Incipit prologus sancti Hieronymi cardinalis presbyteri, in libros Vitas patrum sanctorum Egyptiorum, etiam eorum qui i[n] Scithia Thebaida atq[ue] Mesopotamia morati sunt
By: non solum quos oculis vidit, maximoq[ue] labore conspexit, verus [et] q[uorum] plura a fide dignis relata conscripsit notabili diligentia ; deniq[ue] aliorum etiam autenticorum libellos fideliter e greco i[n] latinum transltulit, [et] ab alijs translata pro sui perfectione huic operi inseruit.
Contributors: Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20; Scotto, Ottaviano, d. 1498 printer.
Publisher: per Octauianum Scotu[m] Modoetiensem
Published: 1483
Place of publication: Impressum Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Christian biography -- Egypt.; Desert Fathers.; Christian saints -- Egypt.; Fathers of the church -- Biography.; Hermits -- Egypt -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Incipit prologus sancti Hieronymi cardinalis presbyteri, in libros Uitas patrum sanctorum Egyptiorum, etiam eorum qui i[n] Scithia Thebaida atq[ue] Mesopotamia morati sunt; Vitas patrum
Work titles: Vitae patrum. 1483.
Notes: Signatures: a⁸(-a1) b-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-E⁸ F⁴.

Title from prologue.

Imprint from colophon.

"Incipit registrum": leaf F4r.

In Gothic print; text in double columns, printed on both sides; spaces left for initial letters.

Hain, *8599.

Burns Library copy: on back pastedown endpaper: "[illegible autograph], Princeton, NJ USA 15/5/96".

Burns Library copy: occasional contemporary marginal notes in ms.

Burns Library copy rebound in leather, with gold lettering on spine, and ornamental border in gold and blind tooling on boards; all edges gilt. Stored in slipcase with marbled decoration on all sides.

c.1: 00/01 0040.