tia00421850

Text-inc Id:

tia00421850

Bod-inc Id:

A-179

Headings:

Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Alexander de Villa Dei]: Doctrinale (Partes I–IV). Doctrinale (ed. Reichling), 1-1549.
2. g9v Grapaldus, Franciscus Marius: [Sale advertisement in verse.] Incipit: ‘Artis grammatices canones qui noscere cupis | Doctrinam hanc imo pectore conde puer'; 2 elegiac distichs. Printed in Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae, IV (London, 1745), 525 no. 10199. ‘G F M Parmen' is printed above the verse, presumably a reference to Franciscus Marius Grapaldus, of Parma.
3. g9v [A day in the life of a school pupil]. Incipit: ‘Quoniam paruulis pueris incipientibus erudiri . . . Ante lucem euigilaui de somno . . .’

Imprint:

Parma: Angelus Ugoletus, 29 Nov. 1486. 4° GW describes the format as octavo, but the book has the appearance of a quarto, and, in the absence of a paper copy, the format cannot be determined.

Collation:

a–f⁸ g¹⁰. Collation as Sheppard, not GW (a–g¹⁰?).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00421850 GW 961; C 271; Pr 6863; Doctrinale (ed. Reichling), 31; Sheppard 5675-6. LCN: 14291074

Copies:

1. A-179(1) Copy Printed on parchment. Binding: English eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; outer frame of three fillets, inside which is a floral centre-piece, which includes tool 4 (see below); border consisting of floral roll, with coronets; turn-ins and edges decorated with ‘Chapman roll 3' (see below); marbled pastedowns. ‘Harleian style' binding (Cotton 341), possibly the work of Christopher Chapman; see Nixon, ‘Harleian Bindings', 175-82 and pl. 14, Chapman roll 3 and pl. 15, tools 1a, 1b, 4, 9, and 12. The gold stamp of Bodleian Library inside the lower cover. Size: 197 × 150 × 23 mm. Size of leaf: 190 × 140 mm. Occasional pen-trials. Two-line initials are supplied in red; a four-line green ‘S' is supplied on a1r. Provenance: Nathaniel Noel; purchased on 3 June 1723 for Edward, Lord Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689-1741); see Humfrey Wanley, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London, 1966), II 245, no. 11; bought by Thomas Osborne; see Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae, IV no. 10199. Michael Maittaire (1668-1747); sale (1748), lot 151. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); purchased by him at the Maittaire sale; inscribed book-plate. Presumably acquired from R. Rawlinson. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 3.6. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.6.