Bod-Inc: F-084
Formulare Und Deutsch Rhetorica [German]
Analysis of Content
[*1v] [Table of contents.] See Ursula Bruckner, ‘Über das Inhaltsverzeichnis in Formulare und deutsch Rhetorica’, in Das Buch als Quelle historischer Forschung, ZfB, Beiheft 89 (Leipzig, 1977), 93-9.
a1r ‘Rethorica'. [Brieflehre.] Incipit: ‘Sag mir, warauß lernet man brieff dichten . . .’ See VL II 794-5; Paul Joachimsohn, ‘Aus der Vorgeschichte des Formulare und deutsch Rhetorica', ZfdA 37 (1893), 24-121; and Stintzing 317-23.
b1r ‘Sinonima rethoricalia'. Incipit: ‘Wir bitten ewer aller wißheyt . . .’
[c1r] [Formulare und deutsch Rhetorica.] [Phrasensammlungen.] Incipit: ‘Hie nach merck von der geystlichen tytteln . . .’
[g1r] [Formulare und deutsch Rhetorica.] [Musterbriefe.] Incipit: ‘Hie nach volgent etlich schen vorreden . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Ulm: Johann Zainer, not before 18 Jan. 1479]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a8+1 b6 [c–e8 f6+1 g–r8].
Remarks: The single leaf a5 contains part of the text which was erroneously omitted in the first setting.
References
ISTC: if00243700
GW: GW 10178;
Hain: HC *7258;
Proctor: Pr 2540;
Others: Amelung, Frühdruck, I 48; BSB‑Ink F‑194; Sheppard 1829; Wegener, Zainer, 10.
LCN: 14830753
Copies
Copy number: F-084(1)
Gathering b is bound between gatherings [f] and [g]; see GW Amerkung 2.
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; remains of two clasps. Early manuscript title at the head of the upper cover. On both covers fillets form a double intersecting frame; within the outer a rectangular stamp with two flowers joined by tendrils; in the corners, large framed round stamps, very worn, with lettering and possibly with signs of the evangelists. The inner rectangle is divided by fillets into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments. In the compartments, a lozenge-shaped fleuron alternates with a round rosette stamp.
Size: 295 × 205 × 50 mm.
Size of leaf: 281 × 197 mm.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; not found in his sale (1835). The shelfmark may indicate a date of acquisition in the early 1840's, but the item is not found in Catalogus (1843), Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.49.
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