Incipit liber faceciarum Poggy Florentini Secretary Apostolici.
Bracciolini, Poggio,1380-1459.
Printer of Leo Papa, 'Sermones',active 15th centuryprinter.
Weil, Ernst,1891-1965,bookseller.StEdNL
Scholderer, Victor,1880-1971.
[Poland (Chelmno?) : Printer of Leo Papa, 'Sermones',
about 1476-77]
Imprint from ISTC.
On the location of this printing-house in Poland see E. Szandorowska, in Quaerendo 2 (1972) pp.162-72. The press was previously assigned to the Netherlands (GW) and tentatively to Cologne (V. Scholderer, in BSA 54 (1960) pp.111-13, , reprinted in Fifty Essays (Amsterdam, 1966), pp.279-80).
Signatures: [a-l¹⁰].
With a final blank leaf.
Pasted to the recto of the front free endpaper is a letter dated 19 December 1945 from Victor Scholderer to William Beattie on the origins of this book.
With marginal annotations and illustrations, sometimes cropped.
Large initial on 1a in blue. Initials supplied in red, capitals rubricated.
ISTC
Hain
IBP
GW
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Bought by the Library from Ernst Weil with the Lauriston Castle Fund 5 December 1945.
18th-century straight-grained green morocco with gilt rolled border on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine, gilt rolled turn-ins, gilt edges and marbled endpapers.
Wit and humor
Poland Chelmno.