Bod-Inc: P-256
Pharetra
Pharetra doctorum et philosophorum.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[I]n conuersionis mee primordio cum pro mentis recreacione sanctorum . . .’ Explicit: eorundem sententie coaptantur On the Pharetra, and its authorship (sometimes ascribed to Bonaventura or Albertus Magnus) see Distelbrink 178.
[a2r] ‘Nomina doctorum.’ Incipit: ‘[A]mbrosius. Anastasius. Augustinus . . .’
[a3r] ‘Tabula materiarum in generali.’ Incipit: ‘[D]e abbate. [D]e abbatissa. [D]e abysso . . .’
[b1r] [Pharetra doctorum et philosophorum.] Incipit: ‘[D]e abbate. Gregorius in Registro ad Anastasium abbatem, Huius te precepti serie commonemus . . .’ Explicit: ymbres adinstar gurgitu
Imprint
Imprint: [Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1472]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a8 b–r10 s12 t–z A–M10 N8 O6].
References
ISTC: ip00571000
Hain: HC 12908;
Goff: Goff P‑571;
BMC: BMC I 56;
Proctor: Pr 225;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑420; CIBN P‑300; Oates 88; Rhodes 1395; Sack, Freiburg, 2851; Sheppard 154.
LCN: 13911988
Copies
Copy number: P-256(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [a1.8] and [O6].
Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco; triple fillets in gilt on each cover; gold-tooled spine and turn-ins; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 379 × 302 × 77 mm.
Size of leaf: 362 × 274 mm.
Occasional early marginal annotations, including pointing hands, and ‘nota' marks, in black ink, in red, and in crayon. Early manuscript title on [a2r]: ‘Liber Pharetra vocatur'.
On [a2r] an initial ‘I' running down the inner margin is supplied in interlocked red and blue with blue pen-work decoration; other principal eight-line initials are supplied in red, with the area defined by the letter decorated with black pen-work; other one- to nine-line initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red; guide-letters for initials are supplied in black ink.
Provenance: Inscription on [a2r], unread under ultraviolet light. Cardinal Étienne Charles Loménie de Brienne (1727-1794); inscription on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘Ex bibliotheca Cardinalis de Lomenie. v [Laire] catal. eius bibliothecæ to. 1 p. 105 no. 41'; see François-Xavier Laire, Index librorum, part 1, 105 no. 41. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 276.
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