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GREGORIUS I (Saint, ca 540-604, Pope 590-604). Homilae super Ezechielem. [Basel: Michael Furter], 1496.
Chancery 4o (210 x 155 mm). Collation: A-Q8.4 R6. 102 leaves. 47 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 3:180 (title), 5:93 (head-lines), 83 (headings), 4:64 (text). Capital spaces with printed guide-letters. Lombard initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. (Some worming, heaviest at beginning, occasionally catching letters, title lightly soiled, first two leaves with a pale marginal dampstain.) 18th-century marbled boards. Provenance: some contemporary marginalia -- Peter Willemuth (ownership inscription dated 1816 on title) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Second edition. BMC notes that the blind impression of the word "canticorum" on the title in their copy shows that this tract was printed at the same time as Commentum super Cantica canticorum (Goff G-394). A blind impression is evident in the lower margin of the title here, although its reading is indistinct. Furter printed four tracts by St. Gregory in close succession, intending to sell them either separately or as a whole. BMC III, 784 (IA.37793); BSB-Ink. G-313; GW 11427; HC *7946; Pr 7733; Goff G-425.
Chancery 4o (210 x 155 mm). Collation: A-Q8.4 R6. 102 leaves. 47 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 3:180 (title), 5:93 (head-lines), 83 (headings), 4:64 (text). Capital spaces with printed guide-letters. Lombard initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red. (Some worming, heaviest at beginning, occasionally catching letters, title lightly soiled, first two leaves with a pale marginal dampstain.) 18th-century marbled boards. Provenance: some contemporary marginalia -- Peter Willemuth (ownership inscription dated 1816 on title) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Second edition. BMC notes that the blind impression of the word "canticorum" on the title in their copy shows that this tract was printed at the same time as Commentum super Cantica canticorum (Goff G-394). A blind impression is evident in the lower margin of the title here, although its reading is indistinct. Furter printed four tracts by St. Gregory in close succession, intending to sell them either separately or as a whole. BMC III, 784 (IA.37793); BSB-Ink. G-313; GW 11427; HC *7946; Pr 7733; Goff G-425.