Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus
By: editus a reverendissimo in Christo patre domino Petro de Natalibus de Venetiis Dei gratia episcopo Equilino
Contributors: Verlus, Antonius, editor; Sancto Ursio, Henricus de, active 1480-1508, printer; Plueml, Johannes, former owner
Publisher: Henricus de Sancto Ursio
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Vicenza
Language: lat
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Christian saints; Early works to 1800; Legends
Other titles: Catalogvs sanctorvm et gestorvm eorvm ex diversis volvminibvs collectvs; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Imprint from colophon (R8 verso): Catalogi sanctor[um] per reuere[n]dissimu[m] dominum petrum de natalibus uenetu[m] episcopu[m] equilinu[m] editi opus finit : Vicentiae per henricu[m] de sancto ursio librariu[m] solerti cura i[m]ressu[m] : Augustino Barbadico i[n]clyto uenetiaru[m] Duce. Anno salutis .M. CCCCLXXXXIII .p. die id[us] dece[m]bris.

Edited by Antonius Verlus.

Signatures: áœ b-úı x́œ y-źı &́ı [con]́ı [Rum]́œ A-B́ı C-Óœ℗ʺ́ı P-Ŕı Śœ (S6=blank).

Median folio; printed in double columns, 59 lines per column; initial space on a3 recto, woodcut initials throughout.

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, 1047

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N6

Incunabula short title catalogue, in00006000

Cataloged 20171005 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171030 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early/contemporary calfskin paneled and tooled in blind over bevelled wooden boards. Brass catch plates. Early manuscript label on paper at head of spine. Early calligraphic inscription on front pastedown: "M.S. decan[us]" over escutcheon with initials "M.S." all surrounded by full page inscription, dated 1862 and signed "Annotatio Fr[ancisc]i Xav[er]ii Marotte[?] Presbyt 1862." Medieval manuscript waste hinges and sewing guards. Modern ink stamp on title page: "Abbaye de [Septfons ...?]" Early inscription at head of title page struck out. 19th-century bibliographic inscription on title page. At head of a2: "initiu[m] sapie[ntiae] timor domi[ni]" in early/contemporary red ink. Inscription in lower margin of a2: "Iste liber est M[a]g[ist]ri Ioannis Plueml' Ingolstaten[sis] Sacre theologie licentiati anno d[omi]ni 1493." Pasted below inscription: shield-shaped label painted blue with three yellow roses growing from a log over inscription "d.L.a.M." On leaf S5 recto: "om[n]is [con]su[mm]at[i]o[n]is vidi finem latu[m] mandatu[m] tuu[m] nimis. M. Io. pluml' licent[iatus] f[ss]t." Ca. 19th-century marginalia. Blind impressions from bearer types on S5. Leaf dimensions: 330 x 220 mm. S6 (blank) wanting. Date of purchase unavailable at time of cataloging (likely post-1980).
Table of contents: title: Title page, a1r; title: Verlus, Antonius. "Endecasyllabon" [addressed to] the reader, a1r; title: Verlus, Antonius. [Letter addressed to] all Christian people, a1v; title: Petrus de Natalibus. "Prologus" and "Divisio totius operis", a2r-v, a3r-a4v; title: Petrus de Natalibus. Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum, Books 1-12, edited by Antonius Verlus, a6r-R8v, each book preceded by a table of contents, with table for Book 1 on leaf a5r-v; title: colophon, R8v; title: printer's register and device, R8v; title: Petrus de Natalibus [or Antonius Verlus?]. Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum, Addition, S1r-S5r.