tim00318000

Text-inc Id:

tim00318000

Bod-inc Id:

M-129

Headings:

Martinus, S La vie de S. Martin avec ses miracles [French].

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.] ‘La vie et miracles de moseigneur saint Martin de nouuel tranlatee de latin en francoys' [woodcut].
2. A1v [Woodcut.]
3. A2r La vie de S. Martin avec ses miracles. ‘Sensuyt la treslouable et recommandable vie avec les miracles de monseigneur saint Martin . . . Sit trinitati gloria Martinus ut confessus est'. Incipit: ‘[G]loire et honneur perdurable soit a la celeste trinitate | vng dieu en troys personnes'; verse.
4. R8v ‘Exhoratio quedam in materia subuentionis beatissimi Ma rtini Turonensis archiepiscopi'. Incipit: ‘[O] France par tout renominee | Reigle de foy bras de iustice'; 32 stanzas of 8 verses.
5. S4v [Hours of St Martin.] ‘Cy commencent les heures de monseigneur saint Martin'. Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
6. S6r [Colophon.]

Imprint:

Paris: Michel Le Noir, 15 Apr. 1499/1500. 4°. Dated 15 Apr. ‘avant pasques', interpreted as being 1500 by Sheppard, 1499 by IGI.

Collation:

A–Q⁶ R⁸ S⁶. Type: 98 G. Device C: see BMC VIII p. 181. 110 leaves. R counts 108 leaves, A–S⁶. 32 lines (A3r). Type area: 157 ×101 mm (A3r). Woodcuts and initials (see BMC VIII p. 181). Leaf S6r, l. 27: ‘ . . . Imprimee a pa | ris par Michiel le noir demourāt ſur le pont ſaīt Michiel | a lēſeigne ſainct Iehan leuāgeliſte. Lan mil quatre cens | quatre vingtz et dixneuf. Le quinzieſme iour de Auril. | auant paſques.'; S6v: [Device].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00318000 R 1569; Goff M‑318; Pr 8235; CIBN V‑241; IGI 6235; Sheppard 6450. LCN: 14009191

Copies:

1. M-129(1) Copy Wanting A1.6, A2.5 and B1.6. A4 bound after B5. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red morocco over pasteboards; marbled-edged leaves and azure silk bookmark. Size: 199 × 137 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 194 × 128 mm. Within some of the woodcuts, an early French hand has added, in French, descriptive notes relating to the images. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce 54. SHELFMARK: Douce 71.