tib00336000

Text-inc Id:

tib00336000

Bod-inc Id:

B-155

Headings:

Berchorius, Petrus Liber Bibliae moralis.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Berchorius, Petrus]: Liber Bibliae moralis. [Also known as Reductorium morale, lib. XVI.] Incipit: ‘[C]um iam per opacam nature siluam flores proprietatum lecturus percurrerim . . .’ See Stegmüller, 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-Hélène Tesnière, ‘Le Reductorium morale de Pierre Bersuire', in L'enciclopedismo medievale, ed. Michelangelo Picone (Ravenna, 1994), 229-49, at 247-9.

Imprint:

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 9 Apr. 1474. Folio.

Collation:

[a–f¹⁰ g⁸ h⁸⁺¹ i¹⁰⁺¹ k–p¹⁰ q r⁸ s–z¹⁰ A–C¹⁰ D¹²]. Woodcut half-border on [a1r]; woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00336000 GW 3862; H *2794; Goff B‑336; BMC II 522; Pr 2502; BSB‑Ink B‑291; CIBN B‑235; Sack, Freiburg, 547; Sheppard 1793; Wegener, Zainer, 36. LCN: 14454969

Copies:

1. B-155(1) Copy On [D12r] partly inked bearer type. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian Library. Size: 415 × 302 × 48 mm. Size of leaf: 397 × 273 mm. A few sixteenth-century marginal notes. Provenance: Purchased for £0. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 10. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 1.22.