In antiquo[rum] patrum vitas a beato hieronimo conscriptas registru[m] alphabetico ordine dilige[n]ter collectum incipit.
Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum,printer.
Jerome,Saint,-419 or 420.
[Strasbourg : Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum],
Anno d[omi]ni Mcccclxxxv nonas v[er]o Julij ... [7 July 1485]
Sixth century collection of legendary biographies of saints, built from the base of biographies and legends on Egyptian hermits already compiled in Greek (Apophthegmata Patrum or Sayings of the Fathers). The Latin collection contains translation or original writings of St. Jerome, Rufinus, Sulpicius Severus, Cassianus and others. This text underwent enrichments and interpolations.
Title from incipit of table on leaf a2 recto.
Place of publication and printer from ISTC; date of publication from colophon on leaf G7 verso.
Printer also recorded as [Printer of Paludanus]. Cf. Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.).
A reprint of the edition of 1483 with a larger type-page, reducing the number of leaves by twenty. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸ (first and last leaves blank).
Initials supplied in red or blue. Paragraph marks supplied in red. Some capitals coloured yellow.
With marginal annotations.
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Text printed in 2 columns; capital spaces, some with with guide letters.
Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
18th-century red leather with modern reback, blind stamped border on front and back boards, two gilt rolled fillets on board edges, gold tooled triple fillet on turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled endpapers.
Fathers of the church
Christian saints
Hermits
France Strasbourg.