tii00182000

Text-inc Id:

tii00182000

Bod-inc Id:

I-036

Headings:

Isidorus Hispalensis Etymologiae.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Isidorus Hispalensis: [Letter addressed to] Braulio, Bishop of Zaragoza. Isid. Orig. (ep. I).
2. [a2r] Braulio: [Letter addressed to] Isidorus Hispalensis. Isid. Orig. (ep. II).
3. [a2r] Isidorus Hispalensis: [Letter addressed to] Braulio. Isid. Orig. (ep. III).
4. [a2r] Braulio: [Letter addressed to] Isidorus Hispalensis. Isid. Orig. (ep. IV).
5. [a3r] Isidorus Hispalensis: [Letter addressed to] Braulio. Isid. Orig. (ep. V).
6. [a3r] Isidorus Hispalensis: [Letter addressed to] Braulio. Isid. Orig. (ep. VI).
7. [a3r] ‘Tabula generalis'.
8. [a3v] Isidorus Hispalensis: Etymologiae. [Also known as Origines.] Isid. Orig. See CPL 1186, and Thorndike–Kibre 435.

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, c.1473]. Folio.

Collation:

[a–n¹⁰ o¹²]. Woodcut map and diagrams: see Schramm.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ii00182000 HC *9270; Goff I‑182; BMC I 57; Pr 227; BSB‑Ink I‑628; Campbell, Maps, 78; CIBN I‑68; Hillard 1095; Oates 89; Osler, IM 27; Sack, Freiburg, 2169; Schramm XIX p. 13 and pls 1-7; Schreiber V 4267; Sheppard 159-60. Microfiche: Unit 3: Image of the World: Geography and Cosmography. LCN: 14437326

Copies:

1. I-036(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaf [a1]. Binding: Half calf; marbled paper boards. Size: 370 × 263 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 360 × 250 mm. Greek words supplied in manuscript; some small diagrams in red ink. Occasional underlining in the text in black ink, also pointing hands in red. Inscription on [l2v] in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand in Italian: ‘Quando all'apparir dell'alba rossegiando spuntano quasi messaggieri del sole la in oriente i raggi di lui se per caso avviene che quel chiaro lume dello sfavillante in(?) globo', followed by a name written in the same hand: ‘Signor mio oss. il signor Ant.(?) Bartolomei mio amatissimo . . .’ On [l5v] an eight-line German initial ‘D' is supplied in gold, on a green ground with foliate decoration in black, and with foliate extensions into the margin in green, culminating in a red and a white rose, and with a small brown monkey sitting on one of the arms of the ‘D' and holding onto the other one with its paw; other principal five- to twelve-line German initials are supplied in green, blue, gold (some with punch-dotting), maroon, purple, orange-red, or brown, decorated with acanthus scrolling on a ground consisting of a combination of colours, including maroon, gold, some with punch-dotting, red, green, blue, and purple, and often decorated with pen-work in yellow or white, and with foliate and floral extensions into the margins in blue, green, red, pink, yellow, and gold dots. Other one- to three-line initials are supplied in red or blue; some diagrams are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining (in gatherings [a] to [e] only) in red. Provenance: Vienna, Franciscans; inscription on [a2r]: ‘Ad Bibliothecam Viennensem PP Franciscanorum II [III] A N [30] 50'. Eighteenth-century(?) Italian owner; note on [l2v]. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 272.
2. I-036(2) Second copy Bound with B‑392(3); see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 408 × 270 mm. Wanting the blank leaf [a1]. The words printed in red on [c9r] in the first copy are omitted in this one. Some early marginal notes, including some extraction of key words, especially in book 16, with all the annotations being in a single humanist hand. Principal five- to twelve-line initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue, the bodies of the letters decorated with pen-work in red and blue, and with pen-work extensions into the margins in red, blue and purple/grey; other one- to three-line initials, paragraph marks, and running book numbers are supplied in red; underlining in red; capitals and some of the woodcut diagrams touched with yellow wash. SHELFMARK: Univ. Coll. b.2(1).