Incipit liber moraliu[m] sup[er] trenis iheremie p[ro]phete
Publisher: Theodoric Rood, 31 July 1482
Published: 1482
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Commentaries; Early works to 1800; Bible
Other titles: Fragments of printed books; Liber moralium super threnis Ieremiae; Liber moralium super trenis iheremie prophete; [I]n nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti Amen.
Work titles: Liber moralium super threnis Ieremiae
Notes: The Houghton Library copy is imperfect; title from text incipit (leaf c1r), as transcribed in Duff.

Text begins (leaf a2r): [I]n nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti Amen.

Place of publication and printer from Duff; publication date from colophon.

Colophon (leaf L7v): Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxij. vltima die mensis Iulij.

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-I⁸ [superscript chi]k⁸ L-M⁸ N-O⁶ (al, L8, O6 blank).

Text in double columns, 40 lines per column.

Initial spaces.

Some copies have a woodcut border on leaf a2r.

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 9928

Proctor, 9749

Goff, L-75

Duff, 238

STC (2nd ed.) 15297

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ii00075000

Incunabula short title catalogue, il00075000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M17160

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, L-75

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 9928

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 15297

Duff, E.G. Fifteenth century English books, 238

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, XI, 236

Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d'Italia, 5695

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, L-043

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 4163, 4164

Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 2441

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 9749

Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins, 532

Purchase; Sotheby's; October 1963; 63-1466; S.A.E. Morse fd.; bought with 63-1462-1479.

From the library of the Viscounts Clifden at Lanhydrock House, Cornwall.  For a history of the library at Lanhydrock and the compilation of this album, see: Mark Purcell, "The Library at Lanhydrock," The Book Collector, v. 54, no. 2 (2005), p. 195-227.

Imperfect: a fragment of leaf O3 only, consisting of the outer column, and right half of the inner column, containing lines 3-24 (recto) and lines 3-25 (verso).

Printed on vellum.

Without rubrication.

Tipped onto fol. 22 of an album of fragments removed from bindings (presumably Oxford bindings of the late 16th-early 17th centuries) of books in the library formed by Hannibal Gamon.

Bound in late 19th-century half tan sheep and brown cloth.