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tia00452375

Text-inc Id:
tia00452375
Bod-inc Id:
A-199
Headings:
Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale cum commento ex Aurea Grammatica.
Analysis of content:
  1. [a2r] [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘Incipit aurea gramatica puerorum dictis fulcita fere omnium maiorum et presertim Pristiani et Nicolai Perotti . . .’
  2. [a2r] ‘Prefatio.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um secundum Ysidorum libro i capitula iiii ethimologiarum Grammatica sit scientia recte loquendi, origo fundamentum que liberalium artium. Ideo pueri per ipsam primo sunt instruendi . . .’
  3. [a2r] De partibus gramatice.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]vot sunt partes gramatice. Quatuor que litera sillaba . . .’
  4. [b1r] [Commentary on Doctrinale.] Incipit: ‘[S]cribere clericulis etc. Unde? Anno milleno ducenteno et duodeno doctor Alexander fortis egregius autor Doctrinale suum dedit in commune legendum . . .’ Doctrinale (ed. Reichling) CCCIV ascribes to Priscianus and Nicolaus Perottus.
  5. [b2r] Alexander [de Villa Dei: Doctrinale (Partes I–II).] Doctrinale (ed. Reichling), 1-1549, with marginal notes.
Imprint:
[Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, c.1485-90]. Folio. Reichling dates to [c.1480].
Collation:
[a–m8 n o6 p q8]. Types: 165 (Pr 2) in use 1477, 1482-93, and 110 (Pr 1) state after 1477; see BMC II 446 and pl. XLI. 122 leaves, [a1] and [q8] blank. Variable number of lines, with text c.18 lines, commentary c.38 lines to the page. Type area of commentary: 218 ×128 mm ([f4v]). Watermark: ‘Lamb and flag' in centre of [q8].
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00452375 H *7859; Pr 2174; BSB‑Ink A‑272; Doctrinale (ed. Reichling), 13; Sheppard 1591. LCN: 14294005
Copies:
  1. A-199(1) Copy Wanting [o6] and [p7]. [o2-3] are mounted. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library. Size: 308 × 223 × 33 mm. Size of leaf: 300 × 207 mm. Early manuscript notes in black ink. Provenance: Fribourg, Switzerland, Franciscans. Étienne Gabriel Peignot (1767-1849); sale (1852), lot 1155. Purchased at the Peignot sale for £1. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1852), 38 (‘Grammatica aurea'). SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.69.