Bod-Inc: B-157
Berchorius, Petrus
Liber Bibliae moralis.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] 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 B‑155.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne]: Bartholomaeus de Unkel, 17 Mar. 1477. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–y10 z8 A B10 C12 D–S10 T6 V10].
References
ISTC: ib00339000
GW: GW 3865;
Hain: HC *2797;
Goff: Goff B‑339;
BMC: BMC I 241;
Proctor: Pr 1137;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑293; CIBN B‑237; Hillard 321; Oates 626; Sheppard 861, 862; Voulliéme, Köln, 226.
LCN: 14005766, 14005817
Copies
Copy number: B-157(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [V10].
The text of [D9] and [D10] has changed places. Instructions to the reader by way of correction are printed at the end of the text on [D8v], [D9v], and [D10v].
Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf.
Size: 302 × 220 × 100 mm.
Size of leaf: 292 × 200 mm.
Early manuscript signatures.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 1. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 243, ‘Books purchased by the Librarian', item 6, and Books Purchased (1831), 2.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. 1Q extra 2.8.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 2.23.
Copy number: B-157(2)
Wanting the blank leaf [V10].
The text of [D9] and [D10] has changed places. Instructions to the reader by way of correction are printed at the end of the text on [D8v], [D9v], and [D10v].
Binding: Nineteenth-century brown calf.
Size: 298 × 218 × 85 mm.
Size of leaf: 288 × 200 mm.
Occasional chapter numbers and signatures supplied in an early hand.
On [a2r] a six-line initial is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Liège, Augustinian Canons, Sancta Crux; on [a2r]: ‘Liber fratrum sancte Crucis conuentus Leodiensis'. Francis Douce (1757-1834); this book does not contain a book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 203.
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