[Opuscula].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.

Contributor:

Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Opuscula

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

John, the Apostle, Saint.

Grace (Theology)--Early works to 1800.

Grace (Theology).

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Early works to 1800.

Mary.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

John, the Apostle, Saint--Early works to 1800.

John.

Education of princes--Early works to 1800.

Education of princes.

Consolation--Early works to 1800.

Consolation.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Nÿestat, Job (inscription)

Zuoll, Lambertus (inscription)

Harrison, George L. (George Leib), 1811-1885 (honoree)

Harrison, Charles C. (Charles Custis), 1844-1929 (donor)

George L. Harrison Foundation (bookplate)

Physical Description:

338 unnumbered leaves ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Text begins: Etsi nostri maiores eos pr[a]ecipuo semper honore coluerint, qui se more ho[m]i[n]u[m] rebus curris[que] temporalib[us] semotis ...

Incipit of Liber gratiae (leaf a1r): Incipit liber gratie venerabil[is] patris Vincentij Beluace[n]sis sacr[a]e theologi[a]e professoris f[a]eliciter

Fingerprint:

usr- s.e- ocit phip (C) 1481 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Johann Amerbach], [13 Dec. 1481]

Contents:

(from leaf pi1v) Item in pr[a]esenti volumine continent[ur] infrascripti libri [a]editi a venerabili Vincentio Beluacen[se]. Item liber grati[a]e

Item liber laudu[m] virginis glorios[a]e

Item liber de sancto Ioha[n]ne euangelista

Item liber de eruditione puero[rum] regaliu[m]

Item liber consolatori[us] de morte amici.

Notes:

Contains Liber gratiae, Laudes Virginis Mariae, De Sancto Johanne evangelista, De eruditione filiorum regalium and Consolatio pro morte amici.

Title from Goff.

Imprint from valedictory poem on leaf Q9v, which reads: Perlege diuina vatu[m][que] volumina lector: / Et simul hoc nost[rum] concelebrabis opus. / Ingenium mores[que] viri pressoris & artem: / Regia co[m]mendat vrbs Basilea satis. / De Amerbach natus nomen sibi forte Ioha[n]nes: / finem operi imposuit: dum pia virgo parit. Idibus dece[m]brib[us] Anno a Christi natali die Octuagesimop[ri]mo supra millesimu[m] quater[que] centesimum. Bene Vale Lector.

Super-chancery folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf a1v: 47 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 215 (230) x 128 mm.; col. width: 59 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Register on leaf Q10r.

Signatures: pi⁶ a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d-p¹⁰/⁸ q⁸ r-v¹⁰/⁸ x⁸ y¹⁰ A-D⁸/¹⁰ E-H⁸ I¹⁰ K-P⁸ Q¹⁰.

"In quire N the signature marks for N1 and N4 are on cancel slips."--Walsh.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 305 x 209 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: large red and blue in initial L with red penwork extensions on leaf a1r; other initials, underlines, capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy has largely illegible early ms. inscription at head of leaf Q10v; a few ms. marginal pencil marks in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1910 with support from the George L. Harrison Foundation for the Encouragement of Liberal Studies and the Advancement of Knowledge, a fund established in 1895 by a donation to the University of Pennsylvania by Charles C. Harrison, in honor of his father. The bookplate on front pastedown reads "The Geo. L. Harrison Foundation".

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible early ms. provenance(?) inscription ("Hu[n]c lib[rum] pos[...]t Iob nÿestat & d[ebet?] d[ari?] la[m]berto zuoll cui d[ebet?] [...]") at foot of leaf Q10v.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind tooled leather over square-edge wooden boards (mended with modern leather); spine rebacked in modern brown morocco(?) with gold-tooled black leather spine label ("LIBER GRATIAE"); 5 raised bands on spine; evidence of two fore-edge clasps and catchplates; remains of parchment finding tab affixed to fore-edge of leaf P2r.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all before leaf a1 wanting; leaves F1-M8 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged.

Cited in:

Goff V-277

BM 15th cent. III, p. 746 (IB.37269)

GW M50551

BN cat. des incun. V-183

BSB-Ink. V-197

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1156, 1157

OCLC:

228709183