tia00016300

Text-inc Id:

tia00016300

Bod-inc Id:

A-006

Headings:

Accentus De accentibus syllabarum, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page and woodcut.]
2. a1v ‘Prologus in librum de accentibus.’ Incipit: ‘[C]onsiderans quod plerique sacerdotes ac clerici in quantitatibus syllabarum ac earundem pronunciatione deficientes . . .’
3. a1v De accentibus syllabarum. Incipit: ‘[V]ocalis ante vocalem in latinis dictionibus corripitur . . .’ See A‑005.
4. b6r ‘Quedam regule generales.’ Incipit: ‘Item est regula quedam de preteritis verborum . . .’
5. c1r De generibus pedum et metrorum. Incipit: ‘Incipit tractatus brevis et utilis de generibus pedum et metrorum. [P]edes metrorum sunt xxviii, quorum quatuor sunt dissyllabi . . .' [GW reads: ‘bissyllabi']. See Leonhardt no. B16.

Imprint:

Delft: [Christiaen Snellaert/Hendrik Eckert van Homberch], 1497. 4°. HPT attributes to Snellaert/van Homberch.

Collation:

a b⁶ c⁴. Woodcut on a1r: on the left, six figures, the head of one almost completely obscured, with the one at the front in discourse with a figure on the right dressed in a monk's habit, seated on a throne.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00016300 GW 138; HC 13415; Pr 8898; Campbell–Kronenberg 1445; HPT II 403; ILC 6; Sheppard 6883. LCN: 14450645

Copies:

1. A-006(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century plain olive calf, for the Bodleian Library. Size: 224 × 152 × 8 mm. Size of leaf: 216 × 143 mm. Manuscript mnemonic(?) verse on c3v -c4v in a contemporary hand; Incipit: ‘Filius en colitur brevis ars globus excipietur | Dura civis breviter gustavit filius constat.’ Two- to five-line initials are supplied in red. Initial strokes in red. Provenance: John Selden (1584-1654). Probably presented in 1659, but not found in the Selden catalogues. SHELFMARK: 4° M 6^b Th. Seld.