[Sophologium]
Contributors: Rusch, Adolph, printer
Publisher: The 'R-printer' (Adolf Rusch)
Published: 1470
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 219
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Title and author from colophon [1́] verso: Zophilogium editum a fratre Iacobo magni de Parisius: ordinis heremitar[um] sancti Augu. finit foeliciter.

Signatures: [1-4℗£́ʻ 5́ı(5́+1) 6́ı 7-9℗£́ʻ 10́œ 11-12́ı 13-14℗£́ʻ 15-16́ı 17-20℗£́ʻ 21́ı 22℗£́ʻ 23-24́ı] ( [24́] and [24́]=blank)

Chancery folio; 35 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

Polain dates not after 1474, Neveu corrects Polain's transcription.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 61

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-38

Incunabula short title catalogue, im00038000

Neveu, Valerie. Catalogues regionaux des incunables des Bibliotheques publiques de France, 27, 385

Polain, M.-Louis. Catalogue des livres imprimes au quinzieme siecle des bibliotheques de Belgique, (B) 2458

Cataloged 20170325 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early blind stamped leather painted black over wooden boards. Rebacked and repaired in black goatskin. Modern brass clasps and catch plates. Spine unlabeled. Leaf dimensions: 288 x 205 mm. Initials rubricated in red throughout with capital strokes, paragraph markers, and underlines in red. Title inscribed on lower edge of text block. Manuscript waste sewing guards and pastedowns. The final leaf ([24́]=blank) wanting. Purchased in Oct., 1939.