Collat[i]o[n]es q[ua]s dicunt[ur] fecisse mutuo rex Salomon sapie[n]tissimus et Marcolphus facie deformis et turpissimus tamen ut fertur eloquentissimus sequuntur..
Breda, Jacobus,active 1485-1519,printer.
Colman, J. J.(Jeremiah James),1830-1898,former owner.StEdNL
[Deventer : Jacobus de Breda,
between 1492 and 1496]
Signatures: aa⁶-bb⁴.
Title with device, aa1r (verso blank); Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolphi, aa2r-bb4r (verso blank).
Copinger
Campbell
GW
ISTC
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Various inscriptions in contemporary hand on verso of title page and leaf [bb4] including the following names: Richard Elde, Elizabeth Scippa, John Heworth, Thomas Jaxson. Bookplate of Jeremiah James Colman on front pastedown. Bought by the Library from the Lauriston Castle Fund 12 May 1945.
Crushed burgundy morocco with 2 gilt rolled fillets forming a border with blind stamped central rectangle on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine, gilt tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers.
Solomon, King of Israel
Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Macaronic literature
Peasants in literature
Wit and humor, Medieval
Netherlands Deventer.