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539
Andrew Steward
Helpringham, England
March '01
$40

Marchesinus, Johanna (15th C [crossed out] c 1300 [end crossed out])
Mammotrectus super Biblian
See #95 #363 #234 Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch, 24 Dec. 1476 f0
Ref: Goff M-235. HC 10556 Polain (B) 2604 Pr 1162
BMC I, 245
Copy: HEHL, LC

206 leaves, I, 76 + 206 blank. 2 col. 3a: 40 lines. Sane sig.
199 x 140mm. 2 to 4 + 6 line spaces left for capitals.
Type: 99 - text type, in use throughout. 2 forms of h.
Haebler M4.

end of Evangelium mathei. Cap. 23-28
Prologium in Marcum.
begins Evangelium Marci. Ca. 1-5

J. Machesinus was a Franciscan Friar of Reggio.
THe Mammotrectus was composed about 1466 as a
popular exposition of Biblical phrases + the prologues
of St. Jerome to the Vulgate. It also contains 2 tracts
on orhtography + accents and a tract on feasts +
festivals and one on the rules of the Friars.
Marchesinus goes through the Bible chapter by
chapter explaining difficult words + solving
conundrums, sometimes imaginatively - the opening
of Genesis, for example, leads him ot discourse on
emeralds + crystal, the stuff of paradise. He expatiates
on the Psalms, breifly covers the legends of the
saints + such knotty questions as the Hebrew months.
His audience of the ecclesiastical rank 2 file seems
to have found his work useful for it was printed
at least 8 times, first by P. Schoeffer in Mainz
in 1470.

539
Andrew Steward
Helpringham, England
March '01
$40

Marchesinus, Johanna (15th C [crossed out] c 1300 [end crossed out])
Mammotrectus super Biblian
See #95 #363 #234 Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch, 24 Dec. 1476 f0
Ref: Goff M-235. HC 10556 Polain (B) 2604 Pr 1162
BMC I, 245
Copy: HEHL, LC

206 leaves, I, 76 + 206 blank. 2 col. 3a: 40 lines. Sane sig.
199 x 140mm. 2 to 4 + 6 line spaces left for capitals.
Type: 99 - text type, in use throughout. 2 forms of h.
Haebler M4.

end of Evangelium mathei. Cap. 23-28
Prologium in Marcum.
begins Evangelium Marci. Ca. 1-5

J. Machesinus was a Franciscan Friar of Reggio.
THe Mammotrectus was composed about 1466 as a
popular exposition of Biblical phrases + the prologues
of St. Jerome to the Vulgate. It also contains 2 tracts
on orhtography + accents and a tract on feasts +
festivals and one on the rules of the Friars.
Marchesinus goes through the Bible chapter by
chapter explaining difficult words + solving
conundrums, sometimes imaginatively - the opening
of Genesis, for example, leads him ot discourse on
emeralds + crystal, the stuff of paradise. He expatiates
on the Psalms, breifly covers the legends of the
saints + such knotty questions as the Hebrew months.
His audience of the ecclesiastical rank 2 file seems
to have found his work useful for it was printed
at least 8 times, first by P. Schoeffer in Mainz
in 1470.