Bod-Inc: S-322A
Stella Clericorum
Analysis of Content
a1r
[Title-page, with device.]
a1v
Stella clericorum.
See S‑317.
b8v
[Poem on the work.]
‘Ad laudem libelli'.
Incipit: ‘Aspice presentis O clerice dicta libelli | Nomen pastoris quisquis habere uoles |'; 8 elegiac distichs.
See S‑317.
Imprint
Imprint: [Paris: Jean Lambert], for Denis Roce, [c.1500]. 8°.
Collation
Collation: a b8.
Remarks: Leaf b1 signed B.
Types: Types: 180 G, title; 65 G, text.
Leaves: 16 leaves.
Line number: 33 lines (a2r).
Type area: Type area: 104 × 64 mm.
Remarks: Leaf a1r: ‘Stella clericorum' | [Device of Denis Roce (similar to Polain, Marques, no. 162 (Roce III), but without dotting on the letters ‘D' and ‘R' and without the ribbon suspending the scallop on the shield)]; a1v: ‘¶ Tractatus qui ſtella clericorum inſcribitur fe= | liciter incipit. | . . .'; b8v, l. 10: ‘¶ Finit ſtella clrricorum | ¶ Ad laudem libelli | . . . | . . .'; l. 27: ‘Terrenos cum artus ſpiritus exuerit.’
References
ISTC: is00785000
Goff: Goff S‑785;
Proctor: not in Pr;
Others: not in Sheppard.
Copies
Copy number: S-322A(1)
Binding: Twentieth-century quarter red velvet with boards covered by printer's waste from a liturgical book.
Size: 146 × 102 × 6 mm.
Size of leaf: 139 × 92 mm.
Provenance: Percy Barnevik (1941- ). Purchased for £1020 from the Roy Sowers Fund; sale, A Selection of Incunabula (London: Christie's, 18 Nov. 2003), lot 555; ledger (2003/4), no. 145.
SHELFMARK: Inc. f. F1.9.
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