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Subtitle: Etsi nostri maiores eos pręcipuo semper honore coluerint ... Item in pręsenti volumine continent[ur] infrascripti/ libri ęditi a venerabili patre Vincentio Beluacen[sis]/Item liber gratię/ Item liber laudu[m] virginis gloriosę/ Item liber de sancto Ioha[n]ne eua[n]gelista/ Item liber de eruditione puero[rum] regaliu[m]/ Item liber consolatori[us] de morte amici
Contributors: Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary); Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer
Publisher: Johann Amerbach
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Basel
Language: lat
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Theology; Early works to 1800; Doctrines; Catholic Church
Other titles: Etsi nostri maiores eos pręcipuo semper honore coluerint; Opera Vincencii Beluacensis
Work titles: Works
Notes: Title from ISTC.

Signatures: [*]⁶, a¹⁰, b-c⁸, d-p¹⁰·⁸, q⁸, r-v¹⁰·⁸, x⁸, y, A-E¹⁰·⁸, F-H⁸, I¹⁰, K-P⁸, Q¹⁰.

Printed in double columns, 47 lines and head line per page. Spaces with guide letter left for capitals.

Colophon in verse on leaf [337] verso: ...Regia co[m]mendat vrbs Basilea satis. De Amerbach natus nomen sibi forte Joha[n]nes...Idi[bus] dece[m]brib[us] Anno a Christi natali die octuagesimo[pri]mo supra millesimu[m] quater[que] centesimu[m].

The De eruditione filiorum regalium was dedicated to Queen Margaret. The Consolatio pro morte amici was written on the death of Louis, son of Louis IX.

Burke Library copy: Imperfect: De Sancti Johanne evangelista (leaves E1-8) wanting, supplied on 6 leaves in MS.

Burke Library copy: Rubricated throughout, including large initials in red; some with blue, green, and yellow; one historiated initial depicting a dragon (leaf F1).

Burke Library copy: Inscription at head of leaf [2] recto: Ex biblioth. fratrum ordinis s[an]c[ti] Augustini [?] Erphord.

Burke Library copy: Binding: Blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; metal clasp plates, straps removed. Metal bosses removed; metal cornerpieces intact; paper title label on front board: Opera Vincencii Beluacensis. Label covered in a translucent glaze surrounded by a metal frame.

Copinger. Supplement, 6259

Brit. Mus. Cat. (XV cent.) (Lithographic reprint) III, p. 746 (IB. 37269)

Goff. Third census, V-277

ISTC, iv00277000

GW, M50551

Gatch. Van Ess catalog, B-107
Table of contents: title: Liber gratiae; title: Laudes Virginis Mariae; title: De sancti Johanne evangelista; title: De eruditione filiorum regalium; title: Consolatio super morte amici.