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Bod-Inc: M-174

Meffret

Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae.

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title-page, Sermones de tempore, pars hiemalis.]

a2r Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Pars hyemalis.] ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘  “[L]abora sicut bonus miles Christi Iesu”. Ita scribitur [II Tim 2,3.] In quo quidem verbo beatus apostolus . . .’ See M‑173.

a2v Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Pars hiemalis.] ‘Sermo primus'. Incipit: ‘  “[H]ora est iam nos de somno surgere” [Rm 13,11.] C. Consuetudo est quando rex terrenus . . .’

[et8r] ‘Tabula partis hyemalis'.

aa1r [Title-page, Sermones de tempore, pars aestivalis.]

aa2r Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Pars aestivalis.] Incipit: ‘  “[E]xpurgate vetus fermentum” . . . [I Cor 5,7.] A. Solinus liber VII de mirabilibus mundi . . .’

HH6r ‘Tabula partis estiualis'.

A1r [Title-page, sermones de sanctis.]

A2r Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Sermones de sanctis.] ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘  “[L]audate dominum in sanctis eius”. Ita scribitur psalmo .cl. [Ps 150,1.] Est enim commune prouerbium . . .’

A2v Meffret: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae [Sermones de sanctis.] ‘De sancto Andrea. Sermo primus'. Incipit: ‘  “[A]mbulans Iesus iuxta mare Galilee” [Mt 4,18.] A. In proprietatibus rerum . . .’

Z4r [Verse addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Mellifluos fructus frondosos lector in hortis | inuenies nardum balsama cunque croco | . . . | (ends): At libri nomen lector si forte requiris | Regine Meffret Hortulus ipse. Vales'; 9 elegiac distichs.

Z4r [Alphabetical table.]

Imprint

Imprint: [Basel]: Berthold Ruppel, [after 21 Apr. 1488]. Folio.

Remarks: On the date and printer see C. A. Webb and V. Scholderer, ‘Berthold Ruppel, Printer of the Sermones Meffreth', Library, 5th ser., 15 (1960), 1-7.

Collation

Collation: a10 b8 c–h8.8.6 i8 k6 l–r ſ s t v w x–z8.8.6 [et]8 [con]10 aa–kk8 ll mm10 nn8 oo10 pp qq8 rr ſſ ss tt vv ww xx–zz AA–FF8.8.6 GG–LL6 A10 B6 C12 D E10 F–V8.8.6 X6 Z8.

References

ISTC: im00444000

GW: GW Nachträge, 223 (I);

Hain: H *11000 (III); C 3960? (incl. 3962);

Goff: Goff M‑444;

BMC: BMC III 779;

Proctor: Pr 7715;

Others: CIBN M‑276; Sack, Freiburg, 2421-2; Sheppard 2305.

LCN: 14455310

Copies

Copy number: M-174(1)

The Pars aestivalis de tempore only. Wanting the title-page, aa1.

Binding: Seventeenth-century English gold-tooled (fillets only) calf, stamped on the upper cover with the arms, on the lower cover with the crest, surrounded by the Garter, of George Carey. Two clasps and catches lost. Formerly chained: staple-marks of two hasps at the head and tail of upper cover. ‘11' across the head of the fore-edge, from the present shelfmark.

Size: 306 × 228 × 50 mm.

Size of leaf: 302 × 200 mm.

Occasional marginal notes, mainly correcting the text, in a contemporary hand; key words extracted in a sixteenth-century hand. A few other marginal notes, mainly ‘nota' marks and scribbles, in red crayon.

On aa2r an eight-line initial ‘E' is supplied in blue with red pen-work decoration. Other initials are supplied in red.

Provenance: Inside lower cover, partly erased: ‘Joh.s Eccleston'; possibly John Eccleston (fl. 1506-1516). George Carey, 2nd Lord Hunsdon (1547-1603); Benefactors' Register I 8. Acquired by 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 98: M 7. 4 [Th.]; see Jensen, ‘Benefactors' Register', no. 14.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: M 5. 4 Th. (`4' across the tail of the fore-edge).

SHELFMARK: L 1.11 Th.


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