Bod-Inc: G-007
Gaguinus, Robertus
Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1r Gaguinus, Robertus: [Verse addressed to the book.] ‘Ad librum suum carmen.’ ed. Thuasne II 278-9.
a1v Gaguinus, Robertus: [Letter addressed to] Petrus Burius. ed. Thuasne II 275-7, no. XVI.
a1v Gaguinus, Robertus: [Letter addressed to the reader.] ed. Thuasne II 277-8, continuation of no. XVI.
a2r [Table of contents.]
a3v Erasmus, [Desiderius: Letter addressed to] Robertus Gaguinus. Erasmus Roterodamus, Opus epistolarum, ed. P. S. Allen (Oxford, 1906), I, no. 45.
a4v Montenatus, Benedictus: ‘In Gallorum annales . . . praeludium.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on potuisse quemque superioribus saeculis Gallorum inclitae . . .’ Explicit: instructurus est audire
b1r Gaguinus, Robertus: Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum. Incipit: ‘[F]ranci (ut plaeraeque aliae nationes) a Troianis prodiisse gloriantur . . .’ xplicit: tamen monarchia regnauere
r7r Gaguinus, Robertus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Limes adest processit opus ne liuidus assis | Lector habent mendas deuia praela suas'; 7 elegiac distichs.
r7r [Note on the preceding edition of the text.] Incipit: ‘Anno salutis millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoquinto . . .’
r7v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: ‘De praestantia Gallorum et auctoris huius utilissimi compendii carmen.’ Renouard, Badius, II 447.
r7v Andrelinus, Publius Faustus: ‘In Gallicas hystorias . . . carmen.’ Incipit: ‘Vt nitidos totum radios diffundit in orbem | Cum Titan puro splendidus axe micat'; 4 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, 24 June 1497. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a4 b–o8 p q6 r8.
References
ISTC: ig00014000
GW: GW 10452;
Hain: HC *7412;
Goff: Goff G‑14;
BMC: BMC VIII 301;
Proctor: Pr 8614;
Others: Hillard 843; Oates 3224; Rhodes 796; Sheppard 6677. Microfiche: Unit 5: Chronicles and Historiography.
LCN: 14831436
Copies
Copy number: G-007(1)
Binding: Contemporary French(?) paper boards. Sown onto three leather thongs which have been stabbed through the covers twice and fastened under the pastedowns.
Size: 283 × 207 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 272 × 193 mm.
Early marginal notes.
Provenance: Percy Mordaunt Barnard. Purchased on 19 Mar. 1910 for £4. 4. 0.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. F2.1497.2.
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