Bod-Inc: A-138
Albertus Magnus
Secreta mulierum et virorum cum commento.
Analysis of Content
a2r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[S]cribit philosophus philosophorum princeps quarto Ethicorum: Homo est optimum eorum que sunt in mundo . . . ’ See A‑133.
a2r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Secreta mulierum et virorum. Incipit: ‘[D]ilecto sibi in Christo socio et amico N. clerico de tali loco vere sapientie et augmentum continuum vite presentis . . .’ See A‑133.
a2r ‘Commentum.’ Incipit: ‘[I]ste liber cuius subiectum est contractum ad ens mobile contractum ad naturam secretorum mulierum, vt ipsis infirmantibus possumus dare remedia . . .’ See A‑133.
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: André Bocard, c.1493-7]. 4°.
Remarks: GW dates [c.1491-3].
Collation
Collation: a8 b c6 d8.
Remarks: Collation as BMC, not as GW.
References
ISTC: ia00311700
GW: GW 754;
Hain: C 193;
BMC: BMC VIII 159;
Proctor: Pr 8153;
Others: Sheppard 6387.
LCN: 14293376
Copies
Copy number: A-138(1)
Bound with:
1. Petrus de Alliaco, De anima. Paris: Guy Marchand, 24 Sept. 1494 (A‑203(1));
2. Petrus Tartaretus, Tractatus de intensione, rarefactione et condensatione formarum. [Paris: Étienne Jehannot, c.1495] (T‑012);
3. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum. Paris: André Bocard, 17 Nov. 1493 (R‑027);
5. Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolphi. [Paris: Félix Baligault, c.1496-1500] (S‑043);
(formerly 6. Christophorus Columbus, Epistola de insulis nuper inventis. Paris: In campo Gaillardi (Guy Marchant), [after 29 Apr. 1493] (Pr 7988: presented to the Library of Harvard University, 1936);
7. Franciscus Niger, Modus epistolandi. Paris: Pierre Levet, [between 1494 and 1497] (N‑112).
Binding: Eighteenth-century parchment, the boards mottled, the spine gold-tooled.
Size: 213 × 145 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 207 × 141 mm.
On rear pastedown, medallion with portrait of Columbus.
Initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: On a1r of item 1, erased note of ownership and shelfmark ‘E/6/7'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 129(4).
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