[Martyrologium ordinis Sancti Benedicti]
Contributors: Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary); Manuscript Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: [Johann Prüss?]
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Strassburg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Martyrologies; Early works to 1800; Christian martyrs; Biography; Devotional calendars; Catholic Church
Notes: Imprint from ISTC.

Signatures: A-F⁸ G-H⁶ I⁸.

Burke Library copy: Missing leaves A1, A2.

Burke Library copy: Binding: stamped vellum over wooden boards, with metal ornaments.

Burke Library copy: Bound with is a manuscript: Necrology, with entries up to 1710, for use of an unnamed Benedictine nunnery in the diocese of Halberstadt, formerly located at Hadmersleben (Kreis Wansleben), affiliated with the monastery at Huysberg, a double cloister.

Gatch. Van Ess catalog C-60a

Incunabula short title catalogue, im00340300

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M21467

De Ricci, 2: 1648

Purchased; Leander van Ess (1772-1847)

Benedictine monastery at Hadmersleben; doubtless from the library of Leander van Ess (1772-1847), a relative of Karl van Ess, the prior of Huysburg at the time of its secularization in 1804.

'So precious a foundation' : the library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York / Edited by Milton McC. Gatch. New York : Union Theological Seminary and the Grolier Club, 1996. 0910672172

Exhibited: "so precious a foundation," organized by Milton McC. Gatch, 1996.