Bod-Inc: G-143
Gesta Romanorum
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Gesta Romanorum [Cap. 1-136, 138-63, 137, 164-81]. ‘Ex gestis Romanorum hystorie notabiles: de vitiis virtutibusque tractantes cum applicacionibus moralizatis et misticis.’ Die Gesta Romanorum, ed. Hermann Oesterley (Berlin, 1872, reprint Hildesheim, 1963). See also Walter Röll, ‘Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der Gesta Romanorum', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 21 (1986), 208-29, and VL III 25-34.
[q10v] [Colophon.]
[q10v] [Table of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, after 1472]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by GW; Sheppard dates [c.1473].
Collation
Collation: [a–r10].
References
ISTC: ig00280000
GW: GW 10882;
Hain: H 7734;
Goff: Goff G‑280;
BMC: BMC I 196;
Proctor: Pr 892;
Others: Sheppard 689; Voulliéme, Köln, 500.
LCN: 14110802
Copies
Copy number: G-143(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 276 × 195 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 266 × 186 mm.
On [a1r]: ‘Audi vive tace si tu voles vivere pace' in an early hand.
Five-, four-, three, and two-line initials, paragraph marks, and underlining of chapter heading are supplied in red; capitals marked in red, all in a contemporary hand.
Provenance: Ludovicus Proist (fl. 1589); on [a1r]: ‘Hic presens dono datus est Ludovico Proist presbitero, anno 1589 Traiecti m'. ‘Vincentius Teneramundanus' (Termonde, East Flanders), written on [a1r] in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. Maastricht, Brabant, Capuchins; on [a1v]: ‘Capucinorum Etrajectensium', seventeenth-century hand. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 1824. Purchased for £3. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 11.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.28.
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