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tia00400000

Text-inc Id:
tia00400000
Bod-inc Id:
A-175
Headings:
Alexander Magnus Historia de preliis.
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r Alexander Magnus [pseudo-]: Historia de preliis. See A‑171.
  2. f5v [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:
Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 26 May 1494. Folio.
Collation:
a8 b–f6. Leaf a1 is unsigned, a2 is signed a, and a3 and a4 are signed a2 and a3 respectively.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00400000 GW 879; H *783; Goff A‑400; BMC I 144; Pr 628; Hillard 1021; Sack, Freiburg, 108; Sheppard 489-90. LCN: 14289972, 14290012
Copies:
  1. A-175(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaf f6. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß. Size: 287 × 204 × 11 mm. Size of leaf: 279 × 194 mm. A few early marginal notes. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); not found in sale catalogue 1835. Purchased for £2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.42.
  2. A-175(2) Second copy Wanting the blank leaf f6. Inverted m on a1r, line 2: mace | donie. Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper wrappers. Size: 291 × 198 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 291 × 192 mm. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining of headings and capital strokes in red. Provenance: Purchased for £1. 17. 6; see Books Purchased (1858), 3. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 6Q 3.51. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sub fen. 2.21.