pseudo-HIERONYMUS. Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum. -De laude et effectu virtutum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 7 May 1478.

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pseudo-HIERONYMUS. Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum. -De laude et effectu virtutum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 7 May 1478.

Royal 2° (381x270mm). Collation: [16 2-1310.8 14-1510 16-2510.8 26-278 286 (1/1 blank, 1/2r tabula, 2/1 blank, 2/2r prologue, 2/2v text, part I, 16/1r tabula to part II, 16/2v parts II-IV, 27/5v De laude et effectu virtutum, 28/5v colophon, 28/6 blank)]. 243 (of 246, without first and final blanks and lacking 1/6) leaves. 51 lines and headline, double column. Type: 3:110aG (text), 4:160G (headings and headlines). 3- to 6-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red, first 14-line initial cut away (affecting leaf 3 also), leaving foliate extension in colours with gold highlights. (Very occastional light stains, small hole in 1/2 affecting 2 letters, small marginal wormtracks on final 2 leaves.) Seventeenth-century pigskin over wooden boards, blindstamped with rolls and stamps, two fore-edge pin fastenings (missing brass section from one clasp), green edges. Provenance: Carmelites of Voilziegensis (?).
HC *8595; BMC II, 416 (IC. 7170); Goff H-199; Polain(B) 3992; IDL 2314; IGI 4750

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