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Oratio mordacissima Vrbani Prebusini oste[n]dens damnu[m] q[uo]d omnibus se colentibus, affera[n]t virtuies & lauda[n]s vicia, que cu[m] ad opima b[e]n[e]ficia co[n]seq[ue]nda virtutib[us] m[u]lto su[n]t co[n]ducibiliora ea vicia i[n]numeras nobis adduce[n]tia cruciatus o[mn]i[u]m facultatu[m] Ph[ilosoph]i sequentes, virtutes q[uae] vnice nos a p[er]turbatio[n]ibus liberant libertatemq[ue] aniorum prestnat fastidientes se suapte ambitione q[uam] miserrime perdant.

Prebusinus, Urbanus, de Brünn, author.; Ferguson, F. S. (Frederic Sutherland), 1878-1967, former owner.; Grüninger, Johann, -1532?, printer.
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Title
Oratio mordacissima Vrbani Prebusini oste[n]dens damnu[m] q[uo]d omnibus se colentibus, affera[n]t virtuies & lauda[n]s vicia, que cu[m] ad opima b[e]n[e]ficia co[n]seq[ue]nda virtutib[us] m[u]lto su[n]t co[n]ducibiliora ea vicia i[n]numeras nobis adduce[n]tia cruciatus o[mn]i[u]m facultatu[m] Ph[ilosoph]i sequentes, virtutes q[uae] vnice nos a p[er]turbatio[n]ibus liberant libertatemq[ue] aniorum prestnat fastidientes se suapte ambitione q[uam] miserrime perdant.
Created/published
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Grüninger], [ca. 1500]
Description
[20] p. (the last [2] p. blank) : 1 ill. (woodcut) ; 20 cm (4to)
Associated name
Prebusinus, Urbanus, de Brünn, author.
Ferguson, F. S. (Frederic Sutherland), 1878-1967, former owner.
Grüninger, Johann, -1532?, printer.
Note
Imprint from Goff.

Signatures: a⁴, b⁶.

Capital space with guide letter on leaf a2r.

Woodcut on title page verso with inscription "Posui Deum adiutorem meum".
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-958
BM 15th cent., I, p. 116 (IA.1544)
Hain-Copinger, 4006*
Genre/form
Illustrations (layout features)
Place of creation/publication
France -- Strasbourg.

Call number
INC P875
Folger-specific note
Brown ink sketches (defaced?) in blank shield in woodcut. Previously in a later half leather binding with marbled paper sides; rebound in paper case cover. Booklabel "Ex libris F. S. Ferguson"; purchased in 1969.