Albertus MagnusSecreta mulierum et virorum cum commento.
Analysis of content:
a2r [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[S]cribit philosophus philosophorum princeps .iiii. Ethicorum: Homo est optimum eorum que sunt in mundo . . .’ See A‑133.
a2r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Secreta mulierum et virorum. Incipit: ‘[D]ilectio sibi in christo socio et amico N. clerico de tali loco vere sapientie et augmentum continuum vite presentis . . .’ See A‑133.
a2r ‘Commentum.’ Incipit: ‘[I]ste liber cuius subiectum est contractum ad ens mobile contractum ad naturam secretorum mulierum, vt ipsis infirmantibus possumus dare remedia . . .’ See A‑133.
Imprint:
[South-east France?: Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW 878), c.1490-5]. 4°.
On this press see H. D. Saffrey, ‘Un nouvel essai de localisation et de datation de l'incunable GW 644', Gb Jb (1964), 98-102. Lőkkös, Genève, 131 identifies as [Geneva?: Louis Cruse]. BMC locates tentatively at Grenoble.
Collation:
a–c8. 24 leaves, the last blank.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia00308600
GW 753;
C 196;
BMC VIII 416;
Pr 7378;
Sheppard 6845.
LCN: 14291834
Copies:
A-137(1)
Copy
Binding: Twentieth-century brown morocco.
Size: 189 × 138 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 183 × 131 mm.
Occasional marginal annotations by various hands.
Provenance: Francis Edward Norris (1885-1966).
Presented by him to the Bodleian Library in 1963; stamp dated 20 Nov. 1963; see ‘Notable Accessions: Printed Books', BLR 7,6 (1967), 332.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. F99.1.
