Incipiu[n]t collatio[n]es q[ua]s dicu[n]tur fecisse mutuo rex salomo[n] sapie[n]tissimus [et] marcolph[us] facie deformis [et] turpissimus tame[n] vt fertur eloque[n]tissimns [sic] feliciter
Publisher: Albrecht Ravenstein and Joachim Westphal
Published: 1484
Place of publication: Magdeburg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Medieval Wit and humor
Work titles: Salomon et Marcolphus
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf a1v).

Imprint from Walsh; Goff suggests: Augsburg?, Anton Sorg?, ca. 1488?

Text begins (leaf a2r): [C]Um staret salomo[n] sup[er] soliu[m]. Dauid patris sui plenus sapie[n]tie [et] diuitiis ...

Explicit (leaf b6v): Expliciu[n]t pulcherime et ingeniose collationes inter Salomone[m] sapientissimu[m] [et] marcolphu[m] valde corpore deforme[m] facte multum vtiles feliciter.

Signatures: a-b⁶.

Large woodcut on a1v of King Salomon with Marcolphus and his wife.

Printed in type 1 (GfT Tafel 49), in a single column, 33 lines per page; type-page measures 154 x 92 mm.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Goff, S-96.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), is00096000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 975.