Bod-Inc: M-241
Mirk, John
Liber festivalis, et al. [English].
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘The helpe and grace of almyghty god . . .’
a2r Mirk, John: Liber festivalis. Mirk's Festial, ed. Erbe, with variants. See M‑232 and M‑234. In this edition the ‘Nova festa' are incorporated in their proper places in the text, that is ‘Visitatio BVM' between nos 45 and 47; ‘Transfiguratio Domini' and ‘De nomine Ihesu' between nos 51 and 52; ‘Hamus caritatis' at the end. St Margaret (no. 48) is omitted.
x6r [Colophon.]
x6v ‘Tabula sermonum'.
x8r Quattuor sermones. See M‑237.
[us7v] [Second colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Rouen: Martin Morin, for Jean Richard, 22 June 1499. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–z [et] [con] [us]8.
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: im00623500
Hain: H 7031 (`1490') = 7035;
Goff: Goff, Supplement, M‑623a;
BMC: BMC VIII 398;
Proctor: Pr 8778;
Others: Duff 314; Oates 3282; Sheppard 6821; STC 17966.
LCN: 14453505
Copies
Copy number: M-241(1)
Leaf a1 backed. Many leaves repaired.
Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, the spine stamped in gilt with the arms of Ashmole; spine repaired at the head and tail.
Size: 213 × 150 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 204 × 139 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, providing corrections to the text, and scribbles in an early English hand. The homily for St Thomas of Canterbury (l1-5) and the General Sentence ([us2-7]) have been cancelled.
Provenance: Thomas Hindle(?) (sixteenth century); ‘Thomas Hendyll [ ]' on a1r in an early English hand. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1692. Transferred to the Bodleian Library in 1860.
SHELFMARK: Ashm. 1218.
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