[Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive, Expositio decalogi]
Contributors: Greyff, Michael, -approximately 1512, printer; Austria. Bundesdenkmalamt
Publisher: Michel Greyff
Published: 1479
Place of publication: Reutlingen
Language: lat
Number of pages: 262
Other titles: Expositio decalogi; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Title and imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.

Author's name from incipit ([1́] recto): Incipit prologus in expositione[m] decalogi [secundu]m fratrem Iohannem Nider sacre theologie professore[m] ordinis predicatorum.

Colophon ([33́] verso): Iohan[n]is Nider sacre paginis Egrigij doctoris ordinis predicatorum Conuentualis Nurenbergensis p[re]ceptorij p[re]clarissimum opus finit feliciter.

Signatures: [1-29́ı 30-31́œ 32́ı 33℗£́ʻ] ([1́] and [33́́]=blank; all leaves unsigned).

Chancery folio; printed in double columns, 42 lines per column plus headline; initial spaces with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, 576

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N-204

Incunabula short title catalogue, in00204000

Cataloged 20170915 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early/contemporary blind tooled calfskin over beveled wooden boards with brass cornerpieces, centerpieces, and catch plates. Spine rebacked in modern brown goatskin (unlabeled). Leather thumb index tabs. Modern dealer's descriptions, in pencil, on front pastedown. Ca. 18th-century bibliographical inscription on front free endpaper verso. Both blanks ([1́] and [33́́]) wanting. Author's name ("Joannes Nider Ord: praedicat') on [1́] recto with printed letter "F" on paper label laid-on. Rubricated in red throughout. Medieval manuscript waste sewing guards in most gatherings. Half-page early/contemporary Latin inscription on lower pastedown. BPL Charlotte Harris Fund bookplate on lower pastedown. Ink stamp of the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt on lower pastedown. Leaf dimensions: 288 x 207 mm. Purchased March 1937.