Printed in Low German

Title devised by cataloger; imprint from ISTC.

With glosses by Nicolas de Lyra

Signatures (partially derived from Bodleian catalogue): [1⁴ 2-4¹⁰ 5-11⁸ 12-13⁶ 14-18⁸ 19⁶ 20⁸ 21-22¹⁰ 23-25⁸ 26¹⁰ 27-30⁸ 31-32¹⁰ 33⁸ 34¹⁰ 35-37⁸ 38⁶ 39¹⁰ 40-41⁸ 42¹⁰ 43-51⁸ 52⁶ 53-55¹⁰ 56-57⁸ 58-59¹⁰ 60⁸ 61¹⁰ 62-63⁸ 64-65¹⁰] (all leaves unsigned).

Royal folio; printed in double columns, [2]₄ (i.e. fol. 8) recto: 57 lines plus headline, 296 (307) x 195 mm; type: 102; three-, ten-, and 14-line initial spaces with and without guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 264

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, B-333

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B637

Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00637000

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.26 FOLIO imperfect: comprised of 264 leaves ([1]₁-[2]₂ and all leaves after [33]₈ wanting; gatherings [31], [32], and [33] (The Psalms of David) inserted from ISTC ib00636000). After [25]₈, which ends in II Paralipomenon 32, gatherings misbound in the following order: [29-30⁸] [27-28⁸] [31-32¹⁰] [26¹⁰] [33⁸]. Three-line initials rubricated in blue and red. Ten- and 14-line initials rubricated in combinations of red, blue, purple, green and yellow. Capital strokes in red. Blue rubrication washed out. Leaf dimensions: 400 x 290 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.26 FOLIO with full-page modern pencil inscription in Dutch on verso of final front flyleaf. Unidentified blue ink stamp in lower margin of leaf [2]₃. Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in May, 1953.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.26 FOLIO bound in ca. 19th-century diced russia double-paneled in blind. Spine title-stamped in gilt.

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