Bod-Inc: G-084
Gerardus, Stephanus
Salutaris poeta.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Gerardus, Stephanus(?)]: Salutaris poeta. Josef Bujnoch, ‘Die Spruchdichtung des Salutaris poeta', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 5 (1968), 199-241, at 229-41. The authorship of Gerardus (also known as Stephan Gert) is doubtful: see Bujnoch 199.
a2r [German translation in verse.] Incipit: ‘Nun geth auff ein guldener Schein | Lern vnd lyß der sitten Puchlein.’ The translation is printed below each Latin couplet.
Imprint
Imprint: [Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, 1489?–97?]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard.
Collation
Collation: a8 b6.
Types: Types: 290, title; 160, first line on a2r; 89.
Leaves: Fourteen leaves.
Line number: 26 lines (a3r).
Type area: Type area: 139 × 83 mm (a3r).
Illustrations: Capital space on a2r.
References
ISTC: ig00162000
Hain: H *7618;
Goff: Goff G‑162;
Proctor: Pr 2911;
Others: Sheppard 2093.
LCN: 14877619
Copies
Copy number: G-084(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; marbled pastedowns; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 204 × 143 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 195 × 133 mm.
Copious early marginal and interlinear annotations, mainly providing Latin synonyms. On a1r a verse in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand, ‘Cum demon aliquem confundere vult maledictum | nititur vt longum [ ]tur sibi amicum'. Cropped note on a1v, also in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand, ‘Vero splendore [ ] | quatuor [ ] stare solet.’
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 5. 6; see Books Purchased (1850), 25.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.65.
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