Prefac[i]o beati Gregorii pape in beatum Iob
Publisher: Conrad Winters, de Homborch
Published: 1476
Place of publication: Cologne
Language: lat
Number of pages: 658
Subjects: Commentaries; Early works to 1800; Christian ethics; Catholic authors; Bible
Other titles: Praefatio beati Gregorii Papae in beatum Job
Work titles: Moralia in Job
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 3/2r).

Imprint from GW.

Dated "before 20 September 1479?" by BM 15th cent. A copy in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has rubricator's date of 11 June 1478; cf. BSB-Ink.

Signatures: [1-2¹⁰, 3-14¹⁰ 15¹⁰(1+1) 16⁸ 17-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23-27¹⁰ 28⁸ 29-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33¹⁰ 34⁸].

Text in double columns, 58 lines per column.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "royal"-size paper.

"Registru[m]": leaves 1/1v-2/10v.

Hain-Copinger, 7927*.

Proctor, 1177.

Goff, G-429.

GW, 11431.

BM 15th cent., I, 246 (IC.4078).

BSB-Ink, G-317.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ig00429000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 396.

Manuscript inscriptions of Johannes Mühlbach and the Benedictines of Erfurt on 1/1r; later MS inscription on 1/2r, "Liber regalis monasterij S. Petri Erfordiae".

Bookplate of the Bruce Collection of the Grolier Club of New York, with MS release notation.

Bound in contemporary blind-stamped brown leather over wooden boards (badly scuffed and worn); marks of center and corner bosses, clasp plates and latches, no longer present; vellum MS label on front cover, paper MS label on spine; leaf of 12th- or 13th-century vellum Latin MS service book with colored initials pasted down inside front cover; similar 15th-century vellum leaf, without initials, inside back cover.

Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, underlinings, book and chapter numberings in upper margin added in red; occasional manuscript marginalia.