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GREGORIUS I (St., Pope, ca.540-604). Dialogorum libri quattuor. [Cologne]: Bartholomaeus de Unkel, [ca. 1484].
Chancery half-sheet 4° (212 x 141mm). Collation: a-t8 (a1 blank, a2r text, t6v colophon, t7-8 blank). 152 leaves. 27 lines. Type: 1:103G, printed guide-letters. 2-4-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, a few initials in blue (washed). Modern brown morocco, t.e.g. Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations in a German hand.
An attractive copy of the Dialogues. Gregory's descriptions of lives and miracles of saints were mined by many later hagiographers. HC *7962; BMC I, 243 (IA. 3965); Goff G-404; Pellechet 5350; IDL 2081.
Chancery half-sheet 4° (212 x 141mm). Collation: a-t8 (a1 blank, a2r text, t6v colophon, t7-8 blank). 152 leaves. 27 lines. Type: 1:103G, printed guide-letters. 2-4-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, a few initials in blue (washed). Modern brown morocco, t.e.g. Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations in a German hand.
An attractive copy of the Dialogues. Gregory's descriptions of lives and miracles of saints were mined by many later hagiographers. HC *7962; BMC I, 243 (IA. 3965); Goff G-404; Pellechet 5350; IDL 2081.