[Epistolae familiares]
Contributors: Veldener, Johann, active 1473-1486, printer; Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758, former owner; Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Johann Veldener
Published: 1477
Place of publication: Louvain
Language: lat
Number of pages: 180
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Title from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum .

Imprint and date from colophon ([19́] verso): Pij secundi pontificis maximi, cui ante summum episcopatum p[atri]mum quidem imp[er]iale secretario, mox e[x]po deinde etiam cardinali senensi enee siluio nomen erat, familiares epistole date ad amicos in quadruplici vite eius statu feliciter finiunt. Anno salutis 1477.

Signatures: [1-9℗£́ʻ 10́ı 11-16℗£́ʻ 17-18́ı 19́œ] ([1́]=blank).

Chancery folio; 38 lines per page ; initial spaces, some with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, 213

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-715

Incunabula short title catalogue, ip00715000

Recataloged 20170802 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca.18th-century sheepskin rebacked in brown goatskin. Spine ruled in blind with red leather label. Bookplate of the BPL Thomas Prince Library. Inscription on [1́] recto: "No. 28. 3.2.4." On [1́] verso: biographical inscription about Pius II and chart of medieval date transcriptions in the hand of Thomas Prince, with bookplate of the Old South Church Library, and a ca. 19th-century slip with a bibliographic inscription laid-on. Large initials on [1́], [11́], and [17́] in interlocking red and blue with red penwork along the margins. Three-line initials rubricated in alternating red and blue. Chapter headings and capital strokes rubricated in red. Leaf dimensions: 276 x 194 mm. Deposited ca. 1866.