Bod-Inc: B-006
Bagnion, Jean
Tractatus potestatum dominorum et libertatum subditorum civitatis Gebennensis.
Analysis of Content
a2r [Note on the contents.] ‘Titulus'. Text dated Feb. 1487.
a2r ‘Ad argumentum auctoris et praeludium ad materiam infrascriptam super dilectionem patrie sue'. Incipit: ‘[H]ominum gratia Deus omnia creauit . . .’
a4r ‘Prohemium ad tractatum'. Incipit: ‘[E]xordior pro homine libero, pro quo non licet aduersam sperare fortunam . . .’
a5r Bagnion, Jean: Tractatus potestatum dominorum et libertatum subditorum civitatis Gebennensis. Incipit: ‘[A]d pollicita pro primo membro declinans vt paucum faciam sermonem dicit scriptura . . .’ See Henri Bordier, ‘Jean Bagnyon, avocat des libertés de Gèneve en 1487', Mémoires et documents publiés par la Societé d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève, 7 (1872), 1-38.
Imprint
Imprint: [Lyons: Guillaume Balsarin, between Feb. and 6 Apr. 1487]. 4°.
Remarks: Pellechet, Pr, and GW assign to [Geneva: Printer of Bagnyon]; Polain, BMC, and CIBN to [Lyons].
Collation
Collation: a–e8 f10.
References
ISTC: ib00014000
GW: GW 3170;
Hain: HCR 2246;
Goff: Goff B‑14;
BMC: BMC VIII 277;
Proctor: Pr 7819;
Others: CIBN B‑9; Pellechet 1689; Polain 450; Sheppard 6638.
LCN: 13957772
Copies
Copy number: B-006(1)
Wanting the blank leaf f10.
Leaf a1r, l. 2: ‘ . . . ſubditorum:'; and f9v, lines 1-2: ‘dree de malnāda vtriuſ ƺiuris doctoris ſed apľice [pro] | thonotarii ecclſie cathedralīs . . .', both as BMC, rather than as GW.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled pasteboards.
Size: 210 × 145 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 203 × 138 mm.
Pen-trials on a1r.
Provenance: ‘Bateloti' on a1r. Purchased from Mepham in 1873 for £0. 8. 6; see Invoice Book (1870-5, Library Records d. 432).
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.25.
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