Lucij An[n]ei Flori epitoma id est abbreuiatio de cursu ac statu romano[rum] a fundac[i]one vrbis p[er] Romulu[m] vsque ad Augustu[m] [con]tine[n]s [4] libros incipit feli[citer].
Florus, Lucius Annaeus.
Hoernen, Arnold ter,-1483 or 1484,printer.
Jordan,of Osnabrück,active 13th century.De Prerogativa Romani imperii.
Alexander,of Roes,-1288.Memoriale de praerogativa Romani imperii.
Signet Library (Great Britain),former owner.StEdNL
[Cologne : Arnold Ther Hoernen,
approximately 1474]
Title from opening lines of text (printed in red) at head of recto of first leaf.
Imprint from ISTC.
Date from GW. Zehnacker dates about 1471.
The Memoriale of Alexander incorporates the work of Jordanus Osnaburgensis, De imperio romano. The version given here, with title De commendacione romani imperii, corresponds to capp. 4-34 of the edition of H. Grundmann and H. Heimpel (Alexander von Roes, Schriften (Stuttgart, 1958)), of which capp. 4-9 are the tract of Jordanus.
Collation: [a-c¹⁰].
With a final blank leaf.
Initials supplied in red.
Captials rubricated.
Final blank leaf filled with writings of Saint Augustine in contemporary hand.
BM 15th cent.,
Bod-inc
GW
Goff
Hain-Copinger
ISTC
Oates
Voulliéme, E. Der Buchdruck Kölns bis zum Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts,
Zehnacker, F. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
Bought by the Library from the Signet Library in 1959.
18th-century tree calf with gilt rolled triple fillet border and central gilt stamped arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet on front and back boards, gilt rolled board edges and marbled endpapers.
Germany Cologne.