Bod-Inc: B-519
Brant, Sebastian
De origine et conversatione bonorum regum et de laude civitatis Hierosolymae.
Analysis of Content
A1v Brant, Sebastian: [Letter of dedication to] Maximilian I, King of the Romans. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitanti mihi et quidem saepius (vt soleo) iampridem hesitanti . . .’
A4r Brant, Sebastian: De origine et conversatione bonorum regum et de laude civitatis Hierosolymae. Incipit: ‘[U]rbem Hierosolymam, vti sacre nobis tradunt littere . . .’
T3v Brant, Sebastian: ‘Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum regem gloriosissimum in vitam et conuersationem regum Israhel et Juda prefatio'. Dedicated to King Maximilian I. Incipit: ‘Superest, inuictissime rex, vt quod . . .’
T4v Brant, Sebastian: [Ad diuum Maximilianum Romanorum regem gloriosissimum in vitam et conuersationem regum Israhel et Juda.] ‘Epilogus'. Incipit: ‘[H]actenus immensum Solymarum sufficit equor'. Partly edited in Brant, Narrenschiff, ed. Zarncke, 185 no. 46.
Imprint
Imprint: Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 Mar. 1495. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–V8.
Illustrations: Two woodcuts; woodcut borders; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ib01097000
GW: GW 5072;
Hain: H *3735;
Goff: Goff B‑1097;
BMC: BMC III 794;
Proctor: Pr 7772;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑810; CIBN B‑767; Oates 2847; Sack, Freiburg, 812; Schramm XXII p. 47; Schreiber V 3574; Sheppard 2553.
LCN: 13911762
Copies
Copy number: B-519(1)
Binding: Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled quarter calf over wooden boards; remains of two clasps. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at foot of the lower cover. Title-label at the head of the upper cover. On both covers fillets form two vertical compartments filled with a roll with a foliate staff and a flower. A fragment of eight leaves, consisting of gathering m8 of Horae [Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, c.1495?] has been removed from the binding; see H‑150.
Size: 228 × 157 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 216 × 150 mm.
Provenance: Johannes Protzer (†1528); on A1r the inscription: ‘Johannes Protzer J. V. li[centia]tus M cccc xcviiij Conp[araui]t in Germania .xliiij. d.'; see Wagner 85. Purchased for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1861), 9.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 4.57.
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