Title from incipit ([1]₂ recto); imprint from ISTC.

Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2¹² 3-5¹⁰ 6-18⁸] ([1]₁=blank; all leaves unsigned).

Chancery folio; table in double columns. [2]₁ (i.e. fol. 11) recto: 35 lines, 180 x 124 mm; type: 102; initial spaces without guide letters.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Incunabula short title catalogue

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.37 FOLIO imperfect: leaf [1]₁ (=blank) wanting. Initial on [1]₂ recto illuminated and historiated. Initial on [1]₃ recto rubricated in blue with red flourishes. Many leaves foliated in early manuscript in upper right margins. Leaf dimensions: 283 x 209 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.37 FOLIO: dealer's description (Maggs) and an inscription, "Catal. Abbend[?]", dated January 7th, 1854, on front free endpaper verso. Alphabetical index annotated in an early hand with corresponding page numbers. Purchased from Maggs in December, 1942.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.404.37 FOLIO bound in ca. 19th-century red goatskin. Title stamped in gilt on the spine. All text block edges gilt.

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