Bod-Inc: B-342
Biel, Gabriel
Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae (ed. Wendelinus Steinbach).
Analysis of Content
A1v Bebelius, Henricus: ‘Ad sacerdotes de huius operis utilitate et necessitate epigramma'. Incipit: ‘Vos qui sacrorum ritus et mistica Christi'; 9 elegiac distichs.
A2r Steinbach, Wendelinus: [Letter addressed to] Fridericus Meinberger. Incipit: ‘[C]laret experientia teste, Friderice n[oster], bibliopola res quascunque . . .’ See VL IX 254.
A4v Bebelius, Henricus: ‘Exhortatio Heinrici Bebelii Iustingensis ad doctorem Wendelinum vt demissis aliis sua aliquando scripta in lucem edat'. Incipit: ‘Qui modo conaris multo prodesse labore'; 8 elegiac distichs.
A5r ‘Epitaphium Gabrielis Biel'. Incipit: ‘Quem modo laudarent Itali vel Grecia alumnum'; 5 elegiac distichs.
A6r Biel, Gabriel: Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae. Edited by Wendelinus Steinbach. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam sacerdotali dignitate pernecessarium est nosse ritum ac officii sui ministerium . . .’ See VL I 856. With the text of the Canon.
Imprint
Imprint: Tübingen: [Johann Otmar, for Friedrich Meynberger, c.1500]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–I8 k6.
Illustrations: Woodcut on A5v, the crucifixion.
References
ISTC: ib00656000
GW: GW 4336;
Hain: H *3180;
Goff: Goff B‑656;
BMC: BMC III 702;
Proctor: Pr 3232;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑507; Sheppard 2279; Schramm IX p. 21; Schreiber V 3490.
LCN: 13908006
Copies
Copy number: B-342(1)
Wanting the blank leaf k6.
Binding: Nineteenth century calf (c.1825), bound for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 195 × 145 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 189 × 133 mm.
On A1r Latin verses dated 1501, ‘Ad diuam virginem Mariam'; incipit: ‘O genus ethereum virgo sidusque salubre'; eight elegiac distichs: Hermann Busch, Elegia ad BVM; and ‘Ad sanctam Annam', incipit: ‘Anna parens Ihesu Christi genitricis aueto'; two elegiac distichs (Walther, Initia, 12675); on A5r ‘Epitaphium sac[ri] sepulcri saluatoris in Hierusalem', incipit: ‘Sum deus ex euo carnem sumpsi sine neuo'; Walther, Initia, 18702; L. Bertalot, ‘Die älteste gedruckte lateinische Epitaphiensammlung', in Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki oblata (Munich, 1921), Epit. 28; eight leonine hexameters.
Provenance: ‘Jo. Vogt. 1749', probably Johann Vogt (1695-1764). Purchased for £0. 5. 6; see Books Purchased (1825), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q inf.1.2.
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