tit00152000

Text-inc Id:

tit00152000

Bod-inc Id:

T-081

Headings:

Theodolus Ecloga (comm. Odo Picardus).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Theodolus cum commento'.
2. a2r [Odo Picardus: Letter addressed to] Ludovicus, Duke of Guienne and Aquitaine. Incipit: ‘[ ]otus equidem tremo horreo . . .’
3. a3r [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[E]tiopum terras iam feruida torruit estas | In cancro solis dum voluitur aureus axis.’ Theoduli eclogam, ed. Joannes Osternacher (Urfahr, 1902), 30-2; see Walther, Initia, 664. Hexameters alternate with the commentary.
4. a3r Odo Picardus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Multi licet magno et excellenti ingenio uiri ad presentis libelli expositionem se applicauerunt . . .’ See CTC II 404-8.
5. b2v Theodolus [pseudo-: Ecloga Theodoli.] Theoduli eclogam, ed. Osternacher, 32-54. Hexameters alternate with the commentary. On the textual transmission see Johannes Osternacher, ‘Die Überlieferung der Ecloga Theoduli', Neues Archiv, 40 (1916), 329-76, at 343 no. 52. See also Henkel, Schultexte, 239-42; on authorship see VL IX 760-4, at 761.
6. b2v Odo Picardus: [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Finito prologo in quo intentio actoris aperta est et modus procedendi per Fronesim limitatus . . .’
7. k7v [Colophon.] ‘Optimo et accutissimo ingenio uiri insignis magistri Odonis natione Picardi in Theodolum succinctissima explantatio(!) finit . . .’

Imprint:

[Lyons: Mathias Huss?], 9 Jan. 1487/8. 4°.

Collation:

a–k⁸. Types: 200 G (approx.); 100 GB; 71 G; this type appears to be as Grüninger, Strasbourg, 68 G (BMC I pl. xi and p. 101. ‘68. [P. 10] small Lyonnese type'). Capital spaces. 80 leaves, the last blank. 41 lines of commentary (a4r). Type area: 145 ×89 mm (a4r).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: it00152000 Goff T‑152; Pr 8690; Sheppard 6742-3. LCN: 14099135

Copies:

1. T-081(1) Copy Wanting gathering d. The lower half of the first leaf cut away. Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century(?) parchment, with the title and typographical information printed in gold along a rectangular green leather label pasted on the spine. Size: 200 × 144 × 14 mm. Size of leaf: 145 × 89 mm. On a1v some notes in a French(?) hand, brown ink, probably Bochier's. Provenance: Clemens Bochier (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r in a contemporary hand(?): ‘Donus Clemens B[/H?]ochier me possidet'. Naples, Capuchins, Conventus S. Ephrem cum ecclesia BVM Immaculata (eighteenth century?); cancelled inscriptions on a1r ‘Libreria della concettione' and on a2r: ‘alla libreria de Capuccini della [concezione] di Napoli'. Purchased from William Lowndes for £0. 5. 0; see Library Bills (1815), 77; Books Purchased (1815), 5. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.12.