Bod-Inc: M-137
Martyrologium
Viola sanctorum.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘[S]i cuncta mei corporis membra verterentur . . .’
a2r Viola sanctorum. Incipit: ‘[C]ircumcisio Domini nostri Ihesu Christi. Nam sicut dicitur Luce .ii. “Postquam consumati sunt dies octo . . .” [Lc 2,21.] . . .’ Explicit: et sepultus est in cimiterio pristille etc.’
Imprint
Imprint: Nuremberg: [Peter Wagner], 1 July 1486. 4°.
Remarks: Pr assigns to [Conrad Zeninger], who was, however, printing in Venice at that time, Hain to [Anton Koberger].
Collation
Collation: a–l8 m n6 o8.
Types: Type: 94 G.
Leaves: 108 leaves.
Line number: 32 lines, plus headline (a2r).
Type area: Type area: 151 (156) ×97 mm (a2r).
Illustrations: Woodcut title.
References
ISTC: im00336000
Hain: HC *10869;
Goff: Goff M‑336;
Proctor: Pr 2237;
Others: Sheppard 1622.
Copies
Copy number: M-137(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf with brown cloth over pasteboards.
Size: 224 × 164 × 18 mm.
Size of leaf: 218 × 148 mm.
A few marginal additions, mainly names of saints, in two different early hands. On o8v a list of saints and sermon numbers in a contemporary hand.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; ‘Dupl' and ‘36' in pencil on a1r. Purchased for £0. 7. 6; see Books Purchased (1850), 56.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.40.
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