Bod-Inc: A-076
Alanus de Insulis
Doctrinale altum seu Liber parabolarum.
Analysis of Content
AA1v ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘Iste Liber duobus modis solet nominari. Primo secundum quosdam appellatur Doctrinale altum . . .’ Prologue to the commentary of the ‘Auctores octo'. See A‑074.
AA1v Alanus [de Insulis]: Doctrinale altum seu Liber parabolarum. Incipit: ‘A Phebo phebe lumen capit a sapiente.’ See A‑073.
AA1v [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 A‑074.
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, [c.1493]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: AA8 BB–DD6.
References
ISTC: ia00173000
GW: GW 497;
Hain: H *378;
Goff: Goff A‑173;
Proctor: Pr 1388 A;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑95; Sheppard 996; Voulliéme, Köln, 28.
LCN: 14335774
Copies
Copy number: A-076(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half roan over pasteboard.
Size: 212 × 142 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 203 × 135 mm.
Early manuscript notes on AA1r. On DD4v a nineteenth-century pencil annotation on the edition of 1540. On DD6v an early note: ‘Puluer[em] pedum exc[utite] mandat saluator luce 9 mathi 10 marci sexto Actuum decimo 3°' -- a list of biblical occurrences of this phrase: Lc 9,5, Mt 10,14, Mc 6,11, and Act 13,51.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 113.
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