Prologus beati Jeronimi p[re]sbiteri jn psalteriu[m] q[uo]d ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu[m].
Jerome,Saint,-419 or 420,translator.
Zainer, Günther,-1478,printer.
Scheves, William,around 1440-1497,former owner.StEdNL
[Augsburg : Günther Zainer,
approximately 1471-1473]
Translated by Saint Jerome.
Imprint from ISTC.
Signatures: [a-e¹⁰ f⁴].
Bound with Inc.39.
Initials supplied in red or blue. Rubricated.
Hain
Proctor
Goff
GW
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Walsh, J. E. 15th cent. printed books,
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
The recto of the first leaf bears the ownership inscriptions of William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. Advocates Library ex libris dated 1712 on front pastedown.
Original stamped brown leather with clasps. The six stamps (star, holy face, garden enclosed, double eage, pelican and Tudor rose) are discussed in the account of Scheves's Louvain binder in G. D. Hobson, Bindings in Cambridge libraries (pages 34-36 and plat XII).
Germany Augsburg.