Roberti Gaguioni Ordinis Sanctae Trinitati ministri generalis De origine et gestis Francorum per[quam]utile compendium
Subtitle: eiusdem ad librum suum carmen ...
Publisher: Johannes Trechsel
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: lat
Subjects: History; Kings and rulers; Early works to 1800
Other titles: De origine et gestis francorum perquamutile compendium
Work titles: Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum
Notes: Edited by Josse Badius, with dedicatory letter by Erasmus.

Imprint from colophon (verso of leaf CXXIII), which gives date of publication as Anno Christianæ pietatis millesimo quadri[n]ge[n]tesimo nonagesimoseptimo: ad. vii. kalendas iulii.

Explicit and colophon: Finis Compendii de gestis Francor[m] clarissimi uiri Roberti Gaguini Ordinis Sanctae Trinitatis de Redemption Capituoru[m] ministri generalis. Impressi Lugduni impe[n]sis M. Iohannis Treschel Alemanni & diligenti accuratione Iodoci Badii Ascensii. Anno christianae pietatis millesimo quadri[n]ge[n]tesimo nonagesimoseptimo, ad viii kalendas Iulii.

Signatures: a⁴ b-o⁸ p-q⁶ r⁸.

52 lines; Haebler types 6:107R, 7:78/79R; captial spaces with guide letters; printer's device at end.

Leaf CIII incorrectly numbered CVIII.

Final leaf blank.

"I. quo quisq[ue] tui dilector et aura uocabit. / Gratus eris forte, damnabere forte, sed omni / Parte nihil resonum cui non obmururet aeger / Semper in alterius foelici liuor honore. / Sis licet auritus, audi surdaster inertes /Quos prius haud uincas, q[uam] rudere cesset a stellus. / Si minus es comptus, aut uerbi examine comis, / Te satis ornabunt Francorum illustria regum / Et gesta et uirtus, his iam defensus abito."

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ig00014000 https://data.cerl.org/istc/ig00014000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 10452 https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/GW10452.htm

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry G-14

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, page 301 (IB. 41937)

Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, entry 1537

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry *7412

From the library of G.D. Hobson.

From the library of Johann Hess, book-collector and evangelical pastor of Breslau; his signatures on the front endpaper and title page and  armorial stamp on back cover (believed to be the earliest private collector's engraved armorial stamp of the modern type).

No. 3 of 4 titles bound together with spine title: Gregor. Turonensis Hist...

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Manuscript annotations in the text.

Bound in contemporary half pigskin over wooden boards; brass clasps, nailed to back cover, and clasps with pigskin thongs; coats-of-arms of Johann Thurso [Jan V Thurzo], prince-bishop of Breslau, Vladislav II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and of the city of Breslau stamped in black on front cover, along with the date 1516.