Bod-Inc: J-154
Johannes de Fonte
Compendium librorum Sententiarum.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] Johannes de Fonte: Compendium librorum Sententiarum. Incipit: ‘[A]d preces studentium dum essem lector in monte Pessulano . . . Veteris ac noue legis. Distinctio prima continet conclusiones decem. Prima quod tractatus sacre pagine . . .’ See Stegmüller, Repertorium commentariorum, I 217-18 no. 446; VL IV 595-6; Volker Honemann, ‘Petrus Lombardus in Mittelhochdeutscher sprache: die sentenzenabbreviation des Johannes de Fonte', ZfdA 109 (1980), 1251-75. Also Jacqueline Hamesse, ‘Johannes de Fonte, compilateur des “Parvi flores": Le témoignage de plusieurs manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Vaticane', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 88, (1995), 515-31.
Imprint
Imprint: [Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1475-6]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–e10 f–g8].
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ij00314000
Hain: HC Addenda, *7225;
Goff: Goff J‑314;
BMC: BMC II 324;
Proctor: Pr 1557;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑391; CIBN J‑209; Sack, Freiburg, 2061; Sheppard 1165.
LCN: 14496885
Copies
Copy number: J-154(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf; bound for the Bodleian Library. Yellow-edged leaves.
Size: 302 × 214 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 294 × 207 mm.
Marginal note, mainly commenting on the text, on [c3v], and a few pointing hands in an early hand. Early manuscript foliation: ‘94-157'.
On [a2r] a woodcut initial coloured in red with red pen-work decoration. Paragraph marks, underlining of chapter headings, line fillers, and capital strokes are supplied in red.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' and ‘5878' on [a2r]. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, probably in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 4.18.
Copy number: J-154(2)
Fragments.
A ‘pull' of [e3r] and [e8v] only, with type area 240 × 115 mm.
Printed on one side only of two conjugate leaves. Formerly used as pastedowns in the binding of B‑327(1) (Biblia. Augsburg: [Günther Zainer, not after 1474]); see there for details of binding and acquisition.
Binding: Bound in a modern guard-book.
SHELFMARK: Vet. A1 a.4(14).
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