tij00285000

Text-inc Id:

tij00285000

Bod-inc Id:

J-127

Headings:

Johannes Chrysostomus Homiliae XXI (ed. Petrus Balbus).

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Balbus, Petrus: [Preface addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[S]ententia mea semper fuit pontifex dignissime a primis usque temporibus . . .’
2. [a4r] [Table of contents.]
3. [a7r] Johannes Chrysostomus: Homiliae XXI. Edited by Petrus Balbus. Incipit: ‘[A]udistis fratres carissimi apostoli vocem tubam celestem . . .’ ed. Gelenius, V (1547), 9-195, with variants.
4. u10r [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Doctor inauratus qui dicitur omeliarum | Viginti vnius nobile finit opus'; 2 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

[Brussels: Fratres Vitae Communis], 1479. 4°.

Collation:

[a–t¹² u¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ij00285000 HC *5038; Goff J‑285; BMC IX 171; Pr 9330; BSB‑Ink I‑347; Campbell 427; CIBN J‑181; HPT II 397; ILC 1346; Oates 3848; Sheppard 7178. LCN: 14486179

Copies:

1. J-127(1) Copy Gathering [l] misbound in the order: . . . 4,3,6,5,8,7,10,9 . . .; gathering [s]: . . . 3,4,1,2 . . . 11,12,9,10. Binding: Contemporary calf over wooden boards, with red-edged leaves; clasp and catch lost; rebacked. Double fillets form an intersecting double frame. Diagonal double fillets divide the inner rectangle into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments. Size: 214 × 146 × 55 mm. Size of leaf: 204 × 138 mm. Some marginal notes, mainly correcting the text, in an early hand. A line of text omitted at the tail of [t5r] is supplied in manuscript. On [a1r] typographical notes in French in a nineteenth-century hand. Initials, paragraph marks, underlining of chapter headings, and capital strokes are supplied in red. Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘AA.e.16': see Lee, Royal book-plates, 40-1 no. 23; sale, pt I, lot 2273. Purchased for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1845), 17. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 5.14.