Bod-Inc: E-070
Expositio Hymnorum
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A2r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘Iste liber dicitur liber himnorum. Hymnus dicitur laus dei cum cantico . . .’ Explicit: nos sancti spiritus gratia in mente. Amen
A2r [Hymnarius.] Incipit: ‘[P]rimo dierum omnium quo mundus extat conditus . . .
A2r [Hilarius]: Expositio hymnorum. Incipit: ‘ “[P]rimo dierum omnium”. Materia huius hymni est commendatio . . .’ Explicit: qui nunc super omnia regnat See E‑068, ‘Q' type.
M5r [Colophon.]
M5v ‘Tabula hymnorum.’
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 14 July 1492. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–D8.6 E–H6.8 I K6 L4 M6.
Remarks: Leaves A2 and A3 signed aii and a3, E1 and E2 signed ei and e2.
Illustrations: Accipies woodcut on A1r: see Schramm and Schreiber–Heitz no. 18.
References
ISTC: ie00149000
Hain: H *6784;
Goff: Goff E‑149;
BMC: BMC I 276;
Proctor: Pr 1309;
Others: BSB‑Ink H‑264; Oates 747; Sack, Freiburg, 1932; Schramm VIII p. 20 and pl. 128, no. 484; Schreiber V 3933; Sheppard 987; Voulliéme, Köln, 604.
LCN: 14536085
Copies
Copy number: E-070(1)
On M6r: ‘ . . . hymoꝝ'. Leaves M5-6 repaired.
Binding: Nineteenth-century purple cloth over paper boards for the Bodleian Library; bound in the same style as E‑075.
Size: 209 × 156 × 18 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 145 mm.
Provenance: Langnau, diocese of Konstanz, Brothers of St Paul the Hermit, convent of BVM: see Quarthal, Benediktiner . . ., 368-70; inscription on A1r: ‘Cœnobii Langnouiensis B. V. Mariæ FF Ord. S. Pauli primi Eremitæ'. Unidentified stamp: ‘V. F.' monogram in a wreath on A1v. Acquired by 1884; Bodleian date stamp ‘17 Nov. [18]84'; possibly the item referred to in the invoice from Camille Vyt, Ghent, 4 Nov. 1884 ‘Expositio', bought for 7 Francs, not found in Library Bills (1884); shelved next to another book of same probable provenance, E‑016.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 5.51.
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