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Bod-Inc: H-048

Hermes Trismegistus

Centiloquium.

 

Analysis of Content

A1r [Title-page.]

A2r Hermes Trismegistus: Centiloquium. [Translated from the Greek by Stephanus Messanensis.] Incipit: ‘[H]ermes dixit quod sol et luna post deum omnium viuentium vita sunt . . .’ For Stephanus as translator see Carmody 53 no. 3a.

Imprint

Imprint: [Leipzig]: Martin Landsberg, [c.1492-5]. 4°.

Remarks: As dated by Sheppard from the use of device a, which was superseded in 1495-6: see BMC III p. 637; BSB‑Ink dates [not after Mar. 1494].

Collation

Collation: A6.

References

ISTC: ih00076000

Hain: H *8463;

Goff: Goff H‑76;

BMC: BMC III 639;

Proctor: Pr 2966;

Others: BSB‑Ink H‑113; Sheppard 2110.

LCN: 14509458

Copies

Copy number: H-048(1)

On A6r, l.12: ‘ . . . peccabis', not as BMC; a misprint in BMC, rather than a variant.

Binding: Half parchment; marbled paper boards.

Size: 208 × 154 × 8 mm.

Size of leaf: 203 × 143 mm.

One early marginal annotation on A2r.

Provenance: Ingram Bywater (1840-1914); purchased in 1879 from Francke, list, no. 92, according to a cutting pasted on the front pastedown; Elenchus, no. 1610. Bequeathed in 1914.

SHELFMARK: Byw. O 2.3.


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