Bod-Inc: H-046
Hermannus Torrentinus
Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.] ‘Vocabularius poeticus siue Elucidarius carminum et historiarum continens fabulas, historias, provincias, urbes, insulas, fluvios et montes illustres etc.’
A1v [Hermannus Torrentinus]: Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus. [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[C]um permulta quotidie in lucem prodeant elegantia carmina indoctissimis ingenijs elucubrata . . .’
A2r [Hermannus Torrentinus]: Elucidarius carminum et historiarum vel vocabularius poeticus. Incipit: ‘[A]bas rex .xii. Argiuorum, pater Preti et Acrisij et auus Persei . . .’
G3v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Cologne: [Cornelis de Zierikzee, not after 1503]. 4°.
Remarks: CIBN, Sack, Sheppard, and Voulliéme date [c.1500]. Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-speaking Countries . . . in the British Museum (London, 1962), 900 dates [c.1505], but the copy at Edinburgh, NLS Inc.47.5 has the manuscript date 1503; see Michael A. Pegg, ‘Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966', Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 3e Folge, 3 (1967), 19.
Collation
Collation: A–D8.4 E F6 G4.
Illustrations: Woodcut.
References
ISTC: ih00073930
Hain: C 6375;
Goff: Goff H‑75;
Proctor: Pr 1512;
Others: CIBN T‑289; Sack, Freiburg, 1796a; Schramm VIII 27; Schreiber V 5371; Sheppard 1107; Voulliéme, Köln, 1188.
LCN: 14718301
Copies
Copy number: H-046(1)
Wanting the blank leaf G4.
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 208 × 139 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 198 × 132 mm.
In the upper margin of A1r ‘2'in an early hand.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich, no. 20. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.64.
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