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tis00766100
- Text-inc Id:
- tis00766100
- Bod-inc Id:
- S-317
- Headings:
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Stella clericorum
- Analysis of content:
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a2r Stella clericorum. Stella clericorum, ed. E. H. Reiter, Toronto Medieval Latin Texts, 23 (Toronto, 1997), 17-50, with variations, and continuation on an additional three leaves of text (b4r –b6v); incipit: ‘Cauete uobis praelatuli uoratores ut catuli mortem non attenditis . . .'; explicit: ‘aqua ad lauacrum baptismi sacrificandum.’ For the different versions of the text and the title see Stella clericorum, ed. Reiter, 1-11; see also E. H. Reiter, ‘The Reader as Author of the Self-produced Manuscript: Reading and Rewriting Popular Latin Theology in the late Middle Ages', Viator, 27 (1996), 151-69, at 157-63.
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b7r [Poem on the work.] ‘In laudem libelli'. Incipit: ‘Aspice presentis O clerice dicta libelli | Nomen pastoris quisquis habere uoles |'; 8 elegiac distichs. This acrostic poem spells the name of the printer Antoine Caillaut.
- Imprint:
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[Paris]: Antoine Caillaut, [after 19 Aug. 1483]. 4°.
As dated by CIBN; Sheppard dates [1483-4].
- Collation:
- a b8. 16 leaves. 32 lines (a3r). Type area: 130 ×92 mm (a3r). Type: 81 G.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: is00766100
C 5638;
not in Pr;
CIBN S‑449; Pellechet MS. 10758; Sheppard 6184.
- Copies:
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S-317(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf b8.
Leaf a2r l. 1: ‘ſtella'; leaf b7r, l. 7: ‘ . . . clericoꝝ'.
Binding: Twentieth-century calf.
Size: 206 × 143 × 11 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 140 mm.
Some marginal notes in a contemporary hand, supplying underlining, three dots and tail, and ‘nota' signs.
Provenance: Arthur Kay (†1939); see initials ‘A. K.' on book-plate on front pastedown; sale (26 May 1930), lot 649.
Purchased at Kay's sale by McLeish for £2. 5. 0.; see Bodleian copy of auction catalogue, with buyers' names and prices (Hobson d.385/25).
Purchased from McLeish in 1930; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 25 Feb. 1931, 360, and BQR 6,68 (1930), 217; pencil note on the front pastedown 'Bt from McLeish'.
FORMER SHELFMARK: Inc. e. F1.1495.2.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. F1.9.
