Bod-Inc: B-445
Bonaventura
Meditationes vitae Christi [English] The myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste.
Imprint
Imprint: [Westminster]: William Caxton, [c.1489-90]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by Needham, Pardoner, and BMC; Sheppard dates [1488?], GW [c.1490].
Collation
Collation: a–s8 t4.
Illustrations: Woodcuts: see BMC.
References
ISTC: ib00903000
GW: GW 4764;
Hain: HC 3564;
Goff: Goff B‑903;
BMC: BMC XI;
Proctor: Pr 9672;
Others: de Ricci, Caxton, 10; Duff 49; Needham, Pardoner, 90, no. Cx 96; Oates 4101; Sheppard 7408; STC 3260.
LCN: 13911962
Copies
Copy number: B-445(1)
Originally bound with MS. Ashmole 1144, see Ashmole Catalogue (1845), 990-3, at no. XXV. Extracted in 1885.
Fragment of eight leaves; gathering i only.
Binding: Nineteenth-century English blue cloth.
Size: 285 × 210 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 274 × 199 mm.
Early foliation 49-63, but in wrong order.
Provenance: Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.
SHELFMARK: Ashm. 1144*.
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