Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbyte[rum] de omnibus diuinȩ hystoriȩ libris incipit
Contributors: Walahfrid Strabo, 807?-849; Rusch, Adolph, printer; Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: [Adolf Rusch for Anton Koberger]
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Strasbourg]
Language: lat
Other titles: Epistola beati Hieronimi presbiteri ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuinȩ historiȩ libris incipit; Glossa ordinaria.
Work titles: Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1481
Notes: Title from v. 1, leaf a1r.

Although the printing of this book is generally attributed to Rusch in Strasbourg for Koberger of Nuremberg, 3 of the 4 types employed in it are those of Johannes Amerbach of Basel, from whom Rusch is known to have borrowed types; but it is possible, judging from the wording of some of Rusch's letters to Amerbach, that Amerbach himself was the printer. On the printing and dating of this ed., see F. Geldner, "Amerbach-Studien", Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 23 (1982), col. 684-688.

Vol. 1: [254] leaves (leaf [138] blank); v. 2: [326] leaves; v. 3: [340] leaves; v. 4: [291] leaves (leaves [290]-[291] blank).

Vol. 1: Genesis-Ruth; Vol. 2: I Kings-Psalms; Vol. 3: Proverbs-Macabees; v. 4: New Testament.

The signatures employed in this ed. (non-sequential repetitions of the first 7 letters of the alphabet) do not indicate the order of the quires but probably represent 7 presses at which the printing was carried on; see GW, BM 15th cent., & F. Bowers, Principles of bibliographical description p. 494, for an attempt to produce a collational formula.

The number of volumes varies with individual sets, according to how the sheets were bound.

Text in double columns, surrounded by 72-73 lines of commentary.

Capital spaces, without guide letters.

Printed on sheets of "Imperial"-size paper.

Includes the Glossa ordinaria, formerly attributed to Walahfrid Strabo, and the interlinear glosses of Anselm of Laon.

Leaves a1-4 of v. 1 occur in 2 settings. In one setting, the caption on a1r has the readings "presbyteri" and "hystoriȩ"; the other has readings "presbiteri" and "historiȩ"; cf. GW. Burke Library copy has the former setting.

Burke Library copy: vol. 2 Imperfect: final leaves mutilated at head of page, with slight loss of text; vol. 3 imperfect: initial and final leaves mutilated at lower corner, with loss of text.

Burke Library copy: Inscription on leaf [1], vol. 2: FF. Eremit. S. Augustiniae Erfordiae; on leaf [3], vol. 3: Librum ordinis FF. Eremitarum SC Augustini Erfordiae.

Burke Library copy: vol. 1-3 rubricated throughout, with large decorative initials in multiple colors.

Burke Library copy: Binding, vol. 1-3: Blind-tooled leather over wooden boards; paper title label on front board, surrounded by metal frame; printed waste endpapers; metal furniture removed; clasps broken, vol. 1-2; boards broken, vol. 3.

Hain-Copinger, 3173*

Proctor, 299

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-607

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 4282

BM 15th cent., I, 92 (IC. 813)

Incunabula short title catalogue, ib00607000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 139-141

Gatch. Van Ess catalog B-43