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tij00395000

Text-inc Id:
tij00395000
Bod-inc Id:
J-178
Headings:
Johannes Presbyter Epistola presbiteri Johannis.
Analysis of content:
  1. [a1v] Johannes Presbyter: Epistola presbiteri Johannis. ‘De ritu et moribus Indorum'. Incipit: ‘[P]respiter Iohannes potencia dei et virtute domini nostri Ihesu Christi rex regum . . .’ See J‑162.
  2. [a6r] De adventu patriarchae Indorum. See J‑162.
Imprint:
[Speier: Johann and Conrad Hist, not after 1483]. 4°. As dated by Wagner; BSB‑Ink dates [c.1483], Sheppard to [c.1480-3?]; BMC assigns to [Georgius de Spira, c.1480], Engel–Stalla and Sheppard to the Hist brothers.
Collation:
[a8]. Woodcut initial and border.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ij00395000 H *9428; Goff J‑395; BMC II 486; Pr 2404; BSB‑Ink I‑595; Engel–Stalla col. 1654; Sack, Freiburg, 2110; Sheppard 1740; Wagner, Die ‘Epistola presbiteri Johannis’, 134-5, no. 1(13). LCN: 14485693
Copies:
  1. J-178(1) Copy Bound with A‑566(2); see there for details of binding. Previously bound with S‑040, possibly as issued. Size of leaf: 190 × 132 mm. Initials, paragraph marks, underlining of chapter headings, and capital strokes are supplied in red. Provenance: Possibly George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); his anonymous duplicate sale, 20 Dec. 1798, no. 151. Probably purchased by Francis Douce for £0. 5. 6, according to annotation in Douce's copy of the catalogue, marked ‘D.' Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 56(2).