tis00678000

Text-inc Id:

tis00678000

Bod-inc Id:

S-277

Headings:

Spiera, Ambrosius Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae.

Analysis of content:

1. [*2r] [Table of contents.]
2. a2r Spiera, Ambrosius: Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae. [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[C]oegistis me o iuuenes haud mediocri charitate uestra ut hoc quadragesimale conficiens . . .’ Besutti–Serra I 182, on this edition 181-3 no. 1.
3. a2r Spiera, Ambrosius: Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae. ‘Feria quarta cinerum'. Incipit: ‘  “[F]aciem tuam laua” Mathaeus 5 [Mt 6,17]. Saluberrimum quidem carissimi iuuenes theologorum princeps . . .’ See Besutti–Serra I 182-3 for a summary of contents; Schneyer, ‘Winke', 234.

Imprint:

Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 18 Dec. 1476. Folio.

Collation:

[*]¹⁰ [†]⁸ a–l¹⁰ m⁸ N⁶ n–z¹⁰ aa–ii¹⁰ kk¹² ll–rr¹⁰ ss¹² ſſ tt–zz [et et]¹⁰ [con con]⁶. Gathering [*] numbered from 2 to 5, gathering [†] from 6 to 9; neither gathering is signed.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00678000 HC *919; Goff S‑678; BMC V 248; Pr 4412; BSB‑Ink S‑522; CIBN S‑367; Oates 1767, 1768; Sheppard 3544.

Copies:

1. S-277(1) Copy Wanting the two preliminary gatherings ([*] and [†]) containing the table, also the blank leaves a1 and [con con5-6]. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf. Red-edged leaves. Size: 311 × 225 × 90 mm. Size of leaf: 300 × 192 mm. Numerous drawings in brown ink illustrate the text, including also elaborate ‘nota' marks and pointing hands, in a contemporary French(?) hand in brown ink. On a2r an initial ‘C' is supplied in gold within a ground half blue and half pink with white pen-work decoration, with foliate and floral extensions in the same colours into the margin. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in red. Provenance: Oxford, University College; book-plate and shelfmark ‘KK.15.12'; ‘List of Rare Books', p. 3. Deposited in 1941 by the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford. SHELFMARK: Univ. Coll. c.14.