tid00159200

Text-inc Id:

tid00159200

Bod-inc Id:

D-044

Headings:

Dialogus Creaturarum Moralisatus

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] ‘Prefatio in librum qui dicitur dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus'. Die beiden ältesten lateinischen Fabelbücher des Mittelalters, ed. J. G. Th. Grässe, Bibliothek des litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart, 148 (Tübingen, 1880), 127-8.
2. [a2v] ‘Prima tabula insinuans naturas et efficacias singularum creaturarum secundum modum persuasiuum'. Die beiden ältesten lateinischen Fabelbücher des Mittelalters, ed. Grässe, 129-30.
3. [a3v] ‘Secunda tabula huius libri demonstrans in ordine alphabetico singulas materias circa quas quilibet dialogorum versatur'. Die beiden ältesten lateinischen Fabelbücher des Mittelalters, ed. Grässe, 131-7.
4. [a7v] [Nicolaus Pergamenus?; Mayno de Mayneriis/Magninus Mediolanensis?]: Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus. Die beiden ältesten lateinischen Fabelbücher des Mittelalters, ed. Grässe, 138-280. Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris, BnF MS. lat. 8512; see Die beiden ältesten lateinischen Fabelbücher des Mittelalters, ed. Grässe, 303, and to the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis on the basis of a manuscript at Cremona, supported by local references in the text; see Pio Rajna, ‘Intorno al cosiddetto Dialogus creaturarum ed al suo autore', Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, 10 (1887), 75-113. See Hans Walther, Das Streitgedicht in der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, Quellen und Untersuchungen zur lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, 5/2 (Munich, 1920), 15-16.

Imprint:

Cologne: Conrad Winters, de Homborch, 24 Oct. 1481. Folio.

Collation:

[a–h⁸.]

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: id00159200 HC 6126; Goff N‑153; BMC I 249; Pr 1169; Rhodes 1239; Sheppard 904; Voulliéme, Köln, 845. LCN: 14817221

Copies:

1. D-044(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century crimson morocco, partly faded. Size: 298 × 215 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 289 × 204 mm. A few early marginal annotations, mainly nota marks. On [h7v] an elegiac distich added in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Fabula seu falsa(?) est, abscondit mystica multa | Que pascunt animas efficiuntque bonas'. On [h8r]: ‘Amen. Benedicamus domino in omni tempore' and ‘Omnia dat dominus, non habet ergo minus' added in an early hand. Principal initials are supplied in red with reserved white decoration, in the style of Cologne; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining. Provenance: Purchased for £4. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1854), 18. SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 3.41.