Bod-Inc: F-005
Facetus
Liber Faceti docens mores hominum.
Analysis of Content
A1v ‘Ethica Faceti morosi'. Incipit: ‘[S]eneca in libro de quatuor virtutibus in capitulo de continentia dicit: “Sermones vtiles magis quam facetos et affabiles ama . . .” ‘
A2r [Facetus Cum nihil utilius.] ‘Liber Faceti'. Carl Schröder, Der deutsche Facetus, Palaestra, 86 (Berlin, 1911), 14-28. Leopold Zatočil, Cato a Facetus. Pojednání a texty. Zu den deutschen Cato- und Facetusbearbeitungen. Untersuchungen und Texte, Spisy Masarykovy university v Brně, Filosofická fakulta, 48 (Brno, 1952), 287-93; Walther, Initia, 3692. Hexameters alternate with the commentary; see VL II 700-3, at 701-2 no. II; and Henkel, Schultexte, 245-8.
A2r [Commentary.] ‘Faceti glosa'. Incipit: ‘[H]ic autor ponit prohemium sui libri, in quo ipse ostendit que fuerit causa mouens ipsum ad hoc opus peragendum . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, [c.1492]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A B6 C4.
Illustrations: Accipies woodcut on A1v, see Schreiber–Heitz no. 18.
References
ISTC: if00036000
GW: GW 9676;
Hain: R 2411;
Goff: Goff F‑36;
Proctor: Pr 1396;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑41; Schramm VIII p. 21; Schreiber V 3965; Sheppard 1002; Voulliéme, Köln, 1011.
LCN: 14380956
Copies
Copy number: F-005(1)
Wanting the blank leaf C4.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 204 × 140 × 8 mm.
Size of leaf: 194 × 130 mm.
Provenance: Former shelfmark: ‘U.l.A. 21'. Purchased bound with a number of sixteenth-century books for £12. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1853), 24.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Arch. Bodl. A. II.132.
SHELFMARK: Vet. D1 e. 29.
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