Beati Hieronymi Epistolas ad eruditione[m] Xp[ist]iana[m] [i.e. Christianam] [per]necessaria[m] rer[um] ac materiar[um] uarietate co[n]fusas, & sine ullo ordine descriptas agnouimus. ... .
Jerome,Saint,-419 or 420.
Laelius, Theodorus,1427-1466.
Torresanus, Andreas,de Asula,1451-1529,printer.
Colonna family,former owner.StEdNL
O'Sullivan de Grass, Alphonse-Albert-Henri,comte,1798-1866,former owner.StEdNL
Paterson, Henry James,former owner.StEdNL
Maggs Bros.,bookseller.StEdNL
In urbe Venetiar[um] : diligenter eme[n]datu[m] & impressu[m] est per Andrea[m] de Toresanis de Asula,
anno natalis d[omi]nici. M.CCCC.LXXXVIII. Idibus Madiis. [1488]
Title from opening lines of text.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures [*]¹⁰ a-p¹⁰ q-s⁸ A-Z¹⁰.
First leaf of volume 1 and last leaf of volume 2 are blank.
With prelims of both volumes bound at beginning of volume 1.
Printer's device in red below colophon.
Illuminated capital and painted floral border with Colonna family arms with IA to the left and CA to the right, both below an omega, on recto of leaf a1 of volume 1. Illuminated initial and partial painted border on recto of leaf A1 of volume 2. Capitals and paragraph marks supplied in red and blue in both volumes.
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
ISTC
Ink marginal annotations in early hand. Armorial bookplate of O'Sullivan on front pastedown of volume 1. Lot 315 in Maggs Bros catalogue cutting loosely inserted to volume 1. Part of the Paterson Collection, acquired by the Library in 1988.
17th-century half calf with marbled paper over boards.
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Italy Venice.