Incipit prologus sancti Hieronymi cardinalis presbyteri in libros Uitaspatrum sanctorum Egyptiorum ...
Contributors: Scotto, Ottaviano, d. 1498, printer; Burton, John E. (John Edgar), b. 1847, former owner; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress); Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Octauianum scotu[m] Modoetiensem
Published: 1483
Place of publication: Impressum Uenetijs
Language: lat
Subjects: Christian saints; Early works to 1800; Fathers of the church; Biography; Hermits
Other titles: [N]E occasio[n]e stili hoc in opere obseruati quisquam legentium ...; Uitaspatrum sanctorum Egyptiorum
Work titles: Vitae patrum
Notes: Sixth century collection of legendary biographies of saints, built from the base of biographies and legends on Egyptian hermits already compiled in Greek (Apophthegmata Patrum or Sayings of the Fathers). The Latin collection contains translation or original writings of St. Jerome, Rufinus, Sulpicius Severus, Cassianus and others. This text underwent enrichments and interpolations.

Title from leaf b1; imprint from colophon.

Signatures: a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-E⁸ F⁴ (first leaf blank.  "&" represents a tironian sign.)

Text printed in two columns; capital spaces.

Register: leaf [1] at end.

Includes index.

LC copy wanting initial blank.  Pen-drawn opening initial on b1; initials, capital strokes, underlining, paragraph marks in red.  Has inscriptions: Conuent[us] FF Praed: Francof.; Conuent[us] Franckforden ordi[ni]s p[re]dicator[um].

Goff H-206

Hain-Copinger 8599*

GW M50888

BM 15th cent., V, p. 279 (IB. 21190)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih00206000

Thacher 326