Oratio habita in aede Divi Petri in Epiphania

-226 coRTESius (Alexander).

Oratio habita in aede Divi Petri in Epiphania, 1483.

Black Letter^ 33 long lines to a full fage. Cafital spaces; s-paces left

for Greek.

4to. Vellum.

(Rome, Stephan Plannck, after 25th January, 1483.)

Hain *5773. Proctor 3635. Pellechet 4006. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. IV, p. 82.
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