Bod-Inc: A-218
Alphabetum
Alphabetum divini amoris.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Prohemium. Incipit: ‘[A]d honorem omnipotentis dei aliquos modos et vias pro eleuatione mentis in deum propono conscribere . . .’
a3r ‘Tabula.’
a3r Alphabetum divini amoris. Incipit: ‘[A] timore seruili procedit filialis plures . . .’ Authorship ascribed in BMC to Johannes Gerson. Also formerly erroneously ascribed to Nikolaus Kempf; see A‑213.
Imprint
Imprint: [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1491]. 8°.
Collation
Collation: a–d8.
References
ISTC: ia00528000
GW: GW 1561;
Hain: HC *7633;
Goff: Goff A‑528;
BMC: BMC III 753;
Proctor: Pr 7637;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑435; Gerson, Oeuvres, I 73, no. 22; Sack, Freiburg, 129; Sheppard 2438.
LCN: 14423961
Copies
Copy number: A-218(1)
Wanting the blank leaf d8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled pasteboards.
Size: 160 × 115 × 6 mm.
Size of leaf: 155 × 107 mm.
Three-, four-, and five-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Some underlining in red.
Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766-1841), 1818; not in 1843 sale catalogue. Purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Catalogue 3 (1885), 47, for ‘ Fl. 3'; see Library Bills (1885), no. 210.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.46.
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