Incipit liber gestoru[m] barlaam et iosophat seruoru[m] dei greco sermone
By: editus a ioha[n]ne damasceno viro sancto et erudito
Publisher: Heinrich Eggestein
Published: 1474
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Legends; Adaptations; Christian saints; Romances; Princes
Other titles: Liber gestorum Barlaam et Iosophat; Barlaam et Iosophat; Barlaam et Josophat; Barlaam and Joasaph. Latin.
Notes: Title from incipit (leaf 1/1r).

The legend has been incorrectly attributed to Saint John of Damascus.

Imprint from ISTC.

Signatures: [1-14¹⁰ 15⁸].

Initial spaces.

In some copies, the incipit has the variant reading: eruditō.

Includes (leaf 15/7v) a Latin prayer, beginning: [C]onuersus ad te ...

Hain-Copinger, 5913*.

Proctor, 290.

Goff, B-126.

GW, 3397.

BM 15th cent., I, 73 (IA.790).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib00126000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 93.