Guillermus vorrillong super quattuor libris sententiarum
Contributors: Pencio, Jacopo, active 1486-1530, printer; Ess, Leander van, 1772-1847, former owner; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary); Benediktinerabtei Weingarten
Publisher: Jacobus Pentius, de Leuco, for Lazarus de Suardis, de Saviliano
Published: 1496
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 322
Other titles: Super quattuor libris sententiarum
Notes: Signatures: a-z⁸ A-R⁸.

Imprint from colophon.

Text in two columns; red illuminations.

Binding: Red leather on wood with scoring and blind-stamping, metal furniture missing, partial clasp.

This item formerly had an indulgance, printed on vellum, pasted inside of its boards; it was removed in 1910.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, V-373

Copinger 6560

Incunabula short title catalogue, iv00373000

BM 15th cent., V: 564

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 51346 (from http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/)

Purchased; Leander van Ess (1772-1847); 1838.

From 1628 the book belonged to the Benedictines of Weingarten, then bought by Leander van Ess from the duplicate collection of the University Library at Freiburg.  This item was then part of over 13,000 items purchased in 1838 from Leander van Ess as the core of then-fledgling Union Theological Seminary's library.

'so precious a foundation' : the library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York / Edited by Milton McC. Gatch. New York : Union Theological Seminary and the Grolier Club, 1996. 0910672172

Exhibited: "so precious a foundation," organized by Milton McC. Gatch, 1996.