Bod-Inc: M-188
Melchior de Parma
Dialogi de anima, sive Microcosmus.
Analysis of Content
a1v Sforza, Ludovicus Maria; Chalcus, B[arthomoleus]: [Privilege for Melchior de Parma.] Incipit: ‘[L]udouicus Maria Sfortia Anglus(!) Dux Mediolani . . . Composuit vt accepimus uenerandus frater Melchion Parmensis ordinis diui Francisci . . .’ Dated Milan, 28 June 1499.
a2r Melchior de Parma: [Preface addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sforza. Incipit: ‘[I]llustrissime princeps et excellentissime domine. Poy che cosi dispose la prouidentia diuina . . .’
a3r Melchior de Parma: Dialogi de anima, sive Microcosmus. Incipit: ‘[O] sacratissima et excelsa regina che de la bocca de lo altissimo procedesti . . .’ Explicit: quilli che se sone allegati
n5v [Colophon.]
n6r ‘Tabula'.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Leonardus Pachel, 29 Aug. 1499. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–l8 m–o6.
Types: Type: 94 G.
Leaves: 106 leaves, the last blank.
Line number: 38 lines and headline and foliation (a3r).
Type area: Type area: 180 (187) ×143 mm (a3r).
Illustrations: Woodcuts on a2v and c8v.
Remarks: Leaf a1v, (Privilege): ‘LVdouicus Maria Sfortia Anglus Dux Mediolani [et]c. Papie Angle | rieqƺ
Comes . . . | (l. 13) Mediolani ſub fide noſtri ſigilli | xxviij. Iunij. M.cccc.lxxxxviiij. | B. Chalcus.'; a2r: ‘ILluſtriſſime princeps. [et] | excellentiſſime domine. | Poy che coſi diſpoſe la | prouidentia diuina . . .'; incipit and colophon transcribed by Sander.References
ISTC: im00473000
Hain: HR 11045;
Goff: Goff M‑473;
Proctor: Pr 6003;
Others: Sander 4486; Sheppard 5023.
LCN: 14829332
Copies
Copy number: M-188(1)
Wanting the blank leaf o6.
Binding: Seventeenth-century sheep. Four ties lost, two from the outer margin and one each from the head and tail of both covers. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at tail of upper cover.
Size: 273 × 200 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 191 mm.
Provenance: Acquired by 1620; see James, Catalogus (1620), p. 375.
Former Bodleian shelfmarks: P 7. 10 Th. (`10' printed on a small square label pasted on the outer edge); S 5. 7 Th. (`7' at the head of the spine and across the fore-edge).
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.21.
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