Bod-Inc: M-129
Martinus, S
La vie de S. Martin avec ses miracles [French].
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.] ‘La vie et miracles de moseigneur saint Martin de nouuel tranlatee de latin en francoys' [woodcut].
A1v [Woodcut.]
A2r La vie de S. Martin avec ses miracles. ‘Sensuyt la treslouable et recommandable vie avec les miracles de monseigneur saint Martin . . . Sit trinitati gloria Martinus ut confessus est'. Incipit: ‘[G]loire et honneur perdurable soit a la celeste trinitate | vng dieu en troys personnes'; verse.
R8v ‘Exhoratio quedam in materia subuentionis beatissimi Ma rtini Turonensis archiepiscopi'. Incipit: ‘[O] France par tout renominee | Reigle de foy bras de iustice'; 32 stanzas of 8 verses.
S4v [Hours of St Martin.] ‘Cy commencent les heures de monseigneur saint Martin'. Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
S6r [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Michel Le Noir, 15 Apr. 1499/1500. 4°.
Remarks: Dated 15 Apr. ‘avant pasques', interpreted as being 1500 by Sheppard, 1499 by IGI.
Collation
Collation: A–Q6 R8 S6.
Types: Type: 98 G. Device C: see BMC VIII p. 181.
Leaves: 110 leaves. R counts 108 leaves, A–S6.
Line number: 32 lines (A3r).
Type area: Type area: 157 ×101 mm (A3r).
Illustrations: Woodcuts and initials (see BMC VIII p. 181).
Remarks: Leaf S6r, l. 27: ‘ . . . Imprimee a pa | ris par Michiel le noir demourāt ſur le pont ſaīt Michiel | a lēſeigne ſainct Iehan leuāgeliſte. Lan mil quatre cens | quatre vingtz et dixneuf. Le quinzieſme iour de Auril. | auant paſques.'; S6v: [Device].
References
ISTC: im00318000
Hain: R 1569;
Goff: Goff M‑318;
Proctor: Pr 8235;
Others: CIBN V‑241; IGI 6235; Sheppard 6450.
LCN: 14009191
Copies
Copy number: M-129(1)
Wanting A1.6, A2.5 and B1.6. A4 bound after B5.
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red morocco over pasteboards; marbled-edged leaves and azure silk bookmark.
Size: 199 × 137 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 194 × 128 mm.
Within some of the woodcuts, an early French hand has added, in French, descriptive notes relating to the images.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Douce 54.
SHELFMARK: Douce 71.
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