[R]euerendo patri ac domino suo Guilhelmo Dei gratia Senonensi Archiepiscopo, Petrus seruus Cristi prespiter Trecensis vitam bona[m] et exitum beatum, causa suscepti laboris fuit instans peticio sociorum ...

Historia scholastica

[Strasbourg] : [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)], [not after 6 Feb. 1473]

[508] p. (the last [4] p. blank) ; 41 cm (fol.)

Title from incipit (leaf [a]1r).
Imprint from Goff, who gives publisher statement as: [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis].
Signatures; [a-h]¹⁰, [i]⁸, [k]⁶, [l-z]¹⁰, [A-C]¹⁰.
Capital spaces.
Printed in 2 columns.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-460
BM 15th cent., I, p. 79 (IC.887)
Hain 5529*

France -- Strasbourg.

INC P416 copy 1

Folger copy: gathering [f] lacks conjugate leaves [f]2, [f]9 and includes duplicates of leaves [f]4, [f]7 (reading: [f]1, [f]3, [f]4, [f]4, [f]5, [f]6, [f]7, [f]7, [f]8, [f]¹⁰); leaf [C]9, blank, lacking; worm holes in a few gatherings, slightly affecting text. A few early manuscript notes in brown ink with some words corrected or spelled out in text; reference to Biblical books added by hand in headlines in the 1st gatherings and Chapter numbers added in margins of text in parts of the book; several sets of manuscript notes on front flyleaf, one of them being a listing of names of trees, birds, and other words in Latin with their equivalent in German. Contemporary Austrian quarter calf binding on wooden boards, blind tooled with floral stamps and Kopfstempel, with 2 clasps catching on front cover; same Kopfstempel used on spine; fragments of a liturgical manuscript with neumes used as pastedown, wrapped around the first and last gatherings; large paper label on front cover bearing title in red and black; repaired; a small paper manuscript fragment bearing early handwriting in German, previously loosely inserted in book, now kept with the book in a tailored box. Purchased in 1957.