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An Account of Cataloguing Incunables in Oxford College Libraries*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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The six thousand and more incunabula of the Bodleian Library and the two thousand six hundred in my recently finished catalogue covering all the other libraries of Oxford make a total of some nine thousand books (not editions, for I include duplicates) in the possession of the University as a whole. It is hoped that a complete catalogue will be published, probably in three volumes; but there is a difference between Mr. Sheppard's catalogue of the Bodleian and mine in that his is arranged in ‘Proctor-order,’ i.e., by countries, towns, and presses, while mine is in ‘Goff-order,’ i.e., a straightforward alphabetical order under authors. For technical reasons they cannot be arranged in any other way; but while Mr. Sheppard's catalogue will have complete author indexes, my own will have indexes by printers and publishers as well as by libraries (since some of my libraries are not colleges).
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This account was originally delivered at the Bodleian Library, February 25, 1972.
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1 Mr. L. A. Sheppard, formerly Deputy Keeper in charge of the incunabula in the British Museum, compiled a new catalogue of those in the Bodleian between 1954 and 1971. This catalogue still awaits publication.
2 A Century of the English Book Trade (London: Bibliographical Society, 1905), p. 1.
3 Juchhoff, Rudolf, ‘Johannes de Westfalia als Buchhändler,’ Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1954, pp. 133–136.Google Scholar Dr. Juchhoff (p. 133) refers to a copy of the French Livy printed in Paris in i486 in the possession of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. No such edition is listed in my catalogue. Dr. Juchhoff misread Falconer Madan, who clearly states that this Livy is in the Bodleian Library.
4 This is the Processus judiciarius of Nicolaus Panormitanus, a folio of sixty leaves produced in August 1476.
5 ‘Bishop Shirwood of Durham and His Library,’ English Historical Review, 25 (1910), 445-456.
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7 Curiously, the author, a fourteenth-century follower of Duns Scotus, was until recently regarded as an Englishman and an Oxford man but is identified by this very edition as a Catalan, Johannes Marbres, Canon of Tortosa.
8 Rhodes, D. E., ‘Two Fifteenth-Century Editions of Johannes Versor,’ Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1970, pp. 93–96.Google Scholar
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