Probe vxoris adelphi opusculum feliciter sic incipit
Contributors: Bouyer, Jean, printer; Riviere & Son
Publisher: [Jean Bouyer]
Published: 1499
Place of publication: Poitiers]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 18
Other titles: Probe uxoris adelphi opusculum feliciter sic incipit; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Carmina, sive, Centones Vergilii
Notes: Title from A1 recto.

Imprint from Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.

Collation: A-Ćœ [$1, 3 (-A1) signed]; 18 leaves, unnumbered. First and third leaves of each gathering signed 1, 2 respectively.

Chancery quarto; A4 recto: 22 leaded lines, with marginalia, 143 x 66 (95) mm; types: 95B (title), 76G (text, leaded throughout, except in prologue on A2 recto and marginal notes); woodcut initials, Bouyer's device V on A1 recto.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, 380

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P990

Incunabula short title catalogue, ip00990000

cataloged 20190813 jm

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.78: heavy ink offsetting and transfer throughout. Modern pencil foliation in inner, lower margins. Leaf dimensions: 193 x 137 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.78 with bookplate of the BPL J.L. Whitney Fund. Early/contemporary marginalia. Pen trials and inscriptions on C6 verso, including "A Martial Mailhot[?]". Purchased in April, 1937.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.78 bound by Riviere & Son in red goatskin.