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til00358000

Text-inc Id:
til00358000
Bod-inc Id:
L-190
Headings:
Ludolphus de Saxonia Vita Christi [French] Le Grant Vita Christi.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.]
  2. a1v [Woodcut] ‘Christe fili dei viui miserere nobis'.
  3. a2r Lemenand, Guillaume: [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[I]hesus filz de dieu le vif . . .’
  4. a3r Ludolphus de Saxonia: Vita Christi [French] Le Grant Vita Christi. Translated by Guillaume Lemenand. Incipit: ‘[L]apostre saint Paul dit que a nul edifice . . .’ See VL V 967-77; Gruys 127-8.
  5. q5r [Table of contents, part one of I.]
  6. q5r ‘La table selon l'ordre des dymanches et festes'.
  7. q4r ‘Les euangiles des festes sollempnes'.
  8. qq8v [Table of contents, part two of II.]
  9. qq9r ‘La table des euangiles selon l'ordre des dimenches et feries'.
  10. qq9v ‘La table des festes sollempnes'.
  11. qq10r [Register.] ‘Sensuyt le registre sur le grant vita Christi en francoys'.
Imprint:
Lyons: Mathias Huss, 1 Mar. 1493/4. Folio. In two parts. Part I, fol. 1r: Title: ‘LE grant vita chri | ſti en francoys.' 1v: ‘Chriſte fili dei viui miſerere nobis | [cut, Crucifixion.]’
Collation:
a–p8 q6 aa–pp8 qq10. Types: 220 G [Haebler 20], 140 G, 95 GB. Capital spaces with guide-letters. 256 leaves. 54 lines in 2 columns (a2v). Type area: 254 ×165 mm. Woodcuts; woodcut initial (calligraphic L) on a1r; see Claudin, III 317. Printer's device on qq9v; see Polain, Marques, no. 48.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00358000 HCR 10299; Goff L‑358; Pr 8568; CIBN L‑275; Claudin III 297-300 and tables 98-9; Sheppard 6613-14. LCN: 14502626
Copies:
  1. L-190(1) Copy Wanting part II, or parts III and IV according to the translator's division of the text. Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) old calf, with red edged leaves. Size: 312 × 245 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 229 mm. Early manuscript note: ‘claude' in brown ink at the end of the prayer on q4v. On the endleaf, manuscript bibliographical notes in Douce's hand. Provenance: Michiel Damongeot (fl. 1561); inscription on q6v: ‘Michiel Damongeot fr de feu bastien damongeot de montmyre le Chastel mil cinq cens soisante et vng.' Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 261.