tir00158000

Text-inc Id:

tir00158000

Bod-inc Id:

R-056

Headings:

Reuchlin, Johannes Vocabularius breviloquus, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. [*1v] [Amerbach, Johannes(?): Address to the reader and list of contents.] Incipit: ‘Sunt qui sibi iam plurima comparare volumina statuerunt . . .’ The text refers to emendations and printing in Basel.
2. [*2r] Guarinus Veronensis: [Letter addressed to] Valerius Florus. Incipit: ‘[N]on sine causa factum esse certo scio quod diphthonganda vocabula . . .’
3. [*2r] Guarinus Veronensis: De diphthongis. Incipit: ‘Diphthongus est duarum vocalium . . .’ See Sabbadini 48-49.
4. [*3v] [Johannes de Lapide pseudo-; Fichetus, Guilelmus]: De arte punctandi. ‘Compendiosus de arte punctandi dialogus'. Incipit: ‘[D]iscipulus. Salue magister egregie. Magister. Et tu charissime adolescens . . .’ On authorship see R‑055.
5. [*3v] ‘Tractatus de accentu'. Incipit: ‘[A]ccentus est artificiosa modulatio vocis in significatiua prolatione . . .’
6. a1r [Reuchlin, Johannes]: Vocabularius breviloquus. Incipit: ‘  “[A]aa domine deus ecce nescio . . .” Hieremie primo [Ier 1,6]. Licet istud verbum propheticum ab ipso propheta alio fine sit enarratum . . .’ See R‑055.

Imprint:

Basel: [Johann Amerbach], 1481. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁶] a–r¹⁰ ſ⁸ s¹⁰ t⁸ u v vv x¹⁰ y¹² 1–5¹⁰ 6 7⁸ 8¹⁰.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00158000 C 6287; Goff R‑158; BMC III 746; Pr 7559; Benzing 4; BSB‑Ink R‑146; Hillard 1733; Sack, Freiburg, 3052; Sheppard 2410. LCN: 14062981

Copies:

1. R-056(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. Parchment index tabs. Early manuscript title on a rectangular piece of parchment now pasted on the front pastedown. Size: 315 × 231 × 65 mm. Size of leaf: 306 × 205 mm. A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in an early German hand in dark brown ink. ‘785' and ‘B' in pencil on front endleaf. On a1r a 14-line initial ‘A' is supplied in green with lighter green acanthus-leaf decoration within a square red ground with gold pen-work decoration edged in blue and black; from the letter some foliate extension into the margins. On 11r a 14-line initial ‘P' and on 76v a 14-line initial ‘C' are supplied in interlocked red and blue with blue and red pen-work decoration. Other initials, chapter heading underlining, and capital strokes in red. Occasional initials are supplied in blue. Provenance: Rupertus Köldrer (fifteenth century); inscription on [*1r]: ‘Rupertus Köldrer'. Acquired by the mid-1850s, from the evidence of the Bodleian binding. SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 3.6.