til00059000

Text-inc Id:

til00059000

Bod-inc Id:

L-036

Headings:

Langius, Rudolphus Historia de urbis Hierosolymae excidio.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r Langius, Rudolphus (de Langhen): Historia de urbis Hierosolymae excidio [addressed to] Hermannus Langius, his uncle. Incipit: ‘Vrbis Hierosolyme templique in ea originis varieque fortune prophanationis et excidii . . . |[S]plendidissime quondam vrbis Hierosolymie templique in ea totius terra . . .’ see VL V 590-8, at 596-7.
2. c8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Celsa tenens regni Vngarie rex sceptra Mathias | Tunc codex presens spargitur arte foras'; 2 hexameters.

Imprint:

Deventer: [Richard Pafraet, between 1477 and 1479]. 4°. Pr assigns to [Jacobus de Breda].

Collation:

a–f⁸ g¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00059000 HC 9895; Goff L‑59; BMC IX 45; Pr 8971; Amelung, ‘Niederländische Inkunabeln', 39; Campbell-Kronenberg 1087; CIBN L‑41; HPT II 405; ILC 1409; Oates 3438; Sheppard 6927. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography: Part I. LCN: 14449426

Copies:

1. L-036(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves g9-10. Beneath the colophon is pasted a slip bearing the date: ‘Anno domini Mcccclxxxiii' printed in a different type, but with the year cancelled and replaced by ‘Mcccclxxvi' in manuscript in black ink. Binding: Half red morocco with gold-tooled spine and marbled paper boards. Nineteenth-century(?) manuscript label pasted on the outside of the upper cover. Size: 192 × 145 × 13 mm. Size of leaf: 186 × 139 mm. Three- to four-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. Provenance: Dr H. Wolthers (fl. 1856); inscription on the verso of the front endleaf: ‘Dr H. Wolthers van Groningen 1856'. Date of acquisition unknown. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.4.