Bod-Inc: L-102
Libellus Sophistarum ad usum Oxoniensium
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v [Letter addressed to] the readers. Incipit: ‘Quoniam persona quam quis genere velit . . .’
A2r [Summule.] Incipit: ‘[P]ropositio est oratio indicatiua . . .’ See E. J. Ashworth, ‘The “Libelli Sophistarum” and the Use of Medieval Logic Texts at Oxford and Cambridge in the early Sixteenth century', Vivarium, 17 (1979), 134-58, at 149.
A6v [De consequentia.] Incipit: ‘[C]onsequentia est quoddam aggregatum . . .’ See Ashworth 150.
C1r ‘De suppositionibus.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam ignorantes suppositiones . . .’ See Ashworth 150.
C2v ‘De dictionibus que habent vim confundendi terminos.’ Incipit: ‘[S]equitur de dictionibus . . .’ See Ashworth 151.
C3r ‘De resolubilibus.’ Incipit: ‘[T]erminus in quem resoluitur . . .’ See Ashworth 151.
D3r [Martin of Alnwick]: ‘De obligationibus.’ Incipit: ‘[O]bligatio est quedam ars . . .’ De obligationibus. Über die Verpflichtungen, ed. Franz Schupp (Hamburg, 1993); and see Ashworth 151 and Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1036.
E4r ‘De obiectionibus consequentiarum.’ Incipit: ‘[C]onsequentiarum obiectiones quedam sunt . . .’ See Ashworth 152.
F2r ‘De modo dandi contradictoria.’ Incipit: ‘[D]e modo dandi contradictoria . . .’ See Ashworth 152.
F2v ‘Regule modales.’ Incipit: ‘De equipollentia. [A]d cognoscendum earum equipollentias . . .’ See Ashworth 152-3.
F4v [Allington, Robert(?)]: Consequentiae. ‘Tractatus argumentationis.’ Incipit: ‘De conclusionibus consequentiarum. [I]uxta hunc textum . . .’ See Ashworth 153.
H4v ‘De reduplicationibus.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ro faciliori iuuenum informatione . . .’ See Ashworth 153-4.
H6v [Swineshead, Roger]: ‘De insolubilibus.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uattuor sunt diuisiones . . .’ Vincent Spade, ‘Roger Swyneshed's Insolubilia: Edition and Comments', Archives d'histoire doctrinal et littéraire du moyen âge, 46 (1979), 177-220, at 180-220; see also Ashworth 154 and Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1590.
K5v ‘Liber apparentiarum.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ro materia apparentie . . .’ See Ashworth 154.
L3v [Walsingham, Thomas(?)]: Introductio naturalium. ‘Tractatus de naturalibus.’ Incipit: ‘[N]atura est duplex . . .’ See Ashworth 154-5 and Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1850.
M5r [Bradwardine, Thomas]: Proportiones breves. ‘Tractatus de proportionibus.’ Incipit: ‘[O]mnis proportio aut est communiter . . .’ See Ashworth 155.
Imprint
Imprint: [London]: Richard Pynson, [1499-1500]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–M6 N8.
Types: Types: 62 G, text; 100 G, heading.
Leaves: 80 leaves.
Line number: 44 lines (G3v, text).
Type area: Type area: 138 ×81 mm. (G3v).
Illustrations: Woodcuts; see Hodnett no. 1509.
References
ISTC: il00195000
Goff: Goff L‑195;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: not in Sheppard; STC 15575 = STC 15576.6.
Copies
Copy number: L-102(1)
Bound with:
2. Libellus sophistarum ad usum Cantabrigiensium. London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1524 (STC 15576.4).
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled half calf over marbled pasteboards. The two items do not appear to have been bound together at an early stage.
Size: 190 × 135 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 182 × 129 mm.
On A2r in the hand of Stephanus Leder: ‘Melius est pro uiritatem pati supplicem quam pro adulacione adqu[irere] beneficium'. On L1v and L2r of item 2: ‘Syster Annys(?) I have me recomended onto you very affectuously coweting to hear off you'; the same hand has added a syllogism on L4v. On L6r of item 2: ‘Ricardus Betonsonns est huius libri possessor | Testor magistrum Sandurs et Rica[ ] bellum'; where the name of Ricardus has been crossed out and replaced by ‘Petrus Meriatus'; on L6v: ‘Codex iste tenet possessorem meriatum.’
Provenance: Stephanus Leder (sixteenth century); name on A1r and N8v; also on A1r: ‘Est liber meus Leder'; ‘Symon'; on N8v: ‘Thomas Barnston est bonus'. ‘Ric: Alredus me iure vendicat .1600. etc.' John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 60. Presented in 1659.
SHELFMARK: 4o S 38(1) Art. Seld.
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