Bod-Inc: C-035
Camara, Alphonsus
De sacramentis.
Analysis of Content
Commissioned by Franciscus Hurtado de Mendoza, and others.
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Camara, Alphonsus: [Introductory letter, addressed to] Johannes Lupus. Incipit: ‘Non solum nobis nati sumus . . .’
a3r Camara, Alphonsus: [Preface, with marginal gloss, addressed to] Petrus de Costa, Franciscus Hurtado de Mendoza and others. Incipit: ‘[M]emini me, reuerendi principes et domini, nouem iam retro ferme annis a multis et amicis et dominis . . .’
a6v Camara, Alphonsus: De sacramentis, with marginal gloss. Incipit: ‘[S]acramentorum sancte matris ecclesie primo in genere, deinde in specie . . . [C]um nobis charitatis flammis accensis sit radicata . . .’
a7r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘ “Diffinitione”. Sic nanque precipit Tullius in primo libro Officiorum secundum . . .’ Commentary surrounds the text.
y8r Camara, Alphonsus: De doctrina christiana. Incipit: ‘[F]ideles sunt per beatum Petrum apostolum in I sua canonica admoniti, vt parati existant . . .’ The author is named in the prologue.
[ß7v] Camara, Alphonsus: ‘Peroratio'. Incipit: ‘Ibis iam opus parui uoluminis uarias per orbis cardines iucunde, cum ea contineas . . .’
[ß8r] [Camara, Alphonsus: Valedictory verse by the compiler.] Incipit: ‘Hec lege qui fidei secreta ediscere paras | Et per me in sacris doctior esse potes'; 1 elegiac distich.
[ß8r] [Verse by the book.] Incipit: ‘Qui me doctorum uario sermone uirorum | Scripsit opus Christi seruat amatus fidem'; 1 distich.
[ß8r] [Colophon.]
[*1r] [Tables of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Seville: Johann Pegnitzer, Thomas Glockner, and Magnus Herbst, 26 Oct. 1496. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a-z [et] [con] [rum] [ß]8 [*4].
References
ISTC: ic00067000
GW: GW 5930;
Hain: H 4276;
Goff: Goff C‑67;
Others: Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 115; Sheppard 7305; Vindel, Arte, V 251: 92.
LCN: 13890975
Copies
Copy number: C-035(1)
Gathering t bound after gathering x. Gathering [*] numbered but not signed.
Binding: Parchment, wanting two leather ties. Manuscript title on the spine.
Size: 196 × 143 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 185 × 132 mm.
Some cropped early marginal notes, and writing exercises. On front and back pastedowns are unidentified texts in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand, concerning the Trinity.
Occasional woodcut initials are partly coloured in red and silver(?).
Provenance: Erased inscription on title-page. Purchased from J. Halle, Catalogue 34 no. 155, 28 Oct. 1904, for 300 Marks; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 23 May 1905, 595; also Library Bills.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. S4.1496.1.
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