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tia00562800

Text-inc Id:
tia00562800
Bod-inc Id:
A-237A
Headings:
Ambrosius de Woestine Tractatus metricus iuris canonici.
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.]
  2. a2r Ambrosius de Woestine: ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘Quia nonnulli me increpuerunt sine culpa . . .’
  3. a2v Ambrosius de Woestine: ‘Superscriptio siue tergalis titulus' [addressed to] Johannes Marc. Incipit: ‘Ad magistrum Johannem Marc virum prudentem in decretis licentiatum . . .’
  4. a2v [Commentary on ‘Superscriptio'.] Incipit: ‘Ex ista superscriptio siue tergali titulo considerandum est . . .’
  5. b3v Ambrosius de Woestine: ‘Epistola tractatulum precedens.’ Incipit: ‘Sinceram cordis eximo salutem non minus scolastica . . .’ The letter is dated at St Martin, Tours, 22 Dec. 1498.
  6. b5r [Commentary on letter.] Incipit: ‘Hic nota. Quod per epistolam amici denotatur presentia . . .’
  7. c1r Ambrosius de Woestine: Tractatus metricus iuris canonici. Incipit: ‘A Ioue principium muse Iouis omnia . . .’
  8. c1v [Commentary on text.] Incipit: ‘Hic auctor dicit quod principium muse superest a Ioue . . .’ The text alternates with commentary.
Imprint:
Paris: Nicole de la Barre, for himself, Jean Nicolas, and Jean Richard, 10 Apr. 1500/1. 8°.
Collation:
a–m8. Types: 76 G, text, heading, title; 54 G, commentary. 96 leaves. 37 lines, plus headline (a2r). Type area: 99 (103) ×65 mm (a2r).
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00562800 Not in Pr; CIBN W‑36; Raffaele Fiorillo, Incunabuli delle Biblioteche di Puglia (Naples, 1942), p. 51 and pl. VIII [title-page with printer's device]; Pellechet 603 = MS. 11841; Polain 4135; not in Sheppard.
Copies:
  1. A-237A(1) Copy Wanting l8 and gathering m. Variant: without the device on a1r (device recorded by Pellechet and Polain, and illustrated by Fiorillo); on a2v, l. 20: ‘ . . . ſctī . . .', not as Pellechet. Binding: Twentieth-century quarter brown cloth with pasteboards. Size: 142 × 100 × 18 mm. Size of leaf: 134 × 94 mm. Several sheets of paper containing notes by Lawn. Provenance: Frank Norman (fl. 1934-1937). Dr Brian Lawn (1905-2001); purchased from Norman in 1937 (Lawn catalogue, p. 2); book-plate; catalogue, pp. 2-3, 167. Bequeathed in 2001. SHELFMARK: Lawn f.2.