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EUSEBIUS CREMONENSIS (pseudo-). Epistola ad Damasum et Theodosium de morte Hieronymi. -- AUGUSTINUS (pseudo-). Epistula ad Cyrillum Hierosolymitanum de magnificentiis Hieronymi. -- CYRILLUS (pseudo-). Epistula ad Augustinum de miraculis Hieronymi. [Blaubeuren: Conrad Mancz, ca 1475].
Chancery 2o (265 x 189 mm). Collation [1-78 810]. 65 leaves (of 66; without final blank). 31 lines. Gothic type 1:120. 2- to 4-line initial spaces. (Some browning and staining.) Vellum binding from a ?14th-century manuscript. Provenance: F.T. Marsh (ink stamp on front paste-down) -- J.M. Wilson (ink notation) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 31 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
Second edition of a popular collection of works on St. Jerome. It is one of only a few books printed by the first and only printer at Blaubeuren in the fifteenth-century, and his activity there spanned only 3 years (1475-77); he employed a single type-fount, which evolved in a minor way. BMC II,564 (IB. 10128); BSB-Ink. E-121; GW 9447; H *9330; Pr 2657; Goff H-239.
Chancery 2o (265 x 189 mm). Collation [1-78 810]. 65 leaves (of 66; without final blank). 31 lines. Gothic type 1:120. 2- to 4-line initial spaces. (Some browning and staining.) Vellum binding from a ?14th-century manuscript. Provenance: F.T. Marsh (ink stamp on front paste-down) -- J.M. Wilson (ink notation) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 31 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
Second edition of a popular collection of works on St. Jerome. It is one of only a few books printed by the first and only printer at Blaubeuren in the fifteenth-century, and his activity there spanned only 3 years (1475-77); he employed a single type-fount, which evolved in a minor way. BMC II,564 (IB. 10128); BSB-Ink. E-121; GW 9447; H *9330; Pr 2657; Goff H-239.