Bod-Inc: F-008
Facetus
Liber Faceti docens mores hominum.
Analysis of Content
A1v ‘Prohemium'. Incipit: ‘[S]eneca in libro de quattuor virtutibus in capitulo de continentia dicit: “Sermones vtiles magis quam facetos et affabiles ama . . .” ‘
A2r [Facetus Cum nihil utilius.] ‘Facetus cum commento'. See F‑005.
A2r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘[H]ic actor(!) ponit prohemium sui libri, in quo ipse ostendit que fuerit causa mouens ipsum ad hoc opus agendum . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Rouen: Jacques Le Forestier, [c.1500?]. 4°.
Remarks: Dated by Sheppard; GW dates [after 1500(?)]; see also letter, of 10 Dec. 1938, from the editors of the GW tipped in with the book.
Collation
Collation: A8 B6. Signatures begin with A3, signed Aii.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: if00038700
GW: GW 9691;
Proctor: Pr 8783;
Others: Sheppard 6823.
LCN: 14380978
Copies
Copy number: F-008(1)
Bound with:
2. Matthaeus Vindocinensis, Thobias. [Rouen]: Robert Macé, [n. d.].
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, bound for the Bodleian Library; the upper cover loose.
Size: 195 × 140 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 187 × 132 mm.
Early marginal annotations.
Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 50. Presented in 1659.
SHELFMARK: 4° F 2(1) Art. Seld.
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