Scholastica historia magistri Petri Comestoris sacre scripture serie[m] breue[m] nimis et exposita[m] exponentis..
Petrus,Comestor,active 12th century.
Amerbach, Johannes,1441?-1513,printer.
Crolen, Philippe,active 1586,former owner.StEdNL: Inc.53
Ambrose,Brother,active 1602,former owner.StEdNL
Signet Library (Great Britain),donor.StEdNL: Inc.53*
Impressa Basilee̦ : [Johannes Amerbach],
an. domini. M.cccc.lxxxvj. Finita post festum Katherine [after 25 November 1486]
Place and date of publication from colophon; printer from Goff.
Possibly printed by some other printer with type discarded by Amerbach--BM 15th cent.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-h⁸/⁶ i⁶ k-p⁸/⁶ q-s⁶ t⁸ v-x⁶ y⁸ z⁶ A-B⁸ C-G⁶ H⁸ I⁶ "II"⁶ K⁶.
With a final blank leaf.
Capital spaces, most with guide-letters; text printed in 2 columns.
First initial in blue and red. Other initials supplied in red. Rubricated.
With marginal annotations.
Rubricated.
Goff
GW
Hain-Copinger
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Ink inscription on title page: Ex libris Philippi Crolen Sacellam S. Pauli Leodien 1586. Below this in a different hand: Neunc fr[a]t[ri]s Ambrosii [?]uoy 1602. Below this are four lines of scored out inscirptions and below that are two further inscriptions in the hand of Brother Ambrose: Qui grate beneficium accipit, primam eius pensionem soluit Senece [and] Spes praemii solatium est laboris. Bought by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
Donated to the Library by the Signet Library 3 November 1965.
Contemporary blind stamped leather over wooden boards with 19th century reback and repairs to corners.
Unbound single leaf.
Bible
Switzerland Basel.