Bod-Inc: A-184
Alexander de Villa Dei
Doctrinale cum commento Ludovici de Guaschis.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page and woodcut.]
a2r Alexander [de Villa Dei]: Doctrinale (Partes I–II). See A‑179.
a2r [Guaschis, Ludovicus de: Commentary on Doctrinale Partes I–II.] Incipit: ‘Quia textus est planus . . .’ Doctrinale (ed. Reichling) CCCV does not ascribe to Ludovicus.
G1r Alexander [de Villa Dei]: Doctrinale (Partes III–IV). See A‑180.
G1r [Commentary on Doctrinale Partes III–IV.] Incipit: ‘Hoc est capitulum decimum . . . Hic a[uctor] respondet tacite questioni . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 25 June 1487. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a8 b–f6 A8 B–E6 F4 G–L6 M8.
Illustrations: Woodcut on a1r showing, above centre, a master sitting on a throne with a lectern attached, and below, five pupils with books, sitting on the steps at his feet. Above the woodcut is the inscription: ‘Textus Alexandri cum sentenciis et constructionibus.’
References
ISTC: ia00431300
GW: GW 1004;
Hain: HC 760;
Proctor: Pr 9365;
Others: Campbell 112; HPT II 419; ILC 164; Doctrinale (ed. Reichling), 34; Sheppard 7212.
LCN: 14291024
Copies
Copy number: A-184(1)
Leaf G1 signed Hi. The erroneous Hi is corrected in an early manuscript alteration to Gi.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled brown morocco.
Size: 215 × 148 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 210 × 141 mm.
Provenance: John Bedfils (Sheppard erroneously read Bedford). Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), catalogue (1827), part II, lot 3237: on endleaf ‘4£ 4s from Thorpe's catalogue 1827'. David Stuart Ker (1816-1878); anonymous sale (1847), lot 85. Purchased for £0. 18. 0; see Books Purchased (1847), 36.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.25.
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