Bod-Inc: A-152
Albubather
De nativitatibus.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page and woodcut.]
a1v Laurus de Palatiis, Antonius: [Preface.] Incipit: ‘Cum a teneris ut Greci aiunt unguiculis . . .’ Dated 2 May 1492.
a2r ‘Tabula capitulorum.’
a3r Albubather: ‘Proemium.’ [Edited by Antonius Laurus de Palatiis]. Incipit: ‘Primum quod facere oportet in natiuitate . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1120.
a3v Albubather: De nativitatibus. [Translated by Salio, canon of Padua.] [Edited by Antonius Laurus de Palatiis.] Incipit: ‘Dixerunt sapientes primi qui fuerunt . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 445 and 1120; Carmody 136 no. 23a.
e6v Bonus, Antonius: ‘Ad Antonium Laurum Paduanum carmen.’ Incipit: ‘Qui solitos phoebi currus qui tecta sororum | Laetus adis uiridi redimitus tempora Lauro'; 10 hexameters.
e6v Bonus, Antonius: ‘Ad lectorem epistola.’ Incipit: ‘Magna quidem nostro debemus munera Lauro | Cuius ope Albubathris gloria parta nitet'; 6 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Alovisius de Sancta Lucia, 1 June 1492. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–e6.
Illustrations: Woodcuts on a1r: within decorated border on the left the Muse Urania, in centre, seated on a throne, ‘Astronomia', and on the right, Ptolemy; above, the sun, moon, and stars, below plants and animals. Above the border, woodcuts of three bearded figures, the one on the right wearing a crown, the one in the centre having the name ‘Albubather' printed around it; also signs of the zodiac.
References
ISTC: ia00355000
GW: GW 835;
Hain: H *607;
Goff: Goff A‑355;
BMC: BMC V 509;
Proctor: Pr 5378;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑225; CIBN A‑191; Essling 638; Sander 211; Sheppard 4440.
LCN: 14532925
Copies
Copy number: A-152(1)
Binding: Old parchment, rebound in the seventeenth century, at the latest by 1667. On the lower cover: ‘For Mr. Humfreys on St Peters Hal.’
Size: 277 × 190 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 275 × 175 mm.
Two parchment leaves from a thirteenth-century manuscript of Gregory IX, Decretals, once used as pastedowns, but now raised.
Occasional sixteenth/seventeenth-century marginal notes, with underlining in black ink, and planetary signs on a6v.
Provenance: William Hodges (seventeenth-century); inscription on a1r: ‘Gulielmus Hodgeus pr 5s.' Mr Humfreys, St Peter's Hall, see binding note. John Booker (1603-1667), 1640, whose books were bought by Elias Ashmole for £140; inscription on the upper cover: ‘Albubater fui ex libris Johannis Bookeris.' Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.
SHELFMARK: Ashm. 1720.
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