Bod-Inc: M-091
Marcilletus, Stephanus
Doctrinale florum artis notariae.
Analysis of Content
[*2r] [Table of contents.]
a1r Marcilletus, Stephanus: Doctrinale florum artis notariae. Incipit: ‘[S]cribere clericulis paro paruis clausulis doctrinale florum . . .’ See Robert Feenstra, ‘Deux traités notariaux du XVe siècle: l’Ars notariatus anonyme et le Doctrinale florum artis notarie d'Etienne Marcillet', in Een Rijk Gerecht: Opstellen aangeboden aan prof. mr. P. L. Nève, ed. B. C. M. Jacobs and E. C. Coppens (Nijmegen, 1998), 149-75, at 160-75; on Marcilletus at 162-3, on this edition especially at 167-8.
r3v Suigus, Jacobinus [pseudo-]; and Nicolaus de Benedictis [pseudo-; Marcilletus, Stephanus]: ‘Pro auctore excusatio'. Incipit: ‘Quamuis auctor in exordio huius libelli promiserit . . .’ In the first edition this was written in the first person by Marcilettus, here rewritten by the printers in the third person; see BMC and Feenstra 167.
r4r Bugellanus, Bonifacius: Epigramma [addressed to] the book. Incipit: ‘Clauditur vt nostri libri iustissimus index | Archetipus fuerat sic sine labe prius'; 6 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Turin: Jacobinus Suigus and Nicolaus de Benedictis, 16 Oct. 1492. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*4] a–q8 r4.
References
ISTC: im00255000
Hain: H *10750; C 1372;
Goff: Goff M‑255;
BMC: BMC VII 1057;
Proctor: Pr 7221;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑170; Sack, Freiburg, 2341; not in Sheppard.
LCN: 14478977
Copies
Copy number: M-091(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) blind-tooled maroon calf, by V. Artas (name on the verso of the front endleaf); marbled pastedowns.
Size: 220 × 160 × 27 mm.
Size of leaf: 212 × 147 mm.
Marginal notes, mainly extracting key words, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands in two different early hands. A verse in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand is added on r4r: ‘Accipe primeuas de capentha quoque thetras | Primorum literas capitulorum et illas | Ordine coniunge debito sic indeliquebit | Actoris huius tibi nomen libelli quod erit'; this distich, revealing the name of the author, is printed in several other editions of the text; see Feenstra 165 note 85.
Provenance: According to a pencil inscription on the front endleaf, from the library of Charles W. Clarke; see also the description pasted on the front endleaf, ‘this is the only copy in America'; the pencil inscription refers to the ‘Clarke library catalogue vol. VIII (in ms)'. Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980); leather armorial book-label and paper accession label: ‘Incun. 39'; sale (1981), lot 177. Purchased at Sexton's sale; see ledger (1980/1), no. 1073.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I27.1492.1.
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