Incipit Dyalogus qui vocatur Scrutinium scripturaru[m]
By: co[m]positus p[er] Reuerendu[m] patre[m] dominum Paulu[m] de Sancta maria, Magistru[m] in Theologia, Ep[iscopu]m burgen[sem], Archica[n]cellariu[m] Serenissimi principis d[omi]ni regis Castelle et Legionis ; Que[m] co[m]posuit post addic[i]o[n]es positas ad Postilla[m] Nicolai de Lyra, Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxxxiiij, Etatis sue anno lxxxj
Contributors: Schöffer, Peter, approximately 1425-approximately 1502, printer; Morante, Joachim Gomez de la Cortina, marqués de, 1808-1868, former owner; Dunn, George, 1864-1912, former owner; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress); Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Petrus schoffer de gernssheym ...
Published: 1478
Place of publication: in nobili ciuitate maguncia
Language: lat
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Study and teaching; Conversion to Christianity; Jews; Bible
Work titles: Scrutinium Scripturarum
Notes: Title from incipit, leaf [1]1.

Imprint from colophon (leaf [22]5) transposed: date of printing precedes place of printing and name of printer.

Signatures: [1-2]¹⁰ [3]¹² [4-10]¹⁰ [11]⁸ [12-17]¹⁰ [18]¹² [19-21]¹⁰ [22]⁶ ([7]10, [22]6 are blanks).

"The quiring shows that this was set up from Mentelin's edition"--BM 15th cent.

Capital spaces. Incipit, colophon, and printer's device (at colophon) printed in red.

LC copy imperfect: all after [18]12 wanting. Misbound: gathering [2] bound out of order (i.e., 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6). Initials, paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes in red.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry P-205

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 10766

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 10766

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M29976

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 34

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, entry ip00205000

John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress). The collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress, entry 4

LC copy has bookplate: Bibliothek von [name scraped away]; and fragments of a shelf label, p. [2] of cover.