Bod-Inc: L-036
Langius, Rudolphus
Historia de urbis Hierosolymae excidio.
Analysis of Content
a1r Langius, Rudolphus (de Langhen): Historia de urbis Hierosolymae excidio [addressed to] Hermannus Langius, his uncle. Incipit: ‘Vrbis Hierosolyme templique in ea originis varieque fortune prophanationis et excidii . . . |[S]plendidissime quondam vrbis Hierosolymie templique in ea totius terra . . .’ see VL V 590-8, at 596-7.
c8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Celsa tenens regni Vngarie rex sceptra Mathias | Tunc codex presens spargitur arte foras'; 2 hexameters.
Imprint
Imprint: Deventer: [Richard Pafraet, between 1477 and 1479]. 4°.
Remarks: Pr assigns to [Jacobus de Breda].
Collation
Collation: a–f8 g10.
References
ISTC: il00059000
Hain: HC 9895;
Goff: Goff L‑59;
BMC: BMC IX 45;
Proctor: Pr 8971;
Others: Amelung, ‘Niederländische Inkunabeln', 39; Campbell-Kronenberg 1087; CIBN L‑41; HPT II 405; ILC 1409; Oates 3438; Sheppard 6927. Microfiche: Unit 4: Chronicles and Historiography: Part I.
LCN: 14449426
Copies
Copy number: L-036(1)
Wanting the blank leaves g9-10.
Beneath the colophon is pasted a slip bearing the date: ‘Anno domini Mcccclxxxiii' printed in a different type, but with the year cancelled and replaced by ‘Mcccclxxvi' in manuscript in black ink.
Binding: Half red morocco with gold-tooled spine and marbled paper boards. Nineteenth-century(?) manuscript label pasted on the outside of the upper cover.
Size: 192 × 145 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 186 × 139 mm.
Three- to four-line initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Dr H. Wolthers (fl. 1856); inscription on the verso of the front endleaf: ‘Dr H. Wolthers van Groningen 1856'. Date of acquisition unknown.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.4.
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