tii00205000

Text-inc Id:

tii00205000

Bod-inc Id:

I-040

Headings:

Isidorus Hispalensis Synonyma de homine et ratione, seu Soliloquia.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Braulio(?)]: ‘Prologus'. PL LXXXIII 825-8. BSB‑Ink ascribes the authorship to Braulio(?).
2. [a1v] Isidorus Hispalensis: ‘Prefacio' [in other editions addressed to the reader]. PL LXXXIII 827-8 with variations; see Thorndike–Kibre 1684.
3. [a1v] Isidorus Hispalensis: Synonyma de homine et ratione, seu Soliloquia. Incipit: ‘[A]nima mea in angustiis est . . . Nihil mihi te dulcius. Tu mihi super vitam meam places. Amen.’ PL LXXXIII 827-68, ending differently; see CPL 1203, Thorndike–Kibre 97, and Bloomfield 417.
4. [e7v] [Encouragement to readers to read and copy the book.] Incipit: ‘[I]n cuiusque manibus libellus iste venerit rogo et cum grandi humilitate supplico . . .’ Explicit: debita veneracione diligitis

Imprint:

[Merseburg: Printer of Isidorus, ‘Soliloquia' (Marcus Brandis)], 18 Dec. 1479. 4°. For the assignment to Brandis see K. Haebler, ‘Die Merseburger Druckerei von 1479 und ihr Meister', Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 5 (1912).

Collation:

[a¹⁰ b⁸ c⁶ d e⁸]. Types: 117 G (= type 1), 80 G (= type 2). 40 leaves. 24 lines ([a2r]). Type area: 142 × 90 mm ([a2r]).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ii00205000 H *9295; Goff I‑205; Pr 2603; BSB‑Ink I‑642; CIBN I‑84; GfT 23; Sheppard 1884. LCN: 14437345

Copies:

1. I-040(1) Copy Bound with A‑566(2); see there for details of binding. Size of leaf: 190 × 130 mm. Early correction to the text on [a1r]. Partial rubrication on [a1v] only: two-line initials, paragraph marks, and a star supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. Provenance: Bamberg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Anna; in Francis Douce's copy of A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, Consigned from Abroad Containing Specimens of Most of the Early Printers; in the Finest Preservation and in the Original Monastic Bindings (London, Leigh and Sotheby, 15 June 1799), lot 22 is marked with a ‘D', for Douce; in Sotheby's annotated copy of the catalogue, it is priced at £0. 1. 0; the catalogue has the following manuscript annotation in Douce's hand: ‘from a monastery in Bamberg'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 56(5).