Bod-Inc: B-017
Balbus, Johannes
Catholicon.
Analysis of Content
a1v [Registrum.]
a2r [Balbus], Johannes: Catholicon. Incipit: ‘[P]rosodia quedam pars grammatice nuncupatur, partes siquidem grammatice sunt quattuor . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 20 Nov. 1495. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–z [et] [con] [rum] A–N8.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ib00033000
GW: GW 3201;
Hain: H *2264;
Goff: Goff B‑33;
BMC: BMC V 445;
Proctor: Pr 5063;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑19; Oates 1985-6; Sheppard 4218.
LCN: 13956317
Copies
Copy number: B-017(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half parchment; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 314 × 220 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 301 × 200 mm.
On N8v: ‘Qui seruare sacris libris nescit honorem | illius a manibus sit procul iste liber', in a sixteenth-century hand, probably the hand of Paulinus Mercurius. Title on lower edge.
Provenance: Paulinus Mercurius (fl. 15[9?]1); on N8v: ‘Frater Paulinus Mercurius de bononia est meus dominus [corrected to possessor] 15[9?]1'. Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932); book-plate; inscription ‘Rome 1898 14 frs.’ Bequeathed in 1932.
SHELFMARK: Toynbee 3654.
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