Bod-Inc: S-320
Stella clericorum
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v Stella clericorum. see S‑317.
B6r [Poem on the work.] ‘In laudem libelli'. Incipit: ‘Aspice presentis O clerice dicta libelli | Nomen pastoris quisquis habere uoles |'; 8 elegiac distichs. See S‑317.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1497-1500]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard; BSB‑Ink and Polain date [c.1500].
Collation
Collation: A B6.
Types: Type: 80 G, Lombard D.
Leaves: 12 leaves.
Line number: 35 lines (A2r).
Type area: Type area: 140 ×88 mm (A2r).
Illustrations: Woodcuts.
References
ISTC: is00777000
Hain: H *15074;
Goff: Goff S‑777;
Proctor: Pr 1435;
Others: BSB‑Ink S‑585; Polain 3613; Sack, Freiburg, 3289; Schramm VIII p. 25; Schreiber V 5317; Sheppard 1067; Voulliéme, Köln, 1106.
LCN: 14006271
Copies
Copy number: S-320(1)
Binding: Twentieth-century red cloth.
Size: 200 × 138 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 190 × 128 mm.
A few marginal notes in a contemporary German hand, mainly supplying underlining. On B6v a note in a seventeenth-century German hand: ‘Multa milia virginum sua suos relinquentes | pro praeciosa virginitate conseruanda monasterijs se includunt ut se ipsa subijciant cibos aridos et lectos duros, vestes asperas et longas vigilias, graves disciplinas, diversas obedientias . . .’
Capital strokes in red ink.
Provenance: Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 143, no. 642, for 4 Marks; see Library Bills, 7 May 1884.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 5.31.
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