Bod-Inc: J-148
Johannes Climacus
Scala paradisi [Italian] El libro chiamato Climacho, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘In nomine . . . comencia el prologo nel libro chiamato Climacho, etc. [Q]uesto libro compose uno de li sancti padri . . . [Q]vesto sancto libro ha due nome . . .’
a2r ‘Prologo del translatore de questo libro . . .’ Incipit: ‘[I]o frate che o tolto la impresa a translatare questo libro . . .’
a2v Johannes Climacus: El libro chiamato Climacho. ‘Tauole spirituale'. ‘La sancta scala'. Incipit: ‘Grado primo . . . Capitulo primo. [M]a al buono e sopra buono e tuto buono dio re nostro faciamo el principio del nostro parlare . . .’ Explicit: del monte de Synai del libro nominato climacho. Calogero Riggi, ‘Il Climaco latino nel medioevo e la tradizione manoscritta della versione . . .', L'edizione di testi mediolatini, Schede Medievali, 20-1 (1991), 9-140.
[et]6r Johannes Climacus: Sermone al pastore. Incipit: ‘[I]n ultimo de questo libro materiale . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Torrebelvicino: Giovanni Leonardo Longo, 19 Sept. 1478. 4°.
Remarks: Catalogued as the work of Longo at Bergamo by Pr.
Collation
Collation: a–z [et] [et cetera]8.
References
ISTC: ij00308000
Hain: HR 5466 = HCR 5467;
Goff: Goff J‑308;
BMC: BMC VII 1080;
Proctor: Pr 7240;
Others: CIBN J‑201; Sheppard 5996.
LCN: 14484833
Copies
Copy number: J-148(1)
Binding: Ninetenth-century Italian parchment.
Size: 195 × 148 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 187 × 141 mm.
A few marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands, in Italian and Latin, in several early Italian hands. ‘L. VII. 9[or 4?]. 5' on the front pastedown. Bibliographical and typographical notes (after 1633) on the front endleaf and on [et cetera]8r, probably in the hand of a Franciscan from Trento.
On a1r a three-line initial is supplied in blue with reserved white decoration and red pen-work decoration. Other three-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue with reserved white decoration. Capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Trento, Observant Franciscans, S. Bernardino; oval stamp on the front endleaf: ‘Conven. s. Bernardini Tridenti'. Giacomo, Count Manzoni (1816-1889); ex–libris; see Catalogue, part II (1893), lot 3498. Purchased in 1893; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 8 May 1894, 448.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I37.1478.1.
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