a2r Prohemium. Incipit: ‘[A]d honorem omnipotentis dei aliquos modos et vias pro eleuatione mentis in deum propono conscribere . . .’
a3r ‘Tabula.’
a3r Alphabetum divini amoris. Incipit: ‘[A] timore seruili procedit filialis plures . . .’ Authorship ascribed in BMC to Johannes Gerson. Also formerly erroneously ascribed to Nikolaus Kempf; see A‑213.
Imprint:
[Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1491]. 8°.
Collation:
a–d8.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia00528000
GW 1561;
HC *7633;
Goff A‑528;
BMC III 753;
Pr 7637;
BSB‑Ink A‑435; Gerson, Oeuvres, I 73, no. 22; Sack, Freiburg, 129; Sheppard 2438.
LCN: 14423961
Copies:
A-218(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf d8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled pasteboards.
Size: 160 × 115 × 6 mm.
Size of leaf: 155 × 107 mm.
Three-, four-, and five-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Some underlining in red.
Provenance: Joseph Niesert (1766-1841), 1818; not in 1843 sale catalogue.
Purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Catalogue 3 (1885), 47, for ‘ Fl. 3'; see Library Bills (1885), no. 210.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.46.
