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tib00128000
- Text-inc Id:
- tib00128000
- Bod-inc Id:
- B-058
- Headings:
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Barlaam et Josaphat [German]
- Analysis of content:
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[a2r] ‘Vorred'. Incipit: ‘[H]ie vahet an eÿn gar loeblich vnd heÿlsam allen christgelaubigen cronica . . .’
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[a2v] Barlaam et Josaphat [German]. Incipit: ‘[E]s schreibet der hoch lerer vnd Meÿster der histori Damascenus in seinem bůch der geschicht . . .’ 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.
- Imprint:
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[Augsburg: Anton Sorg, c.1480]. Folio.
As dated by Sheppard; GW dates [c.1476].
- Collation:
- [a10+1 b–h10 i k8]. Woodcut initials. 64 woodcuts.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ib00128000
GW 3399;
HC 5916;
Goff B‑128;
BMC II 348;
Pr 1679;
Schreiber V 4347; Sheppard 1243.
LCN: 14484859
- Copies:
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B-058(1)
Copy
Leaf [a1] is blank with the same watermark (a bell) as [a2]. After [a9] a leaf has been cut out.
Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards.
Size: 284 × 202 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 276 × 190 mm.
Woodcut initials are coloured in red. Red capital strokes.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate.
Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 184.
