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til00205000

Text-inc Id:
til00205000
Bod-inc Id:
L-104
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 dominabitur 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 . . .’ See L‑103.
Imprint:
Mainz: [Jacob Meydenbach], 8 June 1492. Folio.
Collation:
A–F6. Types: 155, 92. 36 leaves. 45 lines (D6r). Type area: 207 ×154 mm. (D6r). 43 woodcuts.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00205000 H *10082; Goff L‑205;} Pr 161; BSB‑Ink L‑164; CIBN L‑16; GfT 1118; Schramm XV p. 7; Schreiber V 4500; Sheppard 104. LCN: 14502265
Copies:
  1. L-104(1) Copy Leaf F6r, last line: ‘ . . . Non eſt . . .' (not as H). Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with sprinkled red-edged leaves; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 294 × 212 × 9 mm. Size of leaf: 287 × 203 mm. A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in an early German hand. Provenance: Purchased for £4. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 28. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.25.