Bod-Inc: B-238
Biblia Latina
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Hieronymus: [Letter addressed to] Paulinus. [`Epistola sancti Iheronimi prespiteri ad Paulinum episcopum de omnibus diuine hystorie libris', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 1.
[a3v] [Gn–II Par.] Preceded by Jerome's preface.
[n8v] [OrMan.]
[n9r] [I–II Esr.] Preceded by Jerome's preface. II Esr entitled ‘Liber Neemie'.
[o5v] [III–IV Esr.] Esr III is here entitled Esr II and Esr IV Esr III.
[p8r] [Tb–Est.] Preceded by Jerome's preface.
[q8r] [Iob.] [`Prologus', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 3; preceded by the Prologus sancti Hieronymi in libro Iob and followed by Iob.
[r5r] [Ps (G).] [`Liber ymnorum vel soliloquiorum prophete Dauid de Christo', supplied by the rubricator.] Preceded by the first of Jerome's prefaces only.
[t1r] [Prv.]
[t8r] [Ecl.] [`Prologus in libro Ecclesiastes', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 6, followed by Ecl.
[t11r] [Ct–Lam.]
[A8v] [Bar.] [`Prologus in Baruch', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 10, followed by Bar.
[A10v] [Ez–Mal.]
[E1r] Hieronymus: [`Prologus . . . in libros Machabeorum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 31, followed by I–II Mcc.
[F7v] [Mt.] [`Prologus super Matheum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 34; preceded by Jerome's prologue and followed by Mt.
[G6v] [Mc.] [`Prologus . . . in Marcum ewangelistam', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 36, followed by Mc.
[H1v] Hieronymus: [`Prologus super Lucam', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 37, followed by Lc, where verses 1-4 are called ‘Prohemium'.
[I1r] [Io.] [`Prologus super Iohannem', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 38, followed by Io.
[I10r] Hieronymus: [`Prologus in epistolas Pauli apostoli', supplied by the rubricator.]
[I10v] [`Alius prologus', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 39.
[I11r] [Rm–Hbr.] Rm–Hbr, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum' (referred to as ‘prologus' by the rubricator throughout).
[L10v] Hieronymus: [`Prologus . . . in Actus apostolorum', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 42, followed by Act.
[M9v] [Iac–Iud.] [`Prologus . . . super epistolas canonicas', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 44, followed by Iac–Iud, each letter preceded by an ‘argumentum' (referred to as ‘prologus' by the rubricator throughout).
[N2v] [Apc.] [`Prologus in libro Apocalipsis', supplied by the rubricator.] Pref. no. 50, followed by Apc.
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1461]. Folio.
Remarks: At the end of vol. 2, the copy in Freiburg im Breisgau UB has the date of rubrication 1461, at the end of vol. 1, 1460; according to Paul Needham, ‘The Text', 55, ‘its textual state shows that it was copied from a Gutenberg Bible all of whose relevant quires were of the 1st setting'.
Collation
Collation: [a–i12 k10 l–r12 s12+1 t–z A–M12 N8].
References
ISTC: ib00528000
GW: GW 4203;
Hain: HC *3033;
Goff: Goff B‑528;
BMC: BMC I 51;
Proctor: Pr 196;
Others: CIBN B‑363; Oates 68, 69; Rhodes 344; Sack, Freiburg, 610; Schorbach, Mentelin, 1; Sheppard 126.
LCN: 14003332
Copies
Copy number: B-238(1)
Slipped type on [a12r].
Binding: Nineteenth-century blue morocco.
Size: 405 × 295 × 120 mm.
Size of leaf: 382 × 268 mm.
At the beginning of each book, a short summary has been added in a fifteenth-century hand. At the beginning of the volume, a title-page has been added in an eighteenth-century German hand; the verso bears a 22-line description of the book in a cursive and roman hand within a frame with a small medallion, depicting the cross in a landscape. On [C6r] contemporary handwritten guide-letters and correction marks.
Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue with pen-flourishing in red; other initials are supplied in red or blue; headings, chapter numbers and paragraph marks supplied in red; red capital strokes.
Provenance: George and William Nicol; their auction (London, Evans, 18 July 1825), lot 224. Purchased by Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851) for £189. Thorpe, Catalogue (1826), no. 31 offered at £220; then again offered at auction (London, Evans, 28 April 1826), lot 296 (ex informatione Paul Needham). Purchased for £94. 10. 0, see Macray 285 and Books Purchased (1826), 3.
SHELFMARK: Auct. M 3.6.
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