tig00180600

Text-inc Id:

tig00180600

Bod-inc Id:

G-082

Headings:

Gerardus de Zutphania De spiritualibus ascensionibus, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. aa1r [Title-page.]
2. aa2r Gerardus de Zutphania: De spiritualibus ascensionibus. See G‑079.
3. ii3r [David de Augusta]: De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione Lib. II, 1 (De quattuor in quibus incipientes deo servire debent esse cauti). Incipit: ‘[Q]uatuor autem sunt in quibus noui et incipientes . . .’ See G‑079.

Imprint:

[Paris: n. pr., after 1500?]. 8°.

Collation:

aa–hh⁸ ii⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00180600 GW 10695; Goff G‑173; not in Pr; not in Sheppard. LCN: 14877604

Copies:

1. G-082(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Jacobus Philippi, Praecordiale devotorum. [Zwolle: Peter van Os, between 27 Mar. 1483 and 1493] (P‑283A);
   3. Richardus de Sancto Victore, De duodecim patriarchis. [Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1494 (R‑068(2));
   4. Richardus de Sancto Victore, De arca mystica. [Basel: Johann Amerbach], 1494 (R‑067(2));
   5. Johannes de Tongues, Meditatio in psalmum Miserere mei. Paris: [Jean Treperel for] Michel Le Noir, [c.1494] (J‑201). Wanting the title leaf aa1. Binding: Netherlandish calf, c.1525 (Antwerp, Johannes de Wouda), over bevelled wooden boards; two clasps lost. On both covers triple fillets form an outer border; intersecting quadruple fillets form the inner rectangle which has two identical panels: ‘within an upright lozenge the crowned Imperial Eagle, the four corners filled with monsters. Around the legend, interrupted at the angles by a five-petalled flower with a leafy spray, “Johannes + de | Wouda | Antwerpie | me + fecit” . . . the title and some fleurons were gilded on it in the eighteenth century . . .' (Goldschmidt). Parchment index tabs. For this binding see Goldschmidt I 217-18, no. 119, and Foot, ‘Monasteries and Dragons', 200. Size: 153 × 111 × 50 mm. Size of leaf: 145 × 101 mm. Signatures (mostly cropped) supplied in black ink in a sixteenth-century hand, in all items in the volume, even where signed by the printer. Initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks supplied in red; capital strokes in red. Provenance: Le comte de Nédonchel, perhaps Georges Alexandre F. (fl. c.1867?); armorial book-plate. Hector Marie A. de Backer (1843-1925); book-plate. Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954); initials ‘E. P. G.' and no. ‘119' in green ink on the front pastedown. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); purchased from Goldschmidt in 1933, for £25; accession no. ‘1514'. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman. SHELFMARK: Broxb. 24.6(1).