Bod-Inc: C-477
Crescentiis, Petrus de
Ruralia commoda.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Crescentiis, Petrus de: ‘Epistola in librum comodorum ruralium'. Addressed to Aimericus [Giliani] de Placentia. Incipit: ‘[V]enerabili in Christo patri . . . Cum presentem librum ruralium comodorum ad dei omnipotentis honorem . . .’ Petrus de Crescentiis, Ruralia commoda, ed. Will Richter and Reinhilt Richter-Bergmeier, Editiones Heidelbergenses, 25 (Heidelberg, 1995). See Paul Weise, Petrus de Crescentiis. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, Realgymnasium des Johanneums zu Hamburg, Beilage zum Berichte über das 72. Schuljahr (Hamburg, 1906), 6; and Tommaso Alfonsi, ‘Il padre Aimerico Giliani e Pier de' Crescenzi', Pier de' Crescenzi (1233-1321): Studi e documenti, ed. Tommaso Alfonsi and others (Bologna, 1933), 49-60.
[a1r] ‘Rubrice'.
[a4v] Crescentiis, Petrus de: Ruralia commoda. Dedicated to Charles II [of Anjou], King of Jerusalem and Sicily. Incipit: ‘[E]xcellentissimo principi . . . [C]um ex virtute prudentie . . .’ Petrus de Crescentiis, Ruralia commoda, ed. Richter and Richter-Bergmeier. See also Albano Sorbelli, ‘Bibliografia delle edizioni', in Pier de' Crescenzi (1233-1321). Studi e documenti, ed. Tommaso Alfonsi and others (Bologna, 1933), 307-69, at 315; LMA VI 1969-70.
Imprint
Imprint: [Augsburg]: Johann Schüssler, c.16 Feb. 1471. Folio.
Remarks: The colophon reads ‘circit' xiiij. kalendas marcias'.
Collation
Collation: [a–s10 t12 v x10].
References
ISTC: ic00965000
GW: GW 7820;
Hain: HC *5828;
Goff: Goff C‑965;
BMC: BMC II 328;
Proctor: Pr 1590;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑695; Oates 891; Sack, Freiburg, 1190; Sheppard 1175-6.
LCN: 12830702, 14422461
Copies
Copy number: C-477(1)
Wanting [o7] and the blank leaves [x8-10].
Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf, possibly Italian, with Buntpapier pastedowns, the spine gold-tooled; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 268 × 188 × 42 mm.
Size of leaf: 260 × 172 mm.
Occasional early marginal notes, cropped. Bibiliographical note in Italian in an eighteenth-century hand.
Principal initials are supplied in blue or green with pen-work in red. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red underlining.
Provenance: Purchased for £9. 9. 0; see Books Purchased (1803), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.31.
Copy number: C-477(2)
Wanting [l10], [m1], and the blank leaves [x9-10].
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 303 × 220 × 36 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 207 mm.
Running headlines in an early hand. Early marginal notes in various hands. Translations of plant names into German are supplied in an early and a nineteenth-century hand.
Principal initials are supplied in red with mayflower infill and pen-flourishing in brown. Other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Jacobus Schmidteidem (†1617); on [a1r] an inscription: ‘Jacobus Schmidteidemss de Monasterio canonicus Sedunen. me suo premit imperio Anno dominj 1577'. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; purchased in 1845; see manuscript addition to Radcliffe Catalogue (1835) for 1845 with shelfmark ‘7.I.1.4'; old shelfmarks ‘95 D.8', ‘K.1.2a’, ‘7.K.1.a' and ‘F 4 A 25'. Transferred to the Bodleian by the Radcliffe Trustees between 1861 and 1893.
SHELFMARK: RR.x.328 [RSL].
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