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tib00536500

Text-inc Id:
tib00536500
Bod-inc Id:
B-244
Headings:
Biblia Latina
Analysis of content:
  1. [a2r] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. Pref. no. 1.
  2. [a4r] [Gn–II Par.] Preceded by Jerome's preface.
  3. [q2v] [OrMan.]
  4. [q3r] [I–II Esr.] Preceded by Jerome's preface.
  5. [r1v] [III–IV Esr.]
  6. [s6r] [Tb–Est.] Preceded by Jerome's preface.
  7. [t8r] [Iob.] [`Prologus secundus', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 3; preceded by the Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob and followed by Iob.
  8. [v6r] [Ps (G).] [`Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum', supplied by the rubricator.] Preceded by the first of Jerome's prefaces only.
  9. [z1r] [Prv.]
  10. [z8r] [Ecl.] [`Prologus in Ecclesiasten', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 6, followed by Ecl.
  11. [A1r] [Ct–Lam.]
  12. [F8v] [Bar.] [`Prefatio in librum Baruth', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 10; followed by Bar.
  13. [F10v] [Ez–Mal.]
  14. [K8v] Hieronymus: [`Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 31, followed by I–II Mcc.
  15. [N1v] [Mt.] [`Argumentum in euuangelium secundum Matheum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 34; preceded by Jerome's prologue and followed by Mt.
  16. [O6r] [Mc.] [`Prologus in euuangelium secundum Marcum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 36, followed by Mc.
  17. [P3r] Hieronymus: [`Prefatio . . . in euuangelium secundum Lucam', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 37, followed by Lc, where verses 1-4 are called ‘Prohemium'.
  18. [Q5r] [Io.] [`Prologus in euuangelium secundum Iohannem', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 38, followed by Io.
  19. [R3v] [Hieronymus]: [`Prefatio . . . in omnes epistolas sancti Pauli ad Romanos', supplied by the rubricator.]
  20. [R4r] [`Prologus specialis in epistolam ad Romanos', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 39.
  21. [R4v] [Rm–Hbr.] Rm–Hbr, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum' (some entitled ‘prologus' by the rubricator).
  22. [T8r] Hieronymus: [`Prefacio . . . in librum Actuum apostolorum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 42, followed by Act.
  23. [V9v] [Iac–Iud.] [`Prologus in epistolas canonicas', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 44, followed by Iac–Iud, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum'.
  24. [X4v] [Apc.] [`Prologus in Apocalipsim', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 50, followed by Apc.
Imprint:
[Strasbourg: The R‑Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), c.1473]. Folio. As dated by Paul Needham in The Estelle Doheny Collection, I lot 16 (Christie's: 22 Oct. 1987), and Needham, Schøyen, lot 6; the former dating to [not after 1470] was first questioned by Scholderer, Fifty Essays, 153-4; see also Needham, ‘The Text', 55, where he notes that this edition was copied from Mentelin's edition of [not after 1461] (Bod-inc. B‑238).
Collation:
[a–l10 m8 n–v10 x y8 z10 A–L10 M N6 O–X10]. Collation as GW, not as BMC.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00536500 GW 4209; HC *3034; Goff B‑534; BMC I 60; Pr 234; BSB‑Ink B‑414; CIBN B‑371; Hillard 373; Oates 92-3; Sheppard 210. LCN: 13911160
Copies:
  1. B-244(1) Copy Bound in two volumes (Gn–Ps and Prv–Apc), originally bound together. Binding: Eighteenth-century French gold-tooled red calf; by Nicolas-Denis Derome (le jeune), with the binder's ticket dated 1785, in use 1785-9; endleaves watermarked 1782; see Barber, ‘Baroque to Neoclassicism', no. 34: ‘Seven panel spine, corner decoration, flower centres with dotted lozenge'; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 416 × 280 × 53 and 416 × 285 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 400 × 264 mm. Occasional marginal notes, some of them early. Marginal notes in vol. 2 washed out. Manuscript signatures. On [a2r] a ten-line initial is supplied in gold, with pen-flourishing in red and beige extending into the inner margin. Red headings, paragraph marks, and underlining. A later, probably nineteenth-century hand supplied initials in gold on red or blue and added ‘Finis' in gold, surrounded by a floral ornament in blue and gold, on [X10r]. Provenance: Cardinal Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne(?) (1727-1794): possibly the copy described by Laire, Index, 1 (1791), 100, 101. Not in Notitia (1795). Date of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark suggests a date before 1821; certainly in the Library by 1843: see Catalogus (1843), I 254. SHELFMARK: Auct. M 1.12,13.
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