Bod-Inc: B-068
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
De proprietatibus rerum [French] Le proprietaire (trans. Jean Corbichon; ed. Pierre Farget).
Analysis of Content
a1v [Corbichon, Jean]: ‘Prologue du translateur'. Incipit: ‘[A] treshault et trespuyssant prince Charles par la diuiue(!) pouruoyance de dieu roy de France . . .’
a3v ‘Les rubriches de tout ce present liure'.
2a1r [Bartholomaeus Anglicus: De proprietatibus rerum, French.] ‘Le proprietaire en francoys'. Translated by Jean Corbichon. Edited by Pierre Farget, as stated in the colophon. Incipit: ‘[E]n couuoytant aulcunes choses declairer des proprietes et des natures des choses tant espirituelles quant corporelles . . .’ See Zumkeller 221, no. 468
B7v ‘Les noms des docteurs qui sont allegues en ce liure'.
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Mathias Huss, 15 Mar. 1491/2. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a 2a–z [et] [con] A B8.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials and 20 woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ib00148000
GW: GW 3420;
Hain: HC 2517; C 884;
Goff: Goff B‑148;
BMC: BMC VIII 264;
Proctor: Pr 8564;
Others: CIBN B‑109; Hillard 287; Sheppard 6612.
LCN: 13956847
Copies
Copy number: B-068(1)
Wanting gathering1 a and leaves p1 and B8.
Leaves2 a1r and2 a8v are cancels: the chapter headings are printed in type 140 G, not 140 B as in the rest of the book, and the text is differently set up: line 1: ‘Cy commence . . . trinite et vnite | diuine . . . | [woodcut] | Le premier chapitre qui eſt | de dieu || [E]N couuoytant aulcunes cho= | ſes declairer des proprietes . . .’
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf.
Size: 322 × 232 × 44 mm.
Size of leaf: 311 × 221 mm.
Occasional woodcut initials coloured.
Provenance: On B7v: ‘dublech(?) 1789'. In Catalogus (1843), Appendix 370.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 3.35.
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