tia00524000

Text-inc Id:

tia00524000

Bod-inc Id:

A-213

Headings:

Alphabetum Alphabetum divini amoris.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Prohemium. Incipit: ‘[A]d honorem omnipotentis dei aliquos modos et vias pro eleuatione mentis in deum propono conscribere . . .’
2. [a2r] ‘Tabula.’
3. [a2r] Gerson, Johannes [pseudo-]: Alphabetum divini amoris. Incipit: ‘[A] timore seruili procedit filialis plures . . .’ Authorship ascribed to Johannes Gerson in the colophon of this edition and in BMC. Authorship formerly erroneously ascribed to Nikolaus Kempf; see Dennis Martin, ‘The Writings of Nikolaus Kempf of Strassburg, ca.1437-1468', Die Kartäuser in Österreich, I, Analecta Cartusiana, 83 (Salzburg, 1980), 127-54, at 153.

Imprint:

[Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1466-7]. 4°.

Collation:

[a b¹⁰ c⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00524000 HC *7631; Goff A‑524; BMC I 179; GW 1554; Pr 801; BSB‑Ink A‑432; CIBN A‑273; Gerson, Oeuvres, I 73, no. 19; Oates 282-3; Sack, Freiburg, 126; Sheppard 594; Voulliéme, Köln, 459. LCN: 14424750

Copies:

1. A-213(1) First copy Bound with:
   1. Matthaeus de Cracovia, De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientie. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1470] (M‑153);
   2. Johannes Gerson, Opus tripartitum. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1467] (G‑116);
   3A. Johannes Gerson, De pollutione nocturna. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1467] (G‑122);
   3B. Johannes Gerson, De cognitione castitatis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1467] (G‑095);
   4. Johannes Gerson, De remediis contra pusillanimitatem. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1468-70] (G‑126);
   5. Augustinus, De agone christiano. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1470] (A‑512(2));
   6. Augustinus, De vita christiana. De singularitate clericorum. Cologne: Ulrich Zell, 1467 (A‑607(2));
   8. Augustinus, Homeliae. [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1470] (A‑551(1)). Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian Library; green pastedowns and endleaves; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 219 × 150 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 212 × 144 mm. On [a1r], l. 2: ‘ . . . deum', like GW, but unlike BMC; on [c8v], l. 2 of colophon: ‘ . . . Joh'', like BMC, unlike GW. On [a1r] of item 1, manuscript table of contents in a contemporary hand, probably that of Gerardus K. On [a3v], [a7v], and [b7v] additions have been made in spaces in the text, in black ink in a contemporary hand. On [b4v] part of the text has been erased and corrections made in black ink. The name ‘Johannes Gerson' in the colophon has been deleted and replaced in a sixteenth-century hand by ‘Jo. Gerson hic frequenter citatur'. The gatherings of items 2–3b are signed signed consecutively in early black ink; items 4-8 are signed in red ink, nos 5-8 consecutively. Throughout the volume one-, three-, four-, and six-line initials are supplied in red or blue; some with Cologne-style reserved white decoration. Paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Underlining and initial strokes in red. Rubric titles supplied in red. Provenance: Gerardus K. of Deventer (fifteenth/sixteenth century), pastor in Kalkar: ‘Gerardus K. Dauentriensis Pastor in Calkar': partially deleted inscription. Probably the copy purchased for £10. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1824), 2: ‘Augustinus (S.) De singularitate clericorum. Coloniæ ap. Udalr. Zell. 1467. acc. tractatus varii. Sine loco et anno, sed impressi per eundem typographum. 4to.'; information probably derived from colophon of item 6. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.31(7).
2. A-213(2) Second copy On [a1r], l. 3 '... deuw', as BMC; [c8v], l. 2 of colophon, 'Joh'', also as BMC. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century quarter red leather with marbled paper boards, and with spine gold-tooled with the title of the work. Size: 226 × 149 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 215 × 140 mm. Formerly part of a Sammelband: early foliation numbers in black ink, 95-122. Pointing hand on [a2v], early annotations and 'nota' mark on [a4r], and underlining on [c8v], all in black ink. Throughout, one-, three-, four-, and six-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining and capital strokes in red. Provenance: Campbell Library; 'L 4 Campbell' on front pastedown; undated note, signed by Peter Levi, SJ (1931-2000); according to note, the book was left by him with Dr David Rogers, presumably for identification. Date of deposit unknown, but probably during the middle/late 1950s; found on David Rogers's desk, Feb. 1995. SHELFMARK: Dep. e.601.