Parabola filij glutonis profusi atq[ue] p[ro]digi nedu[m] venuste veru[m]etia[m] vtiliter et deuote p[er] venerandu[m] patre[m] fratre[m] Joanne[m] Meder ordinis minoru[m] obseruantiu[m] Basilie co[n]cionata et collecta pro totius anni precipue quadragesime sermonibus acco[m]moda. Nunc vero ab innumeris quibus scatebat mendis correpta: Parisi[us] quoq[uam] impressioni solicitius data .1511.
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| Alternative Title: | Parabola filii glutonis profusi atque prodigi, pro totius anni, precipue quadragesime sermonibus |
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| Language: | Latin |
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Paris :
per Jean Barbier expensis Jean Petit & Jean Frellon & François Regnault,
1511.
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| Collection: | Stillingfleet |
| Item Description: | Front pastedown and back pastedown and flyleaf are fragments of Three Kynges of Coleyne, probably printed by de Worde, c1504 (dated by Joe Gwara, US Naval Academy, Early Book Society Conference, Oxford 2015). Woodcut device of Barbier on verso of final leaf. Two columns. Colophon: 'Explicit quadragesimale de p[er]fecta conuersio[n]e [pectoris] ad deum p[er] vera[m] penitentiam sub parabola filij p[ro]digi Impressum parisi[us] per Joha[n]ne[m] barbier facultatis ibidem iuratu[m] librariu[m] Expensis vero honestoru[m] viro[rum] Joha[n]nis petit. Johannis frellon [et] Francisci Regnault [similiter] librario[rum] parisius co[m]moratiu[m]/ ab i[n]numeris ferme (quib[us] i[n]sipidu[m] reddebat[ur] lege[n]tib[us]) mendis correctum. Anno 1511o. 17o kalendarum Juliarum'. 'X's in the margins of preface and Sermo[n] 1. A few annotations on Sermo[n] II. USTC 143849 Marsh's Library stamp on front pastedown and title page. Praeseriplioes quemodo(?) legere operleat S. Seriphuras per Th. Bibliandru. Profevangelion Divi Jacobi Evanyeliwn marci Joan. Marzi Evangelista Vi[t]a." written on front leaf. Manuscript waste spine lining barely visible |
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| Physical Description: | 8vo |
| Published References: | Oldham, J. Basil 'Blind panels of English Binders', 1958, pages 14 and 46. Driver, Martha W. 'Wynkyn de Worde and the Title Page' in John Scattergood & Julia Boffey Texts and Their Contexts papers from the Early Book Society, 1997, pages 87-149. Driver, Martha W. 'The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England and its Sources', The British Library, 2004. Gwara Joseph J. 'Dating Wynkyn de Worde's Devotional, Homiletic, and Other Texts, 1501-11' in Martha W. Driver and Veronica O'Mara 'Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell' 2013, pages 193-234. |
| Provenance Note: | Inscribed on title page: '...Willmo Whytte[r]...iste codex' and a list of numbers. |
| Binding Note: | Panel stamped limp leather tooled in blind with lines and an acorn panel on the lower cover (AC 8 Oldham) and a quadruple panel showing the saints John the Evangelist, Barbara, Catherine and Nicholas on upper cover (QUAD 7 Oldham). QUAD 7 and AC 8 are also evident in 1514 Wynkyn de Worde Expositio hymnorum and Historia ecclesiastica tripartita [about 1494-95]. |
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