Bod-Inc: M-325
Morticellarium Aureum
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r ‘Argumentum in presens opus'. Incipit: ‘[I]n hoc opusculo ex dictis doctorum compilato . . .’ Explicit: tabula legenti declarat
a2r ‘Tabula presentis operis'.
a5r ‘Prologus auctoris'. Incipit: ‘[C]um iuxta philosophorum primo methaphisice omnes homines . . .’ Explicit: documenta salubria
a7v Morticellarium aureum. Incipit: ‘[A]d istam mortis artem tria sunt notanda pro prima hac cellula . . .’ Explicit: mortem premeditabatur . . .Amen
Imprint
Imprint: Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 20 Feb. 1488. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a8 b–p6 q8 A–T6 V8.
Illustrations: Woodcut on a1r: see Conway part II, 252, sect. 12, no. 7.
References
ISTC: im00864000
Hain: HC *11619;
Goff: Goff M‑864;
BMC: BMC IX 190;
Proctor: Pr 9374;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑576; Campbell–Kronenberg 1270; CIBN M‑549; HPT II 420; Inventaris, 154; ILC 1636; Oates 3906; Rhodes 1222; Sheppard 7219-20.
LCN: 14515189
Copies
Copy number: M-325(1)
The first line of the title has been erased.
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) mottled calf over wooden boards.
Size: 220 × 153 × 52 mm.
Size of leaf: 209 × 143 mm.
Early marginal ‘nota' marks. In a sixteenth-century humanist hand, over the erasure in the inscription below, is an erased note: ‘In artibus [ ]dis [ ]culi'.
Paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red. The woodcut on the title-page is partly coloured in green wash and in red.
Provenance: Maria Laach, Eifel, Benedictines, BVM and S. Nikolaus; erased inscription in a fifteenth/sixteenth-century hand on a1r: ‘Liber monasterii beate Marie in Lacu in quo continetur [erasure]'. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1836; signature on the recto of the front endleaf dated 1836; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 130 (label on the spine), for £0. 3. 6; see Books Purchased (1837), 3, under ‘Ars moriendi'.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q inf. 1.42.
Copy number: M-325(2)
The upper section of a1, presumably containing an ownership inscription, has been cut away.
Binding: Early sixteenth-century panel-tooled calf over wooden boards; two clasps and catches lost. On both covers intersecting double fillets form frames, with a small flower-petal stamp at each intersection. The inner rectangle is decorated with a border containing the emblems of the Evangelists, animals (including a squirrel, a deer, a boar, a monkey, a dog, and a rabbit), and foliage, within which is a stamp of eight animals arranged in two vertical compartments (in the first column a monkey, a boar, a bull, and a unicorn, in the second a deer, a squirrel, a horse or dog, and a rabbit); for a similar binding see E‑056 = Douce 10. Rebacked for Douce with eighteenth/nineteenth-century red morocco.
Size: 219 × 154 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 210 × 142 mm.
Some early marginal annotations.
Paragraph marks are supplied in red; capital strokes and underlining in red; the woodcut on the title-page and the device are coloured in red, yellow, blue, green, and brown wash.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 130.
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