Goff B-294
Hain-Copinger 2733
GW 3757
BM 15th cent. II, 464 (IA. 7985)
The work named in the title, a florilegium in one alphabet, is wrongly attributed in its introductory paragraph to Venerable Bede. It has brief commentaries after each of the ca. 1100 quotations (translated into Latin) and is followed (leaves kij-n8) by a set of longer selections from Cicero, with an afterword by Petrus Tanhauser addressed to his patron Sebaldus Schreier. The set of quotations from Cicero has the caption title: Marci Tullij Ciceronis ciuis Romani clarissimi ac eloquentie genitoris facundissimi auctoritates p[ro] virtutu[m] capessendaru[m] vberiori lege.
Publisher statement from colophon; imprint date from Goff.
Signatures: a-m⁸ n¹⁰.
Woodcut ill. on t.p.; initial A on aij.
Capital spaces, most with guide letters.
The afterword is dated (leaf n9): 1490.
LC copy bound in wooden boards with blind-stamped leather spine; metal hinges (clasps wanting); fragment of ms. bound in. Has contemporary ms. annotations. Duplicate copies of conjugate leaves d3.6 and d4.5 bound in.