Biblia pauperum a do=mino Bonauentura edi=ta omnibus predicatori.bus perutilis..
Hannapes, Nicolas de,1225?-1291.
Bonaventure,Saint, Cardinal,approximately 1217-1274.
Prüss, Johann,1446 or 1447-1510,printer.
Culemann, F. G. H.(Friedrich Georg Hermann),1811-1886,former owner.StEdNL
Paine, Cornelius,1809-1890,former owner.StEdNL
Lyell, James P. R.(James Patrick Ronaldson),1871-1948,former owner.StEdNL
A. Rosenthal Ltd.,bookseller.StEdNL
[Strassburg : Johann Prüss],
anno domini M.cccc.xc. [1490]
Title from title page on leaf a1 recto.
Explicit on leaf f7 recto reads in full: Expliciunt exempla sacre scripture ordinata s[ecundu]m alphabetum tv [sic for ut] possint que sunt necessaria in materys sermonu[m] & predicatio/nu[m] facili[us] a p[re]dicatorib[us] inueniri.
Date of printing from colophon on leaf f8 recto, which reads in full: Explicit opus preclarum domini Bonauenture. biblia pauperum nuncupatum. Anno domini .M.cccc.xc.
The Biblia pauperum here attributed to Bonaventura is a shortened version of de Hanapis's Virtutum vitiorumque exempla, more generally called Exempla sacrae Scripturae (V. Scholderer in Gb Jb 1936 pp.61-62, reprinted in Fifty Essays (Amsterdam, 1966) pp.140-41: Version E).
Printed on two columns, with printed foliation "VIII [i.e. I]-XXXIX" on leaves a2-f8.
Spaces left blank for initials, mostly with printed guide letters.
Signatures: a⁸ b-e⁶ f⁸. First leaf a1 unsigned and unfoliated.
Different typesetting from Pr 580, except on seven pages: see BMC I 129 (reprint, MS note).
Capitals, paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red with rubricated capitals.
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
GW
ISTC
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Ink inscription at head of title: Cornelius Paine. Ink inscription at foot of title: Ex libris Fr. G. H. Culemann 1838 Hannoverae. Armorial crest leather book label of James P. R. Lyell on front pastedown. Bought by the Library from A. Rosenthal with the Lauriston Castle Fund 20 July 1943.
Old paper boards rebacked with red leather.
Bible
France Strasbourg.