Bod-Inc: A-175
Alexander Magnus
Historia de preliis.
Analysis of Content
a2r Alexander Magnus [pseudo-]: Historia de preliis. See A‑171.
f5v [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: Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 26 May 1494. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a8 b–f6.
Remarks: Leaf a1 is unsigned, a2 is signed a, and a3 and a4 are signed a2 and a3 respectively.
References
ISTC: ia00400000
GW: GW 879;
Hain: H *783;
Goff: Goff A‑400;
BMC: BMC I 144;
Proctor: Pr 628;
Others: Hillard 1021; Sack, Freiburg, 108; Sheppard 489-90.
LCN: 14289972, 14290012
Copies
Copy number: A-175(1)
Wanting the blank leaf f6.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 287 × 204 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 279 × 194 mm.
A few early marginal notes.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); not found in sale catalogue 1835. Purchased for £2. 2. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 3.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.42.
Copy number: A-175(2)
Wanting the blank leaf f6.
Inverted m on a1r, line 2: mace | donie.
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper wrappers.
Size: 291 × 198 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 291 × 192 mm.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining of headings and capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 17. 6; see Books Purchased (1858), 3.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 6Q 3.51.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sub fen. 2.21.
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