tih00073900

Text-inc Id:

tih00073900

Bod-inc Id:

H-045

Headings:

Hermannus Torrentinus Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel Vocabularius poeticus continens fabulas, historias, provincias, urbes, insulas, fluvios et montes illustres etc.’
2. a1v [Hermannus Torrentinus]: Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus. [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[C]um permulta quottidie in lucem prodeant elegantia carmina indoctissimis ingeniis elucubrata . . .’
3. a2r [Hermannus Torrentinus]: Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus. Incipit: ‘[A]bas rex .xii. Argiuorum, pater Proeti et Acrisii et auus Persei . . .’
4. k4r [Colophon.]

Imprint:

Deventer: Richard Pafraet, 1498. 4°.

Collation:

a–h^8.4 i⁶ k⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00073900 HC 11644; Pr 9018; Campbell 677; CIBN T‑288; HPT I 108-11; ILC 1171; Oates 3513; Sheppard 6951. LCN: 14718395

Copies:

1. H-045(1) Copy Binding: Paper boards. Size: 193 × 137 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 193 × 137 mm. Early marginal annotations in Greek and Latin, providing the Greek form of some words and a few supplementary entries. On k4v inscriptions in a seventeenth-century German hand: ‘Panegyris Coenobii Lisbornensis aucthore fratri Petro Coloniensi', followed by 4 hexameters, incipit: ‘Lisborn eximias referunt tibi prata virenti | te providens nitidis lucentia gramina dorsis . . .'; ‘ ἀνέχου καὶ ἀπέξου , sustine et abstine, Leidt und Meidt | . . .'; the same Greek motto also occurs in H‑124; and a Sapphic strophe, with the heading, ‘Venit post multas una serena dies', with incipit: ‘Dum tibi vernat humilis aetas . . .’ On a2r a five-line initial is supplied in red, with reserved white decoration. Other initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes are supplied in red. Provenance: Possibly Liesborn, Westphalia, Benedictines, SS. Cosmas, Damianus, et Simeon; see the verse quoted above. Date of acquisition unknown; the shelfmark may indicate a date of 1886, but no matching entry has been found in the bills for 1886. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 7.35.