Jn antiquo[rum] patrum vitas a beato hieronimo conscriptas registru[m] alphabetico ordine dilige[n]ter collectum Jncipit
Contributors: Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20; Reichskartause Buxheim; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum]
Published: 1485
Place of publication: Strasbourg, France
Language: lat
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Christian saints; Early works to 1800; Fathers of the church; Biography; Hermits
Other titles: Jncipit prologus sancti Hieronimi cardinalis p[re]sbiteri in libros vitaspatru[m] sancto[rum] egiptioru[m] ...; In antiquorum patrum vitas a beato Hieronimo conscriptas registrum alphabetico ordine diligenter collectum incipit; Patrum vitas
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 incipit of table on leaf a2 recto.

Place of publication and printer from ISTC; date of publication from colophon on leaf G7 verso.

Printer also recorded as [Printer of Paludanus]. Cf. Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.)

A reprint of the edition of 1483 with a larger type-page, reducing the number of leaves by twenty. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸ (first and last leaves blank).

Text printed in 2 columns; capital spaces, some with with guide letters.

LC copy has initials, underlining, paragraph marks, and capital strokes in red. Has inscription:  Cartusie Bux.

Goff H-207

Hain-Copinger 8600*

GW M50880

BM 15th cent., I, p. 98-99 (IB. 1311)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih00207000

LC copy has inscription: Ex libris N. Joan: Hirningj [?].