Bod-Inc: A-174
Alexander Magnus
Historia de preliis.
Analysis of Content
a2r Alexander Magnus [pseudo-]: Historia de preliis. See A‑171.
k8v [Petrus Alphonsus]: [Disciplina clericalis (excerpt).] ‘De sepultura Alexandri.’ Incipit: ‘[L]egimus alexandri sepulturam esse auream ad quam plurimi philosophi conuenerunt Quorum vnus ait, Alexander ex auro fecit thesaurum . . .’ See A‑171.
Imprint
Imprint: [South-east France?: Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW 878)], 16 Nov. 1490. 4°.
Remarks: On this press see H. D. Saffrey, ‘Un nouvel essai de localisation et de datation de l'incunable GW 644', Gb Jb (1964), 98-102. Lőkkös, Genève 174 identifies as [Geneva: Louis Cruse]. BMC VIII 415-16 locates it tentatively at Grenoble.
Collation
Collation: a8 b–i6 k8.
References
ISTC: ia00399000
GW: GW 878;
Hain: HC 781;
Goff: Goff A‑399;
BMC: BMC VIII 416;
Proctor: Pr 7376 = 8821.3, Supplement (1899), 12;
Others: Hillard 1020; Oates 3288; Sheppard 6844.
LCN: 14289937
Copies
Copy number: A-174(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century red cloth for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 180 × 125 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 170 × 116 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes in the inner margins; notes in the outer margins cropped.
Provenance: Old shelfmark ‘1133'. Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog, no. 570, for 12 Marks; see Library Bills, 7 May 1884.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 5.40.
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