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tib00026000
- Text-inc Id:
- tib00026000
- Bod-inc Id:
- B-013
- Headings:
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Balbus, Johannes
Catholicon.
- Analysis of content:
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a2r [Balbus], Johannes: Catholicon. Incipit: ‘[P]rosodia quedam pars grammatice nuncupatur, partes siquidem grammatice sunt quattuor . . .’
- Imprint:
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Venice: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 24 Sept. 1483. Folio.
- Collation:
- a10 b–z8 [et] [con]6 A–T8 U6.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib00026000
GW 3188;
HC *2257;
Goff B‑26;
BMC V 356;
Pr 4785;
BSB‑Ink B‑14; CIBN B‑18; Oates 1884; Sheppard 3931-2.
LCN: 13956323
- Copies:
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B-013(1)
First copy
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century gold-tooled diced russia; marbled pastedowns; triple fillets form a border, within which a roll of cornucopiae, bucrania, lyres, and Aesculapian staffs; rebacked re-using old spine.
Size: 335 × 230 × 58 mm.
Size of leaf: 322 × 208 mm.
On a2r an eighteen-line initial is supplied in blue with pen-work infill and pen-flourishing 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 and underlining.
Provenance: Zutphen, Dominicans.
Johannes de Herler (sixteenth century); ‘Conuentus zutphaniensis De libris fratris Johannis de herler' on a1r.
Wilhelmus Goes (Willem van der Goes, 1611-1686); ‘Sum Wilelmi Goes' on a1r; sale (1687), part II, lot 21, sold for 2.8 guilders [in Bodleian's annotated copy of auction catalogue].
J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1834; inscription on endleaf; sale (1837), lot 169.
Purchased for £0. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.40.
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B-013(2)
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 a2r 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-flourishing in light blue and red. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Ripatransone, Marche, Oratorians; on a2r: ‘Congregationis Oratorii Ripani'.
Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932); book-plate; inscription ‘Rome 1898 21 frs. 50 c.’
Bequeathed in 1932.
SHELFMARK: Toynbee 3653.
