Bod-Inc: J-149
Johannes Climacus
Scala paradisi [Italian] El libro chiamato Climacho, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘In nomine . . . Incomincia el prologo dellibro chiamato Climacho el quale compose uno de sancti padri . . . [Q]vesto sancto libro ha dua nomi . . .’
a2v ‘Prologo del translatore di questo libro . . .’ Incipit: ‘[I]o frate che o tolto la impresa a translatare questo libro . . .’
a3r Johannes Climacus: El libro chiamato Climacho. ‘Tauola spirituale'. ‘La sancta scala'. Incipit: ‘Grado .i . . . Capitulo .i. [M]a al buono et sopra buono e tutto buono Dio Re nostro facciamo il principio del nostro parlare . . .’ Explicit: del monte synai del libro nominato chlimacho. See J‑148.
m5r Johannes Climacus: Sermone al pastore. Incipit: ‘[I]n ultimo de questo libro materiale . . .’ Explicit: et perfectione de se medesima. Amen
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 12 Oct. 1492. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–l8 m10.
Illustrations: Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ij00310000
Hain: HCR 5469;
Goff: Goff J‑310;
BMC: BMC V 468;
Proctor: Pr 5228;
Others: CIBN J‑202; Essling 566; Sander 2019; Sheppard 4308.
LCN: 14484884
Copies
Copy number: J-149(1)
Sheets m3.8 and m4.7 transposed in binding.
Binding: Parchment, with marbled pastedowns and red-edged leaves.
Size: 213 × 154 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 205 × 147 mm.
Bibliographical notes in English on the front pastedown, in a nineteenth-century hand.
Provenance: Thomas Crane (1808-1859); engraved monogram: ‘T.C.' surrounded by motto: ‘Qui corvos pascit pascere potest grues'. Purchased at Sotheby's, through Quaritch at the sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 17 Nov. 1884), lot 333, for £0. 9. 0; see Library Bills, 18 Nov. 1884.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 7.2.
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