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tih00073930

Text-inc Id:
tih00073930
Bod-inc Id:
H-046
Headings:
Hermannus Torrentinus Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus.
Analysis of content:
  1. A1r [Title-page.] ‘Vocabularius poeticus siue Elucidarius carminum et historiarum 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 quotidie in lucem prodeant elegantia carmina indoctissimis ingenijs elucubrata . . .’
  3. A2r [Hermannus Torrentinus]: Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus. Incipit: ‘[A]bas rex .xii. Argiuorum, pater Preti et Acrisij et auus Persei . . .’
  4. G3v [Colophon.]
Imprint:
Cologne: [Cornelis de Zierikzee, not after 1503]. 4°. CIBN, Sack, Sheppard, and Voulliéme date [c.1500]. Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-speaking Countries . . . in the British Museum (London, 1962), 900 dates [c.1505], but the copy at Edinburgh, NLS Inc.47.5 has the manuscript date 1503; see Michael A. Pegg, ‘Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966', Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 3e Folge, 3 (1967), 19.
Collation:
A–D8.4 E F6 G4. Woodcut.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00073930 C 6375; Goff H‑75; Pr 1512; CIBN T‑289; Sack, Freiburg, 1796a; Schramm VIII 27; Schreiber V 5371; Sheppard 1107; Voulliéme, Köln, 1188. LCN: 14718301
Copies:
  1. H-046(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf G4. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 208 × 139 × 9 mm. Size of leaf: 198 × 132 mm. In the upper margin of A1r ‘2'in an early hand. Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, no. 20. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix. SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.64.