Bod-Inc: A-074
Alanus de Insulis
Doctrinale altum seu Liber parabolarum.
Analysis of Content
[*1v] ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘Iste Liber duobus modis solet nominari. Primo secundum quosdam appellatur Doctrinale altum . . .’ Prologue to the commentary of the ‘Auctores octo' as published first in Lyons: Jean Du Pré, 31 Dec. 1488 (GW 2780).
[iiv] Alanus [de Insulis]: Doctrinale altum seu Liber parabolarum. Incipit: ‘A Phebo phebe lumen capit a sapiente.’ See A‑073.
[iiv] [Commentary on Alanus de Insulis, Doctrinale altum.] Incipit: ‘Hic autor prosequitur suum intentum et primo ponit parabolam . . .’ Commentary of the ‘Auctores octo'. On the ‘Auctores octo' see Henkel, Schultexte, 9-10.
Imprint
Imprint: Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, [14]92. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*6] a2 b c6 D2 d6. As in BMC the first gathering is not signed, but leaf [*3] is numbered.
References
ISTC: ia00171700
GW: GW 496;
Hain: HC 379;
BMC: BMC IX 68;
Proctor: Pr 9059;
Others: Campbell 55; HPT II 413; Oates 3549; Sheppard 6972.
LCN: 14335853
Copies
Copy number: A-074(1)
Wanting gatherings a and D.
Binding: Half parchment over pasteboards.
Size: 212 × 151 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 204 × 143 mm.
Occasional early manuscript annotations.
Initial are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Berne, diocese of Utrecht, Premonstratensian abbey, BVM et S. Johannes Baptista; see sale (1887), lot 46.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 6.77.
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