tia00399000

Text-inc Id:

tia00399000

Bod-inc Id:

A-174

Headings:

Alexander Magnus Historia de preliis.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Alexander Magnus [pseudo-]: Historia de preliis. See A‑171.
2. k8v [Petrus Alphonsus]: [Disciplina clericalis (excerpt).] ‘De sepultura Alexandri.’ Incipit: ‘[L]egimus alexandri sepulturam esse auream ad quam plurimi philosophi conuenerunt Quorum vnus ait, Alexander ex auro fecit thesaurum . . .’ See A‑171.

Imprint:

[South-east France?: Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW 878)], 16 Nov. 1490. 4°. On this press see H. D. Saffrey, ‘Un nouvel essai de localisation et de datation de l'incunable GW 644', Gb Jb (1964), 98-102. Lőkkös, Genève 174 identifies as [Geneva: Louis Cruse]. BMC VIII 415-16 locates it tentatively at Grenoble.

Collation:

a⁸ b–i⁶ k⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00399000 GW 878; HC 781; Goff A‑399; BMC VIII 416; Pr 7376 = 8821.3, Supplement (1899), 12; Hillard 1020; Oates 3288; Sheppard 6844. LCN: 14289937

Copies:

1. A-174(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century red cloth for the Bodleian Library. Size: 180 × 125 × 14 mm. Size of leaf: 170 × 116 mm. Occasional early marginal notes in the inner margins; notes in the outer margins cropped. Provenance: Old shelfmark ‘1133'. Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog, no. 570, for 12 Marks; see Library Bills, 7 May 1884. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 5.40.