Incipit p[ro]logus sancti Hieronimi cardinalis p[re]sbiteri in libros Vitaspatrum sancto[rum] Egiptioru[m]
Contributors: Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513, printer; Benediktinerkloster St. Maximin (Trier, Germany); Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: P[er] Anthonium koburger ...
Published: 1483
Place of publication: In oppido Nurnberg[e]n[si]
Language: lat
Subjects: Christian saints; Early works to 1800; Fathers of the church; Biography; Hermits
Other titles: Incipit plogus sancti Hieronimi cardinalis psbiteri in libros Vitaspatrum sancto Egiptioru; Vitaspatrum sanctorum Egiptiorum
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 [1]2.

Imprint from colophon, transposed:  imprint date precedes place and printer.

Signatures: [1-3]⁸ [4-5]⁶ [6]⁸ [7-8]⁶ [9-11]⁸ [12-13]⁶ [14]⁸ [15-16]⁶ [17]⁸ [18]⁶ [19]⁸ [20-24]⁶ ([1]1 and [23]6 blank).

Text printed in two columns; capital spaces.

Includes index.

LC copy has marginal ms. annotation.  Hebrew parchment ms. used as guards.  Has inscriptions:  Conuentus Treuirensis F[rat]rum Praedicatorum A. 1637.

Hain 8598*

Goff H-205

GW M50877

BM 15th cent., II, p. 425 (IC. 7294)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih002050000