ¿ 82 mm. Description to supplement the 

GW description of an incomplete copy: title: [(red) ‘Breuiariu� 

|ed’m mo > rem eccle|ie Sarum’]; 12 r (headline): ‘Benedictiones 

matutinales >> Quotien|cu� que ¢unt.ix.lec. > per totu� annu� : dicantur 

i|te |ex > benedictiones . . .’; 13 r : ‘In no|� e |ancte et indiuidue > 

trinitatis Amen. Incipit ordo > breuiarii |ecundum morem et 

con|ue- > tudine� eccle|ie Saru� anglica- > ne In parte hyemali. Do > 

minica prima in adue� tu ad ve > |peras . . .’; 204 v :‘Explicit pars hiemalis 

> de tempore.’; 211 r :‘In dei no|� e amen. Breuia > rii |ecundum 

v|um Saru� pars e|tiua > lis incipit. In fe|to |ancte trini > tatis ad 

ve|peras . . .’; 275 r (numbered ‘213’): ‘In dedicatio� e eccle|ie . . .’; 

287 r (numbered‘223’): [Servitium beatae Mariae] (black) ‘virginis 

vtero verbum tuu� an > gelo nu� ciante carne� |u|cipere > volui|ti . . .’; 

r 

321 (numbered ‘249’): [Psalterium] (headline, red) ‘Laudes > 

(black) men eius in choro: in tympa- > no et p|alterio p|ala� t ei . . .’; 

401 r (numbered ‘321’): ‘[Commune sanctorum] (red) In natali 

vniusap’li |ive > vniuseua� ngeli|tevelpl’rimo[rum] > apo|toloru� . . .’; 

428 v (numbered ‘344’): ‘Explicit co� mune |anctorum.’ |1 r (headline): 

‘Correctio p|alterii’. |2 v :‘Finis’.Woodcut initial ‘D’on 376 v . 

GW 5451; C 1309; not in Pr; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 479; Du¡ 63 = 64; 

Rhodes 443; STC 15797; Sheppard 4148^51. 

COPY 

Wanting 11 (the title-page), 71^2, 283^6, 295^8, and gatherings 30 

and 31. 26 1 and 27 7^8 are mutilated. Many other leaves are 

damaged and repaired. Five modern blank leaves are inserted


[b-548^b-551 

within gathering 26, and two in gathering 27, apparently without 

reason. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English calf; marbled pastedowns 

and scars of index tabs. Loose upper board. Size: 183 ¿ 123 ¿ 


‘In illo tempore dixit Jesus’ in an early, English hand in the lower 

margin of 201 v , and occasional early notes. Some crosses (as note 

marks) in the margins. Deleted inscription in upper margin of 

392 r . 

Title in an early hand in the upper margin of 1 2 r . 

Provenance: Hazlewood, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire (nineteenth 

century); inscription on verso of front endleaf: ‘E libris parochi 

Hazelwood’. Purchased for »25 from B. H. Blackwell, Ltd, 5 

Nov. 1969. 



Breviarium Strengnense [Stra« ngna« s]. 

Fragment. 

Stockholm: Johannes Fabri, 18 July1495. 4 o . Format given as 8 o by 

GW, but it is ‘clearly a quarto’: see [Paul Needham], Incunables 

from the Sch�yen Collection (New York, Sotheby’s, 12 Dec. 1991), 

lot 40(6). 

collation: Calendarium: [*] 10 ; Psalterium: ^ 8 ; Proprium de tempore: a^t 8 v 6 ; Proprium de sanctis^ 

Commune sanctorum: A^T 8 V 6 . 

GW 5467; C 1318; Go¡ B-1183; Pr 9829; Bohatta, Lit. Bibl., 502; 

Collijn, Bibliogra¢, I 138; Klemming 22^4 and pl. 7; Oates 4218; 


COPY 

One leaf only, signed Bii. 

Binding: Bound as plate in Klemming. Size of leaf: 187 ¿ 

134 mm. 

Provenance of leaf unknown. Bodleian copy of Klemming 

donated by the author via the Swedish Embassy in 1879. 


shelfmark: 258875 c.1 (pl. 7). 


Breviarium Upsalense [Uppsala]. 

Fragment. 

Stockholm: Johannes and, subsequently, Anna Fabri, 30 Sept. 

1496. 4 o . Single leaves registered were issued with Klemming. 

collation: Calendarium: [*] 4 [�] 10 ; Psalterium: [a 8 ] ^ 8 10 ; Proprium de tempore: a^k 8 

l 4 m^v 8 ; Proprium de sanctis^Commune sanctorum: A^V 8 X 10 ; 

Appendix: A 8 B 4 . 

Woodcut. 

GW 5499; HC (+ Addenda) 3950; Go¡ B-1187; Pr 9830; Bohatta, 

Lit. Bibl., 532; Collijn, Bibliogra¢ I 148; Klemming 24^7 and pl. 

8; Needham, Sch�yen, lot 40(7); Oates 4219^20; Schreiber V 

3627; Sheppard 7585. 

COPY 

One unsigned leaf only. 

Binding: Bound as a plate in Klemming. Size of leaf: 174 ¿ 

121 mm. 

Provenance of leaf unknown. Bodleian copy of Klemming 

donated by the author, via the Swedish Embassy, 1879. 


shelfmark: 258875 c.1 (pl. 8). 


Breviarium [Utrecht]. 

[*2 r ] [Calendarium.] Incipit:‘Januarius habet dies xxxi, luna xxx . . .’ 

Attribution of the breviary to Utrecht/Windesheim is suggested 

by the presence of Willibrord and Lebuinus, both venerated at 

Utrecht, in the Calendarium, both names printed in red, and likewise 

in the calendar of the 1507 Windesheim breviary. The minor 

series ofthe O⁄ce ofthe Dead is that of Utrecht and reading IXof 

the major series is again that of Utrecht. See K. Ottosen, The 

Latin O⁄ce of the Dead (Aarhus, 1993), 280^2, 345. 

[** 6 r ] ‘Ordinarius’. Incipit:‘Ordinarius pro lxx. D. Prisce virginis. Si 

hic fuerit lxx.vii ydus infra . . .’ 

h1 r 

[Rubricae.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimus aduentus, dominica prima et 

secunda . . .’ 

aa1 r [Proprium de tempore. Pars hiemalis.] Incipit:‘Dominica prima 

in aduentu Domini ad vesperas antiphona et psalmos feriales. 

Capitulum. [S]obrie et pie et iuste viuamus in hoc seculo . . .’ 

r 

a1 [Psalterium.] Incipit: ‘Dominicis diebus. Inuitatorium. 

Adoremus dominum, qui fecit nos. Psalmus.Venite exultemus.In 

I nocturno antiphona. Servite domino. Psalmus. [B]eatus vir, qui 

non abiit in consilio . . .’ 

e8 r [Litaniae sanctorum.] 

e11 r [O⁄cium defunctorum.] 

v 

f2 [Hymnarium.] 

g3 v [Commune sanctorum.] Incipit: ‘[Euangelium]. [E]cce ego mitto 

vos sicut oues in medio luporum . . .’ 

r 

A1 [Proprium de tempore. Pars aestivalis.] Incipit:‘In vigilia Pasche 

ad vesperas.Antiphona. Alleluia Alleluia. Psalmus. Laudate 

domino. Ad magni¢cat. Antiphona. [V]espere autem sabbati que 

lucescit . . .’ 

r 

H1 [Proprium de sanctis.] Incipit: ‘Commune sanctorum. Ad magni¢cat. 

Antiphona.[F]ilie Hierusalem venite et videte martirem 

cum corona . . .’ This part actually contains the ‘Proprium de 

sanctis’. 

[Speier: Peter Drach, not before 1481]. 16 o . Attribution and dating 

to [148?] by Alan G. Thomas, on the basis of a letter to Dr H. A. 

Feisenberger (Sotheby’s) from Dr Ursula Altmann and Dr 

Ursula Bruckner, GW, 29 Oct. 1984. 

collation: [* 8 ** 12 ] h 8 aa^kk 16 ll 4 a^h A^R 16 . 

Type: 74G [P.5]. Printed in red and black throughout. Probably 592 

r 

leaves (589 leaves in the Bodleian copy). 31 lines ([a2 ]); two columns. 

Size of type area: 110 ¿ 74 mm. Two bull’s head watermarks.Woodcut 

initials in red. 

Not in Pr; not in Sheppard. 

COPY 

Wanting [* 1], and the last two leaves, R 15^16, both possibly blank. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled calf over 

wooden boards; two clasps, the one lost, but with the remains of 

the catch. On each cover, double ¢llets form a border, decorated 

with circular stamps, two perhaps containing medallions, but all 

now too worn for identi¢cation; further double ¢llets form an 

inner rectangle, decorated with a lozenge-shaped centre-piece 

on the upper cover, an oval-shaped one, with slight remains of 

gilding, on the lower, which also contains a small £eur-de-lis in 

the head left-hand corner. Both covers are very worn, and the 

boards themselves have su¡ered from considerable worm damage

-551^b-552] breydenbach, bernhard von 

685 

at the edges. Scars of index tabs. Remains of manuscript label on 


Early manuscript notes, in some cases cropped. Extensive annotation 

on g3 r . An unread inscription on the verso of the back 

endleaf. 

Many initials and some paragraph marks are supplied in red or 

blue. Capital strokes and underlining in red. 

Provenance: Inside the upper cover is an inscription in a seventeenth-century(?) 

hand: ‘Inter libros pastorales repertum hoc 

breviarium ad bibliothecam^B’. Sale (London, 22 Nov. 1984), 

lot 158. Alan G. Thomas (1911^1992). Purchased on 24 Jan. 1985 

fromThomas for »585 (»650); see ledger (1984/5), no. 735. 

shelfmark: Inc. f. G8.1. 

B-552 Breydenbach, Bernhard von 

Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. 

[a2 r ] Breydenbach, Bernhard von: [Letter addressed to] Berthold 

[von Henneberg], Archbishop of Mainz. Incipit: 

‘[R]euerendissime in Christo pater et domine, domine mi gratiose, 

quod tue preter morem meum vsitatum scribere . . .’ 

refs. See Bernhard von Breydenbach, Die Reise ins Heilige 

Land: Ein Reisebericht aus dem Jahre 1483 mit 17 Holzschnitten, 

5 Faltkarten und 6 Textseiten in Faksimile, ed. Elisabeth Geck 

(Wiesbaden, 1977) (the German translation); see also Die Reise 

nach Jerusalem. Bernhard von Breydenbachs Wallfahrt ins 

Heilige Land (Mainz,1992); on the authorship see VL I 752^4. 

[a3 v ] ‘Continentiam huius operis subiecta monstrabunt’. 

[a4 v ] Breydenbach, Bernhard von: Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. 

Incipit: ‘[S]ancte et salubris profectionis atque peregrinationis 

transmarine Jherosolimitane . . .’ 

[z1 r ] ‘Iste sunt insule aVeneciis vsque Rodum’. 

r 

[z2 ] ‘Quedam communia vocabula de ydiomate sarracenico in latinum 

translata’. 

[z3 r ] ‘In sequentes historias prefatiuncula’. Incipit: ‘[D]uobus explicitis 

atque absolutis itinerariis nostris . . .’ 

r 

[z3 ] [Isidorus, Archbishop of Kiev: Epistola Universis Christi ¢delibus.] 

‘De Constantinopolitane vrbis expugnatione’. Incipit: 

‘[A]nno domini millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo 

secundo ciuitas Constantinopolitana . . .’ 

refs. Extracted from Antoninus Florentinus, Chronicon, 

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 31 July 1484 (A-313), Part III, 

Titulus XXII, Capitulum XIII (fol. CLXXXII verso^ 

CLXXXIII recto). For an edition of the original version of the letter, 

based on unabridged manuscript exemplars see La caduta di 

Costantinopoli. Le testimonianze dei contemporanei, ed. A. 

Pertusi, 2 vols (Milan, 1999), I 80^90. On authorship see Davies 

p. x. 

[z4 v ] ‘De Nigroponti captione’. Incipit: ‘[F]idelis quidem et prepotens 

vrbs Nigropontensis . . .’ Possibly a letter written by 

Balthasar Perusino about the taking of Negroponte in July 1470 

and addressed to the Duke of Urbino; see Davies p. x. 

v 

[z6 ] [Caorsin, Guilelmus: Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio.] 

‘De Rodie vrbis obsidione’. Incipit: ‘[R]odie vrbis obsidionem 

descripturus . . .’ 

refs. See G. Fumagalli, Bibliogra¢a Rodia, Biblioteca di bibliogra¢a 

italiana, 14 (Florence, 1937), no. 79. On the authorship see 

Davies p. x. 

v 

[A6 ] ‘De captione ciuitatisYdruntine’. Incipit: ‘[S]ane posteaquam 

insula Rodi . . .’ 

[A7 r ] [Medical advice.] ‘De regimine peregrinantium in transmare 

scribit Hali medicus in hunc modum’. Incipit: ‘[I]n mari peregrinanti 

si subuersio et vomitus acciderit . . .’ 

refs. Instructions probably taken from Albucazi and Rhazes; 

see Davies p. xi notes 2 and 3. 

Mainz: Erhard Reuwich, 11 Feb. 1486. Folio. 

collation: [a b 6 c 2+2+2+2 d e 2 f^h 2+2 iû 8 x 10 y 2+2+2 z A 8 ]. Davies 

collates [a b 6 c 8 d e 2 f^h 4 iû 8 x 10 * 6 y z 8 ]. 

17 woodcuts; seven topographical views; woodcut initials; see 

Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, ‘Die Holzschnitte der 

Breydenbachschen Pilgerfahrt als Vorbilder gezeichneter 

Handschriftenillustrationen’, Gb Jb (1929), 152^63. 


B-909; Campbell, Maps, 65; CIBN B-771; Hugh William Davies, 

BernhardvonBreydenbachand hisJourneytotheHolyLand1483^ 

4. A Bibliography (London, 1911), no. I; Hillard 486; Oates 52; 

Sack, Freiburg, 813; Schramm XV p. 7; Schreiber V 3628; 


FIRST COPY 

For this copy see Wonderful Things, no. 30. 

Wanting the blank leaf [A 8]. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; on both 

covers a border is formed by a palmette and two ¢llets and a cresting 

£oral and rosette roll; a frame is formed by double ¢llets 

within which is the palmette roll; a £oral tool pointing in and out 

at the corners; marbled pastedowns; endleaves watermarked with 

a snake on a cross with an orb. Size: 295 ¿ 215 ¿ 38 mm. Size of 

leaf: 285 ¿ 204 mm. 


The woodcuts are coloured in red, blue, green, and yellow. Initials 

and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital 

strokes. 


sale (1789), part III, lot 5776; in the annotated catalogue marked 

down to van den Berg for Fl. 8; according to the exchange rate 

used by Thomas Payne at the sale this is the equivalent of »0. 14. 

0. Francis Douce (1757^1834); manuscript note by Douce: ‘purchased 

from the Library of M. de Crevenna’; Douce’s copy of 

Gustavus Brander’s sale catalogue (1790), lot 1056 is marked 

»5.5.0, butthis is probably not a sign ofpurchase; Douce’s armorial 



SECOND COPY 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf. Formerly chained: 

staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper cover. Size: 302 ¿ 


The woodcuts of Venice ([c]) and the Holy Land ([y]) are slightly 

defective and backed on linen. 

The woodcuts are coloured in red, blue, green, and yellow. Initials 


underlining. Capitals touched in yellow. 

Provenance: James Horswell (sixteenth century); on [A7 v ] several 

inscriptions of ‘Jacobus Horswell de Plymmouthe’ in a sixteenth-century 

hand. On [A 7 v ]: ‘Lent to Master Doctor 

Mooreman to be restored at Crystmas next commyng after the 

date hereof. Data primo die Februarij Anno Domini 1531’; presumably 

John Moreman (�by Aug. 1554). John Selden (1584^ 

1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18. Presented in 1659.

686 breydenbach, bernhard von 

[b-552^b-553 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: B 1. 16 Art. Seld.; Auct. 1Q 4.15. 

shelfmark: S. Seld. d.9. 

THIRD COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century blue gold-tooled morocco; 

gilt-edged leaves; watermark on the endleaves a lion leaning 

on a shield containing an anchor and the initials IIRS. Size: 


The woodcuts of Venice ([c]) and the Holy Land ([y]) are backed. 

Copious early marginal notes in two di¡erent hands. 

The woodcuts of Porec (Parenzo), Istria ([d]), Corfu ([e]), Modon 

([f]), and Candia ([g]) are partially coloured in green. Principal 

initials are supplied in red or blue with reserved white decoration; 

other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red 


Provenance: Carl Theophilus von Aichbichl (£. 1679); on [a1 v ] 

inscription: ‘Ex libris Caroli Theophili ab Aichpu« hl 1679’. 

Oxford, Radcli¡e Library; probably the copy purchased on 29 

June 1836 from Payne and Foss; see ‘New Purchases 1810^39’ in 

purchase list, Radcli¡e Library records FD1; book-plate with 

old shelfmarks ‘1 C.2 1’ and ‘G.39 H.2’; manuscript addition on 

p. 2a of interleaved Catalogue (1835) in Radcli¡e Library records 

gives shelfmarks‘1C.1.9’ (cancelled) and ‘1.C.2.1a’.Transferred to 

the Bodleian by the Radcli¡e Trustees between 1861 and 1893; 

Bodleian date stamp 2 July 1938. 

Other former Radcli¡e shelfmarks: 1. C.1 4 a ; RR.x.23. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. G1.1486.1. 

FOURTH COPY 

Wanting the woodcuts of Venice (Davies [c1^7], except the last 

leaf), Corfu ([e 1, 2]), Modon ([f 3, 4]), Candia ([g 3, 4]), Rhodes ([h 1^ 

4]), and the Holy Land ([y1^6]). 

The ¢rst leaf ([a1]), which is bound in reverse, is made up from a 

slightly smaller copy and bears the date stamp 1 Nov 1928. 

Binding: Contemporary Netherlandish (Utrecht?) blind-tooled 

calf over wooden boards; two clasps lost; traces of chaining; 

rebacked and repaired. On both covers triple ¢llets form a border; 

the inner rectangle is divided by ¢llets into lozenge-shaped and 

triangular compartments. In the border, a triangular stamp with 

a vine and grapes, in the corners a round stamp with a head of 

Christ, in the compartments a triangular and a lozenge-shaped 

£oral stamp; for the stamps see Abraham Hulshof and M. J. 

Schretlen, De kunst der oude boekbinders (Utrecht, 1921), pl. xi, 

nos 10, 12^14 (ascribed to Utrecht). Size: 325 ¿ 225 ¿ 45 mm. 


Early marginal notes, some in English. On [A8 r ] two inscriptions 

ofthe poem‘Oh that the meaninge of myharte > might be declaryd 

to your mynde > Then shulde yow perceyve my smarte > And how 

yow are to me unkynde.’ On [A8 v ] inscriptions of English and 

Latin poems and prose texts, all in the same hand: ‘If dowblenes 

were dentye > And no man coulde yt fynde > Where shulde a man 

haue plentye > but in a womann’s mynde’,‘Gratum et vulgare est 

perire quod facis ingrato > Est aliquid ingrato, meritum exprobare 

voluntas’,‘O pater, o hominum diuumque eterna potestas > ¢dere 

cui possum te sine nulla salus’,‘Detrahere aliquid alteri, et hominem 

hominis incommodo sine augere commodum, magis est 

contra naturam, quam mors, quam paupertas, quam dolor, 

quam cetera que possunt aut corpori a..dere, aut rebus exteriis’, 

‘Natura non patitur vt aliorum spoliis nostras facultates copias 

opes augeamus’, ‘Honesta enim bonis viris, non occulta 

queruntur’. 

Woodcuts coloured in yellow, red, green, brown, and blue. 

Principal initials are supplied in red or blue with reserved white 

decoration; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red or blue; red capital strokes and underlining. 

Provenance: Roger Parker (sixteenth century); signature on 

front pastedown in a sixteenth-century hand. Thomas Castlon 

(sixteenth century); on [a2 r ] inscription of three hexameters and 

one pentameter: ‘Vnde superbit homo, cuius conceptio culpa, > 

Nasci p½na, vita labor, morique necesse, post > hominem vermis, 

post vermem f½tor et > horror, sic in non hominem, vertitur > 

omnis homo. T. Castlon’, on [s1 v ] and [s2 r ]: ‘Nusquam tuta ¢des. 

Thomam Castlon’. Christopher Dowe (sixteenth century); on 

[A 7 v ] and [A8 r ] ‘Sum liber Christoferi Dowe notarij’. Ambrose 

Mannering (sixteenth century); on [A 8 r ] inscription of name. 

Roger Hunt (sixteenth century); on [A8 r ] inscription: ‘Rogerus 

Hunt in propria possidet’and ‘Mr Hunte after moost hartye commendaciones 

these(?) shalle(?) to desyre you to goo ¡orwarde 

with’. Sir John Sutler (sixteenth century); erased inscription on 

the back pastedown. Robert Burton (1577^1640); signature on 

the front pastedown, preceded by ‘Homo natus ad orbem contemplandum’ 

and followed by ‘Ex �de Cri[sti]’ [Christ Church, 

Oxford]; name erased on [a 2 r ]. Possibly the copy listed in the 

Benefactors’ Register I 358, selected from the books of Robert 

Burton in 1641; see Kiesling, Robert Burton no. 225. Apparently 

turned out as a duplicate. Lt Col W. E. Moss (1875^1953). 

Returned to the Bodleian by Moss in 1928; see BQR 5 (1926^8), 

224 and 285. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Q 1.17 Art; ‘Arts A 1.37 Med.’; 

D 4.19 Art. 

shelfmark: Inc. c. G1.1486.1. 

FIFTH COPY 


Eight leaves only: [i4], [p1, 2, 7], [u2, 3, 6], and [x10]. 

Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book of miscellaneous fragments. 

Formerly pastedowns in A-346(1) (Auct. 1Q 2.12^15.): 

Antoninus Florentinus, Summa theologica. Partes IÎV. 

Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 1496: Auct. 1Q 2.12 

([p1] and [p7]), Auct. 1Q 2.15 ([p2]) and Auct. 1Q 2.13 ([u2]); 

although only these four leaves have notes to this e¡ect, all eight 

leaves were probably used as pastedowns in the four volumes. Size 

of fragments: 315 ¿ 220 mm. 

On [p7 v ] an early note in an English hand. On [x10 v ] early marginal 

notes. On [i 4 v ] a note in the hand of Thomas Rawlinson. 

Provenance: John Purcell (sixteenth century); on [u2 r ] several 

inscriptions of ‘Johannes Purcell capellanus’and other names in 

English hands. Edward Medley (£. c.1512^5). Anthony Morgan 

(1569/70^1608/9) Donated by Morgan in 1601: see Benefactors’ 

Register I 32. 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: A11. 4^7 Th.: see James, Catalogus 

(1605), 11. Auct.1Q 2.14 has shelfmark Auct. 1Q 1.7 on a1 r . 



Peregrinatio in terram sanctam [German] Die heyligen 

reyssen gen Jherusalem. 

a2 r Breydenbach, Bernhard von: [Letter addressed to] Berthold 


‘[H]ochwirdigister vatter in Cristo vnd genao e digister fu« rst vnd

-553^b-554] breydenbach, bernhard von 

687 

herr, das ich mich wider mein gewonlich gebrauch vermessen 

hab . . .’ 

refs. See Elisabeth Geck, Bernhard von Breydenbach. Die Reise 

ins Heilige Land. (Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. Deutsche 

Ausgabe vom 21.6.1486). Ein Reisebericht aus dem Jahre 1483. 

Mit 15 Holzschnitten, 2 Faltkarten und 6 Textseiten im Faksimile 

(Wiesbaden, 1961); see also B-552. On the authorship see VL I 

752^4. 

a4 v ‘Inhalt di� bu� chs weiset dises nachgende Register’. 

r 

a7 Breydenbach, Bernhard von: [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam; 

Die heyligen reyssen gen Jherusalem.] ‘Die fart oder rey� v� ber 

mere zu� dem heyligen grab vnsers herren Jhesu Cristi gen 

Jherusalem, auch zu� der heyligen iunckfrawen sant Katherinen 

grab auf dem berg Synai’ (a1 r ). Incipit: ‘[D]er hey« ligen vnd hey« lsamen 

fart u« ber mo e r gen Jherusalem . . .’ 

r 

A4 ‘Namen aller inseln vonVenedig bi� gen Rodi�’. 

A5 v ‘Ettliche gemaine wort von sarraceni sprach in teu« tsche zungen 

verwandelt’. 

v 

A6 ‘Ein klein vorrede in die nachuolgende hy« storien’. Incipit: 

‘[N]ach beschreibung der zwaien raisen . . .’ 

A7 r [Isidorus, Archbishop of Kiev: De Constantinopolitane vrbis 

expugnatione.] ‘Von gewin der statt Constantinopel durch die 

Tu« rcken’. Incipit: ‘[I]n dem jar vnsers hey« ls als man zalt von 

Cristi gepurd tausent vierhundertfu« n¡zig vn[de] zway« ward die 

statt Constantinopel . . .’ On authorship see Davies p. x. 

B 2 r 

[De Nigroponti captione.] ‘Von dem gewinnen der statt 

Nigropont auch durch die tu« rcken geschehen’. Incipit:‘[D]ie glaubig 

vnd mechtig statt Nigropont . . .’ Possibly a letter written by 


and addressed to the Duke of Urbino, see Davies p. x. 

B4 v [Caorsin, Guilelmus: Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio.] 

‘Von der stat Rodi� wie sy« von den tu« rcken ward belegert vnd 

vnderstanden zu� gewinnen’. Incipit:‘[S]o ich hab willen zu� schreiben, 

wie die stat Rodi� von den tu« rcken belegert vnd vnderstannden 

ward zu� gewinnen . . .’ 

refs. See the Latin editions ‘[R]odie vrbis obsidionem descripturus 

. . .’; G. Fumagalli, Bibliogra¢a Rodia, Biblioteca di bibliogra¢a 

italiana, 14 (Florence, 1937), no. 79; on authorship see 

Davies p. x. 

C6 r [De captione ciuitatis Ydruntine.] ‘Von gewin der statt Ydrunti 

auch durch die tu« rcken geschehen’. Incipit: ‘[N]ach dem vnd die 

stat vn[de] insel Rodi� . . .’ 

Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 22 Apr. 1488. Folio. 

collation: a b 8 c^z 6.8 A^C 8 . 

Eight woodcuts; woodcut initials. 


B-912; CIBN B-773; Oates 927; Sack, Freiburg, 816; Schramm IV 

p. 52; Schreiber V 3631; Sheppard 1253. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf C8. 

Title-leaf a 1 backed. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German half red morocco; 


leaf: 269 ¿ 194 mm. 

Early marginal notes, washed out. 

Woodcuts coloured, but washed. 


39. 



Peregrinatio in terram sanctam [Dutch] Die heylighe 

beuarden tot dat heylighe gra¡t in iherusalem. 

a2 r Breydenbach, Bernhard von: [Letter addressed to] Berthold 


‘[H]ochweerdichste vader in Cristo en[de] here, mijn geminde 

here, dat ic voir my ghenomen heb . . .’ 


a3 v ‘Die tafell bewysende alle dat in dit boeck becreuen staet’. 

r 

a5 Breydenbach, Bernhard von: [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam.] 

‘Die heylighe beuarden tot dat heylighe gra¡t in Jherusalem’. 

Incipit: ‘[T]eer heiligher en[de] saligher beuaerden ouer dat meer 

the Jherusalem . . .’ 

y6 r ‘Die namen der eylanden vanVenegien tot Rodis toe’. 

y7 r ‘Sommighe ghemeen woerden van sarraceensche sprake ouer 

gheset in duytsche sprake’. 

y7 v ‘Een cleyn toereydinghe totter nauolghenden historien’. Incipit: 

‘[N]a bescriuinghe der tweer onser reysen . . .’ 

y8 r [Isidorus, Archbishop of Kiev: De Constantinopolitane vrbis 

expugnatione.] ‘Vant ghewin der stadt Constantinopelen doir die 

Thurcken’. Incipit: ‘[I]nt jaer ons heeren .m.cccc.lij. als die stadt 

Constantinopole . . .’ See B-552. 

r 

z2 [De Nigroponti captione.] ‘Hoe dat Nigropont ghewonnen wert 

als die selue Cardinael bescrij¡t’. Incipit: ‘[D]ie ghelouighe en[de] 

machtighe stadt Nigropont . . .’ Possibly a letter written by 


and addressed to the Duke of Urbino, see Davies p. x. 

z4 v [Caorsin, Guilelmus: Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio.] 

‘Van die stadt Rodis hoe dat se beleghen wert van den thurck’. 

Incipit: ‘[A]lsoe als ick wille hebbe om dat belegh der stadt Rodis 

te bescriuen . . .’ 

refs. See B-552. On authorship see Davies p. x. 

r 

h6 [De captione ciuitatis Ydruntine.] ‘Hoe dat die stadt Ydruntina 

van die thurcken ghewonnen wert’. Incipit: ‘[N]ae dat die stadt 

en[de] eylant Rodis . . .’ 

Mainz: Erhard Reuwich, 24 May 1488. Folio. 

collation: a 8 b 4 c 2+2+2+2 2 2 2+2 2+2 2+2 8 6 2+2+2 

d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 e f g h^ 

n 8 o 6 p q 8 r 6 s^z 8 h 8 . Davies collates a 8 b 4 c 8 d 16 e 8 f g 6 h^n 8 o 6 p q 8 

r 6 s^z h 8 . 

17 woodcuts; seven topographical views; woodcut initials. 

GW 5081; HCR 3963; Go¡ B-1191; BMC I 44; Pr 159; BSB-Ink 

B-914; Campbell, Maps, 65; CIBN B-776; Oates 54; Schramm 

XV p. 7; Schreiber V 3633; Sheppard 100. 

COPY 

Wanting the woodcut of the Holy Land (g) and the blank leaf h 8. 

Leaf a1 reversed in binding. The woodcut of Venice (c) partly 

backed; mutilated sections provided in manuscript. The view of 

Rhodes (d 5/d 12^16) partly backed, and defective at the joints. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch(?) mottled calf with goldtooled 

spine; marbled pastedowns; endleaves watermarked with 

the Maid of Holland and ‘WVB’. Size: 290 ¿ 210 ¿ 38 mm. Size 

of leaf: 282 ¿ 194 mm. 

Early marginal notes, washed out. 


strokes. 

Provenance: Purchased from Asher & Co. for »4. 4. 0; see 

Library Bills (1851^5), no. 77, and Books Purchased (1853), 12. 


688 bricot, thomas 

[b-555^b-558 

B-555 Bricot,Thomas 

Insolubilia. Obligationes. 

a2 r Bricot,Thomas: Insolubilia. 

refs. Thomas Bricot, Tractatus insolubilium, ed. E. J. Ashworth, 

Artistarium, 6 (Nijmegen,1986),13^112; on this edition see p. xvi. 

See Lohr 29 (1973), 173^8. 

r 

d3 Bricot, Thomas: Obligationes. Incipit: ‘[C]irca obligationes 

queritur vtrum di⁄nitio obligationis sit bona . . .’ 

Paris: Antoine Caillaut, 21 Jan. 1492/3. 4 o . Reprinted from 

Hopyl’s ‘editio princeps’, GW 5520 (BMC). 


v 

On a1 a woodcut depicting a seated saint at a lectern and two standing 

scholars. 

GW 5521; HR 3977; C 1342; BMC VIII 51; Pr 7957; Sheppard 6195. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Johannes XXI, Pont. Max., Summulae logicales. Paris: Andre¤ 

Bocard for De Marnef, 29 Aug. 1491 (J-100). 

Wanting the blank leaf e 8. 

Binding: Contemporary French(?) blind-tooled calf over wooden 

boards; marks of two clasps; the upper cover loose. On both 

covers multiple ¢llets form a border; within the frame, a square 

stamp with a stag; the inner rectangle is divided into three vertical 

stripes; in the left and right stripes, a small square stamp with a 

lion; in the central stripe, a round rosette stamp. Size: 210 ¿ 


Pen-trials on front pastedown. On front endleaf, ‘Scribere qui 

nescit, nullum putat esse laborem’ (Walther, Proverbia, 27691, l. 

1),‘Tempore f½lici multi numerantur amici’ (Walther, Proverbia, 

31227a^31228a, l. 1), ‘Tempora si fuerint nubila solus erit’ 

(Walther, Proverbia, 31216, l.1),‘Nullum malum impunitum, nullum 

bonum inremuneratum (Walther, Proverbia, 39079c). Early 


The device is coloured in red. 

Provenance: On a1 r of item 1, ‘Anno domini M d xiiij o decima 

octaua augusti a domino re[veren]do Jo[hanne] pre[sbyte]ro 

hunc emi trium gr cum albo’; on e 7 v of item 2,‘Anno domini M d 

decimoquarto decimaoctaua augusti a domino re[veren]do 

Jo[hanne] pre[sbyte]ro hunc trium gr cum albo emi’. 

Moyenmoutier, Vosges, Benedictines; on a 2 r of item 1 ‘Mediani 

Mo[naste]rii Cathalogo inscriptus’; on front endleaf ‘P. 2 No. 81’ 

in the same hand. Purchased on 9 Oct. 1889 from Alexandre 

Baillieu (no. 81) for 31.50 Francs; see Library Bills (1889). 



Textus abbreviatus in cursum totius logices Aristotelis. 

r 

A2 Bricot, Thomas: Textus abbreviatus in cursum totius logices 

Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]um sit necessarium, Grisarori, et ad eam 

que est apud Aristotilem predicamentorum doctrinam nosse . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr 29 (1973), 174^5 no. 1. 

Paris: Georg Mittelhus, 12 Nov. 1489. 4 o . 

collation: A B 8 C 6 D 8 E 6 F 8 G H 6 I 8 K 6 L 8 M 6 N 10 . 

GW 5528; HC 3966; Pr 8100; CIBN B-857; Oates 3016; Sheppard 

6330. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Antonius [Monchiacenus] Demochares, In Topicorum 

Aristotelis hypomnema. Paris: Simon Colinaeus, 1535. 

Wanting the leaves N 5^6. 

On A2 r l. 8 ‘. . . nece||arium > gri|arori . . .’as in Oates, not as GW. 

Binding: Sixteenth-century English gold-tooled brown calf, 

bound shortly before 25 June 1600, for the Bodleian Library; 

calf; two clasps lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp 

at head of the upper cover. On both covers a border of ¢ve ¢llets, 

the centre one in gold, stamped with the crest of the 2nd Lord 

Hunsdon. Size: 200 ¿ 145 ¿ 53 mm. Size of leaf: 190 ¿ 137 mm. 

Manuscript strips used as reinforcing pieces. 


Provenance: Richard Saunders (sixteenth century); on 316 v of 

item 2, several inscriptions of ‘Richardus Saunders me possidet 

teste Thoma Sanpole a quo . . . emi’, the name later crossed out 

and replaced with ‘Joannes . . .’ Presented by George Carey, 2nd 

Lord Hunsdon (1547^1603) in 1600; see Benefactors’ Register, I 

10 and James, Catalogus (1605), 289; Jensen, ‘Benefactors’ 

Register’, no. 27. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Art. B 3.7, as in James, Catalogus 

(1605); Art. BS 161. 

shelfmark: BB 11(1) Art. Seld. 


Textus abbreviatus in totam naturalem philosophiam 

Aristotelis. 

a1 v [Note on Aristotle.] Incipit: ‘Aristoteles gentis Macedonie . . .’ 

a2 r Bricot,Thomas: Textus abbreviatus in totam naturalem philosophiam 

Aristotelis. Incipit:‘[D]e natura scientia fere plurima videtur 

circa corpora et magnitudines . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr 29 (1973), 177^8 no. 4. 

Paris: E¤ tienne Jehannot, for Durand Gerlier, [c.1499]. 8 o . Dated 

by Sheppard; GW and Sack attribute to [Pierre Le Dru], for 

Durand Gerlier, [after 1500?] although they describe the device 

of Jehannot on a1 r . 

collation: a^m 8 n 4 . The title-page and a2 are unsigned, a3 is 

signed aii. 

Types: 96 G, 83 B, 65 G* (not as GW). In the diagram on c2 r , a few 

words are printed in a gothic type measuring c.80 mm. Five woodcuts 

and ¢ve woodcut diagrams; woodcut initials. 

GW 5541; Pr 8371; Sack, Freiburg, 842; Sheppard 6503. 

COPY 

Wanting the leaf a1 (with the device). 

Leaf c 2 bound ¢rst. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; double ¢llets form a 

border; rebacked. Size: 132 ¿ 93 ¿ 22 mm. Size of leaf: 127 ¿ 

85 mm. 




shelfmark: Ashm.1354. 


Textus abbreviatus in totam naturalem philosophiam 

Aristotelis. 

v 

a1 [Note on Aristotle.] Incipit: ‘Aristoteles gentis Macedonie . . .’

-558^b-559] britannicus, gregorius 

689 

a2 r Bricot,Thomas: Textus abbreviatus in totam naturalem philosophiam 

Aristotelis. Incipit:‘[D]e natura scientia fere plurima videtur 

circa corpora et magnitudines . . .’ 


[Paris]: Guillaume Guerson de Villelongue, [c.1500]. 8 o . 


Six woodcuts; ¢ve woodcut diagrams; one woodcut initial. 

Go¡ B-1205a; BMC VIII 225; not in Pr; Sheppard 6557. 

COPY 

With a colophon di¡erent from BMC (see pl. XXXII F ): l.1:‘Finit. 

Textus . . .’, l. 3: ‘pre||us: hic de terrenis celicolas . . .’ and ending 

with ‘cogno|cere cau|as.’. A second colophon on 100 v (type 115 

G.):‘Venales reperiu� tur libri |� ca= > mera magi|tri guillermi guer>|oni 

de villalo� ge in monte |an>cte genouefe ante collegium > 

Remen|e’. 

Binding: Paper boards covered with a fragment of a manuscript 

parchment antiphonary written in red and brown. Size: 145 ¿ 


Provenance: Purchased in 1956; see BLR 6,2 (1958), 445. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Vet. E1 f.114. 

shelfmark: Inc. f. F1.6. 

B-558A Bricot,Thomas 

Textus abbreviatus super libris Physicorum et tota 

naturali philosophia Aristotelis. 


r 

a2 Bricot, Thomas: Textus abbreviatus super libris Physicorum et 

tota naturali philosophia Aristotelis. ‘Prohemium Phisicorum.’ 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam autem intelligere et scire contingit . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr, 29 (1973), 177^8, no. 4; the abbreviated text alternates 

with commentary. The abbreviated texts are those of: De 

caelo et mundo, De generatione et corruptione, Meteora, De 

anima, De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De 

somno et vigilia, De longitudine et brevitatevitae. a3 r [Georgius Bruxellensis; and Bricot, Thomas: Quaestiones 

additae super libris Physicorum.] Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[Q]uoniam quidem 

intelligere et scire contingit . . .’’. Iste est liber Phisicorum 

Aristotelis in quo determinatur de rebus naturalibus . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr, 24 (1968), 156^8, no. 2; CIBN states that these 

quaestiones are a mixture of those of Bricot and of Georgius 

Bruxellensis. 

m12 r [Verse.] ‘Fata regunt ¢nem, spero dii cepta seundent(!)’; 1line of 

verse. 


m12 r [Verse.] ‘Fortuna opes auferre non animum potest’; 1 line of 

verse. 

v 

m12 [Verse.] ‘Ut celum signis prefulgens est duodenis > Sic hominis 

corpus assimilatur eis’; 7 elegiac distichs. 

m12 v [Verse.] ‘Fata regunt ¢nem, spero dii cepta secundent’; 1 line of 

verse. 


T8 r [Verse.] ‘Fata regunt ¢nem spero dii cepta secundent’; 1 line of 

verse. 


T8 r [Note.] Incipit: ‘Non viribus aut velocitatibus aut celeritate corporum 

res magne geruntur sed consilio sententia et autoritate.’ 

r 

T8 [First colophon.] 

T8 r ‘Hexastichon.’ ‘Qui mutilus fueras ego te mi dulce Georgi > Ad 

limam redigens tua nigra in candida verti’; 6 hexameters. 

r 

T8 [Printers’device.] 

[*1 r ] Georgius [Bruxellensis]: ‘Tabula questionum et dubiorum cursus 

totius phisices Georgii luce clarius indicatiua’. 

r 

V1 Quaestiones sex librorum Metaphysicorum. Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur 

primo utrum totalis habitus qui metaphisica dicitur . . .’ 

refs. CIBN, with references, records this as an anonymous work; 

Hillard notes that it has been attributed to both Thomas Bricot 

and Georgius Bruxellensis. 

V1 v Bricot, Thomas: Textus abbreviatus: Metaphysica. 

‘Metaphysice’. Incipit: ‘[O]mnes homines natura scire desiderant 

. . .’ 

Z6 v [Second colophon.] 

Z6 v ‘Distichon’. ‘Qui ducis vultus et non vides ista libenter > 

Omnibus inuideas liuide nemo tibi’; 1 elegiac distich. 

Paris: Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl, 3^13 Nov. 1494. 

Folio.With two colophons in the second and third parts. 

collation: a 8 b 10 c^l 8 m 12 A^T 8 [*] 2 V X 8 Y Z 6 . 


GW 5543; HC 3971; Go¡ B-1203; BMC VIII 135; not in Pr; CIBN 

B-855; Hillard 504; Rhodes 445; not in Sheppard. Micro¢che: 

Unit 28: Philosophy: Renaissance, PH156. 

COPY 

Wanting the title-page a 1. 

Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century parchment. Mottled 

red- and black-edged leaves. Size: 274 ¿ 210 ¿ 72 mm. Size of 

leaf: 266 ¿ 196 mm. 

Copious early marginal notes, including extensive comments on 

the text, also diagrams,‘nota’ marks, and pointing hands; underlining 

in the text in black and in red. 


initials are supplied in red or blue; occasional capital strokes in 

red. 

Provenance: Dr Brian Lawn (1905^2001); book-plate; catalogue, 

p. 22. Bequeathed in 2001. 

shelfmark: Lawn d.2. 

B-559 Britannicus, Gregorius 

Sermones funebres et nuptiales. 

[*1 v ] ‘Ad lectorem epigramma elegiacum’. ‘Jura tibi si forte velis 

decerpere, lector’; 9 elegiac distichs. 

[*2 r ] Britannicus, Gregorius: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Zane, 

Bishop of Brescia. Incipit: ‘[E]t si nulla vnquam, reuerendissime 

antistes, nec consuetudo . . .’ Dated 19 Mar. 1495. 


[*2 v ] Zane, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Gregorius Britannicus. 

Incipit: ‘[P]erlectis suauissimis litteris tuis . . .’ Dated Brescia, 21 

Mar. 1495. 


[*3 v ] ‘Tabula orationum funebrium vulgarium’. 

r 

a1 Britannicus,Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales. Incipit: 

‘[S]ecundum quod dicit Damasenus(!), nulla res distinguitur . . .’ 

103 sermons. In addition, the collection contains sermons by 

Thomas Acerbus, Johannes Britannicus, Carolus Zenus and 

Christophorus Barzizius; see below. 

h1 v Acerbus,Thomas: ‘Oratio funerea in quemcumque equitem auratum’. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam mors co[mmun]i sorte hominum 

corpora dissipat . . .’ Listed in John McManamon, Funeral

690 brudzewo, albertus de 

[b-559^b-562 

Oratoryand the Cultural Idealsof Italian Humanism (Chapel Hill, 

NC, 1989), 249. 

r 

h8 Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio . . . in obitu magni magistratus 

Brixiani Nicolai Duodo habita Brixie’. Incipit: ‘[C]upienti mihi, 

magni¢ce pretor uosque, amplissimi patres . . .’ 

r 

i2 Zenus, Carolus: ‘Oratio pro quocumque principe, capitaneo, 

magistratu, legato, doctore omni scientia celeberrimo’. Incipit: 

‘[M]aximum et amplissimum munus . . .’ 

l2 v Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio matrimonialis’. Incipit: ‘[E]t si 

mihi iure letandum est, magni¢ci rectores vosque, amplissimi 

patres . . .’ 

l6 r Barzizius, Christophorus (Grammaticus): ‘Oratio coniugalis’. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]ualem in presenti causa . . .’ 

p1 r ‘Auctoritates’. Incipit: ‘[H]omo vite commodatus est . . .’ 

q1 r Britannicus, Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales vulgares 

[Italian]. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[M]emorare nouissima tua . . .’’ [Ecl 

7,40]. Queste parole, ornatissimi citadini mei . . .’ 

[Brescia: Angelus Britannicus, c.1498]. 8 o . GW ascribes to 

[Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus]. 

collation: [* 4 ] a^l 8 m 4 n 8 o 4 p^r 8 . Gathering [*] numbered, but 

not signed. 


GW 5551; C 1345; BMC VII 980; Pr 7012; Sheppard 5793. 

COPY 

Binding: Parchment. Size:140 ¿ 100 ¿ 22 mm. Sizeofleaf: 132 ¿ 

93 mm. 




B-560 Britannicus, Gregorius 

Sermones funebres et nuptiales. 

A1 v ‘Ad lectorem epigramma elegiacum’. ‘Jura tibi si forte velis 

decerpere, lector’; 9 elegiac distichs. 

A2 r Britannicus, Gregorius: [Letter addressed to] Paulus Zane, 

Bishop of Brescia. Incipit: ‘[E]t si nulla vnquam, reuerendissime 

antistes, nec consuetudo. . .’ Dated 19 Mar. 1495. 


A3 r Zane, Paulus: [Letter addressed to] Gregorius Britannicus. 

Incipit: ‘[P]erlectis suauissimis litteris tuis . . .’ Dated Brescia, 21 

Mar. 1495. 


A4 r ‘Tabula orationum funebrium vulgarium’. 

a 1 r Britannicus,Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales. Incipit: 

‘[S]ecundum quod dicit Damascenus, nulla res distinguitur . . .’ 

103 sermons. In addition, the collection contains sermons by 

Thomas Acerbus, Johannes Britannicus, Carolus Zenus, and 

Christophorus Barzizius; see below. 

i7 r Acerbus,Thomas: ‘Oratio funerea in quemcumque equitem auratum’. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uamquam mors communi sorte hominum corpora 

dissipat . . .’ 

k7 r Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio . . . in obitu magni magistratus 

Brixiani Nicolai Duodo habita Brixie’. Incipit: ‘[C]upienti mihi, 

magni¢ce pretor vosque, amplissimi patres . . .’ 

l1 v Zenus, Carolus: ‘Oratio pro quocumque principe, capitaneo, 

magistratu, legato, doctore omni scientia celeberrimo’. Incipit: 

‘[M]aximum et amplissimum munus . . .’ 

n5 r Britannicus, Johannes: ‘Oratio matrimonialis’. Incipit: ‘[E]t si 

mihi iure letandum est, magni¢ci rectores vosque, amplissimi 

patres . . .’ 

o1 r Barzizius, Christophorus (Grammaticus): ‘Oratio coniugalis’. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]ualem in presenti causa . . .’ 

v 

q4 ‘Auctoritates’. Incipit: ‘[H]omo vite commodatus est . . .’ 

r6 v Britannicus, Gregorius: Sermones funebres et nuptiales vulgares 

[Italian]. Incipit: ‘‘‘[M]emorare nouissima tua . . .’’ [Ecl 

7,40]. Queste parole, ornatissimi citadini mei . . .’ 

Venice: [Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, after 1500?]. 8 o . 

collation: A 6 a^s 8 t 12 . 


GW 5554; H 3978 = 3979?; Go¡ B-1210; BSB-Ink B-922; Sack, 


COPY 

Binding: Parchment. Size: 163 ¿ 115 ¿ 25 mm. Sizeof leaf: 156 ¿ 

109 mm. 

On the back endleaf ink drawing of a cow; occasional drawings of 

hands in the margins. 

Provenance: According to Sheppard, this item was purchased in 

1912 from Percy Mordaunt Barnard. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Antiq. f.1.7. 


B-561 Britannicus, Johannes 

In Persii satiras commentarii. 

r 

A2 Britannicus, Johannes: [Letter addressed to the citizens of 

Brescia.] Incipit: ‘[C]um multa et uaria . . .’ 

A4 v ‘Vita Persii’. Incipit: ‘[P]ersius Flaccus in Thuscia Volaterras 

habet patriam . . .’ 

refs. See Dorothy Robathan and Francis E. Cranz, ‘Persius’, in 

CTC III 268. 

r 

a1 Britannicus, Johannes: In Persii satiras commentarii. Incipit: 

‘[S]atyra carmen est, vt Diomedi placet . . .’ 

refs. See Robathan and Cranz,‘Persius’, 267^9 no. 19. 

Brescia: Gabriele (di Pietro) Tarvisinus and his son Paulus, 14 

Nov. 1481. Folio. 

collation: A 4 a b 8 cî 6 k l 4 m 6 n 4 o 8 . 

GW 5556; HC (+ Addenda) R 3987 = HC 12729; Go¡ B-1213; BMC 

VII 965; Pr 6951; Oates 2617; Sheppard 5743. 

COPY 

Wanting gathering A and leaves a 1.8 and a 2.7. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half morocco, bound for the 


180 mm. 


45. 

shelfmark: Auct. Q inf. 2.2. 

B-562 Brudzewo, Albertus de 

Commentum in theoricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii. 

a1 v Johannes Otto; Germanus deValle Uracense: [Letter ofdedication] 

addressed to Ambrosius [Varisius] Rosatus. 

refs. Dated Pavia, 19 Sept. 1494. Ludwig Anton Birkenmajer, 

Commentariolum super Theoricas novas planetarum Georgii 

Purbachii in studio generali Cracoviensi per Mag. Albertum de 

Brudzewo diligenter corrogatum (Munera saecularia Universitatis

-562^b-565] brulefer, stephanus 

691 

Cracoviensis) (Cracow,1900),1^2; for author and dedicatee see p. 

xliii n. 1. 

a2 r Brudzewo, Albertus de: Commentum in theoricas planetarum 

Georgii Purbachii. Incipit: ‘[A]strorum obseruatores studiosi 

experti quidem su⁄cienter sensu, ratione et instrumentis tradiderunt 

recte virtute prime sphere omnium orbium lationes . . .’ 

refs. Birkenmajer, 3^151. 

g8 v [Colophon.] 

v 

g8 [Johannes Otto; Germanus deValle Uracense(?)]: ‘Ad lectorem 

epigramma’.‘Si cupis ethereos motus cognoscere, lector > Fecundi 

libros perlege Purbatii > Quem modo depulsis tenebris lustrauit et 

omnes > Albertus nodos Proseuo (i.e. Brudzewo) subripuit > Is celi 

nexus varios et vincula monstrat > Inque domos superas ille redire 

docet > Hunc lege feruenti studio que sidera pernox > suspicis 

ethereum quique reponis opus. > Liuor abi, rabies procul hinc 

dentesque maligni > Iam faustum peragat, oro, libellus iter.’ 

refs. Birkenmajer, 152. 

Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 30 Mar. 1495. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b c 4 d 8 e f 4 g 8 ; leaf a4 is signed aii, b2 signed c; unlike 

GW, which indicates 4 c 4 . 

r v r^v v v r v 

11 woodcut astronomical diagrams on a7 , a8 , b1 , b3 , c4 , d1 , d2 , 

r 

and f1 . 


B-928; Sack, Freiburg, 848; Sander 1407; Sheppard 5004. 

COPY 



Occasional early manuscript notes. 

Woodcut initials and diagrams are coloured in red, yellow, and 

green; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; 


Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, ‘Dupl. 

54847’; purchased from the Fidelis Butsch sale (1858), lot 219. 



B-563 Brugmannus, Johannes 

Vita S. Lidwinae. 

a1 v Brugmannus, Johannes: [Vita S. Lidwinae.] ‘Prologus in vitam 

alme virginis’. 

refs. Johannes Brugmann,Vita alme virginis Liidwine, ed. A. de 

Meijer, Teksten en documenten, 2 (Groningen, 1963), 1^8; see 

Mees I 65^102, at 74^5; BBFN I 65^102, at 74^5;VL I 1048^52. 

a6 v ‘Copia littere testimonialis quam laborante ipsa Lijdwina virgine 

in egritudine ad robur veritatis iudices Schiedammenses conscriptam 

sigillo sue co[mmun]itatis munierunt in hac forma’. 

refs. Brugmann,Vita alme virginis Liidwine, ed. de Meijer, 8^11. 

r 

b1 Brugmannus, Johannes: Vita S. Lidwinae. 

refs. Brugmann, Vita alme virginis Liidwine, ed. de Meijer, 11^ 

173.With tables of contents preceding each part. 

v7 r ‘Sequentia de almavirgine Lijdwina’. Incipit:‘[A]lleluya festiuale 

t[em]p[u]s exigit paschale voce votis jubilo . . .’ 

v7 v [Colophon with a note about the battle of Schiedam and the 

intended canonization of Lydwina.] 

Schiedam: [Printer of Vita Lydwinae (Otgier Nachtegael?)], 1498. 

4 o . 

collation: a 8 b^t 6 v 8 . 



(II) 383; BBFN 68; CIBN B-861; HPT II 444; ILC 486; Oates 

3665; Sheppard 7038; L. A. Sheppard, ‘The Vita Lidwinae 

Printed at Schiedam, 1498’, Gb Jb (1950), 172^6. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century russia; marbled pastedowns. 


On the front endleaf is pasted a late seventeenth-/early eighteenth-century 

engraving lettered ‘S. Lydtwina virgo 

Schiedamnsis ab Angelo ramum e¤ Paradiso accipit’. 

On a 1 r , ‘Examinatus in Bibliotheca’. Occasional early marginal 

notes, some washed out. On verso of rear endleaf, inscription of 

three prayers in an early hand: ‘Pro benefactoribus defunctis’, 

‘Secreta’and ‘Post com[munionem]’. 

Woodcuts and woodcut initials are coloured in red, blue, green, 

yellow, and pink. Red capital strokes and underlining. 




B-564 Brulefer, Stephanus 

Formalitates in doctrinam Scoti. 

a2 r Brulefer, Stephanus: Formalitates in doctrinam Scoti. Incipit: 

‘[C]um multi pro introductione doctrine Scoti . . .’ 

Paris: [Simon Doliatoris, c.1485]. 4 o . 


GW 5582; C1353; Pr 8474; Oates 3172; Rhodes 447; Sheppard 6200. 

COPY 




shelfmark: 4 o C 15(3) Th. 

B-565 Brulefer, Stephanus 

Opuscula theologica. 

a2 r [Letter addressed to the editor.] Incipit: ‘[C]um superiori tempore 

pro tua charitate . . .’ 

a3 v ‘Responsio ad predicta’. Incipit: ‘[B]ene admones . . .’ 

a3 v [Admonition to the reader.] Incipit:‘Quemlibet etiam hortor lectorem 

. . .’ 

a4 r Brulefer, Stephanus: Sermo de verbo divino. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[V]erbum caro factum est’’ Johannis i [Io 1,14]. Et in euangelio 

misse tertie . . .’ 

c2 v Brulefer, Stephanus: Positio decem propositionum an personae 

in divinis sunt depingendae. Incipit: ‘[P]ater in diuinis non est 

depingendus . . .’ 

c 8 r Brulefer, Stephanus: De timore servili. Incipit: ‘[U]trum irreprehensibiliter 

predicetur . . .’ 

q5 r Brulefer, Stephanus: De paupertate Christi et apostolorum 

eius. Incipit: ‘[U]trum contemnens abdicationem . . .’ 

aa2 r Brulefer, Stephanus: Quaestio de simonia . . . in synodo quadam 

Maguntinensi edita et clero proposita. Incipit: ‘[U]trum ad 

solos sacerdotes . . .’ 

aa7 r Brulefer, Stephanus: De valore missarum . . . sermo factus in 

quadam synodo Maguntinensi. Incipit: ‘‘‘Sponsabo te michi in 

iusticia’’ [Os 2,19]. [R]euerendi in Christo patres . . .’ See Franz, 

Messe, 602^3.

692 brunus aretinus, leonardus 

[b-565^b-568 

cc1 r Brulefer, Stephanus: Mysteriorum missae declaratio. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uoniam (teste philosopho primo Phisicorum) innata est 

nobis via . . .’ See Franz, Messe, 603. 

gg4 v Brulefer, Stephanus: De virgine Maria. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[M]ulier 

gratiosa inueniet gloriam’’ Prouerbiorum .xi. [Prv 11,16]. 

Mirabuntur fortasse vestre preclare ingenuitates . . .’ 

hh8 v [Colophon.] 

ij1 r [Alphabetical table of subjects.] 

ij7 v [Table of contents.] 

Paris: Andre¤ Bocard, for Jean Petit, 24 Apr. 1500. 8 o . 

collation: a^z h m aaîj 8 . 


GW 5587; H *4004; Go¡ B-1222; BMC VIII 157; Pr 8165; BSB-Ink 


6397. 

COPY 

Binding: Sixteenth-century (c.1520) Italian tacketted parchment 

binding; reverse skin; sewn textblock; two ties lost. Manuscript 

fragment used as reinforcing strip. Name of author and abbreviated 

title in manuscript in black ink running along the lower 

edge. Size: 147 ¿ 105 ¿ 30 mm. Size of leaf: 140 ¿ 97 mm. 


Provenance: Antoninus Zopius Politianus (sixteenth century?); 

on a1 r inscription: ‘Fratris Antonini Zopij Politiani’. Acquired in 

1922; Bodleian stamp on a 1 v dated 9 May 1922. 

shelfmark: Inc. f. F1.1500.1. 

B-566 Brunschwig, Hieronymus 

Chirurgia [German]. 

[*2 v ] Brunschwig, Hieronymus: Chirurgia. Die hantwirckung der 

wund Artzeny. ‘Die vorred’. Incipit: ‘Got dem almechtigenn zu� 

lobe . . .’ See VL I 1073^5. 


v 

[* 6 ] Brunschwig, Hieronymus: Chirurgia. Incipit: ‘Ver(!) der ist 

der da begeret vnnd lernen wil die kunst der wund artzenny. . .’ 

refs. See Karl Sudho¡, ‘Brunschwigs Anatomie’, Sudho¡s 

Archiv, 1 (1908), 41^66 and 141^56. Facsimiles: Das Buch der 

Chirurgia, ed. Gustav Klein, Alte Meister der Medizin und 

Naturkunde, 3 (Munich, 1911); C. Probst (Gertenbach, 1967); K. 

Ko« lbl (Munich-Allach, 1968). 

Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Gru« ninger, 4 July 1497. Folio. 

collation: [*] A^V 6 . Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed. 


GW 5593; H *4017 = HC *4018 (‘1397’); Go¡ B-1225; Pr 481; 

BSB-Ink B-930; CIBN B-869; Sack, Freiburg, 851; Schramm XX 

p. 23; Schreiber V 3641^2, 3642b, 3639^40; Sheppard 390. 

COPY 

Wanting the leaf T1, which is replaced with a blank leaf. 

Title-leaf [* 1] and leaf [* 6] backed. For an earlier state of printing, 

see GWAnm.1b and c; onV6 r , l. 36 reads‘. . .Vnd dorch iohannes 

gru« ’; l. 38 reads ‘. . . v¡ zi|tag . . .’ 

Binding: Nineteenth-century English blind and gold-tooled calf; 

spine and turn-ins gold-tooled; edges gilt; doublures and silk linings; 

endleaves watermarked 1812. Size: 267 ¿ 200 ¿ 150 mm. 


Some woodcuts are partially coloured in red. 




B-567 Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus 

De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. 

[a2 r ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: De bello Italico adversus 

Gothos gesto. Dedicated to Julianus de Cesarinis, Cardinal deacon 

of S. Angelus. 

refs. Zosimus, Historiae libri VI, ed. Johann Loewenklau 

(Geneva, 1605), 636^700. Bruni, Schriften, 147^9 (preface only). 

For an abridged translation of books 5^8 of Procopius’ Bella, see 

Bruni, Schriften, 147 and177. 

Foligno: Johann Neumeister and Aemilianus de Or¢nis, 1470. 

Folio and 4 o . At least ¢ve variants of the colophon are known; 

see GWAnm. Sheets [a2.11] and [d1.10] are 4 o . 

collation: [a 12 b^f 10 g 12 ]. 

GW 5600; HC 1558; Go¡ B-1234; BMC VI 599; Pr 5721; BSB-Ink 


COPY 

The ¢rst variant of the colophon: see GW Anm. 1,1. Wanting the 

blank leaves [a1] and [g12]; sheet [g6.7] is in duplicate. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century (Italian?) gold-tooled citron morocco; 

marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian 


leaf: 287 ¿ 201 mm. 

Early marginal notes in a humanist hand washed out. On front 

endleaf, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century note in 

Italian. 

On [a2 r ] an Italian half-border in the inner and lower margins: 

white vine-branches on a blue, red, and green ground incorporating 

a six-line epigraphic initial supplied in gold; in a wreath in the 

lower margin, a coat of arms (see below). Some principal initials 

are supplied in gold on a blue, red, and green ground with highlighting 

in white, on [c1 v ] and [f6 r ] with white vine-branch decoration 

and extensions into the margin. See Pa« cht and Alexander II, 

106 no. pr. 13. 

Provenance: Unidenti¢ed Italian coat of arms: or, in the form of 

a ring an amphisbaena azure, the heads erect, gorged azure and 

vert. Purchased from Payne and Foss, A Catalogue of Books in 

Foreign Languages . . . (London, 1824), no. 2334 for »5. 5. 0; see 




De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. 

r 

[a1 ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Debello Italico adversus Gothos 

gesto. Dedicated to Julianus de Cesarinis, Cardinal deacon of S. 

Angelus. 


[Venice]: Nicolaus Jenson, before July 1471. 4 o . The format is 

described as folio in GW, but Paul Needham, Sch�yen Sale 

Catalogue (New York: Sotheby, 12 Dec. 1991), lot no. 16 records 

it as a large quarto in half-sheets. The book was for sale in 

Germany by 6 July1471; see Mariarosa Cortesi,‘Incunaboli veneziani 

in Germania nel1471’, in Vestigia. Studi in onore di Giuseppe 

Billanovich, ed. R. Avesani and others, 2 vols, Storia e 

Letteratura, 162^3 (Rome, 1984), I 197^219.

-568^b-571] brunus aretinus, leonardus 

693 

collation: [a 12 bê 10 f 12 ]. 


B-938; CIBN B-873; Hillard 508; Rhodes 450; Sheppard 3248. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt ¢llets on spine; 


leaf: 279 ¿ 196 mm. 

Early marginal notes in a humanist hand washed out. 

On [a1 r ] contemporary Venetian quarter border in the inner margin: 

white vine-stems on a blue, red, and green ground with dotting 

in white, incorporating a six-line epigraphical initial supplied 

in gold. Principal initials are supplied in gold on a blue, red, and 

green ground with dotting in white and white vine-branch decoration; 

lower margin, presumably formerly with a coat of arms, cut 

o¡ and replaced with later paper. See Pa« cht and Alexander II,110 

no. pr. 62. 

Provenance: On front endleaf inscription: ‘This copy sold at a 

sale for 3.7.-’. Probably acquired after 1738: not in Fysher, 

Catalogus. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.14. 



De primo bello Punico. 

v 

a1 Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: [Preface.] ‘Omnibus Polybii historiae 

studiosis’. 

refs. Bruni, Schriften, 122^3, and 167. 

r 

a2 Polybius; [Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus]: De primo bello 

Punico. Incipit: ‘[O]rigo primi Punici belli . . .’ 

refs. Edition of the Italian text only: La Prima guerra punica, ed. 

Antonio Ceruti (Bologna,1878). According to the heading, translated 

by Brunus Aretinus from Polybius; more accurately a compendium; 

see David Marsh,‘Xenophon’, CTC VIII 75^196, at111. 

e1 r Guarinus Veronensis: ‘Paralelia ex Plutarcho in latinum conuersa’. 

Dedicated to Jacobus Lauegnolus. Incipit: ‘[G]uarinus 

Veronensis ornatissimo uiro Jacobo Lauegnolo salutem. Cum te 

Polianum . . .’ 

refs. See Sabbadini 130. 

Brescia: Jacobus Britannicus, 24 Oct. 1498. Folio. 

collation: a 8 bê 6 . 


GW 5603; HC *13250; Go¡ B-1254; BMC VII 982; Pr 7006; 

BSB-Ink B-936; CIBN B-891; Sheppard 5800; Veneziani, 

Brescia, 142. 

COPY 



On a1 r (title-page) a note on Polybius in the same hand as the notes 

on the title-pages of the other items. Early marginal notes in various 

hands, one of which also annotated item 2. 

On a1 r and on a2 r , paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital 


shelfmark: Auct. N 4.8(4). 


De primo bello Punico [Italian] Della prima guerra 

punica. 

v 

[a1 ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: [Preface.] ‘Prologo’. 

refs. La Prima guerra punica, ed. Ceruti, 1^4. 

[a2 r ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Della prima guerra punica. 

refs. La Prima guerra punica, ed. Ceruti, 4^246. 

[Venice: Printer of Basilius,‘De vita solitaria’, c.1471]. 4 o . 

collation: [a^g 10 h i 8 ]. 



COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century blind and gold-tooled calf; the 

spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns; watermarkof the endpapers: 

snake on sta¡ with the letters‘S W’. Size: 240 ¿ 170 ¿ 26 mm. 


On [a1 r ] an Italian eight-line initial is supplied in gold surrounded 

by white vine-stems de¢ned in red, blue or green. In the lower 

margin of [a 1 r ] a coat of arms within a wreath (see below). 

Principal initials are supplied in gold on a red, blue, and green 

ground. 

Provenance: Unidenti¢ed coat of arms within a wreath: argent, a 

tree eradicated, supporting a green climbing vine proper, the top 

en£amed. On the front endleaf an inscription: ‘Hoc saltem 

munere donetur amicitia. Apr. 1. 1821. Ph. W.’ Purchased for 




Epistolarum familiarum libri VIII. 

[a2 r ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Epistolarum familiarum libri 

VIII. [Edited by Antonius Moretus and Hieronymus 

Squarza¢cus.] 

refs. Leonardus Brunus, Epistolarum libri VIII, ed. J. A. 

Fabricius (Hamburg, 1724). Leonardus Brunus, Epistolarum 

libri VIII, ed. Lorenzo Mehus, 2 vols (Florence, 1741). For editions 

of individual letters see Gordon Gri⁄ths, James Hankins, 

and David Thompson, The Humanism of Leonardo Bruni: 

Selected Texts, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 46, 

The Renaissance Society of America, Renaissance Texts Ser., 10 

(Binghamton, NY, 1987), 409 n. 4. See Francesco Paolo Luiso, 

Studi sull’Epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, Istituto Storico Italiano 

per il Medio Evo (Rome, 1980), and Lucia Gualdo Rosa, 

Censimento dei codici dell’epistolario di Leonardo Bruni (Rome, 

1993^); and James Hankins, ‘Notes on the Textual Tradition of 

Leonardo Bruni’s Epistolae familiares’, in Filogia umanistica per 

Gianvito Resta, ed. Vinceno Fera and Giacomo Ferrau¤ , 3 vols, 

Medioevo e umanesimo, 94^6, (Padua, 1997), II 1083^122. 

[k6 r ] [Colophon.] 

[k6 r ] Moretus, Antonius; and [Squarza¢cus], Hieronymus: [Letter 

to] Jacobus Zenus, Bishop of Padua. 

refs. Allenspach^Frasso 264. 

[Venice: Printer of Brunus Aretinus (H 1565)], 1472. Folio. This 

press (designated the Printer of Terentius (BMC VII 1143) in IGI) 

is located by BMC at Venice, by GW tentatively at [Milan]. 



B-940; CIBN B-879; IGI 2199; Rhodes 452; Sheppard 4737. 

COPY 

Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter red morocco; the 

spine gold-tooled; bound for Boutourlin; marbled pastedowns;


[b-571^b-574 

endpapers watermarked ‘Al Masso’. Size: 295 ¿ 210 ¿ 20 mm. 



Some initials supplied in red or faded ink. 


book-plate and shelfmark ‘No. 45’, see Catalogue (1831); sale: 

Catalogue (1839), lot1798 rather than (1840), lot1463; the former 

entry is annotated with ‘B’ in the Bodleian copy of the catalogue. 

Purchased for »3; see Books Purchased (1840), 3. 



Epistolarum familiarum libri VIII. 

a2 r Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Epistolarum familiarum libri 

VIII. [Edited by Antonius Moretus and Hieronymus 

Squarza¢cus.] 


i6 r [Colophon.] 

r 

i6 Moretus, Antonius; and [Squarza¢cus], Hieronymus: [Letter 

to] Jacobus Zenus, Bishop of Padua. 


[Venice: Damianus de Mediolano, de Gorgonzola, in part by 

Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis], 15 June 1495. Folio. 

Sheppard notes that gatherings a^c, sheets d1 and d2, gathering 

e, and sheet f1 were printed by Damianus de Mediolano, the rest 

by Petrus de Quarengiis. 

collation: a 8 bî 6 . 

GW 5607; HC *1567 = H 1566?; Go¡ B-1243; BMC V 512; Pr 5520; 

BSB-Ink B-942; CIBN B-880; Sheppard 4446, 4575. 

COPY 

Leaf a 1 (the title-page) is cut out and mounted, and i 6 is backed. 



leaf: 287 ¿ 187 mm. 

A few marginal notes. 

Provenance: Old shelfmarks ‘IX.F.6’ and ‘XLVI.R.17’. 

Purchased from Albert Cohn; see Library Bills, 26 May 1884. 



Epistolarum familiarum libri IX. 

a1 v Guarinus Veronensis: [Letter addressed to] Pros[docimus] de 

Pros[docimis]. 

refs. GuarinusVeronensis, Epistolario, ed. Remigio Sabbadini, 3 

vols, Miscellanea di storia Veneta, Serie 3, t. 8^11^14 (Venice, 

1915^19), II 395^6, no. 762. 

r 

a2 Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Epistolarum familiarum libri 

VIII. [Edited by Guarinus Vernonensis.] 


r3 v Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Epistolarum familiarum liber IX. 

Incipit: ‘Ad regem Hyspanie de munere et o⁄cio regali . . .’ 

refs. See Francesco Paolo Luiso, Studi sull’Epistolario di 

Leonardo Bruni, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo 

(Rome, 1980), 148^60. 

t4 v ‘Index siue tabula epistolarum familiarium’. 

t10 r Pius II, Pont. Max.: ‘Epitaphium Leonardi Aretini’. 

refs. Aeneas Silvius, Opera inedita, ed. Josephus Cugnoni 

(Rome, 1883), 365, no. 86. 

[Louvain: Rodolphus Loe¡s, de Driel, between 1483 and 1484/5]. 

4 o . As dated by HPT; GW dates [c.1487], Sheppard [1483/4]. 

collation: a^m 8 n 10 o^| 8 t 10 . 

GW 5608; HC 1564; BMC IX 161; Pr 9296; Amelung, 

‘Niederla« ndische Inkunabeln’, 17; BSB-Ink B-941; Campbell 

168; CIBN B-881; Oates 3801; HPT II 439; ILC 487; Sheppard 

7149. 

COPY 





see sale (1835), lot 312. The Bodleian Library purchased a 

copy of this edition at Sotheby’s sale (9 Feb. 1847), lot 249, for 

»0. 7. 0; see Library Bills 1837^8, no. 30 and Books Purchased 

(1837), 3; another copy was purchased at the sale of J. T. Hand 

(1837), lot 64 for »0. 1. 0, see Library Bills (1837^8), no. 30; a third 

copy was purchased for »1. 11. 6; see Books Purchased (1847), 2; 

the present copy is unlikely to have been Hand’s as it does not 

carry his usual signature, but may be either the ¢rst or the third 

copy. 



Gracchus et Poliscena comoedia. 

r 

[a1 ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Leonardo della 

Serrata: Gracchus et Poliscena comoedia.] ‘[C]orripio m[at]res 

gnatas, ne numina ducant.’ 

refs. On authorship see Giorgio Nonni, ‘Documenti intorno 

all’umanista vercellese Leonardo della Serrata’, Giornale italiano 

di ¢lologia, NS 5 (1974), 278^94, Giorgio Nonni,‘Contributi allo 

studio della Commedia umanistica: La Poliscena’, Atti e memorie 

dell’Arcadia, 3/6 (1975^6), 393^451; Heinz-Werner Norenberg, 

‘Leonardo [Brunis] Poliscena und ihre Stellung in der Tradition 

der ro« mischen Komo« die’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 24 (1975), 

1^28; John Pearson Perry,‘Poliscena, a Latin Humanist Comedy 

of the Early Renaissance’, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 

Harvard University, 1975. 

Schussenried: [Printer of the‘Gracchus et Poliscena’], 1478. Folio. 

The colophon reads ‘. . . in monad|terio / Sorten� . . . . Anno > . . .’ 




COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century diced russia, for the Bodleian 

Library(?); stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 


A few early interlinear glosses. 


(1806), 1. 

shelfmark: Auct. O 3.13.


695 


Historia Florentini populi [Italian]. 

a2 r Acciaiuolus, Donatus: ‘Prohemio’. Dedicated to the ‘signori 

priori di liberta et gonfaloniere di giustitia del popolo 

Fiorentino’. Incipit: ‘[M]olte sono le cagioni . . .’ 

a2 v Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: ‘Prohemio’. Translated by 

Donatus Acciaiuolus. 

refs. Leonardus Brunus, Historiarum £orentini populi libri XII. 

Istoria ¢orentina di Leonardo Aretino, tradotta in volgare da 

Donato Acciaiuoli, 3 vols (Florence, 1855^69); Leonardus 

Brunus, Istoria Fiorentina, ed. Cirillo Monzani (Florence, 1861); 

Edition of the Latin text only: Leonardus Brunus, Historiarum 

Florentini populi libri XII, ed. Emilio Santini, Rerum italicarum 

scriptores, NS 19/3 (Citta' di Castello, 1914), 3^4. 

a3 r Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Historiae Florentini populi 

[Italian].Translated by Donatus Acciaiuolus. 

refs. Brunus, Historiarum £orentini populi libri. Brunus, Istoria 

Fiorentina, ed. Monzani (Florence, 1861); edition of the Latin 

text only: Brunus, Historiarum Florentini populi libri, ed. Santini, 

5^288. 

Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, 12 Feb. 1476. Folio. Often found with 

Poggius Florentinus, Historia Fiorentina (Go¡ P-873). 

collation: a^k 10 kk 6 l^p 10 q 12 r^x 10 . 



COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Poggius Florentinus, Historia Florentina. Venice: Jacobus 

Rubeus, 8 Mar. 1476 (P-417). 


Binding: Sixteenth-century French gold-tooled red morocco; 

arabesque corner- and centre-pieces; endpapers watermarked 

with crowned £eur-de-lis and inscription: ‘savois’ (cosavois?) 

and two entwined columns standing on a third column; cf. 

Briquet 7256 with dates from 1574 to 1580; and Briquet 4432^49. 


A few early marginal notes in a humanist hand. 

Text surrounded by brown rules in both items. 


sale (1789), part IV, lot 6426; in annotated catalogue marked 

down toThomas Payne for Fl. 20. Both items purchased through 

Payne for »1. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 10. 



Historia Florentini populi [Italian]. 

r 

a2 Acciaiuolus, Donatus: ‘Prohemio’. Dedicated to the ‘signori 

priori di liberta et gonfaloniere di giustitia del popolo 

Fiorentino’. Incipit: ‘[M]olte sono le cagioni . . .’ 

v 

a2 Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: ‘Prohemio’. Translated by 

Donatus Acciaiuolus. 


r 

a3 Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: Historiae Florentini populi 

[Italian].Translated by Donatus Acciaiuolus. 


k1 r ‘Tauola delle Historie ¢orentine’. 

Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, 5 June 1492. Folio. Hain *13173 

combines this and Go¡ P-874 in one entry but ignores the 

colophon of the Aretinus. The title is presumably intended to 

cover both works. 

collation: a^z & m aa 8 bb 10 k 4 . 

GW 5613 (I); HC (+ Addenda) 1563 (I) = *13173 (I); Go¡ B-1248; 

BMC VI 649; Pr 6197; BSB-Ink B-946 (I); CIBN B-884; Oates 


FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Poggius Florentinus, Historia Florentina. Florence: 

Bartolommeo di Libri, 3 Sept. 1492 (P-418(1)). 

Gathering k bound ¢rst. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, the spine taken from an 

eighteenth-century gold-tooled binding. Size: 335 ¿ 225 ¿ 


On both items, early marginal notes, mainly extracting dates and 

information in abbreviated form, in various humanist hands. 

Manuscript foliation: 1^220 (included the list of contents of item 

2); 1^114. 

Provenance: Niccolini, of Florence; on k1 r , a circular stamp lettered 

‘P. G. N.’ George C. Harvey (�before 1885); armorial bookplate. 

Revd Henry Auber Harvey (1824^1910); sale (16 Jan.1885), 

lot 352. Purchased at Harvey’s sale. 


SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Poggius Florentinus, Historia Florentina. Florence: 

Bartolommeo di Libri, 3 Sept. 1492 (P-418(2)). 

Gathering k bound ¢rst. 

Binding: Fifteenth-century dark brown Italian (Florence) goatskin 

over wooden boards bevelled inwards. Blind-tooled. Three 

six-line frames, a border of a repeated tool of a vase of £owers 

between the second and third; the centre decorated with a sixline 

saltire and a lozenge of S-tools between six-line borders. 

Brass centre-pieces of lozenge shape with curved indentations 

decorated with leaf forms around a circular boss. Brass cornerpieces 

of scalloped shape with circular domed boss and £owers 

in relief between outer dotted and inner milled borders. Two 

clasps secured by three star nails arranged in a triangle hinge on 

the upper board; large shell-shaped catches. Brown edges. Single 

brown headbands. Sewn on four split thongs. Compartments of 

the spine decorated with a close-set two-line diaper. Endleaves: 

pastedown plus one at the front, pastedown only at the end; no 

watermark. The vase of £owers ornament is found in at least ten 

versions: 

1. The tool on this binding is found also on University of Ulster, 

Coleraine, P.583 (F): Euclid, Elementa,Venice: E. Ratdolt, 1482. 

Contains unidenti¢ed arms: azure, a mountain of six hillsbelow a 

crescent and between two stars, or. 

2.Veneto (Venice or Vicenza?) Library of Congress, H. 8079: Jo. 

Gritsch, Quadrigesimale. Venice: Lazarus de Soardis, 1495; 

UCLA, D* A1 A710: Aristotle, Opera, Venice: G. de Gregoriis, 

1496, HRC, Austin, Texas, formerly G. Uzielli: N. Perotti, 

Cornucopia, Venice: Aldus Manutius 1499. Harvard UL, Inc. 

7131, Arnoldus de Villanova, Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum. 

Vicenza, 1491, with arms of Agostini (Tuscany). From the same 

shop: Venice, Bibl. Marciana, Inc. v. 211: Hieronymus, Epistolae, 

Venice: J. Rubeus Vercellensis, 1496. The Gritsch and 

Hieronymus are inscribed, ‘Iste liber est D. Vincentij 

Vincentini(!) et mon[aster]ij S. Michaelis de Muriano’. 

3. Central Italy (Perugia or Tuscany?) Vatican, MS. Chigi B.VII,


[b-576^b-579 

17: Gerardus de Senis ordinis Sci Augustini, Sententiae, late thirteenth 

century, inscribed ‘Munus m. ci Gregorij perusini’, ‘ex lib. 

Sti. Aug[usti]ni perusia . . .’, ‘fr. gregorius carrentius perusinus’, 

etc. 

4. [Central Italy(?), mid ¢fteenth century] Bodleian Library, MS. 

Canon. Pat. Lat. 142: Lactantius, Institutiones Divinae. Had 

‘Florentine’ shell catches. 

5. Library of Congress, Inc. 1497.V5 (Rosenwald Catalogue no. 

321): Hieronymus, Vita di sancti padri. Venice: Johannes 

Alvisius, 1497. 

6. Tuscany(?). San Marino, California, HEHL 95880: Scriptores 

rei rusticae, Reggio d’Emilia: B. and L. de Bruschis, 1482. 

Belonged in sixteenth century to the Appiani, Princes of 

Piombino (with note of gift in 1588 in Piombino). Arms (seventeenth 

century) inside the upper cover of Guidi, Counts of 

Bagno, Marquises of Montebello (Florence). 

7. Perhaps Florence? Library of Congress, H. 15218: Tacitus, 

Opera, [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, [c.1473]. 

8. Florence. Schweinfurt, Scha« fer Library (Katalog, I,2, no. 275; 

De Marinis, II, no. 1593, as Venice): Pliny, Historia naturalis, 

trans. Cristoforo Landino, 1476, with the arms of Serzelli 

(Florence). 

9. Emilia(?). Lionel Robinson sale, Sotheby’s, 26 June1986, lot 80: 

Ovid Opera, Parma: Stephanus Corallus, 1477. Vol. 2 only. 

Watermark of endleaves type of Briquet 4742, 4745 (Reggio 

d’Emilia 1471, 1482). 

10. Florence. Bodleian Library, Inc. c. I2.1476.2 (Bod-inc. 

L-127(2)): Titus Livius, Terza Deca. Rome: [apud Sanctum 

Marcum], 1476. Size: 335 ¿ 225 ¿ 81 mm. Size of leaf: 322 ¿ 

215 mm. 

On both items marginal notes in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century 

hand. 

Provenance: Carlo da Merygazo(?) di Martino (sixteenth century?); 

signature on k1 r (the ¢rst page) and on a1 r of item 1 and on 

O10 v (the last page) of item 2: ‘Charlo da Merygazo(?) di Martino 

dello Ysoletto’. Lotteringhi della Stufa (seventeenth century); 

inscription: ‘Pandulphus Stupha’ on O10 v (the last page) of 

item 2. Dello Scelto family; coat of arms pasted inside the upper 

cover: azure, a dragon or or argent, tongued gules. John 

Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford (1701^1767); armorial bookplate 

on front pastedown and armorial book-plate lettered ‘The 

Right Hon. The Lord Carmichael’ on a 1 v of item 1. Albert 

Ehrman (1890^1969); armorial book-plate; bought in 1940 from 

Herbert Reichner for $51; accession no.‘2109’. Presented in 1978 

by John Ehrman. 



Isagogicon moralis disciplinae. 

[a2 r ] Aristoteles [pseudo-]; Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: ‘Liber de 

moribus ad Eudemium’. [Also known as Isagoge in Aristotelis 

librum De moribus ad Eudemum or Isagogicon moralis disciplinae. 

Translated by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus.] Dedicated to 

Galeotto [Ricasoli]. 

refs. Leonardus Brunus, Opere letterarie e politiche, ed. Paolo 

Viti (Turin, 1996), 200^40; Bruni, Schriften, 20^41. See Lohr 

(1971), 316^20, at 317^18 no. 1. In this edition, the text is ascribed 

to Aristotle, while Leonardo Bruni is named as translator. 

[Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1470]. 4 o . 


GW 5614 = 2384; HC *1764 = H 1765; Go¡ B-1249; BMC I 183; Pr 

823; BSB-Ink B-947; CIBN B-885; Oates 306; Rhodes 455; 

Sheppard 625. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind and gold-tooled blue morocco; 


leaf: 211 ¿ 140 mm. 


On [a1] and [b8] initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; 


Provenance: Richard Heber (1773^1833); stamp; see Catalogue, 

1 (1834), lot 455, sold for »1. 1. 0. Purchased for »1. 2. 0 according 

to Books Purchased (1834), 2. 

shelfmark: Auct. O inf. 1.21. 



r 

[a1 ] [Aristoteles pseudo-]; Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: 

‘Isagogicon’ [moralis disciplinae.] Dedicated to Galeotto 

[Ricasoli]. 

refs. See B-577; in this edition the work is ascribed to Leonardus 

Brunus. 

[Venice: Printer of Juvenalis, 1470, c.1470^1]. 4 o . On the attribution 

to [Vindelinus de Spira] see BMC. According to Sheppard, 

the format is 8 o , but [b6^7] are in 4 o . 


GW 5615; HC, Addenda, 1569; C 589; Go¡ B-1250; BMC V 582; Pr 

5675; CIBN B-886; Oates 2227; Sheppard 4735. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [b 1.12]. 

Binding: Quarter parchment. Size: 200 ¿ 142 ¿ 13 mm. Size of 

leaf: 193 ¿ 138 mm. 

Manuscript foliation: 17^34. A few seventeenth/eighteenth-century 

notes in Latin and Italian. 

On [a1 r ] an initial is supplied in brown and red ink, with extension 

into the inner margin. 

Provenance: Ma¡eo Pinelli (1735^1785); see Morelli (1787), I no. 

1570; sale (1789), lot 6481; in the annotated catalogue marked 

down to Wodhull for »0. 3. 0. Michael Wodhull (1740^1816); 

inscription dated 15 Apr. 1789 on front endleaf; on recto of back 

endleaf ‘June 27th1792’. John Edmund Severne (1826^1899); sale 

(1886), lot 176; purchased for »0. 6. 0; see Library Bills. 




a1 r Aristoteles [pseudo-]; Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: ‘Liber de 

moribus ad Eudemium’. [Translated by Leonardus Brunus 

Aretinus.] Dedicated to Galeotto [Ricasoli]. 

refs. See B-577. In this edition, the text is ascribed to Aristotle, 

while Leonardo Bruni is named as translator. 

[Sant’Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475]. 4 o . GW 2385 assigns to 

[Treviso: Hermannus Liechtenstein, c.1477]. 


GW 5617 = 2385; HC 1766; Go¡ B-1251; BMC VII 1027; Pr 7147; 

BSB-Ink B-948; CIBN B-888; Rhodes 456; Sheppard 5880.


697 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Pius II, Pont. Max., De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia. 

[Sant’Orso: Johannes de Reno, c.1475] (P-303). 

Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled mottled calf; £oral and 

tendril tools on spine; marbled pastedowns. Size: 183 ¿ 126 ¿ 


On the front pastedown, a portrait of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini 

has been pasted in, accompanied by the elegiac distich: ‘Vt pius 

�neas, ut et alter Sy« lvius esset, > Ductor et Oenotri� pastor in 

urbe fuit’. Two cuttings from Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum. 

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493, leaf CCXLV r 

have been inserted on front endleaves: the woodcut lettered ‘Duo 

amantes’ and the passage about Euryalus and Lucretia. A tenpage 

manuscript letter of J. B. Inglis is inserted (Sheppard). 

Manuscript foliation: 153^66, continued from item 1 (which is 

foliated 119^52). 






De studiis et litteris. 

[a1 v ] Fortunatus, Lucas Antonius: [Letter to] Andrea Ricasoli. 

Incipit: ‘[R]euoluenti mihi nuper codices quosdam . . .’ 

refs. Dated Rome, 4 Apr. 1477. 

[a2 r ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: De studiis et litteris. [Edited by 

Lucas Antonius Fortunatus.] Dedicated to Baptista [di Antonio 

di Montefeltro] Malatesta. 

refs. Leonardus Brunus, Opere letterarie e politiche, ed. Paolo 

Viti (Turin, 1996), 248^78; Bruni, Schriften, 5^19, and 169^71. 

r 

[b7 ] Cicero, [Quintus] Tullius [pseudo-: Letter addressed to] 

Marcus Tullius Cicero, his father. Incipit: ‘Studeo, mi pater, tuis 

obtemperare preceptis . . .’ Dated Athens, 3 Mar. 

v 

[b7 ] Cicero, MarcusTullius [pseudo-: Letter addressed to Quintus] 

Tullius Cicero, his son. Incipit: ‘Quotiens, mi ¢li, scire uelis . . .’ 

Dated Rome, 10 Apr. 

r 

[b8 ] Cicero, [Marcus] Tullius: [Letter addressed to] Curio. 

refs. Cic. Fam. 2. 4, in Cicero, Epistulae ad familares, ed. D. R. 

Shackleton Bailey (Cambridge, 1977), vol.1, no. 48. 

[Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, after 4 Apr. 1477]. 4 o . 


GW 5622; HC 1573 = H 1572; Go¡ B-1258; BMC IV 59; Pr 3520; 


COPY 

Formerly bound with three works of Senenca, now Auct. N 5.26 

(S-143, S-151 and S-156); see S-143 for further information. 


Library; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. 




Provenance: Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771^1823); sale 

(1824), pt III, lot 407. The lot was purchased for »3. 13. 6; see 




De temporibus suis. 

a1 r Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus: De temporibus suis. 

refs. Leonardus Brunus, Rerum suo tempore gestarum commentarius, 

ed. Carmine di Pierro, Rerum italicarum scriptores, NS 

19/3 (Citta' di Castello, 1926), 423^58; Bruni, Schriften, 177. 

Venice: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus Bononiensis [and Dionysius 

Bertochus], 5 Feb. 1485. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b 4 c 6 . 


B-949; CIBN B-895; Rhodes 457; Sack, Freiburg, 855; Sheppard 

4041. 

COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century cloth. Size: 205 ¿ 145 ¿ 


Manuscript foliation: 93^110. A few early marginal notes. 

Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840^1914). Donated by Bywater 

in Sept. 1908; see donation list (Library Records c. 1194); 

Sheppard records this acquisition as a purchase. 



De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda. 

[a1 v ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Boccaccio, Giovanni]: 

De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda. [Decamerone 

IV,1.] Latin translation from Boccaccio’s Decameron IV,1 by 

Leonardus Brunus. 

refs. D. M. Manni, Istoria del Decamerone (Florence, 1742), 

247^56; see also V. Branca, ‘Un ‘‘lusus’’ del Bruni Cancelliere: il 

rifacimento di una novella del Decameron (IV,1) e la sua irradiazione 

europea’, in Leonardo Bruni, cancelliere della Repubblica di 

Firenze, (Firenze, 27^29 ottobre 1987), ed. P.Viti, Istituto nazionale 

di studi sul Rinascimento. Atti di covegni, 18 (Florence, 

1990), 207^26. 

v 

[a5 ] Sigismundus, Dux Austrie [pseudo-; Pius II, Pont. Max.]: 

‘Epistola . . . ad Lucresiam regis Dacie ¢liam amatoria pulcherrima’. 

refs. Der Briefwechsel des Eneas Silvius Piccolomini, ed. Rudolf 

Wolkan, Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Oº sterreichische 

Geschichtsquellen, 61 (Vienna, 1909), 245^7, no. 104. 

[Cologne: Johann Guldenscha¡, c.1490]. 4 o . 


GW 5636; C 595; R 1676; Pr 1231A; Sheppard 932. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century half red morocco; bound for the 


128 mm. 

One sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal note. 



Provenance: Purchased in 1900 from Albert Cohn for 45 Marks; 

see Library Bills (1900). 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: Inc. e. U3.2. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. G3.1490.1.


[b-583^b-586 


De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda 

[German]. 

[a2 r ] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Boccaccio, Giovanni: 

De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda. Decamerone 

IV,1.] ‘Hystoria Sigismunde der tochter des fursten Tancredi von 

Solernia vnd des iunglings Gwisgardi’. [Translated from the 

Italian by Leonardus Brunus, from the Latin by Nicolaus von 

Wyle.] 

refs. Translationen von Niclas vonWyle, ed. Adelbert von Keller, 

Bibliothek des litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 57 (Stuttgart, 

1861), 80^90; see also VLVI 1016^35, at 1024, no. 2. 

[Strasbourg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer], 1482. Folio. Also issued as 

part of GW 355 (gathering [x 8 ]). 


11 woodcuts; woodcut border on [a2 r ]; woodcut initials. 

GW 355 (gathering [x 8 ]); GW 5645; Go¡ B-1241; Pr 372; Schorbach^ 

Spirgatis p. 72; Schramm XIX p. 13; Schreiber V 4489; Sheppard 

310. 

COPY 

Leaf [a 2 r ], l. 1 reads: ‘Hy|toria |igi|munde’; the colophon reads: 

‘Anno Dn� i M ccc.lxxxij.jore.’ (not as GW 355 and GW 5645). 

Binding: Nineteenth-century cloth. Size: 291 ¿ 211 ¿ 8 mm. Size 

of leaf: 276 ¿ 194 mm. 

Provenance: George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758^1834)(?); perhaps 

the copy in anonymous duplicate sale (20 Dec. 1798), lot 

75(?). Bought by Francis Douce for »0. 2. 0, according to annotation 

in Douce’s copy of the catalogue, marked ‘D’. Francis Douce 

(1757^1834). Bequeathed in 1834. 



Aquila volante [Italian]. 

A1 v ‘Tabula capitulorum huius operis’. 

v 

A8 Allegrettus Salensis Lombardus: ‘Ad lectores’.‘Che se delecta 

de scriptura antica’; 4 strophes of 8 verses each. 

A8 v [Note about misplaced or misnumbered chapters.] ‘Capituli 

scambiati’. 

a2 r Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-]: Aquila [volante]. 

Incipit: ‘[S]ecundo che dice Aristotile . . .’ 

refs. See Bruni, Schriften, 185. 

r 

x4 [Colophon.] 

x4 r [Verse.] ‘Stemmata uirtutum sunt haec dignissima laude > Quae 

possessoris nomina lcausa(!) tenent’; 1 elegiac distich. 

Naples: Ayolfus de Cantono, 27 June 1492. Folio. 

collation: A 8 a^g 8 h i 6 k l 8 m 6 n 8 o^s 6 t u 8 x 4 . 

On a1 v a full-page woodcut; on a2 r a woodcut border; woodcut 

initials. 

GW 5649; HCR 1577; Go¡ B-1231; BMC VI 874; Pr 6743A; CIBN 

B-896; Fava^Bresciano 188; Sander 1418; Sheppard 5470. 

COPY 

Wanting leaf x4, which is supplied in facsimile. 

Gathering A bound last. Leaves c 3 and x 1^3 slightly defective and 

repaired. Leaves r6 and s6 transposed in binding. 

Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century blind-tooled parchment. 


Early foliation and running headings in ink. 

Provenance: Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864^1958); 

armorial book-plate; sale (London, Sotheby’s, 17 June 1946), lot 

62. Sheppard notes that ‘This copy, formerly owned by C. W. 

Dyson Perrins, was presented by the Friends of the Bodleian in 

1947’. 

shelfmark: Don. d.104. 




A1 v ‘Tabula capitulorum huius operis’. 

v 

A6 Allegrettus Salensis Lombardus: ‘Ad lectores’.‘Che se delecta 

de scriptura antica’; 4 strophes of 8 verses each. 


Incipit: ‘[S]econdo che dice Aristotile . . .’ 

v 

s4 [Colophon.] 

s4 v [Verse.] ‘Stemmata uirtutum sunt haec dignissima laude > Quae 

possessoris nomina causa tenent’; 1 elegiac distich. 

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 9 Apr. 1495. Folio. 

collation: A 6 a b 8 c 6 d e 8 f g 6 h 8 i^r 6 s 4 . 

GW 5651; HR1579; Go¡ B-1233; not in Pr; Ganda193; Sander1420; 


COPY 

Wanting leaves A 1^b 3. 

Binding: Twentieth-century quarter calf. Size: 303 ¿ 208 ¿ 


A few marginal notes. 

Provenance: Purchased in 1953 from John Baker; see BLR 4,5 

(1953), 285. 

shelfmark: Inc. c. I3.1495.1. 



v 

A1 ‘Tabula capitulorum huius operis’. 

A6 v Allegrettus Salensis Lombardus: ‘Ad lectores’. ‘Che se dilecta 

de scriptura antica’; 6 strophes of 3 verses each and 2 strophes of 

4 and 2 verses respectively. 


Incipit: ‘[S]econdo che dice Aristotele . . .’ 

Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 28 June 1497. Folio. 

collation: A aû 6 . 


GW 5652; HCR 1580; Go¡ B1233a. BMC V 479; Pr 5272; Sheppard 

4351. 

COPY 

Binding: Twentieth-century half morocco, bound for the 


197 mm. 

Provenance: Jacques Rosenthal (1854^1937); Catalogue 105, no. 

917.Trinity College, Oxford; photographic book-plate with partly 

printed inscription: ‘This volume was given on Ap. 2, 1903 by 

Trinity College (purchased from its donations)’; see Craster 176 

and 197. 

shelfmark: Inc. c. I4.1497.1.

-587^b-588] brutus, petrus 

699 

B-587 Brutus, Jacobus 

Corona aurea. 


v 

[* 1 ] [Table of contents.] 

[*2 r ] Brutus, Jacobus: [Dedicatory preface addressed to] Johannes 

Franciscus II de Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. Incipit:‘[C]um de 

magno ac ingenti uirtutum laudumque tuarum cumulo et praeconio 

. . .’ 

[*4 r ] [Privilege to Brutus, also mentioning the printer, Tacuinus, 

dated13 Nov. 1496.] Incipit: ‘[S]erenissime princeps et excellentissimum 

dominium supplicatur celsitudini v[estrae], nomine Jacobi 

Bruti . . .’ 

[*4 r ] [Names of subscribers.] 

r 

[�5 ] ‘Argumentum, index’. Incipit: ‘[E]lucubratio nostra in tria 

capita principaliter distinguitur . . .’ 

a1 r Brutus, Jacobus: ‘De laudibus litterarum’. Incipit:‘[S]ummum et 

omnino mirandum illud totius natur� iubar et specimen . . .’ 

d3 v Brutus, Jacobus: Coronea aurea. ‘De anima libellus’. Incipit: 

‘[Q]uia ergo, vt inquit Cicero O⁄ciorum primo [O¡. 1. 7],‘‘Omnis 

quae a ratione suscipitur de aliqua re institutio, debet a di⁄nitione 

pro¢cisci . . .’ 

m3 v [Colophon.] 

Venice: JohannesTacuinus, deTridino, 15 Jan. 1496/7. 4 o . 

collation: [*] 4 [�] a^z & 8 m 4 . First two gatherings numbered, but 

not signed: leaves two and three of gathering [*] are numbered 2 

and 3, and the ¢rst four leaves of gathering [�] are numbered 5^8. 

GW 5657 (Anm.); HC *4026; Go¡ B-1262; BMC V 531; Pr 5445; 

BSB-Ink B-950; CIBN B-899; Oates 2116; Sheppard 4538. 

COPY 

Binding: Blind-tooled mottled calf, c.1700; bound for the 


146 mm. 

Occasional underlining in black ink. 

Title ‘Corona Aurea’ in an early hand in black ink on fore-edge. 

Provenance: In the Bodleianby1674: see Hyde, Catalogus (1674), 

I112 (shelfmark C 4.9 Th.); perhaps in Library by1620: see James, 

Catalogus (1620), 90, with date ‘1586’ and shelfmark C 4. 9 Th.; 

not in James, Catalogus (1605). 

Former Bodleian shelfmarks: C 4. 9 Th.; 4 o B 20 [Th.] 

shelfmark: C 4.9 Linc. 

B-588 Brutus, Petrus 

Victoria contra Judaeos. 

v 

[* 1 ] Bonavitus, Johannes; Mantuanus: [Verse.] ‘Hoc opus egregium 

toto celebrabitur orbe > Res noua, res grandis, res memoranda, 

quidem’; 69 elegiac distichs. 

[*2 r ] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse.] ‘Dum tua scripta lego, cerno 

dum singula praesul > Cognosco uires quid ualuere tuae’; 2 elegiac 

distichs. 

[*2 v ] Brutus, Petrus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bonavitus. 

Incipit:‘[M]e saepius adhortatus es, Ioannes doctissime, et litteris 

tuis atque carminibus . . .’ 

[*4 v ] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse.] ‘Me facit aeternum tua dulcis 

epistola, praesul, > Meque locat c>oelo fertiliore lyra’; 16 elegiac 

distichs. 

[*4 v ] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse, addressed to] Petrus Brutus. 

‘Magnanimus Brutus dimissus ab aethere caeli > Praesul in 

Hebraeos bella gerenda mouet’; 6 elegiac distichs. 

[*4 v ] Bonavitus, Johannes: [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Si quid 

in hoc libro mendosum o¡enderis unquam > Aut dederit uitium 

littera quaeque suum’; 4 elegiac distichs. 

a1 r Brutus, Petrus: ‘Praefatio’ [addressed to the nobles of Vicenza.] 

Incipit:‘[L]ectitanti mihi plurimorum codices hominum doctissimorum 

uisum est . . .’ 

a2 v Brutus, Petrus: Victoria contra Iudaeos. Incipit: ‘[M]irantur 

Iudaei qum(!) haec audiunt, et primo quod Christum de uirgine 

natum Christiani credant . . .’ 

refs. F. Secret, ‘Notes sur les hebra|« sants chre¤ tiens’, Revue des 

e¤ tudes juives, 125 (1965), 169^73. 

p1 v ‘Quindecim obiectiones Judaeorum’. Incipit:‘[P]rima auctoritas 

est Esaiae, c.xi, qui ait,‘‘Erit in die illa’’, [Is11,11] (hoc est tempore 

Messiach), etsequitur infra,‘‘eleuabit dominus signum in nationes 

et congregabit profugos’’ [Is 11,12] . . .’ 

v 

p5 ‘Responsiones’. Incipit:‘[N]unc igitur ad primam Esaiae auctoritatem 

ueritate duce reuertamur, inquit ille adhuc signum 

suum . . .’ 

r 

x3 [Verse about the printer and author.] ‘Est opus impressum 

Papiensi Simone clarum > Compositum Petri praesulis ingenio’; 


x3 r [Colophon.] 

v 

x3 Dragatius, [Jacobus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. ‘Quid 

tua sunt Bruti foelix cognomina, praesul? > Cur non sunt pulchri 

qum tua fama iubet?’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

v 

x3 Ber[ ], Fran[ciscus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. ‘Gloria 

ponti¢cum laus et pater optime nostri > Te praecor accipias carmina 

facta tibi’; 10 elegiac distichs. 

v 

x3 Ange[lus], Bar[tholomaeus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. 

‘Est mea nunc uestras diuinas tangere laudes > Quae uestrum 

certe nomen in astra ferunt’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

x3 v Ange[lus], Bar[tholomaeus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. 

‘(Vt nulli dubium est) te gloria summa moratur > Petre, gubernantem 

saeculum simul aetheris alta’; 15 hexameters. 

x3 v Urbanus, [Servus: Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. ‘Me tua 

dignata est, praesul reuerende, uocare > Dulcibus ac fari coram 

dominatio uerbis’; 30 hexameters. 

x4 r Aemilius, Gregorius: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus.‘Fama 

uolat, praesul, cunctas dispersa per aures > Te ¢dei nobis edere 

uelle librum’; 14 elegiac distichs. Dated 29 Feb. 1488. 

x4 r Urbanus, Servus: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus.‘Praesul in 

Hebraeos mirum dignissime uidi > Te scripsisse librum horum qui 

confringat apertos’; 25 hexameters. Dated 20 June. 

x4 r Fabricius, Bartholomeus: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. 

‘Praesul, aue, templi catharensis gloria, salue > Qui genus a Bruti 

sanguine clarus habes’; 9 elegiac distichs. 

x4 r Celsanus, Marcus: [Verse addressed to] Petrus Brutus. 

‘Sanctorum manibus tibi c>oelo ponitur amplo > Aeternum 

solium, quoniam saeuissima turba’; 4 hexameters. 

Vicenza: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Oct. 1489. Folio. 

collation: [*] 4 a 8 bû 6 x 4 . 



5949. 

COPY 

Gatherings r and s are transposed. 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf; double ¢llets form a 

border. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at head of the

700 bueve de hantone 

[b-588^b-591 

upper cover. Upper board detached. Size: 280 ¿ 206 ¿ 32 mm. 


Some marginal annotations and underlining in black ink. 

Irregular manuscript foliation. 

Provenance: John Selden (1584^1654); Greek motto on [* 1 r ]; see 

MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 4; MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 63 v , dated 1488. 


shelfmark: V 1. 11 Th. Seld. 

B-589 Bu« chlein 

Bu« chlein von dem sterbenden Menschen [German]. 

r 

[a2 ] [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[G]ot der den menschen adenlich nach der 

piltnu� . . .’ 

r 

[a3 ] Bu« chlein von dem sterbenden Menschen. Incipit: ‘[O] tod wie 

bitter ist dein gedacht nu� einem jungen froelich . . .’ 

refs. This is the translation of a treatise sometimes known as 

Memoria improvisae mortis: see Rudolf, Ars moriendi, 18, note 

34. The authorship of the treatise has sometimes been attributed 

to Johannes Mu« nzinger or Mu« ntzinger, although this is now considered 

to be a spurious attribution; see VLVI 794^9 at 799. 

[c5 v ] [Gerardus de Vliederhoven]: Cordiale de quatuor novissimis 

[Middle Low German]. ‘Wie wir vnser letsten zeit sollen 

gedencken’. Incipit: ‘[D]i� lert vn� der wei� man vnd bedeutet 

als vyl zu teutsch . . .’ 

refs. See VL II 1217^21 at 1220. 

[k8 r ] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘Ein lere vnd ein gebet’. 

Incipit:‘[E]s sprichtsant Bernhart das ist ein lerevnd ein gebet . . .’ 

refs. See Rudolf, Ars moriendi, 24^5. 

v 

[l3 ] [14 observations on how to love God.] Incipit: ‘[Z]u dem ersten 

lug wie wurdig got ist, das man in lieb habe . . .’ 

refs. For this work, but with a di¡erent incipit, see K. Schneider, 

Die deutschen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek 

Mu« nchen: Cgm 691^867 (Wiesbaden, 1984), Cgm 758: p. 270, 

no. 4. 

r 

[l7 ] [Marquardus de Lindavia: Eucharistietraktat extracts.] Incipit: 

‘[E]in jegklich cristen mensch der su dem hochwurdigen sacrament 

. . .’ 

refs. See Schneider, Die deutschen Handschriften der BSB 

Mu« nchen: Cgm 691^867, Cgm 758: p. 270, no. 5; see also VL VI 

81^126, with this work at 99^103, no. A.7. 

[Augsburg: Anton Sorg, c.1482]. 4 o . 

collation: [a^m 8 ]. 

Types: 118 G, 140 G. 96 leaves. 22 lines ([a2 v ]). Type area: 129 ¿ 

v 

90 mm ([a2 ]). Five woodcuts: see Schramm. 

H *11628; Go¡ M-870; Pr 1694; BSB-Ink M-326; Sack, Freiburg, 

2510; Schramm IV pp. 33 and 51; Schreiber V 4816; Sheppard 

1247. 

COPY 

Wanting [a1.8]. 

Many leaves mounted. 

Binding: Wrappers of parchment leaves from a thirteenth/fourteenth-century 

(German?) manuscript ritual; two ties lost. Scar 

of a book-plate on the inside of the upper cover. Manuscript 

label at the head of the spine. Size: 187 ¿ 130 ¿ 24 mm. Size of 

leaf: 181 ¿ 123 mm. 

Provenance: Georg zuWolkenstein-Rodenegg (£.1589); inscription 

on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘1589 V.V.V. Georg [ ] zu 

Wolckhenstain vnd Rodnegg’; see Warnecke 2509^11. Probably 

the‘Ars moriendi, Germanice, cum ¢guris’, which was purchased 



B-590 Bueil, Jean de 

Le Jouvencel [French]. 


r 

a2 Bueil, Jean de: Le Jouvencel. 

refs. Jean de Bueil, Le Jouvencel, intr. Camille Favre, ed. Le¤ on 

Lecestre, Socie¤ te¤ de l’histoire de France, 76^7 (Paris, 1887^9), I 

13^225, II 1^79; this edition is listed on I p. cccxxx. BMC gives 

the author as Jean de Breuil. The incunable edition ends with 

part II, ch. 17 (part II, ch. 18 in Lecestre’s edition); in incunable, 

part I, chs 10 and 11 both numbered as ch. 10. For part I, ch. 7, see 

Bueil, Le Jouvencel, ed. Lecestre, I130^5,139 note for manuscript 

version E, and 149^53 for the incunable (f2 r l. 32^f2 v l. 16 in the 

incunable). Part I, ch. 8 is omitted from the numbering in the 

incunable and seems only to exist in Bueil, Le Jouvencel, ed. 

Lecestre as variant readings.Variations in endings of many chapters 

in incunable ed. 

r 

n5 ‘La table de ce present liure’. 

Paris: AntoineVe¤ rard, 27 Mar. 1493/4. Folio. 

collation: a^k 8 l^n 6 . 


GW 5708; HC 9462 (= H 9463); Go¡ J-492; BMC VIII 83; Pr 8432; 

CIBN J-316; Macfarlane 34 = 266; Sheppard 6256. 

COPY 

‘Chain’ printed erroneously for ‘cham’ on n1 r , as BMC copy 

IB.41154, not as BMC variant (IB.41155). Leaves n 4^6 mutilated 

and repaired. Bound with: 

1. Christine de Pisan, LeTresordelacitedesdames. Paris: Antoine 

Ve¤ rard, 8 Aug. 1497 (C-192). 

Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf, with gold ¢llets. 

Damaged. Rebacked. Size: 258 ¿ 188 ¿ 33 mm. Size of 

leaf: 250 ¿ 175 mm. 

Printer’s waste from an English eighteenth-century(?) edition ofa 

history of Britain used as endleaves. 

Occasional note marks. 



shelfmark: Ashm.1767(2). 

B-591 Bueve de Hantone 

Bevis of Hampton [English]. 

Fragment. 

[Westminster:Wynkyn deWorde, c.1500]. 4 o . Sheppard notes that 

he suspects the date to be later:‘type much worn’. 

collation: No complete copy known: see GW. 

GW 5710; Pr 9726; Du¡ 44; Sheppard 7470; STC 1987. 

COPY 

Two leaves only, containing lines 29^98 and 227^92: see The 

Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ed. Eugen Ko« lbing, Early 

English Text Society, Extra ser., 46, part I (London, 1885), with 

this copy as version ‘L’; Du¡: ‘almost certainly leaves 2 and 5 of 

¢rst quire’. 

[Leaf 2 r ] has incipit: ‘In all the londes of cry|tyente > Was none 

founde |o good as he . . .’; and, on verso, explicit: ‘ . . . Madame, 

he |ayd, holde you |tyll > For I wyll do all at your wyll’. [Leaf 5 r ]

-591^b-594] burchardus urspergensis 

701 

has incipit: ‘My lorde the it |ente |yr Mordure > To nyght hrcommyth 

to thy boure. . .’; and, on verso, explicit:‘. . .Whan Beuys was 

on hygh upon the downe > He loked towarde Southhampton’. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco, bound for 

the Bodleian Library. Size of leaves: 187 ¿ 124 mm. 

Provenance: Richard Farmer (1735^1797); a note in Farmer’s 

hand in lower margin of recto of ¢rst leaf: ‘A fragment of Syr 

Bevis of Hampton’; compare MS. Eng. lett. d.43, fols 249, 253^6; 

not found in his sale (1^7 May 1789). Francis Douce (1757^1834); 

shelfmark ‘Douce Fragments19’on wrapper. Bequeathed in1834. 

shelfmark: Douce Fragm. e.13. 

B-592 Bugnin, Jacques de 

Le conge¤ pris du sie' cle se¤ culier [French]. 


a2 r Bugnin, Jacques de: Le conge¤ pris du sie' cle se¤ culier. 

refs. Jacques de Bugnin, Le congie¤ pris du sie' cle se¤ culier, ed. 

Arthur Piaget, Recueil de travaux publie¤ s par la Faculte¤ des 

Lettres de l’Universite¤ de Neucha“ tel, 6 (Paris and Neucha“ tel, 

1916), 51^90; also 16^36, although this edition is not listed by 

Piaget. 

[Lyons: Michel Topie¤ and Jacques Heremberck, c.1490^4]. 4 o . 

collation: a 8 b c 6 . 

Type: 101 B; capital spaces. 20 leaves. a2 r : 28 lines. Type area: a2 r : 

r 

142 ¿ 96 mm. No watermarks found. Calligraphic ‘L’ on a1 , at 

the beginning of the title, in the state shown in Claudin IV 30 (in 

one piece). Leaf a1 r , title: ‘LE conge pris du > |iecle |eculier.’; a2 r : 

‘Cy commence le prologue de ce pre|ent liure in > titule Le conge 

prins du |iecle |eculier. > [L]e conge prins du |iecle |eculier > E|t 

dun |ire qui par di|cretion > Certainement |e voulut humilier 

> . . .’; l. 19:‘Qui |cauoir veult dont e|t le per|onnage > De lau|anne 

fut vne fois natif > Jacques e|t dit de bugnin de bon aage > . . .’; a3 r , l. 

15:‘Cy co� me� ledit liure. > [A]Dieu iu|tice h rai|on > . . .’; c5 r , l. 28:‘Cy 

¢ni|t le conge pris du > |iecle |eculier.’; c5 v : ‘En la veille du benoit 

faint(!) martin > Lan mil e|tant quatre ce� s h octante > Dedens iuillet 

fut parfaicte la ¢n > De ce|t euure a plu|ieurs ignora� ce > . . .’; l. 17: 

‘. . . Amen.’ 

Not in Pr; Sheppard 6654^5. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Complainte d’amours et reponse (La belle dame qui eut merci). 

[Lyons?: n. pr., after July 1497] (C-408); 

3. Contenances de la table. [Lyons: Michel Topie¤ and Jacques 

Heremberck, c.1490^4] (C-438); 

4. Testament de Taste vin, roi des pions. [Lyons: Printer of the 

Champion des Dames (Jean Du Pre¤ ?)/Printer of the Complainte 

de l’a“ me damne¤ e, c.1488^92] (T-062); 

5. Dits et ventes d’amours. [Lyons: Printer of the Champion des 

Dames (Jean Du Pre¤ ?)/Printer of the Complainte de l’a“ me damne¤ 

e, c.1492] (D-110). 

Wanting sheet c1.6. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century French green morocco, with gold 

¢llets and corner decorations on each cover; on the spine £oral 

gold tools; marbled- and gilt-edged leaves; blue pastedowns. 


Provenance: Alexandre de Bon[ ] (seventeenth/eighteenth century); 

signature on title-page and c5 v of item 1. Francis Douce 


shelfmark: Douce P 694(1). 

B-593 Bullae 

Bullae et constitutiones. 

[a1 r ] Paulus II, Pont. Max.: Bulla de bene¢ciis a¡ectis ‘Ad Romani 

ponti¢cis prouidentiam’ [1Sept.1467]. 

refs. Summa constitutionum summorum Ponti¢cum, ed. Petrus 

Matthaeus (Lyons, 1588), 129^30. 

r 

[a2 ] Johannes XXII, Pont. Max.: Constitutio contra pluralitatem 

bene¢ciorum ‘Exsecrabilis quorundam’. Incipit: ‘[E]xsecrabilis 

quorundam tam religiosorum quam secularium ambitio que semper 

plus ambiens eo magis ¢t insaciabilis quo sibi amplius indulgetur 

. . .’ 

[a4 v ] Benedictus XII, Pont. Max.: Reservatio‘Ad regimen’. Incipit: 

‘[B]enedictus episcopus seruus seruorum dei ad futuram rei memoriam. 

Ad regimen ecclesie generalis quanquam immeriti 

superna dispositione uocati gerimus in nostris desideriis . . .’ 

[a6 r ] Paulus II, Pont. Max. [pseudo-; Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.]: 

Bulla contra simoniacos ‘Cum detestabile scelus’ [23 Nov. 1464]. 

refs. Partially printed in MBR V 16^17; MBR dates to 18 May 

1434. 

v 

[a6 ] Paulus II, Pont. Max.: Bulla de casibus reservatis‘Etsi dominici 

gregis’ [3 Mar. 1469]. 

refs. Summa constitutionum, ed. Matthaeus, 136^7. 

r 

[a8 ] Eugenius IV, Pont. Max.: Privilegium curialium ‘Divina in 

eminentis’ [8 Mar. 1432]. 

refs. MBRV 10^11. 

[b1 r ] Martinus V, Pont. Max.: Bulla de commutatione ordinum 

‘Viam ambitiosae cupiditatis’ [29 July 1418]. 

refs. MBR IV 678^9. 

[b2 r ] Paulus II, Pont. Max.: Bulla de alienatione bonorum ecclesiasticorum 

‘Ambitiosae cupiditati’ [1Mar. 1467]. 


[b3 r ] NicolausV, Pont. Max.: Concordantia cum principibus nationis 

Germanicae ‘Ad sacram Petri sedem’ [26 Mar. 1448]. 


[Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, c.1477^80]. 4 o . 


GW 5730; H *4085 = *12482; R 100 = 101; Go¡ B-1280; Pr 3566; 


COPY 

Formerly bound in N[athaniel] Salmon, History and Antiquities 

of Essex [London, 1739^42]) (Gough Essex 30); see unsigned 

note by Falconer Madan:‘from Gough Essex 30 (bound 1887)’. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century maroon cloth; bound for the 

Bodleian Library in 1887. Size: 196 ¿ 135 ¿ 7 mm. Size of 

leaf: 190 ¿ 128 mm. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Underlining 

and capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Richard Gough (1735^1809); evidence of earlier 

shelfmark. Bequeathed in 1809. 


B-594 Burchardus Urspergensis 

Historia Friderici I imperatoris. 

[a2 r ] [Burchardus Urspergensis]: Historia Friderici I Imperatoris. 

Incipit: ‘[F]uit in partibus Sueuie parentela nobilium, primo quidem 

militarium simplicium, qui dicebantur de Stau¡en, qui 

tamen sui probis ac virtuosis . . .’

702 buridanus, johannes 

[b-594^b-597 

refs. Die Chronikdes PropstesBurchard vonUrsberg, ed. Oswald 

Holder-Egger and Bernhard von Simson, MGH Script. Rer. 

Germ., 16, 2nd edn (Hannover and Leipzig, 1916); this is an edition 

of Burchard’s Chronicon, and this text and that in the incunable 

are approximately the same from [b1 v ] to the end (= MGH 25^ 

r v v v 

127); [a2 ]^[a3 ] not found in MGH; [a3 ], l. 26 ^ [a4 ], l. 3 = MGH 

p. 22, l. 31^p. 5; [a4 v ]^[b1 v ] not found in MGH. 

[Augsburg: Monastery of SS.Ulrich and Afra, 1472]. Folio. 

collation: [a^d 10 e 6 ]. 

GW 5737; H *8718; C 2589; Go¡ B-1285; BMC II 340; Pr 1633; 



COPY 

Wanting [a10] and the blank leaves [a1] and [e6]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, with gold ¢llets, gold-tooled 

spine and gilt-edged leaves. Size: 278 ¿ 192 ¿ 14 mm. Size of 

leaf: 270 ¿ 180 mm. 

Early marginal notes in black ink. 

Partial rubrication: initials and paragraph marks are supplied in 

red. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: J. T. Hand (£. 1834^1837), 1834; signature on the 

front endleaf; sale (1837), lot 210; purchased for »0. 7. 0; see 



B-595 Burchiello 

Sonetti [Italian]. 

r 


a2 r Burchiello: Sonetti. ‘El dispota di quinto el gran soldano > Et 

trenta septe schiere dipollastri’. 

refs. I sonetti del Burchiello. Edizione critica della vulgata quattrocentesca, 

ed. Michelangelo Zaccarello, Collezione di opere 

inedite o rare, 155 (Bologna, 2000). 

r 

[k1 ] ‘Tauola’. 

[Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, c.1490]. 4 o . 

collation: aî 8 [k 4 ]. 

GW 5745; HR 4093; Go¡ B-1290; Pr 6244; CIBN B-910; Sheppard 

5151. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaf i 8. Some leaves in gathering a repaired. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, with gold ¢llets, goldtooled 

spine and turn-ins, marbled pastedowns, and gilt-edged 


Provenance: Louis Ce¤ sar de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La 

Vallie' re (1708^1780); ‘V 3624’ on the recto of the rear endleaf in 

tail left-hand corner; see sale, part I, II (Paris, 1783), lot 3624. 

Pietro-Antonio Bolongaro-Crevenna (1735^1792); printed label 

of the sale (1789) part III, lot 4823; bought in at the sale; in annotated 

catalogue ‘P. d[en]. H[engst]. retenu 2:-’; the equivalent of 

»0. 3. 6, according to the exchange rate used by Thomas Payne at 

the sale. Guglielmo Bruto IcilioTimoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci 

della Sommaia (1803^1869); purchased at his sale (1859), lot 469, 


shelfmark: 85 b.14. 

B-596 Burchiello 

Sonetti [Italian]. 


v 

a1 Burchiello: Sonetti. ‘El dispota di quinto el gran soldano > Et 

trenta septe schiere dipollastri’. 


v 

k1 [Table of contents.] 

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Carrucci della Sommaia (1803^1869); purchased at his sale 

(1859), lot 470, for »2. 2. 0; slip attached to back endleaf; see 


shelfmark: 85 d.9. 

B-597 Buridanus, Johannes 

Quaestiones in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea. 

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a2 Buridanus, Johannes: ‘Proemium’. Incipit:‘[B]onitatis et nobilitatis 

excellentiam philosophie moralis extollit Aristoteles 

secundo Ethicorum, cum dicit eam esse non contemplationis gratia 

. . .’ 

a2 v Buridanus, Johannes: Quaestiones in Aristotelis Ethica 

Nicomachea. [Edited by Aegidius Delphus.] Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur 

primo, Utrum de virtutibus sit scientia. Arguitur quod non, quia 

si virtus sciatur . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr 26 (1970),179^81, no. 42, with this edition listed at 

181; also Edmond Faral,‘Jean Buridan: notes sur les manuscrits, 

les e¤ ditions et le contenu des ses ouvrages’, Archivesd’histoiredoc trinaleetlitte¤ rairedu moyen a“ ge,15 (1946),1^55, at 40^8, with this 

edition listed at 42; Edmond Faral,‘Jean Buridan, ma|“tre e' s arts 

de l’Universite¤ de Paris’, HLF 38 (1949), 577^91; Bernd Michael, 

Johannes Buridan: Studien zu seinen Werken und zur Rezeption 

seiner Theorien in Europa des spa« ten Mittelalters (Diss. Freie 

Universita« t, Berlin, 1985), 829^92, with this edition at 862; Jack 

Zupko, John Buridan: Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Arts 

Master (Notre Dame, Ind., 2003), 276. 

r 

H10 [Colophon describing Delphus’ editorial work.] Incipit: ‘Huc 

vsque producte sunt questiones Buridani morales, robustiori 

etato precipue perlegende . . .’ 

r 

H10 Delphus, Aegidius: [Verse.] ‘Ad scientie moralis sectatores’. 

‘Pagina doctorum quod habet diuersa per orbem > Moribus egregium 

disputat iste liber’; 5 elegiac distichs. 

[Paris: Johannes Higman and] Wolfgang Hopyl, 14 July 1489. 

Folio. Assigned to Higman with Hopyl, by CIBN. 

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B-987; CIBN B-913; Rhodes 460; not in Sheppard. Reprint: 

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703 

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cover. Size: 303 ¿ 222 ¿ 60 mm. Size of leaf: 287 ¿ 211 mm. 

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Early marginal annotations, underlining, and note marks in 

black ink. 

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signature and bibliographical note on front endleaf; perhaps purchased 

from Ludwig Rosenthal (1840^1928), see note on front 

endleaf. George Dunn (1865^1912); book-plate; sale, 11 Feb. 

1913, lot 900. Albert Ehrman (1890^1969); armorial book-plate; 

purchased from Maggs Brothers Ltd in 1923 for »18. 18. 0; accession 




Sophismata. 

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a2 r Buridanus, Johannes: Sophismata. 

refs. Johannes Buridanus, Sophismata, ed. Theodore Kermitt 

Scott, Grammatica Speculativa, Theory of Language and Logic 

in the Middle Ages, 1 (Stuttgart, 1977); also John Buridan, 

Sophisms on Meaning and Truth, trans. T. K. Scott (New York, 

1966). See Faral, ‘Jean Buridan: notes sur les manuscrits’, 4; 

Michael, Studien, 533; Zupko, John Buridan, 277. 

g5 r ‘Tabula’. 

Paris: Jean Lambert, for Denis Roce, [c.1503]. 4 o . As dated by 

Hillard; Sheppard dates [c.1500]. 

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Provenance: Acquired by1674; see Hyde, Catalogus (1674), I 117. 

shelfmark: 8 o B 131 Art. 


Summula de dialectica Petri Hispani. 

Part I. 

r 

A1 Buridanus, Johannes: Summula de dialectica Petri Hispani. 

[Edited byThomas Bricot.] Incipit: ‘[D]ialectica est ars artium ad 

omnium methodorum principia viam habens . . .’ 

refs. See Faral, ‘Jean Buridan: notes sur les manuscrits’, 2^3. 

Extracts printed in Jan Pinborg, ‘The Summulae: Tractatus I 

‘‘De introductionibus’’ ’, in The Logic of John Buridan, ed. Jan 

Pinborg, Opuscula Graecolatina, 9 (Copenhagen, 1976), 82^8; 

N. J. Green-Pedersen, ‘The Summulae of John Buridan: 

Tractatus VI ‘‘De locis’’ ’, ed. Pinborg, 129^38; Sten Ebbesen, 

‘The Summulae: Tractatus VII ‘‘De fallaciis’’ ’, ed. Pinborg, 153^ 

8.Tractatus IV in ‘Giovanni Buridano:Tractatus de suppositionibus,’ed. 

Maria Elena Reina, Revistacritica di storia della ¢loso¢a, 

12 (1957), 175^208, 323^52. For a modern, English translation, 

with introduction of the whole work, see John Buridan, 

Summulae de Dialectica, an Annotated Translation, with a 

Philosophical Introduction by Gyula Klima (New Haven and 

London, 2001); see also Michael, Studien, 500^3; Zupko, John 

Buridan, 277. 

C5 v Bricot, Thomas: [Verse.] ‘Aurea perspicui quem scripta iuuant 

Buridani par > Est eximii te meminisse Bricot’; distichs. 

refs. Faral, HLF 28, 499^500. 

v 

C5 [Colophon.] 

a1 v [Bricot,Thomas: Advertisement.] 

refs. Faral, HLF 28, 500^1. 

v 

a1 [Verse.] ‘Diuitias sacre quisquis spectare Minerue > Et felix tantis 

iam cupis esse bonis’; 14 elegiac distichs. 

Part II. 

r 

a2 Dorp, Johannes: [Commentary on Summula de dialectica.] 

Incipit: ‘[I]ste est tractatus summularum magistri Johannis 

Buridani qui in se continet nouem tractatus partiales . . .’ 

refs. See Faral, HLF 28, 501; Michael, Studien, 542^52. 

[Lyons]: Janon Carcain [forMichel le Noir in Paris?],15 Nov.1487. 

r v 

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Munich, BSB).Issued in two parts. 

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stamp and ¢ve rectangles formed by quadruple ¢llets 

and divided by further quadruple ¢llets into triangular compartments, 

each decorated with a small £ower-petal stamp. Spine 

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formed by quadruple ¢llets and decorated with the small £owerpetal 

stamp (stamps now badly worn). Title in black ink, within a 

wreath, on the upper cover. Size: 325 ¿ 225 ¿ 45 mm. Size of 

leaf: 305 ¿ 216 mm. 

Running headings and some marginal notes in a humanist hand. 

Title ‘Buridani summule’along the lower edge. 

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endleaf: ‘Hieronymi Malelaualli [ ] et amicorum’. Purchased for 

120 Francs from Anatole Claudin, 10 July, 1900, no. 98589; label 

pasted on the recto of the front endleaf; see also Library Bills 

(1900). 

shelfmark: Inc. c. F2.1487.1. 

B-600 Burlaeus, Gualtherus 

Expositio in Artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis (ed. 

Simon Alexandrinus). 

a1 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio super Isagogen Porphyrii. 

[Edited by Simon Alexandrinus, as noted in the colophon.] 

Incipit: ‘[Q]uia de dictis in logica quoddam compendium intendo 

compillare(!) . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr, 24 (1968), 174, no. 4; cf. James A. Weisheipl, 

‘Repertorium Mertonense’, Medieval Studies, 31 (1969), 174^

704 burlaeus, gualtherus 

[b-600^b-602 

224, on Burley 185^208, at 189, no. 7; Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 

1902. 

r 

b6 Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Super librum Praedicamentorum 

Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca librum Predicamentorum est sciendum 

quod subiectum . . .’; explicit: ‘. . . et isti modi habendi sunt 

alii a quolibet modo predicto’. 

refs. Incipit as Lohr, 24 (1968), 174, no. 4; variant explicit. 

h4 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: De sex principiis Gilberti Porretani. 

Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[F]orma est compositioni contingens’’. Postquam 

Aristoteles in libro Predicamentorum su⁄cienter quantum est 

de . . .’; explicit: ‘. . . secundum quod accidentis per absolutum et 

respectiuum. Sed hec non sunt logice considerationis. Amen’. 

refs. Incipit as Lohr, 24 (1968), 175, no. 4,‘redaction B ^ longer’; 

di¡erent explicit. 

k6 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Super librum Perihermenias Aristotelis. 

Incipit: ‘ ‘‘Primum opportet constituere’’. Iste liber quem ad presens 

intendimus exponere est de enunciatione tanquam . . .’; explicit: 

‘. . . in ¢gura modali ponat in vna ¢gura istas propositiones’. 

refs. See Lohr, 24 (1968),175, no. 4; explicit resembles, but di¡ers 

from redaction A - shorter; ‘Walter Burleigh’s Middle 

Commentary on Aristotle’s Perihermeneias’ ed. S. F. Brown, 

Franciscan Studies, 33 (1973), 42^134. 

r 

p6 [Additional note.] Incipit:‘Nota duplex possibile: vnum quod est 

principium . . . tunc tale obiectum habet esse intelligibile siue ab 

intellectu intelligente seu a causa representante, ut uolunt alii.’ 

r 

p6 [Colophon with note on Simon Alexandrinus, the editor.] 

Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, [c.1476^8]. Folio. 

collation: aô 8 p 6 . 



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Virgin standing on a crescent, the surrounding inscription cancelled. 

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‘Ridler 1885’on the front pastedown,‘»3. 10. 0’on the verso of the 

front endleaf. 



Expositio in Artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis (ed. 

Simon Alexandrinus). 

a2 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio super Isagogen Porphyrii. 

[Edited by Simon Alexandrinus.] Incipit:‘[Q]uia de dictis in logica 

quoddam compendium intendo compilare . . .’ 


b2 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Super librum Praedicamentorum 

Aristotelis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca librum Predicamentorum est sciendum 

quod subiectum . . .’; explicit: ‘. . . et isti modi habendi sunt 

alii a quolibet modo predicto’. 


v 

g5 Burlaeus, Gualtherus: De sex principiis Gilberti Porretani. 

Incipit: ‘‘‘[F]orma est compositioni contingens’’. Postquam 

Aristoteles in libro Predicamentorum su⁄cienter quantum est 

de . . .’; explicit: ‘. . . secundum quod accidentis per absolutum et 

respectiuum. Sed hec non sunt logice considerationis. Amen’. 


k1 v Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Super librum Perihermenias Aristotelis. 

Incipit: ‘‘‘[P]rimum oportet constituere’’. Iste liber quem ad presens 

intendimus exponere est de enuntiatione tanquam . . .’; explicit: 



o8 r [Additional note.] Incipit:‘Nota duplex possibile: vnum quod est 


intellectu intelligentie seu a causa representante, vt volunt alii. 

Amen’. 

[Venice: LeonardusWild, c.1480]. Folio. 

collation: a 10 b 8 c d 6 e 8 f^m 6 n o 8 . 

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Diagrams and extensive marginal notes in at least two early 

hands. Partially erased note in upper margin of a2 r : ‘ . . . 

fabriani’(?). 

On a2 r and b2 r 13^line initials are supplied in red; other smaller 

initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; yellow capital 

strokes and lemmata highlighted in yellow. 

Provenance: Maggs Brothers Ltd, Incunabula: a Catalogue of 

Recent Acquisitions of Fifteenth-century Books . . ., Catalogue 

682, Nov. 1939, no. 58. Purchased in 1939 from Maggs for »8. 10. 

0; see BLR 1 (1940), 142. 

shelfmark: Inc. d. I4.1. 


Expositio in Artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis. 


r 

a2 Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio super Isagogen Porphyrii. 

[Edited by Simon Alexandrinus.] Incipit:‘[Q]uia de dictis in logica 

quoddam compendium intendo compilare . . .’ 


a3 r Porphyrius: Isagoge. [Translated by Boethius.] 

refs. Porphyrii Isagoge, ed. Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, AL, 1/6^7 

(1966), 5^31.


705 

c3 v Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Super librum Praedicamentorum 

Aristotelis. [Edited by Simon Alexandrinus.] Incipit: ‘[C]irca 

librum Predicamentorum est sciendum quod subiectum . . .’; 

explicit: ‘ . . . et isti modi habendi sunt alii a quolibet modo predicto’. 


c4 v Aristoteles: Liber Praedicamentorum. 

refs. See A-385. 

h2 v Gilbertus Porretanus [pseudo-]: De sex principiis. 


h2 v Burlaeus, Gualtherus: De sex principiis Gilberti Porretani. 

[Edited by Simon Alexandrinus.] Incipit: ‘Postquam Aristoteles 

in libro Predicamentorum su⁄cienter quantum est . . .’; explicit: 

‘ . . . secundum quod accidentis per absolutum et respectiuum. 

Sed hec non sunt logice considerationis. Amen’. 


k3 r Aristoteles: Liber Perihermenias. [Also known as De interpretatione. 

Translated by Boethius.] 


r 

k3 Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Super librum Perihermenias Aristotelis. 

[Edited by Simon Alexandrinus.] Incipit: ‘Iste liber quem ad presens 

intendimus exponere est de enunciatione tanquam . . .’; explicit: 



o3 v [Additional note.] Incipit:‘Nota duplex possibile: unum quod est 


intellectu intelligente seu a causa representante, vt volunt alii. 

Amen.’ 

Venice: Otinus de Luna, Papiensis, 11 May 1497. Folio. 

collation: a^n 6 o 4 . 


B-919; Sander 1468; Rhodes 468; Sheppard 4687. Facsimile 

(Frankfurt am Main, 1967). 

COPY 

Bound with: 

1. Apollinaris O¡redus, In librum Aristotelis ‘‘De anima’’.Venice: 

Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus,10 Sept.1496 (O-012). 

Wanting the title-page, a 1, and the blank leaf o 4. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf (c.1820), the boards blindtooled, 

the back tooled in gold, bound for the Bodleian Library, 

with binder’s running number ‘29’. Size: 305 ¿ 210 ¿ 40 mm. 


Marginal notes and pointing hands in a sixteenth-century hand. 

Provenance: Franciscus Scutarinus (sixteenth-century(?)); 

inscription on a2 r : ‘Fratris Francisci Scutarini’. Probably the 

copy, dated 1491, in the Benefactors’ Register I 55, purchased 

with money given in 1603 by Henry Percy, Earl of 

Northumberland (1564^1632); certainly acquired by 1605; see 

James, Catalogus (1605), 293. 



Expositio in Aristotelis Physica. 


a 1 v Vernias, Nicoletus: [Letter] addressed to Sebastianus 

Baduarius. Incipit: ‘[C]um a teneris annis magni¢centiam tuam 

singulari amore fuerim prosecutus . . .’ 

a 4 r Aristoteles: Physica. [Translation revised by Guilelmus de 

Moerbeka.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam quidem intelligere et scire 

contingit circa omnes scientias, quarum sunt principia aut cause 

aut elementa, ex horum cognitione . . .’ 


a4 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio super libros Physicorum. 

Incipit: ‘[A]ristoteles determinaturus de rebus naturalibus in 

primo libro Scientie Naturalis . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr, 24 (1968), 179^80, no. 18, Thorndike^Kibre 136, 

Weisheipl, ‘Repertorium Mertonense’, 197^8, no. 24(b), and 

Agustin Un‹ a Juarez, La ¢loso¢a del sigloxiv: contexto cultural de 

Walter Burley, Biblioteca ‘La ciudad de dios’, 26 (Madrid, 1978), 

66^8. 

DD4 v [Colophon.] 

r 

DD5 ‘Tabula dubiorum’. 

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 2 Dec. 1491. 

Folio. 

collation: aî 8 k 6 l^z h m k AA BB 8 CC DD 6 . 


B-922; Rhodes 464; Sander1470; Sheppard 4186. 

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Some early marginal notes, with those on v8 r in Catalan: ‘Al molt 

amat y bon amich muy sen‹ or mio(?) [fany]’, and, in another hand, 

‘muy sen‹ [or?] mio(?) [thomas]’ [with thanks to Dr Clive Gri⁄n 

and Dr Silvia Coll-Vinent]. 

A few paragraph marks and capitals marked in red; one woodcut 

initial partly coloured in red. 

Provenance: Gerona, Catalonia, Dominicans(?); inscription on 

a1 r : ‘Est pro conventu gerunde ordinis predicatorum. anno 1543’; 

no Dominican convent found in Gerona. Acquired between 1847 

and c.1892; not found in Catalogus (1843), with Appendix. 



Expositio in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea. 

a2 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: [Dedicatory prologue addressed to] 

Richardus de Bury, Bishop of Durham. Incipit: ‘[R]euerendo in 

Christo patri et domino domino Ricardo diuina disponente clementia 

Ulmensis(!) sedis episcopo . . .’ 

r 

a2 Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio in Aristotelis Ethica 

Nicomachea. Incipit: ‘‘‘[O]mnis ars et omnis doctrina’’. Scientia 

moralis que est de actionibus voluntariis . . .’ 

refs. See Lohr, 24 (1968), 185^6, no. 36; Weisheipl,‘Repertorium 

Mertonense’, 205^6, no. 48; and Juarez, La ¢loso¢a del siglo xiv, 

78^81. Book VII has di¡erent incipit and explicit; incipit: 

‘Septimus liber qui principaliter est de continentia et incontinentia 

continet duos tractatus. In primo determinatur de continentia 

et incontinentia . . .’; explicit:‘. . . sicut habent reges et quidam alii 

principes. Et in hoc ¢nitur breuiter et modo facili id quod de libro 

Ethicorum intellexi’. Each book is followed by a table of contents. 

a2 v Aristoteles: Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Robertus 

Grosseteste.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars et omnis doctrina, similiter 

autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ 


Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 10 May 1481. Folio. 

collation: a^k 8 l 10 m^p N O^Z h m k 8 .


[b-604^b-606 

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Leaf a 2 r , col. 2. l. 31 ‘Scie� moralis q� e� . . .’ (several variants). 

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gold-tooled with £oral stamp; marbled pastedowns. Size: 286 ¿ 


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Robert Coryat (sixteenth century); deleted inscription on a2 r : 

‘Roberti Coryett’. Richard Heber (1773^1833); stamp, 

‘Bibliotheca Heberiana; not found in Catalogue. Purchased in 

Dec. 1884 for »1. 1. 6 from David Nutt, see Library Bills (1885). 



Expositio in Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea. 

r 


A1 v Torresanus, Andreas: [Note to the reader on the layout of the 

text and the references to the divisions of Averroes.] Incipit: 

‘Conspicientes librum Ethicorum Aristotelis iuxta expositionem 

Gualteri Burlei . . .’ 

A2 r [Tabula.] 

b1 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: [Dedicatory prologue addressed to] 

Richardus de Bury, Bishop of Durham. Incipit: ‘[R]euerendo in 

Christo patri et domino domino Ricardo diuina disponente clementia 

Ulmensis(!) sedis episcopo . . .’ 

r 

b1 Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Expositio in Aristotelis Ethica 

Nicomachea. Incipit: ‘ ‘‘[O]mnis ars et omnis doctrina’’. Scientia 

moralis que est de actionibus uoluntariis . . .’ 

refs. See B-604; book seven has di¡erent incipit and explicit; 

incipit: ‘Septimus liber qui principaliter est de continentia et 

incontinentia continet duos tractatus. In primo determinatur de 

continentia et incontinentia . . .’; explicit: ‘ . . . sicut habent reges 

et quidam alii principes. Et in hoc ¢nitur breuiter et modo facili 

id quod de libro Ethicorum intellexi’. 

b1 r Aristoteles: Ethica Nicomachea. [Translated by Robertus 

Grosseteste.] Incipit: ‘[O]mnis ars et omnis doctrina, similiter 

autem et actus et electio bonum quoddam appetere videtur . . .’ 


Venice: Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus de Asula, 4 Sept. 

1500. Folio. 

collation: A 8 a 6 b^x 8 y 10 . 


B-1005; CIBN B-920; Hillard 521; Oates 2206; Rhodes 462; 

Sander1469; Sack, Freiburg, 868; Sheppard 4707. 

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Some early notes and underlining in red ink. 

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A 1 r :‘Liber pertinet Nicolao Traune predicatori Heidelbergensi’. 

Peter Schibenhart (£. 1509); inscription on A1 r : ‘Emptus tandem 

a Petro Schibenhart ex Didesheym ab executoribus prefati predicatoris 

p[ost?] eius mortem Anno 1509’. Unread inscription on 

A1 r , dated 16 Apr. 1614. Samuel Butler (1774^1839); sale, pt II, lot 

457. Purchased for »0. 11. 0; see annotated sale catalogue; listed 

without the price in Books Purchased (1840), 33. 



De intensione et remissione formarum. 


a2 r Burlaeus, Gualtherus: De intensione et remissione formarum. 

Incipit: ‘[I]n hoc tractatu intendo perscrutari de causa intrinseca 

susceptionis magis et minus . . .’; explicit: ‘ . . . nec auctoritatem 

Aristotelis vel cuiuscumque alterius philosophi veram reputo 

que contradicit Romane ecclesie et veritati ¢dei christiane’. 

refs. See Thorndike^Kibre 681, Weisheipl, ‘Repertorium 

Mertonense’, 205, no. 46, and Anneliese Maier, ‘Zu Walter 

Burleys Traktat, De intensione et remissione formarum’, 

Franciscan Studies, 25 (1965), 293^321. 

c4 r Jacobus de Forlivio: ‘De intensione et remissione formarum’. 

Incipit: ‘[Q]ueritur vtrum intensio forme ¢at per additionem partis 

formalis ad partem formalem . . .’; explicit: ‘. . . ergo possibile 

est aliquid tempus augmentari vel diminui’. 

refs. SeeThorndike IV 69, 184, 221; Thorndike^Kibre 1653. 

h1 r Albertus de Saxonia: ‘Tractatus proportionum’. Incipit: 

‘[P]roportio communiter accepta est duorum comparatorum in 

aliquo vel tertio termino vniuoco. . .’; explicit: ‘. . . Ex ista conclusione 

diligens inquisitor poterit inferre correlaria de quorum illatione 

supersedeo gratia breuitatis’. 

refs. See Hubertus Lambertus L. Busard, ‘Der ‘‘Tractatus proportionum’’ 

von Albert von Sachsen’, Denkschriften der o« sterreichischen 

Akademie der Wissenschaften, math.-naturwiss. Klasse, 

116/2 (1971), 42^72, and Thorndike^Kibre 139. 

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 28 Nov. 1496. 

Folio. 


GW 5780; HC 4141 (incl. H 587); Go¡ B-1314; BMC XII 31; Pr 5073; 

BSB-Ink B-990; CIBN B-924; Hillard 522; Rhodes 469; Sander 

1471; Sheppard 4222. 

COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Gualtherus Burlaeus, Expositio super artem veterem. Venice: 

[Heirs of?] Octavianus Scotus, 1519; 

3. Franciscus Sylvestri, Quaestiones luculentissimae in octo libros 

physicorum Aristotelis.Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1551; 

4. Franciscus Sylvestri, Quaestiones luculentissimae in tres libros 

de anima Aristotelis.Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1551; 

5. Gratiadei Esculanus, Acutissime questiones de Physico auditu. 

Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 1517; 

6. Antonius Trombeta, Questio profunda de e⁄cientia primi principii 

ad mentem Aristotelis.Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 1513. 

Items 1 and 2 were bound together in 1620, but not demonstrably 

together in 1605; items 3^6 bound together in separate binding in 

1620. 


Library; both boards detached. Size: 315 ¿ 215 ¿ 60 mm. Size of 

leaf: 306 ¿ 209 mm. 

Provenance: Acquired by1605: see James, Catalogus (1605), 293. 

Former Bodleian shelfmark: M 2.11 Art. 

shelfmark: L 1.10(1) Jur.


707 


Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum. 

[a1 r ] ‘Tabula iuxta alphabeti ordinem’. 

r 

[c1 ] Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum. 

Incipit: ‘[D]e moribus et vita philosophorum et poetarum 

veterum tractaturus, multa que ab antiquis auctoribus in 

diuersis libris de ipsorum gestis . . .’ 

refs. Complete edition with supplementary material. See 

Bloom¢eld 1475; Weisheipl, ‘Repertorium Mertonense’, 207, no. 

50; John O. Stigall, ‘The Manuscript Tradition of the De vita et 

moribus philosophorum of Walter Burley’, Medievalia et 

Humanistica, 11 (1957), 44^57, with corrections to the list of incunabula 

noted by Curt F. Bu« hler, Early Books and Manuscripts 

([NewYork], 1973), 266^73, at 266^9; Juarez, La ¢loso¢a del siglo 

xiv, 83^8; J. Prelog, ‘Die Handschriften und Drucke von Walter 

Burleys Liber de uita et moribus philosophorum’, Codices manuscripti, 

9 (1983), 1^18; also M. Grignaschi, ‘Lo pseudo-Walter 

Burley e il Libro de uita et moribus philosophorum’, Medioevo, 16 

(1990), 131^90; Sharpe, LatinWriters, no. 1902. The edition by H. 

Knust (Tu« bingen,1886) is based on the Cologne1479 edition (GW 

5782), the same textual tradition as this edition; see the introductory 

note in GW V 669 for a description of the varying editions. 

[Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1470]. 4 o . 

collation: [a 8 b 6 c^n 8 o 10 ]. 

GW 5781; H 4115; Go¡ B-1315; BMC I 188; Pr 864; CIBN B-925; 

Rhodes 470; Sack, Freiburg, 870; Sheppard 652; Voullie¤ me, 

Ko« ln, 294. 

COPY 

Leaf [e 6 v ] has been left blank, in error. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century parchment over pasteboards. Size: 


Marginal notes and underlining in brown ink in an early hand; on 

[o10 v ], in a ¢fteenth/sixteenth-century hand, the‘Epistola Lentuli’ 

here entitled‘Descriptio dispositionis humane forme domini nostri 

Ihesu Christi’, with incipit: ‘Quidam Lentulus Romanus dum 

esset o⁄cialis in prouincia Iudee tempore Tyberii imperatoris et 

Christum uideret . . .’: see Dobschu« tz, Christusbilder, 308**^ 

330**, especially 319**. 


A ¢ve-line initial ‘D’ is supplied in red and blue on [c1 r ]; other 

initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Capital 

strokes and underlining in red. Irregular manuscript foliation in 

black ink. 

Provenance: Deleted inscription on [o10 v ]: ‘Hic liber pertinet . . .’ 




Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum. 

[a1 v ] Tabula philosophorum. 

r 

[a3 ] Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Liber De vita et moribus philosophorum. 

Incipit: ‘[D]e vita et moribus philosophorum veterum 

tractaturus, multa que ab antiquis auctoribus in diuersis libris de 

ipsorum gestis . . .’ 

refs.Without the life of Justinus, with the life of Persius, and with 

sentences from A to C of Seneca [pseudo-] [Publilius Syrus, 

Mimus]. See Bloom¢eld 1475; Stigall, ‘Manuscript Tradition’, 

44^57; Prelog, ‘Die Handschriften und Drucke’, 1^18; see the 

introductory note in GW V col. 669 for a description of the varying 

editions. 

v 

[l8 ] [Colophon.] 

[m1 r ] [Table of contents.] 

[Cologne]: Arnold Ther Hoernen, 1472. 4 o . 


GW 5783; HC 4122; Go¡ B-1317; Pr 931; BSB-Ink B-992; CIBN 

B-926; Oates 424; Sheppard 723; Voullie¤ me, Ko« ln, 295. 

COPY 

Wanting [a1^2]. 


boards; hinged from upper to lower board, two clasps lost. Aborder 

formed by a repeated small £oral stamp on the upper cover 

and, on the lower, by a repeated small triangular stamp; on the 

upper cover a single ¢llet, on the lower cover triple ¢llets, form 

an inner rectangle subdivided by sets of horizontal double ¢llets 

into twelve compartments, decorated with £oral and bird tools; 

see Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xxvii, nos 411^16, ‘binder 

K’. Size: 230 ¿ 155 ¿ 35 mm. Size of leaf: 212 ¿ 145 mm. 

Pastedowns from a musical manuscript, now removed with no 

record of their present location. 

Manuscript catchwords at the end of each gathering and early 

marginal notes throughout. Copious marginal notes: some early 

notes washed out, most in one sixteenth-century(?) hand. Also 

pointing hands and note marks. 

Provenance: Thomas More (sixteenth century); note on [m10 v ]: 

‘To my biloving friend Mr > Thomas MoreThis be deliuered with 

spead’. John Selden (1584^1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 44. 


shelfmark: 4 o B 1 Art. Seld. 


De vita et moribus philosophorum. 

[a1 v ] [Tabula philosophorum.] 

[a2 r ] Burlaeus, Gualtherus: Liber De vita et moribus philosophorum. 

Incipit: ‘[D]e vita et moribus philosophorum veterum 

tractaturus, multa que ab antiquis autoribus in diuersis libris de 

ipsorum gestis . . .’ 

refs. See B-608. Without the life of Justinus, with the life of 

Petrarcha and Boethius, and with sentences from A to B of 

Seneca [pseudo-] [Publilius Syrus, Mimus]. 

r 

[f4 ] [Verse on Burlaeus.] ‘Walteri Burley anglici in vitas philosophorum 

> Cernitur hic ¢nis laus Christo nescia ¢nis’; 5 hexameters. 

[f4 v ] [Table of contents.] 

[Cologne: Printer of ‘Flores Sancti Augustini’, second half of 

1471.] Folio. As dated by Sack, Freiburg; GW and Sheppard date 

[not after 1473]. 

collation: [a^d 10 e 8 f 10 ]. 

GW 5784; H *4113; Go¡ B-1318; BMC I 234; Pr 1106; CIBN B-927; 

Rhodes 471; Sack, Freiburg, 871; Sheppard 830^1; Voullie¤ me, 

Ko« ln, 296. 

FIRST COPY 

Leaf [a 1] (list of philosophers) as GW, not as BMC. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century calf, for the Bodleian Library. 


The lives numbered in earlybrown ink; earlyadditions to the table 

of philosophers. On back endleaf, an unsigned nineteenth


[b-609^b-610 

century pencil note in English, referring to the copy sold by 

[Thomas] Arthur (Catalogue 34, no. 322), with a rubricator’s 

date of 1473 (see below). 

Initials are supplied in red. Red capital strokes in table of 

contents. 

Provenance: Seemannshausen, Bavaria, Augustinian Hermits, 

S. Maria Magdalena; inscription on [a1 r ] and [a2 r ]: ‘Conuentus 

Seemanshausensis Ord: Erem. S. Augustini’. Duplicate from the 

Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl’on front endleaf. Purchased from 

Munich via Thomas Rodd for Fl. 18, i.e. »1. 16. 0; see Books 



SECOND COPY 

Leaf [a1] (list of philosophers) as GW, not as BMC. 

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns, 

the spine gold-tooled. Size: 280 ¿ 215 ¿ 20 mm. Size of 

leaf: 268 ¿ 200 mm. 

An extract from Catalogue 34, no.322, July1872, ofthebookseller 

Arthur, relating to a copy containing a rubricator’s MS date 

‘1473’; and a note in Bywater’s hand con¢rming the information 

in the bookseller’s catalogue; presumably the copy referred to in 

the pencil note in copy 1 (see above). 

On [a 2 r ] a red pen-work frame is supplied for a seven-line blue initial, 

now very faint, with red pen-work extensions into the gutter; 

other initials are supplied in red over guide letters in brown ink. 

Opening numbered in red ink with roman numerals as running 

heads. 

Provenance: Richard Heber (1773^1833); stamp: ‘Bibliotheca 

Heberiana’ on front endleaf; not found in Catalogue. Ingram 

Bywater (1840^1914); possibly Elenchus, no. 724, but incorrectly 

identi¢ed as H 4114 and corrected by hand to 4113. Bequeathed in 

1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. C 2.24. 


De vita et moribus philosophorum [short edition]. 

r 


[b1 r ] [Tabula philosophorum.] 

[b2 r ] [Burlaeus, Gualtherus]: De vita et moribus philosophorum. 

Incipit:‘[D]e vita et moribus philosophorumveterum tractaturus, 

multa que ab antiquis auctoribus in diuersis libris de ipsorum gestis 

. . .’ 


[Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, not after 1473]. Folio. 



B-993; CIBN B-928; Oates 982; Rhodes 472; Sack, Freiburg, 

872; Sheppard 1424^6. 

FIRST COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Honorius Augustodunensis: De imagine mundi. [Nuremberg: 

Anton Koberger, 1472?] (H-147(1)). 


no. 66, Johann Sulzcpach) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; 

four corner-pieces and the central boss on both covers lost; two 

catches and clasps lost. On the upper cover a single ¢llet forms a 

border; inside the border repeated lion and £eur-de-lis stamps; 

double intersecting ¢llets form an inner rectangle where a 

headed-outline tool makes up merrythoughts, each containing a 

£oral stamp. On the lower cover a single ¢llet forms a border 

within which is a repeated tendril stamp; double ¢llets form an 

inner rectangle divided into triangular and lozenge-shaped compartments 

each with the £oral stamp and the £eur-de-lis stamp; 

see Kyri� pl. 135, nos 1^7. Contemporary manuscript label with 

title, and printed shelfmark label (Tegernsee) on the upper cover. 

Yellow-edged leaves and one parchment index tab. Size: 325 ¿ 


Some early annotations and ‘nota’ marks. 

On [b2 r ] a six-line initial ‘D’ is supplied in magenta with a £oral 

pattern highlighted in white on a gold background; in the area 

de¢ned by the letter is a chequered pattern in two green colours, 

with a foliate and £oral extension extending into the left margin in 

green, blue, magenta, and gold, with gold dots; and a ¢ve-line initial 

is supplied in blue with a £oral pattern highlighted in white on 

a gold background and a chequered in¢ll in magenta and red. 

Other initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph 

marks are supplied in blue or red. Foliation 1^134 through 

both items; folio references in the table of philosophers are supplied 


Provenance: Andreas Hindermair (£.1479^1493); inscription on 

front pastedown: ‘Istum librum comparauit dominus Andreas 

Hindermair capellanus capelle omnium sanctorum Patavie pro i 

aur[o] hung[arico] anno incarnationis 79. et obtulit deo et sancto 

Quirino Regi et martiri patrono nostro in Tegernsee pro salute 

anime sue et usu fratrum ibid. Anno domini etc. 1493. Deus sit 

sibi semper propicius hic et in eternum. Amen.’ Inscription on 

back pastedown: ‘Attinet monasterio Tegernsee liber iste 1493 

obtulit nobis Andreas Hindermayr capellanus in Patauia in altari 

omnium sanctorum’. Tegernsee, Bavaria, Benedictines, S. 

Quirinus; label on the upper cover with printed shelfmark: M 53. 

2 o , and manuscript label on spine. Duplicate from the Royal 

Library, Munich; slightly damaged shelfmark label on spine: 

‘Inc. s.a. 255’; original shelfmark also noted on front pastedown, 

with further note ‘duplum mit . . . 256 b ’. Purchased from Munich 

via Thomas Rodd for Fl. 18, i.e. »1. 10. 0; see Books Purchased 

(1837), 7. 


SECOND COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [k5^8]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind and gold-tooled calf, with 

gilt-edged leaves. Size: 235 ¿ 175 ¿ 20 mm. Size of leaf: 297 ¿ 

158 mm. 

On [b2 r ] a six-line initial ‘D’ is supplied in blue with curling 

acanthus scrolling highlighted in white on a gold background, 

with foliate and £oral extensions into the left margin in green, 

blue, magenta, and gold, with gold dots; and a ¢ve-line initial ‘T’ 

is supplied in red and orange with scrolling highlighted in white 

on a gold background, with an extension into the left margin 

linked to that of the initial ‘D’. Other initials, some with extensions 

into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in blue 

or red. Capital strokes in red. All decoration in a style and in a 

hand similar to that of the ¢rst copy. 

Provenance: Vienna, Franciscans; inscription on [a2 r ]: ‘Ad 

Bibliothecam Viennensem P. P. Franciscanorum’; shelfmark: 

‘XIV.E.7’. Richard Heber (1773^1833); see Catalogue, 9 (1836), 

lot 668. Purchased for »1. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1836), 7. 


THIRD COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a 1] and [k 6^8].


709 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled green half calf over 

marbled pasteboards; marbled pastedowns in yellow speckled in 

black. Size: 350 ¿ 235 ¿ 25 mm. Size of leaf: 297 ¿ 208 mm. 

Occasional early notes. 


red. 

Provenance: Passau, Bavaria, Augustinian Canons of the 

Lateran Congregation, S. Nicolaus, S. Andreas, S. Pantaleon; 

‘Iste liber est Cenobij Sancti Nicolai extra inclitam ciuitatem 

Patauie’. On the front pastedown a cutting from a bookseller’s 

catalogue, annotated in Bywater’s hand, as being ‘Boone, 1869’, 

priced »2. 10. 0. Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Bywater, 

Elenchus, no. 723. Bequeathed in 1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. C 2.23. 

FOURTH COPY 

Fragment. One leaf ([k 1]) only, bound between gatherings a and b 

of Albinus, Disciplinarum Platonis epitome. [Nuremberg: Anton 

Koberger], 24 Nov. 1472 (A-151). BMC copy (IB. 7115; George III 

C.14.b.7/3) is bound with Burlaeus, De vita philosophorum (IB. 

7141): this suggests that there may have been a tendency for these 

works to be bound together in one volume. 

Binding: Modern blue paper boards. Sizeofleaf: 283 ¿ 199 mm. 

Pencil note by G. D. A[mery], dated1914, that the leaf belongs to a 

copy of Burlaeus, De vita philosophorum. 


(1823), 1. 




r 


[b1 r ] [Tabula philosophorum.] 



multa que ab antiquis autoribus in diuersis libris de ipsorum gestis 

. . .’ 


[Nuremberg]: Anton Koberger, 6 May 1477. Folio. 

collation: [a 6 bî 10 k 6 ]. Collation as GW not as BMC. 


B-994; CIBN B-929; Oates 983^4; Rhodes 473; Sheppard1437^8. 

FIRST COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [k5^6]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian 

Library, with scars of index tabs. Size: 290 ¿ 215 ¿ 25 mm. Size 

of leaf: 280 ¿ 192 mm. 

Scribbles in an early hand in red ink on old front endleaf. 

Occasional early annotations. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining and 

capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Landshut, Bavaria, Dominicans, S. Blasius; 

inscription on [k 4 v ]: ‘Est fratrum ordinis predicatorum in 

Lanczhut’. Purchased for »0. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1841),7. 


SECOND COPY 

Formerly bound ‘in an old binding’ with Bodleian Library, MS. 

Add. C.108^10; a manuscript in Latin written on paper in the second 

half of the ¢fteenth century in Germany, containing: 

Testamenta duodecim patriarchum; The History of Joseph and 

Asenath; Richard of Bury, Philobiblon; Johannes Gerson, 

Tractatus de laude scriptorum; letters by various Fathers of the 

Church; Flores sententiarumThome de Aquino. See SC 28940^2. 

Wanting [a1]. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half parchment over red cloth. 


Early marginal notes and ‘nota’ marks. 

On [b2 r ] a six-line initial ‘D’ is supplied in blue, within a red penwork 

border, and with red pen-work in¢ll and extensions into the 

margin. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; 

underlining and capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Edward Lumley (£. 1842^1853). William Henry 

Bliss (1835^1909); purchased by him from Lumley, not later than 

1854; see SC 28940^2; book-plate, with monogram, ‘W. H. B.’, 

surrounded by motto‘Quod severis metes. Qui seminant in lacrymis 

in exultatione metent.’ Purchased from Bliss, 26 June 1868, 

for »1. 10. 0. 

shelfmark: Auct 2Q inf. 2.73. 



[a2 r ] [Tabula.] 

r 

[a6 ] [Tabula philosophorum.] 




. . .’ 


[Nuremberg]: Friedrich Creussner, 30 June 1479. Folio. 




1580^1. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century German black paper boards. Size: 


Extract from Johannes Tortellius, Orthographia: incipit: 

‘[A]ristoteles cum i latino . . .’; see edition Venice: Nicolaus 

Jenson, 1471, leaf [g10 r^v ]. 


marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes in the tables. 

Provenance: Sotheby’s sale, (24 Feb.1834), lot 249. Purchased for 



SECOND COPY 


Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco; 

marbled pastedowns and gilt edges. Size: 290 ¿ 215 ¿ 25 mm. 


Some early marginal notes, with pointing ¢ngers and ‘nota’ 

marks. 

Initials are supplied in red, blue, or red and blue. Paragraph 

marks supplied in red or blue. Capital strokes in red. 

Provenance: Cutting from a catalogue of Henry Cecil Sotheran, 

dated 1869, priced »2. 10. 0. Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); 

Bywater, Elenchus, no. 726. Bequeathed in 1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. C 2.25.


[b-613^b-616 



a2 r [Tabula.] 

r 

a7 [Tabula philosophorum.] 

a8 v [Burlaeus, Gualtherus]: De vita et moribus philosophorum. 



. . .’ 


Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, [1477^83]. 4 o . As dated by 

Sheppard and HPT; Polain dates [c.1477], GW [c.1479^82]. 

collation: a^l 8 m 12 . 


388 = 387; CIBN B-930; Hillard 523; HPT I 59^61, II 436; ILC 

492; Oates 3742; Polain 937; Sheppard 7113. 

COPY 



Some early marginal annotations. 

shelfmark: Auct 2Q 5.19(1). 



b1 r [Xylographic title-page.] 

r 

b2 [Tabula.] 

b6 v [Tabula philosophorum.] 

c1 r [Burlaeus, Gualtherus]: De vita et moribus philosophorum. 


multa que ab antiquis autoribus in diuersis libris de ipsorum gestis 

. . .’ 


[Speier]: J[ohann and] C[onrad] H[ist], [c.1483/4]. 4 o . As dated by 

Sheppard; Engel^Stalla and CIBN date [c.1485], GW [1483]. 

collation: b c 8 d^f 6 g 8 h^k 6 l 8 m 6 o 8 . 

GW 5790; H *4117 = 4119; Go¡ B-1324; Pr 2401; BSB-Ink B-996; 

CIBN B-933; Engel^Stalla col. 1659; Sheppard 1742^4. 

FIRST COPY 



Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes 


Provenance: Probably Georg Franz Burkhard Klo� (1787^1854); 

on front pastedown is a manuscript note by Klo� and a binding 

similar to other books formerly owned by Klo�; not found in 

Klo� sale catalogue. Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795^1854); on 

front pastedown a note signed by P. Toynbee: ‘From Judge 

Talfourd’s library 8/-’. Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855^1932). 

Donated to the Bodleian Library between 1912 and 1923. 


SECOND COPY 



marbled pastedowns and gilt-edged leaves; triple ¢llets form a 

border with a small £oral stamp at each corner. Size: 200 ¿ 


Some faint early notes, possibly washed out. 

Initials supplied and underlining in red; red capital strokes, all in 

gatherings b and c only. 

Provenance: Jean Joseph Rive (1730^1791/2); manuscript note 

on title-page ‘faite et ecrite par l’abbe¤ Rive’. Book-plate removed 

from upper pastedown. Purchased for »2. 2. 0; see Books 



THIRD COPY 


Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled calf. Size: 210 ¿ 140 ¿ 


Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Bywater, Elenchus, 

no. 725. Bequeathed in 1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. L 1.1. 


De vita et moribus philosophorum [revised edition]. 


a2 r Tabula. 

r 

b1 [Burlaeus, Gualtherus]: De vita et moribus philosophorum. 



. . .’ 


[Cologne: Johann Koelho¡, the Elder, c.1485^6]. Folio. As dated 

by CIBN; Sheppard dates [c.1485], GW [c.1486]. 

collation: a^c 8 d 10 e 8 f g 6 h 4 . 

GW 5791; H *4114 = 4116; Go¡ B-1325; BMC I 227; BSB-Ink B-997; 

CIBN B-934; Oates 548; Sack, Freiburg, 874; Sheppard 810; 


COPY 

The text of leaf a 8 r is repeated on a8 v which should be blank. 

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century mottled calf; the spine 

gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns. Size: 250 ¿ 200 ¿ 20 mm. Size 

of leaf: 243 ¿ 190 mm. 

Occasional sixteenth-century notes; frequent nineteenth-century 

notes in pencil. 



Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); possibly Elenchus, 

no. 724, this entry has been corrected by hand to Hain 4113. 


shelfmark: Byw. I 3.1. 


De vita et moribus philosophorum [revised edition]. 

a2 r [Burlaeus, Gualtherus]: De vita et moribus philosophorum. 



. . .’ 


r 

n4 ‘Tabula’. 

[Southern Netherlands? (Antwerp or Louvain?): Printer of the 

‘Mensa philosophica’, c.1487]; 4 o . Polain assigns to the [Printer 

of the ‘Oraison du S. Esprit’]. Both presses have yet to be conclusively 

located: see HPT I 74^5, BMC IX 210^11, and Dennis E. 

Rhodes and Lotte Hellinga, ‘Cornelius de Zyrickzee and his

-616^b-618] burtius, nicolaus 

711 

Practice of Reissuing Incunables from Other Presses’, Quaerendo, 

9 (1975), 143^8. 

collation: aô 8 . 

GW 5792; C 1387; Go¡, Supplement, B-1325a; BMC IX 211; 

Campbell^Kronenberg 388a; CIBN B-935; HPT II 457; ILC 

493; Oates 4015^17; Sheppard 7274. 

COPY 

Wanting the blank leaves a1 and o8. 

Part of signatures of a2^4 erased. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century panelled calf; marbled pastedowns 

and gilt-edged leaves.The gold stamp ofthe arms ofthe Society of 

Writers to the Signet on each cover. Both covers detached. Size: 





Provenance: Louvain, Brabant, Jesuit College; inscription on 

a2 r : ‘Coll. Soctis. Jesu Louanij’. Edinburgh, Signet Library; 

armorial stamp on covers; not found in [J. P. Edmond], 

Catalogue of Early Printed Books in the Library of the Society of 

Writers to His Majesty’s Signet (Edinburgh, 1906). Purchased at 

sale, Catalogue of a Selection from the Signet Library . . . the 

Fourth Portion (London: Sotheby’s, 11 Apr. 1960), lot 1104; see 

‘Notable Accession: Printed Books’, BLR 6,6 (1961), 666. 

shelfmark: Inc. e. N99.2. 


Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum [German] Buch 

von dem Leben und Sitten der heydnischen Maister. 

r 


a1 v [Sorg, Anton(?): Note to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Von leben vnnd 

gu� tten sitten der alten liebhaber der wei�heit der heydnischen 

meister . . .’ 

a2 r 

[Burlaeus, Gualterus]: ‘Leben der natu« rlichen Maister’. 

[Translated by Anton Sorg.] Incipit:‘[T]ales, eyn liebhaber der 

wei�heyt au� Asia, als vns Laercius . . .’ See Rainer Wedler, 

Walter Burleys‘Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum poetarumque 

veterum’ in zwei deutschen Bearbeitungen der Spa« tmittelalters 

(Heidelberg,1969);VL IX 25^8; I. Leipold,‘Untersuchungen zum 

Funktionstyp ‘‘Fru« he deutschsprachige Druckprosa’’: Das 

Verlagsprogram des Augsburger Druckers Anton Sorg’, 

Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fu« r Literatur und Geistesgeschichte, 

48 (1974), 264^90. 

v8 r Sorg, Anton: [Colophon with a note on Sorg as the translator.] 

Incipit: ‘[H]ie endet sich das bu� ch der leben der natu« rlichen maister 

. . .’ 

[*1 r ] [Tabula philosophorum.] ‘Register’. 

Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 16 Jan. or 31 Aug. 1490. 4 o . Colophon 

reads: ‘a¡termontag nach sant Felicen tag’; GW and Sack, 

Freiburg interpret this to be 31 Aug., BMC 16 Jan.; Sack notes 

that the colophon must refer to the feast of SS. Felix and 

Adauctus (30 Aug.), since this was a Monday in 1490, rather than 

the feast of S. Felix‘in pincis’ (14 Jan.), which was on aWednesday. 

collation: a^v 8 [*] 4 . 



COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled pasteboards; 

marbled pastedowns. Rebacked. Size: 190 ¿ 130 ¿ 


Provenance: William Ridler; note in the hand of Bywater: 

‘Ridler, 16 June 1879 -16/-’; invoice of the same date pasted in 

after ¢rst endleaf. Ingram Bywater (1840^1914); Bywater, 

Elenchus, no. 729. Bequeathed in 1914. 

shelfmark: Byw. L 1.4. 

B-618 Burtius, Nicolaus 

Bononia illustrata. 

r 


a1 v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen’. [Dedicatory verse, addressed to] 

Johannes II Bentivolus.‘[S]alue (saepe canam) patriae clarissime 

splendor > Cui deus et coeli sydera cuncta fauent’; 20 elegiac distichs. 

a2 v Burtius, Nicolaus: Bononia illustrata. 

refs. Vitae summorum dignitate et eruditione virorum, II, ed. 

Johannes Gerhardus Meuschenius (Coburg, 1736), 157^87. 

d5 v Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Quisquis ab 

externis uenisti nuper ad horas > Felsineas, qu�so perlege scripta 

libens’; 6 elegiac distichs. 

d5 v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Vaticinium’ [addressed to] Johannes 

Bentivolus. ‘[O] decus excelsum generosa stirpe Ioannes > 

Bentiuolae ac patriae gloria summa tuae’; 39 elegiac distichs. 

d7 r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Congratulatory verse addressed to] 

Hannibal II Bentivolus. ‘Quod tibi iam cecini, doctae cecinere 

sorores > Gratulor, en genius ad tua uota dedit’; 15 elegiac distichs. 

d8 r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to] Antonius Galeacius 

Bentivolus. ‘Qui patriae specimen, studii quoque gloria nostri > 

Antoni Galeaz Bentiuolumque decus’; 12 elegiac distichs. 

v 

e8 Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to] Count Nicolaus 

Rangonus. ‘O sydus patriae tuae refulgens > Rangonum decus 

omniumque foelix’; 21 hendecasyllables. 

r 

e1 Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Epigramma’ [addressed to] Guibertus Pius. 

‘Quas tibi nunc referam grates, dignissime ductor > Dedite militiae 

Martis et arma gerens’; 18 elegiac distichs. 

v 

e1 Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen . . . contra fortunam aduersantem’. 

‘Cur me, saeua, nimis stimulas nunc diua biformis > Conqueror 

infoelix frustraque uerba loquor’; 18 elegiac distichs. 

v 

e2 Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen . . . de nouem musis ¢ctione poetarum 

ex Jouis cerebro natis’. ‘Nempe nouem musas summo 

quae de Ioue natae > Scribere temptabo sub breuitate tamen’; 10 


r 

e3 Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Carmen sapphicum’ [addressed to] Virgin 

Mary.‘O decus caeli nimium relucens > Virgo, cui patres cecinere 

prisci’; 15 sapphic strophes. 

r 

e4 Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to] Virgin Mary.‘O genetrix 

ueneranda Dei, cui nuntius alto > Gabriel angelicum dicere uenit 

Aue’; 10 elegiac distichs. 

v 

e4 Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Sapphicum carmen’ [in praise of] S. Anna. 

‘Anna, quae matrem Domini superni > Ventre et annoso sine labe 

portas’; 5 sapphic strophes. 

r 

e5 Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse in praise of] S. Hieronymus. ‘Si 

numeris quisquam phama laudandus et arte > Inter mortales, carmina 

lector habes’; 14 elegiac distichs.

712 butrio, antonius de 

[b-618^b-620 

e6 r [Colophon, with a summary of the contents of the main work, 

addressed to the reader.] 

Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1494. 4 o . 

collation: a^d 8 e 6 . 

GW 5794 (Anm.); H *4148; Go¡ B-1329; BMC VI 827; Pr 6604; 

BSB-Ink B-1008; CIBN B-936; Oates 2495; Sheppard 5348^9. 

FIRST COPY 

Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled brown paper boards. Size: 


Early marginal annotations in red ink and a few corrections ofthe 

text in early brown ink. On e6 v , notice of birth of Johannes 

Sefurt(?), 15 May 1513. 

Provenance: Franz Anton Veith (1730/31^1796); inscription on 

front pastedown: ‘Ex bibliotheca Veithiana’. Duplicate from the 

Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl’and shelfmark ‘Inc.1083’ in pencil 

on verso of front endleaf,‘1665’ in pencil on verso of back endleaf. 



SECOND COPY 

Bound with: 

2. Pandulphus Collenucius: Pliniana defensio adversus Nicolai 

Leoniceni accusationem. Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, 

[1493] (C-386(1)). 

Binding: Paper boards covered with part of a nineteenth-century 

German transcription of a manuscript legal document on paper 

signed ‘Ad mandatum C�saris et Catholic�: maiestatis proprium’ 

and granted to the family of Melchior Schedel of 

Nuremberg in 1546. Size: 208 ¿ 158 ¿ 21 mm. Size of leaf: 204 ¿ 

150 mm. 

Manuscript foliation: item 1 89^126, item 2 197^248, both in the 

same hand. 

Provenance: Nuremberg, probably from the library of Christoph 

Scheurl (1481^1542); see manuscript note in his hand on c 4 r of 

item 1 and manuscript titles along the lower edge and across the 

fore-edge of both items; see Wagner 78^9. Purchased for »2. 12. 



B-619 Burtius, Nicolaus 

Opusculum musices. 

a2 r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Prefatory letter, in defence of Guido 

d’Arezzo, addressed to poor clerics and members of religious 

orders.] 

refs. Nicolaus Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Giuseppe Massera 

(Florence, 1975), 53^6. 

v 

a3 Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Descriptio libelli’. 

refs. Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Massera, 56^7. 

a4 v Burtius, Nicolaus: Opusculum musices. 

refs. Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Massera, 59^127, 135^80. See 

Nicolaus Burtius, Musices opusculum, trans. Clement A. Miller, 

Musicological Studies and Documents, 37 (Neuhausen and 

Stuttgart, 1983). 

i3 v Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] ‘Dulcia qui 

temptas vocum modulamina scire > Hunc eme qui facili sub breuitate 

docet’; 15 elegiac distichs. 

refs. Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Massera, 180^1. 

Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, for Benedictus Hectoris, 30 Apr. 1487. 4 o . 


Ten woodcuts, four schematic and six of musical notation. 

GW 5796; HC *4145; Go¡ B-1331; BMC VI 807, XII 58; Pr 6565; 

CIBN B-938; Oates 2483; Sander 1472; Sheppard 5313. 

COPY 

Formerly bound in 4 o F 13 Art. with: 

J. Faber Stapulensis, Musica. Paris, 1552; 

Compendium, sive Tractatus, musices.Venice: Johannes Baptista 

Sessa, 21 Nov. 1499 (C-404); 

MS. Bodl. 77; 

Bonaventura de Brixia, Regula musiceplane. [Milan]: n. pr.,1501; 

Hugo de Sancto Caro, Expositio missae, seu Speculum ecclesiae. 

[Rome: Johannes Reinhardi, c.1476] (H-234); removed and 

rebound separately in May 1822; see manuscript note in 4 o F 13 

Art.; but see the unsigned note by David Rogers on verso of front 

endleaf stating that the items were bound separately between1620 

and 1655. 

Binding: Nineteenth-century grey calf with gold ¢llets; bound 

for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both 


Proverbs in an early hand on a 1 r :‘Virtus laudata crescit’ (Walther, 

Proverbia, 33679a), ‘Virtus unita est fortior omnium’, ‘Moderata 

durant’ (Walther, Proverbia, 14994), ‘Nichil crudelius quam 

familiaris inimicus’,‘Nichil crudelius infesta muliere’; also Greek 

translation of the last Latin proverb. 

Provenance: Acquired by1605: see James, Catalogus (1605), 296. 



B-620 Butrio, Antonius de 

Super primo libro Decretalium. 

a2 r Butrio, Antonius de: Super primo libro Decratalium. Incipit: 

‘‘‘[G]regorius’’. Hoc prohemium duobus modis diuiditur principaliter, 

nam secundum aliquos diuiditur . . .’ 

refs. See Schulte II 292^3, who records commentary on all the 

books of Decretals. 

Milan: Leonardus Pachel, 11 Aug. 1488. Folio. 

collation: Part I: a^n 8 o p 6 A^H 8 I 10 ; part II: a^q 8 r 10 | 8 . 

GW 5820; H 4175; Pr 5980; BSB-Ink A-635; Sheppard 5019. 

COPY 

Binding: Contemporary calf over wooden boards with remains 

of two metal catches. Fillets form an outer border, within which 

are a rosette stamp and a lozenge-shaped £oral stamp. 

Intersecting quadruple ¢llets form a further frame, within which 

is a repeated £oral stamp. Quadruple ¢llets form the inner rectangle, 

which is divided by quadruple ¢llets into triangular and 

lozenge-shaped compartments, decorated with a square lion 

stamp and the lozenge-shaped £oral stamp. The gold stamp of 

the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 410 ¿ 295 ¿ 80 mm. 


Occasional early marginal annotations and some underlining in 

black ink. 

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Some running 

headings are supplied in black ink in an early hand. Name of 

author and title on fore-edge in a contemporary hand. 

Provenance: Thomas Rawlinson (1681^1725); ‘C[ollated] & 

P[erfect]’ in his hand; label on spine ‘560’: see Codicum manuscriptorum 

Bibliothec� Rawlinsonianae catalogus cum appendice

-620^b-621] butrio, antonius de 

713 

impressorum, 4 Mar. 1733/4, no. 560. Perhaps acquired from 

Richard Rawlinson (1690^1755). 


B-621 Butrio, Antonius de 

Speculum de confessione, et al. 

a2 r Butrio, Antonius de: [Prefatory letter.] Incipit: ‘[C]ompulsus 

equidem fui, fratres carissimi, precibus quorundam confessorum, 

ut aliquod opusculum de confessione . . .’ 

a 2 r ‘Tabula capitulorum’. 

a3 r Butrio, Antonius de: Speculum de confessione. Incipit:‘[I]n primis 

sacerdos debet interrogare penitentem utrum sciat dicere 

‘Pater noster’, cum ‘Aue Maria’. . .’ 

d4 r [Colophon.] 

e1 r 

[Jacobus de Gruytrode; Jacobus de Clusa; Gerardus de 

Schiedam pseudo-]: Speculum aureum animae peccatricis. 


g1 r Ars moriendi. Incipit: ‘[C]um de presentis exilii miseria mortis 

transitus . . .’ 

refs. See Bloom¢eld 1076. On the authorship see A-440; on the 

two versions see O’Connor, Art of Dying, 7^10. 

h1 r Hugo de Sancto Caro: Speculum ecclesiae. 

refs. Tractatus super missam seu Speculum Ecclesiae, ed. G. 

So« lch (Munich, 1940); see Bloom¢eld 1589; Franz, Messe, 474^5. 

h8 r Hugo de Sancto Caro: Speculum sacerdotum. Incipit:‘Et primo 

ante missam habenda sunt tria, scilicet intentionis discussio, generalis 

contritio et pura confessio . . .’ 

h8 v ‘Versus’. ‘Cum domino psalles psallendo tu tria serues > Dirige 

cor sursum, bene profer, prospice sensum’; hexameters. 


h8 r Petrus, Bishop of Elna: ‘Epigramma’.‘Quisquis ad altaris pergis 

solemnia sacra > Ortor et admoneo quod tibi ferat opem’; 3 elegiac 

distichs. 


i1 r Rodericus Zamorensis: Speculum vitae humanae [addressed to] 

Paulus II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[S]anctissimo ac clementissimo in 

Cristo patri, domino domino Paulo secundo, sacrosancte 

Romane et universalis ecclesie summo pastori . . . [V]erum B. 

pater, ut aptior dulciorque sit circa premissa . . . [S]uper cunctas 

humanas temporalesque dignitates . . .’ 

refs. See Bloom¢eld 5879. See Juan Maria Laboa, Rodrigo 

Sanchez de Are¤ valo, alcaide de sant’Angelo (Madrid, 1973), passim, 

including 279^83 on this work. 

u1 r [Note about the author.] ‘Edidit hoc lingue clarissima norma 

latine > Excelsi ingenii vir Rodoricus opus’; 3 elegiac distichs. 

u1 r ‘De materiis pertractandis in primo libro et de tabula capitulorum 

eius’. 

u3 v ‘Tabula’. 

u5 v [Colophon.] 

r 

x1 Dionysius Carthusiensis: Speculum conversionis peccatorum. 

refs. Dionysius Carthusiensis, Opera omnia, 39 (Tournai, 1912), 

397^420. See Dionysius Carthusiensis, Opera selecta, ed. Kent 

Emery, IA, CCCM 121 (Turnhout, 1991), 244, no. 123. See 

Bloom¢eld 985. 


v 

y7 ‘Tabula articulorum’. 

Louvain: Johannes deWestfalia, [1477^83]. Folio. Dating as HPT. 

collation: a^c 8 d 4 e f 8 g 10 h 8 i^n 8 o 6 p^t 8 u 6 x y 8 . 

GW 5829; C 1397; Go¡ B-1346; BMC IX 150 (Dionysius 

Carthusiensis only); Pr 9256; Campbell 392; CIBN B-950; 

Hillard 533; HPT II 436; ILC 496; Oates 3735; Sheppard 7101. 

COPY 



Wanting gatherings e and f, containing Speculum aureum animae 

peccatricis. 

Early marginal notes, apparently not in the hand of Burton; see 

Kiessling no. 663. 

Occasional one-line initials are supplied in black ink. 

shelfmark: Auct. 1Q 4.12(1).

B-001 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus Silvae morales.

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