Floretus in se [con]tinens sacre theologie [et] cano[n]um flores ad gaudia paradisi finaliter eos (qui se in illos exercitauerint) perducentes.
Bernard,of Clairvaux, Saint,1090 or 1091-1153.
Quentell, Heinrich,-1501,printer.
ErnstII,Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg,1745-1804,former owner.StEdNL
A. Rosenthal Ltd.,bookseller.StEdNL
[Cologne : Heinrich Quentell,
approximately 1490]
Woodcut illustration below title.
Signatures: a-h⁶ i⁸.
Imprint from ISTC.
At the foot of the recto of the first leaf is copied in a 17th-century hand a passage from G. J. Vossius, De veterum poetarum temporibus, lib. 2, p. 73, referring to the origin of the Floretus and the edition printed by Quentell in 1501. Front flyleaves bear bibliographical notes in modern hands.
Initials supplied in red and with occasional rubrication.
Hain-Cop.
GW
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Pell
Schreiber
Voul K
Proctor
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Ink stamp on verso of first leaf: Bibliotheca Ducalis Gothana. Bought by the Library from A. Rosenthal Ltd. with the Lauriston Castle Fund 20 July 1943.
18th-century, the upper board gilt stamped with a ducal crown above the date 1791.
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Germany Cologne.