Bod-Inc: F-101
Franciscus de Retza
De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis BVM [Latin and German].
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘Defensorium inuiolate perpetueque virginitatis castissime dei genitricis Marie'.
a1r [Retza, Franciscus de: Introduction.] Incipit: ‘In quo adducuntur .xlvi. naturalia et mirabilia exempla . . .’
a2r [Retza, Franciscus de]: De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae virginitatis BVM. Incipit: ‘Hanc plena gracia salutare mente serena. Gaude Maria virgo cunctas hereses sola interemisti . . .’ See F‑100.
Imprint
Imprint: [Basel: Lienhart Ysenhut, c.1489-1500]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d6.
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ir00153000
GW: GW 10275;
Hain: HC *6086;
Goff: Goff R‑153;
BMC: BMC III 780;
Proctor: Pr 7717;
Others: BSB‑Ink F‑253; Sack, Freiburg, 1479; Schramm XXII p. 42; Schreiber V 4047; Sheppard 2508.
LCN: 14829968
Copies
Copy number: F-101(1)
Binding: Early nineteenth-century half calf with thick brown paper pasteboards; the spine gold-tooled.
Size: 220 × 160 × 18 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 135 mm.
The woodcut on b8v partially coloured.
Provenance: The structure of the binding, very close to F‑100, from the Capuchins of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, may suggest the same early provenance. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 133.
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