Incipiu[n]t epistole magistri Petri Blesensis bathonie[n]sis archidyaconi ...
Contributors: Charrington, John, 1856-1939, former owner; Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury, 1786-1851, former owner; Brothers of the Common Life; Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher: Fratres Vitae Communis
Published: 1479
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: lat
Number of pages: 208
Other titles: Incipiunt epistole magistri Petri Blesensis bathoniensis archidyaconi ...; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Epistolae
Notes: Date from Hellinga, W. Fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries. Dated about 1480 in Goff.

Imprint from Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Title from incipit ([1́] recto).

Signatures: [1-26́ı] ([1́]=blank).

Chancery folio; printed in double columns, 40 lines per column; initial spaces without guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, p. 174

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P456

Hellinga, W. Fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries, 2, 496

Incunabula short title catalogue, ip00456000

Cataloged 20170915 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century diced russia paneled in gilt and blind, rebacked in brown goatskin. Spine paneled and tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. Bookplates of H.B.H. Beaufoy ("Beaufoy Library / sub tegmine fagi") and of John Charrington. Pencil inscription at front noting purchase date from Quaritch (1910), with waste slip from Quaritch receipt containing bibliograhical notes bound-in after front free endpaper. Sheet containing bibliographical inscription in the hand of H.B.H Beaufoy bound-in at front. Leaf [1́] (=blank) wanting. Rubricated in red and blue throughout. Some early/contemporary marginalia and underlining. Pencil collation note signed B. Ferguson (Quaritch) on rear free endpaper recto. Leaf dimensions: 287 x 205 mm. Purchased Dec. 1940.