Liber Epistolarum sancti Hieronymi
Series: German books before 1601 -- roll 230; German books before 1601 -- roll 401; German books before 1601 -- roll 324, item 3
Publisher: Nicolaus Kesler
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Basel
Language: lat
Subjects: Correspondence; Christian saints
Work titles: Correspondence
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: Epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi pars secunda.

Vol. 3 has title: Epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi pars tertia.

Imprint from verse colophon (v. 3, leaf Hh8v).

Vol. 1: [152] leaves (leaves [140] and [152] blank); v. 2: [178] leaves (leaves [164] and [178] blank); v. 3: [202] leaves (leaf [202] blank).

Signatures: v. 1: a-y⁶ z⁸, a-b⁶ (z8, b6 blank); v. 2: A-Z⁶ AA-CC⁶ DD⁸, ²A⁶ B⁸ (DD8, ²B8 blank); v. 3: aa-zz⁶ Aa-Ff⁶ Gg-Hh⁸ aa⁸ bb⁴ (bb4 blank).

Woodcut of St. Jerome, unsigned but by Albrecht Dürer, on verso of title-page to v. 1.

Xylographic title-page to v. 1; woodcut printer's device.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Unsigned poem, "Narrat beatus Hiero. vitam quam tenuit in eremo": v. 1, leaf b2v.

"Vita sancti Hieronymi": v. 1, leaves b3r-b5v.

With the table of Theodorus Laelius.

Hain-Copinger, 8565*

Proctor, 7692

Goff, H-176

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 4228

BM 15th cent., III, 772 (IB.37661)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ih00176000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1221.