Bod-Inc: D-057
Dictys Cretensis
Historia Troiana.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Dictys Cretensis [pseudo-]: ‘Prologus'. Dictys Cretensis, ed. Werner Eisenhut (Leipzig, 1973), 2-3. See Stefan Merkle, ‘ “Troiani belli verior textus”. Die Trojaberichte des Dictys und Dares', Die deutsche Trojaliteratur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Materialien und Untersuchungen, ed. Horst Brunner Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter. Schriften des Sonderforschungsbereiches 226 Würzburg/Eichstätt, 3 (Wiesbaden, 1990), 491-522, at 494-507.
[a1v] Dictys Cretensis [pseudo-]: Historia Troiana. ‘Ephemeridos belli Trojani libri sex'. Dictys Cretensis. ed. Eisenhut, 3-133.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Printer of Dictys (Arnold Ther Hoernen), not after 1471]. 4°.
Remarks: The copy in Edinburgh University Library was rubricated in 1471; see also Samuel Leigh Sotheby, The Typography of the Fifteenth Century (London, 1845), pl. 30, no. 66.
Collation
Collation: [a–g8 h i6.]
References
ISTC: id00184000
GW: GW 8324;
Hain: HCR 6154;
Goff: Goff D‑184;
BMC: BMC I 210;
Proctor: Pr 985;
Others: Oates 472; Sheppard 753; Voulliéme, Köln, 372.
LCN: 14815934
Copies
Copy number: D-057(1)
Wanting sheet [a4.5].
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 206 × 145 × 18 mm.
Size of leaf: 198 × 138 mm.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red underlining; yellow capital strokes.
Provenance: Paris, Collège des Cholets; an inscription: ‘Ex bibliotheca Collegii cholet[h]orum'. Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851); Catalogue (1835), part IV, no. 664. Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 9.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 4.34.
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