tij00204000

Text-inc Id:

tij00204000

Bod-inc Id:

J-085

Headings:

Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo De claris mulieribus (ed. Albertus de Placentia and Augustinus de Casali Maiori).

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A2r Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo: [Prologue, dedicated to] Beatrix de Aragona, Queen of Hungary. Incipit: ‘[S]cripsimus iam dudum sacratissima Regina latiori(!) volumine de vniuersis Regibus . . .’
3. A4r [Table of contents.]
4. a2r Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo: De claris mulieribus. [Edited by Albertus de Placentia and Augustinus de Casali Maiori.] ‘De Maria virgine perpetua . . . Capitulum primum.’ Incipit: ‘[M]arie beatissime et immaculate semper virginis . . .’ See Achim Krümmel, Das “Supplementum Chronicarum” des Augustinermönches Jacobus Philippus Foresti von Bergamo, Bibliothemata, 6 (Herzberg, 1992), 66-71, 75.

Imprint:

Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 29 Apr. 1497. Folio.

Collation:

A⁴ a–e⁸ f⁶ g–p⁸ q–x^6.8 y z⁶. Three full-page woodcuts (c.285 ×185 mm.), 172 small cuts (c.65 ×70 mm). Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ij00204000 HC (+ Addenda) *2813; Goff J‑204; BMC VI 613; Pr 5762; Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. lxxv, no. 481; BSB‑Ink I‑120; CIBN J‑140; Hillard 1109; Oates 2246-7; Sack, Freiburg, 2006; Sander 915; Sheppard 4792. LCN: 14830783

Copies:

1. J-085(1) Copy Leaf A2r, l. 3: ‘ . . . ɂgestum. | Prologus.’ Binding: Eighteenth-century English gold-tooled mottled calf (c.1789), for Francis Douce; marbled pastedowns and green silk book-mark. Size: 324 × 204 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 316 × 195 mm. Bibliographical notes in Douce's hand. Woodcuts, borders, and initials are painted in gold and several colours. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); sale (1789) lot 7972. Bought for £3. 13. 6 by Francis Douce (1757-1834); see the annotated sale catalogue; armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 287.