Bod-Inc: B-057
Barlaam et Josaphat
Analysis of Content
a2r Barlaam et Josaphat. Incipit: ‘[C]um cepissent monasteria construi ac monachorum congregari multitudines . . .’ Version II (BHL 979) of the Medieval Latin legend, see Jean Sonet, Le roman de Barlaam et Josaphat. Recherches sur la tradition manuscrite latine et française, 2 vols (Namur and Paris, 1949), I 74-88. On the erroneous ascription to Georgius Trapezuntius see also Ernst Kuhn, ‘Barlaam und Joasaph. Eine bibliographisch-literargeschichtliche Studie', Abhandlungen der philosophisch-philologischen Classe der königlich bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 20 (1897), 1-88, at 55.
Imprint
Imprint: [Speier: Printer of ‘Gesta Christi', c.1472-3]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–f8 G8 h8 I8 k6.
References
ISTC: ib00125000
GW: GW 3396;
Hain: HC (+ Addenda) *5914;
Goff: Goff B‑125;
BMC: BMC II 483;
Proctor: Pr 2319;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑87; CIBN B‑91; Oates 1105; Sack, Freiburg, 456; Sheppard 1683.
LCN: 14484903
Copies
Copy number: B-057(1)
Readings on k6v not as BMC, but as CIBN (erroneously referring to h6v).
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 297 × 219 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 287 × 202 mm.
A few early marginal notes; on a8r a correction and an addition to the text in the red ink of the rubricator; also on b7r; on G2v the rubricator changes a supplied initial ‘E' to a correct ‘P'; also intelinear corrections in the rubricator's hand.
On a2r a six-line initial ‘C' is supplied in interlocked blue and red. Other initials are supplied in red or blue, some with reserved white decoration; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766-1841); inscription on a1v dated 1816; sale (1843), lot 13679. Purchased for £1. 12. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 15.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 6Q 6.[ ].
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 3.45.
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