Bod-Inc: B-155
Berchorius, Petrus
Liber Bibliae moralis.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] [Berchorius, Petrus]: Liber Bibliae moralis. [Also known as Reductorium morale, lib. XVI.] Incipit: ‘[C]um iam per opacam nature siluam flores proprietatum lecturus percurrerim . . .’ See Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum IV 238-41 no. 6426, J. Engels, ‘Berchoriana. Notice bibliographique sur Pierre Bersuire, supplement au Repertorium biblicum medii aevi', Vivarium, 2 (1964), 62-124, at 63, and Marie-Hélène Tesnière, ‘Le Reductorium morale de Pierre Bersuire', in L'enciclopedismo medievale, ed. Michelangelo Picone (Ravenna, 1994), 229-49, at 247-9.
Imprint
Imprint: Ulm: Johann Zainer, 9 Apr. 1474. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–f10 g8 h8+1 i10+1 k–p10 q r8 s–z10 A–C10 D12].
Illustrations: Woodcut half-border on [a1r]; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ib00336000
GW: GW 3862;
Hain: H *2794;
Goff: Goff B‑336;
BMC: BMC II 522;
Proctor: Pr 2502;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑291; CIBN B‑235; Sack, Freiburg, 547; Sheppard 1793; Wegener, Zainer, 36.
LCN: 14454969
Copies
Copy number: B-155(1)
On [D12r] partly inked bearer type.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 415 × 302 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 397 × 273 mm.
A few sixteenth-century marginal notes.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 14. 0; see Books Purchased (1858), 10.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 1.22.
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