tir00347000

Text-inc Id:

tir00347000

Bod-inc Id:

R-144

Headings:

Rudimentum Novitiorum Rudimentum novitiorum [French] La Mer des histoires.

Analysis of content:

1. ā1r [Title-page.]
2. ā2r La Mer des histoires. [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[P]our esmouuoir les courages des humans et les encliner a viure vertueusement . . .’ See R‑143.
3. ā4r [List of contents of part I, by chapter.]
4. a1r La Mer des histoires. Incipit: ‘[I]n principio creauit deus celum et terram. Pour euiter les grans erreurs . . .’ See R‑142.
5. cc6r [First colophon.]
6. A1r [Second title-page.]
7. II1r ‘Martyrologe des sainctz'. Incipit: ‘[A]insi comme dit le pape Innocent . . .’
8. LL7v [Second colophon.]
9. ſſ1r [List of contents of part II, by chapter.]

Imprint:

Lyons: Jean Du Pré, 1491. Folio. In two parts, dated: (I) 20 Aug. 1491; (II) 23 Aug. 1491.

Collation:

Part I: ā¹⁰ a–z⁸ aa⁸ bb cc⁶; part II: A–V AA–GG⁸ HH⁶ II–LL⁸ ſſ⁸. Part I: 214 leaves, 12-214 numbered ii–cciiii, not as C; part II: 254 leaves, 222 blank, i–ccxxi so numbered. Woodcut borders, initials, and 2 maps; see Campbell, Maps, 217 and 218.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ir00347000 C 3990 = 3992; Goff R‑347; not in Pr; CIBN R‑222; Claudin III 493; Oates 3207; Rhodes 1536; Sheppard 6647. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography Part I, CH 85. LCN: 14029894

Copies:

1. R-144(1) Copy Bound in two volumes. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco, by Trautz-Bauzonnet (signed on the inside of the upper cover), with the armorial stamp of Baron Seillière, and 'Bibliothèque de Mello', for which see Joannis Guigard, Nouvel armorial du bibliophile, 2 vols (Paris, 1890), II 438; gilt-edged leaves and pink silk bookmark. Gilt-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and blue silk bookmark. Size: 320 × 245/250 × 35/40 mm. Size of leaf: 313 × 225/27 mm. On cc6^r-v a long note in French, dated 1611. A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, in the same hand. Initials, paragraph marks, and chapter heading underlining are supplied in red. Capitals touched with yellow wash. Provenance: On a1r of vol. 1: ‘Der Karolus auctor . . . Bernhardus(?) . . .' Baron Achille de Seillière (1813-1869): Bibliothèque de Mello; sale (1887), lot 178. Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846-1911). Presented in 1941. SHELFMARK: Buchanan c.20,21.