til00204000

Text-inc Id:

til00204000

Bod-inc Id:

L-103

Headings:

Lichtenberger, Johannes Prognosticatio.

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1v [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[Q]vamquam solus deus in sua potestate . . .’
3. A2r Ptolomaeus: [Excerpt relating to prognostication.] Incipit: ‘Vir sapiens d[omi]nabitur astris . . .’
4. A2r Aristoteles: [Excerpt said to be from the Meteorologica, relating to prognostication.] Incipit: ‘Entia nolunt male disponi . . .’
5. A2r Sibilla: [Excerpt relating to prognostication.] Incipit: ‘Nos sumus in quos seculorum fines . . .’
6. A2r Birgitta: [Excerpt relating to prognostication.] Incipit: ‘Confide in deum et fac bonitatem . . .’
7. A2r Lulhardus: [Excerpt relating to prognostication.] Incipit: ‘Sis cautus, multis esto familaris . . .’
8. A2v [Woodcut of the five above authorities, the last one named as Renynhardus.]
9. A3r [Lichtenberger, Johannes]: Prognosticatio. Incipit: ‘[Q]vi suum defodit aurum vt libet rebus abutitur . . .’ Johannes Lichtenberger, Pronosticatio in Latino . . . A Reproduction of the First Edition, ed. W. Harry Rylands, The Holbein Society (Manchester, 1890); see VL V 770-6 and Dietrich Kurze, Johannes Lichtenberger. Eine Studie zur Geschichte der Prophetie und Astrologie, Historische Studien, 379 (Lübeck, 1960), 81 no. 1.

Imprint:

[Heidelberg: Printer of the Vocabularius, after 1 Apr. 1488]. Folio. BMC tentatively identifies the printer, designated by Pr the Printer of the Vocabularius, with Johann Zainer, Ulm. Assigned to Heidelberg by Amelung (Frühdruck, I 23-4) and by E. Voulliéme, ‘Zur Bibliographie H. Knoblochtzers in Heidelberg', in Bok-och Bibliotekshistoriska studier tillägnade Isak Collijn, ed. Axel Nelson (Uppsala, 1925), 147.

Collation:

A–E⁶ F⁸. 45 woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00204000 HC *10080; Goff L‑204; BMC II 532; Pr 3264; BSB‑Ink L‑163; GfT 1522; Oates 1166; Schreiber V 4499; Sheppard 2191. LCN: 14502285

Copies:

1. L-103(1) First copy Bound with B‑378(1); see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 287 × 200 mm. A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, and ‘nota' marks in an early hand. SHELFMARK: Douce 215(2).
2. L-103(2) Second copy Bound with a collection of manuscripts; see SC 6732-3, 6854^b, 6872-4. Wanting F7-8. Binding: Seventeenth-century blind-tooled (fillets only) mottled calf, with two metal catches and clasps bearing the arms of Ashmole(?). Rebacked. Size: 277 × 205 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 274 × 194 mm. Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in Thomas C[ ]'s name. Provenance: Thomas Corsaerius(?) (sixteenth century); inscription on A1r: ‘Liber Thomæ Corsæri(?) presbiteri oxonij 4 nummis emptus 26 die marcij Anno domini 1541'. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860. SHELFMARK: Ashm. 391(3).