Epistola beati Hieronimi presbiteri ad Paulinum presbiteru[m] de omnibus diuinȩ historiȩ libris incipit
Publisher: Adolf Rusch for Anton Koberger
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Other titles: Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbite[rum] de omnibus diuinȩ historiȩ libris incipit; Epistola beati Hieronimi presbyteri ad Paulinum presbiterum de omnibus diuinae historiae libris incipit; Glossa ordinaria. 1481.
Work titles: Bible Latin Vulgate 1481
Notes: Although the printing of this book is generally attributed to Rusch in Strasbourg for Koberger of Nuremberg, 3 of the 4 types employed in it are those of Johannes Amerbach of Basel, from whom Rusch is known to have borrowed types; but it is possible, judging from the wording of some of Rusch's letters to Amerbach, that Amerbach himself was the printer. On the printing and dating of this ed., see F. Geldner, "Amerbach-Studien", Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 23 (1982), col. 684-688.

Includes the Glossa ordinaria, formerly attributed to Walahfrid Strabo, and the interlinear glosses of Anselm of Laon.

Initial spaces.

Leaves a1-4 of v. 1 occur in 2 settings. In one setting, the caption on a1r has the readings "presbyteri" and "hystoriȩ"; the other has readings "presbiteri" and "historiȩ"; cf. GW.

Printed on sheets of "Imperial"-size paper.

Text in double columns, surrounded by 72-73 lines of commentary.

The number of volumes varies with individual sets, according to how the sheets were bound.

The signatures employed in this ed. (non-sequential repetitions of the first 7 letters of the alphabet) do not indicate the order of the quires but probably represent 7 presses at which the printing was carried on; see GW, BM 15th cent., & F. Bowers, Principles of bibliographical description p. 494, for an attempt to produce a collational formula.

Title from v. 1, leaf a1r.

Vol. 1: [254] leaves (leaf [138] blank); v. 2: [326] leaves; v. 3: [340] leaves; v. 4: [291] leaves (leaves [290]-[291] blank).

BM 15th cent., I, 92 (IC.813)

GW, 4282

Goff, B-607

Hain-Copinger, 3173*

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib00607000

Proctor, 299

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 139-141

Gift of Henry R. Viets.

A single leaf only (g4); initials and paragraph marks in red and blue; capital strokes in red.