Aa1v Brant, Sebastian: [Letter addressed to] Franciscus de Busleiden, Archbishop of Besançon. ‘Religiosissimo reuerendissimoque in Christo patri et domino . . .’ Incipit: ‘Ni paternitatem tuam reuerendissimam plurimum amen . . .’
Aa2r ‘Annotatio titulorum et capitulorum decreti.’
Bb6r Brant, Sebastian: [Table.] ‘Decretum habet tres partes: Distinctiones | Causas | De consecratione.’
Bb6r Brant, Sebastian: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘C distinguit et I: dans causas XXX tria cum VI'; 2 lines of mnemonic verse.
Bb6r Brant, Sebastian: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Decretum centum dat distinctionibus unam'; 3 lines of mnemonic verse.
Bb6r Brant, Sebastian: [Verse.] ‘Singularum causarum numerus questionum.’ Incipit: ‘Corrige peccatum lachrymabile plange reatum'; 5 lines of mnemonic verse.
Bb6v Brant, Sebastian: ‘Carmina Sebastiani Brant ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘Aspice doctorem dederat cui Gratia nomen'; 7 elegiac distichs.
a1r Gratianus: Decretum. Edited by Sebastian Brant. [Pars I. Rubrica.] ‘In nomine sancte et indiuidue trinitatis incipit concordia discondantium canonum . . .’ [Textus.] ‘[H]umanum genus duobus regitur . . .’ See G‑178.
a1r Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: [Glossa ordinaria in Decretum.] ‘[Q]uoniam nouis superuenientibus causis . . . Humanum genus. Tractaturus Gratianus de iure canonico . . .’ See G‑178.
q5r Gratianus: [Pars II.] ‘Incipit causa prima. [Q]uidam habens filium . . .’ See G‑178.
FF3v [Tractatus de penitentia.] ‘Questio III. [H]is breuiter decursis in quibus . . . Sunt enim qui dicunt quemlibet criminis veniam . . .’ See G‑178.
NN5v [Pars III. Tractatus de consecratione.] ‘Incipit tertia pars Decreti. [D]e ecclesiarum consecratione et missarum celebrationibus . . . [T]abernaculum . . .’ See G‑178.
SS7v Brant, Sebastian: [Note to the reader incorporating the colophon.] ‘Sebastianus Brant ad lectorem.’ Incipit: ‘[H]abes (ut opinor) quemadmodum antea polliciti sumus lector egregie . . .’
SS7v Brant, Sebastian: [Versified registrum.] ‘Ordo quaternorum et numerus.’ Incipit: ‘Ordine sub terno tenet alpha et beta libellum hunc'; 3 lines of elegiac distichs.
Imprint:
Basel: Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500. 4°.
Collation:
Aa Bb6 a–f8 g6 h–z [et] A–Z AA–SS8. Woodcut on Bb6v.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ig00391000
GW 11389;
H *7918;
Goff G‑391;
BMC III 792;
Pr 7765;
BSB‑Ink G‑288; Oates 2844; Schreiber V 4118; Schramm XX pp. 28 and 46; Sheppard 2551; Will 44.
LCN: 14554604
Copies:
G-190(1)
Copy
Wanting a1, a2, gatherings s8 and t8.
Binding: Seventeenth-century English calf over pasteboards. Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at the head of the upper cover. Marble-edged leaves, ‘23' across the upper part of the fore-edge.
Size: 220 × 158 × 70 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 149 mm.
‘29' and ‘G.7.7.' on the front pastedown.
Early marginal comment on K8v; some marginal notes, extracting key words, and ‘nota bene' marks.
Provenance: Peter Langton (fifteenth/sixteenth century); ‘Petrus Langtonus' in an early hand on Aa1r.
John Smith (†1538); on a2r: ‘Liber Johannis Smith rectoris de Bylborug[h]'.
Sir William Aschew (sixteenth/seventeenth century); ‘Orate rogo obtestorque pro bono statu(?) [ ] viri salute Willelmi Aschew alias Aschoght militis [ ] librum [ ] mihi seu michi donat[or]is', in a sixteenth/seventeenth-century(?) hand.
‘Sende this to Mr. Bregions howse to Lincolne to be deliuered to me Walter Walker the owner thereof'.
‘Petrus Whitchrade jure mutui'.
Despite the shelfmark this is not a Selden copy.
Acquired by 1843; see Catalogus (1843), II 186.
SHELFMARK: BB 23 Art. Seld.
