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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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