tib00385000

Text-inc Id:

tib00385000

Bod-inc Id:

B-175

Headings:

Bernardus Claravallensis Epistolae.

Analysis of content:

1. a2v [Guilelmus, Abbas Sancti Theoderici: Sancti Bernardi vita prima, liber I, cap. XI:] ‘Miraculum de prima epistola'. See B‑174.
2. a3r Bernardus Claravallensis: Epistolae. See B‑174. 309 letters, here erroneously counted as 310.
3. n4v Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Lectio prima'. See B‑174.
4. n5r Bernardus Claravallensis: [Sermo primus in natali sancti Victoris.] ‘Lectio secunda'. See B‑174.
5. n5v Bernardus Claravallensis: Sermo secundus [in natali sancti Victoris]. ‘Lectio quinta'. See B‑174.
6. n6v [Colophon.]
7. n7r ‘Tabula epistolarum'.

Imprint:

Paris: [Georg Wolf], 30 May 1494. 4°. On the ascription to Wolf 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].

Collation:

a–m⁸ n¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00385000 GW 3925; HC 2874; Goff B‑385; BMC VIII 148; Pr 8299; CIBN B‑261; Hillard 329; Oates 2991; Rhodes 322; Sack, Freiburg, 564; Sheppard 6369. LCN: 14004721

Copies:

1. B-175(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartita. [Paris]: Georg Wolf, [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 n9v and n10^r/v references to various passages in the Epistolae added in a seventeenth-century(?) hand. On a2v a four-line (French?) ‘F' and, on a3r a seven-line (French?) ‘S' are supplied in gold with red and blue infill 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 (fifteenthth/sixteenth century); ‘Joannis Estmondi'; inscription on a1r of item 1, followed by a note in Greek:‘ ἡμω̂ν τὸ πολίτευμα ἐν οὐρανοι̂ς ὑπάρχει ’. Richard Farmer (1735-1797); inscription on front pastedown; not found in his sale catalogue. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 138(2).