Bod-Inc: A-126
Albertus Magnus
Paradisus animae, sive Tractatus de virtutibus.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: [Prologue]. Opera (1651), 21e,1; Opera (1890), 37, 447-8. For a list of Latin MSS see Werner Fechter, ‘Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung des ps.-albertischen “Paradisus animae” und seiner Übersetzungen ins Mittelhochdeutsche', ZfdA 105 (1976), 66-87. On the authorship see Bertram Söller, ‘Paradisus animae', VL VII 293-8 and idem, Der Traktat “Paradisus animae” des Pseudo-Albertus Magnus im deutschen Spätmittelalter (Würzburg, 1987).
[a2r] Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Paradisus animae, sive Tractatus de virtutibus. Opera (1651), 21e,2-32; Opera (1890), 37, 449-511; see Glorieux, Répertoire, 6cq and Bloomfield 5875.
[c9v] Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: [Epilogue]. Incipit/explicit: ‘Conqueror tibi, omnipotens Deus, cum multis lacrimis et guttis sanguineis filii tui . . . quia michi dignatus es has perfectas virtutes enarrare.’ Epilogue expanded. Opera (1651), 21e,33; Opera (1890), 37, 512.
[c10r] ‘Tabula.’
Imprint
Imprint: [Basel: Johannes Solidi (Schilling), not after 29 May 1473]. Folio.
Remarks: The press was identified as Schilling's and located at Cologne by Corsten, Anfänge, 46. It is reassigned by Dalbanne and Droz to Basel; see P. Needham, ‘William Caxton and his Cologne Partners', in Corsten Festschrift, 126-7. An Uppsala copy has the date of purchase 1473.
Collation
Collation: [a–c10].
References
ISTC: ia00290000
GW: GW 703;
Hain: HC *476;
Goff: Goff A‑290;
BMC: BMC I 236;
Proctor: Pr 1128;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑190; CIBN A‑182; Oates 614; Sheppard 2402; Voulliéme, Köln, 55.
LCN: 14489881
Copies
Copy number: A-126(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1.
Binding: Nineteenth-century brown morocco; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 292 × 207 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 285 × 195 mm.
Early foliation (1-29).
Some initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: G. W. Essam; sale (1960), lot 534. Purchased at Essam's sale from the funds of Bodley's American Friends; see ‘Bodley's American Friends', BLR 6,6 (1961), 642.
SHELFMARK: Don. d.188.
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