Bod-Inc: B-496
Bovillus, Carolus
De constitutione et utilitate artium humanarum.
Analysis of Content
a1v Bovillus, Carolus: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Faber Stapulensis. Rice 128-9.
a2r Bovillus, Carolus: De constitutione et utilitate artium humanarum. ‘Prohemium'.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um diligentissimi nature rerum indagatores . . .’
a2v ‘Operis dispositio'.
a3v Bovillus, Carolus: De constitutione et utilitate artium humanarum. Incipit: ‘[A]rs est certus modus . . .’
c8v Pellitarius, Johannes: ‘Decastichon ad lectores'.’ Incipit: ‘Candide succincti lector cole sensa libelli'; 5 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Gaspard Philippe], for Jean Petit, [c.1500]. 4°.
Remarks: Dated from the state of the device by GW; ISTC recrods that it is dated from external evidence to before 27 June 1500 by S. Musial, ‘Dates de naissance . . . de Charles de Bovelles', Actes du Colloque International . . . Charles de Bovelles 1479-1979 (Paris, 1982), 42 n. 42.
Collation
Collation: a–c8.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ib01056300
GW: GW 4975;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: Sheppard 6553-4.
LCN: 13913984
Copies
Copy number: B-496(1)
Bound with:
1. Peri Archon (id est de principiis) scientiarum. Paris: Henricus Stephanus, 6 Oct. 1513;
2. Destructio naturarum communium contra reales. [Paris: Georg Mittelhus, c.1495] (D‑042);
4. Carolus Bovillus, Physicorum elementorum libri decem. Paris: Jean Petit and Josse Bade, 13 Dec. 1512;
5. Carolus Bovillus, Metaphysicum introductorium. [Paris]: Guy Marchant, for Jean Petit, 1503;
6. Carolus Bovillus, Dominica oratio tertrinis ecclesiasticae hierarchiae ordinibus particulatim attributa. [Paris]: Jean Petit, 6 Oct. 1511;
7. Carolus Bovillus, Commentarius in primordiale evangelium divi Johannis. Vita Raymundi eremitae. Philosophicae aliquot epistolae. [Paris]: Josse Bade, 3 Dec. 1511.
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 208 × 144 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 198 × 133 mm.
Provenance and date of acquisition unknown; not found in Catalogus (1843), although the shelfmark indicates a date of acquisition before 1835.
SHELFMARK: 4° T 28(3) Th. BS.
Copy number: B-496(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 208 × 142 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 137 mm.
Date ‘1553' on a1r.
Paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining in red.
Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); Elenchus, no. 668. Bequeathed in 1914.
SHELFMARK: Byw. K 8.17.
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