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EXPOSITIO HYMNORUM cum commento. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 14 July 1492.
Chancery 4° (205x139mm). Collation: A-D8.6 E-H6.8 I-K6 L4 M6 (A1 title, woodcut, A1v blank, A2r text, M5r colophon, M5v tabula, M6v blank). 78 leaves, quires L and K reversed in binding. 46 lines of commentary and headline. Type: 3:180G (title and headlines), 6:63G (commentary), 7:80G (text). Woodcut magister-cum-discipulis (Heitz-Schreiber 18), 2- to 4-line initial spaces. (Very light dampstain on first two leaves, a few leaves lightly browned, A1.8 and M1.6 hinges reinforced.) Modern pastepaper boards, red speckled edges. Provenance: contemporary inscription, Frater Valentinus Stie[--] monachus et professus V[--], partly erased, and some marginal annotations in his hand; early inscription washed from title-page.
The text is now attributed to Hilarius (see BSB: H. Gneuss, Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter, Tübingen 1968, pp.194-208). H *6784; BMC I, 276 (IA. 4579); Goff E-149; Bohatta (LB) 671; Polain(B) 4352; Schreiber 3933; Schramm VIII, p.20; IDL 1758; BSB H-264. Expositio not under Hilarius in CIBN.
Chancery 4° (205x139mm). Collation: A-D8.6 E-H6.8 I-K6 L4 M6 (A1 title, woodcut, A1v blank, A2r text, M5r colophon, M5v tabula, M6v blank). 78 leaves, quires L and K reversed in binding. 46 lines of commentary and headline. Type: 3:180G (title and headlines), 6:63G (commentary), 7:80G (text). Woodcut magister-cum-discipulis (Heitz-Schreiber 18), 2- to 4-line initial spaces. (Very light dampstain on first two leaves, a few leaves lightly browned, A1.8 and M1.6 hinges reinforced.) Modern pastepaper boards, red speckled edges. Provenance: contemporary inscription, Frater Valentinus Stie[--] monachus et professus V[--], partly erased, and some marginal annotations in his hand; early inscription washed from title-page.
The text is now attributed to Hilarius (see BSB: H. Gneuss, Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter, Tübingen 1968, pp.194-208). H *6784; BMC I, 276 (IA. 4579); Goff E-149; Bohatta (LB) 671; Polain(B) 4352; Schreiber 3933; Schramm VIII, p.20; IDL 1758; BSB H-264. Expositio not under Hilarius in CIBN.