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Bod-Inc: C-400

Cometae

De cometis.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1r] ‘Tractatus de cometis'. Incipit: ‘[D]ixit Aristotiles: “Nemo eorum que ignorat bonus est iudex” . . .’ See Thorndike col. 449. The ‘Thurecensis phisicus' to whom the text is ascribed is probably Eberhard Schleusinger; see Ernst Zinner, Verzeichnis der astronomischen Handschriften des deutschen Kulturgebiets (Munich, 1925), no. 9427 and Sack, Freiburg. He was identified as Conrad Heingarter by Leo Cunibert Mohlberg, Mittelalterliche Handschriften, Katalog der Handschriften der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, 1 (Zurich, 1952), MS. Car. C.140a.

Imprint

Imprint: [Beromünster: Helias Heliae, after Apr. 1472]. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [a12].

References

ISTC: ic00784000

GW: GW 7252;

Hain: H *15512;

Goff: Goff C‑784;

BMC: BMC III 799;

Proctor: Pr 7799;

Others: Sack, Freiburg, 3189; Sheppard 2571.

LCN: 14717536

Copies

Copy number: C-400(1)

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf; marbled pastedowns; the spine gold-tooled; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.

Size: 288 × 205 × 8 mm.

Size of leaf: 285 × 195 mm.

A faded initial is supplied in red; red capital strokes.

Provenance: Purchased from Harding & Lepard Catalogue (1830), no. 2451 for £5. 5. 0; see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 19 and Books Purchased (1829), 21.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 1.16.


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