tib00528000

Text-inc Id:

tib00528000

Bod-inc Id:

B-238

Headings:

Biblia Latina

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. [`Epistola sancti Iheronimi prespiteri ad Paulinum episcopum de omnibus diuine hystorie libris', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 1.
2. [a3v] [Gn–II Par.] Preceded by Jerome's preface.
3. [n8v] [OrMan.]
4. [n9r] [I–II Esr.] Preceded by Jerome's preface. II Esr entitled ‘Liber Neemie'.
5. [o5v] [III–IV Esr.] Esr III is here entitled Esr II and Esr IV Esr III.
6. [p8r] [Tb–Est.] Preceded by Jerome's preface.
7. [q8r] [Iob.] [`Prologus', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 3; preceded by the Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob and followed by Iob.
8. [r5r] [Ps (G).] [`Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum prophete Dauid de Christo', supplied by the rubricator.] Preceded by the first of Jerome's prefaces only.
9. [t1r] [Prv.]
10. [t8r] [Ecl.] [`Prologus in libro Ecclesiastes', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 6, followed by Ecl.
11. [t11r] [Ct–Lam.]
12. [A8v] [Bar.] [`Prologus in Baruch', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 10, followed by Bar.
13. [A10v] [Ez–Mal.]
14. [E1r] Hieronymus: [`Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 31, followed by I–II Mcc.
15. [F7v] [Mt.] [`Prologus super Matheum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 34; preceded by Jerome's prologue and followed by Mt.
16. [G6v] [Mc.] [`Prologus . . . in Marcum ewangelistam', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 36, followed by Mc.
17. [H1v] Hieronymus: [`Prologus super Lucam', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 37, followed by Lc, where verses 1-4 are called ‘Prohemium'.
18. [I1r] [Io.] [`Prologus super Iohannem', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 38, followed by Io.
19. [I10r] Hieronymus: [`Prologus in epistolas Pauli apostoli', supplied by the rubricator.]
20. [I10v] [`Alius prologus', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 39.
21. [I11r] [Rm–Hbr.] Rm–Hbr, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum' (referred to as ‘prologus' by the rubricator throughout).
22. [L10v] Hieronymus: [`Prologus . . . in Actus apostolorum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 42, followed by Act.
23. [M9v] [Iac–Iud.] [`Prologus . . . super epistolas canonicas', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 44, followed by Iac–Iud, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum' (referred to as ‘prologus' by the rubricator throughout).
24. [N2v] [Apc.] [`Prologus in libro Apocalipsis', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 50, followed by Apc.

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1461]. Folio. At the end of vol. 2, the copy in Freiburg im Breisgau UB has the date of rubrication 1461, at the end of vol. 1, 1460; according to Paul Needham, ‘The Text', 55, ‘its textual state shows that it was copied from a Gutenberg Bible all of whose relevant quires were of the 1st setting'.

Collation:

[a–i¹² k¹⁰ l–r¹² s¹²⁺¹ t–z A–M¹² N⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00528000 GW 4203; HC *3033; Goff B‑528; BMC I 51; Pr 196; CIBN B‑363; Oates 68, 69; Rhodes 344; Sack, Freiburg, 610; Schorbach, Mentelin, 1; Sheppard 126. LCN: 14003332

Copies:

1. B-238(1) Copy Slipped type on [a12r]. Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco. Size: 405 × 295 × 120 mm. Size of leaf: 382 × 268 mm. At the beginning of each book, a short summary has been added in a fifteenth-century hand. At the beginning of the volume, a title-page has been added in an eighteenth-century German hand; the verso bears a 22-line description of the book in a cursive and roman hand within a frame with a small medallion, depicting the cross in a landscape. On [C6r] contemporary handwritten guide-letters and correction marks. Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue with pen-flourishing in red; other initials are supplied in red or blue; headings, chapter numbers and paragraph marks supplied in red; red capital strokes. Provenance: George and William Nicol; their auction (London, Evans, 18 July 1825), lot 224. Purchased by Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851) for £189. Thorpe, Catalogue (1826), no. 31 offered at £220; then again offered at auction (London, Evans, 28 April 1826), lot 296 (ex informatione Paul Needham). Purchased for £94. 10. 0, see Macray 285 and Books Purchased (1826), 3. SHELFMARK: Auct. M 3.6.