Bod-Inc: R-070

Ricoldus Florentinus

Improbatio Alcorani (ed. Antonius de la Pegna).

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Woodcut on title-page] ‘Improbatio Alcorani'.

a1v Pegna, Antonius de la: [Letter addressed to] all Christian people. Incipit: ‘Scio uera bona neminem assequi posse . . .’ Explicit: ‘... Valete in Christo Iesu, qui est benedictus in secula. Amen.’

a2r Ricoldus [de Montecrucis] Florentinus: Improbatio Alcorani. [Preface] ‘Incipit libellus fratris Ricoldi ordinis fratrum Predicatorum, sacre Theologie professoris, contra legem Sarracenorum. Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uot sunt dies servi tui? Quando facies de persequentibus me iudicium? ...’ a3r Explicit: ‘... Quod ut convenientius fiat totum opus per capitula certa distinxi.’

a3r [Content description] ‘Distincio capitulorum.’

a3v Ricoldus [de Montecrucis] Florentinus: Improbatio Alcorani [Edited by, as stated in the opening letter] Antonius de la Pegna. Incipit: ‘[P]rimo igitur oportet scire qui sunt principales errores quos lex Sarracenorum ponitur, in quibus maxime legi Dei contrariatur ...’ d10r Explicit: ‘... Quod si hoc est inconveniens, standum est in primo, scilicet quod Evangelium sit lex a Deo, sanctissima pariter et osservabilis mundo. Quod nobis concedat Ihesus Christo. Amen.’ See Kaeppeli III 308-10 no. 3485.

d10r Colophon: ‘Explicit libellus intitulatus Contra legem Sarracenorum, editus a fratre Ricoldo Florentino de ordine Predicatorum, Sacre Theologie professore. Impressum Hispali, per Stanislaum Polonum, anno a Nativitate Domini nostri Iesu Christi M.D., xx. die Marcii.’ [Printer's device].

Imprint

Imprint: Seville: Stanislaus Polonus, 20 Mar. 1500. 4°.

Secundo folio: sem in latinum transferre, tot inveni fabulas et falsitates et blas

Collation

Collation: a–c⁸ d¹⁰.

Illustrations: Woodcut and woodcut initials.

References

ISTC: ir00190000

Hain: H 13913;

Goff: Goff R‑190;

BMC: BMC X 44;

Proctor: Pr 9543A;

Others: BSB‑Ink R‑179; Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 577; M. Kurz, Handbuch der iberischen Bilddrucke des XV Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1931), 319; Sheppard 7312; Vindel, Arte, V 366: 135.

LCN: 14512970

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