tim00472000

Text-inc Id:

tim00472000

Bod-inc Id:

M-187

Headings:

Melber, Johannes Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus. Compiled with the assistance of Jodocus Eichmann.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r Melber, Johannes: Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus. [Compiled with the assistance of Jodocus Eichmann.] Incipit: ‘[A]bba est hebreum, vatter. Abba pater vatter vatter . . .’ Explicit: talium animalium fortitur See M‑181. In this edition Eichmann's contribution is noted in the extended title on a2r.

Imprint:

[Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, c.1500]. 4°. As assigned by CIBN and as dated by Sheppard; CIBN dates [after 1500?]; BMC and BSB‑Ink assign to [Strasbourg: Georg Husner] and date [c.1500].

Collation:

a–e⁸ f⁴ g h⁸ i⁴ k⁸ l⁴ m–o⁸ p⁴ q–t⁸ v⁴ x–z [et]⁸. Type: Sheppard notes the presence of ‘C' with a slanting inner stroke, and comments that this was ‘very rarely used'; ‘V' from ‘W' in type 156.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00472000 HC *11036; Goff M‑472; BMC I 163; Pr 752; BSB‑Ink M‑323; CIBN M‑290; Claes no. 143; Sheppard 539. LCN: 14456700

Copies:

1. M-187(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 213 × 150 × 29 mm. Size of leaf: 205 × 136 mm. Occasional early annotations, including ‘nota' marks. Two cartoon drawings in black ink on [et]8v, one a ‘jack-in-the-box', the other a clown wearing a pointed hat and playing a wind instrument. On the upper edge an unread early note in black ink. On b8r a three-line initial ‘B' is supplied in red. Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); binding. Purchased for £5. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1826), 17, and note on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Purchased 1826'. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.3.