[a2r] Alexander Magnus [pseudo-]: Historia de preliis. ‘Liber de preliis.’ An interpolated version of the Historia Alexandri Magni by Leo Archipresbyter, commonly referred to as Historia de preliis, recension J1; see Die Historia de preliis Alexandri Magni (Der lateinische Alexanderroman des Mittelalters), synoptische Edition der Rezensionen des Leo Archipresbyter und der interpolierten Fassungen J1, J2, J3 (Buch I und II), ed. Hermann-Josef Bergmeister, Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, 65 (Meisenheim am Glan, 1975), p. vii. Historia Alexandri Magni (Historia de preliis), Rezension J1, ed. Alfons Hilka and Karl Steffens, Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, 107 (Meisenheim am Glan, 1979), p. xxiii (description of incunable), p. xxvi (stemma), 2-264 (edition). The printed editions derive from MS. A (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS. Peniarth 481), see Hilka–Steffens p. xxiii.
[e7v] [Petrus Alphonsus]: [Disciplina clericalis (excerpt).] ‘De sepultura Alexandri.’ Incipit: ‘Legimus Alexandri sepulturam esse auream ad quam plurimi philozophi conuenerunt. Quorum vnus ait. Alexander ex auro fecit thesaurum . . .’ Explicit: cui non suffecerat orbis. Die Disciplina Clericalis des Petrus Alfonsi, ed. Alfons Hilka and Werner Söderhjelm, Sammlung mittellateinischer Texte, 1 (Heidelberg, 1911), 48-9. Petrus Alfonsus, Disciplina clericalis, ed. Alfons Hilka and Werner Söderhjelm, I, Acta societatis scientiarum fennicae, 28.4 (Helsinki, 1911), 44-5. Added at the end of MS. A; see footnote in Historia Alexandri Magni, ed. Hilka and Steffens, 265.
Imprint:
[The Netherlands?: Printer of the ‘Historia Alexandri Magni', between 1475 and 1479]. Folio.
As dated by HPT.
Collation:
[a–d10 e8].
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia00396000
GW 875;
H (+ Addenda) 777; C 371;
Goff A‑396:
BMC IX 107;
Pr 9182;
Campbell 140; CIBN H‑146; HPT II 452; ILC 80; Schmitt I 4961a; Sheppard 7040.
LCN: 14289998
Copies:
A-171(1)
Copy
Bound with: 2. Guido de Columna, Historia destructionis Troiae. [The Netherlands?: Printer of the ‘Historia Alexandri Magni' (C 371), between 1475 and 1479] (C‑392).
Wanting a10 and the blank leaves a1 and e8.
Binding: Contemporary plain calf over wooden boards. Reinforcing slips from a Latin manuscript.
Size: 292 × 207 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 284 × 205 mm.
Endleaves (now MS. Rawl. D. 913, fols 103-5) from a fourteenth-century parchment manuscript of the Old French Prose Alexander written in an anglicana hand; see David J. A. Ross, Alexander Historiatus: A Guide to Medieval Illustrated Alexander Literature, 2nd edn, Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, 186 (Frankfurt am Main, 1988), 54-7, at 56 (MS. O).
Marginal notes in an early hand in both items, mainly extracting key words; interlinear corrections, occasionally erased words supplied in manuscript, a reference to Petrarch on [a5r]. On [a2r] manuscript note in Latin signed T[homas] H[earne] on the authorship of the Historia de preliis. On [e7v]: ‘Finis Coronat Opus.’
Initials supplied in dark brown ink, the first initial consisting of a drawing of two fish. Early foliation of the whole volume, probably in the same hand.
Provenance: Thomas Hearne (1678-1735); on [a2r]: ‘Suum cuique. Tho: Hearne. Julij 18 M.DCC:XXIX'.
Bequeathed to William Bedford (†1747).
Listed in John Whiston's list, MS. Rawl. D. 1167, fol. 9, no. 111: ‘Hystoriae Alexandri Magni. Hystoriae Destructionis Troye par Guid. de Columpna. Very ancient.'
Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Bequeathed in 1755.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.7(1).
