tir00190000

Text-inc Id:

tir00190000

Bod-inc Id:

R-070

Headings:

Ricoldus Florentinus Improbatio Alcorani (ed. Antonius de la Pegna).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Woodcut on title-page] ‘Improbatio Alcorani'.
2. a1v Pegna, Antonius de la: [Letter addressed to] all Christian people. Incipit: ‘Scio uera bona neminem assequi posse . . .’ Explicit: ‘... Valete in Christo Iesu, qui est benedictus in secula. Amen.’
3. a2r Ricoldus [de Montecrucis] Florentinus: Improbatio Alcorani. [Preface] ‘Incipit libellus fratris Ricoldi ordinis fratrum Predicatorum, sacre Theologie professoris, contra legem Sarracenorum. Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uot sunt dies servi tui? Quando facies de persequentibus me iudicium? ...’ a3r Explicit: ‘... Quod ut convenientius fiat totum opus per capitula certa distinxi.’
4. a3r [Content description] ‘Distincio capitulorum.’
5. a3v Ricoldus [de Montecrucis] Florentinus: Improbatio Alcorani [Edited by, as stated in the opening letter] Antonius de la Pegna. Incipit: ‘[P]rimo igitur oportet scire qui sunt principales errores quos lex Sarracenorum ponitur, in quibus maxime legi Dei contrariatur ...’ d10r Explicit: ‘... Quod si hoc est inconveniens, standum est in primo, scilicet quod Evangelium sit lex a Deo, sanctissima pariter et osservabilis mundo. Quod nobis concedat Ihesus Christo. Amen.’ See Kaeppeli III 308-10 no. 3485.
6. d10r Colophon: ‘Explicit libellus intitulatus Contra legem Sarracenorum, editus a fratre Ricoldo Florentino de ordine Predicatorum, Sacre Theologie professore. Impressum Hispali, per Stanislaum Polonum, anno a Nativitate Domini nostri Iesu Christi M.D., xx. die Marcii.’ [Printer's device].

Imprint:

Seville: Stanislaus Polonus, 20 Mar. 1500. 4°. Secundo folio: sem in latinum transferre, tot inveni fabulas et falsitates et blas

Collation:

a–c⁸ d¹⁰. Woodcut and woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian; Venezia N ISTC: ir00190000 H 13913; Goff R‑190; BMC X 44; Pr 9543A; BSB‑Ink R‑179; Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 577; M. Kurz, Handbuch der iberischen Bilddrucke des XV Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1931), 319; Sheppard 7312; Vindel, Arte, V 366: 135. LCN: 14512970

Copies:

1. R-070(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half olive green marocco over pasteboards. Size: 210 × 140 × 11 mm. Size of leaf: 202 × 135 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 1899; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 15 May 1900, 545; not found in Library Bills. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. S4.1500.1.