Bod-Inc: X-003
Ximenes, Franciscus
El Crestiá: primer llibre [Catalan].
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [List of contents.]
[*1r] ‘Lo prolech'. Incipit: ‘[I]esu Crist fill natural de nostre senyor . . .’
[*3r] ‘Les rubriques'.
a1r Ximenes, Franciscus: Crestiá: primer llibre. Incipit: ‘[C]restiana religio per sonament principal dela sua creenca si posa . . .’ The author is named in the colophon.
A7v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Valencia: Lambert Palmart, 29 Jan. 1483. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*] a–z A8.
Remarks: Gathering [*] is numbered, but not signed.
Types: Types: 142 G, headings and first lines; 104 G, text.
Leaves: 200 leaves.
Line number: 52 lines (a2r). 2 columns.
Type area: Type area: 271 ×174 mm (a2r).
References
ISTC: ix00007400
Hain: C 6600;
Goff: Goff X‑13;
Proctor: Pr 9497;
Others: CIBN X‑3; Beatrice Jorgensen Concheff, Bibliography of Old Catalan Texts (Madison, Wis., 1985), 695; Haebler, Bibliografía ibérica, 700; Pellechet MS. 11848; Sheppard 7282; Vindel, Arte, III 38: 16.
LCN: 14740393
Copies
Copy number: X-003(1)
Wanting the blank leaf A8.
Leaf a1r, l. 5 reads ‘ . . . donāt'; b1r, l. 2 reads ‘ . . . per'.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled brown morocco over thick pasteboards; yellow-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 370 × 270 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 352 × 250 mm.
Early marginal annotations in Spanish (Catalan?), apparently in the same red ink used for the rubrication; some ‘nota' marks also in black ink.
On [*1r] a three-line initial ‘E' is supplied in gold on a blue and dark pink ground with highlighting in white and floral extension in black ink into the inner margin. On a1r a nine-line initial ‘C' is supplied in gold on a blue and dark pink ground with white decoration, and floral extensions into the inner margin in gold, black, and green. Principal initials are supplied in red, some with pen-flourishing in pale pink and reserved white decoration; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; underlining in red; capitals touched with yellow wash.
Provenance: Sheppard records that this item was purchased in 1863 for £25.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 4.23.
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