tiw00013000

Text-inc Id:

tiw00013000

Bod-inc Id:

W-012

Headings:

Wetzdorf, Jodocus Ars memorandi.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Ars memorandi noua secretissima continens precepta paucissimis bonarum artium militibus visa'.
2. a1v Wetzdorf, Jodocus: [Preface addressed to] Ioswinus Orsoy. Incipit: ‘Notabili egregioque viro domino Ioswino Orsoy preceptori generali domus sancti Anthonii Rostdorff . . . Jodocus Weczdorff de Triptis humili subiectione sese commendatum facit. Non te lateat, generose preceptor . . .’
3. a2r [Table of symbols.]
4. a2r Wetzdorf, Jodocus: Ars memorandi. Incipit: ‘Iste libellus (ne potius opifex . . .’
5. a4v ‘Concludit opus versus'. Incipit: ‘Si cupis esse memor bis 4 accipe claues | Esto vacans mitis sobrius atque benignus'; 4 hexameters.

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, c.1500]. 4°. As assigned and dated by BSB‑Ink (following Sack, Freiburg, 3733); Sheppard dates [c.1500], but assigns to [Michael Greyff].

Collation:

a⁴. Types: 145, first three lines of title; 80, last line of title, headings; 64, text. Capital spaces. 4 leaves. 2 and 3 columns. 54 lines (a1v). Type area: 172 ×118 mm (a1v). Woodcuts on a1r and a4r, and woodcut symbols on a2r: see Schramm. Leaf a1r: [Woodcut in the middle of text, in area marked ||] ‘Ars me || morandi | Noua ſe= || cretiſſima | continens || precepta | pauciſſimis bonarū || artiū militib⁹ viſa.' a1v: ‘Notabili egregioqƺ viro domino | Ioſwino orsoy p̄ceptori gn̄ali dom⁹ sctī An= | thonij Rostdorffhost [et] Liechtēberg dn̄o ſuo | magnificētiſſo Iodoc⁹ weczdorff de Trip= | tis hūili ſubiectōe ſeſe cōmendatū facit . . .' a4v: ‘Concludit opus verſus | . . .'; l. 4: ‘ . . . tua mens concepit meditare frequēter.’

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: iw00013000 Goff W‑13; Pr 3283; BSB‑Ink W‑26; Rhodes 1839; Schramm IX pp. 16, 21 and pls 634-5; Schreiber V 3366; Sheppard 1966. LCN: 14764804

Copies:

1. W-012(1) Copy Bound with A‑360; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 207 × 147 mm. ‘Nota' marks and underlining in red ink on a1v. Paragraph marks are supplied in red ink on a1v and a2r. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.13(5).