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Bod-Inc: F-039

Fiacre, S.

Vie et légende de saint Fiacre en Brie [French].

 

Analysis of Content

A2r Vie et légende de saint Fiacre en Brie [in prose]. Incipit: ‘Tout ainsi comme l'aigle instruit . . .’

C6v ‘Oraison de sainct Fiacre' [Latin.] Incipit: ‘[O] beate Cristi confessor . . .’ See Bibliotheca sanctorum, XI 668-9; J. Dubois, Un Sanctuaire monastique en Moyen Ǎge: Saint-Fiacre-en-Brie (Geneva, 1976).

Imprint

Imprint: [Paris: Jean Tréperel, c.1495]. 4°.

Collation

Collation: A–C6.

Types: Type: 99 (102) B; capital space with guide-letter on C6v.

Leaves: 18 leaves.

Line number: 32 lines.

Type area: Type area: 165 ×57 mm.

Illustrations: Seven woodcuts.

Remarks: The first line of the title is a woodcut. A1r, title: ‘la vie ſainct | fiacre en brie: ||'; [woodcut]; A2r: ‘Senſuyt la vie et legende de ſainct | fiacre en brie | Tout ainſi comme laigle īſtruit | Ses petis pouſſins a voller | . . .'; C6v, l. 17: ‘Tous les bons creſtiens loyaulx | Qui deuant luy ſe yront offrir | Oraiſon de ſainct fiacre | . . .'; l. 31: ‘ . . . qui tecuƺ viuit et. r. i. v: e. ſ. ſ. d. [per] '.

References

ISTC: if00146580

Hain: C 6211;

Proctor: Pr 8225;

Others: Sheppard 6415-16.

LCN: 14387898

Copies

Copy number: F-039(1)

Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; marbled pastedowns; the spine gold-tooled.

Size: 190 × 133 × 9 mm.

Size of leaf: 184 × 127 mm.

Provenance: D. Crozat; on A1v an inscription in an eighteenth-century(?) hand: ‘Ex Bibliotheca D. Crozat'. Dr John Monro (1715-1791); sale (23 Apr. 1792), lot 1890. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Douce F 212.


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