tiw00009000

Text-inc Id:

tiw00009000

Bod-inc Id:

S-263A

Headings:

Speculum Speculum Christiani.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Speculum Christiani. Speculum Christiani, ed. G. Holmstedt, EETS, Original Ser. 182 (London, 1933), pp. cxxix–cxxx on this edition, belonging to Group A of the tradition, also pp. cxxiii–cxlviii; see also V. A. Gillespie, ‘The Evolution of the Speculum Christiani’, in Latin and Vernacular: Studies in Late Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, ed. A. J. Minnis (Cambridge, 1989), 39-62, at 57 no. 1. On the authorship of this text, often but mistakenly ascribed to Johannes Watton, and more recently tentatively ascribed to Thomas Garton, see Sharpe, Latin Writers, nos 968 and 1751.
2. [o1r] ‘Exposicio oracionis dominice cum quodam bono notabili et septem capitalia uicia cum aliquibus ramis eorum'. Incipit: ‘[I]n aliquos noueris contra deum . . . sed propter uitam eternam . . .’ See Speculum Christiani, ed. Holmstedt p. cxxx.

Imprint:

London: William de Machlinia, for Henry Frankenberg, [c.1485]. 4°. As dated by BMC; Sheppard dates [c.1486?], CIBN [c.1485-6]; according to P. Needham, watermark evidence suggests that the book cannot have been printed later than 1484; see Gillespie 57 no. 1.

Collation:

[a–l⁸ m⁶ n⁴ o⁸ p q⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iw00009000 HC 14914; Goff W‑9; BMC XI; Pr 9777; CIBN W‑6; Duff 415; Oates 4192; Sheppard 7524; STC 26012. LCN: 14764774, 14764789, 14764833

Copies:

1. S-263A(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [q6]. Leaves [a2-8]; [h1,2]; [n8]; [o1,2] cut out and mounted. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Gilt-edged leaves; pink and green striped silk bookmark. Size: 206 × 141 × 21 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 136 mm. Provenance: Revd Andrew Hughes Matthews (c.1782-1854). John Josias Conybeare (1779-1824). Presented in 1807; inscription in Conybeare's hand on the verso of the front endleaf: ‘Librum hunc . . . in bibliotheca Bodleiana reponi voluerunt A. H. M[atthews] - J. J. C[onybeare]'; see Macray 284; Books Purchased (1807), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.23.
2. S-263A(2) Second copy Fragment. Bound in a scrapbook, with a large collection of other miscellaneous printed fragments, including title-pages, woodcut images and capitals, and printers' devices. Leaf [d2] only. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with marbled paper boards. Size: 322 × 272 × 65 mm. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); provenance assumed from the nature of the collection. Bequeathed in 1834. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce adds. 127. SHELFMARK: Douce adds. 142 (p. 151).
3. S-263A(3) Third copy Fragment. Leaves [d3-4] only. Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon morocco, with maroon cloth over pasteboards; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 216 × 153 × 6 mm. Name of the printer and title of the work on [d3r], in Douce's hand. Three-line initial ‘M' in pencil on [d4r]. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); shelfmark. Bequeathed in 1834. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce Fragm. d.9. SHELFMARK: Douce Fragm. e.6.