Bod-Inc: J-194A
Johannes de Sancto Geminiano
Sermones funebres.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Badius Ascensius, Jodocus: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Genas. Renouard, Badius, III 243-4.
a2r ‘Tabula alphabetica.’
a7r ‘Tabula distinctionum ac sermonum presentis operis.’
b1r Johannes de Sancto Geminiano: Sermones funebres. ‘Sermonarium de mortuis.’ Incipit: ‘ “[C]onsidera Israel pro his qui mortui sunt” ii. Reg. i [II Sm 1,18 (variant reading)]. Quia in locis et ciuitatibus plurimis . . .’ Explicit: gaudium qui trinus . . .amen See Schneyer, Repertorium, III nos 455-81, [unidentified sermon, with incipit, ‘ “[M]ortui nihil nouerunt amplius . . .” Eccls. ix [Ecl 9,5]. Nihil videtur esse . . .'], 482-552; Kaeppeli II 541-2, no. 2641.
D6r [Note listing the contents of the work, addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Habes, humanissime lector, in hoc volumine, sermones siue orationes . . .’
D6r [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Lyons: Johannes Clein, 11 May 1499. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h8 i6 k–z A B8 C D6.
References
ISTC: ij00432000
Hain: HC + Addenda *7548;
Goff: Goff J‑432;
BMC: BMC VIII 338;
Proctor: Pr 8683;
Others: BSB‑Ink I‑520; CIBN J‑284; Claudin IV 280; Polain 2312; not in Sheppard.
LCN: 15712733
Copies
Copy number: J-194A(1)
Wanting a2 and sheet a1.8 (a8 blank).
Variant colophon: ‘ . . . | cura et expenſis. M. Iohannis clein artis | impreſſorie diligentiſſimo Anno noſtre ſa | lutis. M.cccc.xcix. die vero xi. Maij. | . . .'; not as BMC, Polain, and Renouard, Badius.
Binding: Sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf over pasteboards. On both covers triple fillets form concentric frames. The stamps or rolls are very worn and the upper cover (and the spine) are damaged.
Size: 214 × 153 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 206 × 138 mm.
On b2r a seven-line initial ‘B' is supplied in green, edged with red; other initials, some with extensions into the margins, are supplied in red or green; paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Dr Brian Lawn (1905-2001); book-plate; catalogue, p. 93. Bequeathed in 2001.
SHELFMARK: Lawn e.6.
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