Bod-Inc: V-129
Vincentius Bellovacensis
Opuscula.
Analysis of Content
[*1v] [Amerbach, Johannes: Preface.] Incipit: ‘Etsi nostri maiores eos precipuo semper honore coluerint . . .’
[*2r] Vincentius Bellovacensis: Liber gratiae redemptoris. ‘Prologus in librum gratie'. Incipit: ‘[L]iber iste continet mysterium redemptionis humane . . .’ See Kaeppeli IV no. 3998.
[*2r] ‘Tabula'.
a1r Vincentius Bellovacensis: Liber gratiae redemptoris. Incipit: ‘[L]iber generationis Jesu Christi. Hebrei voluminibus suis nomina imponunt a principiis . . .’ Explicit: videre non valeant
y1r Vincentius Bellovacensis: De laudibus BVM. ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uomodo de gestis beatissime virginis dei genitricis admodum pauca in euangelica reperiuntur . . .’ See Kaeppeli IV no. 4001; BHL Suppl., no. 5347e.
y1r ‘Tabula'.
y2v Vincentius Bellovacensis: De laudibus BVM. Incipit: ‘[S]i deum ore prophetico iubemur in sanctis suis laudare . . .’
E1r Vincentius Bellovacensis: De laudibus beati Johannis evangelistae. ‘Prologus in tractatum de sancto Johanne euangelista'. Incipit: ‘[C]ompleto diligenter ex dictis sanctorum patrum . . .’ See Kaeppeli IV no. 4002; BHL Suppl., no. 4328d.
E1r ‘Tabula'.
E1r Vincentius Bellovacensis: De laudibus beati Johannis evangelistae. Incipit: ‘[B]eatus Johannes euangelista virgo est a domino electus . . .’
F1r Vincentius Bellovacensis: De eruditione filiorum nobilium. ‘Prologus in tractatum de eruditione filiorum regalium' [addressed to] Margareta, Queen of France. Vincent of Beauvais, De eruditione filiorum nobilium, ed. A. Steiner (Cambridge, Mass., 1938), 3-4; see Kaeppeli IV no. 4003.
F1r [Table of contents.] Vincent, De eruditione filiorum nobilium, ed. Steiner, 4-5.
F1v Vincentius Bellovacensis: De eruditione filiorum nobilium. Vincent, De eruditione filiorum nobilium, ed. Steiner, 5-219.
N1r Vincentius Bellovacensis: Liber consolatorius ad Ludovicum regem de morte filii. ‘Prologus in tractatum valde consolatorium pro morte amici'. Incipit: ‘[D]ilecto deo et hominibus illustrissimo . . . Regie maiestati vestre scribendi fiduciam . . .’ P. von Moos, ‘Die Trostschrift des Vinzenz v. B. für Ludwig IX', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 4 (1967), 173-218, text 178-98 (an edition of the first three chapters only, out of sixteen); see Kaeppeli IV no. 2004.
N1r [Table of contents.]
N1v Vincentius Bellovacensis: Liber consolatorius ad Ludovicum regem de morte filii. Incipit: ‘[I]n primis igitur aduertere debet illa que maxime personam vestram decet regalis prudentia . . .’ Explicit: regie maiestatis
Q9v Amerbach, Johannes: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Sepius imposita pressis hec crimina vidi | Incorrecta cadit littera charta fluit'; 10 elegiac distichs.
Q9v Amerbach, Johannes: [Verse colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 Dec. 1481. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*6] a10 b c8 d–p10.8 q8 r–v10.8 x8 y10 A–D8.10 E–H8 I10 K–P8 Q10.
References
ISTC: iv00277000
Hain: C 6259;
Goff: Goff V‑277;
BMC: BMC III 746;
Proctor: Pr 7562;
Others: BSB‑Ink V‑197; CIBN V‑183; Hillard 2061; Oates 2769; Rhodes 1807; Sack, Freiburg, 3668; Sheppard 2411-13.
LCN: 14695384, 14695417, 14766174
Copies
Copy number: V-129(1)
The signatures of N1 and N4 are printed on small square pieces of paper and pasted over.
Binding: Contemporary German(?) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, much worn; rebacked. Two clasps and catches missing. Quadruple fillets form a double frame. Within the outer frame a repeated circular rosette stamp. In the inner rectangle curved-outline tools make up merrythoughts, each containing a lozenge-shaped floral (thistle?) stamp.
Size: 312 × 212 × 80 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 197 mm.
Capital strokes in red in gatherings a–y only.
Provenance: Catalogue of the Miscellaneous Libraries of B. M. Oliver Esq. and Other Private Collections (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 Nov. 1868), lot 677. Purchased by the Bodleian through Charles J. Stewart for £16; see Library Bills (1869), no. 101.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 4.6.
Copy number: V-129(2)
Gatherings y, A–D only, containing De laudibus BVM.
Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards, with manuscript label at the head of the spine.
Size: 305 × 215 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 305 × 211 mm.
Three marginal notes, providing a correction to the text and extracting key words, in two different early hands in brown ink.
Principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 256.
Copy number: V-129(3)
Bound with A‑031(2); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 267 × 192 mm.
The signatures of N1 and N4 are printed on small square pieces of paper and pasted over.
Gatherings F–Q only, containing De eruditione filiorum nobilium and Liber consolatorius.
Occasional early ‘nota' marks in brown ink, probably in William Atherold's hand.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.3(1).
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