Bod-Inc: D-047
Dialogus Creaturarum Moralisatus
Analysis of Content
[*2r] ‘Prefacio in librum qui dicitur dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus'. See D‑044.
[*2v] ‘Prima tabula insinuans naturas et efficacias singularum creaturarum secundum modum persuasiuum'. See D‑044.
[*4v] ‘Secunda tabula huius libri demonstrans in ordine alphabetico singulas materias circa quas quilibet dyalogorum versatur'. See D‑044.
a2r [Nicolaus Pergamenus?; Mayno de Mayneriis/Magninus Mediolanensis?]: Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus. See D‑044.
Imprint
Imprint: Gouda: Gerard Leeu, 31 Aug. 1482. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4 **6] a–l8 m6.
Illustrations: 122 woodcuts; woodcut initial.
References
ISTC: id00159250
Hain: HC 6127;
Goff: Goff N‑154;
BMC: BMC IX 35;
Proctor: Pr 8929;
Others: Campbell 562; HPT II 417; ILC 705; Sheppard 6903.
LCN: 14818737
Copies
Copy number: D-047(1)
Bound with:
2. Guilelmus Parisiensis, Postilla super epistolas et evangelia. Cologne: [Ulrich Zell], 16 July 1482 (G‑322).
Wanting the blank leaf [*1].
Binding: Seventeenth-century (Oxford) calf; ornamental centre-pieces on both covers, see Ker, Pastedowns centre-pieces pl. vii, no. xi; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library superimposed on the upper cover; two ties lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover.
Size: 272 × 205 × 53 mm.
Size of leaf: 268 × 184 mm.
On a1r of item 2, in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century English hand, a tabular analysis of the four senses of the Bible: ‘Sacra scriptura potest exponi quatuor modis, scilicet Historice, Allegorice, Tropoloce(!) Anagogice. Historia est narratio . . .' Some other marginal annotations, including corrections to the text and numbers as ‘nota' marks. On a1v, e1r, e4r, i4r, i8v, k7v, l5v, and l8r of item 1 memoranda in an early English hand containing the names of Elizabeth Ledwell(?), widow, Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Gibbes, John Wekyn, Hugo Esten' and Robert Lanranc', Rycharde Sytm'.
Provenance: Acquired before 1620; see James, Catalogue (1620), 162.
Former Bodleian shelfmarks: G 6. 6 Th.; D 2. 14 Th.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.17(1).
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