Incipit p[rae]facio in Ma[m]metractu[m].

Mammotrectus super Bibliam

[Strasbourg] : [Georg Reyser?], [ca. 1472]

[304] p. (the last [2] p. blank) ; 38 cm (fol.)

Title from preface (leaf [*]1r).
Imprint from Goff who gives publisher statement as "[Printer of Henricus Ariminensis]" and BN incun., adding "(Georg Reyser?)".
Signatures: [*]², [a-g]¹⁰, [h]⁶, [i-o]¹⁰, [p]⁶, [q]⁸.
Printed in 2 columns.
Capital spaces.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-234
BM 15th cent., I, p. 78 (IC.884)
Hain-Copinger, 10552*
BN incun., M-119

France -- Strasbourg.

INC M201

Last leaf, blank, lacking; damage and repair on 1st leaf, slightly affecting text. Initials, capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlining of titles provided in red paint throughout, with yellow on some capitals; leaves [3-151] numbered "i-Clix" (numbering does not include numbers 117 to 126) in same paint. Manuscript index of vocabulary contained in the Mammotrectus, starting on leaf [*]2r and continued on 11 leaves inserted between table and text; many words listed in index at the end of the alphabet (letters s-z) have not been completed by references to chapters of the Bible; in the gathering of 10 (+1) leaves inserted, conjugate leaves 2,9 are misbound reading 1,9,3,4,5,6,7,8,2,10; index rubricated like the rest of the vol.; manuscript headlines throughout the vol. contain title of Books, in same hand as index. Evidence of guards in the middle of each gathering (also present in gathering of manuscript leaves). Booklabel of George Dunn with his initials, date "June 1886", and notes (no. 3422 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, Nov. 1917); also his leather booklabel (per fess azure and gules, 3 estoiles or, wolf rampant argent) pasted on front pastedown; bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.