Postilla Guillerini sup[er] Epistolas et Euangelia de tempore et Sanctis et pro defunctis.
Guillermus, Parisiensis, author.; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.; Walther, Johannes, active 17th century?, former owner.; Kohler, J. B., active 1758, former owner.; Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Postilla Guillerini sup[er] Epistolas et Euangelia de tempore et Sanctis et pro defunctis.
Created/published
Impressa Colonie : Per me Henricum Quentell, anno Christi 1494.
Description
[4], clxxxij leaves : 1 ill. (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)
Associated name
Guillermus, Parisiensis, author.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Walther, Johannes, active 17th century?, former owner.
Kohler, J. B., active 1758, former owner.
Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Walther, Johannes, active 17th century?, former owner.
Kohler, J. B., active 1758, former owner.
Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Imprint from colophon (leaf G8r).
Signatures: a⁴, [2nd]a-g⁶, h⁴, i-t⁶, v⁸, x-z⁶, A-F⁶, G⁸.
Text surrounded by commentary.
Capital spaces.
Woodcut on title page with a teacher and 2 students, and words "Accipies ...".
Signatures: a⁴, [2nd]a-g⁶, h⁴, i-t⁶, v⁸, x-z⁶, A-F⁶, G⁸.
Text surrounded by commentary.
Capital spaces.
Woodcut on title page with a teacher and 2 students, and words "Accipies ...".
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-698
Voulliéme, E. Buchdruck Kölns, 537
Hain-Copinger 8285
Voulliéme, E. Buchdruck Kölns, 537
Hain-Copinger 8285
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Bindings collection image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library INC G631
Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Cologne.
Item Details
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INC G631
Folger-specific note
Rubricated through the beginning of gathering f (initials, capital strokes, and paragraph marks); title underlined and provenance inscription crossed out in same paint on title page. A few early manuscript notes in Latin; reading list of works and quotes from a few of St Paul's Epistles on verso of last leaf. Original brown leather binding on wooden boards, blind tooled with leaf and floral design, pelican, and dragon stamps, rebacked; remains of 2 clasps and 4 corner bosses; fore-edge inscriptions "Euãgelio[rum] Expositio" reading from head to tail; fore-edge also bears a partial inscription, illegible, showing evidence of this vol. being previously bound at front of another vol.; repaired; in a phased box. Provenance inscription at head of title page defaced with red paint, partially illegible: "Postilla Empta Stadj sub Cappellam [...?] s[an]c[t]o[rum] Cosme et Damiani"; ownership inscriptions on t.p.: "Sum Iohannis Waltheri", and "J.B. Kohler 1758"; bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.